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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Good morning! Well, it's good, I guess, if you're a duck, a frog, or a fish, with temps cool enough so even the birds are wearing raincoats and rubber boots. Seriously, one still needs to wear a coat in this grey, cool, damp weather and rain. Boooring!

TODAY'S DISCUSSION

GRIPE OR GRATITUDE

OH, STOP YOUR GRIPIN' ALREADY!

🌸~ MY GRIPE, PRAYER, AND GRATITUDE ~🌺

Before I begin my usual morning delivery, I just wish to reminisce a bit about my Dad and how much Mark Carney reminds me of him.

Listening to Mark Carney's speeches, how he explains what we only see from "The Maybe" position! Surprisingly, turns out to be in reality.

His thinking and policies are a breath of fresh air, instead of all the air sandwiches 🥪 we have been given in the past few years that we never hear about again, or that turn out to be the reverse.

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"LIES!" like how the Ontario Health Care System sucks even after billions of federal dollars being pumped into it. What happened to the promise of hiring American doctors and nurses to expand the health care workforce? Where are the American doctors and nurses since the last infusion of federal funding? The Ontario Health Care system got worse, not better, under the usual way of governing

Ford, Trudeau sign $3.1B health-care funding deal that will see Ontario hire more health workers

Agreement comes year after feds promised to boost health transfers to provinces

- CBC News - Posted: Feb 09, 2024 5:46 AM EST | Last Updated: February 9, 2024

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This man, Mark Carney, is probably the most prepared, capable, and effective prime minister we have had to lead our nation and represent Canada on the world stage since Pierre Elliott Trudeau.

Back then, I didn't follow politics closely, but I will always have Pierre Elliott Trudeau and, in America, John F. Kennedy in my heart,

Now, as of today, March 21, 2026, we, the people of Canada, have this man Mark Carney, dedicated to his country and its people, like we were a family, or so it feels like to me when I listen to him speak. When I watch him stand behind the lectern, he reminds me very much of my own father. A businessman, my Dad managed Pine Land Timber Co., the biggest lumber company in Canada, back in the late 50's and early 60's.

Standing behind a lectern, Carney's profile closely matches my Dad's profile. It's like seeing my Dad alive and in action again. They could be brothers if you stood them side by side. My Dad, like Mark Carney, was friendly but poker-faced, standing with a confident posture and delivering eloquent, to-the-point speeches that any layman could understand. And if Dad didn't have the answer, he would always tell his clients, "I don't have the answer for that right now, but I'll have it for you by the morning." I miss my Dad, and I pray for Mark Carney's success. It's the success of our nation doing its part in the post-Trump world.

-**🙏 ~ PRAYER ~ 🙏**-

_*Let us all take a moment to send prayers and meditation to the Higher Power of Our Understanding to protect our Prime Minister of Canada from harm, and may he be guided to be successful in his endeavors. AMEN!*_

☮️~ CANADIANS 🍁 THE PEACE KEEPERS ~☮️

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🔹AI Overview

Question: Gripe or Gratitude

While a "gripe" is a common complaint about daily stressors, actively choosing gratitude over complaints reduces stress, improves sleep, and strengthens

BREAKING NEWS:

Inside Trump’s most difficult war decision yet: whether to put boots on the ground in Iran

In near-daily briefings with top military officials at the White House, President Donald Trump has reviewed options that include sending American troops into Iran.

The decision whether to go ahead is perhaps his most difficult of the war since US strikes began February 28. For many Trump allies in Washington, the deployment of thousands of US troops to the Middle East would mean the swift end of their public support for the war— and likely threaten the administration’s ability to deliver the hundreds of billions of dollars in supplemental funding the White House will soon seek.

But for Trump, fully realizing his objectives and mitigating the war’s fallout could require sending in American troops, a legacy-defining endeavor the president — while not ruling it out — tried to downplay this week...

• Declare victory and move on:

CHART | Tankers and cargo ships detected in the last 24 hours

CHART | Locations in and around Tehran hit by strikes since Feb. 28

• Going in on the ground:
• Diverging strategies:

CHART | New strikes on targets in Iran announced by CENTCOM

• ‘Iran isn’t Gaza’:
• Nuclear concerns:

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PUBLISHED Mar 21, 2026, 5:00 AM ET - 5 hr ago

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Alex Jones’ Infowars is shutting down, but his disinformation legacy lives on

Only after Trump leaves the stage, and the MAGA movement fades with him, will Infowars truly be gone.

