Good heavens, ebear, have you lost your mind?

Years ago.

I usually give you an automatic thumbs up when I see your messages. I did so on this one as well. Now I wish I could take it back. Can I Safe?

Oh no! Don't take my thumb! I need it to play the banjo...LOL!

With what you are suggesting, we could end up with just one dollar over the current bid as Otto mentioned in his blog.

Well, first of all, I'm not otto. That's his blog, not mine. Nor am I Alberto Acosta, who just recently resigned and hasn't been heard from since. I am, however, the guy who wrote about Hawaiian Bears on the same blog that recently reported on recreation clubs that use mine tailing ponds for fishing and sailing. I can't say for certain since I didn't write it, but I think that Acosta story belongs in the same category, don't you?

What are you guys thinking? Don't even put the suggestion into any Ecuadorian's head. Please ...

Oh I'm sure they thought of it and rejected it a long time ago, which is why we're still here.

But all joking aside, do you have an alternate plan to the Kinross offer? I see people here hoping for a better offer, hoping for a white knight, hoping for a bidding war, even hoping for withdrawl of the bid following an OSC investigation. What I don't see is an alternate plan.

A great man once said to me, "hope is not a rational investment thesis." So how about it? Have you got an alternate plan to take to the shareholders, or are you going to let Kinross walk away with the greatest gold discovery of this cycle? Anyone?

ebear