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Omnibit Trivia 2-1-14 by William W. Lawrence Sr.
Alaskans are among the last to eat hardtack, the old sea ration, as a significant part of their diet. Interbake Foods of Richmond, Va. makes just about all of it from them.
They are also the ones who bake the Girl Scout cookies.
About 181 million Americans, which is about three quarters of all U.S. adults, are expected to watch Super Bowl XLVIII tomorrow reports eMarketer.com.
Each is expected to spend $68.27 on Super Bowl related items the vast majority of which will be for food and drink. However, 8 percent expect to buy team apparel and 6 percent decorations and 7 percent a brand new TV.
President Obama in his State of the Union speech, Tuesday, demanded that businesses pay women the same they do men claiming that in the private sector women get 77 cents for every dollar given a man.
It’s a distortion, of course, and a seriously dishonest one as women get paid about the same for the same work and experience, and the cause of the gap is mostly due to life choices.
There are exceptions, however, were true sex discrimination occurs and one of those exceptions is, well, the Obama White House.
The Washington Times has discovered that the median salary for a female staffer there is $60,000 compared to $71,000 for a male.
House Minority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD5) was confronted with this by Brietbart News and asked if he thinks Obama should pay his female staffers equally to any equal work done by men.
“Well, of course,” he said.
We join Congressman Hoyer’s cry of outrage and demand that Obama begins treating women fairly! What is he? Some kind of a Muslim?
By the way, former White House communication director Anita Dunn has said that Obama White House fits “all of the classic legal requirements for a genuinely hostile workplace to women.”