TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

Land of Whispering Pines 🌲

Good morning! May the Great Spirit bless you 🙏

I may not be sharing much news today because I thought this topic could be of critical value for someone. To give this topic at least an honest thought.

TODAY'S TOPIC:

Empathy & Indigo:

I began this argument back in 2000.

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None of the following is or has ever been a scientifically proven fact to be addressed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, used for the diagnosis of brain disorders. Psychiatric charts utilize a wide range of standardized descriptors to assess a patient's mental status, symptoms, and overall odd or different functioning than normal.

That's the problem with proving things that can only be felt within the person, "feeling it, then forming a mental image of the observed concept from what your imagination forms from the not just observed information, but also felt, like an octopus feeling the outside edges of its prey with its tentacles before squeezing. This process happens in the blink of an eye. Like the hero or heroin saving the child from getting run over by the bus, yes, an instinct, you don't have time to think, or twitch in your clothes, you have to react instantly. Don't worry about how? Not until it's already done.

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Empaths:

Empaths are highly sensitive individuals who can deeply feel other people's emotions, are often intuitive and introverted, and become drained by crowds and intense environments. They have a strong connection to nature, which helps them recharge, and they are also deeply connected to animals.*My feelings are finally attuned to all the details in the natural world that many can't see or feel.

My Personal Experience:

I didn't even know there was a name for anything like what I felt, except for ESP, extra-sensory perception. And if you mentioned that word back in the day, everyone would have looked at you strangely, as if they were expecting antennas to grow out of the back of your head.

So I kept it to myself and ignored it. Of course, that's another normal Trumpo the Orange Clown's reaction; shut it off! Like he pulls out his Colt .45 and shoots the TV. "That will fix the fake news," he says as he walks away, blowing the smoke from his six-shooter. Big Man! Then he disappears in a puff of dust, stage left, behind the curtains to wank like a nasty little sadistic kid.

"The announcer on the TV, on its dying signal, says, ' That should do it for the news tonight, folks." The announcer coughed and held his chest as the signal faded out. Then, the TV sits in the corner, spread-eagled, its screen shattered, spiderweb-like, with a hole in the center. Expectantly, I continued to watch with hope to see the spider 🕷 come out with its six shooters a blazin', as the smoke drifts lazily upwards, revealing the form of... "Wow! It's Spider Woman!" 🕷 👩‍🎤 The crowd shouts as she stands, statuesquely like a bright beacon at the center of the ruins of her enemy, who lies defeated at her feet.

At the bottom of the screen hung a relatively large tongue, lying limp on the floor, and a little arm sticking out from the side, with a small sign that read, "Ya Gots Me Boss!" That's OK in cartoons. I doubt AI could follow me in cartoon land, like Johnny Depp does. ☠️ about as dangerous as a stubbed toe.😄

I didn't begin to understand what empathy was, even though it was only skin deep, until I sobered up on my 47th birthday. 33 years of sobriety this year. Those 33 years have been the most incredible journey of my entire life—learning who I am inside, and what makes me who I am.

Some people attract animals. Anyone has the potential to be the flower for the honey bee, but they don't seem interested in visiting that part of themselves. They fear it, or they simply don't have it. I had a friend who loved all animals. She cared for stray and feral dogs and cats, and whenever I visited her place, they would flock around me. She couldn't understand why, because she fed them! Most domestic animals don't appear uncertain or show fear,

🐷 🐴 🐓 🦡 🐈 🐩 🦮 🐱 🦜 🐢 🐠

Not even the wild ones, such as birds, squirrels, raccoons, and skunks, etc.

🦔 🐭 🐰 🐿 🦊 🐮 🐦 🦆 🦅 🦉 🦝 🦌 🦨

The same with insects, even the stinging ones, but they don't sting, they just visit.

🐝 🐛 🐞 🐜 🪰 🪲 🪳 🦟 🦗 🦋 🕷 🦂 🪱 👾

Same with reptiles, they stop to visit, flick their forked or long, sticky tongues at you, just to look at you, then move on their way.

🦎 🐍 🐢 🐊 🐉 🦐 🦀 🐍 🦂 🐛 🐌 🐸

Animals, insects, reptiles, we have a mutual understanding: I won't hurt you if you don't hurt me. 🙇‍♀️

After all, I'm an Entomology enthusiast.

You may have heard of the Term Indigo Children.

Surely you already know what empathy and empath is?

