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Only for about four months in total and even that was split into two stretches.
Also, it includes two independents, Bernie Sanders and Joe Lieberman, who caucused with the Democrats.
First stretch, 7 July to 25 August 2009: Democrats reached 60 when Al Franken was finally sworn in after the long Minnesota recount. They lost it when Ted Kennedy died on 25 August.
Second stretch, 24 September 2009 to 4 February 2010: Paul Kirk was appointed to Kennedy's seat, restoring the 60, until Republican Scott Brown, who had won the Massachusetts special election, was sworn in on 4 February.
In practice it was even less useful than that. Kennedy was too ill to attend and Robert Byrd was often absent through illness; the 60 was rarely all there.
So it was hardly a stable 60. Even so, I corrected my original tweet hours ago. Do try to keep up, Ed.
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CONFIRMED: Democrat Scott Colom has beaten incumbent Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi, which Trump won by 23 points in 2024. He will be the first Black senator elected in Mississippi since the Reconstruction era of the late 1860s/early 1870s — and the first Democrat from the state headed to the Senate in 44 years. Remarkable result.
The scale of the Republican defeat in the midterms is substantial.
It now looks as if the Democrats will pick up the Alaska and Mississippi Senate seats. That would give the Dems a 56:44 majority of 12, the biggest for any party for over a quarter century.
Their grip on the House is even more formidable. So far 254 or 255 seats have been called for Dems, with 12 to 14 still undecided.
NBC now projects Dems will finish with 259 House seats, Republicans with 176. That's a lead of 83 seats — 41 more than needed for a majority.
A 259-seat House would be the biggest Dem majority since 1990, when they won 267 — so the largest any party has held this century.
Still well short, of course, of the 290 needed to override a presidential veto.
Andrew Neil retweeted
In all the madness that followed the 2016 referendum, there was no madder moment than Carole Cadwalladr’s demented conspiracies winning the most prestigious prize in journalism simply because she was telling our Europhile elites what they wanted to hear.
London elites remain so confused why trust in ~all institutions in a flatspin...
Cadwalladr literally won the Orwell Prize for globally spreading disinformation about disinformation on Russia/Trump/Brexit, infecting millions of MSM devouring graduates across the world, so effectively it even virused itself into the Trolley-Wally-Kemi-kasi 'conservative party' which strongly supports pouring billions into Monaco Ducatis and gold toilets via a KGB-mafia regime which celebrates on TV famous NAZIS(!!) who worked with the SS on massacres...
Many of SW1's finest NPCs, professors etc routinely disseminate propaganda from Nazi supporting accounts.
MPs volunteer to work with brigades wearing actual Nazi badges and holding actual Nazi celebrations.
SW1 has been a joke for decades but it took the Russiagate hoax to derange it so badly it cd be memed into funding open proud Nazis which it was *ILLEGAL* to fund in America before 2022 and the rebranding of Nazis as 'patriotic freedom fighters'.
When she won *the Orwell Prize*, it was a clue to our future...
Everything is logical, all systems working as intended
Ps. If you want some historical context, paste this into google: "Operation NIGHTINGALE", Sophocles' Ajax, Forrestal, jump out hospital window, Ukraine, Nazis
I’m told Nvidia’s board is moving to oust Jensen Huang, founder and CEO, after he had two extramarital affairs, including one with a suspected Chinese spy.
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Life can be normal, from time to time.
Your wish is my command. Ms Molly is in the middle, flanked by Mr Junior (her twin brother) and Iris Bailey (aka Scrubber), my little rascal of a rescue dog from the streets of Bucharest. Molly and Mr Junior are getting on (like me) so they need the steps. I need a bannister! Scrubber just snorts in derision.
Correction. Dems on track to have biggest senate majority for 17 years, not quarter century.
The scale of the Republican defeat in the midterms is substantial.
It now looks as if the Democrats will pick up the Alaska and Mississippi Senate seats. That would give the Dems a 56:44 majority of 12, the biggest for any party for over a quarter century.
Their grip on the House is even more formidable. So far 254 or 255 seats have been called for Dems, with 12 to 14 still undecided.
NBC now projects Dems will finish with 259 House seats, Republicans with 176. That's a lead of 83 seats — 41 more than needed for a majority.
A 259-seat House would be the biggest Dem majority since 1990, when they won 267 — so the largest any party has held this century.
Still well short, of course, of the 290 needed to override a presidential veto.
I’m not claiming the science is false. I’m saying Gore’s specific predictions were false.
The scale of the Republican defeat in the midterms is substantial.
It now looks as if the Democrats will pick up the Alaska and Mississippi Senate seats. That would give the Dems a 56:44 majority of 12, the biggest for any party for over a quarter century.
Their grip on the House is even more formidable. So far 254 or 255 seats have been called for Dems, with 12 to 14 still undecided.
NBC now projects Dems will finish with 259 House seats, Republicans with 176. That's a lead of 83 seats — 41 more than needed for a majority.
A 259-seat House would be the biggest Dem majority since 1990, when they won 267 — so the largest any party has held this century.
Still well short, of course, of the 290 needed to override a presidential veto.
Your wish is my command. Ms Molly is in the middle, flanked by Mr Junior (her twin brother) and Iris Bailey (aka Scrubber), my little rascal of a rescue dog from the streets of Bucharest. Molly and Mr Junior are getting on (like me) so they need the steps. I need a bannister! Scrubber just snorts in derision.
Ahhh, if he’d kept to that there would much less ground for complaint. The planet is warming. Global temperatures are rising and there has been ice and glacier loss. My point is not to deny that. It is the catastrophism I object to. You’ve whitewashed it out of the script. Gore specifically claimed:
Kilimanjaro: "within the decade, there will be no more snows of Kilimanjaro." Wrong.
An ice-free Arctic: the film suggested Arctic summers could be ice-free within years; in 2009 Gore talked of a 75% chance within five to seven years. Wrong
A 20-foot sea-level rise: Gore presented this as what would happen if Greenland or West Antarctica melted. He implied it was close at hand. In fact sea level has risen about 4 inches since 2006.
Hurricanes: after Katrina, he implied more frequent and stronger storms. There's no clear trend in the number of hurricanes or their total energy.
You also mention coral. Again the picture is mixed. I refer you to the Great Barrier Reef.
As for polar bears — more now than when Gore made his film.
It is for all these reasons and more that in 2007 the High Court (in Dimmock v Secretary of State) ruled the film could be shown in schools only with guidance notes. The judge found it broadly accurate on the main science but identified nine errors or exaggerations, including Kilimanjaro, the timing of the sea-level rise, Katrina and polar bears drowning.
In Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, which he said was based on the best available climate science, go through the major predictions he made and tell me which ones have come true.
When it comes to net zero and climate policy I have never accepted the official narrative, spoon-fed or otherwise. And as time goes on I believe events vindicate my analysis rather than the official one.
Oh it’s borrowed money, alright. Which means it’s a fake wealth fund. Proper wealth funds (eg Norway, UAE) aggregate and invest surplus funds. The UK one is fuelled by more borrowing.
