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To: Metacomet who wrote (10216)	5/2/2006 10:49:45 AM
From: SI Dave	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 78421

When the markets are closed, these boards drop to a low ebb. The "partisan" comments that you are referring to on this board, almost without exception, have occurred on weekends when they are pretty much the only thing folks were posting about. This board is no different than any other investment board. It is open 24x365, as are the boards in the Politics forum. Many of the users who read this board read all of the posts, and there is no practical reason they should have to sift through any noise posts much less an even higher percentage of them on weekends just because a few people want use them as captive audience for their partisan soapbox. There is nothing to prevent those views from being expressed on a Politics board, where they are on-topic and welcome to the dialog. In fact, there could be a companion board for this one specifically for that purpose; that's been done many times. >To believe that the market dynamic that we are observing is without a massive partisan politic component is naive. Most people can distinguish the difference between pertinent geopolitical discussion and its influence on the market and personal political rhetoric. The latter almost always strays away from and drowns out the underlying topic. >The naysayers, of course, don't want to hear it, and in true Bush form, will do whatever possible to squelch or avoid hearing any criticism. That's a fine example of partisan political rhetoric, pure and simple. I'd prefer to not clutter up the board with anymore of this off-topic discussion. Hopefully the policy and rationale for it have been adequately explained and everyone will attempt to conduct themselves accordingly. Dave