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Some See Big Problem in Wisconsin Drinking
The New York Times ^ | November 15, 2008 | DIRK JOHNSON AND GRANT JUNKIE

Posted on 11/17/2008 7:02:01 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084

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1 posted on 11/17/2008 7:02:02 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084
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2 posted on 11/17/2008 7:03:40 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: Eric Blair 2084
Coming from an Italian family, I was drinking at the age of 11. Wine with meals, unless it was my mother's homemade pizza, for which we all had beer.

It was no big deal. And it was why I never got into the experience of just getting drunk. It was good training for adulthood.

3 posted on 11/17/2008 7:06:43 PM PST by Publius
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Your personal experience sounds like that of most of the kids in largely German communities in central Texas.


4 posted on 11/17/2008 7:08:38 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

What a sensible law. More states should follow this example. I see nothing wrong with children drinking reasonable amounts of alcohol under their parents’ supervision.


5 posted on 11/17/2008 7:11:17 PM PST by pnh102 (Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

He said state agencies would use a $12.6 million federal grant

stop spending my money.


6 posted on 11/17/2008 7:12:48 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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He said state agencies would use a $12.6 million federal grant stop spending my money.

Stop giving it to them.
7 posted on 11/17/2008 7:13:34 PM PST by aWolverine
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““On game days, a buddy of mine will come to the bar with his 2-year-old, his 8-year-old and his 10-year-old,” Mr. Whaley said. “He might get a little drunk. But his wife just has a few cocktails. It’s no big deal. Everybody has a good time.”

‘It’s no big deal’....wrong!....I don’t know what he means by getting a ‘little drunk’ but it’s a real big deal to drive home when you’re DUI....drunk driving is the most frequently committed violent crime in the United States....if you want to party, call a cab.


8 posted on 11/17/2008 7:15:00 PM PST by STONEWALLS
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I noticed this right off. In college, kids who had been allowed an occasional alcholic drink at home by their parents never got into the binge drinking thing.

Kids who were forbidden, the biggest binge drinkers.

I remember a friend of mine visiting was shocked that my parents’ liquor was out in the open and not in locked away. She said “Do they leave it out like that when they’re gone and you’re home alone?” Of course, they did, and none of us kids ever drank anything. It wasn’t because we were goody twoshoes ... it just never occured to us. We didn’t have to be sneaky.

In contrast, 3 out of 5 of my friend and her siblings, who grew up in a strict teetotaler household, are now alcholics.


9 posted on 11/17/2008 7:16:08 PM PST by Lorianne
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To: Eric Blair 2084

Smoking, salt in NY, cupcakes at school parties … we will all be living in a cocoon of government nanny state control soon. (Shades of THX 1138) ;-)


10 posted on 11/17/2008 7:16:38 PM PST by doc1019 (We are now an Obamanation. Palin 2012)
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To: Army Air Corps

With the exception of the Brits, who have been binge drinkers since the invention of gin in the 1740’s, most Europeans understand the real place of alcohol in life, which is at the table at meals.


11 posted on 11/17/2008 7:16:46 PM PST by Publius
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To: Eric Blair 2084

Now I know why a good friend of mine growing up always wanted to spend his summer vacation at his uncles house in Wis.


12 posted on 11/17/2008 7:20:27 PM PST by diverteach (http://www.slapobama.com/)
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‘It’s no big deal’....wrong!....I don’t know what he means by getting a ‘little drunk’ but it’s a real big deal to drive home when you’re DUI....drunk driving is the most frequently committed violent crime in the United States....if you want to party, call a cab.

I'm drinking and driving right now. I'm also violating the law against texting while driving. What do you think of that?

13 posted on 11/17/2008 7:29:28 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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To: Lorianne
Let me tell you a little story of my teenage years.

Forty years ago in South Jersey, there was tradition of paying an adult to go into a liquor store and buy a bottle of cheap red wine, aka "dago red". Upon getting the wine, the ringleader would tie a rope to it and immerse it in the lake at the county park to keep it chilled. Come the dark of a summer evening, the guys would go down to the "crick", as "creek" was pronounced in South Jersey, open up the bottle -- we didn't uncork it because it didn't have a cork -- and then the assembled multitude would get stinking drunk. And I mean "stinking". They would throw up for days afterward.

One night I received an invitation to join the festivities, and I demurred. I was immediately classified as a "pussy".

While my friends were getting eaten alive by Jersey mosquitoes (the state bird), I was home watching a late movie on TV ("Rio Bravo", I recall). I built myself a late night snack, taking some of my mother's leftover roast beef and making two sandwiches, backed up by pickles, olives and my mother's homemade roast peppers. I washed it all down with a couple of Schaefer's. ("Schaefer is the one beer to have when you're having more than one.") I did all this in the comfort of an air conditioned house.

The next day I ran into my friends. They were all throwing up intermittently and looked like they had been dined on by our local insects. But they were happy.

"What did I miss"?" I asked.

"We had a great time! I got so-o-o-o drunk!"

I just smiled at them.

14 posted on 11/17/2008 7:30:17 PM PST by Publius
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15 posted on 11/17/2008 7:30:36 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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16 posted on 11/17/2008 7:31:24 PM PST by Eric Blair 2084 (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms shouldn't be a federal agency...it should be a convenience store.)
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But can they smoke in the bar?

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17 posted on 11/17/2008 7:35:26 PM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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“I’m drinking and driving right now. I’m also violating the law against texting while driving. What do you think of that?”

...I think you need to be arrested.


18 posted on 11/17/2008 7:35:32 PM PST by STONEWALLS
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To: Eric Blair 2084

4 drinks is binge drinking? Whatever!
I tell people that my son can go to a bar with me and drink if I give permission. It is rare when I do. They have trouble believing me. The funny part is these are people who live here!


19 posted on 11/17/2008 7:35:43 PM PST by ozaukeemom (Nuke the ACLU and their snivel rights)
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To: Eric Blair 2084

LOL!


20 posted on 11/17/2008 7:36:33 PM PST by doc1019 (We are now an Obamanation. Palin 2012)
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