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Watch and listen to what? This was an awful mistake that happened almost 60 years ago. I don’t believe it has any bearing on our involvement in Iran.

Watch and listen. Just thought it was interesting considering Israel drug us into this war.

Are you putting money on them?

What should we do?

Wow…. I’ve never heard about this attack on our military till today, of course it happened 4 months before I was born in 1967. The attack on the USS Liberty was done by Israel intentionally from what Massie is saying on the floor of Congress.

What would you call this? Looks like the Big Beautiful Bill is working. And it's only going to get better!

The eight heading to Omaha: 5 SEC (Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas) 1 ACC (North Carolina) 1 Big 12 (West Virginia) and Troy Believe I will be pulling for Troy.

That's a good question. We will have to wait and see.

The question becomes, if Trump does not get a majority in both houses or looses one or both by a few seats, which side is blamed for 2 years of nothing ? Does that help Vance/Rubio in 2028 ?

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Late spring early summer right?

Recently, he has been releasing many fraudsters who pay to play, as pardons generate significant revenue for the Trump family. The list continues to grow.

I've followed this as much as I can from multiple platforms. Currently waiting to see what happens after lunch. There is thoughts that Karmelo may testify. Based on the defenses witnesses and how they had to backtrack when cross examined, I don't see how he explains it was not murder, and why he happened to have a knife with him.

Beaumont got some problems.....gezzzz

And unfortunately the woman has died from her injuries.

I see it getting overturned by a higher court. I think NCAA knew that a local judge would side with the local university.

Guess I should say, my son—after 13 years as the Nuke power Chief on the USS Ronald Reagan—got his Nuclear Engineering degree. Funny thing is, he actually works for TI in Dallas as one of the technical engineers that build and maintain their ultra pure semiconductor wafer machines. His Navy clean room, real world engineering experience made all the difference. Texas Instruments likes to hire Navy Nuclear Power vets for this position, and they pay them very well. Hopefully, he’s got a pretty solid job future. He’s been there going on 6 years I think, and really seems to like it.

Sets a bad precedence.

I knew a man who worked at Georgetown Steel back in the day. He operated the overhead crane. He may have still been there when it became North Star.

What a joke

Obviously you know very little or nothing about the US Congress, which isn’t shocking. Trump is a lame duck president now the same as Obama was for 6 years and Biden was for all 4 years. There is nothing to deal with it. Neither party can pass a law without the support from the other party unless they control the House and have a 20 seat majority in the Senate. If those two situations do not exist, every president is a lame duck president. But it sure sounds impressive, if the other person doesn’t understand it. Like……. 🤣

Off of TexasForever’s initial topic. But, good discussion. Grew up on the farm. THAT was work! lol I also initially went to college on a scholly, became disillusioned, and joined the Navy. I’ve spoken about some of that experience. When I got out, I was hired on at a local petrochemical as a ‘B’ operator partly because of being a vet, was encouraged to go back to school while working, and got an AAS in Engineering Design. From there, I got my Mechanical and went to work contract at multiple firms. Got my PMP, and led projects for years. Got tired of working 80’s for straight pay, went back to school for my BSBM, and was asked to join Sales. I finished up as lead Downstream BD for Mustang/Wood Group, Fluor, Jacobs and a couple smaller outfits before calling it quits to take care of family. Better 1/2 was an Aggie ChemE, and son is a Nuclear Engineer.

I graduated high school wasted a couple of years going to Lamar cause I had NO idea what I wanted to do.... so, I started framing houses and then worked for North Star Steel. Both of those jobs had me back at Lamar pretty quick lol.

I don’t know what the job scene is like today. In the early 70s, there were plenty of jobs available, even for the trade schools. I went undeclared for a couple semesters which was a huge mistake. Unless you know your life’s ambition, paying to go to school is like a merry-go-round. There are lots of kids graduating high school who don’t have a clue what their job interests are. I was one of those kids. Should have stayed with the A/C field. There were like 10 jobs available for every graduate, but economics was a problem and I still wasn’t sure that’s what I wanted. Even back then, I couldn’t believe the ease of the basic subjects in the trade schools. Both math and English were on 4th or 5th grade levels. Math tests would have 1/2 + 1/4 equals……I would actually have people looking over my shoulder for answers. Maybe I should have tried engineering….lol. Long story short……economics was a key factor in my not finishing at Lamar. Nowadays, and probably back then, process operator classes would have been the best route for this area. Actually, back then, you could hire on in the plants straight out of high school. Nepotism ran rampant back then, so who you knew was a great application attachment. I submitted several and got no calls. Today’s youth don’t know what work is. If you want to test a person’s determination in keeping a job, let him hire on pouring concrete. Give him some rubber boots and jump in the middle of a form having to use rakes to move the pour. At the end of the day, you’ll know where he stands. I apologize for the meandering.

Lamar is extremely affordable when you start looking at other universities in Texas that have good/great engineering program and no not many international students when I was at LU... at least not in the industrial engineering program. For what it's worth, I think that if you are majoring in engineering, you should have at least 5 years of work experience before being able to graduate. That way you have some real world work experience to go along with the book(s).