A spokesman for the Burke campaign told BuzzFeed News an “expert” named Eric Schnurer who also worked on the other campaigns as responsible for the similar text, a case of self-plagiarism.The problem of plagiarism isn't just the loss (if any) to the person who wrote the text. It's also that the taker feels a need for that material. So even if Schnurer was only cutting and pasting his own text and thus doing himself a favor, avoiding needing to do additional work, there's still a question of why the candidate was not the source of the ideas that were being presented in her name.
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports:
Burke said Friday that she made the decision to cut ties with Schnurer, suggesting that his work fell short of expectations. "The language is not the language that should have been used," Burke said.That reminds me of that scene between Mr. Leland and Kramer in the "Seinfeld" episode "The Bizarro Jerry":
There are no payments to Schnurer or his company listed in Burke's campaign records. [Burke spokesman Joe] Zepecki said Friday that Schnurer was a subcontractor and as such could not be fired.
LELAND: Kramer, I've... been reviewing your work.. Quite frankly, it stinks.
KRAMER: Well, I've been having trouble at home and uh... I mean, uh, you know, I'll work harder, nights, weekends, whatever it takes...
LELAND: No, no, I don't think that's going to do it. These reports you handed in. It's almost as if you have no business training at all. I don't know what this is supposed to be!
KRAMER: Well, I'm... uh... just... tryin' to get ahead..
LELAND: Well, I'm sorry. There's just no way that we could keep you on.
KRAMER: I don't even really work here!
LELAND: That's what makes this so difficult.
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1 – 200 of 220 Newer› Newest»Yeah, her ONE alleged advantage is either one she doesn't possess or cares so little about that she has somebody else do the work for her.
Neither speak highly of Burke.
Oops, I spoke too soon in the other thread.
Raise taxes and "invest" in those who do no work.
There you go every economic plan from every democrat. You can tweak the language if you need, but that's the gist of it.
In this way she reminds me of President Obama. She isn't responsible. She learned about this on the nightly news. It's not her fault, it's someone elses fault.
This same woman who mocked Walker's jobs plan, can't even be bothered to come up with her own plan? She has to have someone else write it for her?
How is this excuse better? Makes her seem like a terrible manager without ideas.
I thought her plan was to give free bicycles to the jobless and train them in one way bike rides to other states.
A corollary idea was to make stationary bicycles that generate electricity and chain the jobless to them until they agreed to take the one way rides to other states.
She doesn't have a real time-consuming job herself right?
Yet she has to pay someone to come up with 9-10 bulleted items for a jobs plan?
Burke's plagiarism of a jobs plan is very telling. The reason you copy someone else's jobs plan is you do not have a jobs plan of your own. How do you run for governor of Wisconsin without having it least a basic economic plan for the state in mind?
The assumption seems to be that Candidates think up the ideas they run on.
Is that true, generally speaking, anymore? I doubt it.
(I doubt this newsflash will sway people's minds)
So she has no input on her own plan. The plan is just a recycling from other plan(s).
It's worse than HRC's chocolate chip cookie recipe.
Can she provide any compelling reason to be governor other than she isn't Scott Walker?
You ought to see the desperate Wendy Davis ads now playing. Davis makes Mary Burke seem like a Einstein crossed with Elon Musk. Why must have so many clueless candidates? Speaking of which, I saw an old Rick Santorum bumper sticker yesterday. He should be heading to Iowa any time now.
When Burke was handed the plagiarized jobs plan document why didn't she at least plug it into one of the many free online plagiarism checkers?
It's war on women all over again! Using crib notes is a victimless crime.
Meanie Man Walker will probably torment the weak and gentle woman Mary by asking her to recite her jobs plan at the debate without using a teleprompter.
And we all know that a man embarrassing a woman in public is like... Rape.
Burke said most of her ideas for her jobs plan are from her Masters thesis. If she were a republican the press would be clamoring for a copy so they could fact check that claim.
That's going to leave a mark.
Speaking of politics (though not from Wisconsin). I saw this ad yesterday during Thursday Night Football. Great ad, and it's going to be hard to rebut in a 30 second response.
Compare this to our current governor, who has hand-written every new bill himself. Usually while eating his brown bag lunch.
This scandal clinches it. Walker will coast to victory in a historical landslide, leading Wisconsin to be a red state for many generations to come.
Beta Rube said...
Burke said most of her ideas for her jobs plan are from her Masters thesis. If she were a republican the press would be clamoring for a copy so they could fact check that claim.
9/19/14, 2:40 PM
Well, yes. Under those circumstances we have an adversarial press.
The fact that Burke hired a staff which would copy a key policy statement tells us about the quality of the people Burke selects as her top aides.
MadisonMan wrote;
"The assumption seems to be that Candidates think up the ideas they run on.
Is that true, generally speaking, anymore? I doubt it."
I don't think this is true. It just depends.
For example, I would expect Mitt Romney to be an expert in all things business/economic related, but not when it comes to the military. I'd expect him to rely heavily on the military advisors for such things, although in hindsight he seemed to have educated himself quite well in that area.
But I'd be shocked to find out that Romney's positions were plagiarized and the plagiarism was done by a subordinate he contracted his own positions out to. I'd expect that if I read a Job's Plan from Romney, they were his ideas. But if I read a Military Strategy, he was basing it off of advice from military advisors.
This goes for Burke. Supposedly she is a Mitt Romney type, or so I've heard here and a few other places. Her qualifications appear to be in the business area.
And yet, she claims, she is just phoning it in.
there's still a question of why the candidate was not the source of the ideas that were being presented in her name.
Yeah, this is unprecedented. I'm shocked that a politician wouldn't personally come up with every single idea in her campaign. What's the world coming to. Etc.
T Rellis @ 2:24 pm said it already.
The self-plagiarism seems really unimportant.
What I find interesting is how dated these plans are, including, "a 2008 plan from Delaware Gov. Jack Markell,"
Let's compare Delaware to Wisconsin.
Hell of a plan, there, Jack.
"The fact that Burke hired a staff which would copy a key policy statement tells us about the quality of the people Burke selects as her top aides"
Absolutely! And this isn't the first time someone close to her has gotten into deep doo-doo. Remember how one of her hand-picked assistants was caught embezzling from a Veteran's fund (a fund that she put him in charge of, btw!) and then it turned out that the crooked thief's boyfriend was also into child porn?
That WAS her, wasn't it? Or am I thinking of somebody else?
