How much longer before the state of Virginia legalizes marijuana, gay marriage, and casinos?

I would say by 2018. Virginia has been following all the libtard states like a little puppy. Medicaid expansion will be passed next year.

I am a conservative and I am not very happy about this!!

The better question is when can we ban the word "libtard". I agree with its definition but it's a stupid fucking word.

Always wanting to ban something.

LIB-TARDZ LoLz

Took less than 2 years in Maryland.

Once you attain the foot soldiers and abandon ethics, you can do it too.

I propose you start by forcing your public workers to pay dues to organizations loyal to the Democrat Party. Then you have a solid funding source to work with, bribe people with, threaten people with. You'll rarely lose another primary. You can enforce orthodoxy among your members, especially the 'moderates' you can run in purple districts to trick voters into handing you power.

If you were really a conservative, you would be in favor of getting the government out of people's lives - allowing them their choice of drug, their choice of whom to marry, their choice of how to spend their money. What you are is a puritan.

Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone, somewhere is having a good time.

- H.L. Mencken

If you were a real liberal, you'd respect the freedom to be forced into a public union merely because you have a job serving in a Maryland public school. Because to you progressives, the public servant isn't to serve the public, it's to serve your party. This type is centralizing power and being intolerant of dissent reflects the puritanism.

Also you have the wrong idea of conservatives. You mischaracterize them as wanting "government out of people's lives". That straw man no one believes. Too frequently, including you progressives isolate yourselves into echo chambers, sneering down at your opponents and mocking whatever they hear from them. You don't get a chance to understand our opponents.

Conservatives are not anarchists or even libertarians. They want a government accountable to the Executive Branch, Courts, Congress and the people. In the conservative view, to redress government abuses (and favoritism, targeting, budget-demanding tactics and so on), the solution is to restrain the authority of government. That tactic may play out in proposing 'less government', but it's faulty to summarize as simply that.

Certainly when it comes to utilizing government to hold ALL genders accountable to, and to protect ALL human beings with, laws against child abandonment and contract killing (and the big abortion exemption since written into them), they don't want less government. It's an accountable government they want, without the favoritism toward gender-based exemption to murder or the targeting of nurtured human beings.

And I should also note that may be a conservative principle. Conserve the law. Conserve the functions of the state and adhere them to their limits. There may be some or many who join or represented the conservative party, the Republican Party, that don't practice it. Many may seek to attach themselves to the movement for power, and then use that power for purposes of favoritism or targeting or making components of government unaccountable. At one point in the 2000's, it got so bad that it splintered the party.

Progressively leftward Wrote:
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> If you were a real liberal, you'd respect the
> freedom to be forced into a public union merely
> because you have a job serving in a Maryland
> public school. Because to you progressives, the
> public servant isn't to serve the public, it's to
> serve your party. This type is centralizing power
> and being intolerant of dissent reflects the
> puritanism.
>
> Also you have the wrong idea of conservatives. You
> mischaracterize them as wanting "government out of
> people's lives". That straw man no one believes.
> Too frequently, including you progressives isolate
> yourselves into echo chambers, sneering down at
> your opponents and mocking whatever they hear from
> them. You don't get a chance to understand our
> opponents.
>
> Conservatives are not anarchists or even
> libertarians. They want a government accountable
> to the Executive Branch, Courts, Congress and the
> people. In the conservative view, to redress
> government abuses (and favoritism, targeting,
> budget-demanding tactics and so on), the solution
> is to restrain the authority of government. That
> tactic may play out in proposing 'less
> government', but it's faulty to summarize as
> simply that.
>
> Certainly when it comes to utilizing government to
> hold ALL genders accountable to, and to protect
> ALL human beings with, laws against child
> abandonment and contract killing (and the big
> abortion exemption since written into them), they
> don't want less government. It's an accountable
> government they want, without the favoritism
> toward gender-based exemption to murder or the
> targeting of nurtured human beings.
>
> And I should also note that may be a conservative
> principle. Conserve the law. Conserve the
> functions of the state and adhere them to their
> limits. There may be some or many who join or
> represented the conservative party, the Republican
> Party, that don't practice it. Many may seek to
> attach themselves to the movement for power, and
> then use that power for purposes of favoritism or
> targeting or making components of government
> unaccountable. At one point in the 2000's, it got
> so bad that it splintered the party.

