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Good morning! May the Great Spirit bless you 🙏

Here it is, 1:45 am. I wasn't tired or ill, for a change. I have been taking two capsules of ginger at lunch and supper per day, and an extra one if needed throughout the day, "YEP!" just plain old ginger, and it seems to be keeping the nausea at bay. I actually feel normal if this is what they call normal, I feel as cosy as the proverbial bug in a fur rug, comfy! I do hope the bug doesn't get stepped on and squished!

I could really appreciate and love this feeling *nothing*. I am sitting here reclined on the couch with my laptop ready to do some brainstorming. If I can't sleep, I may as well take my prefrontal cortex out for a walk. Outside of my health status report, there isn't much else going on here at the Newsroom this morning, except that we will be getting less chilly weather for the next few days, 64° F, and the ✨ for this Friday morning on The Niagara Peninsula.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

Trust and Faith

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Trust and Faith

Faith is the intellectual belief in something or someone, while trust is the action of relying on that belief. Faith is believing a tightrope walker can cross a rope, but trust is actually getting in the wheelbarrow they're offering to push across the rope. Faith is the conviction, while trust is the emotional and physical act of surrender to that conviction.

My Experience of Losing Trust and Faith

Many lose their faith and trust during hard times. I know, I was there, and I was a social worker for twenty years, now retired. Bad life situations, like death in the family, getting fleeced, losing the house, the spouse, the kids, the family dog biting you on the ankle on the way out, even the house mouse packed and headed south. Then you feel alone and defeated, like a whipped puppy dog. All you have left is the clothes you're wearing, a case of beer at your feet, sitting on a bed in a motel room. You throw your arms up in the air and say, "What the hell is the sense!" Might as well drink another one, "Cheers!"

Been there, done that.

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Losing Trust and Faith

Losing trust and faith due to failures is a common human experience that can lead to disappointment and fear. However, failures can also serve as opportunities for growth, resilience, and developing deeper trust if approached with the right perspective.

Strategies to Rebuild Trust and Faith After Failures

Acknowledge and Process Emotions: Allow yourself to feel the disappointment and grief associated with the failure.

Acknowledging these emotions is the first step toward healing and prevents them from defining you.

Acknowledge and Process of Emotions: I used to call this part Bleeding Out The Poison. You need to feel it, then release it before you can even anticipate healing from it. This process can be done by taking an inventory, making amends, and/or corrections wherever you can, then moving on and never looking back.

Belief vs. Faith

Belief: The mental acceptance that something is true. It's the foundation, like a seed.

Faith: The active, practical demonstration of that belief. It is what grows from the "seed" of belief and involves trusting and acting as if it is true.

TODAY'S PRAYER

Let us all take a moment for prayer and meditation for the people of America. Great Spirit, be with them, guide them to do what's right and just, and protect the Earth Angel Warrior from harm and defeat. There are many ways to be a warrior; it's called resistance. You can do it from your kitchen table or from the front line at a congregational gathering. Empaths, or Earth Angels, are warriors. Pray for the body and soul of the warriors to remain strong and united, together as one mind, one soul, moving in unison, as one entity.

AMEN!

BREAKING NEWS:

FDA intends to put its most serious warning on Covid vaccines, sources say

The US Food and Drug Administration intends to put a “black box” warning on Covid-19 vaccines, according to two people familiar with the agency’s plans, the latest move by President Donald Trump’s health officials to undermine a vaccine that was a standout victory of his first term. The plan shocked outside experts, who said there was no basis for the warning...

A boxed warning, which appears at the top of prescribing information for medicines, is the agency's most serious, designed to warn about risks such as death or life-threatening or disabling reactions that should be weighed against the intervention's benefits. They can also be used when a risk might be lowered by using a medicine in a targeted way, such as only in certain groups.

Boxed warnings on opioids, for example, warn about risks of abuse, addiction, overdose, and death. The acne medication Accutane carried a warning about the risks of birth defects when used during pregnancy. ACAM2000, a smallpox and mpox vaccine, has a warning about complications such as heart inflammation and encephalitis...

