A “Victory”?
The BBC reports that Israel election: Netanyahu’s Likud storms to victory. The subhead continues: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Likud Party has won a surprise victory in Israel’s election.”
Reality: the Likud won 30 seats in the 120 seat parliament, the Knesset. Their ‘victory’ was that they won 25% of the vote, while the main opposition party only won 20% of the vote and 24 seats. To form a government, Netanyahu needs 61 seats. He now needs to make deals with all of the whacko right-wing parties and at least one of two centrist parties to be Prime Minister.
In reality, the centrist Kulanu party is the victor, as neither side can form a government without its 10 seats.
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Iditarod 2015 – Day 11
Thomas Waerner won the race to Nome to become the Rookie of the Year over Jason Campeau.
Cindy is out of Unalakleet. GNU Terry Pratchett
Scott Janssen, the “Mushing Mortician”, has scratched at Koyuk.
Finished at Nome
6 Joar Leifseth Ulsom (16) 3/18 6:21PM CDT
7 Jeff King (59) 3/18 6:47PM CDT
8 Wade Marrs (65) 3/18 9:15PM CDT
9 Ken Anderson (36) 3/18 11:38PM CDT
10 Nicolas Petit (12) 3/19 12:19AM CDT
11 Travis Beals (56) 3/19 2:18AM CDT
12 Paul Gebhardt (28) 3/19 4:38AM CDT
13 Kelly Maixner (9) 3/19 4:39AM CDT
14 Peter Kaiser (54) 3/19 4:44AM CDT
15 Christian Turner (73) 3/19 5:05AM CDT
16 Ray Redington Jr (34) 3/19 5:27AM CDT
17 Thomas Waerner (8)R 3/19 6:10AM CDT
18 Jason Campeau (70)Q 3/19 7:28AM CDT
19 Hugh Neff (24) 3/19 9:25AM CDT
20 Michelle Phillips (6) 3/19 10:17AM CDT
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