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Alcohol and youth have formed a deadly alliance on college campuses across America. Children are getting drunker at younger ages and the results are disastrous. The number of fatalities each year numbers in the multiples of thousands. Worse still, the effect this has had on general intelligence and morality is immeasurable. We have a juvenile generation embarking on the most dangerous sorts of experimentations when they flood their bodies with these foul fluids. As these people mature into adulthood, they remain ethically stunted and mentally inferior, incapable of contributing to the best of their abilities as solid, healthy citizens. It is time that the parents and leaders of this country take a bold stand to stop binge partying. The obvious answer is that we must raise the legal drinking age to 25 and ban alcohol from all educational premises.
Enrollment in a university was once a precious privilege for those capable of furthering themselves. These students grew up to be our scholars and lawyers, doctors and politicians. Today, childhood itself has been extended and people entering school see it as a four-year vacation funded by their parents. Free from any regimen of homework or athletics, they immediately set off to reinvent their nascent identities. They embark on grotesque fashions and competitions, anything to prove themselves to the worst of their peers.
Of course, beer and spirits figure into this nasty equation. Our young people love to show off their imaginary strengths by imbibing at outrageously offensive levels, sucking down beer until they vomit all over themselves or chugging so many cocktails that blackouts are simply inevitable. Women are not immune from this disaster either. Unleashing all their insecurities into the bottle, that surrogate for manhood’s great prize, they grasp it desperately, hoping that its fermented release will somehow bless them with brilliance.
Take the University of Texas at Austin. Once known as a highly respected institution, its name is now connected with the heights of hedonism. Binge drinking is ripe on this leafy campus and the young girls there seem to cherish this as a rite of passage, one that ushers them into a promiscuous pleasuredome of traded partners and never-ending disgrace, schoolbooks still shrink-wrapped beneath crusted bedsheets and grand lecture halls all but forgotten. The shocking fact that so many of these drunken women take advantage of their fellow college men gives only the slightest hint of how far the mighty have fallen.
In our schools today, we have scenarios where young girls, barely free from the comfort of their mothers’ arms, are undressing into the smallest of outfits– nothing more than tight, lacey bras really– to advertise their availability like common urban streetwalkers. Propped up by absurdly high heels, they prowl in packs, emaciated and painted, like some evil breed of wolves lusting for free drinks and bathroom cocaine, men with credit cards and all night after parties. It’s a common sight from Boston to Los Angeles to see these sorts of girls, laughing and shrieking at the earliest hours of dawn, drawing scorn from those of us with honest jobs. What can be done to stop these once-beautiful children from being sidetracked into a boozy world of bare-bodied destruction?
America’s young men are equally to blame for their failure to achieve adulthood. Many families invest hundreds of thousands of dollars into college educations. These parents hope that someday their sons will grow up to be gracious providers for their own senior years. Yet this trust is criminally discarded on the gothic campuses of formerly fabled schools. Princeton University is a prime example. Up until the 1970s, it was recognized as a center of awakened Presbyterian thinking. Now it has fallen on terrible times, devolving into an epicenter of self-congratulatory violation. The students there continually innovate new ways to humiliate themselves, throwing away any promise they may have had to contribute something worthwhile to this world. No, they’d rather dance in their dirty underwear beneath the moonlight while pouring beer kegs over each other’s heads, spinning in circles of fresh skin and flaccid ambition, on a four year pleasure cruise through New Jersey’s sordid delights.
What happens at Princeton happens everywhere. It’s all are part of a horrific cycle of older boys turning the younger ones onto the party. Yes, the fact that 21 is the current drinking age is laughable, for legal men willingly purchase alcohol for their 17- and 18-year old brethren. This insidious indoctrination in dorm rooms all across America inevitably turns incurably ignominious. We have these shy, gentle teenagers stepping onto campuses like lost deer, seeking out a friendly smile and a helping hand. When that older boy offers it, these young people are easily impressed. Little do they know that they’re taking on a debt that will need to be repaid in the most intimate of ways. At some future night, under darkness and under covers, one will rise as another falls, choking and drunk, their flesh will meet and that teen’s life will be packed up like a greasy deli sandwich in a grab-bag of grueling gratifications.
This outrage is not confined to college grounds as most adults who have traveled out past 10pm surely know. Our roads are veritable obstacle courses of puking pilots after a certain hour. Why the police do not create more roadblocks for youths I will never know. Anyone on the streets after midnight is usually drunk. If you’re not employed on a night shift, why else would you be driving around so late? You see these packed cars of giggling kids and the answer is rather obvious. They’ve either been drinking or using drugs. Now they’re cruising our highways and byways for the next party or club, the next blue ribbon special or marijuana joint. They make our busy roadways look like bumper car rinks, where dented wrecks swerve within inches of your life, their horns blaring, lights flashing, carnival music thumping. And when you see those types who sit down low in their seats, their baseball caps turned backward, the awful thought that they are so high on narcotics that they can barely feel their hands is terrifying enough that you want to take the next exit.
