Muslims Attack Listening Party With Pipes in Istanbul, For Serving Alcohol

[From article]
A group of radical Islamists attacked a listening party in Istanbul where Radiohead was holding a listening party for fans in support of their new album.
The men reportedly stormed the record store, Velvet Indieground, in Istanbul, Turkey, and used pipes to violently beat fans running away from the venue for drinking alcohol during the holy month of Ramadan.
“Our hearts go out to those attacked tonight at Velvet IndieGround in Istanbul,” Radiohead said in a statement. “We hope that someday we will be able to look back on such acts of violent intolerance as things of the ancient past. For now, we can only offer our fans in Istanbul our love and support.”
It’s unknown how many people were injured in the uproar or the severity of their injuries.
[. . .]
They were determined to kill us. We were beaten by more than 20 men with pipes in their hands, beer bottles were broken on our heads. I don’t even know how we made it out. I will share the details later guys, just hoping that no one will die.”
The event was part of a global listening party in support of Radiohead’s new album, “A Moon Shaped Pool,” and included specially curated playlists, games, and limited-edition vinyls.

http://variety.com/2016/music/news/radiohead-listening-party-in-istanbul-attacked-by-islamists-1201798367/

Radiohead Listening Party in Istanbul Attacked by Islamists
Variety Staff
JUNE 17, 2016 | 06:11PM PT

Published on Jun 17, 2016
Radiohead's A Moon Shaped Poo promotion event at Velvet Indieground in Istanbul Turkey. June 17, 2016, around 21:00 (local time) a group attacked and beaten up the shop owner, manhandled the visitors and vandalized the store.

https://youtu.be/vJwznSAJKao

Love Is Not All You Need For A Civil Society

[From article]
As an attorney who has dabbled in family law, and a former prosecutor, it often strikes me that this ditty doesn’t apply to a substantial chunk of people in the U.S. In fact, America as a nation doesn’t seem all that enamored with the idea of love anymore -- at least not the highest form of love, that which sustains marriage and families.
For those who might think otherwise, I’d suggest they look at the latest numbers regarding marriage and family. Both institutions remain in serious decline: The percentage of married households in the U.S. has now dipped to an all-time low. (2010 was the first year in our history that fewer than half of all households were married households.) And the rate of newly formed marriages has hovered near its all-time low for several years. America doesn’t seem to care much for children anymore, either. Our birth rate has also hovered near an all-time low for several years. Four out of every ten of those record-low births are out-of-wedlock -- and one in three children grows up in a household without a father.
[. . .]
And here’s the problem. We can’t have it both ways. Granted, many factors have contributed to the decline of marriage and family in the U.S, but one underlying factor is frequently overlooked: America’s obsession with pleasurable indulgence. Marriage and family will inevitably decline in a society of too many self-absorbed pleasure junkies, which is basically what we’ve become.
The selfless, sacrificial love that’s necessary to sustain marriage and families involves doing the difficult -- whether one feels like it or not: foregoing one’s self-interest for others; compromising with others; and putting children's interests ahead of one’s own. But pleasure junkies have conditioned themselves to do the opposite. They’re accustomed to doing the easy things (e.g. overeating, overspending, smoking, viewing pornography), and focusing on themselves, rather than doing difficult things for others or for a greater common good.
[. . .]
Unfortunately, our overindulgence in pleasure doesn’t stop at eating, drinking, and spending. Millions are battling substance abuse and/or alcoholism. Millions more struggle with smoking, gambling, hard and soft-core pornography, video games, prescription drugs, and other addictive products and behaviors.
Many people fail to connect the dots between our addiction to pleasure on the one hand, and the decline of American marriage and family on the other. But the connection is real. Commonsense tells us so. Before the No Pain, No Gain mantra seized the world of personal fitness, my folks used to counsel me with a similar adage: Little Effort, Little Results. The phrase was commonplace during my teen and young adulthood years, and it wasn't restricted to my school or work life. It applied to my personal life as well.
[. . .]
When it came to marriage and family, my parents thankfully didn’t preach much; instead they taught by example. I watched them do the difficult things necessary to make their marriage work.
[. . .]
Good parents know that raising children requires tremendous self-giving and sacrifice. There’s less sleep, flexibility, time, money, and energy to do just about everything a couple wants to do for themselves.
Indulgence in pleasure takes very little willpower. A lack of willpower to do what’s difficult, and focus on self, are hardly the habits one can afford to bring into long-term relationships, particularly marriage and family relations. Like eating a good diet, exercise, or saving money -- marriage and family involve persistent effort and sacrifice. Nowadays, large numbers of Americans seem ill-prepared to undergo this sacrifice and effort.
[. . .]
Many if not most of America’s ongoing ills can be tied to the decline of marriage and family: poverty, dependency, welfare, crime -- insolvency of Social Security and Medicare due to low birth rates. If Americans continue their attachment to doing the easy things for themselves, and don’t reclaim the mantle of effort and sacrifice for others in relationships, then marriage and family will continue to weaken, and that once great civilization, America, will continue to weaken along with them.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/04/americas_addiction_to_pleasure_harms_marriage_and_family.html

