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posted by martyb on Wednesday December 13 2017, @08:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the It's-Fake-News-until-the-Fat-Man-Sings dept.

Democrat Doug Jones won a remarkable upset victory over controversial rival Roy Moore in the diehard Republican state of Alabama on Tuesday to win election to the US Senate.

By a margin of 49.5 to 48.9 with 91% of precincts reporting, Jones dealt a major blow to Donald Trump and his efforts to pass tax reform on Capitol Hill. Jones was able to become the first Democrat in a decade to win any statewide office in Alabama by beating Moore, who had faced multiple allegations of sexual assault during a campaign which exposed Republican party faultlines.

The Democratic victory will reduce the Republican majority in the Senate to 51-49 once Jones takes his seat on Capitol Hill. This significantly reduces the margin for error as Republicans attempt to push through a major corporate tax cut.

takyon: The final count is:

Doug Jones - 671,151 votes (49.9%)
Roy Moore - 650,436 votes (48.4%)
Write-ins (total) - 22,819 votes (1.7%)

The margin for an automatic recount in Alabama is 0.5%. Roy Moore has yet to concede.


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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by HiThere on Wednesday December 13 2017, @11:42PM (1 child)

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday December 13 2017, @11:42PM (#609491) Journal

    Being able but not willing doesn't make him malevolent, he could just not give a flying fuck.

    Just because you don't care doesn't make you evil. OTOH, if you assert that he caused it, then that would make him evil. I don't donate to every good cause that comes begging me for money, but that's not because I'm evil. I didn't cause the problems they are addressing, I often don't believe that they are the correct answer, and I have other priorities. But if I caused the problems then it would be my obligation to fix things.

    So if you think your god caused the problems, then your two choices are that he's evil or impotent.

    A quote from a source I don't remember:

    Man said to the Universe,
    "Sir, I exist!"
    The universe said
    "I acknowledge the fact,
    but that does not create in me
    a sense of obligation."

    Well, actually my memory of it comes from a Harry Harrison story, but he was quoting someone else.

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    Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @05:31AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @05:31AM (#609599)

    Being able but not willing doesn't make him malevolent, he could just not give a flying fuck.

    Just because you don't care doesn't make you evil.

    If he's omnipotent, then it's of no consequence to him to prevent the evil. Not giving a flying fuck to prevent something that you could prevent at no cost or risk to yourself qualifies as malevolent in my book.