In Austrailia the amount of pre-mixed alcohol available is
giving concerns about teenage binge drinking. Ready to drink beverages are usually
the young peoples choice. They are high in sugar to the extend that it tastes
like a soft drink. They often contain caffeine or other energy supplements that
could mask the effects of alcohol and keep drinking for longer.

They did a blind tasting of 10 drinks on 17 teenagers to see
if they could taste the alcohol in beer, wine, and soft drinks, and alcopops. About
a quarter couldn’t tell the soft drinks from the alcopops, and half the males
couldn’t taste the alcohol in the vodka chocolate milk drink. Ever since
alcopops have been available the amount of beer available was low for low and
mid-strength beer. But full strength beer rose slightly.

Do you think that these drinks are good or no? I think they
could be because since they taste better and they don’t get you as drunk its
better for the teenagers that will drink. When they take shots and drink too
many beers and get totally trashed I think that’s so much worse.

leighdu said: I've never seen even one episode of DH, but I keep on hearing how great of a show it is. Maybe I will check it out.

fardreamer said:

jdizzle said:

bettyblue said:

This is what bothers me.  The present Administration got us into the Iraq War by claiming Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, which he did not have at the time.  Before the war, we were told the coalition forces would be greeted as liberators, and although many Iraqis did so, most clearly see us as invaders/occupiers.  The White House told Congress the war would basically pay for itself or be inexpensive....it's now costing us trillions of dollars and 4,000 men and women have been killed.

Here's the punchline: When Vice President Dick Cheney was reminded by an ABC reporter that two thirds of the American people are against the war, his reply was, "So?"

This is why I really hope Obama wins. He will take us out of the war while Hillary supports it. I think its time all our troups come home and just leave Iraq alone. Its their own country, we helped them and rid them of Saddam I think thats enough.

 

While bringing the troops home soon is a nice "feel-good" campaign promise, I doubt that any President, from either party, can simply say to 140,000 men and women (plus all their equipment), "Okay, pack up....we're leaving."   It's not quite that easy; the Iraqi insurgents and Al Qaeda people now shooting at us and blowing up things on the road aren't going to simply let us drive out the way we came in without shooting at us, and we can't fly the soldiers and Marines out without their tanks, Bradleys, humvees, trucks and other heavy equipment.

Also, yes, it's their country, but leaving in a hurry will create a bloodbath...and the argument for "just leaving them alone" is not exactly morally defensible...especially since it was our invasion that tore the country apart in the first place.

 

I was watching the news and they were talking about this man
who was arrested 53 times for groping women on NYC subways. He is a persistent
offender who is also still roaming the subways. They are trying to find ways to
treat him now as a persistent sexual offender. So now even his minor incidents of
groping women on subways could end up getting him life in prison.

I don’t think this guy deserves life in prison that’s a bit
too much. I think he has a mental illness and that’s why he keeps repeating the
mistake and getting caught with it all these times. Like think of it this way,
we speed so many times but only get caught a few, not every time. I’m sure he’s
groped women hundreds of times but he has only gotten caught 53 times yet still
hasn’t learned his lesson. I think this is a mental illness; he should be
getting time in prison and get treated for this, but not life in prison.