(Not) Only in Texas!!

[12voltman59]

From this story---I guess that Texas has some new laws regarding what constitutes Public Intoxication and one of the first places to feel the sting of the law, of course, had to be a "gay" bar:

http://www.homosexualsonly.com/blog/jake-jacobs/

I am sure that the way laws get proposed in one state--with so many of the state legislatures being controlled by very conservative "cultural warrior" Republican/Tea Party types----these laws once set in one place suddenly crop up almost instantaneously in so many others.

So--its not just Rick Santorum that if you are gay that you have to worry about.

Welcome to the new, grand and glorious America!!!!

I got this story from an attorney I "friended" on FaceBook who had up a post about proposals now going around to once again lower the legal limit for DUI/OVI/OUI/DWIs in the states from the current standard limit of .08% to .05%---which will surely mean many more arrests for being an impaired driver--it does seem that they are on a long slow track to making the level be 0.00000% alcohol---I guess its a good thing to stop anyone who is impaired, but its gonna take an even greater bite out of the ability for bars, night clubs, music venue, and many restaurants from making a profit due to even lower alcohol sales. It doesn't take but a few beers or hard drinks to reach the .05 level because even one drink will make you show up .02% and it is said that even with one drink---some impairment is apparently beginning to happen.
http://alcoholism.about.com/od/dui/a/impaired.htm

Got to add a PS- I do see that the date of that event took place back in 2009--so its been around a bit and thankfully---that law thus far has not spread to other states like some sort of bad virus----I am kinda surprised---it was years back now--but one police department in my area actually was doing things like that---going into bars in that town, the cops would come up to patrons and talk to them and if they thought they were drunk--no matter if the person was being a problem or not-- arrested them, especially if they drove there in a car to "prevent them" from driving impaired later---well that didn't last long and after many reversed convictions by the local municipal court and big time lawsuits that cost the city plenty--they basically fired the entire command structure of the police department---ironically enough during all of that, the judge who presided over that court was drunk one night---left wherever he had been drinking and on the way home smashed his car into a few parked ones and left the scenes of the accidents---he of course did get caught and had to resign from the bench and wound up spending time in jail himself convicted by his replacement, going to rehab and losing his law license!!

[keefer10.7]

Do you sit in your underwear all day long drilling through the internet to find all these stories? I mean, DAMN! I am a Tea Party supporter and quite frankly, I am getting way beyond fed up with this kind of total bullshit that you vomit up every chance you get. Criminey...go read the comics, take up knitting, but get off the soggy, piss smelling chair you've accustomed yourself to and bring up something more pleasant.

[12voltman59]

When it comes to the move to go to a .05 limit for driving under the influence---the attorney who has that website wrote this:

http://www.daytondui.com/blog/2011/12/07/madds-historic-push-for-a-05-alcohol-limit/

Well keef---only if I don't have much going on which is the case the last few days so I have been--most of the time, no, I don't spend my time doing as you suggest. It is really rather rare anymore that I spend all that much time at this or any other sites online--but when I do this---yeah---I probably do waste too much time online---but then again--many other people do too.

Could be doing something worse though--like watching too much of the telly and I haven't hardly turned that damn thing on in days other than to maybe catch a bit of local news and see what the local weather forecast is--but heck--got such good apps for that on my smartphone--I really don't need to turn the tube on for either of those things!!!

Believe me---I would rather the weather be good again so I can get outside to start the garden, do some landscaping jobs, pressure wash people's exteriors, do their driveways, decks and such--also looking forward to all of the outdoor things like airshows, festivals and such to take place that I will often write stories about for local newspapers. The only problem with doing reporting in good weather--when its nice I'd sure as heck not want to be sitting down at the computer typing out a story.

Hopefully it will be an early and good spring and I won't be wasting so much damn time at the computer like I have admittedly done the past few days since winter decided to finally show up here for a bit.

[darkeyes]

I am a Tea Party supporter....Explains a lot really.... but we expected 2 be surprised by that admission?

[*pan*]

some states worse then others, just read in the news papers yesterday that the govenor of illinois wants to modify it's constitution, and so does obama, this way they can make laws on proposals,it seems the constitution has too many roadblocks for the government to mess with people's rights. socialism and finally the facist state here we come with totaliarian rule.
and never mind the spelling for people who can't make out what i said, because would not matter to them anyway. they are already brainwashed by the system.

[Hephaestion]

Really like your posts Volty. This site proves useful as an eye and ear to the world as much as it does on the sexual side of things.

Keep up the good work.

[Dog62]

From this story---I guess that Texas has some new laws regarding what constitutes Public Intoxication and one of the first places to feel the sting of the law, of course, had to be a "gay" bar:
First of all, the public intoxication laws in Texas are nothing new, and secondly Texas cops have been using them to put DRUNKS in jail for years. Why do paranoid morons such as yourself insist on making up bullshit stories about how mistreated you are just because you are gay? While you may be experiencing some poor treatment because of your sexual preference, contrary to your pathetic attempt to inflate a bias and make it seem bigger than it is, Texas cops regularly check bars.....all bars. Yuppy bars, black bars, redneck bars and yes, gay bars. They put the DRUNKS in jail idiot, not just megalomaniacal half-wit gay drunks.

And you whine about the cops arresting drunk people whether they were causing a problem or not. Well no sh!t Sherlock. The law, even according to your own post, is PUBLIC INTOXICATION. That means, 1) in a public place and 2)intoxicated, so if you are drunk, and in a bar, guess what? You can go to jail. Wow, that isn't that hard to understand is it? Is there some part of this that eludes your level of comprehension? The law isn't PUBLIC INTOXICATION AND CAUSING A PROBLEM. And guess what? Even straight people get arrested for it. Why is it that some people run around like Chicken Little: The sky is falling! The sky is falling! Gays are being arrested (along with others but that's not as dramatic)! Gays are being arrested!

[RavenEye]

This is why I'll never live in a red state. The ethnocentrism is too thick in the air. :disgust: