Surprise! Ph.D. Paper of UCLA Medical School's Top Political Officer for Diversity is Filled With, Get This, Plagiarism

Another scalp goes up on Chris Rufo's wall. And Luke Rosiak's.

Recent headlines about UCLA School of Medicine suggest that the institution has lost its focus. Instead of brushing up on organic chemistry, its students were subjected to lessons on "Indigenous womxn" and "two-spirits." Future doctors had to take a class on "structural racism" and were led in a "Free Palestine" chant by a Hamas-praising guest speaker. The school made plans to segregate students by race for courses on left-wing ideology, and two of its psychiatry residents championed "revolutionary suicide."
Why has the school charted this course? One reason is its commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology. UCLA has a DEI program called "Cultural North Star," and at the medical school, it is led by Natalie J. Perry, whose official title is Cultural North Star Lead. Her UCLA biography says that her job is to "embed our aspirational Cultural North Stars [sic] value [sic] in our organizational DNA." UCLA honored Perry last month for teaching students to "do what's right," saying her "empathy and radical listening" are to thank for her "success as an educator and a leader."
According to a Daily Wire and City Journal investigation, however, Perry's academic career is based on fraud. Perry published her Ph.D. dissertation in 2014 at the University of Virginia about college diversity programs. An analysis of the paper found it ridden with the worst sort of plagiarism, reproducing large swaths of text directly from several other authors, without proper citations. The scale of the plagiarism suggests that Perry lacks both ethics and competence and raises questions about academic programs that push DEI.
Perry's dissertation lifted passages from ten other papers. In key portions of her text, she copied almost every paragraph from other sources without attribution. She fails even to mention at least four of the ten plagiarized papers anywhere in her dissertation.
Let's review some examples.
The first three pages of Perry's paper, "Faculty Perceptions of Diversity at a Highly Selective Research-Intensive University," suggest that she did not even bother to read beyond the first page of papers from which she stole. Her dissertation's second sentence reproduces verbatim part of a sentence on the first page of a paper by Adrianna Kezar, Peter Eckel, Melissa Contreras-McGavin, and Stephen John Quaye. Her third paragraph, without citation, lifts more than 100 words from the first page of a paper by Angela Locks, Sylvia Hurtado, Nicholas Bowman, and Leticia Oseguera.
Each colored portion of the below text was taken from a different author:
In some cases when Perry did include parenthetical citations, she wasn't citing the papers whose text she had lifted. Instead, she simply reproduced the citations included in those stolen excerpts.

In other words: She read one book which then cited multiple other books as authority. Instead of citing the one book she actually read, she cited the books the book she read cited, which denies the credit for the research to the one book she actually read, and, not accidentally, makes it appear, falsely, that she read many books when in fact she just read the one.

Even if you don't think this is a big deal, it's a red flag: Only an imposter would feel the need to inflate the size of the bibliography she's drawing from.

A core part of Perry's dissertation involved summarizing work done by professors Robert Quinn and John Rohrbaugh. Instead of citing them directly, however, Perry cribbed summaries from other academics. Perry copied and pasted almost all of a nearly thousand-word passage from a paper by Chad Hartnell, Amy Yi Ou, and Angelo Kinicki, without quoting the authors.

I mean... she can't even write her own summaries?

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In a section titled "Positioning Diversity Leadership in Higher Education," Perry copies almost every sentence from one of several other papers. In no case does she credit the actual source...

Und so weiter. See the link for the actual examples of alleged plagiarism.

What the hell is going on in DEI "studies"?

These people must have been caught out committing plagiarism earlier in their careers. Obviously, their fraudulence was covered up by DEI Fellow Travelers, and the lesson learned was "fraud and plagiarism are academic research, you just have to be crafty about it, and have the right advisors advising you how to get away with it if you get caught."

This isn't just a few DEI "bad apples" spoiling the barrel. Obviously the people filling the barrel are all in on it.

It's almost as if this is a massive grift in which all of the "professors" and all of the "students" are conspiring to pretend that DEI is not just a naked political grift for academic failures who cannot rise by their own merits, but is some kind of "real academic field" with citations and footnotes!

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:34 PM

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1 It's who they are

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 22, 2024 03:35 PM (N1tpc)

2 I love how that's the appropriate comment 90% of the time these days.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 22, 2024 03:35 PM (N1tpc)

3 The people hiring for these positions would not care at all if it weren't for the shaming they are getting.

They knew they weren't hiring for merit. They just wanted a face "of color" to show they were good people.

They are the racists, but don't really care.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 22, 2024 03:37 PM (N1tpc)

4 And I guess i better nood.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 22, 2024 03:37 PM (N1tpc)

5 Sorry, I thought I'd have 10 comments in addition to mine already.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 22, 2024 03:37 PM (N1tpc)

6
Didn't

Earn

It

Posted by: Joe Mama at April 22, 2024 03:37 PM (lZVy/)

7 Even if you don't think this is a big deal, it's a red flag: Only an imposter would feel the need to inflate the size of the bibliography she's drawing from.

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I don't understand. What is an imposter to DEI research?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 22, 2024 03:38 PM (GBKbO)

8 Afternoon.

Posted by: Robert at April 22, 2024 03:38 PM (rcY3Z)

9 As always : "It's a club, and you're not in it."

Posted by: XTC at April 22, 2024 03:38 PM (UnA8+)

10 This isn't just a few DEI "bad apples" spoiling the barrel. Obviously the people filling the barrel are all in on it.

It's almost as if this is a massive grift in which all of the "professors" and all of the "students" are conspiring to pretend that DEI is not just a naked political grift for academic failures who cannot rise by their own merits, but is some kind of "real academic field" with citations and footnotes!

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If the people in charge are bad apples, can you really say that it's an isolated problem?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 22, 2024 03:38 PM (GBKbO)

11 Plagiarism? Not possible, that thing was peer reviewed by 200 academics.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 22, 2024 03:38 PM (QNSds)

12 Well, if you haven't an original thought of your own, and you are incapable of reason, and the field of study you're hoping to exploit as a career has no basis in fact, then you're more likely to cut-n-paste the gobbledegook of others rather than being forced to come up with several pages of your own.

The fact that the plagiarism was unnoticed and inconsequential to the person's "expertise" should tell you a lot about the value of the position they hold in the first place.

Posted by: red speck at April 22, 2024 03:39 PM (0Id0S)

13 I do have to say that academia as a whole deserves this and many more black eyes.

But it's going to have an apocalypse in 2 years, so this is just the beginning.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 22, 2024 03:39 PM (N1tpc)

14 What the hell is wrong with these libtards? Can't they ever express and original thought?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 03:39 PM (9yWhg)

15 One of the problems these DIE flunkies face is that everything said about DIE has already been said.

Whitey bad, non-whitey good, give me whitey's stuff.

I mean...that's it. This isn't something like Christian theology where you can spend two years years debating and still occasionally get a new take.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 22, 2024 03:39 PM (ibTVg)

16 "Each colored portion of the below text was taken from a different author:"

DEI Stylebook requires "portion of colored".

Posted by: Joe Mama at April 22, 2024 03:40 PM (lZVy/)

17 Chris Rufo is doing such amazing work I can't help but wonder how long it'll be before someone comes along accusing him of molesting their 85 year old paraplegic trans grandma?

Posted by: Robert at April 22, 2024 03:40 PM (rcY3Z)

18 Plagiarism? Not possible, that thing was peer reviewed by 200 academics.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at April 22, 2024 03:40 PM (9yWhg)

19 So the next step will be to eliminate plagiarism as an ethical violation.

Posted by: Ribbed at April 22, 2024 03:40 PM (PVUR/)

20 This is why affirmative action is shit.

People who haven't earned something get paid to tell companies they need to hire other people who haven't earned the position.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 22, 2024 03:40 PM (JeYYB)

21 Hmmm, this seems to be a problem.

Are they... completely empty of the creative impulse? It is something we have laughed at and bemoaned when looking at movies, TV and books, but are they inspirationally barren?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 22, 2024 03:40 PM (di6C2)

22 What the hell is wrong with these libtards? Can't they ever express and original thought?

There have been a few prominent liberals that started thinking for themselves extemporarily and ended up being cancelled because they said something "wrong". Better to just repeat the same things over and over

Posted by: 18-1 at April 22, 2024 03:41 PM (ibTVg)

23 Another scalp goes up on Chris Rufo's wall. And Luke Rosiak's.
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Hey Jerry! Look what I got! Wooo-wooo-woooo!

Posted by: cosmo kramer at April 22, 2024 03:41 PM (vtyCZ)

24 DEI Stylebook requires "portion of colored".
Posted by: Joe Mama

"portion experiencing coloredness"

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 03:41 PM (9yWhg)

25 Theory:

Promises of student loan repayment are not actually directed at favored voting bodies but at trying to make college more appealing. If the debts will be forgiven, then there's no problem taking on hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, handing every penny to a university, and then getting a worthless degree.

It's about shoring up the university system, not paying a loyal voting base (though that's obviously part of it). Democrats at that level (same as Republicans) don't care about individuals, only donors.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 22, 2024 03:41 PM (GBKbO)

26 But it's going to have an apocalypse in 2 years, so this is just the beginning.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 22, 2024 03:39 PM (N1tpc)

For those who don't know:

In the "Great Recession" of 2008, family formation, childbearing, etc... fell off a cliff, and never really recovered.

18 years after 2008 is 2026 and all those children who weren't born also aren't going to college....

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 22, 2024 03:41 PM (N1tpc)

27 I'd like to see Rufo turn loose an AI that searches ALL published research for plagiarism and fraud. The job would be done inside of a week, and academia would get a welcome catharsis. I think all he's doing now is picking low-hanging fruit.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at April 22, 2024 03:41 PM (MvF+J)

28 11 Plagiarism? Not possible, that thing was peer reviewed by 200 academics.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 22, 2024 03:38 PM (QNSds)

You misspelled 'idiot communists.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 22, 2024 03:41 PM (di6C2)

29 If you just make shit up, you don't have to plagiarize....

Posted by: SFGoth at April 22, 2024 03:41 PM (KAi1n)

30 A bit off topic but I just watched the last couple of innings vif the Yankees losing to the As 2-0. The A's may stink but their closer threw several pitches 102-103 mph. Impressive

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 22, 2024 03:42 PM (Wjvnb)

31 There have been a few prominent liberals that started thinking for themselves extemporarily and ended up being cancelled because they said something "wrong". Better to just repeat the same things over and over
Posted by: 18-1 a

As Barney Stinson's 'motivational' poster says: CONFORMITY - It's the one that sticks out that gets left in the cold.

Posted by: BruceWayne at April 22, 2024 03:42 PM (CIS44)

32 Obama is one of the worst DEI hires, ever—nothing earned.

Anyone who voted for him because "I wanted to be part of history" is an asshole. No exceptions. Including your grandma.

