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After 10 PM EST on Friday, The U.S. Senate rejected a deal that would fund the U.S. government for another month:
Only five Democrats voted to advance the bill — Sens. Joe Manchin (W.Va.), Joe Donnelly (Ind.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.) and Claire McCaskill (Mo.), who are all up for reelection this year in states carried by President Trump in 2016 election, and newly-elected Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.).
Republicans were also not united, as Sens. Rand Paul (Ky.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Mike Lee (Utah) and Jeff Flake (Ariz.) also voted against advancing the legislation. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who is battling brain cancer, was absent.
The procedural vote remained open late Friday, though it needed 60 votes to pass and was well short of that number with 48 senators voting against it.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer continued to negotiate after the vote opened (archive), but no deal has been reached yet. As of midnight (5 minutes before this story went live), the government shutdown was in effect.
At Wikipedia: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Government shutdowns in the United States.
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(Score: 2, Offtopic) by Hyperturtle on Saturday January 20 2018, @02:44PM (3 children)
That's right; wikipedia used to be a bastion of knowledge and fact. It was glorious, once upon a time. It started with dedicated people with a knowledgebase they wanted to share, people eager to learn, and readers willing to volunteer their own knowledge.
Now it's just as trolled as anything else that gets soiled as soon as what we can call the mainstream masses (as opposed to media--because the mainstream media will now go to look at wikipedia and recite whatever falsehoods are there without much further fact checking, if any fact checking).
It's a case of politics ruining everything. That includes personal, petty, and governmental politics (it didn't start with governmental politics but I won't go into that any deeper than this). People rewrite their histories more favorably, or hire people to do it. People change other people's histories to look bad, or accuse them of things, or introduce outright lies and slander. Established scientific fact may be subtly altered just enough to be completely missed by the layperson and when actions taken to fix it, some bot or some corporate shill goes right back to state no that is allegedly causing cancer or behavioral issues or it truly is a miracle drug and lead is not so bad in candy if used responsibly and so on. Sometimes articles are updated to reflect new false data posted elsewhere to move some agenda and make it look that much more legit due to numerous sources being cited -- that are false, but look as if they are following the source and citation rules. Editors without knowledge in the subjet may have no idea BS has been introduced for someone else's gain.
Some of the best things in life are free, and some of the most ruined things started out that way as well... It's not ruined yet, but you still can't rely on it complicitly. I am guessing it's something TMB learned the hard way or unexpectedly... happened to me, too, then it all became clear.
Don't trust everything you read online, even if it seems to come from an authoritative source.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 20 2018, @03:30PM (1 child)
I kinda agree - but you exaggerate how good they once were. That "bastion" business is just over doing it.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Hyperturtle on Friday February 09 2018, @03:59PM
well... at first it was the only free, decent, encyclopedia on the internet, which sort of made it a Bastion of knowledge. And yeah that was a bit of truthful hyperbole; I guess I can't pull that off too well. Most other sites were behind a paywall or needed you to insert a local disk to open up a page that redirected you to their paywalled content. (Remember the "multimedia PC" of the mid 90s?)
Anyway once upon a time, people could order a copy of wikipedia on DVD. I looked recently at the wikipedia store; I was curious to know if they even had something like that anymore. They seem to have mostly XXL sized apparel now. Seeing that, it is hard to even correlate them as or with a bastion of anything.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @04:52PM
That's why I only read textbooks from Texas to get information. For instance, did you know that white male Republicans did everything worthwhile and liberals hate America so much because socialism is an excuse for normalizing sodomy so they can't take your Freedoms? Uh huh.