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dethslayer666 posted:Major controversy beset Biden's candidacy, beginning on September 12, 1987 with high-profile articles in The New York Times and The Des Moines Register. Biden was accused of plagiarizing a speech by Neil Kinnock, leader of the British Labour Party. Well played.
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comes along bort posted:A lot of schools these days you can just cry in front of the prof and department chair and get your mom to call up angry a few times and they'll more often than not just let you redo the assignment. Anecdotal, but: when this would happen to me as a TA (at a large state school FWIW), I would just say "sorry sir/ma'am, I'm not permitted to discuss any aspect of your child's academic situation with you because of FERPA," which is not 100% true but none of them ever called my bluff. I had no problem giving zeros on major assignments or even failing them for the course for particularly egregious offenses.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:Unless standards have really disintegrated, it is an automatic F. Oh don't get me wrong, at my university, police is automatic F for the assignment in question at a minimum, with referral and further action at instructor's discretion, but even of those I've referred to the Dean(s) I've never heard of any getting expelled. In all likelyhood, I was the first to bother filling out the appropriate forms and putting a black mark on those students' records, so who knows how many times before they'd skated on "just" a failed assignment. comes along bort posted:A lot of schools these days you can just cry in front of the prof and department chair and get your mom to call up angry a few times and they'll more often than not just let you redo the assignment. I won't deny this is a real and growing problem, but thankfully my department is populated by people who take higher education seriously and we don't tolerate that sort of poo poo. Also, we hate the administration as it's been infected by non-academics who've tried the whole "run the school like a business!" bullshit (resulting, in other things, in the closing of the French, Italian, Russian, Theater, and Classics departments for supposed budget reasons while the loving football team prepares for a new stadium), and so take any opportunity to remind those pricks that real academics still exist here. This is growing tangential to Rand Paul, as much as I like talking about it, so I'll stop now.
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Today in Joe Biden calling people.quote:Just minutes after the election returns arrived in Boston Tuesday night, Martin Walsh’s cellphone rang. It was the vice president of the United States, Joseph R. Biden, offering his congratulations.
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Nov 6, 2013 23:11
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I think if the VP calls you and says you're Mayor of Boston, Boston should let you be mayor for one day. It's only fair.
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Ronald McReagan posted:Anecdotal, but: when this would happen to me as a TA (at a large state school FWIW), I would just say "sorry sir/ma'am, I'm not permitted to discuss any aspect of your child's academic situation with you because of FERPA," which is not 100% true but none of them ever called my bluff. I had no problem giving zeros on major assignments or even failing them for the course for particularly egregious offenses. You know who else would have no problem giving out zeroes and Fs on major assignments? Professor Rand Paul. quote:But Paul’s repentant tone ended there. In an interview with National Review Online on Capitol Hill, Paul was furious, especially with the press coverage of the allegations. “It annoys the hell out of me,” Paul said. “I feel like if I could just go to detention after school for a couple days, then everything would be okay. But do I have to be in detention for the rest of my career?” That's from an article by Robert Costa Who Is Actually Doing Good Reporting, so Rand is complaining to National Review about bad journalism. Maybe Rand can apply for a Professorship at Howard University and teach a journalism course about how reporters have failed to mention for the last fifty years that the Republican Party freed the slaves.
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Nov 7, 2013 01:49
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Haha, Rand is losing his cool over this. Want to capitalize on this, Cruz?
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I hope these things just keep trickling out at a clip of one or two a week for the next 12 months. Reminds me of that set of pictures where the guy kept slightly altering another dude's face in his facebook pictures and he was just apoplectic by the end of it.
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Also today in Joe Biden calling people.quote:Despite efforts by the political advocacy group Americans for Prosperity to influence the outcome of Tuesday’s election in Coralville [Iowa], three incumbent candidates were elected to another term. Basically, if Joe Biden didn't call you last night, you're kind of a loser. Sorry guys!
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Joementum posted:Basically, if Joe Biden didn't call you last night, you're kind of a loser. Sorry guys! What if Joe tried to call you, but got the wrong guy?
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Nov 7, 2013 04:59
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Joe Biden should start calling one random person every night just to chat for a few minutes. That is pretty much the best thing for him to do.
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I would love to just shoot the poo poo with Joe Biden one night.
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The Washington Times cancelled Rand Paul's column due to the plagiarism charge, leading to the question, "Wow, if your column is too lovely for the Washington Times, where do you go?" The answer is obvious.quote:Breitbart News Network is pleased to announce that it will be the new home of Kentucky Senator Rand Paul's editorial column. Welcome home, Randy.
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Nov 7, 2013 12:51
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Why the gently caress would Rand Paul alienate, of all places, National Review. Place could barely be better suited for the guy. Bill Buckley is rolling over in his pit.
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Sorry if I gave that impression with sloppy phrasing. Rand was complaining to National Review of bad journalism by (mostly) BuzzFeed.
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Ah, okay. The crusade against "haters" continues, then.
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Hillary got the endorsement of MN Governor Mark Dayton today. He endorsed her for president back in 2005 too, he makes sure to get his press releases out early.