Stepping up from alcohol to drug use is a disturbing reality of today’s 20-something generation. This is the result of a culture that teaches kids to embrace their innermost demons instead of promoting a realistic Christian understanding of our difficult world. These are children who have bypassed maturity so they can keep the crazy times going. Narcotics have become so common in this country that many authorities have simply given up. The push to legalize marijuana is just the first step in a larger scheme of liberalistic pipedreams concocted to bury our Constitutional freedoms. Their agenda is clearly to deny the vital advances this country has made over the last 50 years.
As we know now from the subversive leanings bubbling to the surface in the Obama administration, the United States is being forced the wrong way and people are angry. We are entering a cultural showdown. On one side, there are those who have faith, honor and integrity. We are people who trust in the words of our Founding Fathers and the Christian love that once blossomed in this country. On the other side, there is a motley fool’s errand of profiteers and power-seekers, anarchists and atheists who scavenge on this nation’s goodness like buzzards digging into the marrow of a desiccated corpse. Do these enemies of liberty truly understand that we will never give up?
Once our young adults finish their collegiate educations, the party does not end. Parents foolishly finance the next destination in this debauched lifestyle. We have children moving to cities and foreign locales to become hipsters and hippies, homosexuals and hedonists. Each new youth trend is more ridiculous than the last. What happened to the time when work meant getting your hands dirty or wearing a tie?
Today, it’s about creating music bands that will never be heard, painting paintings that will never be seen, novels that never exist anywhere but on laptop screens and acting careers contained in coffee shop imaginations. These young people are the containers of our future, of our nation’s future. That incredible inheritance means nothing to them. They are insulting the noble sacrifices previous generations made for the greatness of this country. They so readily dismiss the fact that with leadership comes immense responsibilities. They have no clue what God means, what the rule of law means. They have forsaken their churches and their enlightened elders to party away all the affluence and strength that has so graciously been handed over to them.
As we look upon this lot, what should we think? How much do they deserve of America if they’re unwilling to step up and be men? The incredible disregard for basic morality found on our campuses and in our bustling cities is astonishing. In a decade or two, what will the United States become at the hands of these children if their indulgence is allowed to continue? The hard truth is that there is still time for real Americans to take America back. We have triumphed in wars in the past. Our spines are still full of faith. We have our knowledge and our experience. We can put this nation back on course. It all starts with waking our children up to the cold reality of this nation’s new dawn. They party is over. Let us clamp down on their epidemic of “self exploration” now. Sober them up and open their eyes to the truths of modern life. Let them see that this nation does not suffer fools lightly. They need to know that they’re foul and mistaken, unprincipled and corrupt.
To protect our future and the livelihoods of our children, we need to make a difficult decision about alcohol and make it now. It’s an incredible distraction on college campuses, one that is pushing this nation far off course. It has caused such failures across the board that now our competitors on the global stage have pushed the U.S. economy to the brink. If we honestly care about the moral development of our young people, we should make the legal drinking age 25 in this country. It’s a straightforward and simple proposition, one that will have an immediate effect. As adults, it’s our responsibility to care for those who are not yet mature enough to take care of themselves.
10:36 am
If they raised the drinking age no one would give a shit, most people start drinking at the age of like, 17 or 18. They can HIDE alchohal in different places really good, too. My brothers roomate at college hid 10 beers in his room. During there alchohal inspection. See what im saying? NO ONE WOULD GIVE A FUCK ABOUT THE AGE BEING RAISED.
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*alcohol
*brother’s
*roommate
*abhorrent sentence structure
Is this the effects of alcohol on our college campuses?
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8:25 pm
*Is this the effect
*Are these the effects
…Apparently not.
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3:25 am
To go along with Will, you also forgot to correct the “there” to “their”. If you’re going to be picky at least do it right. Also, you named yourself after the Angel of Death… Who does that?! …Besides megalomaniacs that is.
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12:50 pm
college students will still drink if the drinking age goes up! its already illegal! making the drinking age higher wont make it more illegal to drink! if anything they should make the drinking age 18 so people dont only drink cause its forbidden. at my college 12 kids went to the hospital the first weekend due to alcohol…at colleges in canada (where the drinking age is 18) 12 kids go the hospital due to alcohol EACH YEAR!!!! simply because they dont drink as much because its legal for them.. if u REALLY think the drinking age should be changed to 25 maybe you should just write an article about how there should be another alcohol prohibition.. cause thats probably where your going with this anyways… even tho it failed miserably last time with alcohol and marijuana is slowly coming to an end.. here is my suggestion to you stevie.. read a fucking book!!
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12:11 pm
That’s precisely why we need to ban alcohol from ALL college premises. The loophole that allows older kids to still purchase the booze is what’s causing the problem. If we create “no tolerance” policy and demand schools and police enforce it, there’s a great chance for success. Right now, we’re essentially doing nothing and the problem is only getting worse.