Posted by: Seems Legit at April 22, 2024 03:42 PM (JeYYB)

33 30 A bit off topic but I just watched the last couple of innings vif the Yankees losing to the As 2-0. The A's may stink but their closer threw several pitches 102-103 mph. Impressive
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 22, 2024 03:42 PM (Wjvnb)

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The A's won?!

Still not watching, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 22, 2024 03:42 PM (GBKbO)

34 So the question is is the plagiarism limited to the DEI CRT LMNOP stuff or is this a problem endemic to academia more generally?

Posted by: Robert at April 22, 2024 03:42 PM (rcY3Z)

35 DEI is every bit as much an academic scam as Klimate Change.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 22, 2024 03:42 PM (tkR6S)

36 DEI is another makework program for the bottom half of the bell curve

Posted by: brak at April 22, 2024 03:43 PM (25k9m)

37 The fact that a group of trained monkey's banging away on typewriters come up making better arguments is not surprising when you compare their collective IQ's and divide by 0.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 22, 2024 03:43 PM (qZdIZ)

38 29 If you just make shit up, you don't have to plagiarize....
Posted by: SFGoth at April 22, 2024 03:41 PM (KAi1n)

Yeah, but they are no even just making shit up. Making shit up would have the virtue of not being stolen.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 22, 2024 03:43 PM (di6C2)

39 LOLGF

Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2024 03:43 PM (Hkcdp)

40 29 If you just make shit up, you don't have to plagiarize....
Posted by: SFGoth at April 22, 2024 03:41 PM (KAi1n)

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Mastering the jargon is hard, yo.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 22, 2024 03:43 PM (GBKbO)

41 The hard bigotry of low expectations.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 22, 2024 03:43 PM (46upa)

42 Obama is one of the worst DEI hires, ever—nothing earned.

Anyone who voted for him because "I wanted to be part of history" is an asshole. No exceptions. Including your grandma.
Posted by: Seems Legit at April 22, 2024 03:42 PM (JeYYB)

Yep.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 22, 2024 03:44 PM (R4t5M)

43 I just can't believe the poor luck...

Posted by: Inogame at April 22, 2024 03:44 PM (53oGX)

44
In the "Great Recession" of 2008, family formation, childbearing, etc... fell off a cliff, and never really recovered.

18 years after 2008 is 2026 and all those children who weren't born also aren't going to college....

In the town next to me they are demanding massive tax increases and the argument is that if they don't get them the town will lay off a bunch of teachers.

A couple of people now have pointed out scroll enrollment is down something like 15% over 10 years ago so why do they need so many teachers still?

And the answer? They've been attriting teachers over the years and replacing them with non-teaching staff. But uh...none of those people can be let go.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 22, 2024 03:44 PM (ibTVg)

45 Rufo , Matt Walsh and a few others are doing bang up work in fighting the culture war. The Republicans could use a lesson or thousand

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 22, 2024 03:44 PM (Wjvnb)

46 Ace: ". . . and the lesson learned was 'fraud and plagiarism are academic research, you just have to be crafty about it.' "

That's the trouble. They're not really being crafty or fooling anybody. They're depending on other DIE-hards to cover for them or look the other way.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 22, 2024 03:44 PM (J2vNu)

47 We need to find the url metro who wrote the original paper that all of the DEI types are plagiarizing.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 22, 2024 03:44 PM (YqDXo)

48 Where’s Bill Ackerman these days - is he still fighting DEI at Harvard or has he moved on?

Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2024 03:44 PM (Hkcdp)

49 >>>DEI Stylebook requires "portion of colored".

lol

Posted by: ace at April 22, 2024 03:44 PM (KRtlO)

50 "Even if you don't think this is a big deal, it's a red flag: Only an imposter would feel the need to inflate the size of the bibliography she's drawing from."
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So a Biden?

Posted by: Cosda at April 22, 2024 03:44 PM (sPNpp)

51 Ace: ". . . and the lesson learned was 'fraud and plagiarism are academic research, you just have to be crafty about it.' "

That's the trouble. They're not really being crafty or fooling anybody. They're depending on other DIE-hards to cover for them or look the other way

That's racist!

Posted by: Archimedes at April 22, 2024 03:44 PM (CsUN+)

52 "Mastering the jargon is hard, yo."

Actually, woke boilerplate is dead easy to churn out, which is why low-achievers flock to woke.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at April 22, 2024 03:45 PM (MvF+J)

53 45 Rufo , Matt Walsh and a few others are doing bang up work in fighting the culture war. The Republicans could use a lesson or thousand
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 22, 2024 03:44 PM (Wjvnb)

Matt Walsh is a bit of an idiot though. Right on some things, but he misses huge bits about culture.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 22, 2024 03:45 PM (di6C2)

54 >>>48 Where’s Bill Ackerman these days - is he still fighting DEI at Harvard or has he moved on?

I don't want to say this because I may be wrong, but isn't he funding this effort?

Posted by: ace at April 22, 2024 03:45 PM (KRtlO)

55 Posted by: TheJamesMadison

TJM, since you're an author: Do you have a way of finding out if someone plagiarized something you wrote?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 03:45 PM (9yWhg)

56 I just hear the mayor of L.A. had her house burglarized. My money is on "newcomers" being the perps.

Posted by: Schadenfreude at April 22, 2024 03:45 PM (lZVy/)

57 It's almost as if this is a massive grift in which all of the "professors" and all of the "students" are conspiring to pretend that DEI is not just a naked political grift for academic failures who cannot rise by their own merits, but is some kind of "real academic field" with citations and footnotes!

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"Hey, reparations be expensive, yo!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 22, 2024 03:46 PM (46upa)

58 I did a search on her. Wow, she's a doppelganger of Stacey Abrams (less the gapped front teeth).

Posted by: WisRich at April 22, 2024 03:46 PM (G0vdT)

59 am I wrong about that? Did Bill Ackman say that he and other distressed billionaires were going to fund an effort to uncover plagiarism in the DEI ranks?

Posted by: ace at April 22, 2024 03:46 PM (KRtlO)

60 Psssst. Ace. Und so wieder is und so weiter.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 22, 2024 03:46 PM (CsUN+)

61 55 Posted by: TheJamesMadison

TJM, since you're an author: Do you have a way of finding out if someone plagiarized something you wrote?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 03:45 PM (9yWhg)

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No clue. I can't imagine I'm important enough to be even noticed to be plagiarized.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 22, 2024 03:46 PM (GBKbO)

62 What percentage of "top DEI officers" are men?

Posted by: mrp at April 22, 2024 03:47 PM (rj6Yv)

63 And no, I wasn't talking about the monkeys.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 22, 2024 03:47 PM (qZdIZ)

64 >>>60 Psssst. Ace. Und so wieder is und so weiter.

thanks, I was thinking of Joe Wieder because i'm all about the GAINZZZ

Posted by: ace at April 22, 2024 03:47 PM (KRtlO)

65 I did a search on her. Wow, she's a doppelganger of Stacey Abrams (less the gapped front teeth).
Posted by: WisRich at April 22, 2024

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Lunch, did you say?

Uh . . . I'm not really hungry any more.

Posted by: Wolfus to a Colleague at April 22, 2024 03:47 PM (J2vNu)

66 No clue. I can't imagine I'm important enough to be even noticed to be plagiarized.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 22, 2024 03:46 PM (GBKbO)
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hee hee hee

Posted by: bluebell, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 22, 2024 03:48 PM (bS+DD)

67 26 But it's going to have an apocalypse in 2 years, so this is just the beginning.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 22, 2024 03:39 PM (N1tpc)

For those who don't know:

In the "Great Recession" of 2008, family formation, childbearing, etc... fell off a cliff, and never really recovered.

18 years after 2008 is 2026 and all those children who weren't born also aren't going to college....
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 22, 2024 03:41 PM (N1tpc)

So, straight white Judeo-Christian males will have a shot at acceptances again.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 22, 2024 03:48 PM (exHjb)

68 Who will point it out? All people working in the "DEI" field are frauds and imposters, in one way or another.

Posted by: PG at April 22, 2024 03:48 PM (gQbO4)

69 Eh, making up new Cultural Marxism is hard, the rules are already in stone

Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2024 03:48 PM (fwDg9)

70 66 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 22, 2024 03:46 PM (GBKbO)
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hee hee hee
Posted by: bluebell, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 22, 2024 03:48 PM (bS+DD)

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I don't get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 22, 2024 03:48 PM (GBKbO)

71 Stephen Green: 'Trans' Student With 'Hit List' Sends Student to Hospital

https://tinyurl.com/km2vhr8u

Posted by: Robert at April 22, 2024 03:48 PM (rcY3Z)

72 I just hear the mayor of L.A. had her house burglarized. My money is on "newcomers" being the perps.

Posted by: Schadenfreude at April 22, 2024 03:45 PM (lZVy/)

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Would have been a shame if they'd burned it down with her inside.

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 22, 2024 03:48 PM (46upa)

73 What percentage of "top DEI officers" are men?

Being a "top DEI officer" is like being the tallest guy at a midget convention.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 22, 2024 03:48 PM (CsUN+)

74 Fake evidence created to support a fake discipline of fake ethics.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals (I Got Better) at April 22, 2024 03:48 PM (FVME7)

75 59 Ackman was gung-ho until shenanigans were discovered in his wife's scholarly writings. He wasted a lot of time defending her, and I don't know if he recovered. He should've taken the L and pushed on.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at April 22, 2024 03:48 PM (MvF+J)

76 I can’t recall if Ackerman is funding - if he is, that’s excellent!
I no longer can read X to get updates…

Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2024 03:49 PM (Hkcdp)

77 No clue. I can't imagine I'm important enough to be even noticed to be plagiarized.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 22, 2024 03:46 P

BUT.....You're James Monroe !

Posted by: JT at April 22, 2024 03:49 PM (T4tVD)

78 I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 22, 2024 03:48 PM (GBKbO)
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TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda

bluebell, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda

(or is the joke sailing over my head?)

Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe registration now open! at April 22, 2024 03:50 PM (bS+DD)

79 I did a search on her. Wow, she's a doppelganger of Stacey Abrams (less the gapped front teeth).
Posted by: WisRich at April 22, 2024 03:46 PM (G0vdT)

I wonder if Abrams plagiarized her bodice-rippers?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 22, 2024 03:50 PM (tkR6S)

80 I just hear the mayor of L.A. had her house burglarized. My money is on "newcomers" being the perps.
Posted by: Schadenfreude at April 22, 2024 03:45 PM (lZVy/)
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Doing the jobs that citizens won't do.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 22, 2024 03:51 PM (Be/+i)

81 I think the "soft" sciences--mostly social sciences--are just that "soft". And they tolerate this sort of crapola cum sloppiness.

