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LSU is currently at 18% of student body black. Miss State is the only other SEC school over 12%, and they are around 15%. Mississippi has a higher percentage black population than Louisiana, and yet OM and State have smaller percentages of black students. Most SEC schools have 6-10%. Tate and crew had to work to get the numbers that high. It was by design.


LSU’s total undergraduate enrollment on campus consisted of 23.5% black enrollees for the fall 2025 semester (not including online students, law or vet school, other graduate level students, professional, or high school duel enrolled). It was 20.9% when you include all graduate and professional level students and the high school duel enrolled students.

LSU throws out numbers for undergraduates, all on campus enrollees, or all on campus and online depending on what it wants to push or hide.
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Louisiana is about 33% black population,


Universities including the flagship do not need to be reflective of their state or city when historically black universities exist in both. Shut those black universities down, and you would come closer to making a valid point before also the need to factor in university standards including qualities of high school educations using standard testing of enrollees.

Also, do you really think the largest source of the black increases at LSU are coming from Louisiana???? Tate’s focus was out of state, and it wasn’t white out of state students.

Fall of 2021 % of all undergraduates on campus:
whites: 65.7% with 17,180 enrollees.
blacks: 15.6% with 4,069 enrollees.

Residency
Louisiana: 74.5% with 19,489 enrollees
Out of state/country: 25.5% with 6,660 enrollees


Fall of 2025 % of all undergraduates on campus:
whites: 53.9% with 16,105 enrollees
blacks: 23.5% with 7,026 enrollees

Residency
Louisiana: 66.8% with 19,966 enrollees
Out of state/country: 33.2% with 9,914 enrollees



Back in the fall of 2021 LSU stated 30.3% of the incoming freshman were Pell eligible. They haven’t been as forthcoming in their highlight articles since.
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One frat while white enrollment was dropping in both % of freshman and total undergraduate enrollment and in number of enrollees for both. I bet he fooled more than you on this and got some press doing it.

Sports and I guess a white fraternity are the white alumni’s bling bling distracting them from what was happening with DEI undergraduate enrollment focus.

Give examples


Already have. Others have as well.

But hey he brought back DKE…
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Tigerland is rundown as is the area north of campus but I don’t find campus ghetto at all. I think that LSU has a beautiful campus which I miss running, walking and biking around.


I think it is more about the culture trends of the campus undergraduates the past few years and especially this fall, the culture LSU pushed during freshman orientation week this past fall, and the game day culture issues this fall including a couple of instances of shootings on campus which required closing down some tailgating areas and bringing in extra law enforcement for the A&M to get under control.
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I visited LSU last in 2013. How could it have gotten so bad so quickly? It looked perfectly fine then. I sense a lot of exaggeration.

What would look different these days?

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Not true and actually he was instrumental in bringing back fraternities line DKE which is hardly a DEI frat


One frat while white enrollment was dropping in both % of freshman and total undergraduate enrollment and in number of enrollees for both. I bet he fooled more than you on this and got some press doing it.

Sports and I guess a white fraternity are the white alumni’s bling bling distracting them from what was happening with DEI undergraduate enrollment focus.

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Wow how times change.

I’ve been highly critical of Tate and my posts generally get massive downvotes. Yours got massive upvotes, so perhaps people are realizing what a charlatan he was at LSU.


Events on campus this fall finally pushed more of the alumni focused on sports and Tate not forcing black coaching hires to actually read the fine print on those ‘increasing’ voluntary ACT ‘super’ scores and see how only having 47% of the 2024 freshman class submit scores pushed inflated GPAs to be rewarded with scholarships and honors admissions. That’s even before the increasing number of Pell grant eligible out of state enrollees gets factored in.

Unfortunately it may be a little too late as nothing appears to have changed this fall with the targeted recruitment or making SAT/ACT scores mandatory for the 2026 fall applicants which will likely lead to the 3rd fall freshman class in a row that white students make up less than half of the incoming fall freshman class.

Without reform on admissions and on LSU controlled or funded scholarships/grants it’s very likely that by the fall of 2027 whites will become the plurality of the undergraduate enrollees on LSU’s campus instead of the majority, and they aren’t being replaced by high achieving kids from well off 1st or 2nd generation immigrants from India like at Texas.

re: If you have a minute...

Posted by dallastigers on 12/26/25 at 5:09 pm to

Since this got bumped back up how is your wife doing?
The incoming 2025 fall freshman class was 48.6% white and 28.4% black as of most recently posted data.

I would have thought a new freshman class being below 50% white would be a first that might not be pushed as much as blacks increasing to 28.4% of the fall 2025 freshmen class, but relooking at the fall 2024 freshman class’s listed 50% for white freshman at the below link shows that % was rounded up for the % used on the graph. Last fall’s freshman class was 49.962% white, so whites have actually been under 50% of incoming fall freshman class the last 2 fall semesters in a row.

