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Texas Jeff

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  1. Rudy’s is well defended…
  2. Estimated cost of attendance for 2025-26, full time undergrad living on or off campus, but not with parents ... from each school's websites, I picked costs for a CS major when I had to choose: UT: $32,344-$35,152 UTD: $35,982-$37,830 UTA: $29,256 UTSA : $31,120 UTEP: $24,680 Also: Texas A&M: $32,960 Texas Tech: $30,277 UTD has a lot of money for scholarships, so a lot of students are paying way less than that MSRP price. As of Fall 2025, the UT system offers the Promise Plus plan at all of its institutions, which gives free tuition and fees to all students from families earning under $100,000. Generally tuition and fees are about $13,000 of the total cost per year.
  3. Lloyd needs to go. He's been there since before the Cowboys' last Super Bowl win. Like the Cowboys, it's hard for me to think of his accomplishments since 1995. Folks shouldn't occupy a House seat for 30 years. 10-12 years is enough. It's supposed to be service, not a career. If you want more, run for something else.
  4. It was a misprint. It was supposed to say "Pursuing Peace Prize".
  5. We visited the National Museum of the American Indian in May. Many of the exhibits displayed some artifacts along with two perspectives that went along with the display ... what the settlers and the US government were thinking at the time and what the native Americans were thinking at the time. I thought it was a pretty cool way of showing the disconnect between the two sides. I wouldn't want it altered to show just one perspective. I also spotted a MAGA hat on display at the American History museum in an exhibit on presidential stuff, so there's that... Trumps claims about nothing about success ... I saw Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecrafts almost side by side, next to Neil Armstrong's suit and across the hall from Yeager's plane, next door to mock-ups of all the Mars landers which were underneath a model of Voyager .. yeah nothing to crow about at all inside the Smithsonian.
  6. And all the moose are like, "God dammit I voted for Trump! Who could have seen this coming!"
  7. CNBC folks were just talking about the administration asking for stock in exchange for the Chips Act dollars for Intel. They were talking about the government taking a 10% position.
  8. Perhaps ... I was going off these news reports, which are now about six months old. Things may have changed:
  9. The city is being a little weird, IMHO. On 6th street, they are adding cars to a heavily pedestrian street to make it safer. But over on Congress, they are proposing closing part of the street to cars to make it safer for pedestrians. What if the folks that are causing issues on 6th just migrate over to Congress?
  10. So a B-2 crew flew from Missouri to Anchorage, did a fly over for the benefit of two people, and then flew back? What a great use of funds.
  11. Putin is mostly KGB, Trump is mostly WWF ... that's about all you need to know.
  12. Who let the dogs out?
  13. Is the world really seeking faster ways to get to College Station?
  14. I've been to DC every 10 or so years, plus or minus, since 1989. It seems cleaner and safer every time I visit, but I've never felt unsafe there. I was there in May. Nice streets, clean subways, fewer homeless than I remembered. Such an absence of homeless folks that I thought that they must have built shelters or housing somewhere and wondered if Austin should be following whatever they are doing. The DC Metro was in better shape than Seattle's Link stations, which are much newer. I walked around the Mall at night with my family and found nothing more than other families doing the same thing, having a great time exploring the monuments. Washington National Airport is historic but sucks, but at least their train goes all the way to both airports.
  15. Whatever you do, do not sell bars of chocolate unless you enjoy counting thousands of $1 bills slightly coated in chocolate. What kind of a person turns in an envelope that is supposed to contain $60 that actually contains $57.34?
  16. One consideration: If the kid has earned income, you could choose between a Roth IRA and a normal brokerage account. The Roth will grow until he takes it out, hopefully at an old age, with no taxes due on the growth. He can buy and sell different funds throughout his life without triggering a tax consequence. The brokerage account will grow too, but it may generate taxable cap gains and dividend income. Any changes in the fund will be taxable events, hopefully capital gains but still taxable. As the kid learns more about investing, they may want to eventually buy a basket of index funds to cover different asset classes (like an international fund, a small cap, a mid-cap, a large cap, whatever), but you can start with a single total market fund or large cap fund to get pretty broad diversification. There is huge value in just getting started with whatever, so that the kid sees the growth and is encouraged to add to it once they have their own earnings.
  17. A quick note on the power of the gerrymander... Here's how Texas voted in the last few elections: 2024 Presidential election: Trump 56.2%, Harris 42.5%, Others 1.3% 2022 Gubernatorial election: Abbott 54.8%, O'Rourke 43.9%, Others 1.3% 2020 Presidential election: Trump 52.1%, Biden 46.5%, Others 1.4% 2018 Gubernatorial election: Abbott 55.8%, Valdez 42.5%, Others 1.7% The current US House delegation from Texas has 38 members: 25 Republicans and 13 Democrats. Republicans have 65% of the seats. If Republicans pick up 5 more seats, Republicans will control 78% of the seats in a state where they poll between 52-56% of the population. If the Texas delegation mirrored the statewide results, Texas would have 20-21 Republicans and 17-18 Democrats. They would have five fewer Republicans than they do now.
  18. Amazing that on the waterfront we have the Four Seasons, a housing project and some dumpy warehouses, and the Waterline, all in a row.
  19. That chart is saying that: For every 100 foreign born workers in Jan 2007, there are now about 140 foreign born workers. For every 100 native born workers in Jan 2007, there are now about 110 native born workers. It says nothing about the absolute numbers of foreign or native born workers. It is a measure of the growth in the number of each class of workers since 2007. It shows that the growth in foreign born workers from 2007 until now has been higher than the growth in native born workers.
  20. Regarding the new WH ballroom, here's what a 90,000 sq ft footprint looks like: For those unfamiliar with the White House, the Old Executive Office building is on the left and the Treasury Department is on the right. The White House is in the middle and the West Wing is just to the left of the White House. The new ballroom footprint is the yellow square to the right of the White House. The square is almost 90,000 sq ft according to Google Earth. This assumes a one-story building. If they are planning multiple stories, obviously the building footprint would be smaller. Here's a similar 90,000 sq ft shape in DKR, for reference:
  21. The show "Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman" was fantastic for our kids. Very watchable for kids and parents. Each show focused on some topic that was good to learn about in a game show format.
  22. The Statesman has an article out about how city leaders are spending your taxpayer dollars on lunches and parties, among other things: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/local/2025/07/30/austin-leaders-used-taxpayer-funds-for-sweetgreen-solo-lunches-steak-dinners-and-upgraded-flights/85435323007/ City Manager Broadnax has spent $3,300 on lunch. His office has spent $4,700 on retirement parties, one example being a $1,700 lunch at Chuy's. He makes $448,000 per year. He can afford his own lunch. The city has purchased meals at III Forks and paid for retreats at the Headliners Club. CM Ryan Alter has spent $1,700 on lunch and has had paid for 14 meals for his staff, one of which was a $775 holiday dinner. The German government gave Leslie Pool $1,200 for an airline ticket, but she upgraded the ticket to business class at city expense for an additional $6,000. She also sent two staffers to Brazil using business class tickets at a cost of $20,000. One council member spent $0 on city-paid lunches and paid for staff birthdays out of her own pocket: Mackenzie Kelly. City policy states that "It is never appropriate to use City funds to pay for employee meals or food on a regular basis."
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