April 19, 2016
America’s Addiction to Pleasure Harms Marriage and Family
By J.G. Maggio

Psychiatry Increasing Business With Addiction Services

Psychiatry is personal opinion masquerading as science. There is no pathology. Illnesses are defined as protected, legal speech and behavior that psychiatrists do not like or do not understand. They make false claims in order to appear as scientific, e.g., psychiatric illnesses are a chemical imbalance of the brain. When challenged the Amer. Psychiatric Ass'n was unable to provide evidence of any chemical imbalance or a chemical balance. It is a granfalloon, a major taxpayer funded boondoggle. A method of social control with no due process protections. Psychiatrists predict the future in courts, and are never held accountable for their errors. This by design to remove accountability from judges.



[From article]
Mortality rates are rising among less educated, late-middle-aged white Americans. Drugs and alcohol and suicide are the leading causes of the spike. Coincidently, church attendance in America has been in decline for some time.
Is there a correlation between the two? Do therapy and medications merely treat the symptoms of soul-sickness, while the untreated soul metastasizes into isolation, darkness, and despair?
The mental health industry has eased itself into our schools, our courts and prisons, the workplace, our homes and families, while easing prayer and religion out.
Mental health experts and drug companies are now the default provider for the treatment of society’s deadliest and costliest ills.
[. . .]



Teenagers receive therapy and medication to cope with the normal pains of growing up.
Schools have grief counselors on speed-dial should a young person be lost to suicide, while men and women of the cloth specially trained to comfort the afflicted are unceremoniously ignored.
[. . .]
All the while, free will and personal responsibility have gone by the wayside.
All this treatment would be fine, except that it isn’t doing much good.
Adolescent heroin addiction is an epidemic. Mental health claims are driving the explosion of Social Security disability claims.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/12/neurosis_or_soul_sickness.html

December 14, 2015
Neurosis or soul sickness?
By Gerald K. McOscar

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Voids Town Ban on Drinking While Watching

[From article]
The town of Mendon can’t ban alcohol at strip clubs because its restriction is too broad and violates the Massachusetts Constitution, the state’s highest court ruled today.
Showtime Entertainment was barred from selling alcohol at its prospective strip club after the town enacted bylaws “restricting the service of alcohol” in its adult entertainment district. The Supreme Judicial Court said the ban was overbroad and violated the state’s version of the First Amendment.
The SJC agreed that the town presented enough evidence to show that adult entertainment paired with alcohol would lead to increased crime. But, it ruled that the bylaw was too broad and thus unconstitutional.
[. . .]



