"Christopher Rufo, who contends that Harris and co-author Joan O'C. Hamilton plagiarized several passages."
But guess what. You claim authorship, or even co authorship, you own the errors not just the accolades. Nobody with any ounce of awareness / intelligence thinks Harris, or any other notable, really wrote the book themselves. Harris was SF DA at the time. OFC she didn't have time to write a book.
I didn't even know she wrote a book, but I guess a lot of politicians do, so I shouldn't be surprised.
"This is such a well-worn trope by now the one might have expected mainstream media institutions to take greater pains to avoid it, if only to deprive conservatives of ammunition. And yet The New York Times write-up of the Harris plagiarism accusations is headlined: "Conservative Activist Seizes on Passages From Harris Book."
The article itself minimizes the extent of Harris' wrongdoing, and cites a plagiarism expert, Jonathan Bailey, who claims that Rufo was "making a big deal" out of relatively minor transgressions. The Times did not share with him the full list of plagiarized passages in the book, however; on his website, Bailey noted that after reviewing all the allegations, the case is "more serious" than he first thought, although he maintains Harris did not engage in "wholesale fraud.""
I thought that was the best part. The NYT gives a reviewer part of the info, he reaches a conclusion more favorable to the candidate, but later revises it down when he gets the info the paper withheld. Nice work NYT. I wonder if that fact was reported in the paper.
True, but, just from my experience, getting held accountable seems to be more effective in the private sector. Now, I'm not talking about the top folks, but the staff. For instance, my director was only around less than two years before he was released.
The first one I recall was this the vividly since it was at the start of my career:
One of our customers (Civilian Govt Agency) requested we (the contractor team) come into DC for a meeting to discuss something. I don't recall what the topic was but it was the entire program team, finance, and contracts, from our side. We came in for the 10AM-4PM meeting. There were @ 5-8 customer staff (all gov't employees) and our team of 3 or 4. We broke for lunch for an hour, and resumed. At 1:30 or 2pm, several of the agency employees who WANTED THE MEETING bailed "as they had to catch their carpool". So it was critical that we come into DC to meet with them in person and discuss work scope, but it was more important for them to catch their carpool. It wasn't a short notice meeting either, it was scheduled weeks in advance, but a third of the people just up and left....the ones that wanted to talk to us. They were the ones who gave us the start and end time and they walked out mid meeting. Needless to say, our travel, food, etc. expenses were billable and billed to the customer and the meeting achieved nothing, since those who wanted the meeting to resolve some issues were no longer there to work through them. All that time (and money) was wasted. I heard later that our contract officer resolved the issue via a phone call.
I can't speak to the "conspiracy theories", other than, of the one's I've heard, they are plausible. They are basic incompetence and organizational failure we hear about during every disaster. My question is, since this has been going on for decades, you'd expect, at minimum, SOME improvement. That doesn't seem to be the case. Conclusion: if some problems/failures get fixed, more crop up. Given my experience with gov't employees in the civilian world, I'm not surprised at the continued failures though. The question is, how does it get fixed? Are the failures and "planned fixes" actually just PR, or is their an actual failure to actually get better, because once the crisis is over / out of the headlines, everyone goes back to what they were doing and forgets about the problems/that's someone else's task to fix.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe the state has a legal obligation to ensure you learned anything at public school. Maybe if this case calls within the ADA, but I'd doubt it.
"Ortiz’s lawyer, Courtney Spencer, said the young woman’s story may be one of the “most shocking cases” of educational neglect she has seen in 24 years." Doubtful. I'm sure there are many such cases.
Ignoring the subject matter, what annoys me about this type of reporting is "distorts our reality". No, it doesn't distort relativity, it distorts our PERCEPTION of reality. Reality is reality. People's biases distort facts to suit their own personal preferences/choices/prejudices.
"Then it all changed in 2021. In an effort to fully modernize the system, the FBI stopped taking data from the old summary system and only accepted data through the new system. Thousands of police agencies fell through the cracks because they didn’t catch up with the changes on time."
"More than 6,000 law enforcement agencies were missing from the FBI’s national crime data last year, representing nearly one-third of the nation’s 18,000 police agencies. This means a quarter of the U.S. population wasn't represented in the federal crime data last year, according to The Marshall Project’s analysis."
"Some large police departments began to report data to the FBI again in 2022, like the Miami-Dade Police Department. But the two largest police agencies in the U.S., the New York Police Department and the Los Angeles Police Department, are still missing in the federal data."
"And the butthurt over officials violating the protocols is really just grievance mongering."
Nah, I expect public officials of any flavor to comply with the policies published/etc. and to lead by example. That they didn't only speaks volumes about their character, how they view their positions, and their overall duchebaggery.
