Best. Gay. Week. Ever. (July 03, 2009)

I was thinking the exact same thing o.O

Someone please clarify this for us?

I did a triple take on the sentence when I read it in news reports. Several people were arrest for PUBLIC intoxication inside a private bar. This sounds like a case of a law no right person thinks exsists becuase its so unenforceable, but cops enforce it randomly.

It reminds me of the time I was issued a summons once after taking a standarized test at school because I was waiting for a friend who wasn't done yet at the park across the street. Apparently there is a NYS state law that mandates I am forced to go home directly after school. ><

There does seem to be a serious investigation taking place and the patron who was seriously injured is now stable and getting bettter, so there is some good news out of the lunacy.

I understand the point of the visit, "officially", was to make sure that bartenders weren't over-serving patrons - a lot of states have laws about that, and bartenders and the bars themselves can be criminally liable for that if there's a DUI or something. But I've never heard of them turning it on the patrons for arrest. And I've been exceedingly intoxicated in Texas bars before.

Let's hope the investigation goes the way it should this time. But I have my doubts. 

It is illegal in TX is admit a drunk person into your bar.  It is illegal to serve a drunk person.  It is illegal to overserve your patrons.  Patrons can be cited for intoxication in or out of a bar--or the appearance thereof.  Texas follows Dram Shop Laws, where both the bartender and establishment can be held criminally and civilly liable for serving alcohol to a patron if something should happen to them (alcohol-related) after they leave your establishment.  If you were the last bartender to serve them, very likely it is your ass on the line.

If the place you serve drinks in Texas doesn't require you to be TABC certified, it is their ass on the line.

TABC can enter any establishment at any time either undercover or stating their presence.  They can check to make sure that your liquor bottles contain more than 1oz of liquor.  If not, you get a ticket.  They can check anything and everything in the bar follows the law and TABC rules and regulations.  They can cite patron conduct lewd or otherwise.  If your hand is on someone's clothed genitals, they can cite you.

The TABC is like the secret police.  They have their own authority and jurisdiction.  Whether or not they have the same power as the police is unclear to me, but I have been in a bar where the TABC raided.  (I was working at the time)  They brought the police with them.  People were ticketed, the bar owners were ticketed and fined.

God Bless Texas!

Those darned British are hogging the coolness for themselves. I managed to get the first two, I'll look into a way of shring them if anyone wnts. I don't however, have The Dead Line, which was by far the best.

"To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible." - Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes

Were available right after the airing (I think they're blocked now), but today's play wasn't.

I listened no problem when it airs and then asked my friend *coughs*ukbasedproxyserver*coughs* for help ;)

I agree with you. I don't like Gene Simmon's opinion, nor do I agree with, but I would be a hypocrite if I didn't think he had a right to say it.

The whole football players and Bruno thing is interesting. I realize that the boys are young, and some are minors, but didn't they have permission forms? Personally, I want to hear their thoughts on the photoshoot, because they obviously seem pretty open-minded, and this looks suspiciously like a case where parents freak out over something their kid does, even if the kid is OK with it.  

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I may be straight, but I'm not narrow.

when will young came out after winning Pop idol, it was a lot of controversy, teen girls crying an a lot of articles saying that he killed his career even before the start.

But the truth is his first album sales were good (better that Simon Cowell favourite Gareth Gates). People said then that it was the influence of being the winner of Pop Idol. But his second album (which was far better in terms of quality) give him another status, and great sales.

Maybe USA society is not so inmature as a lot of people think. I follow AI with regularity since seventh season, and this one i follow a really good blog almost daily. Most of female Adam's fans know he is gay from the very begining and they couldn't care less. Adam has the strange quality to catch people¡s attention, and i predict if the album is good, he will do it very well, and he is one of the few idol contestants that has enough appeal to do it well in europe. But success after the contest is very difficult to predict. I totally hate Jordin Sparks during idol, and against all odds she is doing quite well in the US, and has some success in europe