Could the traits of an empath and an indigo be simply a by-product of the other? The same, just in a different evolutionary stage

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My own Observation on Empaths and Indigos:

Empaths and individuals with "indigo" traits share several similarities, primarily stemming from a high degree of sensitivity, intuition, and a strong awareness of energy and emotions. Many sources suggest that being an indigo often includes empathic qualities, creating a significant overlap in their characteristics... I can see where one could have borrowed from the other, and since the Indigo Children are relatively recent, there is nothing to prove scientifically except for parts of their traits having a similarity to those of the Empath.

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Empathy:

In a general psychological context, empathy itself is a real phenomenon, and some research suggests that how empathetic a person is might be partly influenced by genetics (such as the OXTR gene, which is associated with the hormone oxytocin)

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Indigo Child:

While many of the descriptions of "indigo children" include them being empathic, they are not the same concept. Empathy is a trait (which can be described as a spiritual "gift" in the New Age framework, or a psychological trait with a potential genetic component in a scientific one), while an "indigo child" is a specific identity within New Age beliefs, often associated with a mission to challenge existing systems.

BREAKING NEWS:

Jeff Bezos-funded Blue Origin aims for Mars in the first big test of its New Glenn rocket

Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Amazon multibillionaire Jeff Bezos, is set for another attempt to launch its towering New Glenn rocket on a mission that will mark its first major test.

Carrying a pair of satellites that are destined to take a long, winding trip to Mars, New Glenn is scheduled to take flight from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station during a launch window that runs from 2:57 to 4:25 p.m. ET Thursday. Blue Origin is expected to host a livestream of the event about 20 minutes prior to takeoff...

• A landmark Mars mission:

As in January, Blue Origin will once again attempt to recover New Glenn’s first-stage booster, which is the bottommost portion of the rocket that gives the vehicle its initial burst of power at liftoff, by aiming to land it on a seafaring barge called Jacklyn.

PUBLISHED Nov 13, 2025, 12:45 PM ET - 1 hr 23 min ago

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CANADIAN NEWS:

Carney in B.C. to unveil next list of recommended nation-building projects

New list going to Major Projects Office to include mines, LNG, Iqaluit hydro, sources say

Prime Minister Mark Carney is in northern B.C. on Thursday to announce the latest slew of nation-building projects that'll be sent to the newly created Major Projects Office (MPO) in efforts to fast-track infrastructure approvals. On Tuesday, CBC News reported that at least three projects focused on critical mineral extraction, one for exporting liquefied natural gas (LNG), and at least one transmission project, according to sources who spoke on condition of anonymity.

• There will be a total of at least six projects, including:
• The Sisson Mine, for critical minerals, in New Brunswick:
• The Crawford Nickel project in Ontario:
• The Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas project in British Columbia:
• An Iqaluit hydro project:
• The Nouveau Monde Graphite Phase 2 project in Quebec:

Posted: Nov 13, 2025 4:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 10 hours ago

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I pray you all be well and blessed.

The Truth About Empathy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5UP872IeYA

 

TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

Land of Whispering Pines 🌲

Good morning! May the Great Spirit bless you 🙏

Another cloudy, rainy morning, damp and cool, but that's okay. I'm going nowhere. I can sit in this lovely, warm room and look outside at the gloom, sticking my tongue out at it.

I feel much better than I did yesterday. I don't know what that was. Maybe I was picking up on all the negativity after the disappointment of the Democrats "caving" to the Republican Dunce Cadets. What appeared to be a capitulation by eight Democrats turned out to be something far less damaging. I might write about that soon.

Also, I forgot to do some math. It's a little over eight weeks until Congress must vote to fund government operations. If there is no agreement on funding, another shutdown may occur. I heard on MSNBC TV that the Dems could carry over the problem with the Obamacare tax credits to reduce the pain of the premium increases on its subscribers and reintroduce it in the next funding bill, which is on Jan 30, 2026

So it's not dead, for now, it is only lying dormant. The Dems now have a sleeping lion or a dead lion, depending on what they decide to do with this sleeping lion.

IF DEMS ARE NOT ASLEEP for the next eight weeks, they will have time to do something other than boost their image; it's already busted. For the Democrats, it should be like playing chess, studying the opponent, in this case, the opponent is none other than the Fat Orange Kink of Bizarromerica, the Land of the Slaves. The real trick is not just to cage. They must checkmate the Kink of Bizarromerica and identify the mastermind or minds, the engineers, and the puppeteers behind this crooked cross held by white men with crooked tongues, and see this crooked cross pandemic thing blow over.

