I have always been at least a bit off to the side of pop-culture, caring more about interesting things than average things.  Yes I know that ”interesting” is subjective, but the things I like are generally well put together, at least on some level, and the pop-culture things I don’t like are typically dumbed down and/or designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator, like reality TV.  Anyways, I think you know you are getting old when it takes longer for the pop-culture crazes to filter into your area of perception.

That being said, the way it typically goes for me is I start seeing all sorts of talk and attention over some character, and then at some point I become aware that this character has some sort of following.  If I’m bombarded with it for a while then I MIGHT decide to check it out.  Part of the reason why I don’t become aware of these characters when they appear is because I don’t listen to the same radio stations that normal people do, or watch TV, and even though I check the news on a daily basis I usually stick to actual news, because I don’t see the relevance of who is banging who in Hollyweird or whatever. 

In any case, I kept seeing stuff about this Nicki Minaj character in news headlines on yahoo.  Nicki Minaj said this, or Nicki Minaj did that…  Then one day after one of my friends sang a line from one of her songs I decided to check her out and see what the appeal was.  So I checked her out on youtube, and I don’t see what the appeal is.  I tried to watch two or three of her music videos but it was very difficult to make it all the way through them. 

The songs I watched started out with a fairly decent structure, but were frequently interrupted by bursts of chaos, which caused me so much discomfort that it bordered on physical pain.  Note to interrogators in Guantanamo: Consider forcing the terrorists to listen to Nicki Minaj.  After a while they will surely crack.

I like music to be structured, and when it lacks a definitive structure I have a hard time listening to it.  It literally disrupts the normal workings of my brain, like a bomb going off in my head.  I don’t remember what the songs were about because the structure of the music was so bad that I was unable to get past that.  90% of the time I don’t listen to words in music anyways.  I sort of zone out or use music as background while I am writing or drawing. 

To be fair, it does seem like she has talent, but that could also have been digitally edited.  She could be quite awful in real life, although that doesn’t seem entirely likely given her physical appearance.  For all intents and purposes Nicki Minaj is physically unattractive.  My understanding was that in the popular music industry women are typically expected to be attractive and/or have some serious talent.  Logic would dictate that she has serious talent.  Of course, it’s wasted on the poor quality of her music, and undermined by her slutty outfits.  I also don’t understand why she is trying to show off that body anyways.  My mom has a better physique and she is 58. 

So when it comes to the question of why someone like Nicki Minaj is popular, I am 100% in the dark.  There is a theory that many of the popular music artists have made a pact with Satan, which could explain how music which tends to range from mediocre to terrible can become popular on such a large scale, while other better groups do not receive nearly so much attention.  However, it could also be that such music appeals to the lowest common denominator, or it appeals to certain types of people in the same way that “modern art” does.

“Modern art” is another phenomenon that I don’t understand.  I don’t understand why so much museum space is being taken up with squiggly lines and splatter paint, or imagery based on scatophilia when there is so much good art out there today which deserves to be showcased.  Making splatter paint or squiggly lines does not take a hundredth of the skill it takes to produce a live portrait, or even a still life.  It took me a long time last week just to do some rough sketches of my character from Skyrim (she kept moving, like a real life subject often will), but I could have done a modern art splatter painting or slopped some colors on a paper in under a minute. 

I don’t think the average person knows that.  “Modern art” has to be one of the biggest cons ever.  People slopping something down, assigning it some bombast or pompous sounding title, and then selling it for loads of money.  Then people line up and pay to go look at that crap, and assign some kind of subjective emotional meaning to it, even though it really is complete crap that doesn’t look like anything, or at best it looks like something disgusting.

I don’t know whether things like this are the cause of our cultural decline, or a symptom of it.

I don’t understand why so many people allow others to make value judgments for them.  Just because some cultural elite(s) say that something is good or valuable does not make it so.  If it looks or sounds like crap it probably is crap.

