If you Thought Climate Grief was Strange, Meet the Climate Grief Therapists | Watts Up With That?

If you Thought Climate Grief was Strange, Meet the Climate Grief Therapists | Watts Up With That?

"If someone is no longer able to function due to their “pre-traumatic” climate grief, a plethora of therapists are offering therapies...

Group Interventions for Climate Change Distress 

December 11, 2020--Beth Mark, MD , Janet Lewis, MD

From disasters and social disruptions to existential concerns, climate distress groups may not only provide much-needed support to patients but may also help psychiatry’s public health responses. 

The climate crisis presents unique and complex challenges to the mental health and wellness of individuals and communities. The need for interventions at a global scale increasingly leads mental health providers to look toward large group interventions...Read all.

If you allow the gov...

 

Open Letter from an American Coward | by Sarah Chamberlain | Dec, 2020 | Medium

Open Letter from an American Coward | by Sarah Chamberlain | Dec, 2020 | Medium

• 
  "I am an 

American, a New Hampshirewoman, a lover of liberty, and a happily married mother of four beautiful children. I have a wonderful life, a bright future, and could not ask for any greater blessing than those I have already received.

• My enemies are
  

in a word, communists. Modern communists do not usually call themselves such. 

They do not talk about workers rising up and seizing the Means of Production.
Instead, modern communists adopt a rhetorical stance where they assume that all people and all property are ALREADY COLLECTIVIZED, then calmly discuss what WE should do:

• What WE should ALLOW people to own.
• What WE should ALLOW people to do.
• What WE should ALLOW people to say.
• How WE should ALLOW people to use their property.
• How WE should ALLOW people to conduct their businesses,
• … and WHO should be ALLOWED,
• … and WHERE.
• How WE should ALLOW people to raise their children.
• Who should be GIVEN which roles within society.
• etc.

The issue under discussion is always something sympathetic, something most decent people would like to see fixed: Intergenerational poverty, police brutality, environmental degradation, bigotry, violence.
But the solutions modern communists put forward are rarely passive, and they are never liberating...Read all!

#1 This day 1984-----Madonna - Like A Virgin (Official Music Video)

Enough is Enough: Time to Pull the Plug on Endless Wind & Solar Subsidies

Enough is Enough: Time to Pull the Plug on Endless Wind & Solar Subsidies

• No subsidies. No wind and solar industries. It’s that simple.

"Back in 1983 the American Wind Industry Association claimed that solar and wind would be “competitive and self-supporting on a national level by the end of the decade if assisted by tax credits and augmented by federally sponsored R&D”. 

That was 36 years ago. 

...Now, as then, claims from renewable energy rent seekers that wind and solar are truly competitive with nuclear, coal or gas evaporate the instant policymakers start talking about removing subsidies to wind and solar.

With their 40th birthdays approaching, the wind and solar ‘industries’ are a pair of perpetual infants who – like Peter Pan – are determined to never grow up...Read all.

"Why do they keep us from fact checking?"

 

Hunter And James Biden Have Refused To Cooperate With Senate Requests, Sen. Ron Johnson Says | The Daily Caller

Hunter And James Biden Have Refused To Cooperate With Senate Requests, Sen. Ron Johnson Says | The Daily Caller: 

Hunter Biden and James Biden have not complied with information requests from the Senate, CBS’ Catherine Herridge reports.  

According to a Saturday press release from the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, several requests dating back to September 23 for interviews and records have been ignored by President-elect Joe Biden’s son, his brother, and other associates.

From the leaked CCP database:

Facebook--Clarice Feldman

@emeraldrobinson

From the leaked CCP database:

• Qualcomm: 133 employees are China Communist Party members.
• New York University: 71 employees are CCP.
• Pfizer: 69 employees are CCP.
• Boeing: 252 employees are CCP. 
• US consulate in Shanghai : 3 employees are CCP.

AM Fruitcake

 

History for December 16

History for December 16 - On-This-Day.com

Noel Coward 1899 - English actor, playwright and composer

• 1773 - Nearly 350 chests of tea were dumped into Boston Harbor off of British ships by Colonial patriots. The patriots were disguised as Indians. The act was to protest taxation without representation and the monopoly the government granted to the East India Company.
• 1835 - In New York, 530 buildings were destroyed by fire.
• 1901 - "The Tale of Peter Rabbit," by Beatrix Potter, was printed for the first time.
• 1944 - During World War II, the Battle of the Bulge began in Belgium. It was the final major German counteroffensive in the war.
• 1950 - U.S. President Truman proclaimed a national state of emergency in order to fight "Communist imperialism."
• 1951 - NBC-TV debuted "Dragnet" in a special preview on "Chesterfield Sound Off Time". The show began officially on January 3, 1952.
• 1973 - O.J. Simpson broke Jim Brown’s single-season rushing record in the NFL. Brown had rushed for 1,863 yards, while Simpson attained 2,003 yards.
• 1996 - Britain's agriculture minister announced the slaughter of an additional 100,000 cows thought to be at risk of contracting BSE (Mad Cow) in an effort to persuade the EU to lift its ban on Britain.