When Alex Jones announced the death of his Infowars business earlier this month, you had to strain to hear him because he kept slurring his words. “We’re getting shut down,” Jones told fellow pro-Trump influencer Tim Pool on March 12. “We’ve beaten so many attacks. But now we’re shutting down in the middle of next month.”

For critics of Jones and the MAGA movement he had a hand in building, hearing him announce the end of his site might seem like cause for celebration. That would be dangerously naive. Jones’ influence is everywhere, as the U.S. finds itself roiled by the very conspiracy theories he turned into a multimillion-dollar business after starting Infowars on public access TV in 1999...

• The ranks of officials around Trump are now partially composed of Jones-influenced conspiracists, governing on baseless stories about antifa, vaccines and shadowy cabals.

• Only after Trump leaves the stage, and the MAGA movement fades with him, will Infowars truly be gone.

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Mar. 21, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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CANADIAN NEWS:

HELLO, MR. FORD, YOU OLD TOAD 🐸 THERE'S A DEAD x👅x SKUNK 🦨 IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD 🛣️ A STINKIN 🤥 TO HIGH HEAVEN! ✨

Ford, Trudeau sign $3.1B health-care funding deal that will see Ontario hire more health workers

Agreement comes year after feds promised to boost health transfers to provinces

Posted: Feb 09, 2024 5:46 AM EST | Last

Updated: February 9, 2024

Europe is eyeing France's nuclear shield. Should Canada follow?

French deterrence in North America would risk inflaming tensions with Washington

A very quiet queue has formed in Europe where some of Canada's long-standing, closest allies are seeking shelter under France's small but robust nuclear umbrella.

The initiative of French President Emmanuel Macron, who declared the next 50 years to be the "era of nuclear weapons," is — on paper — intended to add another layer of deterrence to NATO's American-backed security guarantees. Once again — on paper — Russia is the adversary that needs deterring...

WATCH | Trump says NATO is making a 'very foolish mistake':

WATCH | Carney asked about defence of Greenland:

WATCH | Trump orders new nuclear tests:

• "We will back that with measures as necessary." ...

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Cubans say every day is a struggle for survival as they face blackouts, water and fuel shortages

U.S. committing 'crime' against people of Cuba, says senior government official

Melanie Chantelle González Barrios, 15, has two young children and says she dreams that some day, when they grow older, they'll be able to leave Cuba and escape the daily fight for survival her family faces.

González Barrios lives in a one-bedroom home in Havana's Buena Vista neighbourhood with her 17-year-old husband, a daughter aged one and a half, a six-month-old son and her grandmother. The family keeps several tubs and jugs always filled with water because they never know when they'll be hit with a power blackout, which also cuts off the water...

WATCH | Cuba reels under Trump's oil embargo:

• Wide-ranging impact of fuel shortage:
• U.S. 'abusing its power': deputy minister:

• There have been violent flare-ups during the blackouts, including in the city of Morón, which sits about 460 kilometres west of Havana, where people earlier this month ransacked a Communist Party office

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Posted: Mar 21, 2026 9:37 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago

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Nordic Leaders, Canada Back France Nuclear Deterrence Plan but Reject Hosting Nukes | APT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-HzxCZ11Lg

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Well, here it is, Friday the 20th of March. No, it's not the Ides of March. That was five days ago. For me, it's "The Id of March!", and I got lots of Id but not too much marching 😁 In my imagination, the long dark-haired Id in me stands up on her soap box, picks up the microphone and makes an ugly freckled face, sticking out her tongue and blowing out a shower of spit at the camera directed in all due disrespect to our loathsome Kink in the (‿ˠ‿) Trumpo The Typo." Heil Trumpo! Blessed be his holy diaper, Amen!" You little piece of 💩Tin Can god. 🥫 🤣

It is another cloudy, grey, boring weather day, although it's supposed to get warmer after today, sometime ... I hope, before next year. I call this time of year, like for most, it's the guess what season? or *the sagging jetstream. I call it the three S's, the *Sagging Scrotum Season.* Affects mostly the macho males. 🥴 what a messed-up population of assorted, mentally disturbed variety of peeps, or better known as nutcases in many circles of society today. As I mentioned in another post, like scum is floating on the surface of a lake. Or like termite.

