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Pastimes : The Justa & Lars Honors Bob Brinker Investment Club -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: sea_biscuit who wrote (3861)	3/15/1999 5:11:00 PM
From: Justa Werkenstiff	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15132

Dipy: Re: "First, let me commend you on being even-handed and trying to get back the focus of this thread." I'll give you some points on refraining from responding to some recent posts. Re: "However, let me make it clear to you that it was not I who started this. It all started with Mr. GreenJeans forwarding the latest piece of sludge that Drudge had dredged. Even in the earlier instance, it was DD who reacted way out of line when all I did was to ask a question about Brinker's comment on "distributions"." Like I said to DD, I don't care. Re: " Second, I have every right to post on this thread as long as I confine myself to the charter." Read the charter again. Let me introduce myself. My name is Justa. I am the charter here. I made this thread and have worked hard on it. I can make it up and change the charter as I see fit in order to keep this thread going. The charter says so. I try to be fair but I reserve the right to be expedient at the expense of perceived fairness. That is the deal here and everyone knows it and if they don't like it they can vote with their feet. Re: "So I don't think it is proper on your part to ask me to stay away." Most people don't stay where they are not wanted. They respect a person's privacy and hard work much like they might demand the respect of a President's privacy. They conclude it is a waste of their time to be at a party when they are asked to leave. I certainly know it is "proper" to ask politely ask people to leave as I have done with you. It is your decision to decline my request; it is my decision to take appropriate action or do nothing as I see fit in light of your actions both past and future. Re: "If some people have problems with my presence here, it is their problem (and possibly yours). Not mine." I don't have a problem with you. I have a problem with your actions. You are responsible for your own actions and any unjustified actions are your own problem and not mine. You know full well that calling Truman and "arrogant idiot" was your doing and not mine or anyone else's. You wrote it and anybody worthy of posting on this thread would acknowledge it was wrong. It was inflamatory speech. It violated the charter and the SI terms of use. You then appoint yourself thread monitor when that duty is reserved to Lars and myself. This is another violation. Read the charter. You finally threaten to spam the thread with posts from the SI Clinton Defense Fund if the subject is not dropped. That is also a violation of the charter and the SI terms of use. And so while an errant post on Clinton might have been made, your actions in response to that post were totally out of proportion (now that sounds like a familiar argument) to the offense. Re: "Third, I will continue to read this thread for any anti-Clinton postings. If I see any slack on that front, I will take that as a cue to get the pro-Clinton crowd here. After all, whether it is global warming or dinosaurs or the lost continent of Atlantis or Clinton, once you allow one side of the argument, it is only fair that the other side be allowed to have its say. I'm sure you understand that." You bet I do. If you think it is a good investment of your time to want to act as independent counsel to this thread on all matters Clinton, ask me and I just might allow it. Respond if you need to an errant Clinton post but I would expect that posters from this thread would simply tell the poster he is off topic and to ask the offender to quit it and not threaten my thread with spam from others which is totally out of line and in violation of the charter and SI terms of use. Imagine if I did the same to you in light of your actions. Imagine if I asked everyone to follow you around SI and harass you to no end because of what you wrote. Some people might say I was violating your privacy. They might call me the Ken Starr of SI. Now there is some irony in this thought. That is for sure.