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Whatever, man. There's a reason the playoff drought is almost old enough to vote. If whining about others whining makes you feel better about the hire, good for you.

He also didn't get to choose his GM either when he got hired. He had to earn that right over time, they didn't just give him the keys to the kingdom (or however you want to word it) until he had a track record of success. I imagine a big part of it had to do with the teams kept hiring away all their assistants, coordinators, and front office people as well. This guy has never been a head coach in the NFL for so much power and authority to be handed to him.

Nothing like letting a first time NFL head coach pick his own boss. They really rolled out the red carpet for him. He's like Belichick (without the track record of winning).

Yeah, let's just scrap the whole concept because there are some areas of the country where it's not relevant. We shouldn't worry about border security either because it doesn't apply to Hawaii or many of the non border states. If all legislation had to apply to all states we wouldn't have most legislation and Congress would get even less done than they do now.

I know your example was a rectal extraction. You just happened to skew your numbers in a way to make it look like raises wages doesn't help people at the bottom of the economic ladder so I clarified it. If I have said raising the minimum wage $10 would only cause prices to go up $1 you would tell me that wasn't realistic.

Right. It's better to let the biggest company in the world (Walmart) pay many of its workers so little that the government has to subsidize them with welfare, food stamps, and heating oil subsidies right? $15 an hour may be too high for a minimum wage but it should be set at a high enough level where anyone working 40 hours a week earns enough to not qualify for government assistance. That should make conservatives happy because it means more people pulling the wagon and fewer people getting free rides. Wouldn't you rather have all these fast food workers, janitors, cashiers, and grocery shelf stockers paying into the system instead of taking way more out of it then they pay in? I know the next argument/excuse is that the welfare threshold just ends up getting raised whenever the minimum wage is raised by that's why coming up with a new living wage or whatever you want to call it should be done in conjunction with welfare reform.

Yes, it goes up somewhat, but not anywhere near the dollar for dollar basis you stipulated. Inflation does manage to take the before and after into account though. They track the CPI on a monthly basis. The data is all there. Raising the minimum wages does not lead to inflation on a dollar for dollar basis. Not even close. http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-inflation-rates/ https://www.dol.gov/whd/minwage/chart.htm

It was in my post that you replied to though. Right there.

Or I just really hate the idea of people teaching intelligent design in schools and trying to pass off their religious dogma as science. I like the cut of your jib, sir. I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.

I'd be more than happy to support every Christian bakery in the country and allow them to refuse service to those homosexual sinners in exchange for states like Kansas not being able to try to pass off intelligent design as science.

That's fine until one faith tries to legislate its morality onto others. When that happens I have an issue with it, regardless of whether that faith is Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Mormon, or whatever other faith is doing it.

I watch a little bit of everything, even Fox News, but haven't watched the Daily Show nearly as much since Jon Stewart left (Trevor Noah just isn't as funny in my opinion). I even listen to some of the right wing radio guys for a laugh, although it was much funnier while the muslim Kenyan was still in office. Hearing guys like Michael Savage cry wolf about how Obama has effectively turned the United States into the Soviet Union in one breath then berating him for being impotent and incompetent in the next breath. How a leader can be so incompetent, yet effective at turning the Republic into a socialist state is the epitome of talking out of both sides of your mouth.

I thought it was drawing Allah that was forbidden? Shows you how little I know about their version of voodoo. That's why I prefer to poke fun at Christianity. I grew up with that nonsense so I'm more familiar with it.

I can't access youtube at work but type George Carlin religion is bull **** into google and the video should come up.

I haven't read the Koran so I'm not familiar with their particular brand of crazy voodoo. If they have the same type of nonsense in their book though I'd be happy to ridicule it as well. The 72 virgins part sounds ridiculous (almost as if the upper crusties who wrote their book negotiated over the number rather than it be divinely inspired) and I don't care for the way some of them make women wear beekeeper suits. They go apeshit when you draw their imaginary friend which is pretty stupid as well but that's about all I know about them. I'm not afraid to ridicule them whatsoever though. The sooner mankind gets over this nonsense the sooner we can move forward as a species.