THE POPE SAYS IT LIKE IT IS, ISN'T IT TIME THAT MUSLIMS STFU??

THIS JUST IN!! Remember when someone would say "Is the Pope Catholic?" when you'd ask them an obvious question? It's something my mother would always say. Well, according to a Muslim cleric, the Pope IS Jewish!! Yes, that's right folks, as this cleric put it, the Pope "...is a Zionist pig, a dirty Jew." Wow, so it's true, the Pope is NOT Catholic, sorry Mom!!

I'm sick of this BS, absolutely sick of it. The Pope called it exactly as it is. Imagine for a moment that you are the most powerful representative on Earth for a specific religion, who's leadership affects more than one billion people worldwide, and you take into account what has happened in the last 15 years, heck even the last 35 years, in the name of another religion, and you have finally had enough and you point out that radicals are using specific parts of their religion that ARE "evil and inhuman" to carry out horrible acts of atrocity.

What was stated is a FACT, a stone cold solid fact. And for those who are going to point out the Crusades and other barbaric acts by the Catholic Church, I'd say that gives the Pope even more right to speak out against what is now going on given the history of his own religion and the knowledge that one must make efforts to change within their beliefs and also work to root out evil within their own ranks, a.i. mainstream Muslims working harder to rid their religion or radical influence instead of accepting it, even supporting it thru their silence and refusal to do anything about it.

Now it's started, two churches firebombed in the West Bank, more to come, once again Muslims are going far beyond what can be considered a reasonable expectation in the current climate of the World and reacting like a culture that is some 500 years behind the times would act in response to something that is anything BUT an insult, more in fact it is calling attention to a problem that NEEDS fixing.

Oh yes, I know how some of you will attempt to twist this around, and try and point out any minor inconsistencies in the modern Christian or Catholic church in some hopeless asinine attempt to compare it to the ills currently within the Muslim religion, just give it up, okay? No religion is perfect, there are parts of the Bible that are ridiculous given modern times and these parts do not relate to today, and 99.9999% of Christians and Catholics admit this and do not riot and act like lunatics about it.

Why then are Muslims taking such an idiotic ignorant and dangerous stance on this, and why does THEIR leadership put the blame on the Pope for Islam's inability to control thru quality leadership what goes on in their own ranks?

Five Years Later

Well, happy B-Day to me. Another 9/11 has come and gone, however this one has found me, in relation to that day some 1800 days ago, in a sandy God forsaken craphole of a place from which I will leave in under 30 days from now.

So, what have we done in five years? Well, we are spending far too much fucking money on airport security, because it makes ignorant tiny brained civilians feel safer to see huge expensive machines and lots of bulletproof glass all over the place. Our military is hammering away at terrorists in the middle east (which, liberal dipshits, is one of the main reasons we haven't had to deal with them back home, but don't worry, given the nature of these inbred bunch of asshole radical morons, they'll be back), and we have a media who portrays every weakness in the United States from the Hoover Dam to Mount Rushmore out over the air waves, as though we need to give terrorists a blue print to work with from which to attack us again. Thanks, typical media assholes, you continue to ply your trade under the thin bullshit guise of "concern" when in fact it's only yellow journalism at its worst. I hope Hell has a nice place set up for you, right there beside the terrorists that you inadvertently support with your moronic practices.

So another year gone, another birthday so far from home. I thank God for my wonderful friends and for others who are concerned about me, even those who I don't get to talk to anymore. If I were home I'd have a big party and invite everyone, even that 6'6" tall Vladi Divac lookin' mother fucker who started all of this. Yes, Osama, I'm talking to you. I'm inviting you for sure, you will be the guest of honor. And if you are wondering why you are the only one in the room, that will be explained when the birthday cake, specially made with 4 lbs of C4 encased by 2000 ball bearings blows up in your face, HAPPY FUCKING BIRTHDAY TO ME!! And welcome to hell, you wanted virgins, you are going to get demonly ass raped, you piece of shit!! :) Oh birthday wishes!!

***The previous post has been brought to you by a cynical rather irritable soldier who at this point in time is a little bored and waiting for a ride out of a tiny base camp in Iraq, thank you for your time, please leave a comment or two!!

My Camera Is Annoying Me!!!

I have a wonderful camera for taking digital photos, the Olympus C-770 Ultra Zoom digital camera that belly purchased for me to take photos while I'm over here in Iraq. I have taken thousands of photos here and other than the slow rate of photo capture upon hitting the shutter button (you can't take actions shots worth a crap) there isn't much to complain about.

Well, I have a 256 card so I wanted to purchase a larger card to make a movie with, and they had a returned 1G card at the PX in Biap, so I bought it. Upon installing it, I found it will give me more than an hour of high quality 4 megapixel movie images. But then I find out that if I tried making a movie longer than a minute or so, I get a PICTURE ERROR message and it won't play either on the camera or on the computer.

I figured I would read the booklet and find out what is causing this, well, the instruction manual is a joke. It's 45 pages of typical crap made for a kindergärtners, with a bunch of illustrations that are marked out, but an appallingly pathetic problem solution section.

So, I decided to look online. I discovered in short order on a photo forum that I'm not the only one with this problem. I also found out that Olympus has a standard reply for questions about the problem, as follows:

We have confirmed the phenomenon you pointed out.
The 1 GB xD picture card is basically compatible with C-770 UltraZoom.

We have the following information that we confirmed.

* Only when recording the MPEG4 movies with sound, the phenomenon is generated.
This phenomenon does not happen besides recording MPEG4 movies with sound.

* This phenomenon is generated when you use type M 1GB xD-picture card.

Please use 1GB xD-picture card with C-770 UltraZoom excluding above conditions.

We appreciate if you could contact Olympus Europa GmbH for the further
information regarding this case.

Okay, does anyone else find this to be a little short on information, such as, why is this happening? Are you doing anything to repair it? Will a software upgrade fix it? BAH!!

This is frustrating, guess I'll just have to spend a bunch of time trying to fix this while out on the road because I really wanted to make movies of my time over here, to show everyone what it was like over here when I get back, and then long term, for grandkids someday, and beyond.

If anyone can find other information about this, or a solution by a more detailed reading of the webpage I provided, let me know. I am really short on time right now to spend hours and hours searching for a solution.

Current Lyrical Ramblings

We'll live happily ever trapped if you just save my life
Run and tell all the angels that everything is alright. . .
Fly along with me, I can't quite make it alone
Try and make this life my own

Learn To Fly - Foo Fighters