Even then, which I doubt will happen that quickly, with the foot-dragging judges who will purposely go with the flow of the momentum to carry them over to the end of the statute of limitations, which will in turn carry us over the line, where everyone will feel the power of the crooked cross to varying degrees, not to mention some of who became victims of the epidemic of people falling off balconies. Don't forget that it was by your own choice,

👮‍♂️ 👩‍⚕️ 👩‍🌾 🧑‍🌾 👩‍🎓 👳‍♂️ 🧕 👨‍🦰 👶 👧 👼 🙋‍♀️ 💃 🕺 🧎‍♀️ 🏃‍♀️ 👨‍👨‍👧‍👦 👩 💁 💏 👩‍❤️‍👩 👭

"WE, THE PEOPLE CHOSE THIS ORANGE COCROACH FOR OUR LEADER, THEN WE *CHOSE TO ALLOW* THIS MESS!"

THEN JUST CHOSE TO SIT ON OUR HANDS AND MUMBLE OUR DISATISFACTION.

ALL I CAN SAY IS: GET OFF YOUR HANDS AND TAKE THE MASKING TAPE OFF YOUR MOUTH, and stick the tape where the sun doesn't shine, where whiteman is always white.* And you don't need Colgate! Maybe you need the Colgate after you took too much Milk of Magnesia

Me Not Whiteman, Not Injun, nor aboriginal, nor Enuit, nor Chinamen either, Newfoundlander, Not even of the species of Australopithecus which was ancestral to Homosapian, etc. Me MARTIAN! 🟠 👽 I believe we are ancestral to the species, the Sandworms of Tatooine. -Star Wars- 🪐 🏜 🐉

Sandworms have a forked tongue 🔱 👅 and very sharp teeth 👹 🦷 like a snake, 🐍

BREAKING NEWS:

House expected to vote today on ending record-long government shutdown

About 890 flights within the US have been canceled as of 11 a.m. ET, tracking data shows, and more than 750 flights have been delayed.

The country’s top airlines preemptively canceled hundreds of flights in response to the Federal Aviation Administration’s emergency order for flight operations to be cut by 6% at 40 major airports.

• Southwest Airlines:
• Delta Air Lines:
• United Airlines:
• American Airlines:

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36 min ago

Speaker Johnson says GOP is "very optimistic" about government funding vote

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25 min ago

Airline industry urges US House to vote to reopen government ahead of Thanksgiving travel

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54 min ago

Air traffic control staffing issues reported at two FAA facilities Wednesday morning

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1 hr 10 min ago

House expected to begin voting in the 5 p.m. ET hour to reopen the government

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Updated 11:22 AM EST, Wed November 12, 2025

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Epstein mentioned Trump multiple times in private emails, new release shows

Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex offender whose death by suicide has spawned intense scrutiny of the high-profile people he knew, mentioned Donald Trump by name multiple times in private correspondence over the last 15 years with an associate and an author in Trump’s orbit, according to newly released emails from Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.

The emails to longtime Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of sex trafficking after Epstein’s death, and the author Michael Wolff include conversations in which Epstein asserts Trump spent significant time with a woman whom Oversight Democrats describe as a victim of Epstein’s sex trafficking.

The emails also include a message in which Epstein asserts Trump “knew about the girls” — seemingly in reference to Trump’s claim that he kicked Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club for poaching young women who worked there, according to the newly released emails.

The emails were released Wednesday by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, who obtained them after subpoenaing Epstein’s estate earlier this year. Trump did not receive or send any of the messages, which largely predated his time as president, and he has not been accused of any criminal wrongdoing in connection with Epstein or Maxwell.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt criticized Democrats on the House Oversight Committee for releasing the messages, claiming the members “selectively leaked emails to the liberal media to create a fake narrative to smear President Trump.” ...

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Updated Nov 12, 2025, 11:33 AM ET - Updated 3 min ago

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CANADIAN NEWS:

Ukrainian university students who fled war get a tuition break in Sask. That could soon change

A funding deal keeping universities affordable for Ukrainian students is scheduled to expire in 2026

When Ivan Teteria walked across the University of Saskatchewan campus for his first week of classes this fall, it felt like proof that everything he’d worked for was finally paying off. Three years earlier, as the war in Ukraine escalated, he left home and arrived in Regina as a 15-year-old, unsure of the life ahead of him.