These Termites are coming out of the woodwork every day, coming out of the decaying logs of your termite-infested log cabin. SOMEONE CALL PEST CONTROL PLEASE! Or Ghostbusters! ... do they do termites? What about the SCUM? Let's make it ghost scum, then Ghostbusters will come to the rescue. "I'm afeered, Ma, there ain't no cavalry a-comin' to the rescue in this movie."

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

VICTORY AND FAILURE

You lost the victory when you had the chance. Now, all that's left, like the Titanic, are more survivors than there are lifeboats left. The Orange Pus Kink made sure of that. The Captain ordered most of the lifeboats to be discarded before they hit the iceberg.

Then, We, the People's hands were tied behind our backs, allowing the Orange Kink of Pus Bags to kick our butts. Now, what the Kink doesn't realize is that the shoe will fit our feet as well. It's time to kick some butt!

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🔹AI Overview

Victory and failure are rarely absolute endpoints, but rather interconnected, temporary stages in the journey toward success. Key insights on this topic include:

• Failure is a Prerequisite for Success: Rather than being the opposite of success, failure is often a necessary component, providing valuable data and lessons that build new neural pathways and strengthen resilience.

• The "Fail Forward" Mentality: Success is often described as going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. Or Hope Embracing failures as learning opportunities allows individuals to grow, while seeing them as temporary setbacks - not permanent defeats - is critical.

• Redefining Winning:

• Managing Success:

• The Core Driver:

- Forbes -

• Key Takeaway: The only real failure is stopping, or *"giving up".* The ability to handle, learn from, and move past failure is the ultimate key to success.

_*The onus is entirely on you for how you get through failure on the way to victory, to continue to not just to *"fail forward"* or keep moving forward, survival, and ...*_

BELIEVE YOU CAN!

BREAKING NEWS:

**Oil rises to $110 as Israel strikes Iran during Persian New Year**

Analysts warn the war could keep prices high for years as energy infrastructure is damaged in the region and the Strait of Hormuz is effectively shut.

Here's The Latest

• Oil prices spike: As the war in Iran nears the end of its third week, oil prices rose today as energy infrastructure is damaged and the vital Strait of Hormuz remains effectively shut. US gas prices ticked up another 3 cents a gallon, marking the highest average price for a gallon of regular gas since October 2022.

• On the ground in the Middle East: The Israeli military struck the area of Nur, which is east of Tehran, today, as Iran continues to make retaliatory strikes around the region. Iran's supreme leader said in a written statement that security must be denied to all Iran's enemies.

• CNN town hall tonight: US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz and a panel of experts will answer questions from CNN's Dana Bash and a live studio audience about what may come next in the war at 9 p.m. ET.

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8 min ago

How Ukraine is helping the Middle East combat Iranian drones

More To Read:

Updated 9:51 AM EDT, Fri March 20, 2026

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Travelers face Friday rush and unpredictable airport wait times as TSA officers go unpaid

What You Need to Know:

• Airport woes linger:

Authorities have warned travelers could see worsening airport wait times today as Transportation Security Administration workers go without full pay. You can track wait times at major airports here.

• Shutdown drags on: TSA workers recently missed their first full paycheck since the partial government shutdown began in mid-February after funding for the Department of Homeland Security lapsed. But on Capitol Hill, the impasse shows no sign of breaking anytime soon.

• Airports could shut down: With TSA “fully stretched,” some US airports may be forced to shut down if the DHS shutdown continues, TSA’s acting deputy administrator said this week...

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32 min ago

Could your airport close if TSA screeners don’t show up to work?

More To Read:

Updated 9:36 AM EDT, Fri March 20, 2026

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How does the Iran war end? Lawmakers say the answer isn’t so easy.

Republicans say the war will end when Trump declares victory. But Iran will have a say over the conclusion, too.

As the war in Iran approaches the three-week mark with no end in sight, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are at odds over one key matter: How will this end?

“That’s a loaded question,” Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told MS NOW. “That’s a question that doesn’t lend itself to a quick answer in the hallway,” Wicker said. “So I defer on that … I think it’s going to end well.”

• “What does the next phase look like?” he asked:

• “But as we’ve said, we’re on plan,” he continued.

• Most Republicans are fine with that.

• “I mean, it’s criminal,” Murphy said.

• “It’ll be really difficult to wrap this thing up,” he said

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Mar. 20, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT

- MS NOW -

CANADIAN NEWS:

Canadian company helping white supremacists fundraise from hateful livestreams

Website allows viewers to donate directly to creators of racist, antisemitic content

WARNING: The following story contains mature subject matter, including racist and hateful imagery.

