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Good morning! I pray The Great Spirit be with you 🙏 🌅
Yesterday, I listed what I do in this Newsroom and what I am here for. I am here to entertain, share the latest news from the world stage, as well as more local news, and provide updates on our TACO in cheese; 🥙 🧀 I still think he uses baby sh-t for makeup.
The weather, "Oh me achin' bones!" I love sharing some humor, and less about fat coats and cold weather and more about the old goat who had a hole in his boat and suddenly stood up a' shoutin and a' wavin' his arms about, while the old DOGE 🐕 stood remotely by on the road, wearing his overcoat, laughed at such goings on a sayin' there ain't no such thing as empathy. 😡 So he turns with an impish look on his face, pushes his hat forward, and leaves, thinking, let the old goat sink in his boat. 😮 Short story teller too. (Picaresque) In English = "roguish," "rascally," "prankish," "devilish," and "raffish," and sometimes with a touch of sarcasm. 😉
I am also here to learn, to teach, and share my own experiences. I enjoy delving into deeper subjects sometimes, such as topics ranging from quantum mechanics to spirituality, which encompasses the totality of the universe. That will be about it from me in the Newsroom for today. Maybe my Editor in Chief may have a couple of minutes today to share some thoughts with us. Thank you for reading the news.
DAILY DISCUSSION:
Is it wrong to joke around with someone's lack of intelligence?
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INSULT SOMEONE'S INTELLIGENCE Definition & Meaning
Webster Dictionary:
The meaning of INSULT SOMEONE'S INTELLIGENCE is to treat someone as though he or she is stupid. How to use insult someone's intelligence in a sentence.
Part 2: English definitions powered by Oxford
- To insult someone's intelligence:
treat someone as less intelligent than they are
EX. The intro. starts insulting my intelligence and asking me to ignore obvious flaws in logic
Cambridge University: To make someone or something seem ridiculous by making jokes about the person or thing: Late-night comedy shows often poke fun at politicians.
And me!
In my opinion:
Suppose the pun intends to show or illustrate to them something that doesn't make sense, funnily. In that case, they may reconsider the absurdity of their proposition, especially if the answer to this question could adversely affect society; then the question becomes easier to answer.
Since having served as a social worker for most of twenty-five years, I have learned that there are mental health consumers out there who, without life skills, get lost in the daily activity of a normal, organised lifestyle without some help. Which is why rehabs and therapists are of so much importance.
If they're an ignorant, arrogant, misogynistic, racist, and elitist individual in most cases, these are adult children who grew up in neglect, and many from abusive drug and alcohol environments.
I have found that being passive and quiet, and simply letting them air it out, is the best approach. I have found that most times, they just needed to vent. We all do that, we're not angels, if we did, we would have a problem with sh-t in our feathers. We're humans who make mistakes.
Now there's a difference between dumb dumb and stupid. Dumb dumb is forgivable and even laughable; being dumb dumb is simply doing or saying something where one knows they should know better but won't admit it. But stupidity can hurt, even kill. I also love psychology. From your armchair psychologist, Dr. Fairy Lady.👩🔬 [IS IN]
BREAKING NEWS:
Joni Ernst’s ‘Well, we all are going to die,’ and the GOP’s flippant defenses of Trump’s agenda
One of the reasons politicians don’t often engage in massive overhauls of the American economy is that it’s very difficult to defend a massive overhaul of the American economy. However good any given plan is, it often produces losers and – even in the best of cases – some short-term pain.
And repeatedly now as President Donald Trump has launched multiple massive overhauls, prominent Republicans have learned that the hard way.
- Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa is the most recent.*
- Republicans want to add work requirements to Medicaid. Even some recipients with jobs are concerned
- In Iowa, Trump’s agenda collides with 2028 ambitions*
Published 7:00 AM EDT, Sat May 31, 2025 - CNN -
"Will you look at all those cockroaches coming out of the woodwork!" 👉
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Israel’s plan to ‘conquer’ Gaza is leaving Palestinians with little place to go: 5 maps show how
Even before Israel’s war in Gaza started, the territory was one of the most densely populated places on the planet, described by United Nations officials as an “open-air prison.” Now, Israeli forces are expanding their operations, cramming the population into an ever-shrinking patch of land.
Israel’s latest military offensive, named “Gideon’s Chariots,” aims to finally “conquer” the territory, as one government minister put it. Almost 80% of the enclave has come under evacuation orders or been designated as a militarized zone since March 18 when Israel broke its ceasefire with Hamas, according to the UN. Since then, Israel has a declared policy – backed by the US – to encourage resettlement of Gaza’s residents.
As part of the “intensified operation,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the whole population of Gaza – around 2 million people – will be displaced to the south of the 140 square-mile territory.
The Israeli military claims the operation is aimed at destroying Hamas and freeing hostages. Meanwhile, Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the operation could lead to a complete takeover of the territory.
“We are finally going to conquer the Gaza Strip,” he said after Israel’s security cabinet approved the expanded campaign.
See what Israel’s expanding operation means on the ground, in five maps... Read More:
Published 12:30 AM EDT, Sat May 31, 2025 - CNN -
CANADIAN NEWS:
Can Mark Carney defeat Canadian populism?
The ultimate fate of the populist appeal may depend on what His Majesty's government does next
Speaking to reporters after the speech from the throne on Tuesday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre struck a decidedly institutionalist tone.
"We joined today in thanking His Majesty for coming to Canada and delivering the throne speech, reinforcing our ancient, great British liberties," he said. "A parliamentary system that goes back 800 years. A system that has served Canada well and has been the foundation of what I love to call the Canadian promise."
A Conservative praising the monarch might not seem unusual. Former foreign affairs minister John Baird, a close ally of Poilievre's, once demanded that his department hang a portrait of the Queen in the foyer of its headquarters...
- WATCH | Poilievre on the throne speech:
- Can Carney show the system works?:
- Will Trump discredit populism?:
- Carney welcomes U.S. court decision striking down parts of Trump's tariffs agenda
- AnalysisMark Carney's to-do list is short but steep
Read More:
Posted: May 31, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago
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NATURE'S SOUNDS AND MUSIC TO SOOTH THE SOUL:
🍃~ Enter the paradise of peacefulness and harmony ~🍃
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7iihhvtl-U
COMMENT, Paula Koval:
ReplyDeleteGood afternoon, Everyone! Thank you for visiting.
The Newsroom has posted a potpourri of thoughts and ideas covering several topics in today’s news.
I agree with Cindy about the tools we have to change what’s happening to us. They’re few and not always as effective as we wish, at least not as effective as the next federal election (if we have one!). The entire House of Representatives is up for election, all 435 members, and one-third of the 100 members of the Senate will be looking for votes to stay in their seats, including Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa. She’s the one who held a town meeting for her constituents at the convenient time of 7:30 last Friday morning, a time she thought would have zero attendance. About 100 people came. When someone voiced their opposition to the Republican cuts to Medicare and Medicaid to divert that money to tax cuts for the ultra wealthy, Senator Ernst told her audience, “Well, we all die sometime.”
The difference for her is that as a Senator, she would have the best healthcare plan in America to help keep her alive or to die comfortably. Millions of Americans would have no help at all.
Remember this attitude of “I have mine, tough shit for you” when you vote in 2026, if Taco allows Americans to vote.
So, what is our recourse in this situation? We can demand our legislative representatives hear us and act on our behalf, as it should be in our form of government, a republic. We can join demonstrations to seek redress of grievances, as is our right of peaceful assembly under the First Amendment to the Constitution, a document Taco hasn’t read yet. And we can pray to the Higher Power of our personal understanding for help. General George Washington and many of our nation’s founders prayed. It was their personal decision, not forced on anyone (See the First Amendment). Prayer has helped our nation survive its worst days. Consider it for the present darkness.
In Gaza, the West Bank, and wherever else in Israel it can happen, the genocide against Palestinians continues. Please pray for them. Killing isn’t right. The attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023, was wrong. Israel’s retaliation has been wiping out Gazans through bombing, shooting, starvation, denial of the necessities of life, and destruction of their infrastructure.
The goal of all of this seems to be a joint real estate development between Taco and Netanyahu to finish the destruction of Gaza and build a luxury resort area where the cities of Gaza once stood. Will they call it Taco Mediterranean or Murder’s Row?
Taco again plays TACO with Putin. He threatens new sanctions against Russia as retaliation for Putin’s continued murder of Ukrainians and seizure of their sovereign territory. Taco doesn’t even talk a good game anymore. He makes unpleasant noises at Putin, chickens out of more sanctions, then roars at America’s allies, tosses tariffs in the air as economic threats against reliable partners, and the result so far has been growing isolation from friendly nations, myriad lawsuits and injunctions in American courts, and the clear exhibition of stupidity and hubris on Taco’s part and those of his trade advisors and cabinet. But that’s his version of America first.
4 things are making us sick, new MAHA documentary says. What the research says Ultraprocessed foods, seed oils, herbicides and pesticides, and fluoride: They’re all targets of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement, whose chief proponent is US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
NO SHIT, SHERLOCK! Previous administrations have warned against the dangers of ultra-processed foods, too much sugar, and residual herbicides in vegetables.
ReplyDeleteI see Kennedy’s war against seed oils and fluoride as a project to pursue conspiracy theories, one of his pet projects. Below is a link to an article from the BBC about seed oils.
bbc com/future/article/20250530-are-seed-oils-really-bad-for-you
I cook with corn oil because it’s heart-healthy. My cardiologist advised me to continue my lifetime habit of cooking with corn oil. It also has a higher temperature before it smokes and leaves no flavor.
Fluoride has been in the water everywhere I’ve lived, and I’ve not had any adverse reactions to it. Give Kennedy a conspiracy theory, and the madman of HHS will chase it.
'The American dream is over': Trump's deportation policies are pushing Latin Americans to Spain. Many Latinos seek asylum in Spain in the hope of living what some now call the European Dream
U.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping deportation campaign and hardline approach to restricting immigration, particularly from Latin American countries, has caused a knock-on effect in Spain. The country is seeing an increasing number of Latinos arriving, abandoning their American dream.
America was the best place in the world to live. It attracted people from everywhere. Instead of fixing immigration policy and processes, Taco wants all immigrants out except those white folks from South Africa, Musk’s homeland.
RIP the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. It was a great place to grow up.
REPLY: The Fairy Lady
Paula Koval: All that has the potential to be is possible in the infinite potentialities.
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Here's a breakdown of what this phrase implies:
* Potentiality: The ability or capacity to become something, to exist in the future. It's what something could be.
* Infinite Potentialities: A boundless and limitless realm of possibilities, a vast space where anything that can be imagined or conceived is within reach.
* Possibility: The state of being capable of happening, being realized, or existing.
I believe the potential of the human race has a higher purpose to achieve; we can only pray that they don't destroy themselves before we can even get into the lifeboats.