For a comparison the incoming 2015 fall freshman class was 72.5% white and 13.4% black.

Fall 2024 and fall 2025 freshmen class were 37.7% out of state using data at link below (by fee residence and not sure how any waiving of out of state fees are handled so could be a little higher).

I have not seen the 2025 freshman data for % submitting ACT or SAT scores for admissions and scholarships yet. I also haven’t seen LSU make these tests mandatory again for future classes yet.

https://www.lsu.edu/data/student-data/dashboards/retention.php
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Some owners understand who were responsible for their success.

Yes, they were a big part of it, but they wouldn't have been able to build their company without the people working for them.



I think owner’s $150 million risk to pivot from building shelters for electrical and telecom equipment to “building modular power enclosures for data centers” before covid had more to do with value of the company when sold. They went from 3 clients, laying off employees, and selling assets to pay off debt to the value of this sale in just 5 to 6 years after they pivoted the business to get more clients.

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Fibrebond was founded in 1982 by Walker’s father, Claud Walker, with a dozen employees building shelters for electrical and telecom equipment.

It thrived during the cellular boom of the 1990s — then nearly collapsed when its factory burned to the ground in 1998.

The Walkers kept paying employees even as production stalled, a move workers still cite as the foundation of the company’s loyalty culture.


By the early 2000s, the dot-com bust slashed Fibrebond’s customer base to just three clients, forcing layoffs that cut the workforce from roughly 900 to 320.

Graham Walker and his brother later took over day-to-day operations, selling assets and paying down debt while searching for a new market.

The turnaround came with a risky $150 million investment to pivot into building modular power enclosures for data centers — a gamble that paid off when cloud computing demand surged during the pandemic.

Sales jumped nearly 400% in five years, drawing acquisition interest from larger industrial players.

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We were watching Rudolph, and when it ended, we told the kids they need to go get in bed to make sure Santa comes and brings presents. This motherfricker proceeds to stand up, stretch, look right at the kids and say “Santa’s not real. He’s a fake guy. Your mom and dad already brought the presents.” Immediately, the 6 year old starts tearing up, asking us if Santa is fake, while the 3 year old bursts into a tears, crying and screaming.


That guy is a piece of shite. I can’t believe he was still at your parents house at the time this was posted. Your sister should have kicked him out and told him to take a hike.
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Like I said, daily.


How are you counting multiple stories written on the same perp like yours whose original arrest and charges were done a week ago with your link being an update to his charges after finding more evidence after his phone an other devices were seized, and the OP whose original arrest was back in October with formal charges brought on the 23rd?
They were doing across multiple programs, and protected by those fearing they would be labeled as racist or were labeled as racist for pointing out the Somali problem behind it. The problem isn’t new but just went from in the millions to into the billions. In 2015 more Somalis from Minnesota were found to be contributing foreign fighters to ISIS than from any other state. Some even used federal aid to finance their travels. From 2018 https://www.city-journal.org/article/mogadishu-minnesota


https://www.city-journal.org/article/fraud-minnesota-somali-feeding-our-future
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The Feeding Our Future case has opened a window on a panoply of scams committed on Minnesota Medicaid programs (so-called “waivered” programs) that appear to have been designed to facilitate fraud: Housing Stabilization Services, Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention autism services, and 12 other such programs that Governor Tim Walz has now temporarily suspended for review.
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Employees from the Minnesota Department of Human Services say the state's massive fraud scandal leads straight back to the governor. They claim “Tim Walz is 100% responsible for massive fraud in Minnesota,” insisting they warned him early but “got the opposite response.” Instead of help, they say Walz “systematically retaliated against whistleblowers using monitoring, threats, repression,” backed by certain DFL allies and “an indifferent mainstream media.”

They argue the governor also weakened oversight by disempowering the Office of the Legislative Auditor, while “media and politicians supporting Tim Walz or the DFL-agenda attacked whistleblowers.” According to staff, agency leaders appointed by Walz “willfully disregarded rules and laws to keep fraud reports quiet,” even threatening families. Key programs, they say, lacked fraud safeguards “in an attempt to extract more funding from legislature and the federal government.”

Workers claim they witnessed fraud firsthand but were “shut down, reassigned and told to keep quiet,” with no one held accountable. They describe a system “created and maintained by Tim Walz” that fosters retaliation and shields misconduct. Their view of the governor is blunt: “Fundamentally, Tim Walz is dishonest, lacks ethics and integrity,” and misled the public with “inveterate lying” about a budget surplus created by temporary ARPA funds.
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you think someone on the right THINKS only leftist trannies are pedos?


This has been well established.