An investigation by the fifth estate has found the website known as Entropy, which launched in Calgary, is in fact a safe haven for white supremacists and other extremists seeking to monetize the hateful content they livestream to online audiences.

Within two years after it launched in 2019, Entropy processed more than $3 million in transactions and experts say it has since grown to become an essential service for dozens of neo-Nazis and white supremacists. Many creators have found a home on the Canadian platform after being kicked off and blocked from making money on mainstream platforms such as YouTube for posting antisemitic and racist content that violates the streaming giant’s terms of service.

Jeff Tischauser, an analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center, a U.S-based civil rights non-profit organization, is responsible for monitoring 160 of the hundreds of hate groups across the U.S. and says about half of them use Entropy to fundraise and solicit donations.

"They're making money off of intimidating people. They're making money off trying to provoke and harass people," said Tischauser. "They've travelled abroad to bring their hatred to Holocaust sites. They're able to do that because of the money that they are making off Entropy." ...

Watch the full documentary "The Business of Bigotry?" from the fifth estate on YouTube or CBC-TV on Friday at 9 p.m.

WATCH | Explaining the significance of websites like Entropy in funding hate groups:

• Hate group comes to Nashville:

WATCH | Journalist Phil Williams says neo-Nazi hate group came to Nashville to 'create havoc':

• Fighting against censorship, say Entropy founders:
• A network of companies in Georgia:
• Ties to a deadly shooting:
• Lack of regulations around online hate:

WATCH | Canadian legal expert Emily Laidlaw says regulating hate online is challenging:

• The fight against online regulation:

Posted: Mar 20, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

- CNN -

Prime Minister Carney secures ambitious new partnership with India

March 20, 2026 - 2 days ago NEW DELHI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SZubkW0AIA

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

I pray you all have as pleasant a day as you can make it 🌅 I have combined the space for Today's News Room report and Today's Discussion under one TOPIC for today. Thank you.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION Part 1

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🔹AI Overview

If you don't like what's happening in the country, you only have two choices: resist or lump it. I don't mean resist it with violence 🤜💥🤛 I mean more like ... How about a country-wide shutdown where everyone, from the floor sweep at the nuclear facility to the neighborhood mom and pop store; from the top engineer and the CEO of a small company to multinational corporations, all the way down and up, or should I say up at the top management at the underground level, to the "spooks" like at Area 51 and stuff like that. They don't like getting much attention. I can imagine it would be like petting a cat backward 🐱

Can you imagine how frazzled those cats down there in the catacombs would be ... They're also very much connected with the above-ground level. I have to believe this; it is hope. As for factual, no. Just suspicions from years of researching such topics, and an educated gut-hunch 😉

For sure, the Great Spirit creates miracles, and many of them are through the hands of peeps like you and me. Here, I pray there are still such peeps left in control to restore sanity to our government.

If there is one of the aforementioned that has anything resembling a heart, join the rest of us peeps. Get stocked up on munchies, beer, and other beverages, and

WE, The People, Will Have A Party!

Then sit on our butts and do nothing except eat a baloney sandwich and drink a bottle of Coca-Cola while listening to Men Without Hats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VM2eLhvsSM

sitting in front of the boob tube for the whole day, watching cartoons and soap operas 😵‍💫👹🤡👽🤖🐰🦄🍄| 🫂👁️👀🙅‍♂️🙅‍♀️ I got lots of soggy potato chips, beer, and ice cream, have some. Anyone want some whiskey? 🥪🍨🍺🍾🍷🥃🍹🫟🪣

And then you threaten to do the same the next day, too, more baloney sandwiches plese! 🥪

In this case, on this topic today, I would like to say that this song is more suitable for the occasion. It can be a better world if we it can be. "BELIEVE!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhGJ0gVW13o

TODAY'S DISCUSSION Part 2:

GUT-HUNCH

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Question: What is a gut-hunch?

🔹AI Overview

A gut hunch is a strong, intuitive feeling or suspicion that something is true, likely to happen, or wrong, without conscious reasoning or evidence. Often called a "gut feeling," this immediate, non-rational reaction is thought to stem from subconscious pattern recognition, where the brain processes past experiences and environmental cues faster than conscious thought.

