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There has been worry/suspicion about the C-presence for quite a long time here. If I understand it correctly, they were involved in TIVU's original financing. One can't be on iHub for too long without getting the impression that the C's are spawns of Satan himself. I don't know how much of that to believe. But a story certainly seems to swirl around them, and that is unsettling.
This morning I was trying to imagine a way to exonerate SP of the ridiculous content of the fins, and it occurred to me that he might have not even seen them. I.e. Perhaps C just told him that he'd take care of it and SP said "okay." If that's the case, then either C himself (or his firm, consisting of himself and his wife) is incompetent, or the fins are done poorly on purpose.
Seems like there are some possible explanations for why the latter might be the case, but I don't want to go too far down a speculative road before we've heard from SP.
Someone who has Shiva's ear needs to place a phone call.