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Equal pay day is the day of the year in which women catch up to men in earnings from the year before. This year Equal Pay Day is recognized on Tuesday, April 22nd. Currently in America white women working full time jobs make on average make only 77 cents to the males dollar. For minorities the disparity is even greater. African American women earn 63 cents per dollar while Hispanic women are making a mere 53 cents on the dollar.

At WWJV4.com Summer and I strongly believe that our nation needs to recognize this difference and work to correct it. In its recent Ledbetter v. Goodyear ruling the Supreme Court made it virtually impossible for women to fight against this pay discrimination.

This ruling imposed the unreasonable requirement that women discover pay discrimination and file suit within 180 days. Sadly Pay is almost always confidential and the effects of pay discrimination are generally incurred over a long period of time. Therefore this ruling effectively eliminates any possibility of a successful legal solution to pay discrimination.

This is why we are supporting The Fair Pay Restoration Act (S. 1843) which will return women’s ability to fight for fair pay. Please join us in supporting equal pay for women by contacting your Senators and spreading the word about this bill.

Thanks.
William and Summer
WWJV4.com

I found this list of 24 common misconceptions and creationist myths by PvM Panda’s Thumb where it was reposted from Michael Le Page at New Scientist. I highly recommend both for anyone interested in good science.

Shared misconceptions:

• Everything is an adaptation produced by natural selection
• Natural selection is the only means of evolution
• Natural selection leads to ever-greater complexity
• Evolution produces creatures perfectly adapted to their environment
• Evolution always promotes the survival of species
• It doesn’t matter if people do not understand evolution
• “Survival of the fittest” justifies “everyone for themselves”
• Evolution is limitlessly creative
• Evolution cannot explain traits such as homosexuality
• Creationism provides a coherent alternative to evolution

Creationist myths

• Evolution must be wrong because the Bible is inerrant
• Accepting evolution undermines morality
• Evolutionary theory leads to racism and genocide
• Religion and evolution are incompatible
• Half a wing is no use to anyone
• Evolutionary science is not predictive
• Evolution cannot be disproved so is not science
• Evolution is just so unlikely to produce complex life forms
• Evolution is an entirely random process
• Mutations can only destroy information, not create it
• Darwin is the ultimate authority on evolution
• The bacterial flagellum is irreducibly complex
• Yet more creationist misconceptions
• Evolution violates the second law of thermodynamics

I’ve taken some art history classes in college and of course art in high school but I will never understand art. The Huffington Post has this story about Aliza Schvarts, an art major from Yale, whose senior art project is sure to cause a huge uproar. Aliza Schvarts project involved artificially inseminating herself as often as possible while taking abortifacient drugs to induce miscarriages. Her art project includes both video and preserved blood from the miscarriages.

The goal in creating the art exhibition, Shvarts said, was to spark conversation and debate on the relationship between art and the human body. But her project has already provoked more than just debate, inciting, for instance, outcry at a forum for fellow senior art majors held last week. And when told about Shvarts’ project, students on both ends of the abortion debate have expressed shock — saying the project does everything from violate moral code to trivialize abortion.

But Shvarts insists her concept was not designed for “shock value.”

“I hope it inspires some sort of discourse,” Shvarts said. “Sure, some people will be upset with the message and will not agree with it, but it’s not the intention of the piece to scandalize anyone.”

For senior, abortion a medium for art, political discourse by Martine Powers - Yale Daily News

Like I said, I dont understand art.  I am sure that her exhibit will do exactly what Aliza Shvarts wants though, create discourse.  I personally have always felt that there is great value in challenging peoples opinions and beliefs in this fashon so I look forward to watching this play out.

While I sympathize with those who feel that this trivilizes the pain of an unwanted miscarriage I applaud Aliza Shvarts for the courage to make such a bold statement.  Hopefully we can all learn a little more about ourselves and our society through this.

The exhibit is open to the public from April 22nd to May 1st at the gallery of Holcombe T. Green Jr. Hall.  I’m sure by then everyone will know about this story so expect to hear more about this here.  If anyone has pictures I would be interested.  Thanks in advance and please feel free to leave comments.

A couple liberal blogs are reporting that one of the guys in an ad Hillary ran in Pennsylvania actually voted in NEW JERSEY! The impostor shows up around 20 seconds in and says “the good people of Pennsylvania deserve a lot better than what Barack Obama said”. Watch Clinton destroy the Democratic party with her lies and girl cooties.

I guess it is only fair to point out the ad never makes any untrue claims nor does it go into the guys history at all. Its just a short statement mixed in with several others. In his quote he doesn’t say anything untrue or deceptive and never implies that he is from Pennsylvania. I Should also point out that while he voted in New Jersey he lives in Pennsylvania now and will be voting in Pennsylvania this November.

So I guess there isn’t really much of a story here after all. Sorry to waste your time. I’ll just join in with the other anti-Hillary liberal blogs in attacking her for tearing apart the Democratic party. Pay no attention to our blatant hypocrisy as we do exactly the same thing ourselves. Can’t help wondering what the response would have been from these blogs if it had been an Obama ad in question.

William ~ WWJV4.com

By now everyone should be sick to death of hearing how we are winning in Iraq. After 5 years, 3 trillion dollars,and around a million casualties we are no closer to achieving anything resembling lasting peace in Iraq and the Republicans know it. We should have never taken our aim off of chasing terrorists through the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan to embark on a pointless campaign for oil and they know that too.

Now I have talked with enough blind and dumb as shit war supporters to never want to do so again. However on the plus side this exposure has led to me deciphering the “Republican Surge is Working Argument Flowchart” which I am sharing with you today. I have included the surge and two common arguments so you can see how it works, but its the same regardless of specifics. In fact I would say it applies to every argument you will ever have with a conservative.

Enjoy and feel free to use or modify this.