Guest Post by Rob in Nova Scotia
Just need the purge the system. It is my morning routine after all.
Yesterday was one of those days when everything changes. I hadn’t read this article or followed this thread until I got an email. At first I was not really that upset. Made jokes and tried to make light of things. I suppose in part because I thought ole Justin would come clean. Colour me crazy but even now at my age I still hope that people will do the right thing..
He didn’t.
Then I re-read the bit where he threatened xrugger. The more I thought about it the more pissed off I got.
Here I was posting links to cats and graves I dug in a frozen field.
And there is my buddy xrugger being threatened with a broken jaw.
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At any rate. I decided to post some claims to the links provided by Yo. Now I wish I had just dropped it right there. That Bit I wrote called High Hopes almost didn’t get posted. I had worked on that for days trying to make it okay. It wasn’t great like some of the stuff written around here.
I cringe at bits now when I read it again. This makes it more strange that someone took the time to lift my stuff. Still it was great to have it put at the top of the page for a couple of days. Maybe Admin knew I had worked hard on it and figured it would be a good gesture to give me an encouraging push to help me along my way.. And there it was.
For just a few days I was on cloud nine.
Long ago when I was caught up in the machine of news because of what I knew a reporter interviewing me explained what he has doing this way.
“Just feeding the goat for 50 bucks a story”
I should not have done that interview. It was a mistake and now to me an obvious waste of time…
It is inherent that I have a jaded view on Journalists and the state of Journalism in general. This I say as a nobody from the boondocks with a Brother who used to be part of that machine writing words for pennies on the dollar. And yet here I am doing it for free. Crazy..
So off I go to post claims of plagiarism. Figured it would be straight forward and folks would care. I’d post to comments of links provided and await moderation. Moderation. Then go back an hour later and see that it had been flushed down the memory hole.
Probably not a good idea to get americanthinker involved. They hadn’t posted Justin’s bit yet. But they have posted stuff from him in past. In my email I made it clear that I knew this. I wasn’t being rude just direct. I just wanted them to know that it would be better if they didn’t post this article if it was sent to them as ole Justin has done in the past
Anyways the editor there decided it nice to email me back. He wasn’t nice.
He told me to take it up with him, Justin. Which I have..
The editor called me Skippy. Told me to get on my high horse and get out of town.
Maybe I will.
So it is off to the shop tonight to do some painting and plan my next project.
Maybe instead of writing more about High Hopes I will build a high horse instead.
I’m lost here.
When did this take place? Who is Justin?
FWIW the other day I was reading something someone wrote here on a comment thread and as I’m reading it I’m thinking “That’s great! I really like that.” and when I got to the end there was an attribution to a post I made a couple of years ago.
I learned a couple of things from that. Someone liked what I had to say enough to remember it. I still agree with my former self, at least on that topic. And it sure is nice to be cited when you’ve put things a certain way even if you’ve forgotten what you’d said.
Sorry about your words being stolen like that.
Justin O. Smith posted two articles in the last week. The second one was almost entirely plagiarized from xrugger and RinS.
here is the link to thread.
I was away for a few days and missed it, caught up now and very sorry for both of you, writers I respect and admire.
I added this to his last reply on the other thread, in case he misses it. If he ever comes back.
Response to Justin O’copybook-
It takes a special kind of impudent audacity to be caught red-handed like this and try to cling to the claim that it is “purely coincidental”.
This is outright intellectual theft and all that it reveals is an equal measure of cognitive emptiness paired with profligate immorality, something very few people are able to manage with the adroitness you’ve displayed.
You shameless bitch. Come on up to NH and I’ll break your typing finger and stuff it up your own ass for good measure.
“From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be rememberèd—
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us…”
William Shakespeare
Henry V, in Act IV Scene iii
AND THAT’S HOW IT’S DONE, POSEUR.
I appreciate your words. Much respect for you. Man I should read more Shakespeare.
That was a great piece of prose. Much thanks to you. Hopefully somewhere William can be glad as well…..
Cheers
Rt
p.s.
gotta add this.. typing finger, nice touch Scrabble. That was awesome!
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Oh lookie here at Justin hard at work on his next piece..
