Comments on: Schmidt caught plagiarizing in newspaper column.

By: Lora

Lora — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:23:14 +0000

Now if Schmidt were a transgender interpretive dancer, the libs would be drooling over her pic.
Comment by Vildar â€” September 7, 2007 @ 1:17 pm

No libs/progs I know of drool over your rightwing transgender idol Ann Coulter.

By: Bernard Quatermass

Bernard Quatermass — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:52:57 +0000

“She is female all right, one of the reasons that the lib males here are so scared of her.

Now if Schmidt were a transgender interpretive dancer, the libs would be drooling over her pic.”

I am going to use this in a class I am teaching on “Why Just Saying Scattered Random Things in an Attempt to be Cutting and Sardonic Doesn’t Work Real Well.” Hope that’s okay.

It’s a graduate course.

By: Kilo

Kilo — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:20:51 +0000

Here’s the one guy who saw Bush continuing to read my pet goat on 9/11 and had a problem with that because he may have breached copyright laws on public use.

By: Kilo

Kilo — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:18:25 +0000

No, but trying to pretend theyâ€™re your own words (when clearly theyâ€™re not) is plagiarism. All she had to do was say something like, â€œAccording to the State Secretary of Education, children exitingâ€¦â€. Instead, she tried to make it look the words were her own original ones. That is plagiarism.

Comment by Wayne A. Schneider â€” September 8, 2007 @ 5:24 am

What are you fkn slow ?
Why would anyone do anything other than repeat precisely what the authorities want children told about road safety ?
You would be happier if she came up with her own statements would you ?
You even think that was what was being attempted apparently. That a government official was expanding their literary career with a road safety message. FFS use you brain idiot.

By: Wayne A. Schneider

Wayne A. Schneider — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 09:24:41 +0000

Erâ€¦ repeating safety messages is plagiarism ?
You want to get cracking on the 4.8 billion cases of that happening with statements by the surgeon general now or what ?

Comment by Kilo â€” September 7, 2007 @ 10:03 pm

No, but trying to pretend they’re your own words (when clearly they’re not) is plagiarism. All she had to do was say something like, “According to the State Secretary of Education, children exiting…”. Instead, she tried to make it look the words were her own original ones. That is plagiarism.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 07:39:51 +0000

Ok, first off, I dislike Schmidt as much as the next liberal democrat.

But, the sentences that she is being accused of lifting from McClellan, also appeared in a 1998 article by Colonel Kenneth B. Marshall, Superintendent, Ohio State Highway Patrol.

http://www.statepatrol.ohio.gov/colcolumn/1998/0998MESS.HTML

And I bet he lifted them from someplace else. These tips smack of basic recommendations provided in safety lists for decades. In fact, I think I recall some of them from my bus riding days, 30 years ago…

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:31:52 +0000

Mean Jean the Plagiarizing Machine! (R-OH)

By: Ytterbius

Ytterbius — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:08:19 +0000

Actually, if I had my say, I’d say that the rule should be that when exiting the bus, care should be taken to check that clothing with drawstrings and book bags with straps do not get caught in the handrails or doors. Additionally, students should never go back for anything left on the bus, and never bend down near or under the bus to pick something up that has fallen.

By: chazaroo

chazaroo — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:35:25 +0000

What else would you expect from a pathetic cunt?

By: Kilo

Kilo — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 02:03:49 +0000

Er… repeating safety messages is plagiarism ?
You want to get cracking on the 4.8 billion cases of that happening with statements by the surgeon general now or what ?

By: Solitaire

Solitaire — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:32:08 +0000

If I had to write about bus safety (yawn), I might copy down a few good points from whatever (ho hum) library book I could find on the subje…. *zzzzzzz.

By: jophusa

jophusa — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 00:50:37 +0000

I am certainly not a Jean Schmidt supporter, but good advice is good advice. Maybe it was the first time someone heard it. I think this criticism is very petty.

By: J Lewd

J Lewd — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:49:25 +0000

Ringo: In your case, it’s called an Asshat.

By: katy

katy — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:36:07 +0000

my bad – i meant to correct myself earlier…
it’s g-r-a-m, american version, i guess…

ANYthing with emmylou… sigh…
…

By: upside00

upside00 — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:19:12 +0000

graham parsonsâ€¦ R.I.P. â€¦ LOVED the burrito brothersâ€¦

and getting hooked on emmylou harrisâ€¦ by Katy

OH YEA!! Ever hear the Duets album by Emmy and especially the song she does with Graham. Knocks me out.

And her “Boulder to Birmingham” is maybe the best song ever written. Especially when sung at Red Rocks with a full moon and 10,000 people singing along! YUMM

By: katy

katy — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:52:21 +0000

and again…

… does anyone else listent to music from wolfgangsâ€™ vault? …
http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/
Comment by Bobwurst â€” September 7, 2007 @ 2:30 pm

thanks for that!
…

By: katy

katy — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:44:44 +0000

…
… and the flying burrito brothers …
Comment by Bobwurst â€” September 7, 2007 @ 2:21 pm

graham parsons… R.I.P. … LOVED the burrito brothers…

and getting hooked on emmylou harris…

listened to all the others you mentioned in that post…
memories… heh…
…

By: katy

katy — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:34:23 +0000

and george, he was just plain dreamyâ€¦.
Comment by Bobwurst â€” September 7, 2007 @ 2:16 pm

that’s what i always thought too… always my fave…
and, he and i share the same birthdate… 10 yrs different…
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By: K

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:30:30 +0000

If she’s like virtually all other members of Congress, Schmidt has these things written for her by junior staff, usually not-too-smart twenty-somethings. Almost all Congressmen are plagiarists in that sense. People of normal intelligence probably suspect as much, but aren’t too bothered, because it’s obviously trivial PR only tenuously related to the main work of Congress. Schmidt’s special problem is that her staffers evidently are too stupid to even minimally rephrase what they’re copying. Take it as a sign that her office may also do bad work on more important matters.

By: katy

katy — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:26:46 +0000

that’s very interesting, ringo @ 12:58 pm… i hadn’t heard of that…

this, from the wiki link, is noteable:

Boston University decided not to revoke his doctorate, which provoked another controversy, saying that although King acted improperly, his dissertation still “makes an intelligent contribution to scholarship”. (Radin, 1991) Other newspaper editorials defended King, saying he was still a great man regardless of his actions. Some articles questioned why the plagiarism went unnoticed.

couldn’t get away with it these days… and shouldn’t…
there really is no good excuse today…
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