RE: Boring and Repetitive. beerbelly4, 5 etc.
It was you trying to help, pumping this conglomerate along with your cheerleader groupies, that built you such a long list of adversaries. I realize that you really believed all the hype and just got sucked in by your pro buddies - but what investor would want you trying to help them. In spite of your public company executive experience, you couldn't read the company, the CEO or the organized pump and dump. sweatman and oldfellow had you read like a book, they let you do all the pumping, and then left you high and dry, when they dumped. At least some of your forum buddies from Texas, got a few crumbs from the company [like the Launchingpad PR handout] - you, whaler and drillbit just got walked hand in hand down the garden path. You would have been better listening to some of your adversaries, than spending all you time trying to think up those childish names to label them in your "civil" discussions.
So whaler, I'd much rather be your adversary, you're more dangerous when you're trying to help. Relying on you for help on investing would be like engaging O.J. as a marriage counsellor.
I guess you could be pitied for running and hiding like you did after Micon Day. With your ego as "an entrepreneurial executive with extensive finance and operations experience", the embarrassment must have been too overwhelming for a momma's boy to bear. But you are over 40 now, and you really should man up, and quit your juvenile behaviour. Continuing this name calling and denial is doing you no good, it just makes it harder to overcome your cowardice and childishness. Confession is good for the soul, and you would be helping so many naive investors like yourself, by admitting the error of your ways, and telling others how you got sucked into the Howe Street shuffle. The ironic part is losing the musical shares game by being left standing when you held the chairs for oldfellow and sweatman - that must hurt.
By the way, what's with the new avatar - did the Blue Bombers sign a new receiver? No wonder your disposition is sour, 20 years without a win - but at least they have a better chance for a win than this conglomerate you pumped early and dumped too late.