I'm more warry of substances, but sex? Hell, it it were legal, and I had the cash, I just pay for casual sex with a few attractive women. What's the saying, you don't pay for the sex, you pay for them to leave. :)
"What would be an unalloyed societal good would be for us to all learn how to live peacefully with whatever sexual and or relationship pattern works best for each person"
Actually, I believe the phrase don't point a gun at someone unless you intend to kill them. At least that's how I've always approached it. YMMV. Regardless, my comments to Phillip was more in the legal aspects, as in what can be proved in a court of law.
I'm not sure what they intended, but the violence well a hell of a lot less than 2015.
"During that 16-day period of rioting and peaceful protests at least 113 police officers were injured and two civilians were shot, 486 people were arrested, and 350 businesses were damaged."
So, yeah, I'm saying the "freddie grey" riots in bmore were a hell of a lot more violent, and lasted longer, than the Jan 6 riot.
You and I seem to have wide differences in the definition of "violent gov't overthrow". In no was was Jan 6 near a violent attempt. Riot, yes. Hell, there was more violence in Baltimore several years ago when "all that stuff happened".
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On “Open Mic for the week of 10/21/2024”
Yeah, the name is called out in the article:
"Christopher Rufo, who contends that Harris and co-author Joan O'C. Hamilton plagiarized several passages."
But guess what. You claim authorship, or even co authorship, you own the errors not just the accolades. Nobody with any ounce of awareness / intelligence thinks Harris, or any other notable, really wrote the book themselves. Harris was SF DA at the time. OFC she didn't have time to write a book.
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"The Media Shouldn't Overlook Kamala Harris' Plagiarism"
https://reason.com/2024/10/17/the-media-shouldnt-overlook-kamala-harris-plagiarism/
I didn't even know she wrote a book, but I guess a lot of politicians do, so I shouldn't be surprised.
"This is such a well-worn trope by now the one might have expected mainstream media institutions to take greater pains to avoid it, if only to deprive conservatives of ammunition. And yet The New York Times write-up of the Harris plagiarism accusations is headlined: "Conservative Activist Seizes on Passages From Harris Book."
The article itself minimizes the extent of Harris' wrongdoing, and cites a plagiarism expert, Jonathan Bailey, who claims that Rufo was "making a big deal" out of relatively minor transgressions. The Times did not share with him the full list of plagiarized passages in the book, however; on his website, Bailey noted that after reviewing all the allegations, the case is "more serious" than he first thought, although he maintains Harris did not engage in "wholesale fraud.""
I thought that was the best part. The NYT gives a reviewer part of the info, he reaches a conclusion more favorable to the candidate, but later revises it down when he gets the info the paper withheld. Nice work NYT. I wonder if that fact was reported in the paper.
On “Open Mic for the week of 10/14/2024”
You don't get to claim your wrote a book and then throw your ghostwriter under the bus.
On “From Freddie: The Basics: School Reform”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9X4Z1lLUMfw&ab_channel=JohnLockwood
Time stamp: 4.22
On “From the United Nations: Israeli forces fire on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon”
The peacekeepers have other things on their mind...
https://www.hrw.org/news/2020/01/11/un-peacekeeping-has-sexual-abuse-problem
On “Of Conspiracy Theories and Helene”
True, but, just from my experience, getting held accountable seems to be more effective in the private sector. Now, I'm not talking about the top folks, but the staff. For instance, my director was only around less than two years before he was released.
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I agree completely. Hell, even in the private sector we have that. My company just fired a director for, essentially, not doing his job.
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The first one I recall was this the vividly since it was at the start of my career:
One of our customers (Civilian Govt Agency) requested we (the contractor team) come into DC for a meeting to discuss something. I don't recall what the topic was but it was the entire program team, finance, and contracts, from our side. We came in for the 10AM-4PM meeting. There were @ 5-8 customer staff (all gov't employees) and our team of 3 or 4. We broke for lunch for an hour, and resumed. At 1:30 or 2pm, several of the agency employees who WANTED THE MEETING bailed "as they had to catch their carpool". So it was critical that we come into DC to meet with them in person and discuss work scope, but it was more important for them to catch their carpool. It wasn't a short notice meeting either, it was scheduled weeks in advance, but a third of the people just up and left....the ones that wanted to talk to us. They were the ones who gave us the start and end time and they walked out mid meeting. Needless to say, our travel, food, etc. expenses were billable and billed to the customer and the meeting achieved nothing, since those who wanted the meeting to resolve some issues were no longer there to work through them. All that time (and money) was wasted. I heard later that our contract officer resolved the issue via a phone call.
