Amidst the wreckage of hijacked Flight 93 near Shanksville, Pa., recovery crews found the watch of passenger Todd Beamer. The watch’s date-keeper still reads 11. Todd’s watch was donated to the #911Museum by his family.
Day 150 Respectfully asking the @TheMasters
how player access works throughout the year. Outside of the tournament week, do any players have special access to the course or practice areas? Ninety percent of the membership does not live in Augusta, so is it really true that players need to be accompanied by a member for practice rounds? If so, do certain players have more access to the membership than others? Do you think that creates a competitive advantage? You are one of four tournaments that matter for history and the only one that hosts a major every single year, so it is important to understand the inner workings in order to judge history more accurately. Golf is a fractional sport. If one percent of the field has more access, that creates gigantic fractional advantages that change the coloring of what a Green Jacket means compared to a Claret Jug or US Open trophy. To be clear, this is not an accusation of anything nefarious. It is more of just wanting some clarity on how one of, if not the most important, tournaments in the world operates. Thank you.
🇺🇸 The Boatlift That Was Bigger Than Dunkirk
At 10:45 a.m. on September 11, 2001, a Coast Guard lieutenant named Mike Day keyed a radio in New York Harbor and said the only sentence that mattered.
“All available boats. This is the United States Coast Guard. Anyone wanting to help with the evacuation of Lower Manhattan, report to Governors Island.”
The boats were already coming.
The bridges were closed. The tunnels were closed. The subways were dead. South of the towers, hundreds of thousands of people had nowhere left to walk. Some jumped into the Hudson. Some stood on seawalls that were never meant to be docks and waited for anything that floated.
Dunkirk took nine days to pull 338,226 Allied soldiers off a beach in 1940.
On 9/11, roughly 800 mariners on about 150 vessels moved as many as 500,000 civilians off Manhattan in about nine hours. Ferries. Tugs. Dinner boats. Pilot boats. Yachts. A retired fireboat. Rubber dinghies that held two people. The largest water evacuation in history.
NY Waterway did not wait for the official call. After the second plane hit, the whole fleet moved. Captain Rick Thornton nosed his ferry against a seawall that was not a slip and started taking people off. Some of them he pulled out of the river. His company alone carried about 158,000 people to Jersey City, Hoboken, Weehawken, Brooklyn, and Queens.
On a normal Tuesday they carried 34,000.
The Staten Island Ferry moved more than 50,000 people and came back the other way with water, bandages, and men who still had work to do in the dust.
The old fireboat John J. Harvey, already retired, tied up near the Museum of Jewish Heritage, took civilians off the seawall, then pumped water when the hydrants downtown died.
Lt. Day later admitted what the day required. “I broke more rules that day than probably I’ve enforced in my whole Coast Guard career.”
In raw numbers it was bigger than Dunkirk. No boat went down. By nightfall the southern tip of Manhattan had been emptied by people who were not on anyone’s list of heroes when the morning started.
They were tug captains. Ferry deckhands. Pilots. A lieutenant with a microphone. Ordinary boats answering one sentence.
All available boats.
Day 149 Respectfully asking the @TheMasters
how player access works throughout the year. Outside of the tournament week, do any players have special access to the course or practice areas? Ninety percent of the membership does not live in Augusta, so is it really true that players need to be accompanied by a member for practice rounds? If so, do certain players have more access to the membership than others? Do you think that creates a competitive advantage? You are one of four tournaments that matter for history and the only one that hosts a major every single year, so it is important to understand the inner workings in order to judge history more accurately. Golf is a fractional sport. If one percent of the field has more access, that creates gigantic fractional advantages that change the coloring of what a Green Jacket means compared to a Claret Jug or US Open trophy. To be clear, this is not an accusation of anything nefarious. It is more of just wanting some clarity on how one of, if not the most important, tournaments in the world operates. Thank you.
Michigan got away w/ 2 holds, facemask, roughing the kicker, a hail mary ball called dead when the Western guy caught it in midair (which is never enforced on that play), & they got a phantom second back on the clock, all in the last 3 mins of the game. That’s not a coincidence.
I don’t know why people are demanding that @edsheeran drop Macklemore from his tour. Macklemore has made his Jew hatred well known for years. Ed knew who he hired, so he is clearly ok with it.
Make sure you’re sitting down for this…
Ohio Judge Tammie K. Hursh just sentenced Haitian illegal Yvio Michel to just 20 DAYS in jail after he caused a crash that kiIIed a father and his son
20 days for kiIIing Hurshel Gipson and his 11-year-old son, Michael.
This is NOT justice.
Day 148 Respectfully asking the @TheMasters how player access works throughout the year. Outside of the tournament week, do any players have special access to the course or practice areas? Ninety percent of the membership does not live in Augusta, so is it really true that players need to be accompanied by a member for practice rounds? If so, do certain players have more access to the membership than others? Do you think that creates a competitive advantage? You are one of four tournaments that matter for history and the only one that hosts a major every single year, so it is important to understand the inner workings in order to judge history more accurately. Golf is a fractional sport. If one percent of the field has more access, that creates gigantic fractional advantages that change the coloring of what a Green Jacket means compared to a Claret Jug or US Open trophy. To be clear, this is not an accusation of anything nefarious. It is more of just wanting some clarity on how one of, if not the most important, tournaments in the world operates. Thank you.
Sixty-two years and $22 trillion later, the U.S. poverty rate sits at roughly 11 percent, almost identical to where Lyndon Johnson found it in 1964. The government ran the most expensive social experiment in human history and produced nothing measurable. Bureaucracies perpetuate themselves, and this policy worked exactly as designed.
When Washington transfers purchasing power to the poor through SNAP, Medicaid, housing vouchers, and 126 other overlapping programs, it doesn't eliminate scarcity; it relocates decision-making from individuals to administrators. Those administrators develop career interests in perpetuating dependency, because a solved problem eliminates their department.
Free market thinkers identified this perverse incentive structure before Johnson signed the Economic Opportunity Act. Every dollar taxed from productive activity carries a deadweight cost before it reaches anyone's dinner table.
Capital formation lifts people out of poverty. You build wealth through savings, property rights, and voluntary exchange, none of which $22 trillion in redistributed spending actually produced.