So apparently there are some Pakis who want to try the Pakistani ambassador to the US for blasphemy, because she suggested loosening the blasphemy laws in Pakistan a.k.a. Porkistan, a.k.a. Pukistan. 

Muslims have to be the most sensitive people in the world, to want to kill their own people over slight disagreements.  Death and violence is the answer to disputes in Islam.  So earlier we had a retarded girl from a Christian family get accused of “blasphemy” for supposedly burning Koran pages.  Although people have been executed for blasphemy following court convictions, sometimes they are killed by mobs prior to completion of a trial. 

Any culture, society, government, or belief system which does not allow for freedom of speech is not worth preserving and needs to go.  Executing someone for their opinion or something that they said is absolutely savage, disgusting, and pure evil.  I don’t care how offensive it was.  Stop being so sensitive.  Stop being a baby.  The left has the same problem, always wanting to curtail people’s freedom of speech to protect their own feelings.  News flash, the world doesn’t care about your feelings.  If your feelings are so delicate that they impair your functioning then learn not to have them.  I used to be sensitive when I was young, and I would literally attack other kids (only boys) for things that they said to me.  This was elementary age.  As a result of that I found myself in trouble a lot, and I had to learn to be less emotional so that I could function properly.  You can mute your own emotions.  You cannot completely eliminate them but you can reduce them and learn not to act on them so much.  Really it is something that everyone should learn to do.

But I digress, I want to say something more about Islam specifically.  I absolutely detest that savage backward desert religion.  Muhammad is nothing sacred to me and neither is the Koran.  As far as I am concerned the Koran is a book of blasphemy.  Also, Muhammad was a pedophile.  Don’t excuse him.  He was a pedophile, he liked to have sex with little girls, and sometimes boys as well.  So he was also a queer.  To me, he is more unclean than the pigs Muslims are always shunning.  Also, there is no such thing as Allah, the false moongod of Mecca.  If Allah were real he would just be another pig in a pen on some farm someplace.  Maybe if I ever take up farming I will ranch pigs, and name one of them Allah.  Maybe I will even fashion a brand like the Muslim symbol for Allah, and brand it onto the biggest most disgusting pig on the farm, because that’s what Islam is. 

Oh yes, I know that any Muslims reading this will be enraged and try to kill me, or worse.  But that will only validate all of my points I have made here, and in addition, I am not someone you want to mess with.  Anyone who tries anything is going to pay a heavy heavy price. 

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pakistan-accuses-ambassador-u-blasphemy-124213305.html

This one is for the ladies.  I wanted to talk about what to do in situations of rape and alleged rape.

Rape:

It appears that the left is intent on making helpless victims of all the law abiding citizens.  This is because the left does not believe that the role of government is to serve the people, they believe that the role of people is to serve the government.  They want slaves, not citizens.  That being said, I wanted to give some practical advice on what you can do if a rapist comes after you.  This advice is for if you find yourself in a situation of actual rape, and does not apply if you invited the guy over for sex and changed your mind during coitis, or if you had “one too many” and went to Happy Land without thinking. 

So if the rapist comes after you, and you have no gun, the best thing you can do is dig your long fingernails into his eyes.  If you don’t have long fingernails right now you should consider growing them out, because if properly maintained they can serve as weapons which are typically overlooked by the statists and everyone else.  Forget about trying to batter him with punches and kicks.  A punch from the average woman is probably only enough to irritate the average man.  Also screaming is not that helpful, because these days the majority of people ignore screams, or they run away from them rather than towards.  When the rapist comes, it’s you and him. 

The eye is the most sensitive part of the body.  You might be thinking that the nuts are, but a hair on the nuts is not going to cause any kind of irritation, whereas a hair stuck in the eye can cause major difficulties.  So if attacked, go for the eyes.  Scoop those suckers out, and once he is blinded he will be fairly helpless against any follow up attacks so long as you avoid grappling with him.  Don’t worry about getting icky eyeball juice on your hands or anything.  It’s his eyes or your virginity, and while I normally would not want to condemn anyone to a life of blindness, once someone viciously attacks you like that then you have a right to do whatever is necessary to defend yourself, especially if you are physically overmatched. 

