Well friends, Mothers Against Drunk Driving couldn’t help but insert itself into public discourse on the Amethyst Initiative, where more than 100 college presidents supported lowering state drinking ages from 21 to 18. Eighteen year olds die overseas for MADD’s right to mislead the public with the inaccurate statistics. Yet, MADD stands in opposition to allowing said eighteen year old freedom fighters to exercise what may be argued to be a Constitutional right to have a drink in the country they are dying for (For those leftists comparing Constitutional rights, comment below on where in our Constitution you found abortion language similar to the explicit language of the 21^st Amendment).

But why did states raise the drinking age to 21 to begin with?

Interestingly, it began with another crazed woman throwing a useless hissy-fit. Lyndon B. Johnson’s wife was going down the highway, absentmindedly staring out a car window when she realized how aesthetically unpleasing our highways were. Thus, she convinced her husband to push for the 1965 Highway Beautification Act. The Act appropriated extra taxpayer money to states to improve the beauty of their highways. But being the good ol’ liberal social engineer that LBJ was, he included a hook!

In order to receive the extra highway funds, states would have to raise the minimum drinking age from 18 to 21. It wasn’t long before the majority of states fell into line. Trading civil liberties for money…well isn’t that just the epitome of selling out!

Numerous studies, which I found in only a 30 second Google search, examining underage drinking habits in states that did not immediately bow down to the Beautification Act as compared to states that did found that raising the drinking age had little, if any, affect on consumption among the relevant age group.

So with yet another government initiative proven ineffective, one would hope that people would turn to other ways to prevent alcohol abuse, and particularly drunk driving as it applies here.

Nope! MADD has instead chosen to relentlessly insist that lowering the drinking age would raise drunk driving fatality rates to even higher levels than they are now – 16,000 a year by MADD’s count. Yet there in lies another problem. While MADD characterizes the Amethyst Initiative as “misleading” because it supports a theory that alcohol abuse is not de facto connected to a minimum drinking age, it is in fact MADD that is habitually misleading.

MADD has willfully distorted the 16,000 drunk-driving deaths per year statistic. In fact, only 500 innocent Americans are killed each year by drunk drivers. Just as many people die in rail road accidents each year, yet there’s no organization operating under the acronym “MARR.”

MADD’s statistic includes all accidents where any driver involved in an accident of any size had alcohol in their system, which includes drivers who were well under the legal limit. MADD has perpetuated this gross misstatement of fact not in order to further prevention (only about 25% of MADD’s monthly income actually goes toward education and prevention), but to further their own anti-alcohol lobbying efforts and to pay the salaries of high priced executives who replaced the original angry mothers on MADD’s Board of Directors nearly 20 years ago.

As much as I’d like to go on and on ranting about MADD, my argument can be summed up based on three basic points: Raising the drinking age does not curb consumption amongst the pertinent age group, the Federal General Accounting Office has itself admitted that lowering the legal age limit has only a negligible effect on alcohol-related crashes, and MADD maintains a public sense of self-righteousness when in fact most of the money they bring in goes right into their own pockets.

But what else are we to expect from our contemporary society? It’s always some one else’s fault. We spill scolding hot coffee on ourselves, it’s because McDonald’s didn’t put the lid on tight. A kid shoots up a school, but it’s Halo’s fault. Doctors warn their patients of the dangers of high risk elective surgery, yet somehow they were the incompetent one.

So it comes as no surprise that MADD is now blaming college administrators as being irresponsible advocates of underage binge drinking. MADD has gone from being anti-drunk driving to being all out anti-drinking. So who’s really to blame for underage binge drinking? Don’t hold your breath readers, Mothers Against Bad Parenting isn’t coming anytime soon.

COPYRIGHT 2008 JOHN M. ROGITZ

Georgia, the first major East-West conflict since the end of history was prematurely declared, has in a few short days delivered stunningly lucid messages on who has power and who does not in 2008:

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The crisis in Georgia reportedly is over. Although the Red, er, Russian Army still occupies the crucial land in Georgia proper, well beyond the disputed regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and smack in the middle of the country, supposedly the fighting has stopped. Supposedly. The problem is, with the Reds, er, Russians firmly entrenched in the central town of Gori, they can roll out of bed any day of the week and cut the hapless little democracy in half.

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Once upon a time, Georgia - the one in Eurasia - was not exactly a hotbed of Western-Platonic liberalism. It produced two of the greatest monsters to pollute the morally destitute history of the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin was not ethnically Russian, he was Georgian, and likewise his henchman and fellow fiend Lavrenti Beria, whose KGB murdered millions, some of them without torturing them first. Beria was the rabid attack dog to Stalin’s sadistic master who finally turned, boasting that he poisoned Stalin to death in 1953. For which Beria was rewarded by Khruschev (another non-Russian) with publication of Beria’s obsessive sexual sadism, which in turn formed part of the alibi for finally putting the old mad dog to sleep, not long after his old master. When the Soviet Union fell, one of the first monuments to go was the statue of Beria’s welp, the Polish Communist Felix Dzerzhinsky, in front of the KGB’s infamous Lubyanka Prison. To prove that plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose, in 2002, the government of the ex-KGB spymaster and evidently nostalgic Vladimir Putin (finally an ethnic Russian!) proposed re-erecting “Iron Felix”.

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