I think back to my long ago cite checking days on the California Law Review. As a 2L member of the Review you were subjected to many hours of drudgery, carefully checking the text of a a law review article, note or comment. You checked for grammar, you checked for spelling and you as heck checked for citations. If the author of the piece was going to quote somebody, you made sure that quotation was correct and properly acknowledged. If the author claimed that "Case X" made a particular point, you read the case to be sure the claim was correct. When or if the item ever got published, there was absolutely no question of plagiarism. If the author was going to use somebody else's words or ideas, that person was properly credited.

Plagiarism is both sloppy and lazy. OTOH if your mind is incapable of creating an original thought, what are you going to do? Ask Joe Biden about "borrowing" Neal Kinnock's speech.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at April 22, 2024 03:51 PM (cB7nX)

82 hee hee hee
Posted by: bluebell, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 22, 2024 03:48 PM (bS+DD)

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I don't get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 22, 2024 03:48 PM (GBKbO)

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bluebell plagiarized your Prometheus review?

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 22, 2024 03:51 PM (46upa)

83 Didn't Earn It strikes again!

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 22, 2024 03:51 PM (vtyCZ)

84 BUT.....You're James Monroe !
Posted by: JT

He's not doctrinaire about it, though.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 03:51 PM (9yWhg)

85
Instead of brushing up on organic chemistry, its students were subjected to lessons on "Indigenous womxn" and "two-spirits."

__________

"Discuss the role of systemic racism on Diels-Alder condensations."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2024 03:51 PM (w+JLR)

86 The Rufo article didn't have a picture, which disappointed me because I am A Bad Person with Bad Suspicions. However, it does have a link to her UCLA bio, which confirmed my Bad Suspicions, thereby proving that I am in fact A Bad Person.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 22, 2024 03:51 PM (/y8xj)

87 Luke Rosiak worked with Rufo on this one. He has a good thread here about some of their findings.

http://tiny.cc/8fctxz

Highlights:
A full five contiguous pages from DEI chick's dissertation are directly lifted.
Her intro is directly lifted.
When she's changing up words to hide the plagiarism, her changes are grammatically and logically illiterate.

Posted by: bonhomme at April 22, 2024 03:51 PM (eyxn4)

88 No shenanigans with his wife’s scholarship, that was a total hit job. And a really awful and entirely typical MSM response.

They had to smear Ackerman with plagiarism in some way in attempt to negate what he was doing.

Posted by: Lizzy at April 22, 2024 03:52 PM (Hkcdp)

89 These are not the plagiarists you are lookin for

Posted by: The MSM at April 22, 2024 03:52 PM (NtVYv)

90 >>>A full five contiguous pages from DEI chick's dissertation are directly lifted.
Her intro is directly lifted.
When she's changing up words to hide the plagiarism, her changes are grammatically and logically illiterate.

lol

Posted by: ace at April 22, 2024 03:52 PM (KRtlO)

91 I remember the good ol' days when medical students went to medical school to learn how to practice medicine.

My kids are right. I'm old.

Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe registration now open! at April 22, 2024 03:52 PM (bS+DD)

92 I just hear the mayor of L.A. had her house burglarized. My money is on "newcomers" being the perps.
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For the second time.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 22, 2024 03:52 PM (vtyCZ)

93 >>>88 No shenanigans with his wife's scholarship, that was a total hit job. And a really awful and entirely typical MSM response.

yeah it was nonsense.

Posted by: ace at April 22, 2024 03:53 PM (KRtlO)

94
DEI chick needs to commit revolutionary suicide.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 22, 2024 03:53 PM (w+JLR)

95 Remain Blessed! Here at the University of Nigeria, we have much papers for all types of exalted positions at most American colleges and universities. Please to send your bank account and credit card information so I may, The Lord Willing, send you all the papers you will need to be a "Dr." or "Professor" of the skill and aptitude of your choice for the low fee and cost of $25.00 American and you will get most positions if you apply to your bestest college or institution of higher learning today!

I remain your Brother in The Lord and always look for your bank routing number please.

Posted by: Prince Akeem Jabbar Obongo, Nigeria Education Center at April 22, 2024 03:53 PM (cDEsv)

96 Scientists and so forth get pretty persnickety about attribution. But I bet in most disciplines, everyone is a plagiarist who covers for the other plagiarists. Pick a liberal arts prof's name out of a hat, and I bet you can find it easily.

Posted by: The Hellworm in the Carville Skinsuit at April 22, 2024 03:53 PM (0FoWg)

97 77 BUT.....You're James Monroe !
Posted by: JT at April 22, 2024 03:49 PM (T4tVD)

I thought he was James Brown!

Posted by: XTC at April 22, 2024 03:53 PM (UnA8+)

98 "Discuss the role of systemic racism on Diels-Alder condensations."

Discuss the role of white privilege and social bias in cis-trans isomerization.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 22, 2024 03:53 PM (CsUN+)

99 Theory: There is so much plagiarism in DEI because there is absolutely nothing to write about it. Math, chemistry, astronomy and even linguistic have infinite variations of subject study and expertise.

DEI is a pile of made up horseshit so everyone has to either take from the pile and claim it as their own, or grab something from the pile and move it to the top, like a fucked up version of Horseshit Jenga.

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2024 03:54 PM (lX8VI)

100 I remain your Brother in The Lord and always look for your bank routing number please.

Posted by: Prince Akeem Jabbar Obongo, Nigeria Education Center at April 22, 2024 03:53 PM (cDEsv)

Seems legit.

Posted by: Robert at April 22, 2024 03:54 PM (rcY3Z)

101 What we are saying here is people in this field might not be mental giants with strong critical thinking skills? Shockaroo.

Posted by: Piper at April 22, 2024 03:55 PM (ZdaMQ)

102 77 BUT.....You're James Monroe !
Posted by: JT at April 22, 2024 03:49 PM (T4tVD)

I thought he was James Brown!
Posted by: XTC at April 22, 2024 03:53 PM (UnA8+)

Hot tub!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 22, 2024 03:55 PM (R4t5M)

103 If I were ever to publish anything, I'd be scared to death that I'd unconsciously plagiarize something from all of the books I've read that just happened to lodge in my brain.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 03:55 PM (9yWhg)

104 suggest that she did not even bother to read beyond the first page of papers

Why would you need to read beyond the first page?

Posted by: LeBron at April 22, 2024 03:55 PM (lg881)

105 If I had the time or inclination I would revisit this theory about DEI being Horseshit Jenga because it's frankly a little too close to the bone, even for me.

10 days of vacation has made me sharp as fuck. Back to being an idiot tomorrow...

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2024 03:56 PM (lX8VI)

106 When she's changing up words to hide the plagiarism, her changes are grammatically and logically illiterate.

-
Well, that's DEI for you

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals (I Got Better) at April 22, 2024 03:56 PM (FVME7)

107 So James Monroe also had a wife named Dolley?

I did not know that.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 03:56 PM (9yWhg)

108 You know how an obviously false news story-- that reinforces or builds a false narrative-- always seems to make it past all these "professional" fact-checkers?

It's like that in DEI.

None of the findings of any of their studies can be replicated.

But the sheer volume of all of them citing--or plagiarizing--each other builds the illusion they want.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 22, 2024 03:56 PM (yikga)

109 DEI is a pile of made up horseshit so everyone has to either take from the pile and claim it as their own, or grab something from the pile and move it to the top, like a fucked up version of Horseshit Jenga.
Posted by: ... at April 22, 2024 03:54 PM (lX8VI)
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Horseshit Jenga: not the package you want to find under your Christmas tree.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 22, 2024 03:57 PM (Be/+i)

110 If I were ever to publish anything, I'd be scared to death that I'd unconsciously plagiarize something from all of the books I've read that just happened to lodge in my brain.

Four score and seven years ago, I had a similar worry.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 22, 2024 03:57 PM (CsUN+)

111 Wonder how much plagiarism Obama committed? Is all of that locked away, safely? Would love to run some AI algos through whatever tiny bit he produced as an "academic".

Obama is the poster child of DEI handouts.

Posted by: Blago at April 22, 2024 03:58 PM (wMRY8)

112 Was talking with a LIV friend who mentioned Netflix has a new Ben Franklin show coming out with Michael Douglas as Ben and she remarked this Ben Franklin looked much better then the one they taught her about in history class.

At which point I had to confide Ben had a very successful run as ambassador to France because he ran through a bunch of noblewomen so well that they convinced their husbands to lobby the King on America's behalf.

Old Ben had the "rizz". James Madison though? Not even a single French noblewoman...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 22, 2024 03:58 PM (ibTVg)

113 Theory: There is so much plagiarism in DEI because there is absolutely nothing to write about it. Math, chemistry, astronomy and even linguistic have infinite variations of subject study and expertise.

DEI is a pile of made up horseshit so everyone has to either take from the pile and claim it as their own, or grab something from the pile and move it to the top, like a fucked up version of Horseshit Jenga.

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2024 03:54 PM (lX8VI)

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There's only so many ways to repeatedly scream "OPPRESSOR!" and "OPPRESSED!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 22, 2024 03:58 PM (46upa)

114 64 >>>60 Psssst. Ace. Und so wieder is und so weiter.

thanks, I was thinking of Joe Wieder because i'm all about the GAINZZZ
Posted by: ace at April 22, 2024 03:47 PM (KRtlO)

And he was distracted by 'und' and thinking about garrett's undies.*

*cue garrett commenting that he does not wear any*

Action!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 22, 2024 03:58 PM (di6C2)

115 What the hell is going on in DEI "studies"?

Just what we knew was going on.

Posted by: Rob Crawford at April 22, 2024 03:58 PM (UJJWg)

116 I'm plagiarizing Dead Mike for my DEI thesis:

https://youtu.be/Y_21Agi0t8I?si=tVyI1VWC2BOWuJ0V

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 22, 2024 03:58 PM (0FoWg)

117 " It's who they are
Posted by: Formerly Virginian"

Who are we to criticize their culture?

Posted by: Guy who always says "Who are we to criticize their culture?" at April 22, 2024 03:58 PM (vFG9F)

118 If I were ever to publish something, I'd be scared to death of unintentionally committing plagiarism because something from one of the many books I've read over the course of my life lodged itself in my brain and I just assumed it was an original thought.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 03:58 PM (9yWhg)

119 My kids are right. I'm old.
Posted by: bluebell - NoVaMoMe registration now open!

You ?

Nevah !

Posted by: JT at April 22, 2024 03:58 PM (T4tVD)

120 It was the best of times, and the worsest of times...

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 22, 2024 03:58 PM (R4t5M)

121 Natalie J. Perry is the Amy Schumer of Jonah Goldbergs.

Posted by: Kratwurst at April 22, 2024 03:58 PM (nIRE6)

122 Posted by: Prince Akeem Jabbar Obongo, Nigeria Education Center at April 22, 2024 03:53 PM (cDEsv)

I'd trust the Prince before I'd trust any DEI "experts".