If you cannot reach his eyes for any reason then mash his nuts as hard as you can, then go for his eyes.  Don’t show any mercy because the rapist deserves none, and he will show you none.

Now that I wrote this one watch the liberals start clamoring for limiting the length of fingernails.

Cry Rape:

I can’t just talk about rape without also talking about cry rape.  By “cry rape” I am of course talking about women who engage in fornication or adultury, and accuse their male co-conspirator of rape in order to get themselves out of trouble.  So, the advice I gave regarding what to do if raped does not apply to the cry rape women. 

My advice for cry rape women is to just confess what you did, and the sooner the better.  The fact is, the longer you put it off the worse things will go for you, because the longer you decieve him the greater the offense.  Also, what if your boyfriend or husband decides to go after the alleged rapist?  Then not only are you condemning an innocent man to a serious assault and possible death (the accused rapist), but you are also condemning your husband or boyfriend (who would think he was only righting a wrong), to jail and possibly death.  You run the risk of ruining two lives needlessly.

Yes I know you’re a selfish little twat, so that probably doesn’t factor in.  You care only about yourself and your personal comfort, but the thing is, maintaining lies over long periods of time requires effort, and after doing what you did things are never going to be as they were before anyways.

“Oh but I may lose my boyfriend/husband!”–So what?  Obviously you can do without him or else you wouldn’t have been able to have that little fling that you just did. 

“But I will be branded/stigmatized as a slut!”–Well, that’s because you are a slut.  If the shoe fits, wear it.  You should have thought about that before you cheated.  But don’t worry, there are lots of guys who like sluts.  They don’t like sluts for marriage, but they do like sluts for other things.  Just ask Ramzpaul if you don’t believe me.  If you were interested in marriage then you should not have cheated.  Just like if you are a teenage kid trying to go to an elite university, you don’t spend highschool skipping class and failing to turn in your homework.  Take responsibility for yourself. 

Yes, it will probably be difficult for you to find a guy willing to marry you who doesn’t have a bad record of his own, but you put yourself in that situation, and you don’t have the right to falsely accuse someone of rape.  If I go and rob a gas station then my life isn’t going to be the same again either.  It’s not the gas stations fault that I robbed it, and any criminal charges, jail time, and lack of job opportunities that follow are a result of my own indescretion.  Yes it would lower the quality of my life, and after that I would probably be faced with the prospect of menial work or a life of crime for the rest of my life.  Yes that would be really awful, but if you aren’t prepared to face the consequences of an action then don’t take the action.

Also, when you cry rape you do a serious disservice to actual rape victims who are looking for justice.  When an actual rape occurs it is a serious life changing thing.  My first reaction when a woman tells me she was raped should be sympathy and righteous indignation, not incredulity, but these days when I hear someone talk about rape I often react with incredulity.  Especially when a few drinks were involved. 

I actually do read news from the liberal media most of the time, especially since I get most of my news off of Yahoo, but this group called “The Atlantic Wire” goes way to far.  They are the most sloppy and unprofessional news outlet I have ever seen.  When I read it I can’t tell if it’s a blog or a news.  When I read blogs I’m OK with people being open with their biases, but I expect news articles to be atonal.  Look at this:

Once asked if congressional law could stop the president from authorizing interrogators to crush the testicles of a detainee’s child, Yoo responded, “I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that.” Yoo as critic of executive overreach reaches new heights of hypocrisy.

–Whether or not the author thinks this guy is a hypocrite is irrelevant.  When I’m reading the news I can usually tell which side the author is on, but that doesn’t mean it is OK for them to blurt out their opinions and emotions like that.  How is that news?  How is that profesional? 

Poor naive Mitt Romney. This government outsider thinks you actually pass laws in Washington! But he is right about one thing: Immigration reform would never pass a Republican-controlled Senate.

