Drinking Age @ MindSay 
The state of Vermont is considering lowering the legal drinking age to 18. Currently, all 50 states have a drinking age of 21, and it has been this way since 1984. Here’s how the Winnipeg Sun describes the two sides of the issue: "Proponents of the measure say the current law doesn’t work and forces young people to binge drink outside of the public eye.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving and others claim a lower drinking age would be foolish to consider. They say the 21-year-old age limit has saved thousands of lives since it was enacted in 1984."
It seems like there is definitely some credence to both sides of the argument. Which side do you take?
But I think that man will say anything to get elected. He gives off a very weird vibe, like he is trying to say and do things that will have an impact, regardless of whether he has a real, emotional investment in it.
Still, he has a point. You can vote at 18, you can enlist and die for the country at 18, and you can smoke by 18.
I think we should change everything.
If it were up to me, I'd change the age you can buy cigarettes, enlist in the military, and buy alcohol to age 19.
Why? Almost all people have graduated high school by then, and I don't think that you should be able to do any of those things until you have.
I'd change the age you can vote to 17.. If you are about to graduate high school, I don't see why you can't vote, too. Half the people graduating are probably more intelligent than certain people they'd be voting for, anyway. Let them vote!
And while I'm changing everything, let's get realistic about education. Sex education. Teach them about it, don't tell them not to do it. That has never, ever worked. It has only led to young, confused, pregnant teens. If you want to tell them not to have sex, tell them. But don't expect them to listen. Expect them to do the same things people have been doing since the beginning of time, and arm them with the knowledge they need to be safe and happy. So the education system isn't doing a good job? Maybe we should send every household with a child a Sex Education package and let the parents decide if they want their teenager to have a child of their own, or get an STD.
And what else should we fix, here? Social Security? Tax everyone and keep the government's greedy little hands out of it. Oh, and how about putting some of that money back you took out for your wars and unrelated crap like that. You guys have your own budget, right? Leave our future alone. It really isn't that complicated. You see, you use the money the way it is intended to be used. If you don't have enough money to fund education, how about stop sending our troops where they don't need to be? That'll save a few billion.
This fixing stuff is pretty easy. Any one happier now?
So, my sister's trying to figure out if she can bring her significant other to her senior prom. I can't see how this is a problem - my best friend and I went to my senior prom together, and he was in college. She raised a point, though - he's twenty-one. The school might be just a little more leery about this, since he's legally capable of obtaining alcohol, and they generally don't want anything of the sort anywhere near the prom.
So, we were talking about this on the drive home from church, and she decided to tell them that he's allergic to alcohol.
I said that I supposed that might be accepted as an argument, but we know conclusively that he in fact is not.
"But he is! It causes him to break out in...stupidity! And a firm belief that he can dance!"
She really shouldn't say things like that while I'm driving. I am still laughing.
Before I pack this thing up and we go to the EMP and the Si-Fi Museum, here's more pictures from BC!
That's the Emperess hotel. We never went in there because all their tourist things sounded really lame, but I thought it looked pretty from the outside. After that we went back to our hotel and then we went to dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory! lol, i know we have those in the US, but I had no idea that they had those in Canada! And besides, I love pasta, so we went there and it was kinda interesting to see that their menu items are different. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that the legal drinking age in British Columbia is 19. If I was born in 1987 and my birthday was February 6th, hmmm....so guess what I had with dinner every night I was there? lol. So here's a picture of me drinking my first legal drink. Take that US hypocritical system of morals! Go Canada!
God I'm so fat and ugly. I look like my fat ass cousin who's my age but got knocked up at 17. Anyway, in Victoria they had these bear things everywhere kinda like how San Jose had sharks, except these ones weren't being constantly vandalazed. They'd just get pooed on my birds everynow and then. My mom wanted a picture, so here's me, my mom, and in the back you can see my brother's feet. He just likes to be an prick.
Alright, after this pic I need to bring my suitcase down to the car. As you can see the bears were all painted differently. Does it maybe remind you a little bit of a picture that I posted in this entry? damn it i'm so fat.
so, last night was not too awesome. i got off work and went to eat with jared a lori, that was nice. than i went home for a bit and than down to ybor to drink liters of guinness that they have for sale every wednessday at some pub down there. after that i went to the place i've dubbed "highschool the bar", now, i call it that because they will serve ANYONE. i hate the fucking place, its boring crowed with annoying kids and nothing ever interesting happens there outside of silly fights and friends and i getting so drunk we think karaoke isn't a bad idea.
so, like ever wednessday i tell everyone i hate that fucking place and i'm not going, but than, i don't wanna be stuck drinking at the house alone, i do enough of that as is. i first plan was to go get more work on my pirate tattoo, but skip wasn't work last night so i said fuck it and went.
i'm standing outside of the bar, drinking my 4th whiskey sour of the night with my back to the road when eric the pretty says something about cops and chuck my drinking into the garbage can. to late. fuck. i get arrested for underage drinking but they say i seam nice and let me go with a court date. the weird thing is i didn't even get in trouble for underage drinking, just having an open container, whatever. fuck.
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