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“If we create “no tolerance” policy and demand schools and police enforce it”
That’s the problem – the public safety departments as colleges (at least at mine) don’t give a flying rat’s ass about enforcing the drinking law. Every Thursday night there will be massive groups of students hanging out outside my dorm room and outside the freshman dorm building. You can be 100% guaranteed that they are in possession of alcohol, due to the noises they are making. They are close enough to the public safety office for them to hear (100 feet away, at most). Heck, I can hear them through my earplugs. Rest assured the public safety officers can hear them as well as I can. And do they do anything? No. The only time they get involved is if the students get violent or if someone gets alcohol poisoning. But do they care if they’re just being noisy and keeping the rest of us awake? No. I’ve posted rants on facebook late at night complaining about how if the public safety officers really cared about cracking down on underage drinking, they would simply have to find each and every rowdy group of students and bust each and every one of them, because rest assured, those students will be in possession of alcohol. If I wasn’t so damned shy I would call public safety myself and inform them that I’m being kept awake by the drunk students outside my building and in the room next to mine. Then I’d go to sleep with a smile on my face as each and every one of their drunk asses was busted.
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2:49 pm
Banning alcohol… maybe I’m wrong but I think the government experiemented with that in the past. Let me see, what was it called….. Ah. Prohibition.
Didn’t work in the 20th century. Likely wouldn’t work today.
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7:21 pm
Well you actually said something that wasn’t generally retarded.
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What makes you think that if the drinking age is raised to 25, people will stop getting older people to get it for them? They’d just have to get somebody who was 25 or older instead of 21 or older… please explain your thought process to me.
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Right on – raising he drinking age is a joke. Has the increase to 21 yrs done any good since it was made law? Heck no. It just drove all college drinking underground, made them cover their own asses rather than save someone’s life by contacting authorities.
Treating them like children is making them act like children.
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12:50 pm
Stevie, raising the age of something won’t make the problem go away, it’ll just cause more problems. Now all of the people who are drinking and are under 25 will be factored into all of the equations of ‘under age drinking accidents’ and you’ll see nothing but those numbers skyrocket. Then you’ll want the age raised higher, and you’ll see even higher accident numbers rise, and so on and so forth. You’ll be doing nothing but adding to the problem, but that’s all you ever seem to want to do, make more problems so that others take the blame so you can bitch at them about it.
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12:16 pm
The equations don’t mean much when the larger issue of binge drinking is addressed on a scale such as this. We’re talking about setting standards for young people, giving them a moral compass. Clearly, they cannot be trusted to control themselves.
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The push to legalize marijuana is just the first step in a larger scheme of liberalistic pipedreams concocted to bury our Constitutional freedoms. Their agenda is clearly to deny the vital advances this country has made over the last 50 years.
I just wanted to report your attention to This particular sentence
You know that you just contradictic yourself
let’s see Liberalistic/liberalism/freedom are all the seam meaning and same definition
and what Vital advance your country made well the world hate you More but other than that ? particularly Nothing
On a Last Note Go read your constitution will you because3 seriously You know NOTHING about it
Your Freedom is Limited and a Privilege if you abuse of it it’s will be stripped away so I suggest Not abusing of it
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12:24 pm
Today’s “radical liberalism” is an invention of Obama’s Administration. It’s a push to change the course of American domestic policy towards a more socialistic economy to keep the lower classes happy. The undercurrent of this agenda is also to aggregate power in Obama’s own hands, to give them an opportunity to create a more totalitarian state. They wish to control every single aspect of our lives, to force a degree of sexual expression on this country. It’s easy to confuse that with the Constitutional ideal of “freedom” but that’s misleading. In their mind, freedom meaning taking away the Constitutional independence of our states to make their own decisions and their own laws when it comes to teaching such things as sex to children, “evolution” theory. On the societal front, they want to enforce special “gay” rights mandates and special “gay” marriage over the objection of states voters who have wholeheartedly rejected it. These are the supposed “freedoms” that liberals embrace. What they are in actuality is impositions of totalitarian theories on a majority that still rejects them.
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5:22 pm
oh no we are takeing away your freedom to deny freedom to others. fucking hypocrit.
we suport the freedom of choice. that everyone should be able to chose who they marry not you because it is not your buissenes anyway.
we belive that everyone should be able to teach their children what they belive is right. not that you should be able to decide. sure freaking teach your children that evolution is wrong and christianity is right. if it’s what it takes split schools up so there are schools for christians and non christians. but don’t complain if it turns out nonchristian school kids are better educated then.
we fight for the freedom so that everyone can make a choice but what you fail to realise that everyone includes you. you should simply not be able to make choices for others. unless that choice actually affects you directly.
sometimes a bit of respect of others ideals are needed. because if you won’t show it. how can you expect to recive it?
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1:54 pm
“The obvious answer is that we must raise the legal drinking age to 25 and ban alcohol from all educational premises.”
That won’t work. Kids are going to get a hold of alcohol – it simply cannot be avoided. Teenagers want so badly to drink that they will break the law in order to do so. It’s sad but true.