–This segment is dripping with the author’s emotions.  Sun Tsu said never to let your enemies see your emotions, and when you post in something like a public news outlet and wantonly display your emotions like that then your enemies are going to see.  For example, I have seen this, and now I have less respect for this author and news source, and I am actively working to reduce the amount of views they will get as a result.  Condescending statements have no place in a news article.  Editorials and blogs are for opinion, news is SUPPOSED to be for facts.  If I want someone’s opinion I will read an editorial or blog.  I expect the news to be news, and the reporter’s opinion is not relevant to the news, it’s just slag which gets in the way of the story.  Also, there is no call for putting an exclamation mark ANYWHERE in a news article.  We don’t want to hear your emotions or emphasis, just tell us what happened and keep your emotions to yourself.  What a clown.

The Atlantic’s James Fallows has written extensively about Senate Republicans abuse of the filibuster since they’ve been in the minority for the last six years. Fallows writes:

–Now he is openly outing the bias of his entire organization.  Maybe liberals enjoy this kind of “reporting” but I just find it irritating. 

Once upon a time, Fallows told On the Media, it took 67 votes to break a filibuster, but the filibuster had to be real

–Seriously?  So is this a kids story book now?  Do I really need to explain how juvanile and inappropriate it is to begin any part of a news article with “once upon a time”?  After that I just stopped reading.  Yahoo has been posting articles from “The Atlantic Wire” from time to time, which is how I found out about them.  If you ever come across an article by them the best thing to do is immediately hit the back button. 

Here is the article I took my excerpts from: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/06/obama-vs-senate-republicans-who-hates-constitution-more/53652/

Yes, I know I use derisive adjectives and sarcasm in my blog from time to time, but the thing is, this is a blog.  Blogs and editorials are where you are supposed to display your opinion.  News articles are supposed to have standards.  They are supposed to convey the news, and that’s it.  Any opinions and sarcasm are totally inappropriate for a news article. 

I actually trained in journalism for about a year when I was in college.  Originally I was going to go into it, but then I changed my mind.  However, as a result I tend to hold journalists to journalist standards, and people like that (Atlantic Wire) fall miserably short.  I don’t know how they even graduates from school without understanding the difference between news and editorials. 

“1984″ is on it’s way.  It is official, Congress has passed a bill allowing for drones to be deployed over the US, and Barack Osama is expected to sign.  Of course he is going to sign, he’s a totalitarian control freak statist elitist.  He hates us, and sees us as his enemy, which is why he is trying to disarm us, and why the government is stockpiling weapons and ammo of their own. 

All you sludge brained liberals who voted for the Democrats bear some of the blame for this.  All of us on the right know that this is bad, but let me break it down for all the leftists who are thick between the ears. The entire purpose of deploying drones over the US is to kill and spy on US citizens. They will use these to eliminate “domestic enemies.” BTW, the greatest domestic enemy right now is our crap heap government.   They have already laid the groundwork for target killings of US citizens without trial, now they will do it over the US as well as abroad.  People will simply be killed in their own homes.  One night you might be sleeping, and suddenly your house will be rocked by an explosion.  You will go outside and see flames coming from your neighbors bedroom.  If it even makes the news, they will say that a gas line exploded, or some other contrived bullcrap.

Someday it might be you.  Maybe SOMEDAY you will actually get upset over something the government does to the point where you complain about it loudly and publicly (I know it’s hard to imagine because the government is your God, but everyone has their line that can’t be crossed), and they will come for you.  You probably won’t even see it coming.  One second you will be asleep, and the next second you will be dead.

But that is not the only danger these drones pose. They will also be crashing into people’s houses, and into airplanes loaded with passengers. If/when that happens, every single politician who participated in this God forsaken bill will be a murderer, assuming that they cannot be considered such already.  I know you liberals hate us Conservatives/traditional Americans, and a lot of you will probably cheer for the drones as long as we are the ones being targetted, killed, and spied upon.  But on the other hand you probably have friends and family who fly.  The drones will be crashing into airplanes and homes, and the accidents will be without prejudice toward creed or ideology.  Think about that one.

