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Good morning 🌳🌾˗ˏˋ🟠ˎˊ˗ all! Today's publication will be rather brief. We're receiving a new piece of furniture, and I'm not sure when that disturbance will happen this morning. Tomorrow, I have a doctor's appointment midmorning and another late afternoon. So that blows most of the day away

🌬️🌅 For tomorrow. And all this when I'm feeling lower than a snake's 🐍 belt buckle )⫘( on a pile of 💩 this morning. Those damned waiting rooms are the reason. Doctors' small, crowded rooms full of all kinds of domestic and exotic bugs flyin' around, so even a mask 😷 is only useful for a short time when exposed to a room saturated with those bugs

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I wish they would never have stopped calling you on your cell in your car, as they did during COVID-19. NO WAITING ROOM. HEY THERE! YA WANNA GET SICK, ANYONE??? It's not hard; go to a doctor's waiting room and sit there for about an hour, even with a mask. 😷 I double-double dare you🤞🤞😁

And there you have it, what's happenin' at the Tree House Newsroom this morning. I will write up ᝰ🪶 what I can while I have the time. Thank you for visiting and reading the Tree House News 🏡

The sunrise is just beginning to show over the treetops; 🌄 it looks mostly clear, with a few cirrus clouds 🌤️ here and there. Very mild 〰️ though. Well, that's about all I have from the Newsroom; now let's move on to today's discussion 💁‍♀️🙋🧏‍♀️🎙️👩🏻‍⚖️ I feel much better than earlier now; I'll see what happens through the day.

NOTE: BY THE WAY, I MAY NOT BE PUBLISHING THE NEWS TOMORROW AS I HAVE TWO APPOINTMENTS TO ATTEND TOO

I dislike boring appointments, so I always do my best to bring my bag 👛 of humor 😂😆🤣 with me to brighten ˗ˏˋ☀️ ˎˊ˗ things up.

I suppose we could dedicate today's discussion to how important it is to get your shots. To put it this way, how much do you value life? As I see it, those who do not value life have no soul.

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ME to *AI:* How important is getting your flu and COVID shots?**_

🔹AI Overview

Getting annual flu and updated COVID-19 shots is very important to lower your risk of severe illness, hospitalization, and long-term health complications.

Key Recommendations

• Who should get them: Recommended annually for everyone 6 months of age and older.

• Best timing: Get your shots in the fall—ideally by late October—before seasonal respiratory viruses peak in the winter months.

• Getting both at once: You can safely receive the flu shot and the COVID-19 vaccine during the same visit (in the same arm or different arms) with no waiting period required.

Why They Matter:

• Prevent Severe Disease: The flu causes tens of thousands of hospitalizations and deaths each year, while COVID-19 has caused over a million deaths in the U.S. alone. Vaccines significantly reduce your chance of ending up in the hospital.

• Lower long-term health risks: Flu infections can spike your risk of a heart attack in the first week, and COVID-19 is linked to lingering cardiovascular, lung, and neurological risks. Vaccination helps protect against these secondary complications.

• Protect vulnerable people: Staying vaccinated reduces your viral load and transmission to high-risk individuals—such as infants, older adults, pregnant women, and people with weak immune systems.

• Updated strains: Both viruses mutate over time, which is why annual updates to the vaccines are necessary to match the circulating strains. ...

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ME to *AI*: how important is getting your flu and Covid shots**_

*AI:* Getting annual flu and updated COVID-19 shots is very important to lower your risk of severe illness, hospitalization, and long-term health complications.

AND HOW MANY DIED?;

*AI:* how many died during covid 19 in the US and Canada

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🔹AI Overview

United States: Approximately 1,239,049 confirmed COVID-19 deaths.

Canada: Approximately 60,871 confirmed COVID-19 deaths (as reported nationally through September 2024

ME to AI: Thank you very much again, AI, for your assistance in this research

*AI:* You're very welcome! I'm glad I could help you with your research. If you need any more information on health guidelines, vaccine availability, or anything else in the future, just let me know. Take care!

I NEARLY DIED TWICE FROM BOTH COVID AND THE FLU WHEN I WAS IN A WEAKENED CONDITION FROM OTHER HEALTH COMPLICATIONS. NO, CHARLIE BROWN, I WAS AT SOMEBODY'S GATE THREE TIMES IN MY LIFE, BUT NO ONE WAS THERE TO OPEN THE GATE, YET. The point is, if I hadn't got the shots, the gate would have opened. OK! Thank you for hearing me out.

