Tuesday, 18 August 2026

🧚‍♀️ TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

NEWS AGGREGATOR & COMMENTS

Great Spirit bless 🙏

It's a grand August morning! I made the coffee and went out to sit in my Green Space just as the sun was peeking over the trees. Again, as usual, I sat and contemplated different things. Not seriously making decisions, just kind of like reviewing the contents of the subjects. It is so quiet and peaceful at this time, just me and nature, birds, and silence. Until they start up those cursed sewer pumps and earth-digging machines and jackhammers and all that other happy construction 💩💩💩

I really do wish I had learned to sit on a chair when I was younger, just sit and contemplate things before overeagerly just DOING! and the hell with everything else attitude, as I did in the past. That stubbornness can work, sometimes, but rarely does that train stay on the tracks for long before it derails. Bullheadedness will get you through alright, but not without bumps, scratches, cuts, bruises, and bullet holes, na, no bullet holes, thank goodness, a few sprains and one broken bone, that was about it. "That's Life" If you're not looking before crossing the street. You may get run over by a bus, if you know what I mean. Well, back then I had a bad habit of rarely thinking to look ahead before walking.

It seems that the most popular teacher is the teacher in the SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS, and the teacher there, he or she drives a big yellow school bus. It seems to me that I didn't learn any other way but the hard way. I got the bus bumper marks on my butt to prove it, wanna see?

"CURTAINS!"|⋮⌣︶=•= (‿ˠ‿) =•=︶⌣⋮|

Same license plate numbers 🥹

"Now you can call me bumper butt!"

Contemplating is very much like meditating. A self-discipline in calming the mind and allowing yourself to let go of your past convictions and allow other ideas or POTENTIALITIES to flow through

This reality, in this earthly plane, is made up of potentialities; it could go this way or that way: whatever is possible in this physical world depends on natural forces, and the rest of this planet's history is left in the hands of those who manage and care for it.

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Question: Contemplation versus Meditation

AI Overview

While both are mental and spiritual practices, meditation is an active, focused exercise using the mind, whereas contemplation is a passive, receptive state of simply beholding or resting in presence. Meditation is the work of getting there; contemplation is the experience of arriving.

Meditation

Active effort:
Doing a task:
Goal-oriented:

Contemplation

Passive rest:
Being present:
Receiving:

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Although I didn't get any benefit from attending primary school, I absorbed knowledge from reading about a myriad of subjects, including journalism. I love putting a little personality in my writing, like my brand of humor, my homespun stories, and homemade adjectives instead of cuss words. I love making those up. Dumping funny stuff on the real dumb dumbs of this world, especially THOSE WHO CAN'T TAKE A JOKE BECAUSE OF THEIR FRAGILE EGOS!

G-D LOVES & BLESS ALL COMEDIANS 🤪😅😂🤣🤡🥳😁🫡👩

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BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

‘One person kind of controls our fate’: Republicans confront growing midterm peril due to Iran war

Some Republicans are growing impatient with President Donald Trump’s war in Iran as it stretches to nearly six months and threatens to further imperil their chances in the midterms.

But in the most competitive House and Senate races, vulnerable Republicans are largely standing behind him, gambling that voters can stomach the economic pain of the war for national security.

“Let’s deal with this now, and let’s get it done,” Rep. Zach Nunn of Iowa, a combat veteran who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, told reporters Monday in his state, painting a contrast with Democrats who, he said, are advocating for “just giving up.”...

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee countered in a statement that Republicans were “blindly following Donald Trump’s ego.”

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PUBLISHED Aug 18, 2026, 5:00 AM ET - 5 hr ago

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Debbie Wasserman Schultz running in a Black district is brought to you by the Supreme Court — and the GOP

Even if all the district’s Black voters supported someone other than Wasserman Schultz for the Democratic nomination, she could still win.

VIDEO | Included:

In the spring, the big news concerning Florida’s 20th Congressional District was the announcement from Luther Campbell (more popularly known as Uncle Luke from the rap group 2 Live Crew) that he would be challenging embattled Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick in a Democratic primary.

But after the incumbent resigned under indictment (it should be noted that she is running again in the primary), and the Supreme Court’s Louisiana v. Callais ruling gave Florida Republicans permission to redraw district lines to benefit their party, the biggest news is the decision by Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a white woman, to run in the state’s only plurality-Black district. Her candidacy there highlights the tensions between descriptive and substantive representation and the strategic risks that emerge when a large field of candidates run for the same seat.

Her candidacy highlights the tensions between descriptive and substantive representation and the strategic risks that emerge when a large field of candidates run for the same seat.:

Should she win the nomination and the general election, the onus will be on Wasserman Schultz to reach out to her new constituents.:

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Aug. 18, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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Trump’s description of North Korea sounds like Kim Jong Un wrote it

Trump appears to be blindly trusting that North Korea’s murderous, prison-state regime has turned a page toward global peace.

President Donald Trump shocked the world — and thousands of American troops practicing for war with North Korea — when he declared Sunday that he was shrinking military exercises already in progress with South Korea.

Why this time? Trump said on his social media platform that his decision was “based on my very good relationship with Kim Jong Un” and because he felt the “costly” exercises “send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile, to a Country that, as long as Donald J. Trump has been President, has been unthreatening and respectful.”

Trump is unilaterally rejecting American intelligence threat assessments, military preparedness and history. He’s also getting nothing in return for it.:

There is zero reason to believe anything North Korea says when it comes to its intentions.

"Trump apparently gave Pete Hegseth an order to substantially reduce the military in South Korea. Very good relationship with Kim Jong Un!

Kiss me (‿ˠ‿)

Aug. 18, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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CANADIAN NEWS:

U.S. businessowners don't want to leave their Canadian suppliers, but 50% tariffs might leave them no choice

'We don't want to sacrifice the friendships … but we also have a threshold of what we can handle'

Late last August, Julia Hallman and her husband road-tripped from their home in Massachusetts to spend time with one of their Canadian suppliers at Fromagerie La Station in Quebec.

Hallman sat on the back porch at the farmstead in Compton and watched the grazing cows that would eventually provide the milk for one of her shop's best-selling cheeses: the supple Alfred le Fermier. She's determined to keep buying the cheese to sell at her shop not only because her customers love it, but also because she counts the family as her friends.

"At the end of the day, we want to help support them and get more money into their hands," said Hallman, who owns Formaggio Kitchen, a specialty cheese and artisan goods shop in Cambridge...