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Robert Costa Who Is Actually Doing Good Reporting gets a scoop from former NJ Gov Tom Kean Sr on his way out the door at NRO.quote:For the moment, Kean believes New Hampshire may be at the top of the list for Christie’s political team. “The talk, frankly, around the Christie group is that New Hampshire is our state, but it’s too early to talk about a firewall,” he says. “Chris just won reelection, he’s popular, and there is a sense he would be able to compete everywhere.” Ah yes, the New Hampshire strategy. 100% of the times it works none of the times.
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Silly Joementum, Christie's got the 2016 election triangulated already.
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Joe Biden called the wrong Marty Walsh to congratulate him on becoming the Mayor of Boston. So then he called another number and left a voicemail. Well, guess what kiddos....quote:Now, a HuffPost reader named Toni has come forward to say that she too got a call from Biden Tuesday night, congratulating her on becoming mayor. There's a recording at the link, in case you want to hear the Vice President of the United States say, "holler man".
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This is exactly like that Oprah show. "You get to be mayor! YOU get to be mayor! EVERYBODY GETS TO BE MAYOR!"
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Joementum posted:
Thought this was a summary of the general tone of his message and was pleasantly surprised to find that he actually left a voicemail with the words "holler man."
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Rick Perry is visiting Iowa tonight and Chuck Grassley is gettin' sassy with his twitter trolls.
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Joementum posted:Joe Biden called the wrong Marty Walsh to congratulate him on becoming the Mayor of Boston. So then he called another number and left a voicemail. Well, guess what kiddos.... Did Biden ever actually reach the mayor-elect or is he still dialing every number in Boston trying to congratulate him?
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Joementum posted:Joe Biden called the wrong Marty Walsh to congratulate him on becoming the Mayor of Boston. So then he called another number and left a voicemail. Well, guess what kiddos.... Can we please make "Joe Biden Vice President for life" the 28th Amendment?
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Joementum posted:Joe Biden called the wrong Marty Walsh to congratulate him on becoming the Mayor of Boston. So then he called another number and left a voicemail. Well, guess what kiddos.... 
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Joementum posted:Ah yes, the New Hampshire strategy. 100% of the times it works none of the times.
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PrBacterio posted:I can sort of see this happening once, but after that first time why didn't he just have a staffer find out the correct number for him? Folks, it's because it's a big loving deal that he literally do it himself. Literally.
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DynamicSloth posted:Didn't it work for McCain fairly well, the second time he tried it that is? McCain's surprise win over Huckabee in South Carolina is what made him the frontrunner.
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You still have to play in Iowa*, but I was being too hard on Christie because there's nothing in that piece that indicates he won't play. He'll have to at least get his toes wet out there though. * May not apply in years when Tom Harkin is running
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comes along bort posted:McCain's surprise win over Huckabee in South Carolina is what made him the frontrunner. Joementum posted:You still have to play in Iowa*, but I was being too hard on Christie because there's nothing in that piece that indicates he won't play. He'll have to at least get his toes wet out there though. McCain didn't play in Iowa he just did surprisingly well for a guy who avoided the state like the plague.
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Joementum posted:Rick Perry is visiting Iowa tonight and Chuck Grassley is gettin' sassy with his twitter trolls. Grassley is going to get Perry nice and drunk/stoned?
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DynamicSloth posted:McCain didn't play in Iowa he just did surprisingly well for a guy who avoided the state like the plague. He spent equal to Huckabee in the state ~$1.5m and visited it, this just got obscured because the bigger story was Romney dumping his personal fortune in the cornfields and wiping out.
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DynamicSloth posted:Yeah but he had to bet everything on New Hampshire to even get to SC. Obviously no one wraps up the nomination by winning only New Hampshire. In addition to what Joementum said, he spent a lot of time and money in Michigan and South Carolina while working New Hampshire to blunt Romney and Huckabee's impact repsectively. It wasn't a total hail mary.
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Joementum posted:Robert Costa Who Is Actually Doing Good Reporting gets a scoop from former NJ Gov Tom Kean Sr on his way out the door at NRO. Not sure the source here is the greatest. There's a lot of weird history between Kean and Christie; Christie did get his starts as a kid on Kean's campaigns, and Kean is something of a mentor, but Kean's definitely not an inner circle guy. Christie just supported a failed coup attempt in the Republican state senate leadership on Tom Kean Jr. the other day, actually.
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Yeah, now there's talk that Kean could throw a wrench into the Christie/Norcross alliance too, that could screw up Christie's bipartisan message bigtime. FYI, Kean is probably the head of the pack now for 2017 Governor contenders, I'd say it's 50/50 him or the D field.
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Joementum posted:You still have to play in Iowa*, but I was being too hard on Christie because there's nothing in that piece that indicates he won't play. He'll have to at least get his toes wet out there though. I sort of worry that if Christie spends too much time at Iowa fairgrounds or dinners or whatever, someone will try various fat-shaming hits when he does the usual corn-dog photo op or whatever.
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Stormagetiton posted:I sort of worry that if Christie spends too much time at Iowa fairgrounds or dinners or whatever, someone will try various fat-shaming hits when he does the usual corn-dog photo op or whatever. That was a given.
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