In a new city, he tried to rebuild a sense of normalcy with school, friends, and a future he could plan for. That future proved to be within reach with the help of a Saskatchewan program allowing Ukrainian students who fled the war to pay the same tuition as Canadians. ...

• Fears over rising costs:
• Calls for renewal:

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Posted: Nov 12, 2025 9:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 29 minutes ago

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Another air sandwich. 🪽 🥪 Thank you, Government of Canada, SPEED IT UP, eh! Maybe we can catch up to Bizarromerica.

~ HERE IS SOMETHING WORTH POSTING TODAY ~

Updated4 minutes ago

Conservationist Jane Goodall being remembered at Washington funeral

Renowned anthropologist, chimpanzee researcher died early last month

The Latest

Funeral services for conservationist Jane Goodall are underway at the Washington National Cathedral.

Goodall died in early October at the age of 91

Goodall’s chimpanzee field research fundamentally altered how

scientists understand the endangered primates, and how humankind understands its place in the world.

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio paid tribute to his "dear friend" as "absolutely unstoppable."

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' Together we must change this world,' says Jane's grandson

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'Absolutely unstoppable,' says Leo

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'A seeker of knowledge and truth'

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Updated November 12, 2025 - 4 minutes ago

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Bless Her Soul!

Jane Goodall: An Inside Look (Full Documentary) | National Geographic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3b6zSpy7P4

 

TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

Land of Whispering Pines 🌲

Good morning! May the Great Spirit bless you 🙏

Well, I don't have much for the News today. To start, I had a peculiarly weird morning. I felt somewhat disoriented and was literally bouncing off things, so I decided to go back to bed. It was snowing, and the last memory I had was of thinking of saying to Bobbie McGee, my imaginary friend, "Please turn off the day and hang up my hat on the peg on your way out the door. Thank you."

I didn't get up until 9:30 a.m., and was still reluctant to do so, seeing it was still flaking some flakes of snow outside. It felt so alluring to just remain under the Bear, in my nice warm bed. I call my nice furry blanket "The Bear." I am doing OK now, but I'm getting a late start to who knows where?.*_

Now it appears I have somehow lost my topic of the day, so, for now, it's a huntin' we will go.

Well, I guess my manuscript went by-bys. Like my head, fart in a mitt. 💨 🧤 Poof! 🤣 "Kapootskie! Gone with the wind!" 🌬 Eh! Perhaps this is a good day for Old Farts DAY OFF. 👴 (‿ˠ‿) 💨

What is the latest with the*_ *Canadian budget?* So far: An air sandwich. 🪽 🥪

Reopening of the American Government: why bother, the ratfink has three months to kill more of it, another air sandwich, unless the Democrats use those two months to their advantage. Otherwise, it's just another air sandwich. 🪽 🥪 We have enough air sandwiches since the Orange Pus Bag 😡 🫟 🧳 has some half-assed (_1/2_) notion to replace all the aircraft at all airports and go Airsandwich 🪽 🥪 Travel instead. or (‿I

Now, about:

Ontario, Hiring American Doctors.

Is Ontario serious about this, or is this just another air sandwich?

Latest Report:

Over 260 Quebec doctors apply for Ontario licences in weeks following Bill 2

Ontario favourable over 'draconian' new law, despite similar resource pressures, anesthesiologist says

Over 250 Quebec doctors are applying to be able to work in Ontario, according to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. The surge of applications is happening in the wake of a controversial bill reforming doctors’ pay, which was passed on Oct. 25 in Quebec.

In just over two weeks, the CPSO saw over 13 times more applicants than the 19 total received from June 1 to Oct. 22 this year, according to data provided in a statement to CBC Toronto. As of Monday morning, 263 Quebec doctors had applied to be licensed in Ontario since Oct. 23, according to the statement. Of those 263 applicants, 35 have been approved for certificates, the CPSO said.

• Law's 'gag order effects' pushing doctors to Ontario:
• Doctors needed in both provinces:

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Posted: Nov 11, 2025 4:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 12 hours ago

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Over 260 Quebec doctors apply for Ontario licences in weeks following Bill 2

Ontario favourable over 'draconian' new law, despite similar resource pressures, anesthesiologist says

Over 250 Quebec doctors are applying to be able to work in Ontario, according to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. The surge of applications is happening in the wake of a controversial bill reforming doctors’ pay, which was passed on Oct. 25 in Quebec. In just over two weeks, the CPSO saw over 13 times more applicants than the 19 total received from June 1 to Oct. 22 this year, according to data provided in a statement to CBC Toronto.

