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https://www.amazon.com/Time-Jump-Positive-Independent-Agreement/dp/1909698512

The book for reference.

E: Also.... dude's got mad prediction skills

https://twitter.com/DCBMEP/status/745978947159138304

>> If I dare offer a prediction, I would suggest 52-48 to Leave seems right- just like Norway in '94. Very tight. Passion and turnout counts.

This guy

He is the majority-white-union official for the police and has been a state rep for 8 out of the last 12 years.

Also this

Here's a great book on it.

https://www.amazon.com/Deliberate-Dumbing-Abridged-Charlotte-2011-05-03/dp/B01FGMTF02/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=RD42900SGSVCEJP8QCCM

Others have responded about the policies you're speaking on themselves, but I just wanted to point out something most people overlook. It doesn't matter if they're a Republican or Democrat, Presidents once elected largely follow through on their campaign promises. Older literature include Fishel's book Presidents and Promises and Krukone's Promises and Performances which detail a lot of the period up to the 1980's. Newer studies, that have been neatly summarized in this 538 article, show that this is consistent with more recent Presidents as well. Trump following through on (in my opinion bad policy but obviously we might disagree) promises isn't an aberration, it's pretty standard practice.

I can understand that if I went to the global warming alarmists' subreddit /r/environment and tried to submit an article from James Delingpole, the alarmists would point out that he is a "denier" and that he calls alarmists "watermelons".

What I am doing here is the exact same thing. A global warming alarmist has come to /r/climateskeptics and submitted an article. I am pointing out that Tamino is an alarmist and calls skeptics "deniers".

>rejectionists

Did you get tired of using the word "Denier"?

>"watermelons"

'British author James Delingpole tells the shocking story of how an unholy mix of junk science, green hype, corporate greed and political opportunism led to the biggest - and most expensive - outbreak of mass hysteria in history.

In Watermelons, Delingpole explains the Climategate scandal, the cast of characters involved, their motives and methods. He delves into the background of the organizations and individuals who have sought to push global warming to the top of the political agenda, showing that beneath their cloak of green lurks a heart of red.

Watermelons shows how the scientific method has been sacrificed on the altar of climate alarmism. Delingpole mocks the green movement's pathetic record of apocalyptic predictions, from the "population bomb" to global cooling, which failed to materialize. He reveals the fundamental misanthropy of green ideology, "rooted in hatred of the human species, hell bent on destroying almost everything man has achieved".

Delingpole gives a refreshing voice to widespread public skepticism over global warming, emphasising that the "crisis" has been engineered by people seeking to control our lives by imposing new taxes and regulations. "Your taxes will be raised, your liberties curtailed and your money squandered to deal with this 'crisis'", he writes.

At its very roots, argues Delingpole, climate change is an ideological battle, not a scientific one. Green on the outside, red on the inside, the liberty-loathing, humanity-hating "watermelons" of the modern environmental movement do not want to save the world. They want to rule it.

Delingpole is the bestselling British writer who helped expose the Climategate scandal in his Daily Telegraph blog. He also writes a column for The Spectator. His other books include 365 Ways to Drive a Liberal Crazy (Regnery, 2010) and Welcome to Obamaland (Regnery, 2009).'

http://www.amazon.com/Watermelons-Green-Movements-True-Colors/dp/0983347409

If you think you are not informed enough by the general media you can try a book. I read this one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/EU-Referendum-2016-Guide-Voters/dp/1910745510/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1464090004&sr=8-1&keywords=voter%27s+guide

It's a fairly quick (and relatively interesting, actually, if you are at all interested) read. It seems balanced to me, though of course that is all but impossible to actual discern, having only read that book. But that's what it's attempting to do anyway.

It convinced me to vote "remain", but I think what it really showed me a lot was that I don't think anyone is informed enough to actually "know" which choice is best - I don't think it's possible. It's like trying to figure out what the weather is going to be on one particular day 1000 years in the future.

First off, I don't see how that is helpful considering industrial output and per capita consumption are already considered far too high to be sustainable. In fact, since at least the '70's many environmental economists have been calling for planned economic degrowth in the face of unsustainable utilization rates of not just fossil fuels, but other natural resources as well.

Second of all, I think there's a strong argument to be made that high-tech renewable energy is not up to the task of supplying us the the kind of energy we're used to, nor will it ever be. Yet that very likely contingency isn't even being considered in public discourse.