The SJC ruling is the latest victory for Showtime. A federal appeals court ruled in favor of the company, indicating that limitations on the physical plant and operating hours were unconstitutional, The federal court sent the alcohol question to the SJC because it involved the interpretation of state law.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2015/07/sjc_rules_town_of_mendon_can_t_ban_booze_at_strip_clubs

SJC rules town of Mendon can’t ban booze at strip clubs
Wednesday, July 8, 2015
By: Bob McGovern
Boston Herald

Increasing Alcohol Abuse By Educated Women

[From article]
But only a 57-year-old career woman like myself can truly understand why educated, successful women of a certain age drink so much. I know a lot of them. Just as I know many happy career mums who let their jobs take a back seat while nurturing their kids and supporting their husbands — and they rarely drink to excess.
If the OECD report had done a bit more research, it would actually have found there’s a direct link between middle-class alcoholism among women and being single or divorced.
It’s not professional pressure that stiffens all these women’s wrists as they pull out that cork when they get home at night — it’s loneliness. That’s the real dark side of equality.

[. . .]
And if any of us needed a lesson in what feminism brings you, look to Germaine Greer, author of The Female Eunuch and one of the most strident female voices of the 20th century — aged 76 and living alone.
[. . .]
So, why is drink so important to this clever, lucky group of us?
There’s another unfeminist theory suggesting that once women move into traditionally male preserves and exercise authority, we adopt men’s habits.

[. . .]
Alcohol is warming, cheering and temporarily gives you courage. A first drink fogs the brain, wobbles the perceptions, relaxes the limbs, pushes harsh thoughts down. Its spreading vapour seems to fill a dark hole of uncertainty and shame inside you. And uncertainty and shame are a curse of female nature.
Men feel these things, too, but when a chap fails at a task, gets a hard time from his boss, feels patronised or muffs a promotion interview, he may find it easier to mutter: ‘Bastards!’ He can assume the attitude of a noble warrior-beast surrounded by enemies and lash out verbally (ideally not physically, Clarkson . . .).
Women, on the other hand, like to keep the peace and so are fatally prone to internalise humiliation.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3080613/As-soaring-alcohol-abuse-educated-women-branded-dark-equality-middle-class-women-drink-much.html

As soaring alcohol abuse by educated women is branded 'the dark side of equality'... Why DO middle class women drink so much?
Report reveals professional women are drinking to dangerous levels
But, say two writers, it's not career pressures driving women to wine
Amanda Platell says it's loneliness making women pop the cork
Libby Purves claims alcohol helps to wash away plaguing self-doubt
By AMANDA PLATELL and LIBBY PURVES FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 17:49 EST, 13 May 2015 | UPDATED: 18:05 EST, 13 May 2015

New State Laws Effective January 1st, 2015

[From article]
A look at some of the new laws taking effect Jan. 1, in alphabetical order by topic:
[. . .]
Wine connoisseurs will be popping the cork over a new law taking effect Thursday that allows out-of-state wineries to ship bottles directly to consumers in Massachusetts.
[. . .]
In California, a "yes means yes" standard for sex between college students takes effect, requiring "an affirmative, conscious and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity," meaning silence or a lack of resistance can no longer be deemed consent.
[. . .]
In California, drivers' licenses will be available for people in the country illegally.
[. . .]
The minimum wage goes up Thursday in several states, including Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Ohio, Maryland, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

http://news.yahoo.com/laws-ok-wine-shipments-ban-tiger-selfies-065106300--finance.html

New laws OK wine shipments, ban tiger selfies
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS
December 31, 2014

Updated: University of Virginia Suspects Alcohol A Factor in Sex Offenses; Underlying Cause Re-evaluated

Posted December 1, 2014 9:32 PM ET; Last Updated December 5, 2014 9:30 PM ET

 

Protestors carry signs and chant slogans in front of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the University of Virginia, Nov. 22, 2014, in Charlottesville, Va.