Posted by: Ian S. at April 22, 2024 03:59 PM (2ocoG)

123 If I were ever to publish anything, I'd be scared to death that I'd unconsciously plagiarize something from all of the books I've read that just happened to lodge in my brain.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 03:55 PM (9yWhg)

That's an "homage".

Posted by: spindrift at April 22, 2024 03:59 PM (OguvZ)

124 Just wait until the Tide-Pod" generation gravitates into these positions.

Posted by: Orson at April 22, 2024 03:59 PM (dIske)

125 The new victims groups outlined in the DEI manifesto have compromised the traditional entitlement class. Funding and affirmative action have both been affected prompting the black populace to realize all the years of entitlement have enabled them to actually have the ability to make independent choices free from government shackles..
I am witnessing a robust black middle class out here who have become a strong wing of the silent majority..... Yes Sir!!!

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at April 22, 2024 03:59 PM (ERdWw)

126 Explain ferromagnetism, the role of electron spin states and how it is all an evil, non-diverse, fantasy of whitey.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 22, 2024 03:59 PM (di6C2)

127 What the hell is wrong with these libtards? Can't they ever express and original thought?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus
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Questions which answer themselves.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 22, 2024 03:59 PM (XeU6L)

128 If I were ever to publish anything, I'd be scared to death that I'd unconsciously plagiarize something from all of the books I've read that just happened to lodge in my brain.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 03:55 PM (9yWhg)

"This novel by Bulgaroctonus was a sharp, fast paced and exciting read but I didn't understand why he would copy and paste all the sex scenes from Atlas Shrugged into random places in the story."

Posted by: Robert at April 22, 2024 04:00 PM (rcY3Z)

129 Just wait until the Tide-Pod" generation gravitates into these positions.

I remember being in HS and thinking "I can't imagine any of the f***wits I hang around with ever being in a position of responsibility".

Posted by: Archimedes at April 22, 2024 04:00 PM (CsUN+)

130 Oh, I ended up posting the same comment twice. For some reason, I thought it hadn't made it through the first time.

I guess that means I just plagiarized myself.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 04:00 PM (9yWhg)

131 Her paper begins, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . ."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals (I Got Better) at April 22, 2024 04:00 PM (FVME7)

132 @26 Formerly Virginian-actually the birthrate started dropping off after the "sexual revolution" of the sixties. Started dropping around 1975. Been in decline ever since.

Posted by: JROD at April 22, 2024 04:00 PM (IlL6s)

133 Posted by: Prince Akeem Jabbar Obongo, Nigeria Education Center at April 22, 2024 03:53 PM (cDEsv)

I'd trust the Prince before I'd trust any DEI "experts".
Posted by: Ian S. at April 22, 2024 03:59 PM (2ocoG)

He has a great collection of Bills Super Bowl Champs t-shirts.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 22, 2024 04:01 PM (R4t5M)

134 If I were ever to publish anything, I'd be scared to death that I'd unconsciously plagiarize something from all of the books I've read that just happened to lodge in my brain.

Four score and seven years ago, I had a similar worry.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 22, 2024 03:57 PM (CsUN+)
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Welcome to the party, pal.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 22, 2024 04:01 PM (Be/+i)

135 With out actual discrimination or racism to cite as proof, the academics didn't worry:

1st they drove out any critics.
2nd, they drove out anyone honest
3rd, they changed the meaning of words and lowered standards
4th, they replaced all the old with their new words and standards
5th, they cite only those new words and standards.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 22, 2024 04:01 PM (yikga)

136 Wonder how much plagiarism Obama committed? Is all of that locked away, safely? Would love to run some AI algos through whatever tiny bit he produced as an "academic".

Obama is the poster child of DEI handouts.

Posted by: Blago at April 22, 2024 03:58 PM (wMRY

Is putting your name on a book someone else wrote for you considered plagiarism?

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2024 04:01 PM (lX8VI)

137 Graham Allen
@GrahamAllen_1

Election denier Stacey Abrams thinks
"The attack on DEI is an attack on Democracy."

When in reality, DEI is the biggest scam of the 21st century.

https://tinyurl.com/28uwfba5

Posted by: redridinghood at April 22, 2024 04:01 PM (NpAcC)

138 58 I did a search on her. Wow, she's a doppelganger of Stacey Abrams (less the gapped front teeth).
Posted by: WisRich

I think you're exaggerating a bit. Daily Wire has a good photo of her (I think from a UCLA site):

https://tinyurl.com/yhr8avjf

While Stacy Abrams, from some media shots, looks MUCH heavier:

https://tinyurl.com/3n93aye3

Posted by: Sadmiral Snackbar at April 22, 2024 04:01 PM (JCZqz)

139 Dr. Perry – who holds a Ph.D. in higher education (University of Virginia), an EdM in teaching and curriculum (Harvard University), and a BA in African American and African Studies (Ohio State University)– has been working to improve the higher education experience for faculty, staff, and trainees for more than a decade.

Dr. Perry joined UCLA from American International College in Springfield, Massachusetts, where she served as the School of Education’s Associate Dean for Academic Progra etc etc

https://medschool.ucla.edu/people/natalie-j-perry-phd

Posted by: Braenyard at April 22, 2024 04:01 PM (gZ9hV)

140 Now getting a ad I have to ditch to make a comment

Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2024 04:01 PM (fwDg9)

141 Better to be a plumber or electrician.

College is stupid nowadays.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 22, 2024 04:02 PM (ufFY8)

142 131 Her paper begins, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times . . ."
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals (I Got Better) at April 22, 2024 04:00 PM (FVME7)

'It is a far better thing I do than I have ever done before. A far better resting place I go to, than I have ever known.'
-Barack Obama, about the job he did as president and the his new villa in Hawaii (which has great tide pools for drowning you inconvenient lovers)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 22, 2024 04:02 PM (di6C2)

143 111 Wonder how much plagiarism Obama committed? Is all of that locked away, safely? Would love to run some AI algos through whatever tiny bit he produced as an "academic".

Obama is the poster child of DEI handouts.
Posted by: Blago at April 22, 2024 03:58 PM (wMRY

Didn't Wayne Allyn Root make a few claims about that?

Posted by: XTC at April 22, 2024 04:02 PM (UnA8+)

144 "has been working to improve the higher education experience for faculty, staff, and trainees for more than a decade."

Yeah, fk the students.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at April 22, 2024 04:02 PM (MvF+J)

145 Surprise! Ph.D. Paper of UCLA Medical School's Top Political Officer for Diversity is Filled With, Get This, Plagiarism

Shorter: the left are frauds.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2024 04:02 PM (sHgnb)

146 Is putting your name on a book someone else wrote for you considered plagiarism?
Posted by: ...

I don't think so. That's just ghostwriting.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 04:03 PM (9yWhg)

147 I guess that means I just plagiarized myself.

Just make sure your camera is off

Posted by: Jeffrey Toobin at April 22, 2024 04:03 PM (ibTVg)

148 New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has announced that he is cutting Columbia University off and will no longer be donating to the school because of the antisemitism and hate school officials have allowed to flourish on campus.

The billionaire NFL owner noted that he is thankful that Columbia helped him start his adult life with the opportunities it offered him so many years ago. Still, now the university is “no longer an institution” he recognizes, Fox News reported.

“It was through the full academic scholarship Columbia gave me that I was able to attend college and get my start in life, and for that, I have been tremendously grateful. However, the school I love so much – the one that welcomed me and provided me with so much opportunity – is no longer an institution I recognize,” he wrote in a statement released Monday.

Posted by: SMOD at April 22, 2024 04:03 PM (RHGPo)

149 We're having a DEI conference on my campus on Wednesday. I was debating on going (just to see how bad it is going to be), but decided against it.

Not too keen on being condemned for my straight, white, maleness...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2024 04:03 PM (7fElN)

150 I remember being in HS and thinking "I can't imagine any of the f***wits I hang around with ever being in a position of responsibility".
Posted by: Archimedes at April 22, 2024 04:00 PM (CsUN+)

______________________
I definitely thought that way about one of my college room mates. He's now an air traffic controller down in Texas.

Posted by: Orson at April 22, 2024 04:04 PM (dIske)

151 149 We're having a DEI conference on my campus on Wednesday. I was debating on going (just to see how bad it is going to be), but decided against it.

Not too keen on being condemned for my straight, white, maleness...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2024 04:03 PM (7fElN)

Well, who's going to protect the hot Jewish coeds now, professor?!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 22, 2024 04:04 PM (di6C2)

152 "now the university [Columbia] is “no longer an institution” he recognizes"

No, it's always been a commie hive.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at April 22, 2024 04:04 PM (MvF+J)

153 Its a scam fronted by jackasses

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 22, 2024 04:04 PM (PXvVL)

154 Like wow. That's egregious use of others work.

Posted by: Mishdog at April 22, 2024 04:05 PM (Pcv/0)

155 Wonder how much plagiarism Obama committed? Is all of that locked away, safely? Would love to run some AI algos through whatever tiny bit he produced as an "academic".

Pretty much the only actual Obama writing we know about is the apes and figs and his grandfather touching his underwear.

Posted by: Ian S. at April 22, 2024 04:05 PM (2ocoG)

156 Yeah, fk the students.
Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at April 22, 2024 04:02 PM (MvF+J)

That's one of the perks!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 22, 2024 04:05 PM (tkR6S)

157 We're having a DEI conference on my campus on Wednesday. I was debating on going (just to see how bad it is going to be), but decided against it.

Not too keen on being condemned for my straight, white, maleness...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Just tell them you identify as a squirrel, and that therefore none of that stuff applies to you as a non-human. Furries are all the rage now.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 04:05 PM (9yWhg)

158 We're having a DEI conference on my campus on Wednesday. I was debating on going (just to see how bad it is going to be), but decided against it.

That's best. I went to one and it's a big struggle session.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 22, 2024 04:05 PM (R4t5M)

159 DEI is the biggest scam of the 21st century.

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Dude.

Posted by: Climate Crisis at April 22, 2024 04:05 PM (FVME7)

160 But! You can't say her work wasn't peer reviewed!

Posted by: Mishdog at April 22, 2024 04:05 PM (Pcv/0)

161 Explain ferromagnetism, the role of electron spin states and how it is all an evil, non-diverse, fantasy of whitey.
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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I recollect Richard Feynman being asked to do that by a presumptuous interviewer. His response? 'Well, I could, but you do not possess the vocabulary to understand it.'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 22, 2024 04:06 PM (XeU6L)

162 I would like to revisit my post on questioning the thinking prowess of this group. Because they didn’t do any work themselves, cited bogus data, used emotional invective to reinforce and as proof. And then went out and got super high paying jobs to continue to sit around and spew invective and call everything racist or microagressions, so micro, you can’t even see them! Racist and minimizing, right there. If you call them out on the bs, you are the bad one. It’s actually kind of genius.