As of Monday morning, 263 Quebec doctors had applied to be licensed in Ontario since Oct. 23, according to the statement. Of those 263 applicants, 35 have been approved for certificates, the CPSO said...

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Posted: Nov 11, 2025 4:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 12 hours ago

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And, yes Ontario still has it's head up it's arse!

October 15, 2025

Canadian doctors call on Ontario government to reconsider new residency policy

The Canadian Medical Association and the College of Family Physicians of Canada are adding their voices to the growing number of organizations urging the Ontario Government to re-evaluate the recently announced requirements for international medical graduates (IMGs) seeking residency positions in Ontario. This policy disqualifies IMGs who did not go to high school in Ontario from applying in the first round for residency training.

With the academic year already underway and the application window half-way through, international medical graduates have already initiated the process for this match at significant expense and time-commitment. These applicants are already Canadian citizens or permanent residents residing in Canada and often work in healthcare. At a time when every effort is being made to attract more family physicians, the abrupt policy change for IMGs will destabilize family medicine programs in Ontario. The government is urged to postpone this ill-timed policy.

With this solution mindset, we urge the Ontario government to reassess these restrictive measures until further consultation can be conducted properly and an appropriate evaluation of the unintended consequences can be completed.

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Posted October 15, 2025

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Personally, I think one may as well hang a sign that SAYS

"AMERICAN DOCTORS ARE NOT WANTED!

ONTARIO DOESN'T NEED DOCTORS!"

Canadian Medical Association

Another Airsandwich. 🪽 🥪

Come on, Canada, 🍁 grow a backbone and fight. Elbows Up! 💪

It’s time to choose Canada

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lj-Qf-ghIo

 

TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

Land of Whispering Pines 🌲

Good Morning! May Great Spirit bless 🙏

Not a good morning weather-wise; it's cloudy, with a mix of rain and snow, grey, gloomy, damp, and cold. The heat in the building went out yesterday afternoon, and I took out my little micro heater, which I had only used once since it was new, when we were living in B.C. about ten years ago. We also have a large floor model electric heater, which would have been overkill last night. That micro heater kept the entire living room and kitchen comfortably warm all evening. It works as advertised. I can run that one on the Solar Generator if need be.

I also have two Coleman heaters, a lamp, and a Coleman stove for backup in case the hydro goes out. Bought another small Solar Generator battery pack, about the size of two Kleenex boxes put together, which is suitable for running an electric blanket and other small electrical appliances, such as an electric toothbrush, or any other personal electric appliance, and a light, either one of the portable rechargeable lights or the type that plugs into the generator. The small light is ideal for use in the bedroom and bathroom.

So anyway, that is how you can turn an ordinary apartment into a real-life survival shelter for only a couple of thousand dollars. And please note: The fewer people who know about your private shelter, the better and safer you will be.

BREAKING NEWS:

Democratic unity fractures, paving the way for the government to reopen

Enough Democrats caved.

A Sunday night Senate deal may be on the verge of resolving the longest government shutdown on record — after a group of moderate Democrats dropped their key demand — a guaranteed extension of Obamacare subsidies.

The agreement opened the way for a Senate vote in which eight Democratic defectors voted to break the filibuster and to clear the first hurdle to reopening the government after nearly six weeks. Their move will offer relief to millions of Americans whose lives have been severely disrupted by the shutdown. But the compromise was opposed by some key party leaders and is already igniting a firestorm of protests from progressives who accuse their more moderate colleagues of disastrously backing down, handing President Donald Trump a victory, and turning their backs on millions of Americans who can't afford spiking health care premiums.

• A 'political disaster':
• Trump didn't cave, but he may have badly damaged his brand anyway:

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Updated Nov 10, 2025, 2:05 AM ET - Updated 7 hr ago

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A political disaster, they say? It was more like a HOBSON'S CHOICE!

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"Hobson's choice" is a situation where there is a free choice, but only one option is actually available

Now we have a dead Political Party on our hands. The democratic Party no longer exists; it has just taken the gas pipe. 💨 🪈

Well, I'm sorry to say, that this *is* a POLITICAL DISASTER! I fear the Democrats have fought their last battle and have lost. Any hope now of having any kind of normalcy in the US has just been shot up the butt by the cowardly Dems.