Key Aspects of a Gut-Hunch:

* Physical Sensation:

* Subconscious Insight:

* Origin: LinkedIn*

Hunch vs. Gut Feeling:

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An educated gut-hunch is putting the research behind to get as many pieces together as is possible. Lots of DETECTIVE work if you are interested in getting deeper into the topic or subject; then analyze and come up with the closest proposition or analogy, and connecting ideas as a potential theory, which is a branch of mathematical physics focused on studying harmonic functions. It's a process. Why do I feel this way about it? 🤫

BREAKING NEWS:

Energy prices soar as attacks on Middle East gas facilities escalate

Trump threatens to "blow up" world's largest gas field, as Israeli strikes spark Iranian retaliation and fears of further economic shocks

Here's The Latest:

• Energy prices spike: Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, hit $115 a barrel this morning after Israeli strikes sparked Iranian retaliation on energy infrastructure across the Middle East, including on Qatar's critical liquefied natural gas hub Ras Laffan.

• Intel hearing: Iran "maintained the intention" to rebuild nuclear enrichment, US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told lawmakers today. Her prepared remarks yesterday said that such capabilities had been "obliterated" last year. She also said the objectives laid out by the US and Israeli governments for the war "are different."

• Largest gas field: US President Donald Trump said the US "knew nothing" about Israel's plan to strike the South Pars field in Iran, but sources have told CNN that the US was aware of it. Trump threatened to "blow up" the gas field if Tehran keeps up its attacks on Qatar.

• Diplomatic showdown: Saudi Arabia told CNN it "reserved the right to take military action" against Tehran, while Qatar expelled Iran's military and security attachés.

*Read More:*

8 min ago

Iran war will have "material impact" on European inflation via energy prices, ECB says

More To Read:

Updated 11:21 AM EDT, Thu March 19, 2026

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Top intelligence officials back on Capitol Hill for House hearing on global threats

And in the Senate, Markwayne Mullin's nomination to be the next Homeland Security secretary has advanced

*What We're Covering:*

• Global threats hearing: Top Trump administration intelligence officials are facing more questions from lawmakers now at a House committee hearing on the Annual Threat Assessment.

• What the intel chief said: Yesterday in the Senate, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard fielded questions on underlying intelligence for the war in Iran and her presence at an FBI search of a Georgia elections office. She also said it is "not the intelligence community's responsibility to determine what is and is not an imminent threat," instead saying that ultimately it lies with Trump.

• DHS nominee vote: Sen. Markwayne Mullin's nomination to be the next Homeland Security secretary has advanced, meaning the full Senate is set to vote on it as early as next week. His hearing yesterday turned tense at times.

*Read More:*

1 hr 34 min ago

Mullin’s nomination to lead DHS advances after Fetterman joins with Republicans in vote

More To Read:

Updated 11:14 AM EDT, Thu March 19, 2026

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CANADIAN NEWS:

Canadians in Middle East warned not to record or share war videos

'Doing so could lead to fines, imprisonment or deportation,' Global Affairs Canada says

Global Affairs Canada is warning Canadians in the Middle East to refrain from documenting military activity as war engulfs the region. In a post on X Tuesday, the government warned that "taking, sharing or possessing" photos or videos of military activity or damage "could lead to fines, imprisonment or deportation." The post specifically mentions Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabi and the United Arab Emirates.

This comes after dozens of foreigners were arrested for sharing videos in Gulf states that are facing strikes from Iranian drones and missiles as part of the U.S-Israeli war in Iran. Legal group Detained in Dubai said last week that 21 people were charged under UAE's cybercrime laws, including a 60-year-old British man in Dubai...

WATCH | Dubai cracking down on social media posts:

• Arrests in Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait:
• WATCH | Tight rules restricting social media activity:

Posted: Mar 18, 2026 4:50 PM EDT | Last Updated: March 18

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Assaults, injuries and classroom evacuations: Alberta teachers detail violence in schools

Many educators say complexity plays a role; some call for stricter discipline

Alberta teachers say they face increasingly dangerous conditions at school, with the most common threat coming from their own students. CBC News surveyed teachers across the province this year. Hundreds wrote about violence they experience on the job, including suffering concussions and other injuries; students kicking, scratching, punching and biting them; and regularly having to evacuate a classroom because of a student's temper.

• What has been your experience with Alberta schools? Whether you’re a teacher, parent or student, we want to hear from you. Send an email to ask@cbc.ca.