Schnurer: Ms. Burke, lets talk about your ideas for a jobs plan.
Burke: Oh, I want all those people that Scott Walker promised jobs to, to have a job. Can you put together something and we can review in a week?
Schnurer: Sure.
One week goes by. Schurner dusts off the old plans from candidates A, B and C fro the last few years, cuts and pastes and changes a few words and prints it out.
Schnurer: Here you go, Ms. Burke.
Burke: Oh, it appears you were reading my mind! This is exactly what I was thinking of for MY jobs plan.
(1) I wouldn't expect a candidate to pen all ideas in the platform. In fact, I would be more likely to expect that the candidate was a television-ready figurehead.
(2) I'm not sure that having a lot of original ideas is a strength in a political candidate.
I don't see the problem. If she likes those plans and wants to put them into action, then they are her plans. So what if they're not original?
Or was her jobs plan an English class assignment?
I have not problem with a politician relying on subordinates for portions of their work. She is running for chief executive, not chief wonk. Her job will be to delegate most of the executive branch responsibilities to subordinates.
Having said that, this is an example of her ability to delegate work. She choose someone to do the work, they did a poor job, and she didn't catch it.
Also, jobs is such an important topic that she should have been going over the plan, discussing and debating and hammering out all of the details to insure that this was the best plan her team could come up with. It seems like she did none of that.
Farmer, her AREA OF EXPERTISE is economics and business...allegedly.
She wasn't plagiarizing civil engineering treatises.
Two observations --
If plagiarism were a hanging offense in politics, Joe Biden's career would have ended in the 1980s.
Of course Burke doesn't have any new ideas. The Democrats haven't presented a new economic idea in nearly half a century. The great new innovation of the Obama era dates back to Harry Truman.
When Walker aide Russell was caught embezzling, Wisconsin Democrats blamed Walker and said the fact that Walker hired a staff member who would embezzle, tells us about the quality of the people Walker selects as her top aides. Now the very same Lefties tell us Burke's selection of her top aides in no reflection on Burke.
Shoe meet the other foot.
The fact that Burke just accepted a plagiarized jobs plan as her own tells us about her character and her lack of an economic plan. Did she even read it before she authorized it to be released?
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Odd coincidence: Ward Cammack, the one-time TN gubernatorial candidate mentioned in this story, is a friend of mine -- we lived in the same small Tennessee town for a couple of years while my wife was in Seminary.
I emailed him the story earlier today and said "Hey Ward, you're back in the news" -- which he found amusing.
Freeman: "I'm not sure that having a lot of original ideas is a strength in a political candidate."
Maybe not a "lot" is needed. One solid original idea can work.
Like a flat tax. Or cutting budgets across the board by 10%. Or having public servants contribute a few percent to their health care premiums.
The fact we haven't seen a lot of good ideas implemented (universal healthcare was not original) tends to scare some people off.
These days, a candidate for governor should not hire campaign staffers whose smoke and mirrors are so easily exposed. It does indeed say something about the candidate.
I don't see any problem with a politician having policy documents written by staff. We have a President who believes he knows more than everyone who works for him, and he is arguably the most ignorant man who has ever held that office.
I'm shocked that political parties exist and that candidates who belong to political parties share the same ideas about policies.
Isn't that the point of political parties?
Can she sell the same old same old?
Academic norms have no place here.
"Her qualifications appear to be in the business area."
Actually, I think they are more in correctly choosing parents and grandparents, like so many Democrats.
For the leftys here, Romney GAVE AWAY his inherited wealth so he could start out on his own.
Burke ? She is using other people's economic plans.
considering Democrats haven't had a new idea in a century, this is not surprising.
@T Rellis, you overlooked "punish people who have taken personal financial risks to start companies and create jobs."
Burke has no serious economic plan, nothing. She released a the copied plan with word for word sections of others plans in 2009. Burke is now bragging up the fact that she didn't write her own plan?!?! AND Burke is really, really pissed off that the aide who wrote her plan for her stole it? What a dolt. Burke apparently never talked to her plans author about her own plan.
Like a flat tax. Or cutting budgets across the board by 10%. Or having public servants contribute a few percent to their health care premiums.
How can these be called original ideas? Were any of them originally the idea of a politician vs., say, a ThinkTank?
Untried, perhaps, might be a better word for some of them.
Better start John Doe III.
Burke fired the aide, Eric Schnurer, who wrote her economic plan for her. The Democrats should have fired Burke and kept Eric Schnurer, at least Schnurer has an economic plan for Wisconsin.
I don't get any sense that Mary Burke has ever actually had to perform.
Whatever she does and however badly she fails, there's always a safe job waiting for her in the family business.
So, what am I missing? Running for governor is ambitious, but what has she ever done where failure was not a (reasonably comfortable) option?
"Is that true, generally speaking, anymore? I doubt it."
-- I think the difference is A) Usually, someone on their staff is drafting it, not lifting it from elsewhere, and B) They don't get caught.
"That's going to leave a mark."
-- No it won't. The only people who care already were not likely voters for her anyway. See: Biden, Joe, Vice President.
Burke's economic plan got rave reviews in the Wisconsin media and it wasn't her plan. So what exactly are Burke's economic plans for Wisconsin??
""a 2008 plan from Delaware Gov. Jack Markell,""
So the jobs plan can be added to Althouse in the "list of things Wisconsin stole from Delaware?"
This is the post that launched a thousand WORD searches of Walker's campaign literature to see if he too jotted down one unoriginal tittle.
"AJ Lynch said...
She doesn't have a real time-consuming job herself right?"
Sure she does, she's on the Madison School Board. It must be importnat because she spent $130,000 of her own money to get elected.
Mary Burke is a fucking moron who has accomplished nothing in her life and has relied on her millions, created by someone else, for everything she is.
They don't get caught.
Heh. True. A veteran politician would be more savvy.
I'm surprised they didn't run the plan through google. I hope the advisor/re-user has already cashed the check he got for producing this re-washed plan.
"(1) I wouldn't expect a candidate to pen all ideas in the platform. In fact, I would be more likely to expect that the candidate was a television-ready figurehead."
What hath Bill Clinton wrought?
Surely you lowered all your expectations of Presidents after Clinton got it on with his subordinate in the White House. Hell, I must have heard a hundred times how, "All Presidents do it."
Now Burke has gotten you to lower your expectations of all politicians.
Helluva job, Democrats. Helluva job.