“Free from any regimen of homework or athletics, they immediately set off to reinvent their nascent identities.”
At Mount Ida College, it’s the athletes who are the worst offenders. Since Sports Management is one of the school’s most popular majors, campus is literally crawling with football players, and it’s not a pretty sight. They are by far the most obnoxious, most offensive, loudest drunks, and coupled with the Fashion Design majors, are quite possibly the ones responsible for the Chlamydia epidemic on campus.
“Yes, the fact that 21 is the current drinking age is laughable, for legal men willingly purchase alcohol for their 17- and 18-year old brethren.”
And that is why raising the drinking age won’t do a damn thing. Why did Prohibition not work? Because people ALWAYS found a way to get their hands on alcohol. It’s the same nowadays. 21-year-olds on campus will simply contact their 25-year-old friends outside of the campus, have them purchase beer for them, and supply the 17 and 18-year-olds on campus with some of it. Or, students could simply go home while mom and dad are at work, grab a few of their dad’s 6-packs (provided dad has 6-packs), and bring them back to campus.
“We have these shy, gentle teenagers stepping onto campuses like lost deer, seeking out a friendly smile and a helping hand.”
Sadly, that is incorrect, at least from what I’ve observed. From what I’ve witnessed at Mount Ida, the majority of students come to campus with prior experience with sex, alcohol, and drugs, and are ridiculously excited for that first “Thirsty Thursday” night when they can drink, smoke, and have sex to their heart’s content without mom or dad finding out (unless, of course, they get alcohol poisoning and wind up in the hospital). It’s rare that you’ll find a college student like me, who locks herself in her dorm room at nights to ensure that the drunk, high Sports and Fashion majors stay away and keep their little orgies to themselves.
“Anyone on the streets after midnight is usually drunk.”
I had to leave my room and go across campus one night at midnight to give one of our dogs his pain meds (he was neutered that morning), and let me tell you, I was scared to death of the kinds of students I might encounter.
“We have children moving to cities and foreign locales to become hipsters and hippies, homosexuals and hedonists.”
…or to get jobs…
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3:24 pm
Really? This is not a new problem that has just arrived. My Grandfather went to the University of Illinois in 147, my father, in 1980, and myself now. I drink at the same bar that my grandfather drank at and my father drank at. This is not a new “problem.” As far as Christian, maybe your protestant religion. I am Catholic and there is nothing against drinking in the Catholic, Jesus did it. In fact, Jesus turned water into wine (which, for your information, is a form of alcohol.) 17 and 18? Ha! Go into the real world before you write, 17 is way to old. I would say most start at 14 or 15. That is good too, they then learn what to do or not to do when they are drunk and have less casulties. It tends to be the sheltered people who do the stupid self injuring acts in college. The ones who are experiencing their first ever form of freedom. Any good parent would give their child freedom at a young age. As for the weed, and drinking about the founding fathers, Sam Adams and Ben Franklin were brewers. George Washington distilled whiskey. Most people back in the day smoked weed. Many even had hemp gardens to produce their own weed. Again, do some investigative reporting before writing these “facts.”
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10:59 pm
Here here!
I can tragically report that at the college in my home town, one kid who’d just come off a farm and drank heavily for the first time (keeping up with his fellow college buddies that have been drinking since they were 13-14) fell through a window and died. Was it alcohol related? Yes. Would it have been prevented if this 18 year old was 25 instead? No.
I’m sorry but just because you are older doesn’t mean that alcohol doesn’t affect you the same as if you were 18. If you’ve never drunk before the alcohol will have exactly the same effect.
If you gave a 60 year old man who’d never drunk before a 6 pack, he’d be a blubering mess half way through. If you gave a 14 year old a 6 pack he’s also be a blurbering mess BUT give that same 14 year old a 6 pack 4 years later at 18, he will be able to handle it quite well and may take 8-12 drinks to become that same blubering mess.
You obviously have no idea how alcohol works in the ‘real’ world, Stevo.
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5:14 pm
‘The push to legalize marijuana is just the first step in a larger scheme of liberalistic pipedreams concocted to bury our Constitutional freedoms.’
WOW. Do you have any idea what an oxymoron that is?
Conservatives and religious radicals are always moaning about ‘big government’ and how liberals want to take your freedoms away. What about your freedom to drink alcohol, regardless of the consequences, when you’re an adult? Your freedom to marry and have relationships with who you want? What about your freedom to burn a plant and inhale the smoke that comes out of it?
Meanwhile Bush passes the Patriot Act, giving the government unimaginable power to breach your right to privacy, and you cheer and call him ‘The best President Ever.’
