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I wish everyone a happy new year. A few days early, but I won’t be at home for the occasion so it will have to do.
Try not to harm yourselves or others with fireworks!

I’m not really in the habit of celebrating it myself (heck, this is the first time in years that I’m actually at home for the occasion ) but I do wish everyone who reads this a merry Christmas.

I’m taking this opportunity to make a proposal. It seems tradition to kill each other all year long, save with Christmas. I suggest we stop killing each other alltogether from now on. How difficult could it be to accept people who think a little different? Is it really so much to ask to look beyond our own ideals and respect someone else’s?

Also a note to those who apparently live for the sole purpose of being offended by everything that others do or say. I think we all know whom I’m referring to. Someone once said: “The prophet is beyond any insult.” If the prophet himself cannot be insulted anyway, why bother to be insulted in his name? If you ever encounter a cartoon you think is offensive, just remember that.