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"Nate Silver Asks: ‘Are We Entering a Conservative Golden Age?'"
Biden and the left wing has left us with numerous ticking bombs. The national debt being the worst, Massive illegal immigration is the runner up. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of activists judges and so much more. Which one of these bombs goes off first is anyone's guess. The debt could trigger Great Depression 2.0. The massive immigration is likely going to kill thousands and thousands of Americans before it is resolved not to mention the massive increase in property and civil crime or the budget impact to give them all free stuff. Even Trump with his great energy and love of America will not be able to reverse all the sabotage the America hating left has committed. Perhaps we'll be the beneficiaries of a Dave Ramsey-like "snowball effect," where cleaning up one problem will make it easier to clean up another.
Cheer up one guy and remember old chinee saying
Can never reach finish line if not start I am a better therapist since I let go of therapeutic theory
QUOTE: The art of ‘being for another’ – following, listening to and making sense of another person’s world – has been practised for millennia. Humans have always discussed their lives, their values and their problems, trying to find meaning, solace and joy. Experts at this sort of discussion have been called wise women, shamans, priests – and now therapists. Then, starting with Sigmund Freud, came a series of attempts to create a science of psychotherapy out of it. But there is very little science to it. . . . Along the way, over years of practise, I lost faith that awareness was always curative, that resolving childhood trauma would liberate us all, that truly feeling the feelings would allow them to dissipate, in a complex feedback loop of theory and practice. The effect of your family environment matters very little when it comes to your personality . . . the tenets of psychotherapy did not reflect my clients’ lived experience, or even my own. Instead, we see what we expect to see, and we make sense of our past based on how we feel now. https://aeon.co/essays/i-am-a-better-therapist-since-i-let-go-of-therapeutic-theory When I started in the 70s, "dynamic" psychology was finally beginning to go out of fashion. There was a lot of jockeying for what would replace it, but a coaching model of therapy, with brief interventions focusing on behavior instead of insight, have increasingly become the norm. Insight is fascinating and convinces you it is going to lead you to behavior change and happiness. This is much less than half true. Physical interventions, such as medication, assigned homework, and formal evaluation are becoming more standard.
QUOTE: Bulk Carrier Paralyzed On Lake Erie As Ice Coverage Exceeds 50-Year Trend ... The cold blast (or what has felt like a 'mini ice age' this month) produced by the polar vortex does not align with the corporate media's and the World Economic Forum's global warming doom narrative. Rather, Durden's spiel doesn't align with the actual science. It is likely that global warming will result in more extremes in weather. Nor does the Arctic blast indicate a global cooling event. Instead, cold air from the Arctic moved over North America, which was displaced by anomalously warmer air in the Arctic. The Borgs spiel does not align with science... it aligns with a NWO/WEF/BBB narrative.
On the other hand, Zach, it is official that Florida had more snow than Calgary so far in January. But that's how weather works; it gets creative. We're just waiting for winter to catch up with us.
Frances: But that's how weather works; it gets creative
Sure. And because weather is so inherently chaotic, it isn’t easy to determine the relationship between weather events and global warming. We know (with high confidence) that the Earth’s surface is warming due to anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, but how this excess heat will affect regional climate and weather patterns is less well known. It is likely (but not yet certain) that global warming will cause more extremes in weather patterns; for instance, the American southwest could see longer droughts punctuated with heavier rains. The current weakening of the polar vortex is likely (but not yet certain) due to global warming, which causes the vortex to become wobbly, allowing blasts of cold air to escape south, leaving the Arctic anomalously warm. The effect of global warming on regional climate and weather patterns is a matter of intense scientific study. But we know (with high confidence) that the vast changes to Earth’s climate which have occurred in the past were often due to relatively small changes in mean surface temperature. Zach, baby, were it not for global warming, I would be trtubg ti respond to you from a couple of km of ice. And there have been some fairly extreme weather events much earlier than the Industrial Revolution.
If one looke at the history of the Roman Empire, on realizes that its expansion coincides with a warming period. The Romans moved into Britain and were able to grow grapes there. Then the climate changed; conditions became harsher and tribes began moving westward from Asia, creating problems for the eastern parts of the Roman empire. Even after the Romans left Britain, there was pressure on that island because climate change meant that the crops in Europe were scanty and England had a better climate. Then think about the Medieval Warm Period, when the Vikings inhabited Greenland and Labrador. The labrador colony didn't last, but Greenland is still inhabited despite communities being abandoned whe the crops failed. Zeb - climate warming has happened, is happening, and will happen in the future. It's what the earth does. The smart folk don't try this idiotic 'net zero" idiocy, but strengthen their communities against whatever Mother Nature may throw. Frances: climate warming has happened, is happening, and will happen in the future.
You mean the Earth's climate changes naturally!? What will those crazy scientists come up with next?! (In other words, you accept the science when it confirms your biases, but reject it when it does not.) Current anthropogenic global warming is anomalous in rate and magnitude for any period in the last 12,000 years. Human civilization has evolved in a relatively constant climate, and rapid warming has the potential to severely disrupt human communities. Frances: It's what the earth does. Disease is natural too, but that doesn't mean we should abandon modern sanitation. Current warming is anthropogenic. Humans are highly adaptable and have the capacity to survive and even prosper in a changing climate. But part of that capacity, especially in the scientific age, is the ability to project the future and to mitigate problems before they become unmanageable. The risks and costs will be higher the longer it takes to address the problem; not just economic and political costs, but permanent damage to humanity's shared ecological inheritance.
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I have friends and other who I know and associate with who are liberals some of them in Hollywood. In private they will tell you that they are happy Trump is president and that they were worried about the way the country was going under Biden and the rest of the Democrats. The then quickly add that they cannot say this among their Liberal friends and co-workers because it would get them fired. One said that he was red pilled when he found out that the J6 committee saw the evidence that the event was staged by the FBI and that it was FBI agents, Antifa and BLM activists creating the havoc and that the committee intentionally hid this evidence and destroyed evidence to cover it up.
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