In Texas
In 2025, American taxpayers shelled out $113 million to the University of Texas at Dallas from the Department of Education. The school is now seeking an additional $115- $120 million for 2026-2027.
In return? A summer 2025 pro-Palestine encampment that turned violent enough to land professors and students (many on visas) in handcuffs. Mugshots show the faces behind the chaos—yet not one faced expulsion, firing, or visa revocation. No accountability. No consequences. Just more demands on our wallets to subsidize campuses that harbor anti-American radicals and shield agitators from real punishment.
Time to pull the plug on federal funding until these schools enforce order and prioritize American students over foreign troublemakers. Enough is enough.
Bullet Points:
** Garum and other fish sauces. I’ll take a hard pass.
** VDH on US Allies in the ongoing war with Iran.
** Iraq’s militias are fractured between ideologically driven cells that continue attacks in Tehran’s name and power brokers embedded in the Iraqi state who increasingly see confrontation as bad for business. Syrian militias now contribute mostly at the margins since the Assad regime’s collapse. Iran’s “forward defense” doctrine, predicated on proxy depth absorbing threats before they reach Persian soil, is reaching its limits. The financial architecture sustaining this network is becoming harder to reconstitute, and the network’s coherence, coordination, and strategic depth are degrading faster than Tehran can adapt.
** The UK’s economic strategy is one of “managed decline.” Sad, really, but if it’s what the people want… decline by design.
** I’m not hating on the UK’s Royal Navy, but you have to look at things as they are (h/t Claudio). Here is another article on the state of things. The point may be that it’s shocking how things have evolved in Old Blighty internally, which reflects on their almost total impotence on the international stage. Somebody should blindfold the statue of Nelson at Trafalgar Square out of respect for the Admiral. Correcting the decline will take decades if there were the will to do so, and nobody sees that will, do they? Maybe they should consider selling those two aircraft carriers and using the money to pay for more illegal immigrant handouts.
** Some expats in Kuwait are finding themselves trapped as they try to flee Iranian attacks on the country, restricted by a law introduced fewer than two years ago requiring foreigners to obtain exit permits from their employers. Kuwait’s airspace is closed, and without an exit permit, expats can’t cross into Saudi Arabia — a route many are using to reach airports in Dammam or Riyadh in order to leave the Gulf. The policy has affected some teachers, who have been denied permission to leave, according to text messages. The process isn’t cumbersome and can be completed via the app or online, but approval remains at the employer’s discretion.
** California governor candidate Eric Swalwell rents a room in a Livermore, California home occupied by a family of three and lists that address as his residence while running for governor of California. The address is used for his voter registration and official residency, allowing him to meet the requirement of living in the state while seeking the governor’s office. I wonder if Fang Fang is allowed conjugal visits there?
** In addition to the loss of the Soleimani-class corvettes, President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that U.S. forces have neutralized 28 Iranian minelaying ships in the last 48 hours. This preemptive action was taken as intelligence reports suggested the regime was preparing a large-scale mining operation to block global energy transit through the Strait of Hormuz. Admiral Cooper reiterated that the objective of the ongoing maritime strikes is to permanently end the Iranian regime’s ability to project power and harass international shipping, warning that any civilian ports used for military operations will lose their protected status and remain legitimate targets.
** A favorite Lonesome Dove clip (I have a couple).
Identify the Ship
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2
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How were #2 and #3 linked in history?
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1 is RFA Lyme Bay is Bay Class landing ship dock of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
2 is USS Turner Joy involved in the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
3 is USS Maddox also at Gulf of Tonkin.
Outstanding.
Indentured servitude in Kuwait.
I was thinking they are not slaves if they are paid.. “indentured” is a good word!
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1. RFA Lyme Bay (L3007), a Bay-class auxiliary landing ship dock of the British Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
2. U.S. Navy destroyer USS Turner Joy (DD-951).
3. USS Maddox (DD-731), a US Navy destroyer
Identify the Ship:
1. Identify the Ship
2/3: Gulf of Tonkin incident
2. USS Turner Joy
3. USS Maddox
Some Texas universities need all funding removed, the staff fired, and the campuses closed. Where they once turned out students with exemplary qualifications, current graduates are many times regarded with a suspicion founded on them having degrees without the knowledge, and the corrupt ideologies of their reprobate professors.
All colleges except Hillsdale and Spring Arbor.
A favorite Lonesome Dove clip of mine as well. A long range shot with an underpowered cartridge handled well. Some in Hollywood at the time would have had the renegade knocked back 10 feet by the impact. The serious wound and dying slowly would be far more accurate.
I also liked the surly bartender and rude behavior intolerance scenes as well.
Yes, they’re all outstanding.
Texas University at Dallas: Uh, why are WTP sending any of our hard-earned tax dollars to a private university? Just asking the obvious question. This proves our Federal Government is beyond out of control. End the grift, make them stand on their own two feet, see how well that works for these institutions spewing lefty garbage.
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Managed Decline: Here too…except now we have a President who puts America first…like most of us out here in the hinterlands. At least we are trending in the right direction. Yet – and no one could have predicted this at this scale – what’s worse is the number of ‘Americans’ who demand our decline under the guise of multiculturalism, diversity, tolerance…all misplaced compassion…or worse, direct threats to our way of life with domestic terrorism (two obvious ‘incidents’ just yesterday, yet one reporter ACTUALLY NEEDED CLARIFICATION if these were terrorism?) I swear Sars-Cov-2, and subsequent boosters, warped certain peoples brains as we see the uptick in unhinged – looks like Satan – behavior since 2020. And not to be out done by the demented, the worthless Virginia AG blamed everything else, including WTP, except for the scumbag perp in his little presser…in the Home of Jefferson no less. And…what is Congress doing in the meantime (eg. SAVE Act)? Dithering, while ‘Rome burns’. Stupid is what stupid does…and it ain’t us.
