Recent content by Hot Diggity Dog

You are clearly an intelligent person. Get current.

I can agree Congress has failed. But we can't vote them in or out like we can a President. And if the legislative branch has failed miserably at their job, do we expect the other two branches to fold up their responsibilities and go along? Maybe this will spar congress on to do better. But...

LOL you are either missing the point or being obtuse. Congress person X isn't going to government agency Y to sign checks and administer program Z if no one is in government agency Y to do the administering. And if the legislative branch of government has proven itself incapable of...

What skill do I have? Why am I being employed by the government, in what position? If I am being hired as a charity case, yeah I am pretty scared. If I have a marketable skill not so much other than the disruption.

That 4% of the budget oversees the other 96% where most of the waste is. If 4% of my budget is labor and administration and 96% material or products, but I am losing tons of money on my material and products I need to change the composition of the 4%. Culture is a thing. If no one is in the...

Amen brother, amen.

Well, thank goodness we have a political movement that has the momentum to try and address the problems. The problem isn't the public demanding some accountability and reasonableness be put in place, it is the people trying to stop it at all costs.

I have been fired 3 times in my life, two for cause, one because the boss did not like me. No one ever gave a flipping flip. People get fired every day, get up and move on. In November my company lost a job that would have increased our yearly revenue by 15% because I could not get...

I get it, but if you had open bidding on a job and lowest bidder won the job, why does the government care what material a contractor might buy and what else it does with it. The government should be buying the final product like private companies and people do and not care about, within...

There are so many tales like this, it is just maddening. And why, quite frankly, I can't get a whole lot of sympathy going for a whole lot of these employees, except some of the teachers that might depend on grants and / or funding to keep their job. And you know that if that is the attitude...

The 76ers are visiting Denver tonight and Joel Embiid is not playing. Made me think of this thread.

My sophomore year of college I got a new roommate and as a "get to know ya" we went to the local Old Chicago's and went 20 deep into the World beer tour in about 5 hours. I remember driving and thinking I was way out of control and going to fast and looked down at speedometer and I was going...

This is the downside, there were very many good stories, and we made some real friends through the experience. Just go in with your eyes wide open. Few things match the feeling you get watching your kid be the star of the game, team, or tournament. It can be a ton of fun.

One coach we played for based our travel schedule on his vacation preferences. We went to Huntington Beach, and he cancelled practices the week after because he stayed there an extra four days. Pretty sure he got 4 days free at the hotel because our organization had two teams totaling 36 girls...

Yes, we are. It doesn't help that a LOT of parent's ego is wrapped up in their kid getting D1 scholarships. One of my daughters got invited to play for our organizations premier national team. One girl on the team had a personal trainer, a chiropractor, a maesusse, and a pitching coach ("Best...