When I was in college many moons ago, reverse plagiarism was fairly popular. It means making up a pertinent quote to fit whatever test essay you were writing and attributing the quote to a famous person.
Hopefully a famous someone the professor wasn’t familiar with. It seems that the folks who were most adept at it are now plying their talents on the Web.
Via Instapundit.
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Tagged Clayton Cramer, Instapundit, reverse plagiarism
At the University of Illinois they’re still lying about what happened to U.S. Navy Ensign Wesley Frank Osmus, sixty-nine years after he crashed his TBD Devastator into the Pacific in 1942.
Osmus did not, as the university claims, “die as a result of enemy action.” He was murdered by Japanese war criminals. Academia these days seems to be all of a piece. A sorry, prevaricating (when not actually lying) piece of cowardice.
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Tagged Battle of Midway, Ensign Wesley Frank Osmus, University of Illinois
One of these years, before they’re all dead, the Democrats who initiated, authorized and carried out the wire-tapping and bugging of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s private life ought to use one of these national holidays to ‘fess up and do some public hand-wringing.
Maybe one of the Kennedy children would speak out on behalf of the deceased wire-tappers and electronic buggers JFK and RFK? I know, it isn’t likely. Just s’posin’.
The Left’s favorite sanctimonious Baptist preacher, Bill Moyers, knows (and did) plenty in this and other regards for JFK’s successor Democrat LBJ. But it’s very unlikely the man some call J. Edgard Moyers will ever confess, let alone apologize. Nope, no mea culpas for Iago.
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Tagged Bill Moyers, JFK, LBJ, RFK, wire-tapping Dr. King
Nay, in FAVOR of gridlock. The legacy media is always nattering on about Congress being “productive.” Which means passing more laws. Geez, Louise, haven’t we got enough laws yet?
Not to mention agencies, such as the EPA and the FCC which nowadays make their own laws (i.e. regulations) without consulting Congress. The EPA plans to regulate cow farts (CO2) and the FCC wants to regulate Facebook (i.e. the Internet). It’s the rule of the bureaucrats. They don’t care which party is in the House or Senate—they’re “productive” all by themselves, i.e. out of control.
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Tagged EPA, FCC, federal executive branch, rule of the bureaucrats
The Tucson shooting was predictable, and not because of heated Left-Right political rhetoric (which Obamalot helped create and cannot solve) but due to an older, never-resolved political mistake.
“These tragedies are the inevitable outcome of five decades of failed mental-health policies. During the 1960s, we began to empty the state mental hospitals but failed to put in place programs to ensure that the released patients received treatment after they left.
“By the 1980s, the results were evident—increasing numbers of seriously mentally ill persons among the homeless population and in the nation’s jails and prisons.”
You can see the results on any Austin street corner, i.e. the bums out cadging money from motorists. Some of them are too lazy to work, or have serious alcohol or drug addictions. But more have the dazed, out-of-it look of the mentally lost. Or the damned.
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I love my Kindle 2. I bought well over a hundred books for it in 2010 and continue to buy them, usually from Amazon and always after reading the free sample.
But, sometimes, reading from the screen, instead of reaching out for the button that shifts the screen to the next page, I get an urge to turn the nonexistent paper page with my fingers. It’s fleeting. I smile and move on. And I’m not the only one.
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No, not the garden-variety nutjob who shot the Arizona congresswoman and a string of others Saturday in Tucson, but professional political haters like the Kos Kidz who airbrushed their hate file on her hours later to hide their true nature.
And especially Paul Krugman who is always seeking political advantage from mass murder. This time they’re all bashing Sarah for alleged instigation, since the gunman was not, alas for them, of the Tea Party.
Well, here’s some Dem instigation from the top: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” – Barack Obama. Was that influential?
The Tucson shooter seems to have missed the Right-wing bus but caught the socialist/communist trolley, as well as being paranoid about government mind-control. Could be displays of his tinfoil hat any hour now.
Interesting that the moderate Dem congressperson victim is married to a NASA astronaut who is assigned to command the last space shuttle flight in April. I hope she recovers as fully as possible and wish the survivors the best.
Via Instapundit.
UPDATE: Making it explicit: “They need to deftly pin this on the tea partiers,” said the Democrat. “Just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the militia and anti-government people.”
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Tagged government mind control, hatemongers, Kos Kidz, Paul Krugman
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 