Have no fear, the ever faithful lapdogs of the media will handle
"there's still a question of why the candidate was not the source of the ideas that were being presented in her name."
Oh professor, that was a gentle probe to the solar plexus.
Burke's answer when asked about this plagiarism was evasive. And then the Burke campaign claimed it is still Mary Burkes plan. Burke claims "it was a relatively minor mistake".
It is fine that Burke's economic plan is not "her plan" but in fact came from others. What matters is a) she apparently didn't know that (not a confidence builder), b) did not have the intellectual curiosity to ask her aid where it came from so that she would know, and c) was so out of touch and unfamiliar with these other plans that she did not recognize them in her plan (assuming she read it at all).
That means that politically she is "just a pretty face / an empty suit" and does not care or is not bright enough to even come up with a better excuse.
"Burke's economic plan got rave reviews in the Wisconsin media and it wasn't her plan. So what exactly are Burke's economic plans for Wisconsin??"
Apparently she does. It's called the, "Hey, it worked so well for Delaware, it ought to work for us!" Plan.
Why did Mary Burke have to have a consultant draw up her plan for her instead of Burke simply writing down her own ideas? Burke has no ideas.
"That means that politically she is "just a pretty face / an empty suit" and does not care or is not bright enough to even come up with a better excuse."
Wait, are we still talking about Burke or did this conversation jump to Obama?
I have now read some of the plan. It should be added to the random economic plan generator. It's the kind of plan that Tom Friedman would write.
"aligning requirements"
"bridging the gap"
"blend academic science, technology, engineering and math coursework with cutting-edge vocational training "
"lowering costs and increasing efficiency"
"Streamlining access to financial assistance for manufacturers"
Why isn't everybody doing this!!!!!!!! Dammit, just do these things and all will be well.
Freeman Hunt: "I'm not sure that having a lot of original ideas is a strength in a political candidate."
Granting that, it would be useful to think that the candidate had ideas of her own, even if they are a product of others. Burke shows little evidence of having thought very carefully about the issues she will face. She a combination of "Not Walker" and "I'm a nice person who wants to do nice things."
Walker had undertaken and done reasonably well in some difficult jobs before he ran for Governor. Burke has never had a tough assignment, and does not appear ready for one.
Mary Burke is a fucking moron who has accomplished nothing in her life and has relied on her millions, created by someone else, for everything she is.
Burke worked for it. Where would Walker be right now without other people's millions? Still making calls at the Red Cross?
She is a millionaire, and you're....well, not.
Wait, there's more.
She said she did not believe the issue would undermine her credibility or that of her jobs plan: "No, not at all."
Case closed.
Asked if she was essentially saying this was a minor issue being propelled by partisan politics, Burke said simply, "Yes."
Sharp edged journalism at its finest. I wonder if the reporter was nodding their head up and down as they asked the question in order to help her answer.
I see that Garage is fully on board with the Progressive concept of Democrats with inherited wealth are better people than working people.
What are Mary Burke's original ideas?
When exactly did Burke inherit her wealth, Tosa. Trek was in a barn when Burke was in high school.
The best plan for a state's economy is to keep taxes low, regulation minimal, and enforce the laws fairly. To believe that government programs can aid the economy is to believe that politicians know more about business than people in business do.
Mark Burke apparently takes that a step further. Although she has been in business, she thinks, probably correctly, that a political consultant knows more about business than she does. Not that she thinks it matters, anyway. You have to have a plan, but it doesn't matter what the plan is.
If this is what inherited wealth does to its victims, I am glad for my children's sake that I'm broke.
Burke is typical Madison radical leftie. Her real thoughts on jobs and the economy are so far out in leftie lala land that putting Burke's actual thoughts on paper would guarantee she would lose the election. So they had to hire a political consultant to write something they could publish.
"Ignorance is Bliss said...
I have not problem with a politician relying on subordinates for portions of their work. She is running for chief executive, not chief wonk. Her job will be to delegate most of the executive branch responsibilities to subordinates.
Having said that, this is an example of her ability to delegate work. She choose someone to do the work, they did a poor job, and she didn't catch it.
This is exactly right for anybody "in charge".
There are contractors who build hotels, stadiums and shopping centers. They do not need to hammer the nail or thread the pipe, They hire competent sub contractors to do that, and they make the decisions and take the heat, or the credit.
For those us in the middle, this is as big of a scandal as Walker getting all his ideas and plans directly from ALEC.
In other words, not at scandal at all. And the fact that the Republicans are making a huge deal out of this actually speaks well of Burke.
Same old white people shit, recycled yet again.
Burke should take the lead and give the Progressives something to vote FOR: Reparations in Wisconsin as Point One on her plan. Imagine: Wisconsin could take the lead in the Nation for -- finally -- getting Justice for Blacks.
Or is the argument still going to be rehashes about benefits for the already well-to-do?
Maybe the Progressives are exhausted after the Gay Marriage Rights struggle, and aren't ready for another cause just yet: I'm sure blacks are understanding of this. Sometimes you just have to sleep in the street a little longer, that's all...
It is turtles all the way down...
Burke claims she bases her thoughts on economics on her Harvard master's thesis. OK Burke, RELEASE YOUR HARVARD MASTER'S THESIS NOW. Why won't Burke release her Harvard thesis?
Why won't Burke release her Harvard thesis?
Right after Walker releases his college records. Such as they are.
Is everyone going to now freak out when we look at Walker's plan and realize that many of these ideas come from elsewhere?
It's not like he's the first to suggest drug testing the unemployed. Should we write long posts about how he got that from another Governor?
This is such a grasp at making a scandal it's kind of sad. This isn't a school paper, nor is this some telling fact about how her campaign is doing something unprecedented.
I rarely agree with both Farmer and MadisonMan, but I do today. Better go offline and enjoy the sunshine and local beer before things go foul.
Garage, are you feeling a bit sour today after those new polls came out showing Walker back in the lead, even before Mary Burke's careless and lazy intellectual bankruptcy was exposed?
Good!
"garage mahal said...
Mary Burke is a fucking moron who has accomplished nothing in her life and has relied on her millions, created by someone else, for everything she is.
Burke worked for it. Where would Walker be right now without other people's millions? Still making calls at the Red Cross?
She is a millionaire, and you're....well, not."
LOL What I have I created...daddy didn't give it to me. Mary Burke got rich because of her family.