Posted by: Piper at April 22, 2024 04:06 PM (ZdaMQ)

163 136 Wonder how much plagiarism Obama committed? Is all of that locked away, safely? Would love to run some AI algos through whatever tiny bit he produced as an "academic".
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You won't catch Bill Ayers or Bernadette committing plagiarism.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 22, 2024 04:06 PM (gZ9hV)

164 Is putting your name on a book someone else wrote for you considered plagiarism?
Posted by: ...

I don't think so. That's just ghostwriting.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

No. As long as it is known it was ghostwritten.

Otherwise, then yes. You are passing off another's work as your own.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2024 04:07 PM (sHgnb)

165 When she's changing up words to hide the plagiarism, her changes are grammatically and logically illiterate.
-
Well, that's DEI for you
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Eaten By Cannibals (I Got Better) at April 22, 2024

***
Whaddaya wanna bet that a certain "wife" of a certain DIE "president" dabbled in some plagiarism for her thesis too?

Posted by: Wolfus to a Colleague at April 22, 2024 04:07 PM (J2vNu)

166 Not too keen on being condemned for my straight, white, maleness...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
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If you go, wear your pimp hat.

Posted by: screaming in digital at April 22, 2024 04:07 PM (wQXfi)

167 157 We're having a DEI conference on my campus on Wednesday. I was debating on going (just to see how bad it is going to be), but decided against it.

Not too keen on being condemned for my straight, white, maleness...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Just tell them you identify as a squirrel, and that therefore none of that stuff applies to you as a non-human. Furries are all the rage now.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 04:05

I double dog dare you to say you identify as an animal.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2024 04:07 PM (dvH9K)

168 I was a vendor at my first home show in West Palm Beach 2004. I needed to have custom brochures printed. I was unaware I needed to create all content so I clipped up my suppliers advertisement as well as a bit from a competitor and pasted them onto a sheet of paper. The printer did a great job.
Two days after the home show Bath Fitter corporate called me to protest copyright infringement. Yep I guess I didn't have the right backing of commie backers!

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at April 22, 2024 04:08 PM (ERdWw)

169 Whaddaya wanna bet that a certain "wife" of a certain DIE "president" dabbled in some plagiarism for her thesis too?
Posted by: Wolfus to a Colleague at April 22, 2024 04:07 PM (J2vNu)

Nah... Her writings are too stupid for anyone else to have written

Posted by: It's me donna at April 22, 2024 04:08 PM (Akjoo)

170 If you go, wear your pimp hat.
Posted by: screaming in digital at April 22, 2024 04:07 PM (wQXfi)

Then he could be 'Pimpfessor Squirrel.'

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 22, 2024 04:08 PM (di6C2)

171 Barky hardly has any writing known,

Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2024 04:09 PM (fwDg9)

172 149 We're having a DEI conference on my campus on Wednesday. I was debating on going (just to see how bad it is going to be), but decided against it.

Not too keen on being condemned for my straight, white, maleness...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2024 04:03 PM (7fElN)

Good call. Avoid is the best strategy when jobs/livelihood could be on the line.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 22, 2024 04:09 PM (exHjb)

173 169 Nah... Her writings are too stupid for anyone else to have written
Posted by: It's me donna at April 22, 2024 04:08 PM (Akjoo)

Aos Style guide says it's "His".

Posted by: XTC at April 22, 2024 04:09 PM (UnA8+)

174 But! You can't say her work wasn't peer reviewed!
Posted by: Mishdog at April 22, 2024

***
Somehow I don't think the British nobility has the credentials for that . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 22, 2024 04:09 PM (J2vNu)

175 Just tell them you identify as a squirrel, and that therefore none of that stuff applies to you as a non-human. Furries are all the rage now.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 04:05

I double dog dare you to say you identify as an animal.
Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2024 04:07 PM (dvH9K)

Bring a litterbox. It's all the rage.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 22, 2024 04:09 PM (R4t5M)

176 'Each time a lefty fibs they join the rank of commie libs.
With a lie each passing minute, nary a smidgin of truth in it.
Another lefty, a true convert,
they get the boots, and the snappy brownshirt.'

Posted by: Eromero at April 22, 2024 04:09 PM (NxC5+)

177 Just tell them you identify as a squirrel, and that therefore none of that stuff applies to you as a non-human. Furries are all the rage now.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 04:05

I double dog dare you to say you identify as an animal.
Posted by: CaliGirl

I identify as a Rottweiler/Mississippi Leg Hound called Snot.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2024 04:09 PM (sHgnb)

178 Because they didn’t do any work themselves, cited bogus data, used emotional invective to reinforce and as proof.

One of those things that sits out there and everyone sort of knows is that people are generally persuaded NOT by logic and region but instead by emotion.

The left has completely abandoned traditional logic because they see no reason to use it anymore.

Meanwhile the controlled opposition in the GOPe tells us that we should ONLY argue in dry logic and any rightwing appeal to emotion is wrong and should be stomped on.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 22, 2024 04:09 PM (ibTVg)

179 While Stacy Abrams, from some media shots, looks MUCH heavier:

https://tinyurl.com/3n93aye3
Posted by: Sadmiral Snackbar

Geez, dude! Warn a fella!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 22, 2024 04:10 PM (FVME7)

180 173 169 Nah... Her writings are too stupid for anyone else to have written
Posted by: It's me donna at April 22, 2024 04:08 PM (Akjoo)

Aos Style guide says it's "His".
Posted by: XTC at April 22, 2024 04:09 PM (UnA8+)

LOL... I was thinking you meant Dr. Jill

Posted by: It's me donna at April 22, 2024 04:10 PM (Akjoo)

181 Revolutionary suicide? I can get on board with this for all leftists.

Posted by: Montec at April 22, 2024 04:10 PM (Y6Wgg)

182 162 I would like to revisit my post on questioning the thinking prowess of this group. Because they didn’t do any work themselves, cited bogus data, used emotional invective to reinforce and as proof. And then went out and got super high paying jobs to continue to sit around and spew invective and call everything racist or microagressions, so micro, you can’t even see them! Racist and minimizing, right there. If you call them out on the bs, you are the bad one. It’s actually kind of genius.
Posted by: Piper at April 22, 2024 04:06 PM

I know, I want to find the disease that I also sell the cure for. Profit.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2024 04:10 PM (dvH9K)

183 No. As long as it is known it was ghostwritten.

Otherwise, then yes. You are passing off another's work as your own.
Posted by: rickb223

But if you paid the ghostwriter to write it, isn't that a work for hire that you would then own?

The ghostwriter has been compensated, the same as if you had purchased rights to an already existing work.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 04:10 PM (9yWhg)

184 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 9h
BREAKING: Intruder arrested after break-in at Getty House, official residence of Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, California
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Bass, Jerry. Bass. She just chose another fish name.

Posted by: cosmo kramer at April 22, 2024 04:10 PM (vtyCZ)

185 Posted by: Ian S. at April 22, 2024 04:05 PM (2ocoG)

I just want to take this moment to say you are a severely underrated commenter. Maybe underrated isn't the word.

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2024 04:11 PM (lX8VI)

186 Analysis: Pennsylvania GOP enjoys clean sweep of voter registration gains ahead of primary election. This is the first time I can recall, however, that the GOP posted gains in all 67 counties throughout the commonwealth.

The comparison to the last Presidential cycle is particularly stark. In May 2020, the Democratic advantage was D+803,427. Today it stands at 397,241. In that time 122,639 more voters have joined the rolls, yet Dems have lost 195,867 registrants as the Republicans gained 210,319. Independent voters who chose either no affiliation or some other party rose 108,187.

Even the shift since last October is significant. Back then, the Democratic advantage was 445,890. Over this period, Democrats lost 4,560 registrants, while Republicans gained 44,089 and Independents added 26,233...

The Bucks (county) number is the most eye-popping of all. Back in May 2020, Democrats held a 15,552 registration advantage here, yet now it’s down to a precarious 1,710. It seems that while the white-collar voters in Central Bucks abandoned the GOP in the Trump years, the blue-collar voters in Lower Bucks are only now leaving their ancestral Democratic home.

Posted by: Intercepted Penn-Capital Star Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at April 22, 2024 04:11 PM (JCZqz)

187 We're having a DEI conference on my campus on Wednesday. I was debating on going (just to see how bad it is going to be), but decided against it.

Not too keen on being condemned for my straight, white, maleness...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2024

***
There are ongoing virtual sessions for that crap where I work. I have yet to be "urged" to sign up for any, and I intend to keep it that way.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 22, 2024 04:11 PM (J2vNu)

188 Why is New York State still in the USA ????

Posted by: Ferd Berfall at April 22, 2024 04:11 PM (s+cGt)

189 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 9h
BREAKING: Intruder arrested after break-in at Getty House, official residence of Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, California
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Bass, Jerry. Bass. She just chose another fish name.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 22, 2024 04:11 PM (PI/SC)

190 154 Like wow. That's egregious use of others work.
Posted by: Mishdog at April 22, 2024 04:05 PM (Pcv/0)

Manard G Krebs has entered the chat

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at April 22, 2024 04:11 PM (ERdWw)

191
Manard G Krebs has entered the chat
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at April 22, 2024 04:11 PM (ERdWw)

Work !

Posted by: It's me donna at April 22, 2024 04:12 PM (Akjoo)

192 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 9h
BREAKING: Intruder arrested after break-in at Getty House, official residence of Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, California
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Bass, Jerry. Bass. She just chose another fish name.
Posted by: cosmo kramer at April 22, 2024 04:10 PM (vtyCZ)

Is Bas her married name? Does that make her a fishwife?

Posted by: Robert at April 22, 2024 04:12 PM (cHnV+)

193 Michelle's Princeton thesis is all about what it's like to be black, as is most of black woke scholarship.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at April 22, 2024 04:12 PM (MvF+J)

194 190 154 Like wow. That's egregious use of others work.
Posted by: Mishdog at April 22, 2024 04:05 PM (Pcv/0)

Manard G Krebs has entered the chat
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn it! at April 22, 2024 04:11 PM (ERdWw)

Dobie was too busy chasing the women to worry about Maynard's intellectual theft.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 22, 2024 04:12 PM (di6C2)

195 50% pointer,
50%spitz,
but mostly labrador retriever.

Posted by: DOYLE at April 22, 2024 04:12 PM (Z8Yh2)

196 BREAKING: Intruder arrested after break-in at Getty House, official residence of Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, California

Right now? This sounds awfully fishy.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 22, 2024 04:13 PM (ibTVg)

197 50% pointer,
50%spitz,
but mostly labrador retriever.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 22, 2024 04:13 PM (PI/SC)

198 Heh.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at April 22, 2024 04:13 PM (di6C2)

199 She looks like Stacy Abrams after Abrams missed a year of feedings.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 22, 2024 04:13 PM (KiBMU)

200 Bass, Jerry. Bass. She just chose another fish name.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy
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CAT's stealing my move!

