If this doesn’t make your heart smile a little as a Penguins fan, I don’t know what to tell you.
Now the 4th Conn Smythe won by that 2009 Pittsburgh Penguins team. What a special group that was.
Regarding California, the right says it was rigged, but the left says they have no evidence. But neither does the left have evidence that it was fair. Maybe if we had fair rules and true accountability things would be different, but those in control now never want to lose it! 🤷🏻♂️
Went to vote today for the California primaries
The guy next to me called over an election worker because his ballot didn't include the LA mayoral race
The worker checked and told him it was because his registered address was in Malibu, which is outside the City of LA
The guy then asked if he could provide another address
To my surprise, the answer was yes
So he gave the worker an LA address, they voided his previous ballot, issued a new one, and suddenly he was able to vote for the mayor of LA
How is voter ID not mandatory in all 50 states?
He flew an unarmed helicopter through 14 hours of relentless enemy fire.
Today we honor Col. Bruce Crandall, who passed away on May 31. Read the true story of the pilot who flew through hell to save his Soldiers. 🧵 (1/7)
On May 31,America lost a great hero,Medal of Honor recipient Colonel Bruce Crandall.He received his medal for his heroic actions as a helicopter pilot during the battle of Ia Drang, November 14, 1965 in South Vietnam. It was an honor to know you Bruce. God bless you sir. You will be missed. Rest in Peace my friend. https://t.co/rJYbQtv08n
This footage came from a home security camera inside a house in Knoxville, Tennessee.
The elderly man in the pajamas is Harold.
He’s 79 years old and lives with a progressive memory condition that sometimes causes severe nighttime confusion something doctors often call “sundowning.”
Late at night, Harold occasionally wakes up believing he still has somewhere important to be.
Work.
An appointment.
A meeting from decades ago.
He’ll quietly get dressed and head toward the front door.
Before last year, it happened several times a week.
Twice, he actually made it outside before his wife Carol could stop him.
Once, a neighbor found him wandering down the street at 11 PM wearing slippers.
The family tried alarms.
Harold learned how to disable them.
Then everything changed because of a dog named Samson.
Samson was a two-year-old Golden Retriever their daughter brought over temporarily after a housing issue.
Nobody expected him to become Harold’s nighttime guardian.
A few weeks after Samson arrived, Carol checked the security footage from the previous night after realizing she hadn’t heard Harold get up.
At 1:17 AM, the camera showed Harold walking slowly toward the front door.
But Samson was already waiting there.
Harold tried to move around him.
Samson stepped sideways and blocked the path.
Harold tried again.
Samson calmly repositioned himself a second time.
Then the dog gently took Harold’s pajama sleeve in his mouth and slowly guided him back down the hallway toward the bedroom.
And Harold followed him.
The family later showed the footage to Harold’s neurologist.
The doctor reportedly watched it twice before explaining:
“This is recognized redirection behavior used for memory-related wandering. The dog is doing it correctly — instinctively — without training.”
Now Samson sleeps at the foot of Harold’s bed every night.
When Harold was told what Samson had been doing for him, he looked at the dog for a long moment and simply said:
“Well… somebody has to look after things around here.”
Sometimes the right soul arrives at exactly the right moment.
And sometimes it walks in on four legs.
"Ted Williams, one of the greatest natural hitters of all time, was retired and giving some tips to the rookies at the Red Sox spring training camp.
One of them asked how to tell apart a curveball from a slider when they were coming in.
Ted Williams replied:
"Oh! That's easy.
If it's a curveball, the red spot you see on the ball will be rotating clockwise - if it's a changeup, counterclockwise."
They all nodded and thanked him for the tip.
One of the rookies turned to the others and said whispered:
"Now who the f*** can even see a red spot on a ball coming at you at 95 mph?"
Then Ted Williams went on to claim that he could tell exactly where on the seams he hit a baseball.
No one believed him.
Ted was long retired at this point.
Williiams took a bat and covered the barrel with pine tar and they started throwing him some pitches.
Ted would hit and say:
"Across the seams" or "between the seams" or "across one seam" or whatever.
They retrieved the balls and found out Ted Williams was right, EVERY single time.
Time I address the elephant in the room…..There I was, trying to enjoy a Mets game like a normal American. And who shows up sitting behind me? THAT WALL-CRAWLING MENACE! And what is he doing? Save the city? OH NO!!! SITTING IN PREMIUM SEATS PROBABLY PAID FOR BY MY TAX DOLLARS!!!
Ever seen a seaplane launch on land?
In northern regions, just like a boat, seaplanes come out of the water for winter storage.
But a true seaplane doesn’t have wheels, so it can’t simply taxi out to the runway and take off once spring time rolls around.
This is one way they can launch.
As the truck accelerates, it gives the aircraft airspeed over the wings, which is the basic ingredient every airplane needs to fly.
Once the truck hits about 65-70 mph, the wings produce enough lift to fly and the pilot can lift right off the trailer to head back to the water.
Pretty cool to watch.
Credit: Vonda S. 🎥