To: long-gone who wrote (76481 ) 9/14/2001 3:23:17 PM From: IngotWeTrust Respond to of 116753 YES, Richard, even if you dont' think it is deserved. There is such a thing as orderly distribution and this is what that looks like. You may not think "they" deserve it. More logical heads than yours prevail here. Your obsession with emergency SEC/FR equities accomodations, and now gold piled in the ruble is symptomatic of your denial phase. You act like this is the first time an airplane has gone down or that either United or American has been sued in a wrongful death situation. Each of their liability carriers has an act of God clause. These airlines will survive, get merged with, bought out, whatever. Morgan Stanley is still in business. Cantor Fitzgerald's CEO is alive and devastated but his memory isn't gone, nor his skillset. He'll be financed and back in business if he so choses. This isn't a case of fraud or embezzlement. Just a temporary setback. Life is for the living, and just plain goes on without us if we dawdle at the graves/shrines too long, which is an INDIVIDUAL issue. And you're not talking about gold because this is the "gold thread." To read your recent postings, you would have thought this was the China thread, etc. or whatever has distracted you pre-WTC. Don't give me that "Great COMEX/NYMEX Gold Mystery" line. That dog don't hunt! You are a passionate, hot-headed, a&&kicking flame thrower about every topic under the sun for almost what, 6 years now, but you can't cry, pray or shoot straight? Okay. So be it. BUT... At the risk of sounding harsh, RH, target someone else a spell with your "yes, but" games...I've got work to do and other people would like some of the time you've been getting, U C: my PM box is full. If it is urgent, you know how to get ahold of me privately, but this yanking my yang is over. I'll let you know when I'm willing to re-up for another load. Your friend.