FNC's Pirro: Deep State Didn't Just Steal the Election from Trump, They Stole It You -- 'You Never Mattered Because It Was Never About You'

FNC's Pirro: Deep State Didn't Just Steal the Election from Trump, They Stole It You -- 'You Never Mattered Because It Was Never About You': 

On Saturday, Fox News Channel’s Jeanine Pirro railed against the so-called Deep State for what she deemed a win-at-all-costs approach to win the 2020 presidential election.

Pirro accused the Deep State of stealing the election and cited the different rules that were applied to Democrats and Joe Biden versus Republicans and Donald Trump.

Dem Rep Makes Waves by Introducing Bill To Limit Women's Sports to Biological Women

Dem Rep Makes Waves by Introducing Bill To Limit Women's Sports to Biological Women: 

Former presidential candidate and outgoing Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii has introduced a bill that would effectively block biological males who identify as transgender women from competing in women’s sports at federally funded schools.

The “Protect Women’s Sports Act” says that “To provide that for purposes of determining compliance with title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 in athletics, sex shall be determined on the basis of biological sex as determined at birth by a physician.”

The way we were-----Battle of Copenhagen, 1801

Boob-tube-----Dinah Shore Color Show Nov. 9, 1958

Lest we not forget when liberals "win"-----ICE detainer not honored, convicted child murderer released | ICE

ICE detainer not honored, convicted child murderer released | ICE
LOS ANGELES — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged an immigration detainer on a Salvadoran national serving time for a murder conviction at the California Department of Corrections at Pleasant Valley Prison in Chowchilla, California, Aug. 28, 2013. 

The request was not honored, and Carlos Morales-Ramirez was released onto the streets Dec. 4.
On Jan. 9, 1998, Morales-Ramirez, now 44, was convicted of second-degree murder, assault on a child causing death, and great bodily injury to a child causing death by the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles.
...When local law enforcement agencies fail to honor immigration detainers and release serious criminal offenders onto the streets, it undermines ICE’s ability to protect public safety and carry out its national security mission...Read all.

WaPo Idiot Thinks Biden Is Head of the Church of England

WaPo Idiot Thinks Biden Is Head of the Church of England
"...I didn’t spend much time pondering just how insufferable the media might become during a Biden presidency...
There is a clear reason why they are going to be worse now.
All of the people in the leftmedia were identifying as swooning teenage schoolgirls when The Lightbringer was in office. The weren’t really reporting, they were keeping feelings journals, dotting every “i” with a heart and fighting to keep tears of joy from ruining the pages. They were on “Isn’t he dreamy?” autopilot.
The huge difference now is that none of them really like Biden that much, if at all. 

To fulfill their lust for getting rid of ORANGE MAN BAD, the MSM was forced to install in the Oval Office an empty-head moron who can’t navigate three sentences without losing his ability to speak his native language. The poor dears who have to keep this charade afloat have to go way over the top to do so. They need to over-correct by making things up just so they can pretend that there is some “there” there with Drooling Joe.
That brings me to this bit of tedium in The Washington Post from last week that claimed Biden could “redefine what it means to be ‘a Catholic in good standing.’”

Here’s the gist of it:

Despite these divisions, Biden is poised to make his mark on American Catholicism. For the next four years, the country will see its president go to Mass every Sunday, take out a rosary at times of contemplation, and quote his favorite childhood nuns and Catholic poets. ...When you look at the whole picture you see someone who is a person of faith in a way [President] Trump is clearly not. Trump focuses on this world and on himself.”

...It’s a pure leftist media fever dream that a president who received endorsements from every abortion group in America is in a position to define or redefine anything about Catholicism. 

It’s not a minor issue that can be glossed over for political convenience. 
...Most who write about or report on Catholicism don’t have the slightest clue what they’re talking about. 