Now we have this coupled with Obama’s executive orders to take control of the internet, so this way they can track and kill people like me for speaking out.  I know that lots of leftists would be happy to see me go, and I’m fine with that, but I’m not going to stop speaking the truth until I can’t speak anymore.

I think it would be sweet irony and justice if the drones malfunctioned and crashed into the White House or the Congress building. 

Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/feb/7/coming-to-a-sky-near-you/?page=1

Homeschooling is looking better and better:

OK so it looks like Obama is working to worsen our already fairly communist public education system.  For those who may not know, the Federal Government (which includes the Executive Branch) is supposed to have all of jack and squat to do with education.  It’s called the 10th Ammendment, and it says, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Education and the power to oversee education were never delegated to the Federal Government, which means that most of what the government has done with education is un-Constitutional. 

So what does Obama want to do this time?  He wants to meddle with education around the country.  The stated purpose is to bring underperforming urban students up to the same level as their suburban peers, and the way to do it is to redistribute wealth and add more Federal oversight. 

When I first read this I though, “what an idiot,” which is the first thing that comes to mind every time I read about something Obama has done or said.  But, it’s not so much stupid as it is insidious.  It’s stupid in terms of making the US a better place, but clever in terms of making the US a more communistic place.  Here is how communist leaders think:  Inequality among the citizens bothers them, as does citizens having freedom of choice.  They want to hammer down all the nails so that all the heads are flat, even if the nails are longer and the board isn’t thick enough.  That is their plan for the citizens, but they of course will exempt themselves because the only class division a communist dictator likes is the division between the ruler and the ruled. 

So let’s say he brings all the schools down to the level of the ghetto and equilizes everything.  Are his kids going to be affected?  No.  His kids will continue to go to whatever expensive private school they are going to, at tax payer expense, and with armed body guards.  He is a flaming elitist hypocrite. 

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/obama-push-universal-preschool-proposal-142600889–election.html

More people are renouncing US citizenship:

Looks like more people than ever before are renouncing their US citizenship because of left wing policies.  This is an endictment against the left, and all the entitlement minded takers and government worshipping sycophants.  As I said before, the problem with spreading the wealth is that eventually you run out of other people’s wealth to spread.  Things cannot continue the way they are going if our country is to survive.  It is high production costs that have driven much of our production overseas, which was the backbone of the US economy.  Production costs were made high because of unions and taxes. 

High taxes cause people to move their business elsewhere, and themselves as well apparently.  I told everyone that high taxes are not good for the economy.  The higher the taxes the less people businesses can afford to employ.  The more businesses that shut down or move overseas the more people we have in the US who will be unemployed and underemployed.  Those problems are only compounded by immigration. 

“Oh those people are just greedy, we don’t need them anyways.”–OK, if they are greedy for wanting to keep their own money, then what does that make you for wanting to keep your money and for wanting to keep someone else’s money.  I think that if we use the same standard of judging greed, then that makes them greedy, and you greedy + parasitic.  And yes, we do need them.  When they go then jobs go with them.  Also, who do you expect to pay your welfare check?  Oh yes, and before you say “we will create our own businesses” let me just preempt you by asking why haven’t you already?  No one is stopping you.  If you have such a natural propensity towards being successful then what is stopping you?  Go and do it.

If you look at this chart you can see figures for the rate at which people renounce their citizenship:

Look at how it went up under Obama and the Democrats, and the huge spike in 2011.  The spike in 1997 was caused by dual citizens in Hong Kong giving up their US citizenship as Hong Kong reverted to China.  The spike in 2011 was caused by Barack Osama.

Now, I can’t help but wonder how this chart would look if they factored in people who were still US citizens but who have moved overseas for work. 