"respect the freedom to be forced into a public union merely because you have a job serving in a Maryland public school"

????

What the fuck are you talking about? That sounds like some of my posts when I'm really, really drunk.

I've never heard a "conservative" claim that conservatism doesn't mean less government. Wow.

sounds like a strong religious conservative most likely

all those points sound real nice when you are in the majority aka most likely a white male

at least it sounds like you care about the unborn and abandoned children now just have to work on the 99.9999% of other cases where you should care about other people too instead of not caring when the conservative status quo benefits your position in life the most

Maryland Live Casino took in $586 million (gross) during 2013. While it might seem lucrative if Virginia were to try and get in on the action, people have to realize that it's all about cannibalism. One's casino is only on top long enough until the next one comes along to out-do the previous one. Then the patrons move onto the bigger and better one.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/local/wp/2014/01/07/maryland-live-casino-had-a-very-big-2013/

My guess, 28 months

This site should implement some kind of voting system. It would be interesting to see which posts get the most votes. My guess would be the righties, they're the most motivated these days.

RJR Wrote:
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> Puritanism: the haunting fear that someone,
> somewhere is having a good time.
>
> - H.L. Mencken

Haha nothing says libtard like using a 97 year old quote that references an extinct religious movement.

Dude we are so OWNED!

Conservatives are not summed up as small government types. Consider localism. Small government libertarians and anarchists embrace the idea. Conservatives will recognize a form of localism in subsidiarity, but it will tend to favor federalism and conserve the authority within the Constitution.

I think the abortion is a good example of how the republicans aren't small government. The position above was held by liberals throughout the 80s and many libertarians before liberals promoting their libertine race to the bottom. The position is retained in principle in the duty to rescue laws and child protection laws. The over-expanding state wrote in exemptions for abortion, privileging some and targeting others. That's not small government or a government conserving the just authority. That's an over-active government. If you can't get past your own bias on the subject, change the nouns.

Progressives could hardly care for their opponents being consistent in their conservatism, or for that matter supporting localism or federalism or small government. They care about power alone. One method they use is promoting and appealing to their mischaracterization of conservatism to convince the conservative to drop their opposition to the progressives' power grab.

Nah,you just want government to incorporate the rules of your particular religious sect. That's conservatism to you.

Oh please. Everyone in our society makes moral claims ("should", "it is right", "it is just"). Justice, fairness, equality are metaphysical ideas. They rely upon appeals to conscience. If you believe everyone is a theocrat but yourself, you assessed wrongly. You're as guilty of the same.

Re: the example I used the example to appeal to a common charge from liberals. You seem to be tripped up on the subject in the example. As such, you missed the point. The government wrote in a loophole to parental duty to rescue laws, child protection laws and murder laws to privilege certain groups and target others. That's not by any means a sign of a limited government. The government chose to limit its prosecution of a favored constituency and limited its protection of another.

If you can't get pass a word in the example, try another word and try it through. Try illegal immigration. Liberals would propose providing loopholes (and refusing to protect the low-wage-earning citizen from the immigration's effects.) Is that refusal to prosecute some lawbreakers a sign of a small government? No. Clearly the liberal is abusing government to provide special privileges and are pandering.

Conservatives are not libertarians and anarchists. They seek to conserve the law and functions of the state.

HA! DO YOU HEAR YOURSELF? VIRGINIA IS A SOUTHERN STRICT STATE! ITS ALSO RACIST. ONLY THE YANKEES IN NORTHERN GANG VIRGINIA WANTS THIS. IF YOU HATE IT IN VIRGINIA, GO BACK TO VERMONT YOU YANKEE!

SmallTownVirginian has less teeth than brains, perfect GOP supporter, and a racist. Typical toothless GOP, southern white trash. Without NOVA and the Federal Government in DC, you would be living in Mississippi north.