First of two.
I just have been taking it easy. I just posted on RB, Ihub and SI to show this
That's really dishonest Mary, even for you. You were booted from here for a long time and it should've been longer. How do I know this? It was the first Admin act of mine upon buying the site from INSP.
Remember the couple of weeks prior to my buying the site? I was trying to bait you into saying publicly that you would never use a site with which I was associated, giving you an opportunity to leave under your own power once the acquisition was finalized.
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From that post:
I think I'll have to make our first non-stock site something that'll be especially appealing to you so I'll be able to enjoy the pleasure of summarily shutting you out of it as soon as you show up. You're one of very few people I'd do that to. Promise you'll show up so I can ban you? Pretty please?
It was the beginning of the baiting and, no, though I don't consider myself a master at it, I'd take no offense at being called one. <g>
I still hate stock scammers. May they all rot in hell. People who rip off innocent investors with their lies deserve it.
Dare I assume you'd wish a similar fate upon those who lie knowing full well they are lying, but rather than fessing up to it, concoct steamy mounds of additional "evidence" to prove them right?
You mention in a later post something about how instrumental you were in outing Francois Goelo. I'll address that in more detail later, but I did want to ask here if you voluntarily (practically begged for -- knowing full well what I was risking) did a videotaped deposition for the SEC about him. I did. Wrap your head around that a moment. Can you imagine how strongly I felt about that situation if, as the head of an internet stock market discussion site, I jeopardized much of my professional safety and that of the site by not only opining about a publicly traded company very negatively, even more negatively about someone who was using my site, but presenting my opinions and what I felt were verifiable facts to none other than the SEC on video.
Don't assume I had to. I have a lot of experience telling the SEC "No. You forgot to cross a 't' here. Holla when you get it right." Quite the contrary on this one. The gentleman from the SEC in Chicago called asking if by any chance I might be willing to help them build a case against a poster from the Caymans and they'd need a lot of solid firepower. Before I could answer, the other line rang and it was my wife. I told her "Hey, let me call you later. I'm talking to a guy from the SEC who apparently would like to take down Franchwa" and she quickly said she'd talk to me later, while the SEC gent was laughing his butt off.
She'd heard me rail incessantly against him and others including another you mention in your other post, Hal Engel, which I'll address in that post.
I told the SEC guy that by his reaction, I knew exactly who he was after and if they would assure me their best efforts to nail him, then I was onboard and would even pay my own costs.
I have no idea whether or not my deposition was ever used or, if so, how much it helped, but I sure did tell them of my constant run-ins with him for not only deleting rules-compliant posts that simply spoke ill (and, from what I could tell, truthfully) of SEVU, and how I even quit working for iHub 6 weeks into my first go at it, specifically because of not only Franchwa, but, as you so conveniently forget, Mirarchi continually deleting posts and a thread of yours as soon as you'd written them, my restoring them, his re-deleting them (an ability Franchwa had that when I later replaced Mirarchi, I made my top programming priority to remove), my pretending not to know it was him (remember, you were reposting at my urging so I'd have a large enough bundle of posts to cause some discomfort should he shove them where I planned to suggest), finding myself on a conference call late at night discussing your posts with an old Canuck-Italian dentist and a young but damned impressive Floridian. And in that conversation telling the dentist to kindly kiss me where the sun doesn't shine and telling the KKD-guzzler to call me when he saw the light.
Anyway, you do portray me in another post as being a lover and facilitator of Franchwa, so this from the above-linked post: you so quickly use as ways to quickly show your ignorance, by portraying them as bedfellows of mine. Like Franchwa Goelo. You're apparently the only person in the online community that doesn't know (and has known for years) that I wouldn't urinate on the guy if he were on fire and I'd just finished a keg of beer.
One of few people I've so despised.
One last thought in this post: I notice that you're posting for Tony and I'm sincerely grateful for that as I have been completely unable to communicate with him for a few weeks and I'm glad he does have you as an avenue to get his message out when I'm unable.
A friend of a friend isn't my friend, though. And Tony and I do have a rather odd and somewhat strained friendship. For example, I think his new site really unfairly paints SI as a den of iniquity. That's actually my house. SI's about 40 miles away. And the last thing Tony ever said to/about me publicly was an extremely scathing condemnation of me and everything I was associated with and stood for.
My response and how I still feel? He said it because he felt it was true and I respected hell outta that, despite my knowing it was one of few times I'd seem him wrong. He knows me a little better, but still likely not completely. I tried within the limits of my abilities to help prevent the injustice I felt he was in for, including a letter to the judge who would be deciding on sentencing, and I think the text of it is pretty easy to find in the transcript. Not sure how I was unable to find yours, since you put so much *real* effort into hobbling scammers and helping those like Tony who did and will continue to do the average investor a world of good by teaching them to be Missourians.
At least now, even though I'm sure it's cut/paste, I'm seeing you do the least you can do and actively walk your talk a bit.
BTW, I don't know if it's public knowledge yet, but you know what I'm talking about. The preview, was that intensely riveting or what?!? I know good from bad in that area and, much to my surprise, he goes way beyond simply being good.
Note, btw, that Dave and I openly express opposing opinions about Tony. Ever seen us argue with each other directly about it? Nope. Badmouth the other for their opinion? Nope.
It's called respect, girlfriend.
Dave and I, we command it, or live without. It's how people with self-respect roll. When I say "command", of course I mean that we conduct ourselves in a way we believe to be respectable and those who see it give us our due.
You demand it. Big difference. You practically scream "Notice me! I'm real, real important!" As I've said before you're a Janice Shell/Tony wannabe, but demand to be treated as their peer while not only refusing to pay the heavy dues they've paid to earn their hero status, but by doing so much they'd both strongly oppose if they were to be really open with you about it, I'm sure. Like your propensity for spewing opinion you want to believe is fact, then making up "facts" to support that opinion.
Oh, noticed in an old post (still looking for your own page about me) your bragging about your altruistic and philanthropic endeavors, while panning my refusal to do so and assuming it meant I didn't.
In the same way commanding vs demanding respect are so hugely different, personally, I've always felt that one's charitable deeds cease to be altruistic or even anything positive when one brags about them to inflate themselves or deflate others. To me, charity, like prayer, is only valid and commendable when nobody knows about it to commend it.
It's called class, girlfriend.
PS, favorite ride these days is a 73 1/2 Bimmer R75/5. You still a Duc person? I hope this is the year I finally treat myself to one. Lightening up on the collection, including such treats as 305 Dreams, to migrate from somewhat discriminating packrat, to true collector of fine pieces. |
