One of Baylor’s own is now a three-star general, in command of the 5th Air Force, headquartered in Japan. 🇺🇸✈️
It's the latest honor for Lt. Gen. Joel Carey since he got his start at Baylor 30+ years ago:
Baylor is tied for the longest active streak of producing a first-round NBA Draft pick:
2026: Cameron Carr
2025: V.J. Edgecombe
2024: Ja’Kobe Walter / Yves Missi
2023: Keyonte George
2022: Jeremy Sochan
2021: Davion Mitchell
Scott Drew has built an NBA Factory in Waco.
🇺🇸 Most Badass Football Players: Combat Veterans Edition #2 Jack Lummus
Jack Lummus, Medal of Honor recipient, Marine, and end for the New York Giants, was one badass football player.
Born October 22, 1915, near Ennis, Texas, Lummus grew up on a farm and developed a reputation as a tough, hardworking athlete.
He excelled in sports at Ennis High School, but later transferred to and graduated from Texas Military College before attending Baylor University, where he became a standout in both football and baseball.
Lummus originally enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in May 1941. He washed out of flight school after clipping a fence with his wingtip during a taxi run.
He then joined the New York Giants and played in nine games during the 1941 NFL season.
Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, he quickly enlisted in the United States Marine Corps and was commissioned as an officer.
Lummus landed on Iwo Jima on February 19, 1945 as a liaison officer.
Due to heavy officer casualties, he was given command of the 3rd Rifle Platoon, Company E, 2nd Battalion, 27th Marines.
On March 8, 1945, after fighting for nearly three brutal weeks on the island, and pinned down for 36 hours in a strategic gorge, Lummus led his platoon in a fierce assault against heavily fortified Japanese positions.
As he charged the first enemy pillbox, an enemy grenade exploded right next to him. It knocked him to the ground and stunned him, but he immediately got up and killed everyone inside with his submachine gun.
Minutes later, a second grenade exploded directly against him, driving shrapnel deep into his shoulder.
Bleeding and in agonizing pain, he completely ignored the wounds, charged a second fortified pillbox, and annihilated the occupants.
He then ran back through enemy fire to his platoon lines, stood in the open to direct the fire of supporting Sherman tanks, and then charged alone a third time to destroy a third Japanese emplacement.
Moments later while continuing to lead his men, he stepped on a land mine that blew off both of his legs.
Despite his catastrophic wounds, he kept directing his platoon until he was carried to an aid station.
Evacuated to the field hospital, doctors frantically gave him 18 pints of blood to try and save his life.
Before he died, he told the doctor, “Well, Doc, the New York Giants lost a mighty good end today.”
For his extraordinary heroism and selfless leadership, First Lieutenant Jack Lummus was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
Jack Lummus is an American Badass.
Thank you, Lieutenant! 🫡🇺🇸
The World Cup has turned America into a discovery channel for the rest of the world.
And they are not handling it well.
In the best possible way.
Here is what they are discovering:
Free public restrooms. Europeans pay every time.
Free water at every restaurant. Just appears.
Free refills. Coffee. Sodas. Iced tea. Unlimited.
Free chips and salsa before you even order.
Free warm bread with dinner.
Ice in drinks like civilized people.
Air conditioning everywhere. Not a moral debate. A fact.
Parking lots attached to the actual place you are going.
Drive throughs where the food comes to the car while you sit in it.
Ranch dressing by the gallon.
Tex-Mex that cannot be explained only experienced.
Dental care that actually works.
Buccee’s. There are no words for Buccee’s.
Then they found the grocery stores.
Five of them within one mile.
Each one the size of an aircraft hangar.
Burgers. Steaks. Brisket. Ribs. Pulled pork. Lamb. Veal. Every cut of every animal ever domesticated by human civilization available in one refrigerated aisle at ten in the morning on a Tuesday.
The Germans stood in the meat section for forty five minutes.
In silence.
Processing.
They finally understand why we do not have trains.
We have roads wide enough for the cars we actually drive.
Parking lots the size of small European countries.
Airports in every city worth visiting.
Why would we need trains.
The Germans are taking ranch home by the bottle.
The Dutch found queso and briefly lost the ability to speak.
The Japanese are photographing HEB like it is the Louvre.
The Czechs are weeping in West, Texas.
Welcome to America.
Everything is free, enormous, air conditioned, comes with chips, and has five grocery stores within a mile that will sell you any cut of any animal you have ever imagined.
Write that down. 🦋
Flash Shelton, also known as “Squatter Hunter" fights squatters by moving in with them and making the situation so uncomfortable that they leave, helping homeowners retake control.
Flash Shelton was grieving his father and trying to sell his mother's vacant California home when he got the call. Strangers had moved in.
Police told him it was a civil matter and there was nothing they could do. So he figured out how to become their squatter.
Shelton signed a lease from his mother to establish legal tenancy, drove 19 hours, camped outside waiting for the squatters to leave, then went in, secured the back door, installed cameras, and waited for them to return.
When they came back they found him already inside, legally. That method became the foundation of his entire business.
Once hired, his team secures a short-term lease from the homeowner, moves in alongside the squatters, and makes daily life uncomfortable, taking over common areas, playing loud music, and maintaining constant presence, until the intruders choose to leave voluntarily.
"What I used to save my mom's house, I am now using to help homeowners across the country," he said. "I've built a whole team ready to out-squat the squatters."
The legal genius of it is simple, squatters exploit the same tenant protection laws that protect genuine renters. Shelton just decided to use those same laws against them.
if every doctor in the US worked for free, healthcare costs would go down ~8%
meanwhile:
MSOs take ~20–30% of practice revenue
TPA/ASOs take ~10% of insurance premiums
the US has built an enormous economy around healthcare without adding much more care
Chuck Norris held a 183-10-2 record and was a 6x world champion in full contact bare knuckle karate.
On top of that, he beat heavyweight kickboxing world champion Joe Lewis 3 consecutive times and also had a brutal sparring match with undefeated kickboxing world champion, Bill Superfoot Wallace, that lasted an hour and a half. According to Wallace, they practically stalemated and "beat the crap out of each other".
Chuck was trained in kickboxing/boxing by Benny The Jet Urquidez and was also trained in BJJ by the Gracies and Machados for 20 years. Even being able to submit Carlos Machado himself on occasion.
Chuck had a 315 Ibs bench press at 180 lbs bodyweight and was said to have a grip back in the day that nobody could escape from because he was so strong. Even Jean Claude Van Damme said he'd never fight Chuck Norris, despite being a kickboxing world champion himself.
Chuck held a 10th degree black belt in Chun Kuk Do, a 9th degree black belt in Tang Soo Do, an 8th degree black belt in Taekwondo, a 5th degree black belt in Karate, a 3rd degree black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and a black belt in Judo.
Rest in peace, Chuck!