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I plan to watch men’s and women’s gymnastics, fencing, track and field, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s soccer, and the decathlon. My son’s high school track teammate Harrison Williams (MUS 2014, Stanford 2019) will be competing in the decathlon for the USA. I’m watching the opening ceremony now. It’s very artistic, but nowhere close to as exciting and energetic as Tokyo 2020.

I got this information last week, and thought I’d share with everyone who is interested.

Yeah, I already watched. Lot’s of shooting, but it was just ok.

I figured for $5.00 difference, why not own it. I’ll watch it several times.

I purchased “Horizon” on Amazon Prime. It was a very good movie. I can’t wait until part 2 comes out.

It was mentioned the potential assassin had photos and scheduled appearances of both Trump and Biden. Maybe the attempt on Trump was a matter of convenience. Just speculation on my part.

“Night Stalkers”

I’m certain other employees also see just as much nepotism and the good ole boy mentality within your company. It goes both ways. I think that’s mostly how it is. Because a bunch of men don’t like it, doesn’t make it wrong. You may respond with the last word, so we can get back on topic. I respect your opinions, because that’s your experience.

Good point about the NBA! Why do you stay at a company that you feel puts your version of DEI as a priority over what’s best for the company? Secondly, what part of DEI is the problem at your Fortune 500 company and are you allowed to address the issue? A little further off topic for the last time. I was watching Hard Knocks with the New York Giants the other night. They had a female regional scout. She was in the big meetings, at the NFL Scouting Combine and out drinking and dining with the boys. Not once did I think of her as a diversity hire. I thought she must be one bad mf’er to have obtained a position in that organization. I’m thrilled to see people doing jobs or running companies that they weren’t allowed to do in the past. I don’t believe the “glass ceiling” was a figment of people’s imagination. I believe that to be the real issue people have with DEI. They’ve never seen a unicorn until a unicorn appears. Now, as for me, back on topic. Some asshole shot at Trump.

If I weren’t already retired and comfortably lazy, I would put on my Sunday finest and go out to test these vastly differing opinions on DEI and report my findings. The first job I would apply for is head of the Secret Service. I hold two theories about the uproar over DEI. One, people have allowed politicians to push this agenda to keep from actually doing their jobs, and two, some people feel entitled, and feel there is no way someone who is not them beat them out for a position.

Especially in coaching! But what I hear you saying is NBA owners and general managers aren’t putting the best talent on the floor, because of DEI? Did you see the 2024 draft? The top 30 players chosen in the first round were very diverse, but certainly not to fill some imaginary quota. Several different ethnicities from many different countries. All are individuals, and all have exceptional God given talent and work ethic.

Yep!

What kind of jobs are some of you working where a company owner, division director, supervisor, HR manager or others can afford to put their necks on the line, and their family’s well being on the line for the sake of simply making a diversity hire? It can’t be a serious company.

In our capitalist society, I refuse to believe the majority of real decision makers are leaving money on the table to make a diversity hire. That’s just one more things politicians push out there, because it’s an effective strategy of angering their base. Read some of Mark Cuban’s comments about diversity. His comments are a mixture of everything being talked about today. In the end, the best qualified applicants get the jobs.