I have been toying with that idea myself.  Why?  Because the US is no longer the land of opportunity, and it is becoming less and less like that progressively.  The job market is crap here.  No don’t tell me it’s good, because it’s crap.  I have two degrees and a 4.0 GPA on the 2nd one, + good references, and still I struggle.  So many people are living on a fixed income, while the cost of living goes up. 

There are three things that keep me in the US, for now:

1. My family is here.

2. The 1st Ammendment.

3. The 2nd Ammendment.

I would like to point out that reasons 2 and 3 are under heavy attack by the left.  Once those go, then the only reason I have to stay is family.  But since I am getting married soon, and am a lower income earner, I may be going overseas for work anyways because I want to be able to have kids and a good life.  So, let’s see. 

Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/should-you-renounce-your-citizenship-144048875.html

I feel compelled to address this issue because it is a common myth among liberals which they freqently take for an axiom and bring it up in debates.  Did Republicans and Democrats ever swith places or flip?  The answer is emphatically no. 

The Republicans were never a liberal party.  Out of the two parties they have always been the one which was more pro-Constitution.  The biggest problem with the Republicans today is that they are going along with the Democrats, which means that they are essentially seat warmers in DC, at best. 

The Democrats of the past were pro-slavery, and the Democrats of today are pro-abortion.  In either case the Democrats and much of their constituency violated the natural rights of a large segment of the population, based on subjective arguments on how they are less than human. 

I am not going to argue that some people are better off never being born, because that has no bearing on the issue of whether or not abortion is murder.  I am not going to argue that in the long run the descendents of the black Africans brought to the US as slaves are not better off than their cousins in Africa, they are, but that has no bearing on whether or not the institution of slavery is morally valid.  But the Democrat party does have a history of interpreting the Constitution subjectively.

In addition, I am 100% convinced that if the majority of liberals today were born back then they would be pro-slavery, because their tendency to subscribe to subjective party arguments about one segment of the population being less than human would still be there.  The Democrats of today are still pro-slavery to a certain degree with the way they want to tell us what to eat, what medical treatments we can have, where to go to school, what sort of education we can have, and so on and so forth.

I don’t want to hear about how the South was full of Christian conservatives.  The colonies founded for religious reasons were all to the north.  The southern colonies were established for the same reason that the colonies in Haiti and Cuba were established, which was mass production of cash crops.  Today there are very few Christian conservatives in the northeast, and the northeast is mostly Democrat as a result.  That is not to say that there were no Christian conservatives in the south, because there were, but they were not the rich plantation owners who held most of the political influence.  However, I am not going to say that the south was completely wrong, or that all of their reasons for secession were invalid.  I still agree with secession, and so did Robert E. Lee, who incidentally was also anti-slavery.

But the whole myth about the parties switching sides is just that, a myth.  The Democrats have simply changed their angle of attack, and the Republicans have decided to go along with them more and more.  If anything what we see happening is the differences between the parties becoming smaller and smaller, which is why I am probably going to completely stop voting for the Republicans fairly soon.  Last time the only one I voted for was Romney, and I voted libertarian for all the rest, of course, at that point it didn’t matter since they threw out my ballot. 

I’m thinking that “Middle Class” is actually a code word for “Welfare Recipients.”  After all, that is the only class that seems to be growing right now, and the only class Obama is helping to grow.

So I keep seeing articles about how the Fakestinians are angry over one thing or another.  I have concluded that if they are not the most worthless people in the world they are close to it.  This time they are fussing about Israel creating an exibit about Herod “the Great” in Israel. 

So I stopped to think about what that has to do with them, and the conclusion that I came to is that it has jack all to do with them.  Let’s go over it.  Herod was a Jewish “king” put in charge of the Roman province of Judaea, and Fakestinians are neither Roman nor Jewish.

Fakestinians self identify as “Arabs” and Arabs come from the ARABIAN Penninsula.  So the artifacts and the exibit have basically jack and squat to do with them.  Arabs are neither Jews nor Romans.

