Well I see I have upset people including Charles who has been the best thing that ever happened to this website.
However, this website has rules just as any structured writing environment does. The rules say no politcal discussions and no religious treatises. Finally they say obey the Golden Rule. Those of you who are long time readers have seen the wisdom of these rules be made before your very eyes.
The rules are simple. Someone has to enforce the rules. That someone is me (not by choice I might add.. nobody wants the job.) No matter what you do as an editor you run the risk of offending someone.. I accept that risk.
You cannot imagine the nastiness that grew out of political discussions and the hurt feelings that ensued. That is not the purpose of this website to turn neighbor against neighbor over strong political and religious positions. WE had hoped to make this a sunny place of shared experiences and pleasant pictures. That is what we want and to keep the peace we cannot let anything get started that would disturb that peace. You may not think what you think or say about poltics in this community is not that bad but it had already had escalated to nastiness from 2 comments written by readers... Thus I deleted it.
If anybody wants to write here they can. I will edit out Political and religous stuff... There are literally thousands of blogs where one can go to argue those points or to pat each other on the back because they agree with each other. This, however, is not one of those places.
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