Posted by: amy schumer at April 22, 2024 04:13 PM (vtyCZ)

201 179 While Stacy Abrams, from some media shots, looks MUCH heavier:

https://tinyurl.com/3n93aye3
Posted by: Sadmiral Snackbar
-----------------------------------

Different cultures have varying concepts of beauty.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 22, 2024 04:14 PM (gZ9hV)

202 Is Bas her married name? Does that make her a fishwife?
Posted by: Robert at April 22, 2024 04:12 PM (cHnV+)
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nee Humuhumunukunukuapuaa

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight at April 22, 2024 04:14 PM (Be/+i)

203 Is Bas her married name? Does that make her a fishwife?
Posted by: Robert

*golf clap*

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 04:14 PM (9yWhg)

204 Shes a full commie who went to cuba with the venceremos brigade

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 22, 2024 04:15 PM (PXvVL)

205 184 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 9h
BREAKING: Intruder arrested after break-in at Getty House, official residence of Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, California
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Bass, Jerry. Bass. She just chose another fish name.
Posted by: cosmo kramer at April 22, 2024 04:10 PM (vtyCZ)
In their underwears? Carrying a hammer?

Posted by: Eromero at April 22, 2024 04:15 PM (NxC5+)

206 It’s cute that people still think voter registration matters at 2am on election night when the counting is done.

Posted by: Montec at April 22, 2024 04:15 PM (Y6Wgg)

207 201 179 While Stacy Abrams, from some media shots, looks MUCH heavier:

https://tinyurl.com/3n93aye3
Posted by: Sadmiral Snackbar
-----------------------------------

Different cultures have varying concepts of beauty.
Posted by: Braenyard

And the trans/queer culture has the most mysterious and incomprehensible beauty concepts of all...

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at April 22, 2024 04:15 PM (JCZqz)

208 But if you paid the ghostwriter to write it, isn't that a work for hire that you would then own?

The ghostwriter has been compensated, the same as if you had purchased rights to an already existing work.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

I am not a lawyer. I don't know how contract law would work in that situation.

I do know if you try to pass it off as something you've written, it's fraud. I honestly don't know what kind of ownership a ghostwriter keeps.

If it were already published somewhere, and you try to pass it off as your original works, then it would be plagiarism.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2024 04:16 PM (sHgnb)

209 Minnesota Democratic state senator arrested on burglary rap

https://tinyurl.com/y683u4y9

Posted by: redridinghood at April 22, 2024 04:16 PM (NpAcC)

210 181 Revolutionary suicide? I can get on board with this for all leftists.
Posted by: Montec at April 22, 2024 04:10 PM

What does this even mean? You kill yourself as a blow agaisnt the patriarchy? Some ideas are so absurd only an academic could believe it.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2024 04:16 PM (dvH9K)

211 The Truth About Guns: Police Website Reveals CDC Suppressing Defensive Gun Use Data

https://tinyurl.com/fztpyedw

Via...well, you can guess.

Posted by: Robert at April 22, 2024 04:16 PM (cHnV+)

212 Academic standards are clearly racist.

Obviously.

Shame on all you racists!

Shame!

Posted by: Just Lily at April 22, 2024 04:16 PM (prUKN)

213 Go to the DEI meeting and Squirrel away a nut.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 22, 2024 04:17 PM (gZ9hV)

214 201 179 While Stacy Abrams, from some media shots, looks MUCH heavier:

https://tinyurl.com/3n93aye3
Posted by: Sadmiral Snackbar
-----------------------------------

Different cultures have varying concepts of beauty.
Posted by: Braenyard at April 22, 2024 04:14 PM
Scratched up the door trying to get out.

Posted by: Eromero at April 22, 2024 04:17 PM (NxC5+)

215 And the trans/queer culture has the most mysterious and incomprehensible beauty concepts of all...

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 22, 2024 04:17 PM (PI/SC)

216 Hillary Clinton Believes Second Trump Term ‘Will Be Like Having a Dictator’

.. because that's what she would do

Posted by: SMOD at April 22, 2024 04:17 PM (RHGPo)

217 So now Columbia faculty is walking out in solidarity with the pro Hamas protesters. Strip all funding from Columbia , Republicans in Congress. Not that they would ever think of harming the leftist carbuncle on the ass of US higher ed.
On a personal note I dated a Columbia grad for a couple of months , but sh e was bat shit leftist nuts. She'd fit right in with the pro Hamas crowd

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 22, 2024 04:17 PM (Wjvnb)

218 Was 'reasoning' elevated in MCATs since the O & Joe administrations struck?

Imagine if someone is needed/wanted to fill the diversity gap &/or such a unique position, their reasoning - which no one at all may understand - could be used to elevate them into that BS place. Why challenge them? It was their superior thought that counted.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 22, 2024 04:17 PM (NFX2v)

219 The bigger error here is pretending any of the DEI papers are serious, scholarly research requiring proper citations and standards. They are all just a pretend work with no basis in reality. It's like expecting kindergarten kids do proper references for their finger paintings.

Posted by: Ripley at April 22, 2024 04:18 PM (PTDkx)

220 If it were already published somewhere, and you try to pass it off as your original works, then it would be plagiarism.
Posted by: rickb223

Yes, I agree with that. I misunderstood the original question, I guess, and thought only about ghostwriting.

IP law is fascinating. I took it as an elective when I was getting my paralegal certificate. Really cool stuff.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 04:18 PM (9yWhg)

221 Different cultures have varying concepts of beauty.
Posted by: Braenyard

And the trans/queer culture has the most mysterious and incomprehensible beauty concepts of all...
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar

Hot in Cleveland, Betty White, always joked that Jane Leeves had man hands.

These fake tranny women actually do!

Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2024 04:18 PM (sHgnb)

222 ""Positioning Diversity Leadership in Higher Education,"

That's some low-hanging fruit.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at April 22, 2024 04:19 PM (KSNKu)

223 I do know if you try to pass it off as something you've written, it's fraud. I honestly don't know what kind of ownership a ghostwriter keeps.

If it were already published somewhere, and you try to pass it off as your original works, then it would be plagiarism.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2024 04:16 PM

There was a huge fight on my stories (real housewives) over a book being written by a ghostwriter or not. Carol Radziwill wrote a biography and another lady insisted her publisher told her Carol used a ghostwriter. I wondered if she did after her reaction seemed over the top.
Carol worked for ABC and was a raging liberal and she was married to Lee Radziwill's son.

Posted by: CaliGirl at April 22, 2024 04:19 PM (dvH9K)

224 Analysis: Pennsylvania GOP enjoys clean sweep of voter registration gains ahead of primary election.

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Some Moron posted this link to Biden's welcome in Scranton.

https://shorturl.at/fioJ8

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 22, 2024 04:19 PM (FVME7)

225 Hot in Cleveland, Betty White, always joked that Jane Leeves had man hands.

These fake tranny women actually do!
Posted by: rickb223

You should see our man-penises!

Posted by: Dylan Mulvaney at April 22, 2024 04:20 PM (0ux+g)

226 Russia warned Monday that the risk of a “direct military clash” between Russia and nuclear powers in the West is rising. “Westerners are dangerously balancing on the brink of a direct military clash between nuclear powers, which is fraught with catastrophic consequences,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a video message to the participants of the Moscow Nonproliferation Conference. The comments come after Russia reacted angrily to the U.S. House of Representatives passing a $61 billion foreign aid package for Kyiv at the weekend.

... when you start a "special military operation" be prepared for a nuclear war

Posted by: SMOD at April 22, 2024 04:20 PM (RHGPo)

227 To be fair, what the fuck are DEI grifters supposed to actually write about in a dissertation? The whole field of study is a joke, ergo, there is nothing much worth saying or studying.

A dissertation is supposed to be original research, but what original research are these dumbfucks supposed to do in their dumbfuck field of study?

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at April 22, 2024 04:20 PM (mvURQ)

228 So...what does it matter to them if they plagiarize - it's all a giant circle jerk anyway.

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at April 22, 2024 04:20 PM (mvURQ)

229 Minnesota Democratic state senator arrested on burglary rap

https://tinyurl.com/y683u4y9
Posted by: redridinghood at April 22, 2024 04:16 PM (NpAcC)

So we can expect her to be expelled from the State Senate, right?

Right?

Riiiiiiight?!?

Posted by: Robert at April 22, 2024 04:20 PM (cHnV+)

230 Yes, I agree with that. I misunderstood the original question, I guess, and thought only about ghostwriting.

IP law is fascinating. I took it as an elective when I was getting my paralegal certificate. Really cool stuff.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

My understanding could be all wrong. I'm looking at it in layman's/juror's terms. (If I were a juror on a court case)

Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2024 04:21 PM (sHgnb)

231 208 I am not a lawyer. I don't know how contract law would work in that situation.

I do know if you try to pass it off as something you've written, it's fraud. I honestly don't know what kind of ownership a ghostwriter keeps.

If it were already published somewhere, and you try to pass it off as your original works, then it would be plagiarism.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2024 04:16 PM (sHgnb)

May depend on if the commissioning person had any involvement at all (eg : If the ghostwriter was pulling from tapes of things the comissioning person said in an interview with them, etc...)

Posted by: XTC at April 22, 2024 04:21 PM (UnA8+)

232 And the trans/queer culture has the most mysterious and incomprehensible beauty concepts of all...

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 22, 2024 04:17 PM (PI/SC)

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They find Satan the most beautiful of all, afterall ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Blood-Bath-and-Beyond angel investor at April 22, 2024 04:22 PM (1YLzM)

233 when you start a "special military operation" be prepared for a nuclear war
Posted by: SMOD at April 22, 2024 04:20 PM

Lavrov ain't wrong.

Posted by: Diogenes at April 22, 2024 04:22 PM (W/lyH)

234 Rep. John Carter (R-TX) says anti-Israel protesters “vandalized” one of his offices in Texas and vowed to find the “parties responsible.” Carter posted a photo on X on Monday, showing red paint splattered across his office door with the words “Free Gaza” written in what appeared to be red graffiti on the sidewalk in front of the office. “Unhinged anti-Israel activists vandalized my Georgetown office. Let me make 2 things clear, my support for Israel is unwavering & your intimidation won’t work”

Posted by: SMOD at April 22, 2024 04:22 PM (RHGPo)

235 New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has announced that he is cutting Columbia University off and will no longer be donating to the school because of the antisemitism and hate school officials have allowed to flourish on campus.

Bob still needs to release his workout tapes from his time at the Rub N Tug that the taxpayers have paid for.