This plan was rolled out because of months of criticism from the GOP that she had no plan...and now we see they were right.
"Mark said...
Is everyone going to now freak out when we look at Walker's plan and realize that many of these ideas come from elsewhere?"
I'm sure they did...but in the end he took all of that...others idead...his own...and created a Walker plan. He didn't erase their name and put his on it.
You really are a moron.
This plan was rolled out because of months of criticism from the GOP that she had no plan...and now we see they were right.
Where is Walker's plan? The only jobs "plan" that has ever been released was this one.
Which was taken down, for obvious reasons.
From Politifact: "we asked Walker if he would allow Marquette to comment on his academic and conduct record. He did.
"Gov. Scott Walker was a student at Marquette from fall of 1986 until spring 1990 and was a senior in good standing when he voluntarily withdrew from Marquette," the university said in a statement.
That means that no conduct issues, academic or otherwise, blocked Walker from continuing in school at the time of his departure, MU spokesman Brian Dorrington told us in early December 2013.
When we asked Dorrington whether any conduct issues were on Walker’s earlier school record, he said Walker would have to permit release of that information. Walker did so in response to our request.
"Governor Walker was in good standing each term while he was enrolled at Marquette University and when he left Marquette University," Associate Vice Provost Anne Deahl said in a letter. "Governor Walker was not expelled or suspended from the university at any time.""
"garage mahal said...
Why won't Burke release her Harvard thesis?
Right after Walker releases his college records. Such as they are."
That dog won't hunt. BTW, Walker authorized Marquette clarify the issue in question...you know, Corky's like you saying he was kicked out.
Burke can't tell the truth that she is a Jim Doyle clone or she'll lose the election.
I mean it IS possible that Burke's thesis matched three separate governors' ideas word for word...right?
"It's a rule: If you're a family member you're entitled to a job."
--Richard Burke 2006
McCamkell for Governor!
By the way, the three candidates she copied:
Quit
Lost
Lost
Yes, let's use that plan!
Whether discussing Burke, her self-plagerist associate, or Kramer's predicament on Seinfeld, all I have to do is substitute a black man and nothing would be the same - including anyone considering hiring them for anything.
I'm still surprised when our friends don't know this. Or don't even talk like they do. It's just yabba-yabba-yabba white reality, like no one black exists to say, "Doesn't meet any reality I'M familiar with," and the entire conversation of America is just what whites think about, and to, each other.
"Turtles all the way down"?
More like white supremacy rules,...
"For those us in the middle,"
Says the leftist no where near the middle.
Says the leftist no where near the middle.
You're so far to the right that the middle looks way far to the left.
"The Crack Emcee said...
Whether discussing Burke, her self-plagerist associate, or Kramer's predicament on Seinfeld, all I have to do is substitute a black man and nothing would be the same - including anyone considering hiring them for anything."
Obama plagiarized speeches, and was elected and re-elected. Go away.
Crack:
"More like white supremacy rules,..."
Well, it is the Democratic Party. It's like riding a bicycle. You may not have done it for a while, but you don't forget how.
"madisonfella said...
The Republicans just now got caught copying others as well. This latest plan of theirs was plagiarized from 1939 Germany."
Good point Penguin...well except those aren't "Republicans".
"I rarely agree with both Farmer and MadisonMan, but I do today. Better go offline and enjoy the sunshine and local beer before things go foul."
HAHAHAHAHA Dissension on the left !
Good point Penguin...well except those aren't "Republicans".
Patrick Murray: "Just so you are aware, I will not report Republicans. Only Democrats."
Same teabagging goons as last election.
Walker signed legislation allowing "poll watchers" to come within 3 feet of voters or poll workers. Why?
it would be useful to think that the candidate had ideas of her own, even if they are a product of others.
Um, if they're a product of others, who can they be the candidate's own?
Ugh. How, now who.
Any surprise that Curious George is trying to play the "Those aren't real Republicans" card? About par for the course in his game.
Nevermind the fact that the group themselves say they are only going after Democrats and won't confront any Republicans. George knows for a fact that this group has nothing at all to do with Republicans. And he knows this because, well, because he so desperately wants it to be true. And that is all that matters in his world.
Speaking of something he so desperately want to be true, this theory that I am Penguin (or Inga, or Garage, or Frank, or Corky, or whoever else he comes up with this week) was totally destroyed the last time it was brought up. Obviously someone made quite an impression with little Georgie, but it ain't me and this obsession of his is getting a tad creepy. (Which, I'm sure, is the desired effect)
Dilettante.
There are few new ideas. But would it have killed her to rephrase them rather than cut-and-paste?
David,
"Well, it is the Democratic Party. It's like riding a bicycle. You may not have done it for a while, but you don't forget how."
I've started a series of posts on TMR - featuring a rogue's gallery of all the racist white Republicans I find - just to shut you stupid partisan assholes up. Your lies mean nothing to me. You're merely ignorant fools who don't educate yourselves trying to fool other ignorant fools who don't educate yourselves.
I ain't one of them.
White supremacy - not Democrats - is the problem.
And REPUBLICANS are as big a part of that as anybody in the KKK,...
If I call Mary Burke an empty pantsuit, am I being sexist?
Curious George,
"Obama plagiarized speeches, and was elected and re-elected. Go away."
The exception is not the rule, an extraordinary black man is not an example of what the the rest of us go through, and his winning margin of error was always equal to the blacks in this country, so you shut up.
You can go away, too, but - white supremacy being what it is - I know it won't be for long:
Always need some niggers to criticize for speaking.
Got to know our "place" - still - with a black prez in 2014,...
Yes...Facebook posts. Dire stuff. Really.
Betamax3000 is so far outperforming Crack that it's hilarious.
We all know the reason why.
I'm surprised it's not word for word copied from the Lord Obama himself (who appropriated it from someone else).
garage, what specific information regarding Walkers time at Marquette are you demanding to see?
Was Walkers authorization for Marquette university officials to comment on his time there insufficient?
Crack: "I ain't one of them."
I think you meant to write "I ain't be one of them."
NTTAWWT
garage: "Walker signed legislation allowing "poll watchers" to come within 3 feet of voters or poll workers. Why?"
Can't be any worse than these guys that Holder thinks are fine and dandy "helping" folks out at poll entrances:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Black_Panther_Party_voter_intimidation_case
It's all good.
I'm still surprised when our friends don't know this. Or don't even talk like they do. It's just yabba-yabba-yabba white reality, like no one black exists to say, "Doesn't meet any reality I'M familiar with," and the entire conversation of America is just what whites think about, and to, each other.
