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Noticing that politicians of all stripes tend to play kick the can with an issue and never really do anything about it until very late in the game? Noting that a long-term issue that is finally being remedied is not exactly an unexpected event? I had to write position papers on this stuff nearly 30 years ago when I worked in DC.

Trump has been more than happy to use Tomahawks, just like his predecessors, but unlike them, he has - belatedly - at least done something to increase production. He's not exactly alone in that, either; other NATO/allied countries have also woken up to the fact that they need to substantially boost their munitions supplies in order to be ready for any current/pending conflict.

If nothing else, Ukraine showed Western militaries that the can could not be kicked much further.

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Lexis and K9 have both been passed over by Chicken.

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And just in time for Passover!

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"Biden did it so I'm glad trump extended it too!"

Cool man

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It's been around for nearly 50 years. It has been authorized and reauthorized by presidents from both parties and by Congresses controlled by both parties. It was passed by Carter, and in recent years has been reauthorized by Bush, Obama, and Biden. If you voted for any of those guys as president, or anyone in Congress who voted in favor of reauthorization, guess what you voted for? FISA. You got what you wanted.

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If you really believe that becoming an NFL head coach doesn't necessarily mean that you're any good at coaching football, we will have to agree to disagree.

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Hue Jackson: NFL win percent .205 (including two seasons where he went a combined 1-31; i.e., literally anyone in the world could only do one loss worse). His college win percentage wasn't a whole lot better at .364.

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Also your idea that Mike Tomlin losing in the first round of the playoffs would rub off on the Georgia program like some sort of cooties or osmosis is also interesting.[

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If you re-read what I originally wrote, I stated that we have been doing quite well at losing in the first round on our own lately, we don't need his help to do that, and I hoped that we weren't bringing him in to teach us how to do it better.

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Any former NFL coach would bring a lot of value to the program

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Rich Kotite
Hue Jackson
Art Shell
Matt Eberflus

Oh yeah, there's a ton of value right there, and that's by no means an exhaustive list.

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Being an NFL head coach means you've reached the very top of your profession.

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That still doesn't mean that you're any good. Plenty of hacks end up in top positions - they just don't produce quality results.

As for Tomlin - the Steelers fans weren't chanting "Fire Tomlin" for two years because they were happy about his inability to win a playoff game for basically the last decade.

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Any former NFL coach would bring a lot of value to the program, let alone one who's done it for 20 years and won two Super Bowls.

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So, if you could get one who has been in 12 Super Bowls and won 8, you'd have an absolute powerhouse hire, right? Except Bill Belichick isn't exactly lighting it up at UNC.

Not sure why we'd need/want Tomlin. Lately, we've had his patented lose-in-the-first-round-of-the-playoffs move down pretty well. Though I guess our streak is only two years, and his is six, so maybe we're looking for tips on how to improve ours?

I hope not.

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Do we really even need a basketball team? I’m being serious.

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Can anyone confirm that we actually have one?

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Judgement day!

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Let's hope not. That uh...didn't end well.

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Iraq militias are shooting our planes and bombing the embassy...which is shocking because we already liberated them...neocon logic says they should like us now

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You do realize that Iraq is split between Sunni and Shiite, right? The Shiites side with Iran, but were happy when Saddam was ousted and ISIS was broken. The Iraqi Sunnis hate Iran.

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The point was that in Islam he is at least recognized as a prophet, in Judaism he is nothing.

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What of it? Jesus post-dates Judaism, but pre-dates Islam. It makes sense that the later-founded religion would acknowledge him, while the earlier-founded one would not. Further, as regards Judaism, Christ was a heretic. Catholicism, Greek Orthodoxy, and Russian Orthodoxy have not exactly embraced John Calvin, Martin Luther, or any of the Protestant thinkers or theology, whom they all deem as heretical. Indeed, they even fought a whole series of very bloody wars over it before basically agreeing to disagree. Protestants and Catholics were still engaged in organized killing of each other in Northern Ireland until very recently. Beyond that, Catholicism and Protestantism barely recognize Greek/Russian Orthodoxy at all - and vice versa, and few, if any, major Christian sects recognize anything to do with Mormonism.

Later religions build upon earlier ones, not the other way around. Just like Judaism draws heavily from various Mesopotamian religions, but they did not incorporate the Jewish faith into theirs, since they already existed before Judaism.

LA used to have two weathermen with the porn-stariest names ever: Johnny Mountain and Dallas Raines. I think Dallas may still be working, but Johnny is retired now.