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12:32 pm
This is a fight for States Rights. It has been a theme in US politics since Andrew Jackson. The reason why patriots and Palin supporters fight for states’ rights is because states are where small groups of people decide their own laws, their own responsibilities. They decide how their schools should be run and how taxes should be collected. Conservatives believe this is the most democratic form of government because it’s the most inclusive and the closest to the actual public. Federal government is far divorced from the day to day realities of people’s lives and they often enforce unpopular policies on people. That’s why the Tea Party wants to get of things like TARP and the Dept. of Education. Let the will of people as expressed through state gov’ts determine how we are governed. That is true freedom, my friend.
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You’re an idiot Billings! Obama is a moderate liberal at best. This country is supposed to be a DEMOCRACY where EVERYONE is to be created EQUAL!! Labeling liberal agendas “socialist” is moronic.
If conservatives are interested in small govt and allowing states to govern themselves, then why was Bush constantly ignoring the state laws for medical marijuana?
Conservatives are the biggest perpetrators of “big govt” because they want to impose religion and morality upon everyone. Govt doesn’t get any bigger than telling me what I can and can’t do in my bedroom!
Small govt should be regarded as a govt that is interested in whats in my wallet not what I do in my personal life. Ever hear of 1984? Big Brother is watching you
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1:12 pm
Vince, the people elected Hugo Chavez and he decided to give himself power for life. Stalin was welcomed as a liberator and man of the people. You have no clue what Obama is capable of.
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5:17 pm
well billings why stop there?
alcohol is not a necesity. why not just ban it outright? let’s take cigerates with it. let’s add all that shit to stuff you’ll get from pushers and further criminalize the world.
it’s their life and it’s their choice. they are adults and if they want to throw their life away on partying without regard for their future then they are fully within their right to make that choice. i for one belive you should be 21 before you are alowed to have a religion.
you can’t decide how other’s should live their lives. so stop trying. especially considering you aren’t willing to let others try and help you you do not have the right to try and help others.
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10:55 pm
25 is the right age.
that is why car rental places stick to it.
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12:34 pm
Agreed!
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wow if we did it exactly like car rental places it would be great imagine if you got caught drinking illegally under the age of 21 and all you had to pay was a $25 fine hell sounds great.
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11:52 pm
While we are at It Billings let’s Ban video game Movie music from the society and let’s just read Bible is it what you want ?
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Billings, let’s sit down for a minute and think about things for once shall we? Plenty of college kids are below the age of 21 anyway, yet they still drink anyway, despite the illegality (that’s the adjective form of illegal in case you were wondering Mr. Journalist) of it. Why? Because they want to rebel against what they were told not to do all their lives. In America, kids are told that alcohol is evil and should be avoided. Then, when they get to college and away from the watchful eye of mom and dad, they rebel and drink anyway. However in Germany where the drinking age is 16 and alcohol is a much more tolerated, alcohol abuse in colleges is a tiny fraction of what it is over here. If you raise the drinking age, it’ll just cause them to rebel more, thus resulting in more alcohol abuse and do the exact apposite of what you’re trying to accomplish. Now doesn’t that sound productive?
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I really could care less what the socialists in Germany are doing. Their drinking age is not really relevant. In America, far more children are drivers and once they drink, things get out of control. If you people honestly believe 16 or 18 would be a legitimate drinking age, you are nuts. This world would fall apart if we had our schools and roads full of drunk teens. You people are truly clueless!
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7:23 pm
Well the people in Europe are at least educated about alcohol and when they drink, they drink for pleasure not for the sake of getting drunk.
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7:17 pm
Look at you. What, are you a recovering drug fiend? Obviously some irrational event must have occurred to throw your brain so out of whack to actually believe this kind of thing. I though republican and right wing principles advocated less government intervention? How about all of our soldiers serving overseas? They can die for your fanaticism but can’t have a beer? Just out of curiosity where were you educated? Im assuming it wasn’t Princeton, which you so readily attack, in fact I’d venture to say that to have an opinion like this your education must be limited to maximum high school. Enlighten me.
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Many people believe this is a rational idea so don’t go attacking my personal life and accusing me of narcotics abuse. I have never in my life tried any drugs. The thought disgusts me.
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7:17 pm
“I have never in my life tried any drugs.”
So then it would be true that you have never had a sip of wine, beer, or liquor?
Or had a cup of coffee, soda, or tea? (caffeine)
And you have never used cough syrup, aspirin, tylenol, antibiotics or any pain killer?
Because these are ALL drugs.
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11:32 am
This article is just an excuse to post pictures of coeds in their underwear.
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1:10 pm
You have an unhealthy imagination.
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9:47 pm
Hmmm… Haven’t you noticed that in many denominations, drinking wine has become a commonly accepted religious practice? And, the others have a point. This won’t do a damn thing except make us look like even bigger idiots. If we really wanted to lower the statistics, and drinking accidents, we would raise the driving age.
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2:26 pm
You’ve got to be kidding me. I am a college student and I am completely and utterly offended by the picture you have painted. You, sir, are letting Hollywood and reality tv create an image of college that is false to the highest degree. The kids who walk on to college campus’s “like lost deer, seeking out a friendly smile and a helping hand” are 18, not 12. They may be on their own for the first time, but give them a little credit. Most people’s parents strive to teach their kids some common sense and instill a moral compass. And if they don’t want to drink, there isn’t an evil pied piper coming to corrupt them. In fact, there is a large population of college students who choose not to drink.
