#freejame

Every team in every sport publishes themselves at bigger heights and weights. We did it for our school team. I played at 6’1” 175 lbs and was listed at 6’2” 185 lbs. Outside of combine height there’s not much you can trust.

The edit is a giant catch-22 though. Our education costs are so high because we have a willingness to loan out absurd amounts of money for degrees that aren’t worth absurd amounts of money. The increase in the cost of college matches up almost perfectly with our increase in financial aid and guaranteed student loans. As long as student loans are guaranteed the cost of education will continue to increase.

If you aren’t currently facing interest make the minimum payment until more clarity on this situation comes to light. It’s better to have money in your pocket during times like this. Just make sure you are able to take advantage of zero interest before it’s all said and done and make a lump payment then.

Evander Kane might not have been the right fit for the Sabres, but he’s probably one of the most fit Sabres of all time.

Personally I wouldn’t use terms like deep state and shadow government because they’re full of negative connotations. I also think that the majority of people who use those terms believe in something vastly different than myself and probably believe the bureaucratic state only negatively affects one party or group. I believe that regardless of party, the bureaucracy has more power than the average American understand and more power than they were ever constitutionally granted. Some of this is a direct result of congress giving away too many powers without appropriate limitations and some of it is a result of career bureaucrats working in the same agency without proper checks for twenty years. But it’s an issue and anyone who has studied political science either independently or academically since the Eisenhower administration can tell you as much, particularly the bolder.

Like I said, we clearly have different views on the bureaucratic state.

This is something that’s always been a little crazy to me. I’m not part of the “inner circle” you talked about in your other post. I’m certainly not in any cliques here. My user name literally goes against the moderators past actions. I haven’t had any trouble with any of the moderators and have never been warned, even though I’ve been in many different arguments on many different topics. So where do you think the disconnect is? Do you believe I’m favored or do you think maybe you poorly express yourself and it creates conflict?

I think we’ve just got different beliefs on the power and authority of the bureaucracy and are now talking passed each other. Trump shares blame and rather than deny blame, should have taken full responsibility because he’s the executive and that’s what a strong leader does. However, I don’t believe any president has nearly as much control over the bureaucracy as the average American believes they do and believe the larger blame falls squarely on the bureaucracy.

This is the kind of stuff that shuts down a thread. Everyone in here is being respectful and thoughtful. Comments like this are just toxic and do nothing to further discussion. This is about as apolitical a conversation can get about the executive branch and I feel everyone is choosing words very careful so we are able to continue the discussion. Knock this off so we can keep it that way.

I understand that it’s an executive appointment, but do you think there’s been 100% turnover during this administration? Do you think there’s even been 100% turnover since 2000? Department heads hold a degree of responsibility, but much of the executive branch operates outside of the executive and operate as they please regardless of who is in office. The overwhelming majority of bureaucracy is staffed by career bureaucrats who care very little about who is in office. This is a problem regardless of who is in office or the department within the executive. Additionally, the issues experienced in the US as a result of the CDC were due to policies put in place before the Trump administration.

They didn’t drag their feet—they badly mismanaged every aspect of implementing. Whether it be contaminating samples or restricting access to only CDC manufactured testing material, that’s on the executive branch. Trump is not responsible for one individual within the CDC screwing up testing, the CDC and individual are responsible. Whether Trump is responsible for limiting private testing sources I’m not sure*. South Korea used private industry to manufacture tests and only quarantined the high risk to limit economic impact. They’ve handled this the best, and their two greatest strengths have come from a government who understands the government isn’t always the best solution. Instead we’ve got states calling for martial law. https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN2153BW

That’s what I saying though—it’s not Trump who is responsible for the decline. We’ve got the 79th highest level of population density and the largest economy. There’s swathes of the country significantly less affected by others. The actions that have been taken are already crippling the economy, and if said actions were taken when the first case was reported things would only be worse. States have health agencies that were not prepared. That falls on State level governments. They should be the first responders. The CDC was very ineffective, and Trump is partially responsible for that. But the CDC was going to mess this up regardless of who is in office.

I mean, we’re a federalist country. If people want to say executive agencies badly botched this then that’s fine, but the executive agencies would have botched it no matter who was in office because of the nature of bureaucracy in the United States. Could Trump act more like Cuomo? Sure. But exactly how responsible Trump is for the errors made by the CDC is greatly up for debate, which is exactly why executive agencies across the board widely need to their powers curtailed because they operate far too independently of the electorate and the executive.

You must not have a lot of “vase” cleaning to do at home.

I had stocked up two Thursday’s ago and I went in this morning for bread and meats and the store was completely sold out of each.

Aren’t these employees technically being fired? I’ve never heard of PTO being paid to laid-off workers. I would also imagine there are numerous unemployment restrictions guiding their actions.

What does Terry have to do with other events held at HSBC? I didn’t think that he owned the building.

I did too, exact symptoms as above for length of time. More than half my office of 150 people missed time at some point with it.

This is the exact reason why escrow exists, right?

It was merged into one of his other posts but it was moderated

You’re saying they’re not one of the same? That’s not what my Uber driver told me

I watched a documentary last night called Outbreak and I really think we should be a little concerned about our government.

@Neo I would imagine if Mrs. Neo works for a public school that the janitors are employed by the city and will still be paid.

Salaried versus hourly. Those people aren’t working. I see no reason to pay them. This is exactly why the hysteria is bad.

Why aren’t you jumping in any of them? Gravity too strong in Cuba? @Wyldnwoody44