That's what you're here for, correct?
If Walker had actually graduated from Marquette, would that make Burkes plagiarism acceptable?
Those obsessing on teabagging are typically the se homosexuals who love a dick down their throat.
This one happens to be a dishonest fat piece of shit commie in Wisconsin.
Got to know our "place" - still - with a black prez in 2014,...
Half-black prez. We get to claim the other half of that doofus.
Donald is hoping for more moderation ...
If Walker had actually graduated from Marquette, would that make Burkes plagiarism acceptable?
Borrowing your own ideas is plagiarism?
I think you meant to write "I ain't be one of them."
I believe it is actually:
"I ain't be one o dem"
Drago,
"I think you meant to write "I ain't be one of them.""
It doesn't take much for y'all to gladly cross the line, hood or no hood - or is it a dunce cap?
How whites can live with their racist selves is a mystery. How Ann allows them to fester here, is, as well. A kind of symbiotic relationship that:
She gets hits, and they can abuse minorities - usually me alone - to their hearts content, knowing there will NEVER be any kind of punishment forthcoming. This is called "American justice" to a lawyer.
"Ending white supremacy does not merely require a passive sense that racism is awful, but an active commitment to undoing its generational effects."
Althouse can start that "undoing" by cleaning house, and sending the low-hanging but rotting fruit of the Drago types back to the Confederate/Nazi Storm Trooper sites they came from:
Whites need to take action to back up their words - and not just leave it to blacks,...
Right after Walker releases his college records. Such as they are."
You're kidding right? Either that or you have absolutely no sense of irony. Obama is so god damn secretive, not only has he sealed all of his college transcripts and papers...he's restricted Michelle's too!
No surprise that Drago finds nothing at all wrong with intimidating voters at the polls. He often times justifies jumping off a cliff by saying someone else did it first, even if he previously condemned the earlier actions.
He obviously has a weather vane rather than a moral compass.
garage: "Borrowing your own ideas is plagiarism?"
LOL
Costanza: "It's not a lie if you believe it."
Another idiot with no sense of irony:
How whites can live with their racist selves is a mystery. How Ann allows them to fester here, is, as well.
The most racist commentor here at Althouse complaining that Althouse won't ban racist commentors!
Burke's trying to run as not-Walker and keep it as bland as possible.
Let's compare Delaware to Wisconsin.
The important thing for Burke was just to have a plan. Her supposed expertise in the area was supposed to balance out Wisconsinites positive views on the "right track/wrong track" question re: government direction.
She really can't afford doubts about her ability to keep the course economically.
P.S. Garage, Trek was in a barn when she was in High School. Where was it when she started calling the shots? And was she responsible for outsourcing construction to China?
madisonfella: " He often times justifies jumping off a cliff by saying someone else did it first, even if he previously condemned the earlier actions."
Examples would be nice. There must be oodles.
Feel free to post some.
LOL
No surprise that Drago finds nothing at all wrong with intimidating voters at the polls. He often times justifies jumping off a cliff by saying someone else did it first, even if he previously condemned the earlier actions.
Wait... I thought it was Holder who dropped the case the Justice deparment was winning against the New Black Panthers for voter intimidation......you're saying Drago did it now?
Gahrie,
"I believe it is actually:
"I ain't be one o dem""
Two in a row (Couldn't help yourself, could you, G?) and both long-term prime candidates for dismissal. They both have racist histories here and - as this example shows - they feed off of each other's racism and racist comments, encouraging more.
The idea that Althouse cares more than they do is questionable, considering she's no more pro-active than they would be. (Notice Mary is beyond the pale but white supremacists aren't? Why? Which has a bigger impact on our country, this blog, or black lives in general? It sure ain't Mary,...)
Althouse IS America now,...
madisonfella: "No surprise that Drago finds nothing at all wrong with intimidating voters at the polls."
LOL
madisonfella confuses me with Eric Holder.
Crack will be along shortly to explain why that is silly.
Crack: "Notice Mary is beyond the pale but white supremacists aren't?"
LOL
Again, it's Asian Supremacists.
Why can't you get that straight?
Oh, wait. Right. That's why.
Now back to Mary Burkes fantabulous jobs plan which apparently she ginned up from all her own ideas (according to garage) but recycled via some outside consultant (why did she need an outside consultant if they were all her ideas? shut up racist!), why didn't anyone notice that the other dems plagiarized Burke?
The logic of the left is indeed dizzying.
Blogger Original Mike said...
There are few new ideas. But would it have killed her to rephrase them rather than cut-and-paste?
9/19/14, 4:42 PM
That would have forced her to actually read her own plan.
The Wind Cries Mary
Mary Mary quite contrary
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells, and cockle shells,
And pretty maids all in a row
"Althouse IS America now,.."
Althouse, copywrite this NOW!!
Think about combining it with "Now, More Than Ever"
Argh. Copyright.
Gahrie: "I thought it was Holder who dropped the case the Justice deparment was winning against the New Black Panthers for voter intimidation"
Had already won.
Gahrie,
"The most racist commentor here at Althouse complaining that Althouse won't ban racist commentors!"
You will claim anyone FIGHTING WHITE RACISM is a racist. That's colorblind racism today - totally ahistorical. Meaning:
No racists hanging out here would've meant no haranguing by me.
Ann knows better.
It's time for me to know if she'll act:
Time's a wastin',...
madisonfella:,
"No surprise that Drago finds nothing at all wrong with fucking with blacks."
FIFY
Examples would be nice
9/19/14, 5:12 PM in this very thread.
You defended what the Republican goon squad is planning to do as "all good" because years ago Holder didn't go after the Black Panthers.
Then again, I could be wrong. Perhaps you didn't condemn that other group earlier. So just to clear: Have you always been in favor of intimidating voters at the polls or is this a newly developed opinion of yours?
madisonfella: "Then again, I could be wrong."
That just about covers it.
"Borrowing your own ideas is plagiarism?"
Have you read the Buzzfeed article, garage?
There's no record in Mary Burke's campaign filings to date that indicate any payments to Eric Schnurer or his consulting firm. So at this point he appears to be the "fall guy" for something published in March 2014 for which it doesn't appear he's been paid.
"No surprise that Drago finds nothing at all wrong with fucking with blacks."
Probably gets a little bonus in his paycheck when he slips some racial tension into his comments.