Ryan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress/AP Photo

According to these new reports the woman never called local police. They never investigated the allegation of rape. The standard demanded by the U.S. Department of Education for campus rape was employed by this magazine. Accepting the accuser's words with no opportunity for the accused to defend himself (themselves). Isn't that what happened to a New York man who was never given notice of any accusation but was punished by crime families, Communists and police for an allegation  for 40 years? One more example of misguided standards promoted by the Obama-Holder Doctrine, which permits selected persons to ignore inconvenient laws. This is what happens when university administrators and the Department of Education bureaucrats impersonate police and judges. Expect many more misguided actions like this on campuses.

[From article]
Because of the sensitive nature of Jackie's story, we decided to honor her request not to contact the man she claimed orchestrated the attack on her nor any of the men she claimed participated in the attack for fear of retaliation against her.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/a-note-to-our-readers-20141205

A Note to Our Readers
BY ROLLING STONE
December 5, 2014
Will Dana Managing editor
To Our Readers:

* * *

[From article]

"We were trying to be sensitive to the unfair shame and humiliation many women feel after a sexual assault and now regret the decision to not contact the alleged assaulters to get their account," the post said. "We are taking this seriously and apologize to anyone who was affected by the story."
On Nov. 19, the magazine ran a story of "Jackie," an unidentified UVA. student who says she was gang-raped at a party at the house of Phi Kappa Psi in the fall of 2012. Her shocking story with vivid details from the night of the incident and its charges that sexual assaults at U.Va. often go unreported deeply embarrassed the university and launched an investigation by school officials and local police. All Greek life activities were also suspended in the wake of the story.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/12/05/rolling-stone-retracts-uva-story/19954293/

Rolling Stone backs off from U.Va. rape story
 Roger Yu,
USA TODAY
3:39 p.m. EST December 5, 2014

* * *

[From article]
A group of Jackie’s close friends, who are sex assault awareness advocates at U-Va., said they believe something traumatic happened to her, but they also have come to doubt her account. They said details have changed over time, and they have not been able to verify key points of the story in recent days. A name of an alleged attacker that Jackie provided to them for the first time this week, for example, turned out to be similar to the name of a student who belongs to a different fraternity, and no one by that name has been a member of Phi Kappa Psi.
[. . .]
The fraternity — which has been vilified, had its house vandalized and ultimately suspended all of its activities on campus after the Rolling Stone article — said in its statement Friday that it had immediate concerns about the story and has been working to figure out what happened.
[. . . ]
“The University remains first and foremost concerned with the care and support of our students and, especially, any survivor of sexual assault,” Sullivan said in a statement. “Our students, their safety, and their well-being, remain our top priority.”
[. . .]
Helen Dragas, a member of the university’s governing Board of Visitors, said Friday that U-Va. needs to continue its focus on preventing sexual assault.
“Despite doubts that have been cast on the Rolling Stone story, we need to keep our eyes on the prize, which is nothing less than zero tolerance for rape,” Dragas said. “There will be time enough to look back and ask hard questions of our administrators about how rapes have gone unreported and unanswered, and I have no doubt our Board of Visitors will do just that. But for now our primary concern must be for the well-being of our students. We need to get this right for them, and do so with no hesitation or concern for image.”
[. . .]
Speaking for the first time since the details of her alleged sexual assault were published in Rolling Stone, the 20-year-old U-Va. junior told The Post that she stands by her version of the events. [. . .] She had gone on a date with a member of the house, went to a party there and ended up in a room where she was brutally attacked — seven men raping her in succession with two others watching — leaving her bloody, permanently injured and emotionally devastated.
“I never asked for this” attention, she said in an interview. “What bothers me is that so many people act like it didn’t happen. It’s my life. I have had to live with the fact that it happened every day for the last two years.”
[. . .]
The article spawned protests and vandalism, and the university quickly suspended all Greek system activities until the beginning of next semester and put out a call for zero tolerance of sex assault.
[. . .]
Renda said research shows that between 2 and 8 percent of all rape allegations are fabricated or unfounded.
[. . .]
Jackie said that her date appeared to have orchestrated the sexual assault by attempting to ply her with alcohol before escorting her into a darkened room on the second floor of the fraternity house. Jackie said she did not actually drink alcohol that night because she was on a migraine medication. She said she remembered the events that night clearly.
[. . .]
Jackie said numerous times that she did not expect that an investigation the Charlottesville Police Department opened after the article’s publication would result in any charges. She said she knew there was little if any forensic evidence that could prove the allegations two years after they occurred.
“I didn’t want a trial,” Jackie said. “I can’t imagine getting up on a defense stand having them tear me apart.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/u-va-fraternity-to-rebut-claims-of-gang-rape-in-rolling-stone/2014/12/05/5fa5f7d2-7c91-11e4-84d4-7c896b90abdc_story.html