I still agree with the central message of the report, though. Cutting emissions is the best path to prosperity. I just don't think that prosperity and growth have to go hand in hand. The rather standard (and silly) assumption that economic growth is somehow independent of energy needs to be discarded. It is not tenable. And it implies, wrongly, that energy related emissions can be reduced without consequences for growth.

I will not be surprised when dude comes back and says "climate gate was debunked" which it wasn't, but all these watermelons say it was.

Personally, I like to know/research both sides of an argument.

Review of FoK

How stats can be misleading

The other side of the environment issue

Green on the outside, red on the inside

re, your handle. James Delingpole and others argue a majority of climate alarmists are "watermelons". "green on the outside, but red on the inside". In a word, deceptive.

Is your handle a reference to this?

Because if it is, then why should any normal person take anything you write seriously?

We don't like deception.

> > People in non-productive measures that are certificably not increasing chance of getting a job, are not counted as unemployed

> That's standard definition of unemployed.

It is not, here. It's a huge business the government supports here. These opportunities are provided by third parties and delivered through the job center, and the criteria is that they have to not compete with anything the market could provide, so things among the following are offered: "Playing" Supermarket; Putting together old puzzles for giving away if they're not missing pieces; Walking through town; basic PC courses and other stuff along those lines, that doesn't provide a certificate. (edit: If you know german, maybe this book would provide some further insights there)

You're made to participate in those if you're unemployed and signed away your rights without demanding legal verification as to the validity of the document you're required to sign.

There's been official studies undertaken at this point that have shown that these measures don't increase employability.

Welcome to Germany.

edit: Also, I think in some places in the world, you don't count as unemployed if you've been looking for X months but found nothing so far. Though we don't do that here at least. Unless you're 50+ or something, then you are in fact dropped from the statistic after a period of time, here. It really is quite simple to drop people from the unemployment statistic, even if they say they look for work.

Read many chapters on both Thinking Government and Understanding Canadian Public Administration more than once. Both give very good pictures of public administration in Canada. I would also suggest Approaching Public Administration- Core Debates and Emerging Issues. I found Frank Ohemeng coverage of the numerous issues and debates in public administration to be really interesting.

>Most of the literature suggests that presidents make at least a “good faith” effort to keep an average of about two-thirds of their campaign promises; the exact numbers differ from study to study, depending on how the authors define what counts as a campaign promise and what it means to keep it.

If you did research and the experiment failed that would count as a good faith attempt.

I expect that means the only lies you tell at work are social lies to coworkers.

Lying would be either you didn't bother to do the experiment or you did and lied about the results.

We have had substantial problems in Canada and Ontario with politicians actually lying about campaign promises.

Not as bad as trump but still unacceptable.

He has a pretty impressive resume as well as a book out (about the Texas Railroad Commission), so I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to figure out what he would do as a commissioner.

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Don't make me laugh. Those Scandinavian countries are some of the freest economically in the world, and those in charge have had to pull back from the welfare state in recent years, just to get by. If you are something other than a hellbent socialist ideologue and open to hearing of socialism's joys, I recommend Welcome to the Dark Side of the Welfare State, by a Swede, Sven Larson.

St. Louisan here. Just to put things in perspective [This is Jeff Roorda, the head of our police union](https://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2016/07/08/st-louis-police-union-spokesman-jeff-roorda-blames-dallas-tragedy-on-barack-obama0, and this is a book he wrote.



He's also the idiot that wrote this book.



This what we're dealing with.

> How can you just shrug off sharing that Handshake meme

I deleted it, didn't I? And considering you are human as well, you have been wrong in the past, present, and will be wrong about things in the future as well.

Soros is a bad globalist and needs to be stopped, and there is plenty of proof, volumes of books written about him and the Globalist system

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/12/the-square-and-the-tower-by-niall-ferguson-review

https://www.amazon.com/Soros-Conspiracy-George-Puppet-Master-ebook/dp/B06VXKD6ZD

https://www.amazon.com/Illuminati-Secret-Society-Hijacked-World/dp/157859619X

>and then saying Oopsie when it gets called out,

Because Soros is still guilty AF for evil and wrong doings all over the world, I posted over 20 sources, the once you said were wrong, I proved otherwise with more sources, and all I got wrong is one meme which I acknowledge and deleted and like a 5 year old, you are clinging to that meme and following me around pointing fingers yelling to the rest of the 5 year olds, "he was wrong, he was wrong, he was wrong." Get over yourself, you're not a special snowflake.

>The more information you seek out, the more confusing it gets.

