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TreatyOak

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  1. My younger daughter did engineering* at Duke. She went to school with students from China. One of them turned off his phone and said to her, we're never supposed to have our phones turned off so the government can monitor what we say through the Chinese social media app. He then turned his phone back on. It's a nice world. *She now makes big dosh in PE in NYC. Makes way more than me and wifey combined, but somehow we still pay her phone bill.
  2. The security issues I am describing are bigger than Donald Trump and will exist long after he is gone. I am afraid our country is very vulnerable.
  3. Back to the implications of the Ukraine drone attack: Imagine the Chinese are poised to invade Taiwan. We move our vaunted carrier battle groups to the South China Sea. Suddenly, tens of thousands of drones that are sitting offshore in container ships and/or transported into the US suddenly strike our electrical grids, military installations, the Houston fuel reserves, nuclear plants, etc, across the US, plunging the country into utter chaos. Plus, our entire commercial internet is jammed and shut down. Then the Chinese say that they have tens of thousands more drones poised to strike cities. Are we really going to fight for Taiwan? I don't expect this to happen. Unlike the Russians, the Chinese are smart enough to know you can achieve more power through business than through military action. However, as someone who lived in Manhattan during 911 (that was fun), I have no problem imagining some Islamic terrorist group executing this campaign.
  4. Very true. Plus, no radios in their tanks. They used signal flags, lol. I think the WWI traumatized the French so hard that they didn't have the stomach for WW2.
  5. Why would you even ask that? That's really dumb, because that didn't even happen. I mean, that's actually funny. Roofied? No! Who told you that we were roofied? Was it @South Austin , cause he's always making up stuff that's not true in any way. I mean I don't remember. But I"m sure that's wrong, cause I was never roofied.
  6. This is great info from an actual expert. Good to hear and know. It sounds like the US military is governed, as in the past, with practicality, which is great news. Thanks
  7. I am no military expert, but there are so many examples throughout history where a country thought their military was invulnerable and they were defeated by a highly motivated, craftier enemy. Today, as always, technology has changed the game. When the 1991 Gulf War commenced, the Iraqi computers, which they had purchased from the French, mysteriously stopped working. Who is to say that our military technology doesn't have some aspect that the Chinese are able to manipulate?
  8. Texas A&M's baseball season was not a complete failure. The first part of the season was successful, with 33 bloggers naming them #1 during the preseason and was ranked 13 during the latest booster shakedown. Numerous pitching experiments were conducted during conference play, and the squeeze play was initiated. The program achieved SEC lore, and substantial data was collected to address outstanding coaching issues. This was a highly valuable season.
  9. “Americans can always be trusted to do the right thing, once all other possibilities have been exhausted.” Winston Churchill
  10. Thanks for the update. Is it supposed to have any strategic capabilities against ICBM's?
  11. My wife and me are actually in the last episode of the Cosby Show, haha. True story. Her best friend worked on the show (and still works for NBC News) and cast us as extras in a college graduation scene that took place in the episode. It was a fun experience.
  12. I agree with this post 100%, except for the Golden Dome part, since I don't know much about it. A few years ago, one of our national news shows snuck a large amount of radioactive matter into Baltimore harbor to prove that there is no screening. They easily got it through. Imagine someone setting off small nukes from a cargo ship. Since we live in an open society, the Chinese have been conducting a decades-long infiltration of our energy resources, power grid, defense internet, military technology. Heck, they stole highly-classified computers from Los Alamos, but we did arrest spy who was there. They may not even have to fight our military to defeat us enough to take control of Taiwan. Just cause havoc in the homeland. Yes, like us, they are also idiots, but we are woefully unprepared for the kind of war that can and probably will be fought.
  13. If anything, the attack reveals how technology, combined with imagination, can overcome a mindset that is stuck in the past. I am afraid our military mindset is firmly stuck in the past, with gigantic task force groups and huge, vulnerable weapons platforms. I think technology has evolved to the point where an imaginative enemy can overcome our defenses by employing asymmetric attacks, like 911 and this drone attack on Russia's strategic arsenal.
  14. The Maginot Line may be the most misunderstood military legend in history. It was designed to deter the Germans from directly invading France, and force them to go through Belgium, so the French would have time to react and defeat the Germans without laying waste to their beloved country. The plan actually worked to perfection, as the Germans were forced to go through Belgium. The French then proceeded to screw up the campaign for a myriad of other reasons. So while the legend of the folly of the Maginot Line endures, it doesn't deserve it's reputation.
  15. Some really good ones and a home run for the randomness of Don Meredith in Bath, England, haha.
  16. Do share. Points if one of them is Amber Heard.
  17. Eight Texas A&M baseball players entered the transfer portal on June 1, 2025, the first day of the NCAA's 30-day transfer window. The players include pitcher Isaac Morton, catcher Jacob Galloway, pitchers Blayne Lyne and Austin Vargas, outfielder Nathan Tobin, pitcher Kyrin LeBlanc, catcher Hayden Crites, and pitcher Houston Tomlinson. Whoop! Unleash the dynasty!
  18. No chance. We want to hear your story.
  19. Three sports brushes with fame and autographs in various levels of weirdness. I shot an MCI commercial with Tim Landry but I made it about his experience as a B-17 pilot rather than as a coach. We had a B-17 fly in for the shoot. Spent two days with him and learned so much about the Cowboys. He loved getting to sit in the plane and had some great stories about his adventures over Germany. Fun times! I had him sign the storyboard: My wife did the PR for Jack Daniels and staged their BBQ contest in Lynchburg, TN. One year, she brought in John Stallworth as a judge. He drew up a play for me on the judging sheet: Most random one was running into Hank Stram in a copier shop in NYC. He was struggling to make copies of the lineup for an NFL game he was doing the color for. I'm made the copies for him and asked him about his TD play from his Super Bowl win, which is featured prominently in the NFL Films video about the game. He drew it for me on one of his pages. I love it. "When in doubt, call 65 Toss Power Trap."
  20. This story is so random. Someone passing himself off as an obscure musician. Why was he arrested? Tipped off by a rock writer, haha. Is it illegal? Why not just kick him off the stage? And did the imposter know the real Dick Dodd was in the audience? Did he show up because Dick Dodd was scheduled to perform, or was it a coincidence? So many questions.
  21. That's easily the most interesting brush with fame on this thread.
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