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Some comments, and replies, to my Flickr account where I posted the Mohammed cartoons and some of the Iranian “retribution” cartoons. Note that the Muslims ignore the Iranian cartoons.
On 17 Oct ‘06, 9.48am PDT ArabianRose said:
Hello
just wanted to warn you about those pictures you posted recently on your account. These pictures are Totally not appropriate to be posted any where. you seem to be one of the advocates of such pictures and i assume you are from iran ?! and motlty you have an idea about whats going on against this kind of action.
so please remove them because we “All Muslims” are so OFFENDED because of what we found posted on your accout.
My reply:
Dear ArabianRose,
Thank you for your communique. Unfortunately, I will not be removing the images of Mohammed from my Flickr account because they have now become a symbol of brutish Muslim tactics against “Dhimmis” when any sort of offense towards Muslims has been committed. It would be offensive to me, as a United States citizen, to NOT see such rage-inducing images.
I assume you confused my nationality with the images I posted of an Iranian cartoon contest, which was held to try to bait the ire of people from other religions and other cultures. Since little has been heard about it, the ploy obviously didn’t work, but the tactics used by the Iranian Mullahs tells the world that Muslim leaders — and the Muslim faith in general — are clearly on the side of pain and retribution towards those who offend them in any way.
Again, I appreciate the time you took to send me your thoughts on the subject of the Mohammed Cartoons. Your offense at the images is regrettable, but if it’s a choice between offending some to educate many, I will choose to educate many.
Salaam Alikum.
And more:
From: 
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Subject: donkey ass
u r such a loser
butthead
Aaaaaand one more:
From: 
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Subject: hi ..
hi, well i wont waist ur time or something, i just want to tell u that the pictures that u r posting isnt pleasnt for us Muslim people, so would u please care to delete them , because you are abusing what we believe in and everything we are standing for ! So please do delete those pictures and give us some respect cuz we sure do give u that !
Thank You ..
So, a smattering of Muslims who don’t like the ‘toons.
There were a couple people who gave me props for posting them, and warnings that I’d be flooded with hate mail… I got it, but it wasn’t bad at all.
I think I’ll go post the bobblehead Mohammed now. YAY!
From “The Big Picture” blog (a good read, you should Feed it to yourself):
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/
Thanks to Paul Farrell, we learn that “Quietly hidden in Adams’ groundbreaking work is a financial formula so simple it rivals Einstein’s E=mc2. In its original form Adams’ formula was apparently so heretical and so explosive that no major house would touch it when he proposed publishing it as a one-page book. After initial rejections, he announced sadly that “if God materialized on earth and wrote the secret of the universe on one page, he wouldn’t be able to find a publisher either.”
Fortunately for America’s 95 million investors, Adams’ secret nine-point formula was finally revealed in “Dilbert and the Way of the Weasels.” Notice its simple brilliance in the exact reproduction of his formula:
1. Make a will
2 .Pay off your credit cards
3. Get term life insurance if you have a family to support
4. Fund your 401k to the maximum
5. Fund your IRA to the maximum
6. Buy a house if you want to live in a house and can afford it
7. Put six months worth of expenses in a money-market account
8. Take whatever money is left over and invest 70% in a stock index fund and 30% in a bond fund through any discount broker and never touch it until retirement
9. If any of this confuses you, or you have something special going on (retirement, college planning, tax issues), hire a fee-based financial planner, not one who charges a percentage of your portfolio
Adams boldly states that this is “everything you need to know about personal investing.” In just 129 words, nine simple points, one page you have the unabridged “Unified Theory of Everything Financial.” That’s it. Everything!
Thanks to Adams’ formula, the average irrational investor can ignore Wall Street: “Everything else you may want to do with your money is a bad idea compared to what’s on my one-page summary. You want an annuity? It’s worse. You want a whole life insurance policy? It’s worse. You want to invest in individual stocks? It’s worse. You want a managed mutual fund instead of an index fund? It’s worse. I could go on, but you get the point.”
Source:
‘Dilbert’ deserves the economics Nobel:
‘Unified Theory of Everything Financial’ wins in parallel universe
Paul B. Farrell
MarketWatch, Last Update: 7:46 PM ET Oct 9, 2006