Once years ago in the late 80’s, before the Inter became a Thing I read an article in the Boston Globe, by a Globe reporter, (yes Virginia there was a time, long ago, I read the Globe), several days later I was in Florida and I read the very same article, word for word in the Orlando Sentinel, only this time it had a local reporter’s name in the bye line. Heck Mike Barnicle made a career out of plagiarism and stories branded as news made out of whole cloth.
Rob,
If I’m not mistaken you submitted the discovery to the editor at AmericanThinker.com?
What I find so disappointing, and ironic, is that an online forum so named would have such a cavalier attitude towards plagiarism.
Compare the response of the editor who called you “Skippy” with Hardscrabble’s above (and Admin’s on the other thread). We’re in the right place.
I did indeed. And you are right.
Hopefully, and there is that word again, we can all gather for a beer in a Great Place.
Some day and somewhere.
Been a crazy couple of days. I write about a cat dying and then Stucky posts what is to me a great lesson of what needs to be important in life. Gotta say it is wonderful that Scrabble considers me a writer. I feel bad now that I have been mean to him in the past. I won’t be anymore…
It is a shame to see an editor so trite about integrity. Still that is the way it is these days. Truth or consequence matter least in a world where character has been devalued to so little.
I really should do more when writing. I have tried to be a good student. Watched all you guys post what you will. My writing has changed but most times I leave the conclusion to conjecture. There is a reason for this that I now realize.
I am proud to be a dirt person. I am the Son and Grand-Sons of dirt farmers since time began.
When I was in Scotland at Callanish I stood among rocks placed by Men from a Stone Age. The people who have made it their life studying those relics are not even sure when they were placed. Best guess is 3000 BC. That is a long time ago. Standing among those stone one cannot help but be in awe of what they accomplished without the conveniences of the modern day. It likely didn’t help them feed their families. They didn’t have to do it. Still they did.
Maybe that is what this place is.
The Stones were a monument to them.
Who knows this place might one day be seen as a monument to us.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=j62MZSaLRLw
Brothers in Arms and Dire Straits
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Those stones are refered to as A Menhir in the language of the time.
A most correct name for a Standing Rock.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menhir
When I dug that grave for my cat I decided to honour her with a monument as well. Now my grief does not compare to Stucky. I don’t want to equate my experience in any way to what he has just been thru. However I did watch for the first time the life drain away naturally from something that was once living.
I am getting a bit off track with this ramble but as it is and as it was. Weird thing hope. I have struggled my whole life with the illogic of it. Now realize it is from hope that springs the conjecture that frames my existence.
A seven pound cat taught me all that…
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But yeah… We are in the right place. Disagree we might, shitpost each other by times.
But when the chips are down we have each got the other backs.
This is a place of Men and Women, Mehir.
Made of stone and built to last..
Robert.
Like HSF that was a bit cryptic till his full name came up. I f he is vain enough to show up here I’ll take him on. Few can out last me in a marathon flaming war.
BTW, how are you doing on that Coal Mine story.
Well it is in flux. I have to convince myself that it is worthwhile to do. I am getting there. The outline is variously in my head and in notes I keep. I am going to get thru the spring and see what happens next. It is looking like it is now in rear view mirror. But ya just never know. To do it right and justice the subject will need to be explored in third person. Not be about me..
For years it was a hot stove I couldn’t help but touch and get burned. These days though I can sit aside safely and warm myself in the glow of the fire. Weird Cat I am. Wife thinks I fret too much about integrity. Maybe I do. Not sure why as I haven’t always been a good boy. Still I am learning that carrying a grudge only leads to a chip on the shoulder. And yeah it does get heavy. I have fell a few times carrying that cross. Still I am in good company.
Christ fell seven times carrying his……
Hopefully the book gets done at some point but it will happen when it happens. Funny thing is the bit I wrote above or parts of it will likely be in book.
Maybe this too!
Anyways thanks for your support.
Rob.
I think its better to err on the side of fret too much about integrity and let our wives tell us than for me to tell me I fret too much about it.
“Wife thinks I fret too much about integrity.” If you’re going to spend time worrying about something, that’s not a bad thing to worry about
The Lord said that the laborer is due his pay…(Luke 10:7). Mr Xrugger and Mr RinS just asked for some credit for their labor, an honest request; and Mr Smith was shown to be a thief and a liar (as things stand), thank you Mr Admin. Mr Smith has an unfulfilled obligation and we will find out if he is a remiss gentleman or a common cur.
I love this place.