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.
Exactly. Why do they have vending machines in the first place?
Again, I support districts being able to make their own decisions on this subject. Have 'em, don't have 'em. What I do not agree with is government telling school districts that they "are not allowed".
The people behind that have the money and other resources to fight it on the local level, which they are doing, because it has more chance for success now than on the statewide or local level.
They will escalate.
It's the same with tobacco, booze, and "smart growth".
They need to be fought at every level.
I didn't take it that way. I have found it helpful to know the age range of folks on FR. A discussion with a 20 year old is much different than a discussion with a 50 year old. A frame of reference is helpful.
But, the people behind the smoking bans are the people behind the vending machines in schools bans, are the people behind the keg bans, are the people behind the sweetened-cereal advertising bans, are the people behind MADD, are the people fighting "urban sprawl".
I agree. It is not about cigarettes, or cereal. It is about control. It is about making citizens submissive.
At this rate, in ten years the nanny state will say, "You will pay 60% of your income in taxes, or we'll ban something else!"
Once the sheeple roll over and gladly eat the crap these people are shoveling, then we lose all freedoms.
And nothing makes me more furious than to hear a conservative say, "I'm glad they banned smoking in restaurants, because I think it's icky", completely ignoring the attack on freedoms and private property rights.
We are on the same page on this particular point. However, that's exactly what's happened, because they were given permission by the people "for this one thing", and they will never just stop there.
They're the same people who are enacting crap like this.
I totally did not mean that they way it sounded. It just annoys me no end that many schools suffer from liberal think and have stopped gym class because it's hard, or degrading for the kids who are no good at it, or whatever. Heck, some districts are not even allowing children to run at recess, because it is too dangerous.
I so far have been pretty lucky with my district. However, if it gets much more leftie, I will be homeschooling.
I know a man who has his house plumbed for beer. A walk in cooler in the 4 car garage, and the keg is tapped to a very thin insulated plastic line that runs throughout the house with a tap in every room, including the nursery, and all the BR's, baths, patios. etc. There is almost no place in the house or on the grounds, where cold beer does not issue from a tap. Even on the pier.
But you're still a whippersnapper :)
I was driving 10 years before you were born.
HOME BREW
In the Hamptons, in the sixties, that alternative beverage was named "Bash".
"Or maybe they have learned from the WOsD that there is a lot of money to be made in prohibition"
Good point. I think I'll invest in some copper tubing and boilermaker manufacturing companies' penny stocks. And get that old bomb shelter cleaned out, never can tell when you might need to store forty-pound bags of sugar and corn...
you can get married and screw yourself up real good... but ya can't buy beer
ya can charge 8 million dollars on the mastercharge... but ya can't buy beer
you can vote for one fool or another... but ya can't buy beer
'cause this is America... America that's run by the lowest common denominator...
I think it'll be tough to motivate a generation of South Park/Simpsons to 'elevate society' to statism if they're apathetic. However, Gen X will probably be right up there implementing statism for the idealistic boobs who impose it--think 'statism with a smiley face.'
That is interesting.
Maybe, but I'm a smart whippersnapper, dammit! : )
How much insulated tubing do you think it will take to plumb a 2-door garage kit?
I'll give ya' that!
but, wait until they finish with the smokers first.
I remember that. We called it hunch punch, used Purplesaurus Rex Koolaid, Everclear, spiked fruit, and ice. We made two garbage-can-fulls at our biggest frat party. One pledge told a Mormon chick the can on the left was the non-alcoholic one.
I won't ever forget her slurring to us that "thisss isss the besssch punch everrrr!"
And yes, we're all going to hell. But at least we'll have hunch punch.
If it's good enough for the President, they should live with it too. The problem is, they won't vote themselves off the gravy train.
"I know a man who has his house plumbed for beer. A walk in cooler in the 4 car garage, and the keg is tapped to a very thin insulated plastic line that runs throughout the house with a tap in every room, including the nursery, and all the BR's, baths, patios. etc. There is almost no place in the house or on the grounds, where cold beer does not issue from a tap. Even on the pier."
Do people worship this man? They should--because he's a GOD!
I know what I'm doing when I build my own house!
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