...And he’s not quoting any poets. The guy can’t tell you what he’s having for breakfast while he’s eating it. Stop already.
Our sister site Twitchy had some good reaction to a lib’s tweet about the WaPo article. Here was my favorite:

Amen...Read all.

Dem Rep Makes Waves by Introducing Bill To Limit Women's Sports to Biological Women

Dem Rep Makes Waves by Introducing Bill To Limit Women's Sports to Biological Women: 

According to Sports Illustrated, the bill would prohibit federally funded schools from allowing “a person whose biological sex at birth is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls.”

Republican Rep. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, who co-sponsored the bipartisan bill, indicated it is long past time to protect the opportunities intended to be afforded women by Title IX.

Why Did The WHO Bury This Damning Report On Italy's COVID-19 Response?

Why Did The WHO Bury This Damning Report On Italy's COVID-19 Response?

Authored by Rick Moran via PJMedia.com,

A World Health Organization (WHO) official reportedly removed an important study on Italy’s early response to the coronavirus pandemic. 

Ranieri Guerra, the Italian WHO official who removed the study, previously served as director-general for preventive health at the Italian health ministry from 2014-17.

The report - extremely critical of Italy’s haphazard early response to the pandemic - was supposed to be a blueprint for governments not yet hit by the coronavirus. Kuwait funded the report, written by WHO scientist Francesco Zambon and 10 colleagues across Europe. The Guardian:

Called An Unprecedented Challenge: Italy’s First Response to Covid-19, the document was published on the WHO website on 13 May before being taken down the next day, as first reported by the Guardian in August.

The 102-page report said Italy’s pandemic plan had not been updated since 2006 and that, due to being unprepared, the initial response from hospitals was “improvised, chaotic and creative”.

...Guerra was directly responsible for updating Italy’s 2006 pandemic plan, which might explain why he didn’t want a study highlighting that fact out there for all the world to see.

...The WHO is refusing to allow Zambon to testify at the hearings in Bergamo. Apparently, the organization would prefer to bury the news that it buried a potentially life-saving report for political reasons.

...The Full Report can be read here...

Evil, sick people getting your tax dollars-----Abortion Clinic Employee Celebrates Topping Christmas Tree With Forceps

Abortion Clinic Employee Celebrates Topping Christmas Tree With Forceps
"An employee at an abortion clinic proudly tweeted about how he was celebrating the festive season by topping his Christmas tree with forceps used to abort babies.
“IT IS LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO TOP OUR TOPPER,” wrote pro-abortion activist Michael Saenz alongside an image of the tree before deleting the tweet.
According to Live Action, Saenz is an employee at CARE, carried out late-term abortions and operates in Maryland and Nebraska.

His Twitter profile also linked to We are Pro-Abortion, a company that sells clothes with phrases such as “I’m cool with abortions,” “abortions are magical” and “abortions today tomorrow and forevermore.”...Read all.

Lunch video-----Fireside Chat Ep. 164 - Lying to Kids About Stereotypes

Noon-toon

 

Pinkerton: What Happens When a Communist Regime Penetrates Our Government

Pinkerton: What Happens When a Communist Regime Penetrates Our Government:

The U.S. Congressman, a Democrat, is accused of being an agent of a foreign communist power. As one accuser says of the lawmaker, “I think he is a spy.” The Congressman denies it, and yet eventually, it’s demonstrated that he has been, in fact, engaged in espionage on behalf of foreign communist paymasters.

America stolen!

 

Unfunded Govt. Liabilities -- Our Ticking Time Bomb | RealClearPolitics

Unfunded Govt. Liabilities -- Our Ticking Time Bomb | RealClearPolitics--from January 10, 2019

"Tick, tick, tick goes the time bomb of national doom. 

Every second the ticking grows louder, but you won’t hear the muffled sound that’s more akin to white noise.

...Members of Congress from both parties are also deaf to the ticking. 

Inherently they know that any attempt to defuse the bomb means they run the risk of being voted out of office. 

The doom of which I speak is unfunded liabilities — $122 $156 trillion in payments the government owes and has promised its citizens — without the funds to fulfill those obligations.

According to the Treasury Department, total U.S. unfunded liability includes 

• Social Security (along with Medicare Parts A, B, and D), 
• federal debt held by the public, 
• plus federal employee and veteran benefits.

Before you call me an alarmist, I refer you to the U.S. Debt Clock. 

Here you can watch our time bomb tick in real time with that $122 $156 trillion in unfunded liabilities as one of the major “fuses.”...Read all.

https://usdebtclock.org/