Scott Orr

[Scott Orr @fsorr]

@EWErickson He’s a great man that has represented South Georgia, agribusiness, and military well. He and his team take their role seriously.

[Scott Orr @fsorr]

Two of my favorites. Actually three if you include Gibson.

[Jim Koenigsberger @Jimfrombaseball]

"Don’t dig in against Bob Gibson, he'll knock you down.
He'd knock down his own grandmother if she dared to challenge him.
Don't stare at him, don't smile at him, don't talk to him.
He doesn't like it.
If you happen to hit a home run, don't run too slow, don't run too fast.
If you happen to want to celebrate, get in the tunnel first.
And if he hits you, DON"T charge the mound, because he's a Gold Glove boxer."
Hank Aaron to rookie Dusty Baker.
"I'm like, damn, what about my seventeen-game hitting streak?
That was the night it ended."
Dusty Baker Baker's mother wanted Dusty to go to college, but young Johnnie B. Baker Jr. had bigger dreams.
So when Baker signed in 1967 to play baseball with the Atlanta Braves at 18 years old, legendary slugger Hank Aaron promised Baker’s mother he would take care of her son.
Hank Aaron made sure Baker went to bed on time, insisted Dusty showed up at church every Sunday and had him up early enough, to eat a good breakfast daily.

[Scott Orr @fsorr]

Nice! It was funny then, and is funny now! I guess it does help that I know the folks in the commercial!

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

This 1982 Miller Lite commercial with Rodney Dangerfield, Dick Butkus, John Madden, Bubba Smith, Deacon Jones & others cannot be topped

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

After Japan battled the Netherlands to a 2-2 draw, the Japanese fans stayed behind and cleaned up every single piece of trash from their section at Dallas Stadium after the game.

[Scott Orr @fsorr]

Worth reading and totally makes sense.

[Handre @Handre]

McDonald's announced they're replacing cashiers with kiosks in California just after the $20 minimum wage kicked in. Shocking to absolutely no one who understands basic economics. When you artificially price labor above its market value, employers find substitutes. Machines, automation, or they simply eliminate positions entirely.

The teenagers who desperately need that first job experience? Gone. The single mother trying to re-enter the workforce after years away? Priced out by someone with more skills. You've just created a legal barrier that prevents the least skilled workers from competing on the one thing they had going for them: willingness to work for less while they build experience.

Politicians pat themselves on the back for "helping workers" while unemployment among young minorities hits double digits. The workers who keep their jobs benefit (temporarily), but the invisible victims, those who never get hired in the first place, don't make headlines. Economics doesn't care about your good intentions.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

It was two in the morning, the hour when even the bravest samurai retires to his bedroll, yet here, a fortress of light beckoned me from the darkness.

Every castle I have ever known has fallen. Fire, siege, taxes. Eight hundred years of my family learning one lesson: nothing stays open forever.

This house has never closed.

Not for storms. Not for holidays. Not for the hour when even the moon looks tired. I asked the waitress when they lock the doors.

"We don't have locks, hon."

No locks. I own walls, moats, and a sword older than this country, and I have never once said anything that powerful.

Inside, a cook was scraping the grill at 2 a.m. with the calm of a man guarding something. I asked if he was the night watch.

"I'm Darnell."

A trucker two stools down raised his coffee. "Place stayed open during the hurricane," he said. "FEMA's got a whole index about it."

An index. The government of this nation measures disasters by whether THIS HOUSE is still standing. In Japan, we measured a clan's strength by its castle. Same thing. Theirs serves waffles.

I ordered. I ate. I confess what happened next.

I did not want to leave. The night outside was large. The booth was warm. I am a grown warrior, and I sat in a yellow fortress at 3 a.m. feeling protected by hash browns.

A castle does not promise to stand forever. It simply leaves the lights on.

I drive past at night now. Just to check. The lights are always on.

Sentries of the griddle — I see you. Hold the line.

[Scott Orr @fsorr]

Very interesting. We should all give this some thought.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Interesting

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

On June 13, 1777, a 19-year-old French teenager landed on a beach in South Carolina, uninvited, to fight in someone else's war. He would become one of the most important men in American history.

The Marquis de Lafayette was one of the richest young aristocrats in France. He had a beautiful wife, a fortune, and zero reason to risk any of it. But he believed in the American cause so fiercely that when the French king forbade him from going, Lafayette bought his own ship and sailed anyway. He literally went AWOL from a life of luxury to bleed for a country that didn't exist yet.

Congress was annoyed at first. Another foreign officer looking for a paycheck? Then Lafayette offered to serve for free and pay his own way. That got their attention.

He met Washington and the two formed one of the great father-son bonds in American history. Washington had no biological children. Lafayette named his only son George Washington Lafayette.

He took a bullet in the leg at Brandywine and kept rallying the retreat. He was instrumental at Yorktown, the battle that won the war. He went home a hero on two continents.

A foreign teenager believed in America before America did. 249 years ago today.

[Cali golfer @Cali_G0lfer]

@DrRitaDed Key words "his wealth". STFU

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

A welder took a $28 an hour job in 2015 at a company he had never heard of.

On Friday, Juan Hernandez became a millionaire.

He spent ten years building the structures that lifted rockets onto the launch pad. SpaceX paid him partly in stock, the way it paid its cooks, machinists, technicians and cafeteria staff, equity instead of bigger salaries. His $10,000 grant grew into $880,000 at the IPO price. The first day pop carried it past a million. He is 42, an immigrant from Mexico, married, three kids. He says he is keeping the job.

He is not the outlier. He is the pattern.

4,400 current and former SpaceX employees became millionaires on Friday. One in five people who ever badged into the company. About 400 of them are walking away with $100 million or more. One employee took every cash bonus in stock instead of money. He is sitting on 50,000 shares, worth more than $8 million at Friday's prices.

And then there is the other side of the cafeteria.

Some employees sold their shares years ago, certain the company would never go public because Musk said he hated public markets. A few traded their stock for restaurant gift cards. The New York Times says they are consumed by regret. Same grant, same building, same years. One group held the claim. The other ate it.

None of the winners can touch the money yet. The first selling window opens after the August earnings report, and the rest unlocks in waves through December.

Underneath all of it sits the only lesson the market ever teaches. The welder and the gift card came from the same place. The difference was never the work. It was the ownership. Salary pays for the month. Equity pays for the era.

A cook in Brownsville just answered the question every buyer of SPCX is asking at $170: what is a claim on this company actually worth?

The piece prices that exact question at $2.2 trillion.

[Scott Orr @fsorr]

@BillAckman @Geiger_Capital @SavvyAuntie Actually, the word “considerable” is a bit too kind.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Saving LA - Phase III

[Scott Orr @fsorr]

@RheinAmacher @mattvanswol Yes!

[Scott Orr @fsorr]

@michelletandler Omg! I saw this, checked mine, and it has the same format! Interestingly, my wife checked hers and it was the “traditional” layout.

[Scott Orr @fsorr]

@EWErickson 😂😂😂

[Scott Orr @fsorr]

@michelletandler In shock as well. And disappointed - maybe disgusted is a better word - that voters don’t use better judgment.

[Scott Orr @fsorr]

@wake_up_girl_3 @ShyCujo I sometimes wonder if they really want to, or do they just don’t know how to break out of the cycle.

[Faber @dfaber84]

Europeans after discovering Waffle House, BBQ, Military Flyovers and Pickup Trucks.

[Scott Orr @fsorr]

@dfaber84 😂😂😂

[Scott Orr @fsorr]

@Mike_Palicz @EdwardLawrence 😂😂😂 great play on words!