ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. - January 24th, 2006
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08:40 am
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Election results!
Conservative Party: 124 seats.
Liberal Party: 103 seats.
Bloc Quebecois: 51 seats.
New Democratic Part: 29 seats.
Andre Arthur Party: 1 seat.
Now begins the careful process of crippling the federal government, gutting its funding,and taking "free votes" on the issues of minority rights. The good news is that they can't do it alone - nothing they want to do can pass without the BQ or the Liberals supporting it, since it takes 155 votes to pass the Commons and even a bizarre CPC/NDP/AA conglomeration could only get 154 votes. The bad news is that the Liberals and the Bloc won't be willing to break the government quite yet over most issues, so Harper will have a free hand to pass most of the less strictly repulsive parts of his platform.
The best news of all is that Martin has resigned.
EDIT: James Nicoll has a wonderful commentaryJust as with our previous election, the results are numerically interesting: Harper would find it hard to make a deal with Liberals, given the past campaign (plus, what's in it for the Liberals, when a catastrophic CPC minority government exploding into flames while crashing through the roof of a local ophanage only works in the Liberal's favour?). The CON + NDP + IND are one vote short of a majority (and besides, an alliance between Layton and Harper would not seem likely to last long). That leaves the BQ and CPC as allies.
You may remember the BQ as the group Harper said weren't really Canadians back when we legalized same sex marriage.
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08:59 am
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New Horizons
It passed the moon 9 hours after launch. It will make a close flyby of Jupiter in early 2007, arriving at Pluto in 2015.
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09:06 am
[Link] | Livejournal now allows session management.
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12:02 pm
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Monkey!
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12:02 pm
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Just wrong.
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01:17 pm
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A philosophy I can get behind.
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02:28 pm
[Link] | Samsung to make laptops with no HDD, just 40GB of flash memory.
Also,
Texas priest to bless Hooters.
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08:22 pm
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