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Not to demean your very sincere and knowledgeable exhortation, James, but I  
find your use of 'rendering' and 'greasy' in the same last sentence(s) very  
amusing. Was that intentional? <g>
Sandy
Mid-Mojave
Having just lived through the first meeting-of-the-year of the Property  
Owners Association. Nice folks. Bad and serious County issues. Big Brother  
sucks.
 
 
In a message dated 9/13/2008 9:31:37 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
Clansgian AT wmconnect.com writes:


>  If by some aberration of logic and common 
> > sense, John McCain is  elected our next president, it will be the 
> > result of the  no-ethics but very effective Rovian campaign tactical 
> >  plan.
> 

Once in my misspent youth, as I was pitching about for  some cheap and easy 
ways to acquire skills and knowledge, I sent in the  postcard for a 
correspondence course in Electronics.  I had already  looked into the high 
school vo-tech 
electronics courses and the local  community college offerings and so was 
familiar with them.

The  greasy salesman showed up at my house one Saturday morning (my parent's  
house, I was 16), and went through the offering.  It was pretty  wimpy, I had 
enough electronics behind my belt by then to know so.   

So when he wound down his spiel, I said thanks but no thanks.  He  
ceremoniously picked up his clipboard and pronounced in his most  pontifical 
voice, "Well 
... OK ...I'll have to put you down as being  unqualified to take the course."

Having not yet grown a brain and being  easily pulled into such traps I said, 

"Beg pardon, how could I not be  qualified?  I know more math than your 
course 
covers, in fact through  Ham Radio and other connections I've built and 
modified equipment far more  sofisticated than your course deals with .. how 
do you 
come to the  conclusion that I am not qualified to take your pitious course?"

"Hmmm  ... well ... it's my conclusion you could not successfully complete  
it."

"How on God's green earth could you come to that conclusion  ..."

"Eh ... ah.... I'm putting down here that you are unqualified to  take this 
course because of lack of interest."

When I asked him to  describe the population who were prefectly qualified to 
take his course  but just decided not to ... he had no answer.

I may not have grown a  brain up to that point but bull crap like that is 
excellent fertilizer for  brain-growing.  I told Mr. Greasy that if his 
outfit had 
to resort to  cheap, sleazy tricks like that, they obviously had nothing to 
offer  anyone.  ,Picking up my own notebook and feigning making an entry in 
it I  
said, "I;ll have to put your course down as unqualifed for anything but  
lining 
the parakeet cage or wrapping fish."

Being tuned to that  sort of cheap salesman's trick served me well since 
then. 
You either do it  this way or else the only other conclusion is that there is 
something  wrong with you.  Never that you looked at the facts and found the  
proposition wanting, never that the conclusion other than yours might be  the 
better conclusion ...no indeed!   Respond the way I want you  to, or else I 
will 
have to put you down as unqualified.

It is an  unmistakable sign that the person has nothing whatever to offer.

Still  run into that ploy from time to time.   We either elect Obama or  else 
we have been taken in by a Rovian campaign.  What of those of us  who abhor 
the 
socialism that Obama portents, what of us who cringe at the  thought of 
glorified social worker running the country, what about when we  hear the 
blank echo 
of "Change the chages we are changing to change" and  find it empty rhetoric. 
 
Doesn't matter, we are only failing to vote  for Obama because we are duped 
by 
the Rovian campaign.

It's  becoming clearer all along that the advocacy for Obama is rendering 
down  
to such cheap, greasy salseman tactics.


James     
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