<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>I think the drinking age needs to be 21 to protect 18-20 year olds from the drooping, sagging, aging, gray baby-boomers. :)</DIV>
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<DIV>Best Regards,</DIV>
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<DIV>Donovan<BR><BR>--- On <B>Mon, 11/24/08, Kai Eiselein, Editor <I><editor@lataheagle.com></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: Kai <SPAN>Eiselein</SPAN>, Editor <editor@lataheagle.com><BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] California Supreme Court to Take Up Gay Marriage<BR>To: lfalen@turbonet.com, donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com, jeanlivingston@turbonet.com, vision2020@moscow.com, scooterd408@hotmail.com, "Tom Hansen" <thansen@moscow.com><BR>Date: Monday, November 24, 2008, 3:06 PM<BR><BR><PRE>It's ageism I tell you. Discrimination against youth and good looks by an
drooping, sagging, graying population of Boomers.
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From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen@moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 2:53 PM
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Subject: Re: [Vision2020] California Supreme Court to Take Up Gay Marriage
> Kai -
>
> "Drinking age" is a state matter. I realize you already know
this. I
> only mention it to preface my comment that . . .
>
> Back when my wife first attended UI, back in the late 60s, the legal
> drinking age in Idaho was 19. Lowering the drinking age does not violate
> any part of the US Constitution that I am aware of.
>
> If you truly want to lower the drinking age in Idaho, I suggest that you
> campaign for it. If your campaign is successful, maybe we'll see it
on
> the next state ballot.
>
> As far as active duty military service members are concerned . . .
>
> According to Department of Defense Instructon 1015.10 at:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/6289gz
>
> "The minimum drinking age on a DoD installation located in a State
> (including the District of Columbia) shall be consistent with the age
> established by the law of that State as the State minimum drinking age.
> Minimum drinking age means the minimum age established for persons who may
> purchase, possess, or consume alcoholic beverages.
>
> In the case of a DoD installation located in more than one State or in one
> State but within 50 miles of another State or Mexico or Canada, the
> minimum drinking age on that DoD installation shall be the lowest
> applicable age of the State in which the DoD installation is located or
> the State or jurisdiction of Mexico or Canada that is within 50 miles of
> such DoD installation.
>
> The minimum drinking age on a DoD installation located outside the United
> States shall be 18 years of age. Higher minimum drinking age will be based
> on international treaties and agreements and on the local situation as
> determined by the local installation commander.
>
> The commander of a DoD installation may waive the above requirements, if
> such commander determines that the exemption is justified by special
> circumstances. Special circumstances are those infrequent, non-routine
> military occasions when an entire unit, as a group, marks at a military
> installation a uniquely military occasion such as the conclusion of
> arduous military duty or the anniversary of the establishment of a
> military service or organization. The event must be held on a military
> installation. The commander shall ensure that appropriate controls are in
> place to prevent endangering Military Service members or the surrounding
> community."
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> As far as 18-year-olds being sentenced to life in prison or sentenced to
> death, two things:
>
> 1) Having been sentenced to life in prison or sentenced to death, the 18-
> year-old had (prior to sentencing) already been convicted of a major
> felony.
>
> 2) Having reached the age of 18, the person is no longer a minor.
>
> Again, if you want to lower the drinking age, campaign for it.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
>
>
>> You mean like not allowing certain adults, those between the ages of
18-
> 20,
>> to drink alcohol?
>> They can vote, they can go to prison for life, can receive the death
>> sentence, can smoke, can go to war and get wounded or die.
>> But they can't drink alcohol?
>> Sounds like age discrimination to
> me....
>
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