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Which of course has absolutely <em>nothing</em> whatsoever to do with equal pay.

Oh, except for the fact that in the current market, you'll never know if you were hired because you really were the best for the job, or because your employer knew they could get away with underpaying you.

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<blockquote>Really, is it that hard to do a google search?</blockquote>

It is if you're Marsha Blackburn.

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Wasn't it Eric's?

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Did Marsha check with Eric and Lou before saying this? Cuz it could use some condescending chuckles.

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Like Bradlee Deen, for example.

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Lemme see if I get this: 1. You want to get the job because you're the most well-qualified person for the job. 2. You want to "make certain" that companies are going to move forward in that vein. 3. You want to "have the power and the control and the ability to make those decisions."

Is it just me, or is #3 just a wee bit on the unpossible side - because you don't make the decision to hire you?

Rosa Parks didn't get her bus seat on the basis of having the "power and the control and the ability" to sit in it. I seem to recall that she needed a bit of help from the Feds.

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Stupididty abhors a vacuum.

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<i>"I’ve always said that I didn’t want to be given a job because I was a female, I wanted it because I was the most well-qualified person for the job..."</i>

Everybody wants that. But imagine, Rep Blackburn, if you don't get that job <i>because you are female</i>. Or if the job you want is working for Herman Cain. Will the invisible hand of the market help you?

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"Shoots dicks and leaves."

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The invisible hand of the market will slip up your skirt, and ask if you really want the job.

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Note to Taboola: What can you do for my short, fat, bald, <i>and broke</i> friend? (I'm asking for a friend, obviously.)

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There you go with your stereotypes again.

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To be fair, if somebody had in fact confiscated all the guns in Germany before World War I, things might have turned out better. Not for Ferdinand, necessarily, but for a whole lot of other guys.

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The GOP seems to be pretty much focused on the well-being of anal-Americans.

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I have a Fakebook persona. He has no friends, no relatives, does nothing of interest, and I've forgotten where he lives. Pretty much like most Facebook friends, when you come down to it.

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"They don’t want the decisions made in Washington. They want to be able to have the power and the control and the ability to make those decisions for themselves."

someone needs to scream that in her face over and over next time she proposes any nonsense about abortion.

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