Bad for Democrats, good for Canada;
“Good news for Canadian jobs & economy,” the employment minister tweeted. “It looks like the new US Senate will have the 60+ votes needed to ensure that Keystone XL is approved.”
He could be right.
More on the bloodshed at Drudge, including How the GOP did it.
Confirmed – Scott Andrews, MP for Avalon, and Massimo Pacetti, MP for Saint Leonard in Quebec, have been suspended from Liberal caucus.
— John Ivison (@IvisonJ) November 5, 2014
2 separate incidents, both involving the NDP.
Wind turbine blade separated, crashed to ground on Sunday.
The town will spin
’til the last ballot’s in
and the winner’s had his say
Many heads will ache
when tomorrow starts to break
But today, today’s Election Day..♫
What kind of night has it been for the GOP? In Georgia, one John F. Kennedy was elected to the state Senate … as a Republican.
— Kyle Wingfield AJC (@kwingfieldajc) November 5, 2014
So have you heard the latest theory that is being bandied about by people who are scared to death that we are all being tricked like we have never been tricked before? Have you heard the theory? Here’s the theory: There is no Democrat catastrophe that’s going to happen today. The Democrat loss, while it may happen — it’s a midterm election with a sitting Democrat in the Oval Office — is by no means going to be anywhere as big as the media and a lot of Democrats out there are trying to convince us it’s going to be.
The theory holds that this is a giant trap that has been set so that Republicans and commentators and conservatives run around in the days leading up to the election talking about the massive victory for the Republicans, the catastrophic defeat for the Democrats, but that isn’t really going to happen. The Democrat loss is gonna be nowhere near — this is the theory — the Democrat loss is gonna be nowhere near catastrophic. It’s not gonna be anywhere near as bad as most people think it’s gonna be, which will then permit the media and the Democrats tomorrow to claim outright victory, a moral victory, if you will. Instead of being shut out 28 to nothing, they’ll lose 28-21. Came close.
NYT Live Senate Election tracker
Ace of Spades Decision Desk.
We shall see. Comments open!
Moral and intellectual superior watch:
Nice to see #CBC has trouble with geography as well as what's sexual harassment. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/8mqAQWzMTY
— Turdeau (@turdeau) November 5, 2014
This should be 6.
You may recall meeting her earlier.
Icing: @jpodhoretz Fox calls it for Walker. Walker has won three elections in four years. Wow.
UN, World join in outrage. “Afterward, the authorities declared a state of emergency in the area and closed Gaza’s border crossing, where authorities say the militants are getting support.”
I’m old enough to remember a time when they supposedly just wanted to regulate the economy but wanted the government to stay out of our personal lives, particularly our sex lives. All of that now seems hopelessly antique, and Kohn’s column reveals why: the power to control our economic lives contains within it the power to control everything else.
From the Facebook page of Zuhair Hindi, a teacher at the UNRWA Jabalya Prep School for Boys.
HoC cameras catch #LPC's @cafreeland practicing her question in QP #cdnpoli https://t.co/9lP8sudpoT
— Richard Madan (@RichardMadan) November 3, 2014
On competitive indignation, the decline of the New York Times, and the hazards of modern schooling:
Da’von Shaw, a Bedford, Ohio high school student, brought apples and craisins to school for a “healthy eating” presentation he was giving to his speech class. He took out a knife to slice an apple, and I’m sure you can all guess what happened next.
In tonight’s entertainment en route to the tips Spike Jones & His City Slickers leave a mark on their remake of the eponymous theme song from the 1945 movie Laura.
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Not a spider I want to meet in a dark hallway: 4-Acre Spider Web Engulfs Building
Harakat Hazm and the Syrian Revolutionary Front just surrendered to Al Qaeda in Syria.
Most people have never heard of either organization, though they’ve been sort of quietly backed by the US since they oppose the Assad regime, the Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, and the Islamic State. Now they may be effectively finished.
National Post: Ottawa professor facing extradition over anti-Semitic bombing in Paris…
Nobody disputes that wind is an intermittent power source. Hatch says that in a typical wind-natural gas hybrid, wind makes up 20% of the generation mix, with natural gas shouldering the other 80%.
If you’re wondering how much less GHG emissions are coming from nuclear power generation than the wind/natural gas duo, Hatch says a lot. In fact, per kilowatt-hour of generation nuclear power emissions are 18.5 grams of GHG, while emissions for wind backed by natural gas are 385 grams of GHGs. That’s 20 times more GHGs for the wind backed by natural gas scenario.
Hatch’s numbers may even be on the conservative side. Because wind comes and goes, backup generating plants have to cycle up and down more often. This stop-and-start cycling burns up more feedstock and increases emissions across the board. Bentek, a Colorado energy analytics firm, found that 1,327 such cycling events happened in Colorado in 2009, which released up to 6.8 million pounds of extra sulfur dioxide (“SO2”), 3.1 million pounds of nitrogen oxide (“NOX”), and 147,000 pounds of carbon dioxide (“CO2”).
h/t Eric A.