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To: Kaslin
Unfortunately, MADD has veered from its original purposes, has turned corporatist, and is generally too flawed today to be taken seriously.
15 posted on 12/28/2010 8:31:45 AM PST by Starwolf
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To: Starwolf
Unfortunately, MADD has veered from its original purposes, has turned corporatist, and is generally too flawed today to be taken seriously.

The founding mother left the organization in the 1980s, said it had become a neoprohibition movement, and went on to lobby on behalf of breweries and bars.

Texas is considering lowering the BAC to 0.03 or 0.05. Currently it is 0.08. The new "standard" would not carry the same charge as 0.08 but would be enforced all the same.

Also have seen proposals to limit alcohol use to the 0.03 standard for all bar "employees" (including performers).

There are still dry neighborhoods in Houston (cannot buy beer even at the grocery store) and dry counties up near Dallas (you must buy a "membership" to buy wine with a meal at restaurants there).

17 posted on 12/28/2010 8:37:01 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable. -Albert Brooks)
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