Sunday, November 20, 2011
Booze / Guv'ment Sunday alcohol sales begin in some Fulton, DeKalb cities — Atlantans will have to wait until Jan. 1
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 2:26 PM
It's a lovely day to visit Avondale Estates. Or College Park. Or maybe even Alpharetta, Jonesboro or Villa Rica. They're just a few of the metro Atlanta municipalities where stores, starting today, are now allowed to sell booze on Sundays. (Atlantans can start purchasing alcohol on Sundays on Jan. 1 — the very day many people swear they'll never drink again.)
If you headed outside Atlanta to pick up a six pack on the Lord's Day, let us know how things went. Make new friends during your visit to these quirky cities? Notice any lightning bolts? Smell sulfur when you opened the fridge at the gas station?
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Nope, quit drinking three years ago. Sorry Ms. Winehouse couldn't have tried earlier. Now we can go on and continue to demonize the all the other drugs whose death rates combined can't match the glorious one we liberated. God forbid we even let people grow plants in their own house that are completely non-toxic. Well what drug is better for the middle class to have available than the one that deteriorates all organs of the body. It will, to quote Mr. Scrooge "help cut down the surplus population" and make that inequality thing seem not so lopsided. I say let's sell it 24/7, the auto garages should have more business than if we had our annual .025 "blizzard".
Seriously if any one told me that the pills I used to take to stay up all night which they stopped prescribing because everyone suffered from "euphoria" but now give 10 year-old children to do better in school so they can hurry up and get that student debt I would have thought I have taken too many.
Drink on ATL, just watch out for the zombies....
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We went to Beer Growler Avondale Estates. They opened at 12:30pm and we arrived at 2pm. The line was winding around the store and just barely out the door. It was the happiest crowd you'll ever see waiting in a 30+ minute line. Everyone was smiling and taking it in. Talk about a good Sunday. When we left around 2:45, the line was the same length as when we arrived.
Having been to exotic places like Alabama, the novelty of buying beer on a Sunday is lost on me. I'm just in it for the convenience, and for that, I have to wait another month or so.
Attaching onto positive News stores today - I just got a HUGE tingle up my leg!
Unemployment drops as Alabama’s immigration reform enacted!
“It is only one month of data, so we have to be careful, but it is a reminder of what the state legislature is trying to do,”
http://dailycaller.com/2011/11/21/unemploy…
that is rightleantastic!
Republican Dunwoody passed Sunday sales but they've also put a fee on the "privilege" of selling alcohol on Sunday of $1100 - or about double the annual fee for the other 5 days ($4,000/6 = $667). Apparently the same goes for Restaurants ($4,000 for 6 days and $1,100 for Sunday)
The smaller shops already face difficulty justifying being open 7 days a week. Now have a further hurdle that ends up promoting larger chain liquor stores over smaller mom and pop shops.
Republicans like to talk about less taxes and supporting small businesses, apparently something got lost in translation in Dunwoody.
Sad.
as long as we're posting random links that have nothing to do with the subject at hand simply to crow about politics it's worth noting that gingrich took $1.8m from fannie mae and freddie mac.
http://bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/v…
at the same time he was quietly lobbying for them he was also shit-talking them and people who took money from them
it's kind of a good thing that republicans are so stupid because it allows their leadership to demonstrate exactly what they think of their electorate
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