The thread where people are happy about the election results (Page 2)

We love you anyway. Have a brownie, you'll feel better

Only if it's a Colorado brownie.

There is no plan. Romney had no plan, Obama has no plan. Even the Ryan plan wasn't really a plan. We will continue running up huge deficits until we can't. That's been the theme from both sides. Nothing is going to be different because the situation we are in isn't easily fixed. 

On the social side of things, I am happy that gay marriage votes passed in so many states last night. My aunt has been with her partner for 25 years now and they have told us they have no hope of ever being able to marry. It's incredibly sad the way society has made them feel about themselves. The first time my wife and I went to visit, my wife started crying because they are such nice people, but they have been made to feel like they don't deserve to be happy.

Happy MN household here!  We are especially thrilled that our state voted down the 2 constitutional amendments on the ballot: 1) defining marriage as one man and one woman and 2) voter id.

Way to go Minnesota!

alcohol is legal and i can get fired for alcohol use from my job (if i'm in an incident at work the first thing they do before they even treat me is take a urine and hair sample.  anything in it and i'm fired and ineligible for workmen's comp).

if colorado is a right-to-work state, your employer can fire you for any reason.

Not speaking for my employer at all, but I hear that because it is still against federal law, the states can't legalize it. So a worker in Colorado can toke it, but if/when he's fired for doing so (because his THC levels are high even if he's not 1 week after) he can sue, but when it goes to fed court, he'll lose.

Definitely creates an interesting discussion with HR...

Markets are mostly rational but when they go off the rails they do it in grand style!

I knew I should have sold everything yesterday!

Yeah, but not a complete apples to apples comparison.  Sure, you come back after a few drinks it is still in your system, but if you have a few drinks the night before and then go to work, it is gone and the effects are gone.  Not completely true with wacky weed.  It stays in your system a while without providing the effects.

Or SDS...

Technically, my guy won, so I guess I'm happy.

But once again, it was a begrudging vote....

I'm a fiscal conservative, social liberal, so these elections are always tough.  Best of the two, which may or not be saying much?

Granted, I'm a bit biased.  Obamacare saved my bacon with my cancer situation which probably couldn't have came at a worse time (if there is a GOOD time to get it).  What are the odd that you are insurred every moment of your first 42 years, then have it laps for a couple months, and get diagnosed at EXACTLY that time in a routine checkup?  Then can't get new insurance after the diagnosis?  I should have played the lottery that month.

I've been saying we are screwed no matter who won.