"
I can't speak to the "conspiracy theories", other than, of the one's I've heard, they are plausible. They are basic incompetence and organizational failure we hear about during every disaster. My question is, since this has been going on for decades, you'd expect, at minimum, SOME improvement. That doesn't seem to be the case. Conclusion: if some problems/failures get fixed, more crop up. Given my experience with gov't employees in the civilian world, I'm not surprised at the continued failures though. The question is, how does it get fixed? Are the failures and "planned fixes" actually just PR, or is their an actual failure to actually get better, because once the crisis is over / out of the headlines, everyone goes back to what they were doing and forgets about the problems/that's someone else's task to fix.
On “Open Mic for the week of 9/30/2024”
And violent to itself internally. You remember Necklacing don't you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necklacing
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I've had that problem with women friends I was dating, who were in their 40s!
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"My kid. My responsibility."
What a foreign concept!
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"But I guess I don’t understand what the point of a high school diploma is."
But I guess I don’t understand what the point of a high school diploma is for now.
Fixed that for ya. It used to be a sign of some basic learning. Now, I doubt it's even that.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe the state has a legal obligation to ensure you learned anything at public school. Maybe if this case calls within the ADA, but I'd doubt it.
"Ortiz’s lawyer, Courtney Spencer, said the young woman’s story may be one of the “most shocking cases” of educational neglect she has seen in 24 years." Doubtful. I'm sure there are many such cases.
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Maybe it's their damn phones?
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Ignoring the subject matter, what annoys me about this type of reporting is "distorts our reality". No, it doesn't distort relativity, it distorts our PERCEPTION of reality. Reality is reality. People's biases distort facts to suit their own personal preferences/choices/prejudices.
"
"Israel goes in: IDF confirms boots on the ground in southern Lebanon as bombs rain down from the sky after day of ratcheting tensions"
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13909477/Israel-goes-IDF-confirms-boots-ground-southern-Lebanon-bombs-rain-sky-day-ratcheting-tensions.html
On “Open Mic for the week of 9/23/2024”
Data aggregation is useless when you change the way you collect data and states/localities don't.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/07/13/fbi-crime-rates-data-gap-nibrs
"Then it all changed in 2021. In an effort to fully modernize the system, the FBI stopped taking data from the old summary system and only accepted data through the new system. Thousands of police agencies fell through the cracks because they didn’t catch up with the changes on time."
"More than 6,000 law enforcement agencies were missing from the FBI’s national crime data last year, representing nearly one-third of the nation’s 18,000 police agencies. This means a quarter of the U.S. population wasn't represented in the federal crime data last year, according to The Marshall Project’s analysis."
"Some large police departments began to report data to the FBI again in 2022, like the Miami-Dade Police Department. But the two largest police agencies in the U.S., the New York Police Department and the Los Angeles Police Department, are still missing in the federal data."
On “Open Mic for the week of 9/16/2024”
"And the butthurt over officials violating the protocols is really just grievance mongering."
Nah, I expect public officials of any flavor to comply with the policies published/etc. and to lead by example. That they didn't only speaks volumes about their character, how they view their positions, and their overall duchebaggery.
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I'm more warry of substances, but sex? Hell, it it were legal, and I had the cash, I just pay for casual sex with a few attractive women. What's the saying, you don't pay for the sex, you pay for them to leave. :)
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"What would be an unalloyed societal good would be for us to all learn how to live peacefully with whatever sexual and or relationship pattern works best for each person"
So you're totally ok with paid sex work? Cool.
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Actually, I believe the phrase don't point a gun at someone unless you intend to kill them. At least that's how I've always approached it. YMMV. Regardless, my comments to Phillip was more in the legal aspects, as in what can be proved in a court of law.
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"and you don’t know what they intended"
No, I don't KNOW what they intended.
Did they intend to hang people or did they intend to intimidate / threaten people, or something else?
You and I can make conclusions, but we can't KNOW unless you've got transcripts from the culprits there stating what they planned to do. Cite?
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I'm not sure what they intended, but the violence well a hell of a lot less than 2015.
"During that 16-day period of rioting and peaceful protests at least 113 police officers were injured and two civilians were shot, 486 people were arrested, and 350 businesses were damaged."
So, yeah, I'm saying the "freddie grey" riots in bmore were a hell of a lot more violent, and lasted longer, than the Jan 6 riot.
"
You and I seem to have wide differences in the definition of "violent gov't overthrow". In no was was Jan 6 near a violent attempt. Riot, yes. Hell, there was more violence in Baltimore several years ago when "all that stuff happened".
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