Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
Off topic, but for all the brouhaha about water-boarding at Gitmo, there were plenty of us that experienced it first hand at SERE. Never heard that mentioned in the press.
TV News reported that Obama’s average female pay was 6000 less than average male. McCain’s average female pay was 2500 more than average male.
Kind of like the Clinton cabinet, which looked like a country club luncheon (all white, a jew, a female, and a black so you can’t get in legal trouble) while Bush’s cabinet is much more diverse.
Yes, and we saw the difference between theory and practice in the Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, etc, etc, etc.
four years in a monastery on the Hudson will do that to you as well.
Seems to me it all has more to do with McCain’s seniority in the Senate if you ask me.
It goes to the old saw, “I can’t hear what you’re saying because what you’re doing is shouting so loud!”
Skippy… sorry, but I don’t see how one’s seniority explains why one treats women equally in job status and pay and another doesn’t. Perhaps Obama’s infrequent visits to the Hill prevent him from devoting needed attention to his Senate staff?
Two weeks Lex?
There’s obviously a tale out there somewhere, in deep cover, anxiously awaiting it’s chance to set the record as to why His Lexness had to go back for a second week of fun in the sun…
Let me guess – all that clear mountain air? Or was it the ever – so – friendly tour guides?
Maybe it’s a sample-size issue. How big are senatorial staffs anyway?
Also, perhaps Obamanon didn’t have as many qualified female applicants and hired his staff based on. . .gasp. . .suitability for the position.
To wit: USNA has been hovering between 10 and 20% female for years. Does that mean sexism is rife in Bancroft Hall? Wait. . .don’t answer that. . .
McCain gets a bigger office budget as a more senior Senator if memory serves……………..
Plus Congress does not have to abide by labor law.
Maybe Obama’s a secret meritocrat? A youthful rebellion from his Chicago roots?
Or, like most of the leftist persuasion that I know, he wants equality only when he’s not fitting the bill.
Skippy,
Obama is wrong on this one. Stop blindly defending him, that is beneath you and out of character.
Plus Congress does not have to abide by labor law.
Then perhaps certain members of it ought not get all preachy and pontifical about it, lest it be pointed out that they practice not what they preach.
Is four years of excuse making what we can expect from this guy and his loyal minions?
Yeah, Lex. 2 weeks at SERE???
Had so much fun you wanted to do it again?
Do tell…
Wasn’t it one week in the classroom and one week in the “lab”?
I may misremember. It was a long time ago, and I have grown old.
Sit in people’s pozish. Show respects to the sergeant majority!
Lex,
You were a special hard case. They let you stay in the cage and extra 3 days…LOL
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“McCain gets a bigger office budget as a more senior Senator if memory serves……………..”
The issue is not the amount of pay offered, it’s the percentage difference between men’s and women’s pay on the Senator’s staff.
In practice, the different budgets available to each senator should show up in the total size of each one’s staff, not in a difference between men’s and women’s pay in those staffs.
“Plus Congress does not have to abide by labor law.”
That likely does apply.
Never said it was right-but I would like to see the macro number of the total budget so one has a bench mark to judge against.
By all means investigate the staff pay according to sex. We can all appreciate the long term implications of that. And while you’re at it, find out who uses more gas and which campaign leads in methane production.