Another one of many erudite articles debunking global warming.

Just one more article from today!

Point is lying under oath, repeatedly.

This is only one of many articles. Most mainstream scientists have been saying for years that the theory didn’t make sense and didn’t match the facts in the real world. For the last two years temperatures have decreased and temperatures have not risen for several years before that. This is a pseudo crisis which threatens to ruin the global economy and the measures proposed will not work and will disproportionally effect the poor. The ethanol mandates alone have had a staggering effect on the world’s food supply. The global warming gurus are spinning as fast as they can but they have been caught falsifying data, lying about it and making up events to try and explain away their mistakes, such as record hot temperatures that never occurred. Time to get quietly off that bus. If we have global cooling and the next mini ice age as most mainstream scientists predict we will need the greenhouse gases as a blanket.

You are so right.

This is a real problem, here in the UK at least – not only do kids plagiarise work AT college, they plagiarise material for their applications to get into college in the first place! Downloading personal statements for college applications from the internet is so common, that the central office that oversees the applications process nationally is having to institute automatic checking of all personal statements. However, when students are found to have cheated on their applications after starting their courses, are they thrown out? No – so where is the incentive to do it the right way??

And even when students aren’t actually cheating, there is a worrying laziness. A good friend who’s an English Lit professor, tells me she has had to remove longer texts from the syllabus because most of the kids simply refuse to read them. Kids coming to college supposedly to further their interest in literature, refusing to follow their professors’ guidance in what constitutes great literature – because they can’t be bothered to spend a few hours reading. It defies belief. Where is the intellectual curiosity? The respect for knowledge?

I don’t think people can fully appreciate the ire that comes with the disdain for plagiarism unless someone has experienced it committed upon their own person, which is why people are so arrogant and dismissive when it comes to plagiarism. Plagiarism is the reason we have laws about it, about copyright and about trademarks. When someone creates an original work, it should be THEIRS.

Working in the arts community I can attest to this. People have plagiarized my work and when caught, it is NOT pretty. I’ve also caught others at plagiarism, and when THAT happens, it’s not pretty. In at least two writing and arts communities, I was known to catch people for stealing others’ works; in both instances, the people were reprimanded (both kicked off the sites) because the work entailed money exchanging hands. You can’t sit there and STEAL other peoples’ ideas and claim them as your own and make money off of it. It just doesn’t work that way in the real world.

I read a lot of comments about the parents above who don’t care if their kid cheats/plagiarizes. Well, what happens if their entire portfolio is made up of ideas and concepts stolen from other students, and their kid gets an art scholarship based on his/her portfolio? How does that NOT hurt the other kids trying to get the same scholarship? As well, what if it happened in the professional world? Lawsuits would be flying, and THEN OH NO! Said thief would be paying out the nose.

Cheating does no one any good. Do you own damned work, people! It’s the only way creativity advances. It stays mired in a recycling of ideas if people just skim off of other people.