The basis behind their whining is the claim that the artifacts were taken from Samaria a.k.a. “West Bank.”  OK granted, but even so it still has jack all to do with them.  This would be like the equivalent of me getting upset about Native American archaeologists digging up ancient Cherokee arrowheads in Georgia.  I don’t give a rip snort.  It’s their culture, so they are entitled to those artifacts if they can find them in the ground.  It has jack all to do with my heritage, so why should I care if they collect their ancestral objects and put them on display?  “Uh… no, you guys can’t collect them, because I’m white, and I’m here and uh… yea…”  Sounds incredibly stupid yes?  That’s because it is. 

This is just bitching for the sake of bitching, very much like the leftists in the US.  Someone needs to tell them to shut it and keep it shut.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/herod-great-show-israel-angers-palestinians-202213080.html

So Pope Ratzinger is going to retire now.  He cites old age, and diminishing physical and mental capabilities as his reason for retiring. 

OK so I’m not Catholic, and as a result I don’t closely follow what the Pope is doing, nor do I see him as an authority.  That being said, I would like to critique some of the things he did that were mentioned in the article:

“But his trip to Germany also prompted the first major crisis of his pontificate. In a university lecture he quoted a 14th century Byzantine emperor as saying Islam had only brought evil to the world and that it was spread by the sword.”

–Which is completely true.  It has brought only evil, and it was spready by conquest. Everywhere Islam has gone civilizations and cultures have been destroyed and replaced by barbarism.  The unparalleled Byzantine Empire was destroyed by them and replaced with that garbage country Turkey.

“After protests that included attacks on churches in the Middle East and the killing of a nun in Somalia, the Pope later said he regretted any misunderstanding the speech caused.”

–So after the Muslims proved that what he said was completely true, he apologized to them.  Those people are such barbarians. 

“In a move that was widely seen as conciliatory, in late 2006 he made a historic trip to predominantly Muslim Turkey and prayed in Istanbul’s Blue Mosque with a Turkish Mufti.”

–Now this part really blows my mind.  How do you pray with a Muslim?   If only that were a sick joke rather than a sick reality.   Islam is a totally different religion, with a different god, a different set of beliefs, a different set of values, and a different path to salvation.  So when they prayed together did they pray to Allah or YHWH?  I would like to know that.  Did the Pope mention Jesus when he prayed with that guy?  Probably not, because that would be considered blasphemy by the Muslims, and he would just end up offending them more.  I mean, why would he do that?  To me it seems like a show of subservience.  You wouldn’t catch me going into any Mosque to pray to Allah. 

“But months later, former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami met the Pope and said wounds between Christians and Muslims were still “very deep” as a result of the Regensburg speech.”

–Aww, boo-hoo.  Christians around the world have to put up with so much crap from Muslims, and they never apologize to us for a single thing.  Christians have to deal with random attacks and killings, institutional discrimination, forced conversions, rapes, kidnapping and forced marriage of Christian women to Mooslime men, and churches getting vandalized and destroyed.  If anyone has the deep wounds and a reason to be angry it’s us.  Muslims are not the innocent victims here, they are the aggressors.  What if Pisslam got made fun of by popular entertainment and the media as much as Christianity, or even half as much?  What then?  They would go insane with rage.  For the record, I think that we should make fun of Islam.  They need to have their attitude adjusted.  I guarantee they will behave better after a firm smackdown.

So here is my advice to the next Pope:  Don’t do what this guy did with the Mooslimes, and by that I am of course talking about placating and sucking up to them.  They are not your congregation, and in fact they are pagan moon worshipping cultists.  You are not responsible for their behavior.  It’s not your job to show subservience, or to please them.  If the goal is to convert them then you don’t convince someone to convert by telling them that their own beliefs are completely correct.  Doing stuff like that makes you seem like less of a spiritual leader and more of a politician/goof/clown.  That’s not leadership, it’s politics.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pope-resigns-saying-no-longer-strength-fulfill-ministry-112923467.html