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Kuwait Expats: I find it rich how they are pining for America safety once their bubble gets burst with reality (yes, not all, but geez, go into the furnace while not expecting to get burned is clearly foolish.)
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Swalwell: How is it this clown has escaped prison for his clear treason and sedition yet is so ‘special’ he is free to run for governor? Oh, that’s right…California…where NOT ONE rebuild permit has been issued for Palisades.
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Lonesome Dove Clip = Iran right about now.
UT Dallas is part of the University of Texas (located in Little Moscow on the Colorado, Texas) system. Not being interested in the curriculum at the parent campus, I can only report that rumor claims one of the premier schools of study at that location is based on underwater basket weaving.
Just what I want to help pay for…not. Can they dumb down the population anymore? (Well, they’re trying hard to, considering what a 1960’s High School curriculum looked like, harder than many liberal arts college degree programs…except the 1-credit lab course, always a pain compared to the 3-credit courses, but I was engineering, never had time to play frisbee or hacky sack.)
At one time, U.T. turned out some good doctors, and Texas A&M turned out really good engineers. I can only hope things are still the same, but don’t have much faith in the university system as a whole.
Regarding Swalwell, who would have charged him? And who would have convicted him? Remember, he’d have been charged either in California or Washington, DC and gotten a leftist prosecutor, a leftist judge and a leftist jury pool. It’s the same reason Hillary escaped being charged and so many politicians and bureaucrats haven’t been charged.
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We need to clean up the legal system before we can actually properly charge and prosecute these criminals. Unless we can somehow charge them in military court and that system is questionable due to Hegseth not being able to disinfect the system quick enough.
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I understand the law in califukya says you have to be a resident for five years to be governor, I heard he just started renting the room. If he wins, califukya still loses.
He was an elected Congressional Representative from California for some time (San Francisco Bay).
But did he establish residence?
Else why the new rental?
I’ve heard of other reps not having residence.
Same game as election funding…should be from your own state, one you actually reside for five or more years. No more out of state money for local elections, or PAC’s, advertising, or, or. None of that garbage that works hard to fix local elections from ‘elsewhere’. You live in another state or country, you get no say in our local elections. Period.
I wish.
That’s where the 17th amendment went wrong.
Nice reminder when the shift from a plain language guard-railed Constitution started to get eroded by those who supposedly work for us…back in 1913. Downhill from there.
Mine layers; A quick in and out is being advertised, for PR reasons” What ever it takes” / any head of the snake that pops up – crushed. Any segments of the millipede still moving, be it in the sea or the sky needs to be smoked. This includes the financing of the H and H, and h in Yemen, AND any other front group doing the Twelvers bidding. How ever long it takes, elections and PR “dithering” falling where it may. The War department is managing a global shift of economic impacts on the Chicoms and the Ruskies that if we can stay on top of, the waves of trade will balance out for WTP best interests. imho. The Iraqi fractured ideologies and the Iranian Shia Caliphate; are these permanent genetics of these societies or what changes are possible?
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If the same cards get shuffled and different faces appear at the top, the game is still being played with the same set of cards. Thinking of Afghanistan after 20 YR$ of effort and lives sacrificed.
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Nothing profound stirs in what passes for a mind so something trivial. Given recent military actions, being a Chinese arms salesman can’t be easy.
No and they host all of the arms sales conferences. I don’t think that anyone will show up anymore. Like Matag repairmen…
On “Garum and other fish sauces”:
Think twice before you dismiss them.
Ketchup/Catsup began as a fish sauce.
Worcestershire Sauce IS one.
For myself, there is a Vietnamese sauce that I truly love. It is thick, grey, and smells like raw sewage…but add a tablespoon of the stuff to stews or stir-frys and it adds an AMAZING flavor to the dish!
Humorous story regarding said Vietnamese sauce:
As one would imagine, the “real deal” is imported from Vietnam…in cheap little glass bottles.
After one purchase, I brought it home and, without thinking, put the bottle in the refrigerator.
A few days later I was preparing to cook. I go to the refrigerator, grab the little bottle of sauce, and make it 3 feet…
whereupon the bottle, quite literally, grenades in my hand, splattering me and the entire kitchen in the foul smelling sauce. It was EVERYWHERE!
On later reflection, I surmised that the cheap glass that the bottle was made of couldn’t withstand the quick temperature change from the refrigerator to my warm hand.
After cleaning, it took two days of open windows and fans to get the smell out.
Yes. I still love and use it.
A Viet family taught my wife and I how to use the fish sauce. Store it in the refrigerator.
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To use, take it outside and pour it into a peanut butter jar with sugar and chili paste and other seasonings. Close the bottle, wash it off, put it back in the refrigerator. Leave the peanut butter jar outside in the shade after closing it and shaking it. Leave it for 6-8 hours. The resulting sauce is heavenly.
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Do not drip, drop, break, spill or mutilate the fish sauce in the bottle it comes in, especially inside. As the nasty ass smell will not go away, ever, short of fire in large amounts.
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But, yes, Worcestershire sauce is fermented sardines.
Not what the people want, LL, what Keir Starmer wants.
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