Posted on 11/17/2008 7:02:01 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084
When a 15-year-old comes into Wile-e’s bar looking for a cold beer, the bartender, Mike Whaley, is happy to serve it up — as long as a parent is there to give permission.
“If they’re 15, 16, 17, it’s fine if they want to sit down and have a few beers,” said Mr. Whaley, who owns the tavern in this small town in southern Wisconsin.
While it might raise some eyebrows in most of America, it is perfectly legal in Wisconsin. Minors can drink alcohol in a bar or restaurant in Wisconsin if they are accompanied by a parent or legal guardian who gives consent. While there is no state law setting a minimum age, bartenders can use their discretion in deciding whom to serve.
When it comes to drinking, it seems, no state keeps pace with Wisconsin. This state, long famous for its breweries, has led the nation in binge drinking in every year since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began its surveys on the problem more than a decade ago. Binge drinking is defined as five drinks in a sitting for a man, four for a woman.
People in Wisconsin are more likely than anywhere else to drive drunk, according to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health. The state has among the highest incidence of drunken driving deaths in the United States.
Now some Wisconsin health officials and civic leaders are calling for the state to sober up. A coalition called All-Wisconsin Alcohol Risk Education started a campaign last week to push for tougher drunken driving laws, an increase in screening for alcohol abuse at health clinics and a greater awareness of drinking problems generally.
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Don't forget the pickled eggs!
Good post gnarledmaw,
I appreciate being informed.
Ya did a good job.
I hope they didn't offer him a 'Gansett! And I am mighty glad MADD wasn't around then. They would definitely have a problem with "Founding a Colony While Under the Influence."
BTW, there is no need to bring up factual, yet embarrassing info about the Pilgrims. E.G., The children do not need to know about the young men of the colony sneaking over to injun-town to carry on with the attractive young squaws. At first, the Indians didn't mind, but it soon became apparent to them that there was no reciprocity in the deal. They were especially insulted when they found there was to be no intermarriage!
With T-giving Day coming up, I wonder how many Obamanite pubic srewl teachers today are capable of teaching the young skulls full of mush the difference between the Pilgrims and the Puritans.
I am shocked, shocked I tell you, that you would dare to insinuate that a NJ Corrections Officer would operate a motor vehicle while pixilated.
BTW, is it true that in NJ, many young fellows become Corrections Officers so that they can spend quality family time with their imprisoned Dads and their other siblings?
last three drivers who rearended me were all sober.
Ban Sobriety!
>>low on beer.
Funny how things work.
Check out this Calvinist quote!
Calvin texts displayed as 13 calligraphy drawings created by artist Bridget Dommen of Geneva. One of the texts reads, “It is nowhere forbidden to laugh or to eat one’s fill or gain new possessions or enjoy oneself with musical instruments or drink wine.”
Those Crazy Calvinists!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2134796/posts
The term of art whenever you see a news story or hear about the "DWI Crisis" is "alcohol-related"<>"Alcohol-related" means that if anyone at the scene (driver, passenger, pedestrian, etc. was "perceived" by the cop in charge to have a blood alcohol content of .01% or above, the incident is "alcohol-related".
Also, if whatever happened is within throwing-distance of a liquor establishment, or if there happens to be a 1940's-vintage beer can in the ditch next to the wreck, that is also "alcohol-related"
If a train carrying booze plows into a school bus and neither school bus driver nor locomotive engineer was "drunk", that is "alcohol-related".
Neoprohibitionists used these made-up statistics to make alcohol transportation, possession and consumption anywhere into what is now de facto prohibition.
One can still buy alcohol (surprise - tax revenue), one just cannot transport or consume it anywhere without the possibility (soon probability) of arrest.
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