Ashburn arrested for DUI

California Sen. Roy Arthur Ashburn, R-Bakersfield, who represents Porterville, was arrested early this morning for allegedly driving under the influence in Sacramento County. Shortly before 2 a.m. officers with the California Highway Patrol spotted him “weaving” in downtown Sacramento, near L Street and 13th Street. Upon pulling Ashburn over, they noticed signs that he may [...]

The Chemist’s War

The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences. It was Christmas Eve 1926, the streets aglitter with snow and lights, when the man afraid of Santa Claus stumbled into the emergency room at New York City’s Bellevue Hospital. He was flushed, gasping with fear: Santa Claus, he kept [...]

Army Alcoholics: More Soldiers Hitting the Bottle

After Army Sgt. Edison Bayas‘s car finally came to a rest on its roof, his jumbled, drunken thoughts immediately turned to the men he left in Iraq, as if he was still on the battlefield. But he wasn’t in Iraq. He was in an El Paso intersection with a blood alcohol content more than three [...]

A little brain food for the perpetually Recovering City of Big Bear Lake Council and other prostitutes of the Prison-Industrial Complex

Who knows better than NASA about getting high?

A bag of cocaine was discovered in the space shuttle Discovery‘s hangar at NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Only shuttle workers are authorized to enter the area. The bag with a small amount of the drug was discovered on Tuesday by an employee and handed over to security, reports Space.com. “This is a rare [...]

Former Pendleton Marine scum sentenced in DUI killing

SANTA ANA, Calif. — A former Marine has been sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for a deadly drunken driving crash that occurred hours after he attended a driving safety briefing. Former Lance Cpl. Elijah Ferguson was sentenced Friday in Santa Ana for the crash that killed an Orange County doctor and injured [...]

Big Bear’s Out, Aspen’s in Cannabis competition coming to Aspen this spring aims to find out

[ Don't waste your time in the Recovering Big Bear, where the Nazi Republican pigs are stinking, business sucks and attitudes offend visitors.  Big Bear is now devoted to AA and urine samples.  Let's head for Aspen! ] ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — It’s like a beer competition for marijuana. A cannabis festival in Aspen, Colorado, [...]

Just a reminder to the pig-sucking, brain-dead, flacid, perpetually-Recovering City of Big Bear Lake Council

Paul Chabot would love this commercial: Teens Too Smart To Buy Anti-Drug Ads A kid of about 13 wanders through a house party.  He goes outside where there are a quartet of pot smokers who offer him a joint. He thinks for a moment, then there are all these quick flashes of him with pills, [...]

Lawmakers Say No To Higher Alcohol Taxes

California — State lawmakers have a rejected the idea of raising fees on alcoholic beverages to help mitigate some of the effects of alcohol abuse. It’s the second time in a year the proposal has died in the California Assembly Committee on Health. The assembly bill would have raised fees about 10 cents a drink. [...]

Here comes “Pinky” for his final disgrace

[ Before making a big mistake, insist that "Pinky" Stout debate Mike Ramos in public and make a recording available on the Internet.  This jerk can hardly tie his shoes.  He was put into office by the military/prison-industrial complex mafia bosses, in an era of secrecy and censorship.  He was chosen for his ignorant obedience.  [...]

Retired Air Force colonel pleads guilty to fatal DUI

BATON ROUGE, La. — Authorities say a retired Air Force colonel who was intoxicated when he rear-ended a car on an interstate service road in Baton Rouge in 2008, killing two Ascension Parish teenagers, has pleaded guilty. Fifty-eight-year-old Chris Michael Bourgeois was sentenced Monday to two years in prison. He must serve one year of [...]

Celebrate 2010 with a Kalashnikov

OK, we don’t mean emptying a full mag into the sky — that would be inconsiderate. This year, we’ll celebrate with a different kind of shot from a Kalashnikov: the 82-proof variety. That’s right, Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov, inventor of the iconic AK-47 assault rifle, has lent his name to a brand of vodka. We don’t [...]

Resistance Against Checkpoints

Law enforcement agencies have declared they will hold 300 “DUI” checkpoints during the holiday season statewide. Furthermore, they have declared 2010 “the year of the checkpoint.” Checkpoints are a military tactic that violate the Fourth Amendment and condition society to passivity toward police interference in daily activities. They disproportionately impact immigrant communities, who face deportation [...]

Troops admit to abusing prescription drugs

About one in four soldiers admit to abusing prescription drugs, most of them pain relievers, in a one-year period, according to a Pentagon health survey released Wednesday. The study, which surveyed more than 28,500 U.S. troops last year, showed that about 20 percent of Marines had also abused prescription drugs, mostly painkillers, in that same [...]

