(08-16-2018 11:20 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(08-16-2018 11:10 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(08-16-2018 09:35 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(08-16-2018 08:50 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Once upon a time, there were two neighbors.

One, a woman, heard there was a snake oil that had magical powers. They asked their uncle to get them some. The uncle hired a neighbor boy to go to the snake oil store, and when the boy returned, sent the snake oil to the old woman. she was delighted and had her servants set about spreading the snake to her loyal followers.

The other answered his door one day to find a door-to-door salesman. the salesman says "I have something that will make your life better", and so the man says, "what would that be?" Snake oil, replies the salesman. Get out of here, you charlatan, the man says. Go peddle your snake oil elsewhere.

Now, of course we know the man was evil, for even letting the snake oil salesman in the door. But the lady is pure, since she merely sent for the snake oil and never handled it with her own hands.

the ulterior motive of the snake oil providers in both cases seem to be a desire to get a quid pro quo, but they only succeeded with the old woman. They got the money and the satisfaction of knowing their snake oil was out in the world, working its magic.

Thus ends this fairy tale.

The moral of this story is to avoid buying snake oil from unlicensed and shady purveyors unless you want to end up with substandard snake oil.

Yep - that's a perfect analogy for what happened. A+

You are an easy grader (but we knew that already). I would have given it a B, a B+ at best.

A second moral would be that if you want to mine manure, best to get your minions to do it for you.

Third moral: Kickstart for a startup called "Cutouts 'R Us" -- marketing logo of "we will do those nasty little chores that you dont want tied back to you directly".

I think Trump and company will be a little bit more suave and sophisticated about using cutouts in the future. It seemingly works like a fing charm for the press and readers, since there is such an obvious and clear distinction with the same end result....

But then the Washington Post will have a headline on that as "Trump GUTS campaign laws" (or somefink...)