Now EVERYONE BOWS DOWN TO THE NICE UGLY 💩 FACED wanna be DICTATOR. EVERYONE PLEASE BOW DOWN to the nice ugly Fat Orange-Pus-Bag, evil narcissist, psychopathic, sadistic, sick, apathetic, selfish, mass murdering pedophiles. And I guess you guys in the US are still in love with these CARRION MEAT-EATING Vampire Vultures. 🦇

YOU, CANADA 🍁 if you, all of the provinces, don't begin working together and establish a stable commerce among yourselves and with other nations, all other nations, EXCEPT THE US, we will fail! WE are not working hard enough to distance ourselves from them. The more we "F" around with them, the more we will get sucked in slowly by the wake of their already sinking nation south of us. Titanic is sinking while Carney rearranges the deck chairs, one at a time, while that Black Hole across the border keeps on a suckin'. Too much squabbling among provinces and NOT ENOUGH ACTION. AND A BIG "F!" on the "F'n" money it will cost. Pay whatever is necessary to keep the country afloat!

What we spend will pay back dividends, especially our freedom of thought and action, which no one can put a price tag on, as well as love and caring for one another. That is what is much more critical for our survival, not money; you can't eat money. If the monetary system is failing, then we need to develop a new system.

BREAKING NEWS:

Supreme Court declines to revisit landmark same-sex marriage precedent

The Supreme Court on Monday declined an opportunity to overturn its landmark precedent recognizing a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, tossing aside an appeal that had roiled LGBTQ advocates who feared the conservative court might be ready to revisit the decade-old decision.

Instead, the court denied an appeal from Kim Davis, the former Kentucky county clerk who now faces hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages and legal fees for refusing to issue marriage licenses after the court’s decision in Obergefell v. Hodges allowed same-sex couples to marry. The court did not explain its reasoning to deny the appeal, which had received outsized attention – in part because the court’s 6-3 conservative majority three years ago overturned Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion that 1973 decision established. Since then, fears about Obergefell being the precedent to fall have grown.

“Today, love won again,” said Kelley Robinson, president of the Human Rights Campaign. “When public officials take an oath to serve their communities, that promise extends to everyone – including LGBTQ+ people. The Supreme Court made clear today that refusing to respect the constitutional rights of others does not come without consequences.” ...

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Updated Nov 10, 2025, 10:13 AM ET - Updated 14 min ago

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CANADIAN NEWS:

Canada loses measles elimination status

Public Health Agency of Canada says outbreak has persisted for over 12 months

-A file photo of the measles virus under a microscope. (-CBC- News)-

The Latest:

Canada has lost its measles elimination status, the Public Health Agency of Canada says.

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) notified PHAC that Canada no longer holds its status.

Since the fall of 2024, Canada has recorded more than 5,000 measles cases in nine provinces and one territory.

Canada can re-establish its measles elimination status once the current outbreak is interrupted for at least 12 months.

Updates

November 10

5 minutes ago

• A 'giant wakeup call':

What does losing this status mean for Canada? Infectious disease specialist Dr. Isaac Bogoch believes the consequences are twofold: it "bruises" the country's public health reputation and "it's a giant wake-up call that we have gaps in our public health infrastructure."

Updated November 10, 2025 - 2 minutes ago ...

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How does a country gain or lose measles elimination status?

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Update 10, 2025 - 20 minutes ago

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Over Claims Of Extortion

Peterson Spring court filing claims it can’t afford to ship parts below cost to produce them in Woodstock

Stellantis and one of its Canadian auto suppliers are battling in court over the price of brake rotors in a dispute that threatens to shutter multiple auto assembly plants in the U.S. Peterson Spring says in a court filing it can’t afford to ship the parts to the automaker at a price it claims is below the cost to produce them at its facility in Woodstock, Ont.

Lawyers for Stellantis claim the supplier has threatened to stop shipping parts if the automaker does not pay twice the contracted price, equivalent to a $ 77 million annual increase. Canada will start dispute resolution process over Stellantis jobs lost to U.S., Joly says

Windsor's NextStar plant to prioritize making batteries for power grid storage systems...

• Parts company founder faces fraud lawsuit:
• Concerns over possible shutdown of 2 plants:

Posted: Nov 10, 2025 4:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

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What do you think about that can of worms? It looks like the backstabber got backstabbed back in the back when he came back to get the dull buttrknife from his backpack to backstab the backstabber... see

NOTHING IS GOING TO MAKE SENSE UNTIL WE, the People, get rid of this flag with the funny cross, those who are holding it up and waving it about like a dead skunk. I hope the stick is made of rough wood with a lot of slivers when they get the command to shove it up their BUTTHOLES AND SWIVEL!

