…but he said I could plagiarize it
“I’ve always believed that America’s government was a unique political system — one designed by geniuses so that it could be run by idiots. I was wrong. No system can be smart enough to survive this level of incompetence and recklessness by the people charged to run it.” -Thomas Friedman
Ahhhh A Wise Guy
I was all giddy with anticipation this evening waiting to see what playbook Mrs. Vakay & friends would run to spin this scandal their way. The sky is the limit with these 2009 Republicans, so my money was on, “He is an angry Kenyan citizen, show us your birth certificate pal” or “He is secret socialist Muslim sent from the past by Hitler to give us all free medical”, Sadly to my disappointment and boredom they went with, “he said I could plagiarize it” and “he is a sexist Democrat”. Really? Why is it most politicians sound like pathetic 13 year old kids with every excuse in the book why it isn’t their fault? I really think, “No Comment” would have been the best course of action in this situation. Instead they did everything in their power to prove their guilt by making several shots in the dark about my motives, political stance and personal character.
What is most disturbing to me about this article is that Gary Wolfram another teaching professional with a Ph.D in economics is defending what is obvious plagiarism of his own work. How do two teaching professionals not know what constitutes plagiarism? Would this fly if two of their students were giving these same lame excuses why their papers were nearly identical? Absolutely NOT, they would be expelled for academic dishonesty in half-a-second. These two know better. What is it about political parties that make grown adults act like unreasonable, spoiled brats?
I guess it shouldn’t surprise me, that neither Republicans Nor Democrats want to bring up, let alone take responsibility for the real cause of this economic depression we are going through. It pretty much all boils down to a Republican controlled congress with much help from the Democrats passing the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999. This BIG GOVERNMENT legislation broke what was already fixed and made Subprime lending go through the roof and allowed financial institutions like Citicorp to become “Too Big” to fail. I guess Mr. smarty pants elitist and his PH.D in economics must have missed that day when his beloved Republicans robbed America and the Democrats drove the get away car. This is what happens when people are more in love with their brand of political ideology then working together to make a better America.
In the end I think The Signal and its readers are the real victim. When it comes down to it Mrs. Vakay knowingly deceived and betrayed their trust as a regular columnist. She broke one of the cardinal, career ending rules of journalism! I very encouraged to see The Signal looking for opportunities to improve and do things better to make our small corner of the world better. Thank You
Oh, one clarification I wanted to make is I was a Youth Pastor not a Pastor, slight difference.
This was written in response to the article entitled “Plagiarism accusation touches off battle” in The Signal December 19th.
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