I have to admire Crack. Here we have a story about plagiarism by a white candidate in a race against a white incumbent and somehow Crack is able to make this thread all about race.
I think Althouse could post a story about rescuers in Alaska searching for an albino lost in a whiteout and Crack could turn into a thread about slavery.
FedkaTheConvict: "There's no record in Mary Burke's campaign filings to date that indicate any payments to Eric Schnurer or his consulting firm. So at this point he appears to be the "fall guy" for something published in March 2014 for which it doesn't appear he's been paid."
Possibly paid as a subcontractor via another firm?
"garage: "Walker signed legislation allowing "poll watchers" to come within 3 feet of voters or poll workers. Why?"
So they can see?
Oh, and Harvard MBAs don't write theses.
"That just about covers it"
Yup, it does. Thanks for making it clear that you support violence at the polls, regardless of which party is doing it.
madisonfella: "Thanks for making it clear that you support violence at the polls..."
Hmmm, note to self: lefties believe poll watchers watching people at the polls = violence.
They both have racist histories here and - as this example shows
Wait...how was that racist? I though Ebonics was a legitemate language? So now I am a racist for understanding the spelling and syntax of Ebonics? Are only Black people allowed to speak Ebonics?
Again, still waiting to hear how the garage-claimed original Mary Burke jobs plan ideas were not plagiarized by the other dems who then had their plans copied by the hired consultant for the Burke campaign who simply aggregated all the original Burke ideas that had been taken by the other dems.
I see we have a new hall monitor in the making. They are always Ann this and Ann that. I think Ann should butt out of this blog altogether if she is on the right side of history and morning drinking.
A few thoughts:
In politics lifting existing ideas and weaving them into a strategy is SOP. Lifting the exact text is a different issue and deserves to be called plagiarism.
Burke has touted her Wisconsin business experience and educational credentials. It is disappointing that her campaign tosses out ideas (and text) crafted for other states without making an effort to shape them specifically for Wisconsin.
Burke claims to be an experienced business executive and professional. Based on this event can we safely assume her experience in the family business was to have others take on her responsibilities and then fire them if they failed?
Blogger Bobber Fleck said...
Burke claims to be an experienced business executive and professional. Based on this event can we safely assume her experience in the family business was to have others take on her responsibilities and then fire them if they failed?
9/19/14, 6:09 PM
Or more accurately, assigning a task to someone else and then claiming their work as her own and then firing them later for claiming someone else's work as their own ... which Mary claimed as ... her own.
After which, with her mind in a pretzel trying to ignore the obvious contradictions of all that, she goes snowboarding in Argentina in an attempt to find herself.
Based on this event can we safely assume her experience in the family business was to have others take on her responsibilities and then fire them if they failed?
Bingo.
I believe the word for Burke is "Dilettante."
eric wrote: Makes her seem like a terrible manager without ideas.
Someone once told me that a good manager hires people brighter more talented than himself, that is a manager's job is to recognize good ideas, no matter who thinks of them, and turn those ideas into policy.
If that managerial concept is correct I see little reason to criticize Mary Burke on the subject of plagiarism. The advisor she hired has only "plagiarized" himself, so what the hell does that mean? Nothing.
The scandal here is not whether Eric Schnurer recycled his own ideas which he developed for earlier campaigns, he clear did, and he had a perfect right to do so since none of the previous candidates owned those ideas in any legal sense. I don't see any ethical violation either.
What's alarming is Burke's obliviousness to the content of her adopted economic policy that she fires the author of that policy at the drop of a hat when a such a minor controversy as "plagiarism" erupts. Presumably that means she now repudiates those ideas. So what are we to believe about Burke's policy, that it is so lightly regarded by Burke herself that it can de dropped like a hot potato? Doesn't that mean her ambition is to just be governor and not to implement a policy she is intellectually committed to?
Doesn't that mean her ambition is to just be governor and not to implement a policy she is intellectually committed to?
Hmmm. This reminds me of someone. Can't think what politician it might be though....
Had a long reply to someone else locked and loaded. But I read Quaestor's comment @ 6:29 and realized I couldn't improve on it.
Crack,
I think you misunderstand the political significance of American negroes.
1 - The plight of black slaves was useful to the northern interests that started the Civil War, fearing that if the South were allowed to secede, the Southern Empire it would develop into would be more powerful than the New England it left behind.
2 - Having subjugated the South, Northerners were content to let the negroes languish under Jim Crow, until their plight once again became useful, this time to a coalition of socialists eager to use it as a justification for a vast expansion of federal power.
3 - While negroes are still useful as voters, and accusations of "racism" can still be useful in the politics of personal destruction, negroes are becoming an embarrassment to the socialist coalition. The utter failure of a host of federal programs to reduce the violence, criminality and poverty of negroes makes it harder to argue for the expansion of those programs. Illegal Mexican immigrants are a more presentable poster child for the politics of white guilt and identity entitlement, and a faster-growing voting bloc as well.
The upshot is that we now have our first negro President, and he will likely be our last. BTDT. White Americans are beginning to realize that we will soon be merely the largest minority in a nation of jealous minorities. Mexicans can barely be bothered to hide their antipathy to negroes, and Asians are starting to realize that affirmative action is a gun pointed at their children.
Finally, the scientific evidence of human biodiversity is becoming harder to suppress, and it makes it abundantly clear that racial behavioral differences are largely genetic. An honest appraisal of those differences puts the Asians at the top of the heap. There are an awful lot of them, and they are developing stealth ICBMs. The era in which white Americans could afford to waste their time fussing over the problems of their pet negroes is coming to an end. If you want to call that era White Supremacy, well, go ahead. Free at last! Have a nice trip, and be sure to write. Well, call.
Crack wrote: "She gets hits, and they can abuse minorities - usually me alone - to their hearts content, knowing there will NEVER be any kind of punishment forthcoming. This is called "American justice" to a lawyer."
Wait. Justice dictates that commenters here should be punished for pointing out that this racist crybaby is a racist crybaby?
Who knew?
garage mahal said...
Had a long reply to someone else locked and loaded. But I read Quaestor's comment @ 6:29 and realized I couldn't improve on it.
Fair enough.
Some fat pussy plays the teabagger card and you got a problem withy response?
Go fuck yourself.
Hiring advisors is one thing. Punting is something entirely different.