I HEREBY SWEAR: I came into this world a free soul, a peace-time baby, June 30, 1945. My first mate served in Vietnam, and my home was on both sides of the border. Now, I am no longer safe to go to America, my second home. LEAVE ME IN PEACE HERE IN MY OWN HOME, ya bunch of clod-hoppin', bigoted, blood thirsty pigs, wallowing in 💩 in the seventh circle of Hell! May you ALL GO TO THE SEVENTH CIRCLE OF HELL up to your NOSES IN! 💩 Leave me to go the way I came - FREE! You cannot kill the Heart ❤️ of an Empath. Many have tried.

_*From my perch, it appears that there are a lot of wishy washy people in the world, who believe everything they hear, like an audience at a theater watching a ping pong game. If ya don't know what is right and wrong, it's because you don't have a heart to feel it with. I could go on and on, get on my knees, and pray while crying an ocean, which I do at least once every day, with no mumbling words, but saying those words from the Heart. I pray for the freedom, well-being, happiness, and for smiles on people's faces, THAT'S WHAT'S RIGHT! Everything else is questionable. Get the people on the Titanic first, before rearranging the deck chairs.

Intuition and Decision Making | How To Make Good Decisions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vxy1xc_lnE

 

TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

Land of Whispering Pines 🌲

Good Morning! May Great Spirit bless 🙏

Yeah, the wonderful world of cool, damp, cloudy, grey, gloomy, 💩 the pants 👖 weather 🌧 😴 has arrived. However, according to the long-range forecast after Tuesday, we will return to the average, ranging from 6 to 9 degrees, and possibly as high as 12 degrees, then drop back to 9 degrees, with partially sunny to cloudy. There's not much bad weather to report, except for some snow today, which won't even stay long enough to accumulate. It will be about normal weather for here in the Niagara Peninsula region until next Wednesday. Note: the trees have now entirely changed into their fall colors.

Otherwise, physicalIy, I feel that I've emerged from a meat grinder in one piece and have gone from mediocre to sunny-side up. Typical morning trend. That is about all I have to report from the Newsroom this morning. Thank you for reading TODAY'S NEWS.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

What do hungry, unemployed, desperate people with no home do with the onset of winter coming? They lost their homes and are<- THIS VERY MOMENT living in tents, helter-skelter, wherever they can set up an encampment. More people are joining the previous wave of individuals from the Elon Musk DOGE firings who were already living on the street in tents, likely lacking clothing for the approaching cold weather.

The police force will eventually be - TRUMPATISED - turned into Gestapos, er... should I say the Dunce Cadets? But one thing they seem to overlook about the populace. There won't be a shortage of firearms. Great Spirit, have mercy on those who use one of them. 🙏

Now, remember these lost souls will not have access to medical care. It is already happening as you sit here and read the news today, no job, no money, no food, no shelter, with no hope of any aid, NO AID OF ANY KIND, you have desperation, reminiscent of the GREAT DEPRESSION of 1929 to 1939. Do you know how many people survived? They worked togther caring for each other. If a needy person came to a farmer begging for a meal, they were given work on the farm, three square meals, and a cot to sleep in, either in the barn or the attic. It's as simple as that. It's called bartering

Let us take a moment to pray and meditate on the well-being and protection of these innocent souls being straved and frozen to death, by such VILE CREATURES as what are supposed to be good Christians. If that's so, please send me to a different Hell, G-d, I'll even volunteer to shovel the coal.

BREAKING NEWS:

Skyrocketing ACA premiums force enrollees to make tough decisions

Late last month, Elizabeth Wick got the email she had been dreading. Her insurer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, told her that the monthly premiums for her Affordable Care Act policy would soar to $1,380 next year, up from $862.

Wick, 57, currently gets $400 in federal premium subsidies, which makes the monthly cost of her health insurance more manageable. But the Arlington, Texas, resident is not counting on that assistance for next year since she also received a letter from the federal Obamacare exchange saying she likely won't be eligible for any help in 2026 if the enhanced subsidies expire at year's end.

The rising health insurance rates and lapsing subsidWick'suld upend Wick's life. A therapist who focuses on sexual assault survivors, she launched a full-time private practice earlier this year but depends on Obamacare coverage since she has preexisting medical conditions. However, having to pay three times her current tab is unaffordable and could force her to give up her practice and find a job that offers health benefits...

• Agonizing tradeoffs:

'I have fought this so hard.' I want to live.'