• Read our Inside the Classroom series at cbc.ca/inside.

Many respondents detailed how classroom complexity can sometimes tie into disruptive and violent behaviour in their classrooms.

CHART | 1 in 5 lost-time claims in Alta. school since 2021 caused by violence

• When complexity escalates:
• Need more than ‘sorry’:

Posted: Mar 19, 2026 7:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

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MAYBE SOMEDAY WE WILL ALL BE EATING RAINBOW STEW!

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Good Morning! I pray that all who are up and about are well, having survived another night and ready for their day's pursuits. Beginning today, *NOTE!* TODAY WE, THE PEOPLE,* need to take matters into our own hands and fight for the Constitution, democracy, justice, independence, freedom, and liberty!*_

Let VIVE LA RESISTANCE! begin today, before it's too late. There are two lunatics out there with access to the BIG RED BUTTON 🔴 one with brains and more dangerous than the other, who has no brains or soul, just possibly dangerous because at 80 years old, he may have a DEATH WISH! A dying 80-year-old, spoiled child like the evil Id within him. If you have no soul, no conscience, what do you have to lose? Schadenfreude mixed with his narcissism within ...

If you know you're old and dying, your earthly time is limited. You have no soul, so anything is game with no bars held, certainly no conscience, and you are a selfish, greedy, morbid, sadistic, child molesting old predator wanker of an excuse for a human. If you are a human, I wanna be a Martian. SERIOUSLY think about it, eh! I would sooner my home plane be past the edge of our observable universe, I don't want to see, hear, or feel anything when the 💩 hits the fan⚙️💨

My antennas are on backorder; it took a long time to find a pair. Only Lockheed makes 'em. I wasn't a-goin' ta pay tariffs on my antennas! I had to order them through China. So my antennas are on back order.

Welcome to The Fairy Lady's 🧚‍♀️ Tree House 🏡 in Ogden's Swamp 🌾🫟Ontario 🍁 So says my dragon 🐲😁

Just thought I would attempt to shine a little light 💡on this gloomy planet ⚫️ says the Martian Fairy Lady. My antennas have arrived, and they work. ((((🥢)))) - "Bleep, bleep..." Whew! No Ker -Fluck - A - Boom yet either! 🌟One day at a time. Now there's work to do.

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

SCHADEFREUDE & PYROMANIA

What is Schadenfreude?:

AI Overview

*Schadenfreude* is a German loanword that translates literally to "harm-joy" (Schaden = damage/harm; Freude = joy). It describes the experience of feeling pleasure, satisfaction, or amusement at the misfortune, failure, or humiliation of another person...

* Key Aspects of Schadenfreude:*

*Definition:* It is "malicious joy" obtained from another's bad luck.

Context: It often arises when the victim is a rival, a disliked person, or someone perceived as deserving of their misfortune.

* Psychology:*

* Physical Reaction:*

* Commonality:*

* Opposites:*

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Question: Fascination with exploding things

• Release of Tension:
• Feelings of Power:
• Stress Management:
• Curiosity and Awe:

Biological and Developmental Aspects:

• Brain Chemistry:
• Adolescent Experimentation:
• Gender Differences:

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Question: IS SENILITY RELATED TO SCHADENFREUDE & PYROMANIA?

"Senility"—now more accurately referred to as dementia or major neurocognitive disorder—is not directly caused by or a direct cause of schadenfreude or pyromania. However, the neurodegenerative processes associated with dementia (e.g., Alzheimer's, behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia) can lead to personality changes, reduced empathy, poor impulse control, and emotional regulation issues, which may manifest as behaviors similar to schadenfreude or, in rare cases, impulsive firesetting.

Isn't that about the same behavior as the rest of Trumpo The Typo's Dunce Cadets? He picked well, all soulless automatons. C'MON BOYS AND GIRLS, THIS IS NOT A COMIC BOOK, IT'S FOR REAL! Wake up, there, Jimmy, the teacher, Miss Cathaway, yeah, Cast away, shouts, "Wake up!" as she throws a great curveball with her left shoe, right betwixt Jimmy's eyeballs.

BREAKING NEWS:

HERE IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN FAMILIES GET SEPARATED BY ICE

And then they ask why Canadians are not crossing the border? You might wake up in Tierra del Fuego.

'Americans at heart': ICE detains DACA recipient on way to visit premature baby in NICU

Juan Chavez Velasco's case reflects a growing pattern:

The Trump administration is targeting Dreamers who once believed DACA shielded them — and letting their renewals expire unanswered.

