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To: gpowell who wrote (13250)	8/26/2003 7:39:10 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

How unfair of you to point out this deficiency! Just last weekend I was discussing some issues with a good friend. She brought up the tax cuts and the budget deficit and I countered some of her claims with some facts and ratios. She didn't have any facts disproving what I said, but she was sure I was wrong. At one point she got so upset with me she gave me a long lecture about how rude it was for me to argue against her "belief". In other words, she believes certain things and it was rude for me to bring up things that would contradict that belief. I told her she could believe almost any old thing, but if I thought that her statements were false I was going to tell her because that's what friends do. People aren't talking on these boards about investments primarily because no one wants to let on that they actually have any. Last time I tried to discuss the fundamental merit of a particular company on a thread I was accused of "pumping" even though I offered to give the con side as well as the pro. Then for months I had to put up with various dumbass comments about the price movement on that issue as I have on almost every issue that has ever appeared in any of my posts regardless of whether I say I like it or don't like it. I've even gotten BS for making a comment about a company that I said I didn't even follow because I mentioned it. Therefore, on SI, I don't write about companies in public, while I do it privately quite a lot. I think it's a great loss because I remember way back when I was a lurker on SI you could learn quite a lot reading what others had written about companies. You can go to Yahoo and get a better discussion going about individual companies if you can stand to wade through the trash. It's a sad commentary on the state of SI. The bad always drives out the good.