Planning for the unexpected

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PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2025, 5:00 AM ET - 5 hr ago

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Newsom says Democrats’ Tuesday wins, including Prop 50, represent ‘a new moment’ for party

California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Democrats’ sweeping election victory on Tuesday, including the approval of a redistricting ballot measure in his state, “represents a new moment” for the Democratic Party as it debates its path forward.

“Clarity, conviction, purpose, energy. On our toes, not on our heels. A resurgent Democratic Party, and it’s a party that understands what’s at stake for our democracy,” Newsom said during a wide-ranging interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper in Houston on Saturday.

Along with the approval of California’s Proposition 50, which creates five US House seats more favorable for Democrats, the party won in high-profile races across the country on Tuesday. Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City, while Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill won gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey, respectively.

Newsom traveled to Houston on Saturday for a rally, during which he touted the win and also credited Texas Democrats for inspiring the push for Proposition 50...

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PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2025, 9:02 AM ET - 2 hr ago

- CNN -

Skyrocketing ACA premiums force enrollees to make tough decisions

Late last month, Elizabeth Wick got the email she had been dreading. Her insurer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, told her that the monthly premiums for her Affordable Care Act policy would soar to $1,380 next year, up from $862.

Wick, 57, currently gets $400 in federal premium subsidies, which makes the monthly cost of her health insurance more manageable. But the Arlington, Texas, resident is not counting on that assistance for next year since she also received a letter from the federal Obamacare exchange saying she likely won’t be eligible for any help in 2026 if the enhanced subsidies expire as scheduled at year’s end.

The rising health insurance rates and lapsing subsidies could upend Wick’s life. A therapist who focuses on sexual assault survivors, she launched a full-time private practice earlier this year but depends on Obamacare coverage since she has preexisting medical conditions. However, having to pay three times her current tab is unaffordable and could force her to give up her practice and find a job that offers health benefits...

• Agonizing tradeoffs:
• ‘I have fought this so hard. I want to live.’:

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PUBLISHED Nov 9, 2025, 5:00 AM ET - 6 hr ago

- CNN -

"Please, let us once more pause to pray and do whatever part we can to help these unfortunate people, like pieces of meat on Trumpo's meat-chopping block." 🪓 🪵

I shed tears 💧 as I pray 🙏

CANADIAN NEWS:

Could a rise in Indigenous-led developments move the needle on Canada's housing shortage?

New housing developments by First Nations offer affordable homes near cities

Jeff Messina and his wife were ready to start the next chapter of their lives. Newly married and eager to begin a family, they dreamed of owning a home that was big enough to raise their kids in — a place with space to play, maybe with a front and back yard. But in Metro Vancouver’s sky-high housing market, that dream seemed impossible.

“Vancouver, Burnaby, any of the Lower Mainland cities [in B.C.] were just unaffordable,” Messina told CBC’s Cost of Living. Then, one tip changed everything. His wife, who works in real estate marketing, learned about an Indigenous-led housing development on Tsawwassen First Nation land, south of Vancouver...

• Owning a home on First Nations land:
• WATCH | kʷasən Village is Burnaby's first Indigenous-led housing development:
• Creating homes feels good, says chief:

‘I’m happy we moved here’:

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Posted: Nov 09, 2025 4:00 AM EST | Last Updated: 8 hours ago

- CBC -

Pushing, yelling from Conservative leadership ‘sealed the deal’ on defection: d’Entremont

MP says Conservatives felt like ‘part of a frat house rather than a serious political party’

Nova Scotia MP Chris d’Entremont says pushing and yelling from Conservative Party leadership "sealed the deal" on his choice to cross the floor of the House of Commons to the Liberals this week. After d’Entremont’s musings over a possible defection were reported by Politico on Tuesday, the MP says Conservative House leader Andrew Scheer and party whip Chris Warkentin “barged” into his office, pushed his assistant aside and yelled at him about “how much of a snake” he was.

“It really pushed me to a point where it’s like, 'OK, I guess my decision is made for sure now,'” he said in an interview on CBC's Rosemary Barton Live that aired Sunday morning. MP Chris d'Entremont says he joined Liberals because of Poilievre's leadership style...

• Conservatives deny violence:
• A second shot to the Conservatives:
• Will more Conservatives defect?:

Posted: Nov 09, 2025 11:52 AM EST | Last Updated: 17 minutes ago

- CBC -

Sandwich vs DOJ: The Funniest Political Satire Song of 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgS5pSGjKgw