Rick: It is not jut lowly Ronald--You also owe me a debt of gratitude
Modesty prevented me from suggesting to your friend (whom you have labeled for life, "lowly Ronald") that he should memorialize the debt of gratitude he owes me, a mere stranger, for taking the time out of my busy schedule to write down for him a map of where good manners could be found. Hence I am glad you told him. After all, even modest folk like the recognition they deserve.
Accordingly, I agree with your post to the extent that it urges your lone friend whom you have dubbed, lowly Ronald, to honor and glorify the kindness I showed him, as well as to acknowledge in a lasting way, the benefit he received from my kindness. It is one thing for the man you call lowly Ronald to expose himself as a jackass before the perhaps, tens if not hundreds of readers of this thread; but if he remained as ignorant as he seemed in his writings (to say nothing of how lowly Ronald's voluntary alliance with you reflects on his judgement), who knows how many people he would end up offending needlessly.
I did learn something new. From your post, is safe to infer that you believe the person you call lowly Ronald owes you a debt of gratitude too? I ask this because while I did not know lowly Ronald was in your mind akin to a high school dropout, you seemingly did know that fact. And despite that knowledge, you allowed your solitary Silicon Investor pal you monikered, lowly Ronald to play your Tammy Faye as you embraced the public paranoia and annoying habits of Jim Bakker in his pre-fallen prime. Yet as you candidly admit, you were preoccupied with the notion, as you put it so sweetly,
"...I have never slighted you
for your personal lack of status,
professional rank, or lessor education..."
Perhaps you hanker for your own monument from lowly Ronald, to acknowledge your own sacrifice of allowing what you have described as an uneducated lout to help carry your flag--the flag that proudly bears an embroidered emblem depicting the TWO MIGHTY LITTLE BLACK ANTS INVADING a PICNIC.
But what about you, Rick? Do you too not owe me a debt of gratitude, and should you not follow yourself the advice you administer to lowly Ronald? After all, when you libeled and defamed CCEE by accusing the company of fraud and by innuendo, violating the Federal Securities laws, did I not scare you into your convoluted retraction, thus sparing you from having to face what you obviously realized was the very real possibility that you might have incurred some legal liability for your excessive polemics?
Since I highlighted your libel, it must be apparent to all who read here, you have not discussed the company, but instead have engaged in what you surely view as the productive exercise of attacking and obsessing over the personalities who post here.
Now I am sure that they are drinking champaign at CCEE's headquarters because the black ant is no longer threatening to eat the company alive. (I heard that the little black ant can eat crumbs that are 50 times its own weight--so the threat posed by even one little black ant should not be viewed casually.) Of course, I for one wonder if CCEE is failing in its fiduciary duty it owes to those shareholders who have become the replacement for the nibblings of the little black ant and his faithful companion, the one he calls, lowly Ronald. On the other hand, now that you are afraid to talk about what we all now know was not any facts you had, but rather your feeling that CCEE committed fraud, do you continue to post here because this is the only place where anyone even acknowledges your existence, as has been suggested by others? I mean, after all Rick, this is the CCEE thread, not some AOL chat room, and if you are afraid to discuss CCEE, what is left for you here?
In any event, I feel constrained to note that my saving you from the consequences of continuing your written defamatory comments about CCEE is worth at least as much as what you advised lowly Ronald I did for him.
I would suggest the kind of monument of gratitude I think you should create to honor what I did for you, Rick, but as I said above, I am too modest. |