Really?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Out-Question-Hugo-Dixon/dp/1496146670/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1465166831&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=hugo+dixob


https://www.amazon.co.uk/Doomed-Marriage-Britain-Should-Leave/dp/191074901X/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1465166959&sr=8-4&keywords=daniel+hannan

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Europe-Out-Everything-Need-Know/dp/1785900412/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1465166859&sr=8-1&keywords=david+charter

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Europe-Dilemma-Britain-Integration-Network/dp/1780762232/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1465166901&sr=8-1&keywords=roger+liddle

Success? Please - people in Sweden go to vets rather than doctors to get treated, the wait times are so long. I suggest you read, Remaking America: Welcome to the Dark Side of the Welfare State. The author is a Swede now living in the US, and I wrote about his experience here.

Here’s Robert Danno’s book- https://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Unexpected-Bureaucrats-Washington-Redskins-ebook/dp/B00A2HKE2U

There's a book about the Nixon-Hughes scandal. I've never read it but I see it in my local bookstore every time I go in (and am always amused by its tagline and cover). But I just assumed that it — like every other Nixon scandal — was ultimately overshadowed by Watergate and largely forgotten by history.


http://www.amazon.com/The-Nixon-Hughes-Loan-One-Repaid/dp/B000IDHFRK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1413234587&sr=8-1&keywords=nixon+hughes+loan

It is free for those of you who have a kindle!

just go to https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XSVSQXF

No. Have you actually read libertarian books on poverty?

The poor are victims of the state. Licensing laws, zoning laws, the public school monopoly, IP laws, and the war on drugs engender poverty and crime. The poor are forced to enter social programs because the state makes the poor unemployable.

Here are some good books on institutional, government created poverty.

http://www.amazon.com/State-Against-Blacks-Walter-Williams/dp/0070703787

http://www.amazon.com/War-Poor-Clarence-Buford-Carson/dp/0870000551/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1394312800&sr=1-1&keywords=the+war+on+the+poor+clarence+carson

http://www.amazon.com/Poor-Policy-How-Government-Harms/dp/0813328241/ref=sr_1_sc_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1394312820&sr=1-2-spell&keywords=d.+eric+scansberg

http://www.amazon.com/Federal-Bulldozer-Martin-Anderson/dp/0070016402/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1394312878&sr=1-1&keywords=the+federal+bulldozer

http://www.amazon.com/Libertarian-Poverty-Repairing-Ladder-Mobility-ebook/dp/B007KM6AO6/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1394312895&sr=1-1&keywords=libertarian+war+on+poverty

Republicans claim they are for smaller government and privatization and that sort of thing but they only get excited to really push for it when they have a chance to set up a friend or corporate sponsor with a plum crony capitalism deal. Meanwhile they take our tax money (as do the Democrats) to defray the cost of their prime time promotional events (aka national conventions.) I did not know that the Feds also kick in millions to provide security for these things but it does not surprise me.

Now I know you were just kidding, but please stop playing into the 'bash the other guy' game. It only ends up supporting the dinosaur parties. If enough people can get past their fears of "the other horrific candidate" and start supporting an honest unbought outsider, we would have a chance over time to rescue this largely broken country of ours.

P.S. I know it is the inferior voting system that leads to the two party system, but since we don't have initiative rights here in Texas, changing that is not an option. Thus the only option available option is to stop supporting Republicans and Democrats wherever that is possible.

If you can't do that, at least vote for Mark Miller for Oil & Gas (aka Railroad) Commissioner. He is by far the most qualified candidate having written the book about the agency and taught oil engineering at UT for almost 20 years.

Watermelons! http://www.amazon.com/Watermelons-Green-Movements-True-Colors/dp/0983347409/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383248522&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=watermollons

But regulation is a leading source of poverty. Licensing laws cartelize businesses, rent control creates homelessness, the war on drugs ruins the opportunities of hundred of thousands of people, and ethanol subsidies, mandates, and tariffs raise food prices. I don't see why it is a lie to say that the state creates poverty.
http://www.amazon.com/State-Against-Blacks-Walter-Williams/dp/0070703787

http://www.amazon.com/The-Poor-Clarence-Buford-Carson/dp/0870000551

http://www.amazon.com/Federal-Bulldozer-Martin-Anderson/dp/0070016402/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1

http://www.amazon.com/Excluded-Americans-Homelessness-Housing-Policies/dp/0895265516

http://www.amazon.com/Libertarian-Poverty-Repairing-Mobility-ebook/dp/B007KM6AO6

http://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Michelle-Alexander/dp/1595586431