Release the video!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 22, 2024 04:23 PM (cDEsv)

236 To be fair, what the fuck are DEI grifters supposed to actually write about in a dissertation? The whole field of study is a joke, ergo, there is nothing much worth saying or studying.

A dissertation is supposed to be original research, but what original research are these dumbfucks supposed to do in their dumbfuck field of study?
Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law

The real question should be, "how much original research can be done in 2024, that hasn't been done in the last 100 years?"

Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2024 04:23 PM (sHgnb)

237 C'mon, Man! Do you know what AI is going to do to EVERY SINGLE AFRICAN Post-Grad paper? LMAO!!!!!!!

Posted by: Alexander Scipio at April 22, 2024 04:23 PM (NX5U7)

238 215 And the trans/queer culture has the most mysterious and incomprehensible beauty concepts of all...
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 22, 2024 04:17 PM (PI/SC)

There is no beauty for queers.

There are only fetishes.

Posted by: XTC at April 22, 2024 04:23 PM (UnA8+)

239 May depend on if the commissioning person had any involvement at all (eg : If the ghostwriter was pulling from tapes of things the comissioning person said in an interview with them, etc...)
Posted by: XTC

That's a good point. I think a lot of ghostwritten autobiographies and such rely heavily on written or recorded material that the subject has supplied to the ghostwriter.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 04:23 PM (9yWhg)

240 when you start a "special military operation" be prepared for a permanent orange afro

Posted by: SMOD at April 22, 2024 04:23 PM (RHGPo)

241 when you start a "special military operation" be prepared for a nuclear war

When we were in 'Stan the FNM started claiming Russia was arming the Taliban.

It turned off to all be false, but at the time the FNM and much of the government started arguing we should start WWIII if it was. How dare another country intervene in our war!

And yet in Ukraine we are directly arming Ukraine obviously. Hell peace would have been negotiated over a year ago if Britain didn't force Ukraine to stay at war...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 22, 2024 04:24 PM (ibTVg)

242 The plagiarism is like a secret squirrel handshake. You're not one of them unless you're cheating. It's how they tell who is on their team.

Posted by: torabora at April 22, 2024 04:24 PM (DBd2Y)

243 I'm not even going to look or read the name.

Black woman, right?

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 22, 2024 04:25 PM (Gakra)

244 Isn't being lazy, lying, cheating, and using leftist fantasy based reasoning a standard tenet of DIE as long as you check the right grievance boxes? Did she check the right boxes yes or no? Why would anything else matter?

Posted by: banana Dream at April 22, 2024 04:25 PM (Y6IkP)

245 The plagiarism is like a secret squirrel handshake. You're not one of them unless you're cheating. It's how they tell who is on their team.
Posted by: torabora at April 22, 2024 04:24 PM (DBd2Y)
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Plagiarism--and cheating in general--is one of the shibboleths of the Left.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 22, 2024 04:26 PM (7fElN)

246 In other words: She read one book which then cited multiple other books as authority. Instead of citing the one book she actually read, she cited the books the book she read cited, which denies the credit for the research to the one book she actually read, and, not accidentally, makes it appear, falsely, that she read many books when in fact she just read the one.
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It has long been common to cite with something like "Laughton, cited in Rodgers, op cit" or something like that.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 22, 2024 04:26 PM (1bNHn)

247 It has long been common to cite with something like "Laughton, cited in Rodgers, op cit" or something like that.
Posted by: Eeyore

--

BITCH AINT NOBODY GOT NO TIME FOR NONE OF THAT

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 22, 2024 04:27 PM (Gakra)

248 That's a good point. I think a lot of ghostwritten autobiographies and such rely heavily on written or recorded material that the subject has supplied to the ghostwriter.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

In that situation, it IS your original work, just written down and compiled by someone else.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2024 04:27 PM (sHgnb)

249 Fetterman tells Columbia president amid protests: ‘Do your job or resign’

Posted by: SMOD at April 22, 2024 04:27 PM (RHGPo)

250 BTW, today there is an EXTREMELY annoying popup at the bottom of the page. Every time I refresh, or hit enter.

How do I get rid of it? It's just a bunch of sidebar type ads.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 22, 2024 04:27 PM (1bNHn)

251 Plagiarism--and cheating in general--is one of the shibboleths of the Left.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 22, 2024 04:27 PM (PI/SC)

252 I'm not sure this Dictator stuff is great persuasion.

I mean, it does what it's meant to do which is keep the focus off the horror we are living under and whether anyone wants more of it, let alone the useless bag of shit that can barely piss standing up in the WH.

But... during hard times, people want a strongman. I'm not sure framing Trump as one is going to steer the mushy middle away from him.

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2024 04:27 PM (lX8VI)

253 NY Post: John Fetterman endorses Mitt Romney for president — of Harvard

https://tinyurl.com/4mmka5km

Posted by: Robert at April 22, 2024 04:28 PM (cHnV+)

254 Etta James says, You Gotta Serve Somebody

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHV3OjW5gsg

Posted by: Braenyard at April 22, 2024 04:28 PM (gZ9hV)

255 You know whenever you see one of these supposedly viral quotes, like "Hillary says" or "Michelle Obama says" you're essentially reading a press release, right?

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2024 04:28 PM (lX8VI)

256 SMOD Hildabeast is projecting the Marxist plans

Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2024 04:28 PM (fwDg9)

257 Fetterman tells Columbia president amid protests: ‘Do your job or resign’

Sheesh, what happened to that guy?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 22, 2024 04:28 PM (CsUN+)

258 BTW, today there is an EXTREMELY annoying popup at the bottom of the page. Every time I refresh, or hit enter.

How do I get rid of it? It's just a bunch of sidebar type ads. I use paid Proton VPN with ad blocker active.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 22, 2024 04:29 PM (PI/SC)

259 Plagiarism--and cheating in general--is one of the shibboleths of the Left.
~~Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at April 22, 2024 04:27 PM (PI/SC)~~

Posted by: Amy Schumer at April 22, 2024 04:29 PM (4I/2K)

260 BTW, today there is an EXTREMELY annoying popup at the bottom of the page. Every time I refresh, or hit enter.

How do I get rid of it? It's just a bunch of sidebar type ads.
Posted by: Eeyore

On my phone, I have to scroll all the way right and hit the X button on the ad.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2024 04:29 PM (sHgnb)

261 There was that group of scholars who tried to see just how stupid a paper they could write and still get published by sociology magazines. They found there was no bottom - they could plagiarize, say the most absurd things, make up references - didn't matter. They published papers on dog rape at dog parks, they claimed body building was "fat exclusionary and promoted fat body building, and a paper where the second half is simply a re-write of Mein Kampf.

Posted by: El Mariachi Attorney at Law at April 22, 2024 04:29 PM (mvURQ)

262 RNC Research
@RNCResearch
BIDEN: "I've seen the devastating toll of climate firsthand"

Greg Price
@greg_price11
While speaking at Biden's Earth Day event just now, AOC praised the pro Hamas protests at Columbia and Yale
Biden then opened his speech by saying "I learned a long time ago to listen to that lady."

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Yeah, she's a peach.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at April 22, 2024 04:30 PM (FVME7)

263 In that situation, it IS your original work, just written down and compiled by someone else.

Posted by: rickb223

Except that, any new material added by the ghostwriter to form a coherent narrative out of it, or paraphrase, etc., would be the ghostwriter's work.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 04:30 PM (9yWhg)

264 Fetterman tells Columbia president amid protests: ‘Do your job or resign’

Sheesh, what happened to that guy?

Now we have control.

Posted by: Lump at April 22, 2024 04:30 PM (ibTVg)

265 Fetterman tells Columbia president amid protests: ‘Do your job or resign’

Sheesh, what happened to that guy?
Posted by: Archimedes

The Lump has become sentient.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2024 04:30 PM (sHgnb)

266 258 I'm not seeing it. Chrome with AdBlock Plus on Linux Mint Cinammon on desktop PC.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at April 22, 2024 04:30 PM (MvF+J)

267 DEI is inherently evil. It is nothing short of heresy against western civilization.

Instead, let us focus and promote, Unity, Equality, and Brotherly Love. Against these there is no argument.

Posted by: Jamie Walker at April 22, 2024 04:30 PM (/t1JJ)

268 In the previous thread, several people seemed to imply that any laws based on morality were "theocratic".

I've encountered this before. If one believes that, how can one justify any laws at all? Even saying they just make society run more efficiently, how to justify punishing those who merely make it less efficient? What's wrong with doing that?

Posted by: Eeyore at April 22, 2024 04:30 PM (1bNHn)

269 Chip upgrade

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 22, 2024 04:31 PM (PXvVL)

270 And next we're going to be told that, much like using periods and question marks, academic citation standards and anti-plagerism rules are 1) colonialist, 2) white supremacy, and 3) violence against everyone not a white colonizer.

Posted by: Scott1M at April 22, 2024 04:31 PM (O9uxk)

271 Rep. John Carter (R-TX) says anti-Israel protesters “vandalized” one of his offices in Texas... “Unhinged anti-Israel activists vandalized my Georgetown office.

I used to live in Georgetown. At a time when Austin was promoting the slogan "Keep Austin Weird" some businesses in Georgetown were selling t-shirts that said "Keep Georgetown Normal." I guess they failed to do that and it's just north-north-Austin now. Unfortunate.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 22, 2024 04:31 PM (/y8xj)

272 Etta James says, You Gotta Serve Somebody

At last.

https://tinyurl.com/3tesxhn8

Posted by: Archimedes at April 22, 2024 04:31 PM (CsUN+)

273 In the previous thread, several people seemed to imply that any laws based on morality were "theocratic".

ALL laws are based on morality. It just might be a very generalized type of morality.

Posted by: Lump at April 22, 2024 04:31 PM (ibTVg)

274 266 258 I'm not seeing it. Chrome with AdBlock Plus on Linux Mint Cinammon on desktop PC.
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Posted by: Eeyore at April 22, 2024 04:32 PM (1bNHn)

275 AOC a lady.... bwa ha ha ha ha

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2024 04:32 PM (lX8VI)

276 262 RNC Research
@RNCResearch
BIDEN: "I've seen the devastating toll of climate firsthand"
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I feel a draft.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 22, 2024 04:32 PM (gZ9hV)

277 This is why affirmative action is shit.

People who haven't earned something get paid to tell companies they need to hire other people who haven't earned the position.
Posted by: Seems Legit

That's almost it. It is, fundamentally, hatred of the good for being the good.
It is an inversion of values. It is meant to be insulting and disgusting. The humiliation is part of the cultural shock.
These people are the "revolutionary vanguard" (well, at least how they see themselves) to bring about the cultural revolution (and they are halfway there) to either may you "Woke" or utterly ostracized (and enemy of the people), or just imprisoned or just shot.

