@NUCLRGOLF Playing over double par should be banned. More than 2 practice swings should he banned. Sharing rangefinders should be banned…All things that add up to a 5hr round or more.
Plymouth Colony nearly starved to death under collective ownership until private property saved it.
Half the Mayflower’s passengers died the first winter.
The next two years brought famine under a forced communal system where all food went into a shared store and every family drew the same ration whether they worked hard or barely worked at all.
Understandably, able bodied men resented laboring for people who put in little effort.
So in the spring of 1623 they abandoned the communal system and gave each family its own plot, and “it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been.”
Buddy Guy turns 90 today.
His mother's stroke pulled him from school as a teenager. When he left Louisiana in '57, he promised her he'd make it big and come back in a polka-dot Cadillac. She died before she ever saw his success.
Years later, he had Fender build him a polka-dot guitar to carry her memory everywhere he plays.
Still touring at 90. Damn right, he's still got the blues.
He told his students to go to the windows.
Get out. Jump if you have to.
Then Liviu Librescu walked to the classroom door and pressed his body against it.
He was 76 years old. He weighed 140 lbs
The gunman was in the hallway.
It was April 16, 2007. A Monday morning. Solid mechanics class at Virginia Tech, Room 204. Twenty-two students, most of them 19 or 20 years old.
At 9:45 AM, gunshots echoed through Norris Hall. Room by room, the shooter was working his way down the corridor.
Liviu heard it. He understood immediately.
He had survived the Holocaust. He had survived a labor camp. He had spent decades living under Communist oppression. He knew exactly what evil sounded like.
He told his students to escape through the windows. Second floor — it was a drop, but they'd survive. Then he walked to the door and held it shut with his body.
The shooter tried to force it open. It wouldn't move.
He fired through the door. Wood splintered. Bullets came through.
Liviu stayed.
Behind him, students were climbing out the windows. Dropping to the ground. Running. One by one, all twenty-two of them got out.
The shooter kept firing through the door.
Liviu held it shut until every student was safe.
Then the bullets killed him.
When police arrived, they found his body at the door.
All 22 of his students survived. Not one was injured.
Liviu Librescu was born on August 18, 1930, in Ploiești, Romania.
He was Jewish. In 1941, when he was eleven years old, Romanian authorities sent him and his family to a labor camp. His father died there. Liviu survived. When the war ended, he was fifteen.
He went back to school. Studied engineering. Earned a doctorate from the University of Bucharest.
But Communist Romania had no interest in allowing a Jewish intellectual to succeed. He was blocked from academic positions. Passed over for jobs he deserved. He applied to emigrate. The government kept refusing.
Finally, in 1978 when Liviu was 48 years old — Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin personally intervened. Romania let him go.
He had spent most of his adult life trapped in a country that didn't want him.
In Israel, he taught at Tel Aviv University. Published over 300 papers. Became an international expert in aeroelasticity — the science of how air flows over aircraft wings.
In 1985, Virginia Tech offered him a position. He moved to Blacksburg, Virginia. He taught there for 22 years. His students loved him — demanding but kind, high standards, genuine care.
He was still teaching full-time at 76. Still publishing research. Still showing up every Monday morning for solid mechanics.
April 16 was the first day of Passover — the Jewish holiday celebrating liberation from slavery and oppression.
Liviu Librescu died on the day his tradition sets aside to celebrate freedom.
He spent his entire life escaping death and oppression by luck, by persistence, by the intervention of others. And on his last morning, he chose to stand at a door so that twenty-two young people could have the future he had fought so hard to reach.
He could have run. He could have hidden. He could have climbed out a window with his students.
He chose to stay.
The Virginia Tech shooting killed 32 people that day — the deadliest school shooting in American history at the time.
Room 204 had zero casualties.
Because a 76-year-old Holocaust survivor held a door with his body until every student behind him was gone.
His funeral was held in Israel. Students from Virginia Tech flew across the ocean to honor him. The Israeli government awarded him the Star of David Medal posthumously. Virginia Tech named a scholarship in his memory.
His son said his father died the way he lived — protecting others.
A man who survived everything evil threw at him for 76 years.
On his last day, he made sure 22 kids survived too.
Professor Liviu Librescu. August 18, 1930 — April 16, 2007.
Holocaust survivor. Labor camp survivor.
302 published papers. 22 years at Virginia Tech.
22 students out the window.
He held the door.
🚨🇺🇸The Senate just killed the SAVE Act, 48-50.
Voter ID and proof of citizenship, supported by over 80% of Americans, dead.
Four Republicans voted no: Tillis, Murkowski, McConnell, Collins.
The uniparty showed its face today...
James Madison described the powers of the federal government as “few and defined” and those reserved to the states as “numerous and indefinite.”
We’ve been dangerously drifting from that understanding since the 1930s.
The drift has been most evident in areas now most fraught with waste, fraud, and abuse.
If we honored the Constitution’s limits on federal power, there’d be very little waste, fraud, and abuse in our national government.
Share if you’d like to see a “constitutional reset,” in which any government function that’s not obviously and necessarily federal under the Constitution would be returned “to the states respectively, or to the people,” as the Tenth Amendment specifies.
Nigeria is currently the deadliest place in the world to be a Christian.
Every single day, an average of 35 Christians are murdered — a 5:1 death ratio compared to other religious groups.
Muslim militants are systematically slaughtering Christians in targeted attacks, often as human sacrifices “for the sake of Allah.”
Yet the United Nations, major human rights organizations, and mainstream media remain almost completely silent.
This is a slow-motion genocide — and the world is choosing to look away.
Why is the mass murder of Christians in Nigeria being ignored?
The silence is not just deafening.
It is complicit.
Share this. The truth needs to be heard.
186 Democrats voted AGAINST a bill for mandatory deportation of ILLEGALS who commit FRAUD
Democrats want to keep illegals who commit
Social Security fraud
SNAP EBT fraud
Mail fraud
Conspiracy to defraud the US
Theft or bribery of federal funds
Remember in 2005 when Jeffrey Epstein associate, and plandemic architect of death, Bill Gates briefed the US CIA on how the human brain’s thought mechanisms could be better controlled using drugs and vaccines?
🚨🏌️⏪ #REWIND — Never forget Fred Couples slam dunk on 17 at TPC Sawgrass after he put his first shot in the drink… one of the all time greatest par’s you’ll see.