🔹AI Overview

The phrase "My kids will probably never live here: The district facing a housing crisis" refers to a prominent CNN video report detailing the severe housing market squeeze impacting residents across a crucial U.S. congressional district.

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Core Background of the Crisis

The segment highlights an issue facing many American voters: working-class residents are being entirely priced out of the very neighborhoods that may decide the balance of control in Congress. *The video underscores that:*

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• Generational Disconnect: Local parents express deep anxieties that skyrocketing real estate values, high interest rates, and stagnant wages mean their children will never achieve the same milestones of homeownership in their hometowns.

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And the lightbulb doesn't appear to be shining any brighter on this side of the border either🍁

ME, *AI:* Will Canadian children live at the same standards as the last generation?

🔹AI Overview

Current economic projections and social trends indicate that Canadian children face a high risk of living at a lower material standard of living than the previous generation. High-profile domestic policy research, such as tracking from Generation Squeeze and data from Statistics Canada, demonstrates that young Canadians are experiencing a widening generational wealth gap driven by severe housing unaffordability and stagnant real productivity.

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Thank you again, AI, for your assistance in this research. It's helpful to know where to find the pieces.

*AI:* You are very welcome! It is a complex topic with a lot of moving pieces, but looking at it through those specific lenses—housing data, productivity metrics, and demographic shifts—usually provides the clearest picture.

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The bright side of the GOP’s big-spending midterm bailouts

Super PACs and other outside spending groups are getting less bang for their buck in their bid to save Republican candidates who have struggled to raise money from small donors.

Elon Musk, the world’s richest person and already the biggest

single donor this election cycle, poured even more money into midterm campaigns on behalf of Republicans in early October. The $445 million he has allocated this cycle makes him a unique force in American politics — but he’s not the only deep-pocketed power.

A slew of Republican megadonors, super PACs and other sources of outside spending are aligning to dwarf the amount that Democratic-aligned groups have on hand in the campaign’s final week.

As stunning as the amounts are, there are drawbacks to the GOP’s reliance on big donors. The ways that money is being spent and for whom — especially on contests in historically red states — speak to long-term issues for the Republican Party. These factors appear to be keeping this enormous infusion of money from fatally damaging Democrats. Much of Musk’s spending has gone to his super PAC, which The New York Times says has built “a sprawling canvassing program to try to turn out hard-to-reach Republican voters.”...

• As many beneficiaries of these GOP funding boosts are realizing, late money is often inefficient:

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• The Supreme Court’s campaign finance decision is a win for both parties — and wealthy donors:
• If enough Republicans continue to feel alienated from politics, that could be disastrous for the party’s long-term electoral outlook.

Oct. 26, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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The Bank of Canada's inflation dilemma

Canada's economy has 2 key issues; the Bank of Canada can't fight both

This story is part of Mind Your Business, a weekly analysis of the biggest business stories emailed to subscribers on Monday mornings. If you haven't subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here.

The Canadian economy is facing two very distinct problems right now.

On the one hand, inflation is high and rising. So far, at least, price increases have been contained to energy. Inflation ticked up to 3.1 per cent last month, but core measures (which strip out more volatile components) remained subdued.

Weak growth would usually prompt the central bank to cut interest rates to spur some economic growth. But rising inflation makes the bank want to raise rates to slow the economy and keep prices from increasing too quickly.

WATCH | Bank has held interest rates 7 times in a row:

CHART | Icluded: Inflation and interest rates in Canada

CHART | Included: Monthly change in GDP in Canada

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Posted: Oct 26, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 hours ago

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THE ORANGE BUTT PLUG STRIKES AGAIN 🟠(‿ˠ‿)🪵

This Morning’s Top Headlines – Oct. 26 | Morning News NOW

President Trump continues his campaign blitz for Republican candidates as 30 million people vote early, at least 12 people suffer injuries in a shooting near Florida A&M University’s Bragg Memorial Stadium and hundreds of residents across the Southwest were forced to evacuate due to catastrophic flooding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVIYx1OXqZ0