There are other factors which impact the exchange of skills or labor for compensation.  People who do dangerous jobs tend to make more than people who don’t regadless of gender.   But this is one of many reasons why the average man makes more per year than the average woman.  Men have alway been more likely to exchange risk (time, distance) for income, and there are a lot more of them doing it than women, even in the 21st century.  That alone is going to tip the averages.

So if equality is such a big deal, sans any other relevant real world factors, when is the equality party going to start mandating Occupational injury equality? If they can make me pay for mammograms, abortions, and birth control, why can’t they make women work more dangerous jobs as part of their quest to litigiate into existence wage parity with men?

You don’t need to feed your lawyer buddies (see also major donors) with complicated lawsuit bait, just mandate occupational equality and the wage thing will take care of itself.

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WMUR has posted some inside baseball on the tactics of the Shaheen Campaign now that Scott Brown is officially entering the fray.  Well, it’s not really inside baseball, more like store front window shopping for baseballs.  Anyone who walked by and looked in would have know what was going to be ‘for sale’ from Shaheen in 2014.

The first point [Mike] Vlacich [Shaheen’s campaign Manager] wants stressed is: Scott Brown is for Scott Brown.

“Scott Brown’s three-week listening tour has been long on tweeted selfies at Granite State landmarks and negative attacks against Jeanne Shaheen, but hasn’t included much about New Hampshire,” Vlacich wrote. 

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Fearless, these pissants ain’t.  Even as they declare themselves to support “diviersity” and they are the “Tolerant Brigade”, they turned on someone who actually showed “diversity” that contradicted their own heterodoxy with no tolerance at all.  Yes, as a company they can do what they want to and the First Amendment does not apply here.  However, I do not have to use the products of a company that gives into the Leftist mob mentality.  They wish to project and place politics into everything?  Screw them.

I can too.  I have just removed FireFox from my system and this is being written using the Avant browser and left the following on Mozilla feedback page on Sunday:

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I have long remarked on how the relying on property taxes keeps the total tax burden down because when you see the taxes you pay in a lump sum (or two lump sums) you are more likely to inquire as to why you are paying that much and to what end.  This ‘interest’ in the machinations of government is what keeps the total tax burden lower.

And while one-sixth of all taxes are property based, New Hampshire citizens still rank as one of the least taxed states in the nation.

According to Census Bureau data, New Hampshire collected $1,791 in taxes per person in 2013. Only Florida ($1,769) and Georgia ($1,781) were lower.

Massachusetts collected almost twice as much: $3,571.

Maine collected $2,924 per person while Vermont collected $4,594

Sales and income taxes remove transparency by funneling tens of millions to the state capitol by pinching every transaction.  The sums add up but on their own seem insignificant at the time.  It is just another line on the paycheck or at the bottom of the receipt.

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…at any moment now we should see outraged liberals unleash an avalanche of legislation at the state and federal level placing restrictions on heel length, how many sets of shoes you can own, nights out, boyfriends, arguments, drinking, and while we’re at it, the month of June.

HOUSTON (Reuters) — A Texas jury found a woman guilty on Tuesday of beating her boyfriend to death with a 5-1/2-inch spikeheeled stiletto shoe during an argument after a night out drinking in June. Prosecutors said Ana Trujillo, 45, stabbed University of Houston professor Stefan Andersson, 59, about two dozen times in the face and head with the shoe.

Wait….

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Update: see the bottom of the post.

Well, we may not like everyone politically but we DO want to give everyone a chance to talk to our readers and listeners directly and unvarnished by our bias if we are reduced to merely writing about them and their stances.  On GrokTALK! or on video, either works better than the written word.  I had reached out to the Innis campaign (US Congress, CD-1) quite some time ago when he had first got into the race (at the official NH GOP birthday in Exeter) but never heard back. Well, long term NH political operative Paul Collins is now Dan Innis’s campaign manager and sent out an eblast on 3/31 (reformatted, emphasis mine):

On 3/31/2014 3:47 PM, Paul Collins wrote:

Dear Skip,

Please allow me to give you a quick update on Dan’s campaign.  Since he announced that he was running for Congress Dan has outlined specific solutions to replace Obamacare with common sense health care reforms, fix our broken budget process and remove barriers to job creation that will unleash American entrepreneurs and help get our economy back on track.  The response to Dan’s issues oriented campaign has been terrific, with conservative Foster’s Daily Democrat newspaper proclaiming, “Here’s a Republican with a plan!” We are grateful for the positive feedback and Dan will be rolling out additional solutions on energy, education and infrastructure in the near future. Stay tuned!

Along with focusing on the issues Granite Staters care about, Dan is committed to running a grassroots campaign that will allow him to personally meet and hear from voters in every corner of our district….

So, seeing that [mine] bolded part, I figured that I’d try again, so I emailed Paul back: 

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Sure, what happened to Brendan Eich was a high tech lynching for a religious belief  in traditional marriage – and simply believing what President Obama held at the time.  But what we saw was the anti-Christian / Jewish / Muslim veneer overlaid on what many are seeing as the Left, having believed it has captured all of the ramparts of the Culture Castle, move from one phase to a more dark one: we no longer need to show and act as being tolerant, we own the place.  “Sore winners”, as some are saying, doesn’t come close – “vengeful winners” seems to be apt.  This post from RedState puts it well (emphasis mine):

…The people morally invested in overturning California’s Proposition 8 are no longer willing to work through peaceable means. So if you’re one of the Neo-Fascist jerks who just knee-capped the career of Javascript Inventor, Brandon Eich, you just form up the lynch mob and assassinate your foes using the duplicitous means called Soft Totalitarianism by some.

So what does this Soft Totalitarianism really mean? Funny you asked, the tactics employed by the compassionate champions of alternative lifestyles employed by the Mozilla and the vivacious dating site OKCupidHimmler are explained quite nicely below.

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Brian Rapp is the President of IAFF Local 1571, serves on the Claremont School Board, NH Healthtrust Board of Dir. , and gets slimy tweets from all the best left-wing hypocrites in New Hampshire.  So when he accuses someone else of making “deaths” or ‘Injuries’ political…

You’d be right to assume that he did it first…

Here’s how it started.  A Republican candidate tweets thoughts and prayers to victims and families from Fort Hood.  Nothing unusual about that.  It’s just out there.  But Rapp can’t leave it alone…

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How about a little credit everyone.

I believe I was the first one to label Superior Court Judge John Lewis as “Screwy Lewis”.

Having dealt with this arrogant, self-important, over-educated progressive judge for a number of years it is wholeheartedly rewarding to have the general public catch a glimpse of what his “court room” was like.

Lewis “accepted” a reprimand from the NH court powers-that-be and retired early. (Laugh track here.)

Screwy Lewis was the guy who tried to make sure that Obama had plenty of college student voters in September of 2012 when he signed on to a NH League of Liberal Women Voters petition to create “mobile domiciled voters” and then dragged the case out past the election – where it still hangs.

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North Carolina ran a cross check of registered voters in their state and came up with some startling conclusions.  Over 155,000.00 registerd voters appear as registered in any of the dozens of other states that participated.  Dead voters, non-resident voters, voters who climb on rocks, fat voters, skinny voters, even voters with chickenpocks….You name it.  They had it.

The evidence suggests that the voter rolls are polluted and need to be cleaned up to ensure that folks in the towns, cities, and counties of that state know that the people voting have the skin in the game.  That their elections are clean and represent the will of the people who live there.

Democrats are looking at this and saying, doesn’t prove anything.  There is no vote fraud–

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