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Posted on 01/18/2006 6:04:21 PM PST by elkfersupper
MONTGOMERY - Keg parties at fraternities and many other places would be outlawed under a bill passed 30-0 Tuesday by the state Senate.
If the bill becomes law, people could drink draft beer only at a bar, restaurant, private club or other retail establishment licensed for beer sales by the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, said Sen. Bobby Singleton, D-Greensboro, the bill's sponsor. People could not buy a keg and take it elsewhere to drink.
Singleton said he proposed the bill in an effort to stop teenagers from drinking beer.
Donna Alexander, a lobbyist for the Alabama Wholesale Beer Association, said the association supports Singleton's efforts to pass the proposed law, because it could curb binge drinking and underage drinking.
Robert Hill, an attorney for the state ABC Board, said if the bill becomes law, "someone could not sell you a keg to take with you, to consume off the licensed premises that sold the beer." The board has not taken a position on the bill.
Asked if an organization could get a special-events license from the ABC Board as a way to hold a keg party if the bill were to become law, Hill noted that the state fee on such a license is $150, and said the beer would have to be sold at the event.
That's a good start.
No you didn't. I'm just funnin' with ya', brother.
Well we can't have people drinking from kegs at home. Instead lets force them to drink from these giant ass kegs outside of their own dwelling, that way we can have more drunk driving arrests and fatalities for MADD to use as ammunition to further push their neo-prohibitionist agenda.
Thankfully, I don't live where this isbeing proposed......because that wouldbe the end of my summer parties........events where no one leaves the premises until at leeast the next day.
30-0? I can't believe there wasn't a single dissenter.
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I'm going to buy stock in a still manufacturing company!
No keggers?
bastards
Bump!
The women's christian temperance union were fellow travelers to the mobsters which they enabled.. I suspect a dark motive behind their flowery veneer.
What the hell else are we supposed to do, you moron?
War's over, man. Wormer dropped the big one.
What? "Over"? Did you say "over"? Nothing's over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!
Germans?
Forget it, he's rolling.
And it ain't over now. 'Cause when the going gets tough...the tough get going! Who's with me? Let's go! Come on!
(Bluto screaming)
What the #$$% happened to the Delta l used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts? This could be the greatest night of our lives...but you're gonna let it be the worst. "Oh no. We're afraid to go with you, Bluto. We might get in trouble." Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! l won't take this! Wormer, he's a dead man! Marmalard: dead! Neidermeyer--
Dead! Bluto's right. Psychotic...but absolutely right. We got to take these bastards. We could fight them with conventional weapons. Butcould take years...cost millions of lives. In this case, I think we have to go all out. I think this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part.
And we're just the guys to do it.
Let's do it.
Let's do it!!!!
Go! Go! Go!
I'm sure that'll work and all of the kids will henceforth be lining up for choir practice.
Nitwit!
"Singleton said he proposed the bill in an effort to stop teenagers from drinking beer."
I'm sure this will work. Guy is a genius. He'll probably be president one day, with his sharp and inventive mind. Not.
And in RED state Alabama.
ABSOLUTELY NOT! The drinking age should be 18. Either they can vote and drink or they can do neither. Either raise the voting age to 21 or lower the drinking age to 18.
It's a crime that someone can now vote for some a55wipe that will drive them to drink for the next 2 to 6 years but they aren't allowed to drink during that time.
You are 100% right. What ever happened to private property rights. What if I want to have a wedding party or a over the hill party? I'll be damned if I will pay $150.00 for a keg and then have to sell drinks out of it. This is stupid in every sense of the word.
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