61, I think, is a good year for that.
I'm 61, so don't up the ante
Posted on 12/29/2007 10:23:09 PM PST by neverdem
NEW Year’s Eve tends to be the day of the year with the most binge drinking (based on drunken driving fatalities), followed closely by Super Bowl Sunday. Likewise, colleges have come to expect that the most alcohol-filled day of their students’ lives is their 21st birthday. So, some words of caution for those who continue to binge and even for those who have stopped: just as the news is not so great for former cigarette smokers, there is equally bad news for recovering binge-drinkers who have achieved a sobriety that has lasted years. The more we have binged — and the younger we have started to binge — the more we experience significant, though often subtle, effects on the brain and cognition.
Much of the evidence for the impact of frequent binge-drinking comes from some simple but elegant studies done on lab rats by Fulton T. Crews and his former student Jennifer Obernier. Dr. Crews, the director of the University of North Carolina Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, and Dr. Obernier have shown that after a longstanding abstinence following heavy binge-drinking, adult...
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So, some possible resolutions for the New Year:
Stop after one or two drinks. Studies of the Mediterranean diet have shown that one or two drinks on a consistent basis leads to a longer life than pure teetotaling.
If you must binge, start at age 40, not at age 16 — and always have someone else drive. Just as youth is wasted on the young, so perhaps is alcohol.
If you have binged excessively when younger, follow it up with some regular exercise. Get those brain cells regenerated.
As Shakespeare once pointed out without the benefit of studies on lab rats, “O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!”
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Sobriety check points are just plain wrong. I was arrested for DUI just because I smelled like beer. 3500$ later I cleared my name. I don’t advocate driving drunk, but many times the cops are wrong.
dragnet2 from the looks of this thread.
OOOOOOOOH.
Even in the anonymity of the internet, it’s not hard to pick out the power-trippers.
Your avoidance of a simple question, combined with an aggressive and combative response, tell me you are NOT subject to MANDATORY, RANDOM testing.
It also tells me you appear to be a petty little power-tripping sheissekopf that wears a badge.
BTW, I’m the guy who opens the window 1” at the checkstop and says “I don’t discuss my private affairs with strangers” when asked where I’m going. I’ll answer your legitimate questions, but you get NOTHING beyond that. Oh, and *I* am the judge of what’s legitimate. *YOU* work for *US*. This is NOT YET a Gestapo Police state, try as you might.
I also will tell you that “if you need to ask if I mind your searching my car, you have no probable cause.”
Don’t you just HATE folks that aren’t intimidated by your bluster, and have a better grip on the United States Constitution (you swear to uphold) than you?
Are you saying it was an unlawful arrest?
Did you refuse a field test? Refuse the breath test when you knew you'd pass it?
I'm curious.
Thanks for the read this morning. I picked up exactly what dragnet was asking and found KJ’s answers to be evasive to that question.
I'd've decked you a long time ago.
Did you get stopped and busted at a checkpoint? Is that why you won't say what your real complaint is?
Another one that got busted DUI?
Dang, I skimmed through the article and didn’t even see this. Thank you so much.
I can identify with that. All those missing brain cells would come in handy right now.
Oh-oh, do you have your hand on the taser...? lol j/k
Dr. Steinberg, as a fraternity alumnus, I can assure you that alcohol is rarely wasted on the young. It may often be unwisely used, to be sure, but it is very, very rarely wasted.
61, I think, is a good year for that.
I'm 61, so don't up the ante
Actually, to ask a LEO your question is misleading.
This is tantamount to asking you "Why did you not receive a 100% raise from your company's management this year?"
The individual LEO does not control policy. They are also trained not to impute motive without clear evidence. You have demanded four times now that this officer impute the motive for not having random and systemic drug/alcohol testing on all LEOs and against judges (which is a group to which the LEO has a relationship, but is clearly separate).
You have an answer to your own questions, obviously, and you are trying to bait KJC1 into "confessing" to something over which he (or she) has no control. That doesn't work well.
BTW - I despise sobriety/seatbelt/etc. checkpoints as an affront to freedom. I comply because they are the law, have been adjudged legal (no matter my misgivings), and do not rise to the level of unjust imprisonment. (This information supplied to try to prevent being called a 'shill' for law enforcement - we'll see if it works.)
That's easy. Just remember "An alcoholic is someone who drinks more than his doctor."
It seems to me that he's NOT "avoiding" the question. You're repeatedly asking the wrong person.
You're asking why cops and judges aren't regularly tested. He's told you that he can't speak for judges, but as a cop, he's subject to tests any time and anywhere.
Then you go back and ask him why he's not being regularly tested, ignoring his answer, claiming he avoided answering your question, and asking the same question again.
You should be asking the policy makers in the state. They're the ones who could answer your question.
Mark
If you're ever questioning someone in court with a question like you're asking, you would be ripped apart by the other side...
Mark
Oops, have you been drug tested?
How many time if yes?
Don't you know? Sounds to me like YOU need to be tested!
lol!
Mark
Well, from his questioning techniques, he's not a lawyer, at least not one who works in a courtroom...
Mark
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