Look at what the Biden Junta did this week with Title IX. Love it, hate it, think that Title iX was stupid, he has, by executive fiat, changed Title IX and made women 2nd class citizens.

If the Founding Fathers were alive today, they would already be shooting. But I think I have said that before.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at April 22, 2024 04:33 PM (vcOmj)

278 263 No, sorry, paraphrase of an author's original work is still belongs to the author, not the paraphraser. Screwed the pooch on that one.

But any totally new material added by the ghostwriter to link everything together would be the ghostwriter's work.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 04:33 PM (9yWhg)

279
On a personal note I dated a Columbia grad for a couple of months , but sh e was bat shit leftist nuts. She'd fit right in with the pro Hamas crowd
Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 22, 2024 04:17 PM (Wjvnb)

One thing that I realized about dating leftist women. They're willing to try damn near anything, but they aren't any good at it.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at April 22, 2024 04:33 PM (n+4am)

280 Dangit, I forgot

ALL UP IN HERE

Posted by: Moron Robbie congratulates women on needing to work until they're 80 at April 22, 2024 04:33 PM (MFZft)

281 Just as Blacks Can't Be Racist, DEI patrons Cannot Plagiarize. (the white man stole it all from blacks in the first place, which is why Africa is so dark ... "Bring Back our Knowledge").

Just call it part of The Great Reparations ... to all except the white Christian, especially those males.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 22, 2024 04:33 PM (Cus5s)

282 And next we're going to be told that, much like using periods and question marks, academic citation standards and anti-plagerism rules are 1) colonialist, 2) white supremacy, and 3) violence against everyone not a white colonizer.
Posted by: Scott1M at April 22, 2024 04:31 PM (O9uxk)

The Oxford Comma is the Philly cream cheese on Wonder Bread white bread supremacy.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 22, 2024 04:34 PM (4I/2K)

283 How do I get rid of it? It's just a bunch of sidebar type ads.

Turn off Javascript. If you browser allows it, you can turn it off only for acecomments.mu.nu and it won't affect other sites that need it.

Posted by: Oddbob at April 22, 2024 04:34 PM (/y8xj)

284 I had also come to the conclusion that the reason why no one reviewing the credentials of DEI executive hires seems to recognize large swaths of unattributed text that pretty much every DEI "study" in publication references is that they are all in on it. Wouldn't want to risk derailing the gravy train!

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at April 22, 2024 04:34 PM (snyZJ)

285 May Allah bring smite and vengeance upon all these fucking grifters.

Posted by: Montec at April 22, 2024 04:34 PM (Y6Wgg)

286 Without God there is no morality.

A group decision on what is moral is not morality, no matter how many ways you want to argue it.

Because then morality is just defined by who can assemble the bigger or stronger group.

If you *really* think you want "people" as your "theocracy", you are staring down a long empty lonely road.

Posted by: ... at April 22, 2024 04:34 PM (lX8VI)

287 "It is, fundamentally, hatred of the good for being the good."

It's radical egalitarianism, the desire for everybody to be exactly equal. We are equal only in the sense that we have equal rights before God. The regrettable DoI shorthand "All men are created equal" is tragically and widely misinterpreted.

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288 Posted by: Prince Akeem Jabbar Obongo, Nigeria Education Center at April 22, 2024 03:53 PM (cDEsv)

I'd trust the Prince before I'd trust any DEI "experts".
Posted by: Ian S. at April 22, 2024 03:59 PM (2ocoG)

He has a great collection of Bills Super Bowl Champs t-shirts.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 22, 2024 04:01 PM (R4t5M)

yeah, the buffalo bills are the greatest football team ever.

4 straight superbowl wins.

he's got the t-shirts to prove it...

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 22, 2024 04:35 PM (bving)

289 So we can expect her to be expelled from the State Senate, right?

Right?

Riiiiiiight?!?
Posted by: Robert at April 22, 2024 04:20 PM (cHnV+)
*******
Seeing her picture she's not what I expected. Probably run for governor and get elected.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 22, 2024 04:35 PM (NpAcC)

290 Without God there is no morality.
Posted by: ...

I believe in God, but I do not agree with this statement.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 04:35 PM (9yWhg)

291 i'm just so shocked that the same people that have no problem cheating on national elections would also cheat on their doctorate.

Posted by: Joe Kidsniffer at April 22, 2024 04:36 PM (W+TLY)

292 In the previous thread, several people seemed to imply that any laws based on morality were "theocratic".

I've encountered this before. If one believes that, how can one justify any laws at all? Even saying they just make society run more efficiently, how to justify punishing those who merely make it less efficient? What's wrong with doing that?
Posted by: Eeyore

If laws aren't based on morality, how do we say something is wrong? Who's judgement do we use?

Is harming someone else wrong? By who's standard? Not mine. Not if you've caused me a reason to harm you.

Or do we base the standards on a Judeo/Christian morality? Choose wisely.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2024 04:36 PM (sHgnb)

293 OPEN YOUR MIINNNNNDDD.

Posted by: The Lump at April 22, 2024 04:36 PM (Z8Yh2)

294 Italian vs. Irish vs. Polish

https://tinyurl.com/y89w9k8n

Posted by: Archimedes at April 22, 2024 04:37 PM (CsUN+)

295 nood

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296 When you're out of onions check the drawer for shannots.
They're unbelievable.

Posted by: DaveA at April 22, 2024 04:38 PM (FhXTo)

297 265 Fetterman tells Columbia president amid protests: ‘Do your job or resign’

Sheesh, what happened to that guy?
Posted by: Archimedes

The Lump has become sentient.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 22, 2024 04:30 PM (sHgnb)
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Young Dr. Frankenstein succeeded in a partial transfer of his consciousness to the Monster

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at April 22, 2024 04:38 PM (snyZJ)

298 Re the Special Military Operation.
Russia has always gone to war with itself, it's neighbors, or even the frigging ATOMIC Nucleus by throwing hundreds of thousands of its young men against the problem. It doesn't care how many die. It only cares about winning.
We're not recruiting enough to even stabilize the existing force. Growing it with a draft would be ludicrous. Druggies, trannies, gang bangers, soi boys, clam diggers, chest feeders etc are not a winning pool for survival much less victory against a foe on the other side of the world. And we're not even factoring in China or the Persian hordes.

Posted by: torabora at April 22, 2024 04:38 PM (DBd2Y)

299 hahaha, I don't know if this could get any more perfect. Okay, maybe if it was from an HBCU:

"Dr. Perry – who holds a Ph.D. in higher education (University of Virginia), an EdM in teaching and curriculum (Harvard University), and a BA in African American and African Studies (Ohio State University)"

People are starting to notice how African Americans study.

Posted by: Moron Robbie supports women working until they're 80 years old. You go, girls! at April 22, 2024 04:39 PM (Gakra)

300 Who had Fetterman as the voice of Reason in the senate on the 2024 bingo card?

Posted by: Montec at April 22, 2024 04:40 PM (Y6Wgg)

301 NY Post: John Fetterman endorses Mitt Romney for president — of Harvard

https://tinyurl.com/4mmka5km
Posted by: Robert at April 22, 2024 04:28 PM (cHnV+)

Fetterman is becoming more cogent than Biden these days

Posted by: The MSM at April 22, 2024 04:40 PM (NtVYv)

302 When have student protestors ever been proven right about any ear??

Posted by: Paul banned at April 22, 2024 04:40 PM (khzuN)

303 @299 Yeah I'd feel cheap going to college to study "White Anglo-Saxon Studies."

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at April 22, 2024 04:43 PM (snyZJ)

304 283 How do I get rid of it? It's just a bunch of sidebar type ads.

Turn off Javascript. If you browser allows it, you can turn it off only for acecomments.mu.nu and it won't affect other sites that need it.
Posted by: Oddbob at April 22, 2024 04:34 PM (/y8xj)
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Tried it. Didn't make a difference.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 22, 2024 04:43 PM (1bNHn)

305 Bearded spock universe

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 22, 2024 04:44 PM (PXvVL)

306 290 Without God there is no morality.
Posted by: ...

I believe in God, but I do not agree with this statement.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 22, 2024 04:35 PM (9yWhg)
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It depends on how it is meant. Since God is Goodness itself, according to Classical Theism, then in that sense, it is true.

But it is sufficient to understand human nature to see the moral law. We can know it without revelation. Hell, Paul said that. (The Apostle, that is. Not Kurt and Sid's boyfriend.)

In fact, all societies largely see what's right and wrong. Sure, there are differences, and every society is blind to some sins. (Look at ours.) But they didn't need Moses to tell them murder and bearing false witness were wrong. Homer knew that, and so did Confucius.

Posted by: Eeyore at April 22, 2024 04:47 PM (1bNHn)

307 If no God, there are no right and wrong?

Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2024 04:50 PM (fwDg9)

308 Turkey is a US ally & longstanding partner in NATO. I wasn't aware of the following; I think it stinks.
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>Aljazeera News, Israeli War on Gaza, April 20, 2024, Turkey’s Erdogan urges Palestinian unity after meeting Hamas chief
The ‘strongest response to Israel and the path to victory lie in unity and integrity’, Turkish president says.

(On Saturday after the talks at the Dolmabahce Palace.)
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And >Republic of Türkiye Directorate of Communications
@Communications
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received Head of Hamas Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, in Istanbul.

The meeting addressed the issues about Israel's attacks on Palestinian territory, especially Gaza, what needs to be done to ensure adequate and uninterrupted delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, and a fair and lasting peace process in the region.

Stressing during the meeting the need for an end to the brutality and an urgent permanent ceasefire is emphasized at every opportunity, President Erdoğan stated that Türkiye continues its diplomatic efforts to draw the attention of the international community to the atrocities inflicted on the Palestinians.

(Much more followed.)

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 22, 2024 04:52 PM (NFX2v)

309 Erdogan is a big supporter of taliban hamas and islamic state

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at April 22, 2024 05:10 PM (PXvVL)

310 The bestest part of Sheboondahhh Perry's story is that she taught a graduate course in research, "Education as an Advanced Field of Study;" presumably about efficient use of "copy" and "paste" on word processors. Her PhD is in "Higher Education," so one would assume that she smokes a lot of dope.

Posted by: Marooned at April 22, 2024 05:32 PM (kt8QE)

311 91 I remember the good ol' days when medical students went to medical school to learn how to practice medicine. My kids are right. I'm old.

Now, they'll be producing medical malpractice lowsuits.

Posted by: Johnny at April 22, 2024 07:04 PM (XU88w)

312 >>>Und so weiter.

LOL ace

Posted by: m at April 22, 2024 09:35 PM (o3SCB)

313 83 Didn't Earn It strikes again!
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 22, 2024 03:51 PM (vtyCZ)

; )

Posted by: m at April 22, 2024 10:05 PM (o3SCB)

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