Thinking all leftist trannies are pedos is not the same as thinking leftist trannies are the only pedos.

Keep up.
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Said he didn’t take his insomnia meds that night, doesn’t remember anything.


I guess it depends on the meds, but usually it’s taking the meds while not falling asleep that causes someone to not remember what they did during that timeframe.
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No I believe my eyes that he’s there a lot


Get your eyes checked.
None of the below calls to reform the act and to limit the president’s power to use it happened even when the Dems controlled congress and the presidency under Biden’s Autopen in 2021 and 2022, but I am sure Dem judges will try to limit Trump using it anyway.

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In 2020, Senator Richard Blumenthal introduced the CIVIL Act (Curtailing Insurrection and Violations of Individuals' Liberties Act) to restrict presidential authorities outlined in the Insurrection Act.[30] The legislation sought to require the President to consult with Congress before invoking the Act, restricting the President's activation of troops under the Act to fourteen days without explicit congressional authorization, requiring the President, Secretary of Defense, and Attorney General to issue a joint certification to Congress affirming a state's reluctance or inability to enforce the laws, thus justifying the use of the military, and prohibiting active duty troops from performing law enforcement actions unless authorized by law.[31]

In 2022, the Brennan Center for Justice submitted a proposal to the January 6 house committee, which investigated the January 6 United States Capitol attack, to reform the Insurrection Act with the intent of clarifying vague language and updating its contents to reflect issues of the present. Some of the language the BCJ identified as needing clarification includes the section outlining the circumstances in which the President can invoke the Act that reads "any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy" are legally accepted criteria for the law's invocation. BCJ argues that this criterion is broad and can possibly be interpreted to allow the President to invoke the Act to address any conspiracy, large or small, to include protests or petty criminal acts with active duty military forces. The BCJ also argued for Congress to rewrite the line "The President, by using the militia or the armed forces, or both, or by any other means," as the inclusion of by any other means can leave open the possibility of a force not formally under the control of the Department of Defense being authorized by the President to act under the auspices of the Insurrection Act.[32]
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No it’s not. Trump is using the national guard the wrong way. You can’t use the army to police regular crime.


Where besides DC is this being done outside of any actions protecting and supporting ICE while ICE is enforcing federal immigration law and outside of the guard still being under the state/governor or with agreement of state/governor?

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It’s not the role of the federal government to enforce local criminal laws.


Are they doing that, or are they enforcing federal law (specifically immigration laws), protecting federal buildings and property, and for the guard supporting those federal officers actually enforcing federal law while also helping to protect federal buildings and property used by those federal officers?
The key part seems to be the courts defining regular forces as being the military not the regular federal law enforcement forces.


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The dispute centers on a federal statute that allows the president to federalize the National Guard when he is “unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.”

The Court interpreted “regular forces” to mean the U.S. military, not civilian federal law-enforcement agencies.

That distinction matters because, under long-standing federal law, the military is generally barred from enforcing domestic laws unless Congress has specifically authorized it. The Court said the government did not show that the military could legally carry out the enforcement role described, or that such authority had been triggered.

Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, dissented, arguing that the Court unnecessarily restricted presidential authority and should have allowed the deployment to proceed. Alito pointed out that both parties in earlier briefs treated “regular forces” as meaning federal civilian law enforcement, so the court shouldn’t have raised a new interpretation on its own.



It doesn’t make sense that the law can authorize using either as stated in 1st quote below, but then get caught up in a legal technicality on the definition of regular forces in 2nd quote below on the ability to federalize national guard to help the federal officers actually execute the federal law only if regular military can legally execute the law by itself (which the national guard wouldn’t actually be doing and acting in a support role while ICE enforced federal law). That’s before getting into debate on whether the military then has to fail or have all its resources dedicated elsewhere before allowing national guard to be federalized.

It would also lead to debate on the legal definition “federal service members” that would have same requirements under the law in 2nd quote below. Under this interpretation it cannot be the military as that what they are calling the “regular forces” which would have already been legally there to legally execute the laws but failing under this ruling for the other 2 to be legally called in.

From 10 U.S. Code § 253 - Interference with State and Federal law
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The President, by using the militia or the armed forces, or both, or by any other means, shall take such measures as he considers necessary to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy, if it—

…2) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.


10 U.S. Code § 12406 - National Guard in Federal service: call
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Whenever—
(1) the United States, or any of the Commonwealths or possessions, is invaded or is in danger of invasion by a foreign nation;
(2) there is a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States; or
(3) the President is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States;
the President may call into Federal service members and units of the National Guard of any State
in such numbers as he considers necessary to repel the invasion, suppress the rebellion, or execute those laws. Orders for these purposes shall be issued through the governors of the States or, in the case of the District of Columbia, through the commanding general of the National Guard of the District of Columbia.