And the overwhelming amount of pathos really discredits your argument. You might want to try a little more fact and a little less opinion if you want anyone to take you seriously.
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1:23 am
This whole “Left-wing vs Right-wing” and “Liberal vs Conservative” thing is nonsense, to begin with. There is NO “left” or “right” in reality. These are just elementary blanket terms America took from the French Revolution. They are a TERRIBLE way of trying to classify people and political ideals. Politics is not a linear spectrum; that is impossible.
But Mr.Billings, I know you are a satirist and this website is not a “real” Christian site. I am a Christian and the things you say I find somewhat offensive because you TRY to make Christians look like irrational fools. But I’m going to criticize the things you’re saying because real people come to this fake satire site. I may be wrong though; you could just be a tool for these masterful satirists and really be giving your heartfelt sentiment. In any case, I will just address it as if you’re serious… In the event that you are not trying to ridicule Christians, then just think about it; what you’re saying is so ridiculous that people think you’re joking!
And for the record, real or not, this website is full of hate speech against blacks, gays and everyone who’s not white, Republican and over-zealously wacko-Protestant. The Christ *I* follow taught tolerance and love. He ministered to the people most hated by society, such as prostitutes and lepers. This website, with its extremist hatred against homosexuals and non-whites, is more ANTI-Christian than anything else. It’s distasteful and disgusting. If I had children, I would NEVER let them come to this website and hear your “Christian” messages.
To begin with, you are EXACTLY what you say you hate: a totalitarian and socialist. By the way, don’t try to call me a “Liberal” or “Left-anything” or even a Democrat. I oppose both the Democrats and Republicans (and these “Liberal” and “Conservative” delusions). I am a Libertarian, a “Constitutionalist” and a devout Christian. I also strongly dislike Obama (and Clinton and Bush), FYI. I might even look totally anti-government because I think BOTH “sides” are wrong, but I’m not an anarchist. I’m just a minarchist (which I’m sure you don’t know is the REAL word for the “small government” ideals you falsely claim to push). But you’re sitting here preaching a totalitarian message and turning around and saying that’s what you’re fighting.
You say the government wants to control every aspect of our lives? I’ve got news for you, they’re already doing it. And YOU want to do the same thing in a new (actually old, if you think about the Nazis, Soviets and 1930s Prohibition) and even more extreme way. The “War on Drugs”, our modern Prohibition, is just that: the government fighting to control our minds and bodies. The DEA is more akin to the Orwellian “Thought Police” than anything else. If you are really a Christian, you believe that God is omnipotent and omnipresent. You also believe Christ is his son and messenger to mankind. And whether you believe it’s totally literal or a mix of literal and expressive language (i.e., parables and moral fables — like every other book in the world), you believe the Bible is infallible and holy. I DO. That’s the God I believe in: the one who set the universe in motion and has let it run its course since without interference — because if God has to interfere with “magic” and change his creation, that implies he made a mistake (with this rational mindset, you don’t have to deny science either). But if you believe God is divine and perfect, then answer these: 1) WHY did he never inspire a Biblical author to condemn alcohol and drugs? 2) WHY didn’t he have Jesus bring us that message? 3) WHY is the Bible totally devoid of condemnation towards drugs, even though they were widely used and well-known by the ancients? I know exactly why… Because it’s NOT “evil” to use a drug (the simple action itself) — and drugs were in fact a gift to mankind which were meant to be used responsibly. God’s universe has given us miraculous drugs like opium (and its derivative alkaloids) to relieve the pain of the suffering and dying. He’s given use drugs like marijuana to stop nausea, insomnia, stress, pain and thousands of other problems (symptoms which are common in chemotherapy patients, whom marijuana works wonders for). EVERY drug has many useful attributes — some are just pretty unhealthy in the long-term and easy to go overboard with, so they’re not used in conventional medicine. So if you believe drugs are “evil” and “wrong”, then you are criticizing God’s own work because you’re too ignorant to understand it. You’re also making things up, because it’s NOT in the Bible (although the Bible DOES, much to your dismay, say to partake of all the herbs and fruits as we will, and grants man dominion over the animals). All of this anti-drug (propaganda) trash is just a MODERN invention in America and the west, and it leaked into churches lead by ignorant and foolish pastors and priests.