Key elements of Rolling Stone’s U-Va. gang rape allegations in doubt
By T. Rees Shapiro
December 5 at 5:35 PM

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[From article]
A University of Virginia board on Tuesday honed in on alcohol as a contributing factor in sexual assaults on campus, with one member calling for more aggressively enforcing the law banning underage drinking.
Members of the Board of Visitors discussed sexual assault allegations that came out in a devastating portrait in Rolling Stone that has rocked the campus. The article described a woman's account of a gang rape, and went into detail about what it called a hidden culture of sexual violence at the school.
Board member Bobbie Kilberg said the school needed to stop underage drinking, a tall order on nearly any college campus, where drinking is a rite of passage and students under age 21 have no trouble getting alcohol.
Her suggestion was met with some resistance from student leaders. Tommy Reid, president of the school's Inter-Fraternity Council, said such a ban could push drinking "underground."
[. . .]
Several protesters held signs, including one that had a picture of Thomas Jefferson, the school founder, with the words, "''SEXUAL MISCONDUCT: A JEFFERSONIAN TRADITION."

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/uva-board-discuss-sex-assault-allegations-27158679

U.Va. Looks at Alcohol as Factor in Sex Assaults
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.
Nov 25, 2014, 4:59 PM ET
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER
Associated Press

Depraved Movie Stars

Clara Bow, 1905-1965,
[From article]
The men of old Hollywood had no monopoly on drunken behavior, as young starlets of the time could make Lindsay Lohan seem like a rank amateur.
Clara Bow, a Brooklyn teenager whose “mother was insane” and whose father was “a lecherous hanger-on,” was the first to be christened an “It” girl after her most popular film, 1927’s “It.”
With her fame came license to shock the world, as Bow, who loved “drinking, gambling, swearing and screwing,” was “so licentious she could shock even jaded old-Hollywood types.”

http://nypost.com/2014/09/21/the-notorious-history-of-drunken-hollywood/

The notorious history of drunken Hollywood
By Larry Getlen
September 21, 2014 | 12:00am New York Post

Drunk Cop Shoots Pals in NYC

[From article]
Cops swatted a .40-caliber Glock out of a drunken state narcotics agent’s hand Friday night after he shot two drinking buddies on the Upper West Side, authorities and witnesses said.
Amsterdam Ave. erupted in gunfire and blood-curdling screams just after 9 p.m. when Victor Zambrano Jr., 49, shot a 31-year-old woman in the left foot and the woman’s 42-year-old boyfriend in the right calf during an argument over his weapon, neighbors and police sources said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/uptown/drunken-narcotics-agent-shoots-pals-upper-west-side-cops-article-1.1938304

Drunken narcotics agent allegedly shoots pals in Upper West Side after tussle over gun
A friend of a state narcotics agent asked if she could handle his gun, and he let her but then demanded it back. During a struggle for the firearm, the gun discharged and a bullet ricocheted off a wall, hitting both of the man's drinking buddies.
BY KERRY BURKE , THOMAS TRACY

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Published: Saturday, September 13, 2014, 12:57 AM

