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lorcanon June was hottest month ever recorded on Earth

Dont worry, the 3rd world will more than make up for your abstinence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_population_grow...

lorcanon San Francisco school board votes to destroy murals by Victor Arnautoff

The left has become like the Taliban or ISIS. https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/isis-n315451

lorcanon Banned bread: why does the US allow additives that Europe says are unsafe?

This Guardian article quotes the "food babe". Food babe also had this to say about flying on airplanes "The air that is pumped in isn’t pure oxygen either, it’s mixed with nitrogen, sometimes almost at 50%. To pump a greater amount of oxygen in costs money in terms of fuel and the airlines know this!" (actual nitrogen percentage in air: 78%)

lorcanon Banned bread: why does the US allow additives that Europe says are unsafe?

versus ~ 400 in the US.

lorcanon Banned bread: why does the US allow additives that Europe says are unsafe?

and ... http://www.euro.who.int/en/media-centre/sections/press-relea...

"Over 41 000 children and adults in the WHO European Region have been infected with measles in the first 6 months of 2018"

lorcanon Banned bread: why does the US allow additives that Europe says are unsafe?

for the downvoters ... https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/02/good-bad-and-ugly-an...

lorcanon Banned bread: why does the US allow additives that Europe says are unsafe?

Europeans are much more susceptible to green activist pseudoscience. For example the ban on GMO's which was driven by ideology not science; or vaccination rates etc.

lorcanon Winning the War on Poverty: The Canadians are doing it; we’re not

No, I deliberately adapted them ... the rule about having a full time job is kind of ridiculous, however having a minimum education, not doing drugs or being burdened as a single parent will make having a steady job much more likely. Also dont think you need to be married (not that type of conservative) to be a good parent.

lorcanon Winning the War on Poverty: The Canadians are doing it; we’re not

Calling them "rules" was probably a mistake. "Principles" would be a better description and of course they dont guarantee anything but I stand by the concept that anyone who aspires to follow them will most likely escape poverty. And while the concepts are simple I fully acknowledge that they could, given your circumstances, be enormously difficult to follow. But do you have a better proposal, do you think throwing some small amount of money will fix it ? Change comes from within and the conceit is that you can "fix" other people.

lorcanon Winning the War on Poverty: The Canadians are doing it; we’re not

Its a testament to the state of our national discourse that the statement of some simple, but obvious, truths could be considered "inflammatory". Also I didnt bring gender into the discussion; the burden of poverty falls disproportionately on women.

lorcanon Winning the War on Poverty: The Canadians are doing it; we’re not

3 rules to escape poverty ... graduate high school, defer parenthood and avoid drugs.