[Vision2020] Joseph Biden’s Foreign Policy Experience

[No Weatherman]

Negative, I am saying that when it involves plagiarism, where there's
one there's more.

Ask any academic, plagiarists are always repeat offenders and
comparing theft to eating, as you just did, is absurd.




On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:56, No Weatherman <no.weatherman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Let's see — he did it in college and he did it several years later on
>> the stump. He even modified facts concerning his family to accommodate
>> the deception. You think they're isolated instances and I think they
>> reflect a pattern. I say chronic, you say accident.
>
> Are you saying that a recurrence of only two makes a pattern?
>
> In that case, the two times that I have eaten veal in my life makes me
> a chronic veal eater, a veritable addict.
>
> Words have consensual meanings to facilitate understanding.  Should we
> just chuck accepted definitions out, as Jeff Harkins does?  I don't
> see where that would be very convenient for either party.
>
> Incidentally, Biden might be a chronic plagiarist, as Wikipedia lists
> several instances of plagiarism, not just two.
>