Updated: Saturday, September 13, 2014, 2:52 AM

Comparing Risks of Alcohol to Marijuana

[From article]
Drinkers get to enjoy their intoxicant, while marijuana smokers have to fear arrest. This injustice should be rectified by letting marijuana users have their drug under the same terms as alcohol. As we see, if one can’t make a compelling case for marijuana on its merits, at least one can denounce alcohol, cry hypocrisy, and expect parity.
[. . .]
Marijuana is the second-leading drug-related reason for a visit to a hospital emergency room, trailing only cocaine. In fact, with about 450,000 emergency room mentions a year, marijuana now exceeds heroin.
[. . .]
virtually everything that the New York Times thinks they know about marijuana’s effects is based on old anecdotes (including personal experimentation), cultural perceptions, and in some cases, even legitimate research derived from a time when marijuana was, on average, one-fifth to one-sixth as powerful as it is today.
[. . .]
We won’t really know what potential crisis we have already sown in this emerging generation of youth for at least a decade.
[. . .]
There is now sufficient evidence to establish that we are putting our children – all our children, including the minority and the vulnerable — at risk by increasing access to a poison.

http://www.hudson.org/research/10478-comparing-alcohol-and-marijuana-seriously

Comparing Alcohol and Marijuana: Seriously
David W. Murray
Hudson Institute

Homosexuality Is Like Alcoholism, Rick Perry

[From article]
Perry, a former and potential future GOP presidential candidate, was then asked whether he believed homosexuality was a disorder.
The paper says that the governor responded that “whether or not you feel compelled to follow a particular lifestyle or not, you have the ability to decide not to do that.”
He said: “I may have the genetic coding that I’m inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.”

http://nypost.com/2014/06/12/rick-perry-homosexuality-is-like-alcoholism/

Rick Perry: Homosexuality is like alcoholism
By Associated Press
New York Post
June 12, 2014 | 7:52am

Proposal to Lower Drinking Age To Reduce Harms to Teens

[From article]
Congress was stampeded into this puritanical law by Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), who with all good intentions were wrongly intruding into an area of personal choice exactly as did the hymn-singing 19th-century Temperance crusaders, typified by Carrie Nation smashing beer barrels with her hatchet. Temperance fanaticism eventually triumphed and gave us 14 years of Prohibition. That in turn spawned the crime syndicates for booze smuggling, laying the groundwork for today’s global drug trade. Thanks a lot, Carrie!
[. . .]
deadening pills, such as today’s massively overprescribed anti-depressants, linger in body and brain and may have unrecognized long-term side effects. Those toxic chemicals, often manufactured by shadowy firms abroad, have been worrisomely present in a recent uptick of unexplained suicides and massacres. Half of the urban professional class in the U.S. seems doped on meds these days.

http://time.com/72546/drinking-age-alcohol-repeal/

The Drinking Age Is Past Its Prime
Camille Paglia

7:31 AM ET

Time Magazine

Boston Policeman Arrested For Pointing Gun At Civilians While Drunk

[From article]
Police said a woman told them three Hispanic males tried to rob her and her disabled husband, and that one of the men pointed a gun in her husband’s face before fleeing.
His lawyer, Kenneth Anderson, said in court that his client was heavily intoxicated last night, and when he met with him 12 hours after the incident, Fonseca still reeked of alcohol, Anderson said.
[. . .]
Fonseca earned $103,000 in 2012, according to department records.

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/12/boston_cop_arrested_for_pointing_gun_at_2_people

