Hillary spreads lies on the campaign trail

Notice, Hillary has been saying "equal pay for women's work," not for same work, or equal effort, or same position--and that's not even the law. Female surgeons earn more than female pediatricians. Female Librarians earn higher salaries than female library clerks. Female McDonald managers earn more than female cashiers. Female Target and trans female execs who have their own private restrooms make more than female middle school teachers (who make a hefty $57/hour, btw). Female engineers earn more than female daycare workers to watch their children 15 hours a day. Do you see a theme? If there are female linemen and female demolition workers, they make more than male retail clerks and male truck drivers and male nurses. Hillary LIES. In most major metropolitan areas single, college educated women make more than their male peers. But her own staff do not have pay equity.

Equal pay day

Dumb and dumber. "The national observance of Equal Pay Day recognizes the wage gap between working women and men, and offers remedies to address pay inequity. Columbus Museum of Art and Women’s Fund of Central Ohio are partnering to present ‪#‎wageart‬, Equal Pay Day, a day-long event to make the gender income gap more visible and to position the role of art in generating awareness. Please note: Museum admission for the day will be adjusted for gender income inequality, $10.78 for adult admission for women, and evening admission is donation based, benefiting The Women’s Fund of Central Ohio."

Well, I certainly wouldn't attend something that charged by gender, and by the way, what if someone transitioning shows up. Will they ask for a birth certificate? DNA sample? Art is definitely in the eye of the beholder (or listener), and I know plenty of men who put too high prices on their terrible art, and it doesn't sell. Women do it, too. If a male silversmith spends 80 hours a week at his craft (with a wife who works for pay) and eventually sells something for a colossal price years later, and a female quilter who works her craft around the babies, and displays at the state fair occasionally, but gets barely enough to pay for materials, I don't call that inequity. It's art. My husband paints watercolors and there are many female water colorists who charge 6 times what he does and they get it.

National Equal Pay Day, April 9, declared

According to John Goodman in his Health Alert Letter:

A recent study shows. . ."no evidence that antidiscrimination policies have made a difference, including the actions of the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission (EEOC) and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). . .  In addition to years of schooling and test scores, men and women differ in the amount of work they do. Men are more likely to work full-time; and among full time workers, men work 8%-10% more hours than women.  Also, men typically accumulate more continuous work experience and therefore acquire higher productivity in the labor market.  The gender gap shrinks to only 3½ % when adjustments are made for work experience, career breaks and part-time work."

My favorite equal pay story: One time I asked my boss Jay Ladd why Bruce (a librarian) made more money than I did when we had the same years of experience, almost the same name, and were both science librarians. He said, "Because he asked for more."

Lilly Ledbetter Act--It's not about equal pay

The 1963 Law already is the equal pay act--this is about comparable worth. And it's about destroying what's left of our economy so you can be even more dependent on the federal government. Here's a discussion at the Independent Women's Forum. Personally, I'm not fond of podcasts, so if you'd rather read about it, go here.

What some people say

Some say Sarah Palin doesn’t have enough experience to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. Others say Obama has no experience to be the heartbeat of the presidency. She at least probably won’t make this mistake, having been in the executive office of our largest state. This was mentioned by Paul Feldman, a WSJ reader.

In his speech last week “he listed lots of “I will” statements but most of those things are prerogatives of the Congress, not the president.”

Maybe if he’d spent more time in the Senate and less on the road running to leave that job, he’d know that?

An Ohio Democrat, Kathy Dunn, says there’s no comparison between Hillary and Sarah. Agreed! Governor Palin got where she is without riding her husband’s coat tails, she’s not a lawyer, didn’t go to a private girl’s school, and wouldn’t have carpetbagged her way into office, as Hillary did in 2000 looking for an open Senate seat since there wasn‘t one in Arkansas.

Al Hubbard says that Americans are wiser than they are given credit.

“They seem to know that if you restrict supply and tax production, prices go up.”

But Al, that gives Washington more reasons to bail out the voters to build a bigger, more helpless base!

Ellen Goodman compared Bristol Palin to Jamie Lynn Spears and calls Sarah Palin a bridge to nowhere. If both teens had been pro-abortion and acted on those values, Goodman would have been applauding.

Does Ellen know Biden and Obama both voted for “the bridge to nowhere.” Governor Palin stopped them.


" ’I kissed a girl and I liked it;’ Then I went to Hell" is a church sign in Columbus referring to a tune by Katy Perry about lesbian love. Equality Ohio has identified 300 churches in Ohio that welcome gays. Must be a part of that whopping 8% of the population that belongs to Main Line protestant denominations. Nothing is killing Protestantism like the incessant pressure from liberal members to ordain and marry gays. My church welcomes gays too--and the divorced and shacking up, and the embezzlers and wife beaters, and the druggies and alcoholics, the gossips and snipers. God doesn’t grade on a curve, but gays will need to go elsewhere to marry. I’m sure there are ELCA pastors in Ohio who will violate their ordination oath, or whatever that is called--or do violence to the meaning of marriage in scripture. But it won’t happen at UALC (3 campuses, new service times).

Not even Bill Ayers, Obama’s mentor, used this excuse

Two men charged with the beating death of a homeless man with a baseball bat to the head repeatedly, say they “never meant any serious harm.” Contrast this lame excuse with Bill Ayers saying his bombing of the capital didn’t do enough (as reported in the New York Times on Sept. 11, 2001) “I wish we’d done more,” he complained.

84.7% of the U.S. population is covered by health insurance, which obviously is no guarantee that you’ll survive a trip to the hospital. 2,000,000 people acquire bacterial infections in U.S. hospitals each year, and 90,000 of those patients die as a result. (Seen in WSJ )

I see that Chicago children are boycotting their schools this week. A little help from a community organizer, I suspect, because usually children don't think these things up. What happened to all those millions that Bill Ayers poured into Obama’s career to look into the school problems in Chicago? Wasn’t anything corrected during Obama‘s leadership from 1995-1999 of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and sitting on the Board of CAC until 2001?

Equal pay for equal work? Is that tired canard coming up again? Yes, ladies when you also relocate as often as men, publish as much as men, join as many organizations, play as much golf (yuk) with your enemies and friends, and learn to negotiate your FIRST salary (on which all else builds), and don't stop out for 4 or 5 years, then we’ll talk equal work.

In March 2005, what about unequal pay among women workers of different ethnicity?: "A white woman with a bachelor's degree typically earned nearly $37,800 in 2003, compared with nearly $43,700 for a college-educated Asian woman and $41,100 for a college-educated black woman, according to data being released Monday by the Census Bureau. Hispanic women took home slightly less at $37,600 a year."

Did you hear that John Edwards is charging more now for speaking engagements than before the scandal. Well, he does have an ill wife and three frightened children to support. Speaking of multiple homes. . .

That tingly guy, Chris Matthews on August 10 (video) "called the question, “What has he done?”, a show-stopper. No one could point to a single effective action Obama has taken to cross the aisle, while everyone acknowledged that John McCain has taken actual risks to do so. David Brooks tells the room that Republican Senators and staffers insist that Hillary Clinton works across the aisle and keeps communication open, but Obama has never bothered to do that, and both Democrats and Republicans on the Hill agree on his arrogance." from Hot Air. So why is Obama and staff outraged to be the butt of do-nothing jokes at the Republican Convention?