And yesterday it became even less fun...
http://www.businessinsider.com/who-is-r ... lts-2017-9Roy Moore Wins Senate G.O.P. Runoff in Alabama
Roy Moore, the ousted chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court and a bombastic voice of right-wing conservatism, secured victory in Tuesday's contentious battle against incumbent Sen. Luther Strange in the Republican runoff to fill Attorney General Jeff Sessions' vacated Senate seat.
Moore defeated Strange by a little over 9 percentage points, or 44,320 votes, according to Decision Desk HQ.
Moore, a conservative Christian known as the "Ten Commandments Judge" for his defiance of a federal order to remove a monument to the Bible's Ten Commandments from a state building, has long been a celebrated leader of Alabama's right wing.
Moore is deeply controversial both among those who take issue with his positions on race, religion, and sexuality. And he has detractors among establishment Republicans, supported by President Donald Trump, who say he would be a weak candidate in the December general election and have mobilized almost $11 million to support his opponent.
Along with Trump, Moore has consistently cast doubt on former President Barack Obama's US citizenship and promoted the "birther" conspiracy as recently as December 2016.
In 2005, the former judge said that "homosexual conduct" should be illegal, calling it "immoral." Moore voiced the same position 10 years later.
Moore has also acted on his virulently anti-gay beliefs. After he was reelected as chief justice of the state Supreme Court, Moore was again removed from the position in 2016 after he directed probate judges to enforce the state's ban on same-sex marriages despite the Supreme Court's decision to overturn it.
Last February, Moore suggested that the 9/11 terror attacks were a punishment from God for Americans' declining religiosity.
"Because you have despised His word and trust in perverseness and oppression, and say thereon ... therefore this iniquity will be to you as a breach ready to fall, swell out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instance,'" Moore said, quoting the Bible. He added, "Sounds a little bit like the Pentagon, whose breaking came suddenly at an instance, doesn't it?"
He later claimed that God may be angry with the US because "we legitimize sodomy" and "legitimize abortion."
"You know, we've suffered a lot in this country, maybe, just maybe, because we've distanced ourselves from the one that has it within his hands to heal this land," he said.
Moore called Islam a "false religion" in July in response to an Alabama resident's question about how he would deal with alleged Muslim influence on US law.
Moore has fanned the flames of unsubstantiated concerns that Sharia law is influencing the rule of law in some American communities. Right-wing leaders and politicians have long claimed that Sharia law poses an "existential threat" to the United States, a position critics argue stokes Islamophobic sentiment.
"There are communities under Sharia law right now in our country," Moore told a Vox reporter in August. Up in Illinois. Christian communities; I don't know if they may be Muslim communities."
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/26/politics/ ... index.htmlSen. Bob Corker, Tennessee Republican, won't seek re-election next year
(CNN)Tennessee Republican Sen. Bob Corker said Tuesday he will retire at the end of 2018.
"After much thought, consideration and family discussion over the past year, Elizabeth and I have decided that I will leave the United States Senate when my term expires at the end of 2018," Corker said in a released statement.
Corker is the Senate's foreign relations committee chairman and had told CNN earlier this month that he was considering whether to run again.
Corker, who was at one time among those considered a candidate to be President Donald Trump's secretary of state, had been increasingly critical of the President in recent months.
"The President has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful," Corker said last month, according to a video posted by local news website Nooga.com, in reference to Trump's handling of violence related to a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Trump and his press secretary responded with their own criticism.
Apparently Corker wanted to see how things turned out in Alabama...
He didn't want to have to deal with a Roy Moore clone primary opponent (which was sure to happen with Moore winning)
