Well, the voter models were correct and Obama squeezed out a 1% victory. Pass the huitlacoche. Begin by plucking well, stuff with unemployment, then baste in QE sauce until inflation reaches the desired peak (From "To Serve USA"). Today I spoke with 2 small business owners who are friends. One will have to lay off staff because of increases in health insurance costs under the Affordable (cough..cough) Healthcare Act. Another is meeting with an accountant later this week to determine what the increased tax rates will mean, but he says he will also lay off an employee (out of 6) in 2013. This story will be repeated many times (and hidden from the news almost as often), but take comfort. It is all Bush's fault. That thing that will happen next year to dividend paying stocks (so beloved of pension plans), that's all Bush's fault too. Oh, and that nasty deficit? Nothing to see there, move along. For my part, I am fairly insulated from what will hit...though not completely. But I will fare far better than most. Hope you are in the same boat. Or actually, in one nearby as I prefer not to be in the same vehicle with those who think that running into the rocks is a good idea. In fact the SS California has just picked up ramming speed!

At least Obama got his before he failed.

What if the voter models the polls are using is wrong? (Asking this question I assume that the reader knows how polls are constructed.) I took a look under the hood at the Pew Poll. They use D+4, while 2008 was D+6 - a banner year with lots of Demthusiasm for Obama. No way is the enthusiasm for Obama now the same as it was in 2008. And GOP voters will turn out in droves. So the voter models are wrong. Change the model, use the same data they have from polling, and lo and behold, all these Obama leads evaporate. Change the poll numbers and the Illinois predictions...um...change. Is there hard evidence for this? Yes. The early vote numbers in Ohio. Obama is running 250,000 votes short compared to 2008...and that was his margin over McCain. Methinks there is a good chance google will notice a large spike in searches for "recipe crow" on Wednesday.

UT Arlington did freeze costs. Last year tuition and fees, and dorms fees were frozen for the following year. http://chronicle.com/blogs/headcount/ut-arlington-proposes-tuition-freeze/29294

Rate of delivery is energy per unit time - power. That is why generation capacity is measured in watts. The rate that the power changes is a meaningless quantity, which is why there is no standard unit for it. The person who wrote the article just has a poor grasp of this and wrote GW/hr in error. Obviously not a student who passed my intro physics class.

Right. But we are not told how long they actually sustained this level of solar power generation.

Sorry, but you are wrong. Energy (in MKS units) is measured in joules, where 1 joule = 1 kgm^2/s^2. A watt is a unit of power (P=dE/dt) so 1 watt = 1 joule/s. A kilowatt hour is = (1000 j/s)(3600 s) = 3,600,000 joules. A kWhr (or a GWhr) is a unit of energy. A GW/hr is the unit that would be associated with the time rate of change of power, which is not a physical quantity of any interest here. So, yes, nonsense units.

There is no such thing as GW/hr. Maybe they hit 22 GW of solar power. For how long? How much energy was actually delivered?

All those poor Confederate soldiers in Picket's Charge. They should have been arrested, not assassinated by Federal marksmen with unfairly-accurate rifles.

It is a statistical certainty (p 10e-1111111) that anti-Nazi German soldiers and civilians were killed by US forces during WW2.

It is easy to understand, once you realize that they are on the other side.

Hell, all they have to do is say that filesharing is an international crime, pay off some corrupt UN bureaucrat to sic INTERPOL on folks, then all those pesky FOI suits go away. And that is only one of the least damaging outcomes. Obama just wants to kiss multinational UN ass.

How would you feel about any other police agency that was immune to FOI requests or legal challenges to misbehavior? How about legal authorities working on behalf of the RIAA? Isn't filesharing international? Another brilliant move from this administration. What could go wrong?