You see, you can try to pass yourself off as some “spiritual” person who’s trying to preach the Gospel, but you’re NOT. You’re preaching the ANTI-Gospel of fear, intolerance, ignorance, moral depravity and extremist, cult-like politics of the fringe minority of Christianity. You are no “spiritual leader” or “pastor”, you are a wacky politician who is focused on propaganda rather than seeking office. Maybe your intentions, in your heart, are good and you think you’re doing “God’s work”, but you definitely aren’t. You just flip through the Bible, pick out parts you can misconstrue and warp (of course, skipping over those parts that contradict your extremist ideals) and try to hide your lies with a little pinch of Gospel. It’s like when you put a worming pill in a hotdog so your pet will eat it — the difference here, you THINK you’re giving a wormer but it’s a cyanide capsule that will make your target sick, weak or even destroy it from the inside out. Your ideas and rhetoric are truly dangerous to gullible people who are searching for themselves and their own spirituality. I truly hope and pray that no naive Christian, especially the young (our own children), catch this infection of moral jungle-rot.
Your “morality” about drugs (which includes alcohol and tobacco) is so incredibly ridiculous. The God I believe in gave mankind FREE WILL, and he intended to let mankind deal with the consequences of their own decisions (such as either using drugs responsibly, abusing them or not using them at all). Again you’re driven by western totalitarian ideology, NOT Christianity or Old Testament Judaism. The Bible says over and over to “judge not, lest you be judged”, and makes it clear that GOD, and God alone, will judge man for his deeds. If you believe in God, you MUST believe God’s will shall be done and he will judge us correctly. God will enforce his OWN “law”. So even if you believe that using drugs is “evil”, it’s still NOT your place or the government’s place to try to enforce what *you* think is “God’s law”. No… If you REALLY believed in “small government” and liberty, you would recognize that the only role of government is to *prevent human aggression*; such as robbery, assault, rape and murder. News flash: We ALREADY have adequate laws against these horrible things. Laws against victimless actions like prostitution and drug use are MORALLY WRONG (whether you’re a Christian, Buddhist or atheist). It’s contradictory to Christianity because YOU are trying to take our Lord’s law into your own hands (which is just as bad as seeking revenge; the Bible says about this “Vengeance is MINE, sayeth the Lord.”). So when YOU try to enforce what *you* just think is God’s law, you’re breaking it because he told you not to do it and to leave it to him. Think about that. Pray about it, if you actually pray. That’s a profound thing for Christians. I want to see you even try to justify anything else or these crazy modern ideas of yours.
We don’t need government interfering in our personal and family matters or trying to raise our children. If I want to get a tattoo, eat a ham sandwich, have sex with my wife, eat some dirt or Elmer’s glue, or whatever…it’s ALL a personal/family matter for me which does NOT concern the state. By the same token, when I burn a plant and inhale its smoke and vapors, it’s a personal choice between me, my family and God. I actually do smoke, but only tobacco. And I’m not going to hell or being condemned for it. If you want to read that far into the Bible, then you shouldn’t eat bacon (only Kosher foods!) because it’s swine meat — and after you have sex with your wife or have a “wet dream”, you are then “unclean” and must *leave town and fast until nightfall*, and only then may you bathe and go home. But that’s going overboard with things, and not what Christ’s revolutionary message was about. It’s perfectly legal in America to cut yourself with a knife, eat dog feces, have sexual relations with a watermelon, eat rat poison and do all sorts of extremely gross and harmful things. But it’s illegal to smoke marijuana? SERIOUSLY?! Yes, that’s how ridiculous totalitarianism (and its devout followers, like you) is. You’re also sitting there and trying to twist it and say that “real” freedom is “state’s rights”. Well I fully agree that states should be able to govern themselves, that we should limit both federal and state power and that the people themselves should be in control — but under your crazy type of ideology, you just want to give the states more power to persecute your supposed “enemies”. And what’s funny is that you contradict yourself again here — several states have voted to make personal use and possession of marijuana legal, and the federal government is trying to trample those states (like Oregon). You obviously want the same thing: a federal override of the marijuana decriminalization.
People like you subsist from this “War on Drugs”, an unconstitutional and un-American abomination, and just ignore the fact that it’s created MORE problems and a massive, violent criminal black market empire — JUST like we did when we outlawed alcohol, thank you! The new Al Capones and Lucky Lucianos are foreign drug lords who ONLY make money because drugs are illegal. When you make something like that which people strongly need/want, you make it incredibly valuable. Just like Cuban cigars are more valuable because they’re illegal; they’re a novelty and highly sought after as that “forbidden fruit” of the state. All of that potential for fast money in the drug market actually ATTRACTS our kids, who now think it’s “cool” and “rebellious” to sell/use drugs because of our unrealistic policies. Kids who are too sheltered by over-protective and domineering parents almost ALWAYS go crazy when they get their first breath of free air. The first thing they want to do is throw away all of the lies you’ve told them, but they inadvertently throw the baby out with the bathwater. Ever heard that little joke about “the preacher’s daughter”? Well, it’s true. I was pretty rebellious and wild when I was a teen, and I “hooked up” with a preacher’s daughter on vacation in Florida. It was the first time she’d gotten away from her insanely over-protective father, and she just threw herself on me to get that first taste of forbidden sex. And don’t throw in that christwire.com anti-women hate speech — she didn’t “seduce” or “victimize” me, as it was partially MY fault for taking advantage of her vulnerability and mostly her parent’s fault for raising her like a prisoner. I’ve since repented for that and been forgiven, but my point has been made.