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Updated Dec 12, 2025, 7:53 AM ET - Updated 2 hr ago

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*STUPID, DUMBELL, SADISTIC, IDIOTIC, PSYCHO, NINCOMPOOP, BRAINLESS, SNOT BUCKETS, TRUMPO THE TYPO'S 💩 DIAPER 🏳️ EATING SLIME WORMS🪱 GOONS! WHERE THE LARCENOUS, THIEVING, PIRATOUS, NARCISSTIC, MURDEROUS, LYING SACKS OF 💩 FORM THE QUAGMIRE OF ALL OF THOSE PSYCHOTIC BEHAVIORS, AND CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING ON A 💩 LAGOON ISLAND * 🫟 🦠 🏝️ Guess that turns their crank, probably turning their crank at this minute just reading the possibilities of what I wrote here. BOY! or GIRL! Did someone ever boo-boo and strum the wrong Cosmic String at the beginning of the Big Bang on that one? Better tune up that harp there, Mrs. Dr. Dolittle! Except, don't change my string, I'm fine sitting on the couch with the sun streaming in, and wearing the knitted socks my sister knitted for me, they go up to the knees, cozy, eh! 🧦 😊

Navy delivers report to Hegseth on potential of punishment for Sen. Mark Kelly over ‘illegal orders’ video

The US Navy has submitted its recommendations on potential punishments, if any, for Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly over his participation in a video that reminded US troops they have a duty to refuse illegal orders, a Pentagon official told CNN on Thursday.

Those recommendations have been submitted to the Pentagon’s Office of General Counsel, “where they are providing a legal review and input,” the official said. It was not immediately clear what recommendations were included in the report.

A spokesperson for Kelly told CNN in a statement that the senator was “never notified or contacted” about the Navy secretary delivering a report at Hegseth’s request and reiterated he will not be intimidated by the Defense Secretary [Pete Hegseth] or President Donald Trump...

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Updated Dec 11, 2025, 4:58 PM ET - Updated 19 hr ago

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Other Conservatives 'frustrated' with Poilievre, says Liberal House leader a day after 2nd floor crossing

Liberals now 1 MP shy of majority

Hours after the Liberal government picked up another member in a surprise floor crossing, Government House Leader Steven MacKinnon claimed he’s spoken to other Conservative MPs who are increasingly disgruntled with that party’s leadership. “There are lots of Conservatives, I assure you, who do not like [Leader Pierre] Poilievre’s approach,” he said Friday morning at a news conference.

“You have seen two to date. There are others, for sure. Others exist.” The final day of the winter sitting ended with a bombshell, when Ontario MP Michael Ma announced Thursday evening he was leaving the Conservative caucus and joining the Liberals...

• Conservatives express shock, disappointment
• Another Conservative leaving politics:
• Conservatives express shock, disappointment:
• Another Conservative leaving politics:

Posted: Dec 12, 2025 11:35 AM EST | Last Updated: 24 minutes ago

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House Democrats release photos of Trump, Clinton and Andrew from Epstein's estate

Democrats pledge to continue to release photos in days and weeks ahead

U.S. House Democrats released a selection of photos from the estate of Jeffrey Epstein on Friday, including some of Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and the former Prince Andrew.

The 19 photos released by Democratic lawmakers on the House oversight committee were a small part of more than 95,000 they received from the estate of Epstein, who died in a New York jail cell in 2019 while awaiting sex trafficking charges. The photos released Friday were separate from the case files that the Department of Justice is now compelled to release.

The photos were released without captions or context and included a black-and-white image of Trump alongside six women whose faces were blacked out. The committee did not say why their faces were blacked out...

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· Posted: Dec 12, 2025 12:04 PM EST | Last Updated: 23 minutes ago

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Maybe someday, if we really try and really, really believe and work hard to make the dream come true, we will be eating Rainbow Soup and a Drinkin' That Bubble Up!

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Rainbow Stew

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