Yeah, well sometimes you take people's posts at face value and assume that they're original and not plagiarized.  Usually if I see a post by a new-ish member that's in perfect English I'll do a google search to see if they've copy-pasted something before giving them merits, but we all make mistakes.

By the way, we have run into the issue of members cross-posting content they've written themselves on blogs and other sites.  Somebody ought to bring this thread to Lasky366's attention and at least give him a chance to clarify if the plagiarism accusations are false.  Either way, he should have provided a citation so that we wouldn't have to go through all of this, but my guess is that this stuff was plagiarized.