I shall B telling ths w/ a sigh Somewhere ages & ages hence:2 roads diverged in a wood, & I—I took the 1 less traveled by,& that has made all the difference.
The Road Not Taken
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You’re pulling out of your driveway with your kids.
A car blocks you in. Men jump out and open fire.
Thankfully, you are armed. You fire back and kill one. The rest run.
That happened Oct. 9 in Pinetown, South Africa. Police opened cases of attempted murder and attempted carjacking.
Imagine what would have happened if the father hadn’t had a gun on him.
Guns save lives.
I’ve been watching M*A*S*H now for a while thanks for the spoiler lol 😂 my grandfather always said that show was more realistic about the Korean conflict than anything else he’d ever seen
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The fire that destroyed the MASH* camp during the series finale wasn't staged. It was REAL.
While filming Goodbye, Farewell and Amen, an actual wildfire swept through the outdoor 4077th set at the Fox Ranch in California, destroying the camp.
Rather than abandon the storyline, the writers worked the disaster into the finale in just six days!
So when you watched the 4077th evacuate because of a fire, you were seeing a storyline inspired by something that had actually happened to the production.
MASH* said goodbye on February 28, 1983—but even Mother Nature had a hand in that unforgettable farewell. ❤️
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NEW: The Pentagon has granted the Department of Homeland Security permission to test a heat ray weapon at the southern border.
The military-grade heat ray can shoot an invisible beam of electromagnetic waves at potential intruders.
The weapon can reach people more than half a mile away, according to the United States military.
According to the Pentagon, the heat ray weapon is non-lethal but causes a burning sensation on the skin that can last between 10 and 15 minutes.
The weapon sends an uncomfortable tingling effect on a potential intruder, generating "an instinctive and irresistible urge to run from the effect."
Officials say the feeling is similar to the blast of heat you receive when you open up a hot oven.
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On this day: 71 years ago, company test pilot Cariton B. Ardery made the first flight of the Republic F-105 Thunderchief (October 22, 1955). Originally developed as a low-altitude nuclear attack aircraft, the big, tough and fast F-105 quickly evolved into a multi-role fighter, equally apt at shooting down MiGs, dropping bombs, and hunting SAMs over the hostile skies of Vietnam. It became a true icon of the 1960s.
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How do you call yourself Christian and ignore the genocide of Christians in Nigeria for 25 years since it began on the same day as 9/11? A quarter of a century has passed, over a hundred thousand innocent men, women & children murdered and churches have done very little. The Pope/Vatican are a disgrace.
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A stunning spiral galaxy, NGC 247, glows with a tight, brilliant core in the constellation Cetus.
Captured by Roberto Edelmaier and Gabriel Gegenbauer, this image reveals the galaxy’s graceful arms in rich LRGB+Ha colors. The photograph was taken with a 250-mm reflector at a remote observatory under the clear, dark skies of Namibia.
Do you blame him?
In 1806, John Colter was on his way home with the Lewis and Clark expedition after two years in the wilderness. He was a few weeks from civilization. He asked permission to leave early, turned around, and went right back into the mountains with two trappers.
Over the winter of 1807 to 1808, he traveled alone through hundreds of miles of unmapped country with a 30 pound pack and a rifle. He came back talking about boiling springs, steam shooting out of the ground, and the smell of sulfur. Nobody believed him. People started calling the place "Colter's Hell." He's now considered the first white man to see parts of what became Yellowstone.
Then it got worse.
In 1808, Colter and his partner John Potts were trapping beaver along the Jefferson River in Montana when several hundred Blackfeet warriors surrounded them. Potts fired and was killed instantly.
The Blackfeet stripped Colter completely naked, took his shoes, and gave him a short head start. Then they let their young men chase him.
He ran barefoot across a plain covered in prickly pear cactus, for miles, with the soles of his feet shredding. He ran so hard that blood poured out of his nose and down his chest. When he finally looked back, only one warrior was still close.
Colter stopped, turned around, and faced him. The warrior lunged with his spear, stumbled, and the spear snapped. Colter grabbed the point and killed him with it, then kept running.
He reached the river and dove under a pile of driftwood. He stayed hidden there, mostly underwater, while the Blackfeet searched the banks for hours.
That night he swam downstream and started walking. Naked, no weapon, no food, feet full of cactus. He lived on roots and covered roughly 200 miles before stumbling into a trading fort, where the men there didn't even recognize him.
And then he went back out trapping anyway.
After a few more close calls, he finally quit, moved to Missouri, got married, and died a few years later. Of all the men on the Lewis and Clark expedition, he's the one who never wanted to leave the frontier.
I was a bartender before I was old enough to drink 🍹
Norm Macdonald told a story on Conan in 1996 that takes several minutes to reach a punchline about a turtle.
The setup sounds ordinary. A drunk man walks into a bar and wants to throw a dart.
But Norm isn't just telling a joke.
He's teaching the audience how long they'll follow him before they realize where he's taking them.
