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To: Diogeron who wrote (3564)	6/2/1998 9:38:00 AM
From: JMD	Respond to of 10852

Diogeron, my trader friend considers short term in a weeks/months framework, i.e., he is not a day trader, and he thinks a year is an incomprhensible infinity. I'm trying to buy LOR 2001 LEAPS. A note on political discussion and whether it belong on this thread. I absolutely agree that politics is as important as earnings in terms of affecting the stock price and therefore it would be naive/stupid to exclude it, particularly now when the C.E.O. is the pin-up poster child for the opposition party. The problem is that very few people, and I mean very, very few people, can discuss politics (or religion or race) without going partisan, postal, and ballistic--in that order. When that happens, all meaningful discussion stops, no more ideas get exchanged, opinions harden, and the board goes to hell. Check out LOR Motley board for point blank proof. Obviously, I am not here as the sheriff, and anybody can post anything at anytime without needing a hall pass from me. Knock yourselves out. But I'll bet you a case of the Cloudy Bay that as soon as somebody zings in a partisan political view, the holder of the opposite view will fire back, and it will be a month before we get back to the anticipated income stream from transponders. And that, in addition to informing you that my political party of choice is 'none-of-the-above', is why I don't like political posts. Mike Doyle