Boston cop arrested for pointing gun at 2 people

Thursday, December 12, 2013
Boston Herald
By: Tony Planas, Laurel J. Sweet

Vodka Christmas Cake

For the last time! Once again this year, I’ve had requests for my Vodka Christmas Cake recipe so here goes. Please keep in your files as I am beginning to get tired of typing this up every year! (Made mine this morning!!!!) 1 cup sugar, 1 tsp. baking powder, 1 cup water, 1 tsp. salt , 1 cup brown sugar, Lemon juice, 4 large eggs, Nuts, 1......bottle Vodka, 2 cups dried fruit. Sample a cup of Vodka to check quality. Take a large bowl, check the Vodka again to be sure it is of the highest quality then Repeat. Turn on the electric mixer. Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add 1 teaspoon of sugar. Beat again. At this point, it is best to make sure the Vodka is still OK. Try another cup just in case. Turn off the mixerer thingy. Break 2 eegs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit. Pick the fruit up off the floor, wash it and put it in the bowl a piece at a time trying to count it. Mix on the turner. If the fried druit getas stuck in the beaterers, just pry it loose with a drewscriver Sample the Vodka to test for tonsisticity. Next, sift 2 cups of salt, or something. Check the Vodka. Now shit shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. Add one table. Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find. Greash the oven. Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over. Don't forget to beat off the turner. Finally, throw the bowl through the window. Finish the Vodka and wipe the counter with the cat.

Booze Thiefs at JFK Airport

I'll drink to that.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/authorities_bust_massive_booze_theft_osjoxNc29PGtfIQLD8R53L

Authorities bust massive booze theft ring at JFK
By PHIL MESSING
New York Post
Last Updated: 2:15 PM, September 12, 2012
Posted: 1:31 PM, September 12, 2012

Seventeen Percent of Teens Use Drugs, Alcohol During School Day

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2192182/Survey-17-high-school-students-U-S-admit-drinking-smoking-using-drugs-school-day.html

Survey: 17% of high school students in U.S. admit to drinking, smoking or using drugs during the school day
Annual survey of 12-17-year-olds found 86 per cent of students know of classmates who are drinking, smoking or taking drugs during the day
Sixty-per cent say they attend a drug infested school
By NINA GOLGOWSKI
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 14:59 EST, 22 August 2012 | UPDATED: 15:11 EST, 22 August 2012

Drinking Laws Do Not Work

http://bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/20220322youths_will_drink_despite_all_our_bans/

Youths will drink despite all our bans
By Margery Eagan
Boston Herald
Thursday, March 22, 2012

Teddy Roosevelt's Attempt to Keep Sundays Alcohol Free

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/14/opinion/a-new-anti-alcohol-campaign-in-new-york.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

How Dry We Aren’t
By RICHARD ZACKS
New York Times
Published: January 13, 2012

Homeless Man Dies In Shelter for Alcoholics

[From article]
"Karluk Manor, which opened less than a month [. . .] is based on the Housing First model that maintains that chronic alcoholics are best-served by providing them with safe housing as a first step toward self-sufficiency and eventual integration into the community. The manor was modeled after the 1811 Eastlake project in Seattle, where hundreds of housing units have been provided for chronic alcoholics.
The experiment has caught on in other cities as well - sometimes with positive results. A 2009 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that Seattle's program saved taxpayers more than $4 million a year and credited the system with helping many alcoholics kick their habit.
Karluk Manor residents each pay $50 a month for a 220-square-foot furnished efficiency with a private bathroom. Each unit has a microwave, small refrigerator and dining area. Residents are allowed to drink in their rooms."

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20120104/D9S1RPF00.html

Man dies at Alaska center for street alcoholics
Jan 3, 9:43 PM (ET)
AP
By MARY PEMBERTON

Police Career Goals Need Evalaution

These Police Chiefs promote the Therapeutic State, where psychiatry rules. There are no due process protections when medicalizing social problems. Psychiatry undermines the notion of free will, and accountability. "The devil made me do it." was Flip Wilson's routine, now adopted by the courts. Do others make these police officers pour alcoholic drinks and ingest them? Are they unable to say no? If they cannot abstain from drinking to excess what stops them from abusing their power in other ways? Perhaps a re-evaluation of career goals is in order. Maybe running for elected office is more appropriate to their skills.

http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20111120/NEWS/111200320/-1/NEWS01

Cape police chiefs help officers battle demons
By George Brennan
gbrennan@capecodonline.com
November 20, 2011

[also at]

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20111120cape_police_chiefs_help_officers_battle_demons/

Boston Herald