A video to warm the heart of Big Bear’s new “appointed” shill, “Doc” Harris

Another win for Big Alcohol: The Recovering City of Big Bear Lake Council bows to the prison-industrial complex

[ BBOP Comment: There's a related post at Cactus Thorns. Liz, didn't you and your deceased husband once feed yourselves by brokering jailhouse meals?  Still in the business? Greg, enough with the deceitful propaganda.  Your boss, like Assembly candidate Paul Chabot, is developmentally disabled from childhood trauma due, significantly, to the war on drugs.  Direct [...]

Drunken Narcotics Officer Kills Woman in Crash

FORT WORTH — The medical examiner says an off-duty Fort Worth Police Department officer’s blood-alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit when he was involved in a crash that killed a woman. Results released Thursday indicate the blood-alcohol level for Jesus Cisneros was .17 at the time of the fatal collision Dec. 11. [...]

Woman testifies judge sought relationship in return for favor

Harris County, Texas, Court-at-Law Judge Donald W. Jackson told a 28-year-old woman with a pending drunken driving case that he could get her a lawyer who could win her case if she became interested in him, but that if she did not, she would be convicted, the woman testified Tuesday. Jackson is on trial for [...]

63rd District: You need to know Paul Chabot

Paul Chabot,  who is running for California’s 63rd State Assembly District, recently participated in a debate over drug legalization, which included former judge James “Jim” P. Gray of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition and Ethan Nadelmann of the Drug Policy Alliance. Chabot was damaged in childhood by incompetent parenting and by the war on drugs. While [...]

The Fact That Drunk Drivers ‘Choose’ to Drive Drunk Is Completely Irrelevant

Mark R. Crovelli There is a virtual consensus among the American public that drunk driving is an horrific crime that deserves only ruthless punishment. Indeed, the level of consensus on this issue is so unanimous that virtually the only debate that ever occurs with regard to drunk driving revolves around how best to step up [...]

Czechs Allow 5 Cannabis Plants For Personal Use From 2010

The interim government of the Czech Republic, led  by chief statistician-turned-Prime Minister Jan Fischer, Monday took another step towards making casual marijuana smoking a worry-free affair. Fischer’s cabinet defined what constitutes “small amounts” of cannabis for personal use, clarifying the country’s new penal code that from next year decriminalizes cultivation and possession of the plant [...]

Court rejects rule making sailors report DUI Arrests

The Navy’s rule forcing sailors to “promptly” tell their commanding officers if they have been arrested for an off-base drunken-driving violation is unconstitutional, the Navy and Marine Corps’s highest military judges have ruled. The requirement, which dates back to 1999, forces sailors to incriminate themselves, a violation of the Fifth Amendment “for which no exemption [...]

iePolitics Commentary: Sheriff Hoops, Part 2

Sheriff Rod Hoops let’s continue from my last posting. I do not want our readers to think that misconduct such as the credentials falsification issue with Sheriff’s Captain Bart Gray is nothing but an aberration. It is actually the opposite. In other words it happens quite frequently. Not only are special accommodations made for ranking [...]

Pendleton Marine Beats Woman’s Face with Beer Mug, Nearly Severs Ear

A woman’s ear was nearly severed at a Temecula bar early Wednesday when a 22-year-old Marine struck her in the head with a glass object, authorities said. About 12:30 a.m., police were called to Aloha J’s at 27497 Ynez Road, where they found Jackson Gabriel Reyes, of Camp Pendleton, detained by security. They also found [...]

Government adviser fired for saying alcohol is more dangerous than drugs

Professor David Nutt, the government’s chief drug adviser, has been sacked a day after claiming that ecstasy and LSD were less dangerous than alcohol. Nutt incurred the wrath of the government when he claimed in a paper that alcohol and tobacco were more harmful than many illegal drugs, including LSD, ecstasy and cannabis. A Home [...]

Saved from First Time Ignition Interlock Requirements in DUI cases

San Diego Dui Offenders will be spared the requirement of installing Ignotion Interlock Devices in their cars if they are convicted of a first offense. Governor Swartzenegger signed a bill requiring first time offenders in Sacramento, Alameda, Tuare and Los Angeles counties to install ignition interlock devices. What is so strange about this bill is [...]

“Road police blood tests are an act of rape”

The pilot program that is happening in Idaho and Texas to take blood forcibly from individuals unwilling to blow a breathalyzer is aimed at prosecuting more people, says Georgetown University professor Andrew Einhorn. A new federal program has already been tested in Idaho and Texas which allows American traffic police to forcibly take blood samples [...]

