Election results that actually made a difference

[MrBogosity]

There were several wins for liberty on Tuesday:

Gay marriage passed in Maine, Maryland, and Washington, and Minnesota voters voted down a ban.

New Hampshire banned the state Income Tax.

Florida, Alabama, Missouri, and Wyoming all voted to nullify the insurance mandate portion of Obamacare.

Massachusetts and Montana both passed medical marijuana initiatives.

And Colorado and Washington voters legalized marijuana outright.

Good news to all, and congrats to the voters of these states! Nicely done!

[evensgrey]

I've long wished that Canada had gotten to gay marriage without having to have our Supreme Court ruling in open defiance of our (admittedly weak and intentionally badly written) Constitution.

[R.E.H.W.R.]

Florida, Alabama, Missouri, and Wyoming all voted to nullify the insurance mandate portion of Obamacare.
Good news to all, and congrats to the voters of these states! Nicely done!

I'm glad my state of MO had that.

[ebalosus]

There were several wins for liberty on Tuesday:

Gay marriage passed in Maine, Maryland, and Washington, and Minnesota voters voted down a ban.

New Hampshire banned the state Income Tax.

Florida, Alabama, Missouri, and Wyoming all voted to nullify the insurance mandate portion of Obamacare.

Massachusetts and Montana both passed medical marijuana initiatives.

And Colorado and Washington voters legalized marijuana outright.

Good news to all, and congrats to the voters of these states! Nicely done!

See this. This is the kind of news I want to see coming out of america . Not the NDAA, persecution of whistleblowers, or the government sucking up to corporations. I think we've all had enough of that.

[Lord T Hawkeye]

The war on drugs debate has come up again here in Canada in response.  I have something I'd like to say to the pro-marijuana advocates.

    I have defended you guys for many years despite having no interest in weed personally as I see it as a matter of principle.
    For that, I'd like you guys to do me one little favor
    Please stop putting marijuana leaves on freaking everything including our flag.  That is NOT helping your cause.  It's making you look like a bunch of pot worshipping fanatics and then I in turn have to fend off accussations of being one of you.
    So please, stop doing that.


    It's like one of those scenes in a sitcom where someone's trying to defend a guy and he's in the background making a complete ass of himself and not helping matters

[Ibrahim90]

Please stop putting marijuana leaves on freaking everything including our flag.  That is NOT helping your cause.  It's making you look like a bunch of pot worshipping fanatics and then I in turn have to fend off accussations of being one of you.
    So please, stop doing that.

OK....

incidentally, since the Canadian flag thing has reminded me: you guys know any brands of real maple syrup I can get in the US (or Canada)? all the ones a the grocery are fake and taste awful. When I had real maple syrup in Colorado, It reaffirmed what Ben Franklin said about Beer...only it's about Maple syrup.

beyond that, I know where I'm going on holiday: Colorado. Not that I should ever have left the state--but life is a bitch. what matters is that I wanna see my friends choomin' it in public. should be entertaining--like the one time me and a friend of mine took a picture of a line of fellow students pissing.


EDIT: OK, granted, it's all silly what I've said so far, in light of the discussion. So I'll add a serious point of view: In my opinion, while we have had some real progress regarding the material Shane has posted about, I find them of little comfort to me. After all, Mr. Choom is still president, and Gary Johnson wasn't elected--not that he had a chance with the fact that America is so trapped in the false dichotomy politic. Unemployment is still all the rage, I have no job myself, and now those fuckers who call themselves my family (dad aside--why is he the only sane one?) are trying to force me into an army that will have me fight other Arabs and Muslims. Hell, fighting anyone other than Tyrants sucks, I don't want to do that ever.

granted, being from the part of the world I'm from, I'm naturally pessimistic (when not fatalistic), but still.

[Lord T Hawkeye]

Quebec and possibly Ontario are the place to go if you wanna go straight to the source.

[Ibrahim90]

Quebec and possibly Ontario are the place to go if you wanna go straight to the source.

this is unfortunate.... we need more maple syrup then.

[evensgrey]

this is unfortunate.... we need more maple syrup then.

Actually, it's worse than that.  You mostly have to go to Ontario for good maple syrup (a lot of Quebec produces add a lot of crap like corn syrup to increase the volume, but that keeps it from being sold in the US as "pure Maple Syrup" because of tighter US food labeling laws).

To make matters worse, this was a bad spring for maple syrup production in my area:  It warmed up way to fast.  You get nasty tasting syrup once the leaf buds start to break.