We use these stupid D.A.R.E. programs in our schools and these ridiculous PSAs and “Above the Influence” commercials to try to let the state do the parenting for us. And kids think these things are a joke. The first time I took a “hit” from a joint, it was that stupid DARE class I was forced to take and graduate which made me want to try it. Ironically, our DARE teacher’s name was Deputy “Bud”, haha… When we tell the kids lies and say drugs will instantly kill them or have them shooting heroin in an alley in 2 weeks, they know it. And then they throw away the good part of the message, which is that drug abuse has serious consequences and risks. So when they get above 12-16 and know we told them all these lies, they figure the rest of it is all lies too and drugs are actually ok to abuse with reckless abandon. And it’s our own faults for being unrealistic, treating our kids and America like idiotic sheep and using failed fear tactics steeped in voodoo pharmacology, lies and propaganda. You think the “War on Drugs” is working? Sure, you’re right, because no one does drugs anymore — especially kids! Yeah right! We just make them want to do it more by using failed government parenting and immoral tomfoolery. You think raising the drinking age will do CRAP? No, because kids are already illegally drinking. They don’t give a hoot if we outlaw alcohol again — they will either buy it from the streets or make homemade wine or mead like prisoners do. Our kids eventually get old enough to do what they want when our backs are turned — whether it’s sex, alcohol, heroin or watching pornographic films. The reason we have so many kids doing it in America is: we treat them like 2yr old prisoners. When you love your kids and parent them with a little respect and honesty, they will love you and respect you back and be FAR less likely to do bad things. Sometimes they will slip up and experiment, but kids who’ve been raised right will know it and straighten up on their own (that’s what I did; when adults stopped trying to boss me around and attack me I got bored with being “bad ass” and got straight with life and God).
We waste over $40,000,000,000 each year on this failed, unconstitutional “War on Drugs” concocted by Richard Nixon. We have over 6,000,000 people in jail total — of which over 1,000,000 are totally NON-violent “drug offenders” who are mostly in their for a little joint or bag of weed. It costs over $20,000 a year just to feed and take care of each prisoner, so that’s another easy $20,000,000,000 just to feed/house all of the criminals WE created for no reason. It often costs anywhere from $30,000 – $5,000,000 to prosecute and convict a high profile drug kingpin or gang. Not to mention all the people who are brutalized and killed by the police, gangs and cartels all because of our stupid laws. If we got rid of drug prohibition, it would be doomsday for foreign terrorists and drug cartels because it would almost instantly evaporate the black market, they’re standing blood money and their profits. We could educate our kids with the truth instead of fear and lies, and convince less of them to try drugs in the first place. We could set up effective rehab clinics to help people who want to get clean from serious addictions to drugs like meth, cocaine and heroin. We could allow private businesses to obtain state licenses to grow drugs like marijuana and sell them cheaply under FDA regulation — this would mean it would be cleaner, safer and there would be no violence over bad drug deals on the street. People would know what drug they’re getting, it would be pure and they would know the proper dose so we would have way less poisonings, overdoses and fatalities (which aren’t that common to begin with). Clean syringes and supplies would put a huge dent in AIDS and STD transmission to boot. This is being done successfully in other countries around the world, and the IMPROVEMENTS have been huge: in Holland, for instance, use of drugs like heroin has plummeted to record per-capita lows; kids don’t want to do it because it’s seen as a “lame”, “old people” and “junkie” drug, instead of glamorous, rebellious, extreme and cool like it is here (where kids associate it with celebrities and cultural heroes). But best of all, we could FINALLY start to be a FREE country. This isn’t about embracing socialism; to the contrary, it’s about affording Americans a basic human right our founding fathers took for granted.
Anyway, I’m sick of typing. I could go on forever demolishing your ridiculous and anti-Christian political philosophy. I’m sorry if you feel totally vanquished and humiliated (I hate to be cocky about it, but I did kinda obliterate everything you believe it whether you want to accept it or not). But I’m not attacking *you*, personally, as a human being. I just wanted to tear apart your extremist and dangerous beliefs. Sorry if that hurts, but I want you to think and pray about it. Clear your mind of all this Republican vs Democrat and Liberal vs Conservative nonsense. Start with a clean slate. Read your Bible with an open mind and pray about it. You can find the truth and reality if you seek it.
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2:42 am
jesus christ!
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2:47 am
jesus sam! I cant stop admiring your post, so im replying to it again. Are you a secret genius?
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4:32 pm
tl;dr. Can you post a shorter version?
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12:37 am
You are a fool, Sam. I’ll own you in life any day. And that includes yesterday. ps, I didn’t even read your behemoth post, because I can’t read.
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4:36 pm
Actually, it should be raised to age 30 or 35. 25 these days is too irresponsible.
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10:42 pm
I don’t know what to laugh harder at – the article or the replies to it.
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