Twelve days after his youngest daughter was born prematurely, Juan Chavez Velasco was on his way to deliver milk to her hospital room — still in his own neighborhood in Weslaco, Texas — when immigration agents pulled in front of his car. His wife, Stephanie Villarreal, 32, was on the phone with him and heard the agents yell at him to get out of the vehicle.

"I immediately became really panicked," she said in an interview with -MS NOW-. He told them he had children. He told them he had a wife. He told them he had DACA. He remembers their response.

“They said, ‘That doesn’t matter,’” Chavez Velasco recalled.

Chavez Velasco, 35, was taken into custody and transported to a detention center in Laredo, leaving behind a U.S.-citizen wife and three U.S.-citizen children, the youngest of whom was in an isolation chamber in the neonatal intensive care unit. “I never got to hold her” before being taken away, he said in a phone interview from the Webb County Detention Center...

Data provided by DHS to congressional Democrats shows that between Jan. 1 and Sept. 28 of last year, 270 DACA recipients were arrested and 174 were deported.

This week, Villarreal brought their son Damien to see Juan for the first time since his detention. They hadn’t told him the full truth about where his father was. But sitting on the other side of the glass barrier, Damien began to cry.

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Mar. 18, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT

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Trump’s pick to lead DHS faces questions about his temperament at Senate hearing

At a separate hearing, administration intelligence officials are testifying about the Annual Threat Assessment.

What We're Covering:

• DHS confirmation hearing: Sen. Markwayne Mullin is testifying before a Senate committee to be the next Homeland Security secretary. In a tense start, Sen. Rand Paul accused the Oklahoma senator of having “anger issues.”

• “I shouldn’t have said that”: Mullin admitted that his early comments calling Alex Pretti a “deranged individual” were a mistake. Pretti, an ICU nurse in Minnesota, was killed by immigration officers in January.

• Global threats hearing: Meanwhile, President Donald Trump’s intelligence chiefs are testifying before a Senate hearing about the Annual Threat Assessment, which is the first such report not to mention foreign threats to US elections since Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election. The war in Iran is also expected to be a key topic during the hearing, and you can follow CNN’s live coverage on Iran here...

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Bank of Canada holds key interest rate at 2.25%, saying war will boost global inflation

Too soon to assess conflict's impact on Canadian economy, says governing council

The Bank of Canada held its key interest rate at 2.25 per cent on Wednesday, saying that higher oil and gas prices from the war in the Middle East are likely to boost global inflation, but that it's too soon to assess the conflict's impact on the Canadian economy.

The bank expects the Canadian economy will grow "modestly" as it adjusts to U.S. trade policy uncertainty, but that recent data suggests that near-term economic growth will be weaker than the bank anticipated at the beginning of the year. The war in Iran has added "a new layer of uncertainty" and Canada is facing more volatility, said Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem during a press conference in Ottawa...

CHART | Bank of Canada interest rates:

He also noted that while Canada is somewhat shielded from the Strait's closure, "oil and natural gas are not the only commodities that go through the Strait of Hormuz."

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Posted: Mar 18, 2026 9:51 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 minute ago

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Iran threatens attacks on Gulf oil infrastructure as Israel kills another regime official

Iranian state television confirms Israel killed Intelligence Minister Esmail Khatib

Iran’s state television published a threat on Wednesday saying the Islamic Republic would be attacking oil and gas infrastructure in Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates amid a new wave of strikes on its Persian Gulf neighbours and Israel.

Iran used some of its latest missiles to evade air defences and kill two people near Tel Aviv, as the war in the Middle East showed no signs of slowing. The threat to oil and gas infrastructure resembled other attack warnings put out by Iran during the war, copying the style used by the Israeli military. Iran specifically threatened Saudi Arabia’s Samref Refinery and its Jubail Petrochemical Complex.

It also threatened the U.A.E.’s Al Hasan Gas Field and the petrochemical plants and a refinery in Qatar...

• Iran shows no sign of relenting:

WATCH | Three million people displaced in Iran:

WATCH | Top U.S. counterterror official quits:

• Iran fires multiple-warhead missiles:

Posted: Mar 18, 2026 5:45 AM EDT | Last Updated: 28 minutes ago

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Global National: March 16, 2026 | Trump warns NATO of "very bad" future amid Strait of Hormuz crisis

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