I have no doubt that most of Romney's foreign policy positions in the last campaign were generated by his national security team. But then again, he formed the team and told them what he wanted, and they presumably would have formed the nucleus of his foreign policy team as President. So it's his plan, even if he didn't write all the words.
Burke is punting. It's not her plan, because she has no personal involvement with it. It's not an accurate description of what she would do as governor. It's not written by the people she would appoint to implement it. It's just drivel.
Here in Vermont they like to do things like cut the budget for keeping the roads clear in winter, which only helps people trying to drive to work in order to, you know, pay taxes, to use the money to pay out to people who don't work. The first storm after they put that policy in effect, there were three injury accidents within a mile of where I work during one morning commute.
But hey, Democrats care about the people!
garage mahal wrote: Had a long reply to someone else locked and loaded. But I read Quaestor's comment @ 6:29 and realized I couldn't improve on it.
Why thank you, garage. That was high praise indeed, considering we're usually at loggerheads. However, I have bit more to say that you may or may not like.
Maybe Burke's attitude here is much too capitalistic for government work. While it certainly helps if a candidate running for an administrative office has considerable experience in business, the Obama presidency should hammer that idea home for all time, one shouldn't think the two are interchangeable. Business is not government. Government is not business.
All businesses have an overarching policy (please, let’s not use the hackneyed term mission) and it’s to make money. If the business is manufacturing the policy is to manufacture something that somebody will buy at a sufficiently high price that the business makes money, in Burke’s case it’s bicycles. (She didn’t actually run the Trek company, but for argument’s sake let’s say she did.) Trek isn’t philosophically devoted to bikes; if the fashion for expensive bicycles vanished Trek wouldn’t also vanish, not if it were well managed. The company would find another product to manufacture. The goal is to make money; that’s the policy. The bike is just product – it’s a means not an end.
If a gubernatorial candidate treats her economic policy as business treats its product, that is to say a means to an end, then we must ask what is the end? To be governor? To stay in office as long as the Wisconsin constitution allows? Is Burke saying in effect “Elect me and I’ll adopt any policy the public will endorse by their votes?” What kind of leadership is that?
If there was any doubt Burke is just another empty Democrat pantsuit, this should put it to rest. She has no ideas of her own, just a sense of entitlement and self-aggrandisement.
PackerBronco,
"I think Althouse could post a story about rescuers in Alaska searching for an albino lost in a whiteout and Crack could turn into a thread about slavery."
Like it's my fault racists think the most important issue in America's entire history is a niche item - which can only be imagined with the help of white supremacist racism working. I mean, no black would suggest that, beyond the odd Herman "I don't read" Cain, whites admire.
To suggest I'm behaving bizarrely - when faced with 400 years of white supremacy, racism, and kleptocracy - is to admit whites have no idea where or how they live.
Sorry, but such ignorance is shameful,...
(D)
MD,
"That's what you're here for, correct?"
But should I have to be, for there to be a response - amongst supposed anti-racists? File under:
Questions whites don't ask themselves,...
Senoor Packer Bronco, El Crack, que sólo tiene una cadena en su banjo ...
Crack: "I mean, no black would suggest that, beyond the odd Herman "I don't read" Cain, whites admire."
Hmmm, what is there to admire about Herman Cain?
I wonder....
BS Mathematics-Morehouse 1967
MS Computer Science- Purdue Univ 1971
VP at Pillsbury
Chairman and CEO-Godfathers Pizza (a Division he turned around)
Chairman of the Fed Reserve Bank of KC
CEO of the National Restaurant Association
Board of Directors: Nabisco, Whirlpool amongst others
Nope.
Nothing there to admire.
Nothing at all.
Just like all Benjamin Franklin did was build a rocking chair.
LOL
Taking a break from your poverty to enlighten us with your wisdom Crack?
Who is paying for your internet usage? Down payment from Obama on those reparations you will be getting any day now from whitey I assume?
I'm curious.
Now garage and madisonfella et al like the 1%?
Gahrie,
"Wait...how was that racist?"
It's one thing for you to be an ignorant racist fool.
It's a whole other thing to think I share the affliction,...
"madisonfella said...
The Republicans just now got caught copying others as well. This latest plan of theirs was plagiarized from 1939 Germany."
"garage mahal said...
Patrick Murray: "Just so you are aware, I will not report Republicans. Only Democrats."
First, Penguin clearly is saying that the Republican Party is behind this poll intimidation, which they clearly are not. Then of course garage jumps in with his stupidity saying they are in cahoots with Walker.
You guys are just morons.
Mary Burke has no plan. She's an idiot.
Jupiter,
"Crack,
I think you misunderstand the political significance of American negroes."
Jupiter,
I think you're being patronizing to someone more knowledgable than yourself.
I AM AN AMERICAN NEGRO, YOU MORON,...
@ Quaestor
"If a gubernatorial candidate treats her economic policy as business treats its product, that is to say a means to an end, then we must ask what is the end? To be governor? To stay in office as long as the Wisconsin constitution allows? Is Burke saying in effect “Elect me and I’ll adopt any policy the public will endorse by their votes?” What kind of leadership is that?"
Well said and bears repeating...
hombre,
"Wait. Justice dictates that commenters here should be punished for pointing out that this racist crybaby is a racist crybaby?
Who knew?"
Funny how racists always get the timeline wrong - no history, either of America or this blog, is allowed to intrude. This isn't me reacting to racists after years of abuse - I'm the racist now.
You'll all be taking the ahistorical to the grave,...
Drago,
"Nothing there to admire."
Booker T. Washington was white's most admired black, too, but he still ended up dying in disgrace for betraying blacks.
White's admiration for Toms means nothing,...
President-Mom-Jeans,
"Who is paying for your internet usage? Down payment from Obama on those reparations you will be getting any day now from whitey I assume?"
HR40 will be re-submitted in January.
Enjoy whooping it up during what little time you have left,...
Crack: "White's admiration for Toms means nothing,..."
LOL
The classic moron reaction when confronted with real accomplishment and real achievement.
It has always been thus.
But then again, this thread is about Mary Burke, so there isn't any real achievement or accomplishments to discuss, is there?
Drago,
"The classic moron reaction when confronted with real accomplishment and real achievement.
It has always been thus."
And your reaction to Obama being the President Of The United States is different?
You hypocritical moron,...
HR. 40 has no, zero, chance of coming out of committee. The sponsor of the bill has never moved it out of committee. It would never be passed by the House should he have a change of mind.
