I can recall, as a kid, seeing fake tag team wrestling on TV, where an aging, balding, leaning-to-fat redneck would team up with a long-haired simian typically monikered something like "Tha Wildman", and they would tackle two weightlifters in masks who were the evil twin team.
Everyone understood it was theater. Bad theater, but still, intended as entertainment. Not to be taken seriously.
A poster sent me an email with the latest ham-handed riff from our good friend 'lilGW, who has formed a tag team with one of the dimmest voices in the cyber realm - namely, the ever incoherent James Brownsfield, self-anointed "Senior Equities Strategist" (maybe I should sign my blogs "Super-duperextracallafragillistic Equities Strategist?").
I guess that reads better on the card than net kook.
Anyhow, 'lilGW, perhaps bolstered with some sort of chemical supplement, has carefully scrutinized the 42 pages of the NCANS letter, signed by almost 1100 verifiable, real people, for whom I have all the contact info, including names and phone numbers and addresses - should the SEC wish to verify they are genuine, and really do support the document. Rather than being able to debunk or refute the meticulously crafted arguments therein, he instead turned his precarious powers of analysis to reading the names, and speculating as to who they could be.
Here's a bit of his ever-forgettable prose, from his blog, reprinted in order to spare everyone the bother of trying to locate the obscure url, or grit their teeth through his mash of tortured language.
"A Distinguished Person Joins the Baloney Brigade?
A reader brings to my attention that a familiar name to all fraud-watchers -- "Terry Ramsden" -- appears on the list of signatories of an SEC comment letter (see page 31, lower left column) by the astroturf group the "National Coalition Against Naked Short-Selling."
Is this one of them "weird coincidences" or has the famous British fraudster, gambler and ex-bond trader joined the anti-shorting conspiracy nuts (or as I call 'em, the "baloney brigade")?
If this is the Terry Ramsden and not a coinkydink or a fake (as are most of the "1100 aroused citizens" on the list, I suspect) it would just be another indication of the pedigree of the people behind the anonymous "stock counterfeiting" websites and "organizations."
Here we have 'lilGW, in typically uninformed fashion, claiming that the signatures are fakes, after hurling insults. How does he know this? He doesn't. He just spouts off, idiotically, fancying that there is a brisk demand for his every mistaken opinion. He's absolutely dependable in his wrongness, and this is no exception.
Every endorser is a real person, who provided data to verify they were. But I digress.
"UPDATES:
- Note the comment to this item from James Brownfield. He argues persuasively that this is the real Mr. Ramsden, based on his association with an eminent Baloney Brigadier. Also I should point out that a certain Texas basketball team owner and journalism-defiler has written extensively about said business associations. "
Yes, I'm sure that James' incoherent jibberings are what passes in 'lilGW-world for compelling and convincing. James is the big thinker whose several page comment letter to the SEC can be condensed down to, "Illegal naked short selling is good, because it counters another different fraud I claim is a big deal, pump and dump. I'm far too limited in my cognitive capabilities to be able to provide any statistics or evidence for how big that fraud is, but I am more than willing to ignore the commentary from informed experts on the NSS topic, and instead mount a barely literate Chewbaca defense of an illegal fraud tactic."
Brownsfield has focused his laser-pointer-scale intellect on the Ramsden issue, and 'lilGW is along for the ride.
This ceases to entertain me even as I write it, so I'll make this simple.
Gary? Bite me. You are a dolt. We all know it, and the website at www.antisocialmedia.net more than convincingly argues that you are unstable, likely pathological, and not particularly bright in your dishonesty. But this latest example puts all those offenses to shame. You are completely incorrect in your hypothesis, as is your badly addled bud James, who would be challenged to manage the fry machine at McDee's if this, and his letter to the SEC, are any example of his fine work.
The first clue would be knowing what the middle initial of the Terry Ramsden is, versus this one. Given that would require about 8 seconds of web acumen and search capability, I completely understand why it would be beyond your skill-level. But here's a hint. The Terry is P. This one is R.
James? Can't wait to see your "Equities Strategies" if this is the level of the bar that had you stumped. Really. Between the comment letter and this, we have all the info we could dream of as to your considerable abilities. I'm sure that Goldman will be calling any day to have you head up research. Stay by the phone.
Unfriggingbelievable. A chimp could get this right, but not the collective braintrust of the tag team of 'lilGW and Drinkeee Drinkeee.
"lilGW? Sweetie? It is not at all surprising that you would find James' blather convincing, given the small group of nuts that frequent your blog - assuming that most aren't your own sock puppets congratulating you on your book effort, and slapping you on the back in a manner eerily reminiscent of the voices in the head of the protagonist in "A Beautiful Mind."
I normally wouldn't take such delight in this kind of blunder, from such a nominal figure, but given the amount of shrieking and feces hurling we've seen from this pair, it is just too good to pass up.
Thanks for the entertainment value. It is really better than the cartoons. And James? Keep up the good work.
Seriously, guys, friends don't let friends blog drunk. Word to the wise. You have crossed an important line from barely-credible mouth-breathers, to dullardly slapstick puppets. If that is your intent, you've segued perfectly. All we need now is a 3000 word missive from the ever schizoid Tony Ryals to cap the whole thing off. Tell me you have that in the works. Please.
It just doesn't get any better than this. Again, thanks for the laughs.