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Senate passes bill to make keg parties a thing of the past
The Birmingham News via AL.com ^ | 1/18/06 | DAVID WHITE

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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: beer; fundies; goodmove; govwatch; ilovealabama; kegbeer; libertarians; madd; nannystate; neoprohibition; statistwhores; wodlist
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To: inneroutlaw
schools educate them in reading, writing and 'rithmetic

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".

81 posted on 01/18/2006 7:37:18 PM PST by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: elkfersupper
If my state gov't decided to ban vending machines, I would fight it tooth and nail.

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.

82 posted on 01/18/2006 7:41:09 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: elkfersupper
Didn't mean to be condescending, Teeny.

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.

83 posted on 01/18/2006 7:45:08 PM PST by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: teenyelliott
What I do not agree with is government telling school districts that they "are not allowed".

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.

84 posted on 01/18/2006 7:46:51 PM PST by inneroutlaw
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To: inneroutlaw
the schools need to do something to get the lard of the kids.

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.

85 posted on 01/18/2006 7:49:07 PM PST by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: Welsh Rabbit

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.


86 posted on 01/18/2006 7:51:54 PM PST by rock58seg (It's time for Islam to actually become a religion of peace or a religion of the past.)
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To: teenyelliott
So, we're on the same page.

But you're still a whippersnapper :)

I was driving 10 years before you were born.

87 posted on 01/18/2006 7:52:19 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: diverteach
Or...

HOME BREW

88 posted on 01/18/2006 7:54:44 PM PST by right-wingin_It
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To: sarasmom

In the Hamptons, in the sixties, that alternative beverage was named "Bash".


89 posted on 01/18/2006 7:55:05 PM PST by rock58seg (It's time for Islam to actually become a religion of peace or a religion of the past.)
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To: clamper1797

"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...


90 posted on 01/18/2006 7:56:51 PM PST by LibertarianInExile (Freedom isn't free--no, there's a hefty f'in fee--and if ya don't throw in your buck-o-5, who will?)
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To: elkfersupper
No man they're gonna be draftin' 18 and 19 year olds... but ya cant buy beer

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...

91 posted on 01/18/2006 7:59:58 PM PST by killjoy (Same Shirt, Different Day)
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To: mysterio
"Oh, just give us Xers some time. We will elevate society to a new level of apathetic authoritarian statism."

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.'


92 posted on 01/18/2006 8:07:26 PM PST by LibertarianInExile (Freedom isn't free--no, there's a hefty f'in fee--and if ya don't throw in your buck-o-5, who will?)
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To: rock58seg
including the nursery

That is interesting.

93 posted on 01/18/2006 8:12:14 PM PST by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: elkfersupper
But you're still a whippersnapper

Maybe, but I'm a smart whippersnapper, dammit! : )

94 posted on 01/18/2006 8:15:28 PM PST by teenyelliott (Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
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To: rock58seg
Thanks for adding the finishing touches to my planned retirement villa.

How much insulated tubing do you think it will take to plumb a 2-door garage kit?

95 posted on 01/18/2006 8:17:04 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: teenyelliott

I'll give ya' that!


96 posted on 01/18/2006 8:18:56 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: Rightone

but, wait until they finish with the smokers first.




Originally, that was the plan.
They realize now they don't have to. It's been too easy, and don't think they haven't noticed.


97 posted on 01/18/2006 8:20:46 PM PST by The Foolkiller ( We're only trying to help people make right decisions-with the full force of government, of course.)
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To: sarasmom

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.


98 posted on 01/18/2006 8:21:36 PM PST by LibertarianInExile (Freedom isn't free--no, there's a hefty f'in fee--and if ya don't throw in your buck-o-5, who will?)
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To: rdcorso
Two terms and out for life would be a policy that could rid us of the lifetime leaches we have now.

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.

99 posted on 01/18/2006 8:22:02 PM PST by Trteamer ( (Eat Meat, Wear Fur, Own Guns, FReep Leftists, Drive an SUV, Drill A.N.W.R., Drill the Gulf, Vote)
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To: rock58seg

"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!


100 posted on 01/18/2006 8:23:03 PM PST by LibertarianInExile (Freedom isn't free--no, there's a hefty f'in fee--and if ya don't throw in your buck-o-5, who will?)
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