Exactly right. I generally hesitate to find fault with this management team but my immediate reaction to the timelime laid out in the PR was that we are on the receiving end of poor judgement at corporate.
The guys running this thing apparently don't care that, because of their timeline, the ordinary shareholder is made vulnerable for an entire month.
Why on earth would anybody give out so long a timeline? Having shorters handed this lenghty a timeline is like Hezekiah showing the Babylonian guys all his "stuff". It sets the company up to get itself damaged by plots laid out by God-haters who now know exactly how long they have to do some kind of dirty deeds. If we took seriously this: "Matthew 10:16 - Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves", then there might be a lot more cunning in the manner in which news is given out.
This is not my first rodeo, by any means, and I don't need the managemnet guys to try to enlighten me as to my problem being that "I just don't get it". I get it. Their "reasons" are as obvious as the nose on my face, but they needed to be smarter in meeting their legal & financial & management obligations.
I think that their reasons are obvious, but so is the damage done by giving the wicked so much rope to play with. To paraphrase Chairman Mao, a capitalist is someone who competes to win the contract for the rope with which they get hung. Sometimes, I wonder if oil men with lots of royalty income and so forth have forgotten what the little guy is living through day to day. I'm a "little guy" and the last thing I need is for the enemies of Israel & the enemies of Christ to know that they can fiddle with ZN for an entire month. I put lots of money into trusting the accumen of this set of men and I am, frankly, furious that they gave out this absurdly lengthy timeline. Tell shareholders that plans are vigorously underway to do the well tests and so forth, but by no means should you send out engraved invitations and draw a map!
If you were playing bridge, there's an intelligent order to both the manner in which one bids a hand, and the order in which the cards are played. You can not win if you telegraph the entire thing. Why show everyone your cards? Good grief!
Imperial Whazoo
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