Never Let A Cop Administer A Breathalyzer Test

Judge: State law barring underage drinking is unconstitutional

COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) – If you’re younger than 21 in South Carolina, you cannot buy alcohol. But what about having it in your possession or drinking it? A court ruling today suggests state law contains nothing that would make it illegal for many young people to own or use alcoholic beverages. “This magistrate in Richland County [...]

California Supreme Court says defendants can challenge Breathalyzer results

The court permits drunk-driving defendants in some cases to question blood-alcohol findings, which are sometimes inaccurate depending on factors such as gender and medical conditions. Accused drunk drivers now have more ammunition for challenging Breathalyzer findings as a result of a unanimous ruling Thursday by the California Supreme Court.The ruling is expected to make drunk-driving [...]

Australia: Column: Drugs Aren’t Evil, So Stop the Moralizing

PEOPLE have been getting high for thousands of years, and there’s nothing that will stop them. They seek out different states of mind for different reasons – they want to experiment or escape or feel pleasure or avoid pain. Poor old Wacko Jacko chose legal drugs – lots of them – and he wasn’t alone. [...]

Cop Who Brutally Beat Female Bartender Receives Probation

Editor’s note: The judge in the case gave the lame excuse that sentencing the sadistic cop, Anthony Abbate, wouldn’t prevent him from getting drunk and hitting people in the future. Abbate remains on the police force in Chicago, demonstrating that crime does indeed pay. (WGN-AM)- A Chicago police officer was sentenced to two years probation [...]

1 in 8 combat troops needs alcohol counseling

One in eight troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan from 2006 to 2008 were referred for counseling for alcohol problems after their post-deployment health assessments, according to data from the Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center. Service members complete their initial health assessments within 30 days of returning home. The authors of the study, published in [...]

Second-ranking state prison administrator arrested

Scott Kernan, the second-ranking administrator of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, has been arrested on suspicion of driving while under the influence of alcohol in his state car, triggering a disciplinary review and postponement of a June 24 state Senate confirmation hearing, a spokesman said Wednesday. Kernan, 47, was appointed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger [...]

City Pimped by Illegitimate Sheriff’s/Church’s Bogus “Operation Breakthrough” Cash Cow Again

An answer to underage drinking in Big Bear Valley has been proposed, and it aims to hit the pocketbooks and wallets of parents, older siblings and anyone else who supplies alcohol to minors. After its presentation on adult accountability for underage drinking last month, Operation Breakthrough proposed that a social hosting ordinance is the best [...]

Ron Paul: “End the War on Drugs”

We have recently heard many shocking stories of brutal killings and ruthless violence related to drug cartels warring with Mexican and US officials. It is approaching the fever pitch of a full-blown crisis. Unfortunately, the administration is not likely to waste this opportunity to further expand government. Hopefully, we can take a deep breath and [...]

60 Minutes on Lowering the Drinking Age

Click image for 60 Minutes item on the drinking age. See also: Let My Students Drink Old enough to fight, old enough to drink College presidents want lower drinking age

Let My Students Drink

John McCardell, the former president of Middlebury College, says his time on campus taught him that trying to stop college students from drinking was a fool’s errand. The 1984 federal law raising the minimum drinking age to 21 not only wasn’t working; it was encouraging more reckless consumption. Two years ago, McCardell started an organization [...]

Breathalyzer Source Code Required for Use as Evidence

Here’s a very interesting case from Florida, where an appeals court has upheld a lower court ruling that threw out evidence from a breathalyzer test in a drunk driving case because the manufacturer of the device refused to release the source code and allow defense experts to analyze the accuracy of the machines.

Armed and Drinking: Rules about off-duty law enforcement officers consuming alcohol while carrying guns get fresh look

Yet, law enforcement officials in the Inland region and across the U.S. can’t seem to agree whether that rule should apply to off-duty officers. Some agencies have enacted policies that explicitly forbid off-duty officers from carrying their weapons while consuming alcohol. Others use more flexible language, saying officers should use “good judgment.”

Laws against providing alcohol to minors at homes being considered

Inland law enforcement officers can arrest minors who have alcohol in public and they can bust bartenders and shopkeepers who sell it to them, but they have trouble stopping underage drinking where it happens most: at home. *** NOTICE by BBVM: *** We strongly suggest that you read these articles before allowing the Prison Industrial [...]

College presidents want lower drinking age

RALEIGH, North Carolina — College presidents from about 100 of the best-known U.S. universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus.