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Good morning! May the Great Spirit bless you 🙏

Well, it is another beautiful sunrise in a perfectly blue sky with a slight breeze, but much cooler than it has been, 53°F. According to the long-range forecast, temperatures are expected to fluctuate in the mid-to-high 60s, with no frost predicted at night in October. More sun than clouds, I don't mind that. The color month, that's when you see all the fall colors of the deciduous trees, bright and beautiful, like giant, magical flaming bouquets. It's just a shame it doesn't last longer.

I wonder if there is a world where all the nice things last forever. I'm not sure if anyone else does, but I have been making comparisons since I can remember. What would it be like if it had gone that way instead of the way it did? Why can't people see what's obvious in front of them? What is hindsight? Why do I make so many mistakes down here in this particular tiny little dot in the fabric of Time and Space Infinitum? Why do we err so when there is perfect order in the universe?

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

Controlling Destiny

The universe ✨🪐💫🌏 knows where it's going, we're 👨‍👨‍👦‍👦 just going along for the ride. But we do have control over our destiny, by the choices we make today. To make the RIGHT CHOICE! That's the magic wand. 🦯 Introduce your thoughts to your heart ❤️ before forming them into words aloud 👄 or in writing. 📝

Words can heal or they can destroy; it's your choice. But what good is revenge and hate, which only consume us like some biblical or legendary beast from our history, to rear its ugly head and do nothing about the beast but sit on our hands?

"Oh me, oh my, how I wish I had said that differently!" 😒

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-KDSxqJ_0o

I know all about that party! Wasn't that the one with the lamp shade... Well, forget that one. What about that time I was the bookie 🎲 for the Good Old Hockey Game on TV, secretly interviewing the cool, intoxicated cat 😼 hiding under the chair? 🪑

I prefer to say, 'Well, you see, man, that's the way I look at it, I did my best, using what limited tools I have at my disposal, a stone hammer and ax, and I gotta build me a pyramid. I cannot do more than offer a prayer from the heart, and after that, it's their choice to make which pyramid they wish to worship from.

Well, that will be about it from the Newsroom from me for today. Now it's time to move on to the National and Local News.

BREAKING NEWS:

Disney pairs aggressive discounts with small price increases at US parks. Here’s why

Theme park fans dread what has become an expected annual price increase for US Disney parks. But the new prices that hit Wednesday morning — along with some of the best discount offers in years — suggest the media and entertainment giant is being strategic in a year when no brand-new rides are likely to open, and many guests feel wary about the economy overall.

There will still be sticker shock for those trying to visit Walt Disney World or Disneyland on the busiest days of the year. The most expensive, single-day, single-park ticket during the Christmas or New Year’s weeks, for example, will go up 5% in Florida to $209 plus tax (the first time Magic Kingdom tickets will cross the $200 threshold). For Disneyland Resort in California, that peak ticket goes up by 8.7% to $224.

But for people flexible enough to visit during slower seasons, most other Disney World single-day, single-park tickets have increased by about an average of $5. Its lowest priced single-day ticket, $119 plus tax for Animal Kingdom park, will stay the same price...

*Increased prices of other Disney services and products:*

• What these prices mean:
• The cost of doing business:

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PUBLISHED Oct 8, 2025, 6:01 AM ET - 3 hr ago

- CNN -

James Comey’s long, strange trip into the jaws of Donald Trump’s campaign of retribution

Former FBI Director James Comey wasn’t always atop President Donald Trump’s enemies list.

“You’ve had one heck of a year,” Trump, then the president-elect, said to Comey in January 2017, the first time they met face-to-face privately at Trump Tower in New York. Trump told Comey he had a “great reputation” and handled the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server “honorably,” according to Comey’s re-telling of their meeting in his 2018 memoir.

That might have been the high point of their relationship.

Moments later, the FBI director told Trump for the first time about the infamous “Steele dossier,” which alleged that Trump and his campaign colluded with the Russians to win the 2016 election. It was a conversation that would ultimately send Comey spiraling down the path to becoming one of Trump’s chief villains...

• Clinton bombshells roil 2016:
• Trump tells Comey: ‘I need loyalty’:
• Firing leads to ‘surreal’ Hill hearing:
• DOJ watchdog excoriates Comey:
• Fateful congressional testimony:
• Comey’s ‘86 47’ post:

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PUBLISHED Oct 8, 2025, 8:13 AM ET - 1 hr 5 min ago

- CNN -

CANADIAN NEWS:

Modular housing was a hit in Sweden but a bust in the U.S. How will Canada do?

Demand for affordable housing not necessarily demand for prefabricated homes

Like Sweden, Japan and the U.S. before it, Canada will start experimenting with scaled-up factory-built housing next year — and it has plenty of lessons to learn from countries where the industry has already matured. Build Canada Homes, the federal government's newly launched homebuilding agency, aims to fund the construction of 4,000 modular homes on federal land across the country starting next year. The public-private project — currently limited to six cities — could eventually scale to build 45,000 homes, according to Ottawa's announcement.

That's only a sliver of the 4.8 million homes that Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation says will need to be built by 2030 to restore housing affordability in this country, but the federal government hopes prefabricated homes will play a crucial role in alleviating the housing crisis...

• Lessons from around the world:
• 'This is not some sort of panacea':

Posted: Oct 08, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

- CBC -

Carney raised Keystone XL pipeline revival in meeting with Trump

U.S. president was receptive to idea of energy partnership that could lead to lower tariffs, source says

Relief for Canada from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum may come thanks to renewed interest in a pipeline project first proposed more than 15 years ago. Prime Minister Mark Carney raised the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would run from northern Alberta to the U.S. Midwest, during his conversations with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday, according to a source with direct knowledge of the meeting.

The source said Carney expressed renewed national interest in the pipeline from the Canadian side and the U.S. president was receptive to the project advancing...

• 'Priority files' identified:
• Pipeline to the West slammed by B.C. premier:

Posted: Oct 08, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

- CBC -

Canada and Germany talk maritime drones as Europe worries about threats to undersea infrastructure

Incidents around cables on ocean floor prompt security discussions

An old-fashioned game of cat and mouse has quietly unfolded for almost a year in parts of the North Atlantic, the North Sea and the Baltic Sea between NATO allies and a Russian surveillance ship.

It is a contest that has European political and military leaders increasingly concerned. Separately, but in tandem, there have been multiple incidents of subsurface cables being damaged over the last two years, mostly in the Baltic region, but also in July in an incident off Orkney and Banff in the U.K.

• Drone technology advances:

Putin playing 'chicken' in Eastern Europe, says Russian military expert

Germany's Munich Airport reopens after 2nd closure in less than 24 hours due to drones

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Posted: Oct 08, 2025 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

- CBC -

Let us take some time to relax and take a leisurely walk through the Forest of Dreams, in a world named ALVARIA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17bLUn1eJnc