There is zero chance, none, of reparations being paid.
Because white supremacy.
Will not happen. So whoop it up with imaginary reparations right here on the imaginary Althouse plantation.
Because white supremacy.
Crack: "And your reaction to Obama being the President Of The United States is different?"
Yes.
obama achieved election as President.
Beyond that?
I don't see how Mary Burke recovers from this self-induced catastrophe. It's like a rockslide -- one little pebble gets dislodged and then a whole town gets buried.
The pebble was Eric Schnurer committing a fundamental sin of the writer's art. He was too in love with his own prose to junk it and re-write the same ideas in new way.
The rolling pebble turned into an avalanche when Mary Burke reacted to the stupid "self-plagiarism" charge by firing Schnurer, and by doing so effectively repudiating her own economic policy.
Now she looks weak and frivolous no matter what she does. If she adopts a new economic policy Burke is wide open to the charge that she's lightweight, a cipher who'll say and do anything for approval. If she tries to backtrack, i.e. re-adopt Schnurer's ideas in a re-composed form she looks like a panicky scaredy-cat, someone prone to rashness.
The independents hold the keys in this election. Burke has given those independents who were leaning her way a good reason to reconsider.
I predict from this point on her campaign will go uber-negative, now that Burke is precluded from campaigning on her diminished fund of positives.
Drago,
Study Booker T. Washington. He had waaaaay more accomplishments than Herman Cain (actually, he had more than all the blacks, whites admire, put together) and we still kicked his punk ass to the curb.
Whites self-justifying bullshit about accomplishment - when they killed, enslaved, stole, and swindled everything they got - is truly "rich."
No wonder you feel so good about it:
It's all just another white lie,...
But then again, this thread is about Mary Burke, so there isn't any real achievement or accomplishments to discuss, is there?
Evidently no longer. This is what happens when Crack and his schizoid personality disorder visits Althouse.
Say what whites want to hear - you're a great man.
Actually build a black town in defiance of whites claims we're lazy - and they burned it down.
The whole thing. Even strafing it with machine gun fire from the air. And the cops did nothing.
Because it was nicer than whites and they were jealous.
Fucking ahistorical losers,...
Crack with his HR 40 delusions is just like Garage and his any day now indictment for SECRET ROUTERS!
Burke is not ready for primetime. It will still be a close election due to the bitchtits of the world, but Walker wins by 3 percent.
"I AM AN AMERICAN NEGRO, YOU MORON,.."
Yes, I had assumed as much. Are you suggesting that your American negritude disproves my racist analysis? What I am trying to explain, Crackster, is that white people never get up in the morning and think, "Another day in White-ruled America". Which, it seems, you do. We have mostly had the luxury of considering race when we choose, and on the terms we choose, as long as we stay out of your neighborhoods, which is no great hardship. White privilege, it's called.
That is changing, and I don't think you are going to have much luck convincing the Mexicans to pay you reparations for their Mexican privilege. The Asians have so far been happy to play the minority card, but as I mentioned, they are starting to realize that racial preferences are designed to keep their kids out of their chosen college. And they will kill kittens with an icepick to get their kids into their chosen college.
I fear the racial balkanization that lies in our future will be hard on all of us, but of course, as always, women and minorities will be hardest hit.
The bike is just product – it’s a means not an end.
Shorter reply to your longer post: Agreed. Trek is a great Wisconsin company though, and a great world company. And.... I'm out for now. *looking up*
"madisonfella said...
Any surprise that Curious George is trying to play the "Those aren't real Republicans" card? About par for the course in his game."
Sorry moron, I said they weren't with the Republican party. You do know that when we post it's there for review, right?
You said "The Republicans just now got caught copying others as well. This latest plan of theirs was plagiarized from 1939 Germany."
This of course is not factual in any way, but it clearly intimates that those in question are the Republican Party.
"madisonfella said... Nevermind the fact that the group themselves say they are only going after Democrats and won't confront any Republicans."
Doesn't make them the Republican Party dumbass.
"George knows for a fact that this group has nothing at all to do with Republicans. And he knows this because, well, because he so desperately wants it to be true. And that is all that matters in his world."
LOL, See how it's changing from THE republicans to just Republicans?
"Speaking of something he so desperately want to be true, this theory that I am Penguin (or Inga, or Garage, or Frank, or Corky, or whoever else he comes up with this week) was totally destroyed the last time it was brought up. Obviously someone made quite an impression with little Georgie, but it ain't me and this obsession of his is getting a tad creepy. (Which, I'm sure, is the desired effect)" I never said Inga, or garage, or Frank, or anyone else. You are a Corky. And you are the Corky formerly known as Purple Penguin.
Here's a tell:
"madisonfella said...
Yup, it does. Thanks for making it clear that you support violence at the polls, regardless of which party is doing it."
There of course was nothing in that story that suggested that they would be violent. But it's so you to think it does.
"Enjoy whooping it up during what little time you have left"
Considering you are at least 20 years older than me, live in poverty, have murderers in your personal life, and a history of health problems, I think that you are the one who should be "whooping it up" with what little time you have left.
Have an extra helping of government cheese tonight, Crack.
Yolo!
Another Crack thread, I see. Bye.
"Michael K said...
Another Crack thread, I see. Bye."
What's that Michael? Did I hear you say, "There goes the neighborhood"?
Leaving the post when Crack is here is just another example of white flight. Gotta keep the comments suburban. White people.
It is turtles all the way down.
Blogger Michael K said...
Another Crack thread, I see. Bye.
Indeed. Threads with Crack are not infuriating or challenging; they're BORING.
When all you have is one note, all you make is noise and eventually no one bothers to listen.
When he used to go off on Mormons back when Romney was running, I thought Crack just had a blind spot about them. Now I realize he is just a plain old black bigot or he is playing one on this blog.
"is saying that the Republican Party is behind this poll intimidation, which they clearly are not."
Emu is right for once. Looking back at my own words it is obvious it should have said "Some Republicans" instead of "The". I'm sorry, my bad. Would edit that part if I could.
Crack isn't a black bigot. He's a psychiatric basket case in dire need of a thorazine vacation.
Blogger Quaestor said...
Crack isn't a black bigot. He's a psychiatric basket case in dire need of a thorazine vacation
It's a poorly designed AI program that completely fails the Turing Test due to limited range of its responses.
On his consulting firm's website, Eric Schurner describes himself as a
"recognized expert on government efficiency and reinvention."
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