Booze On Sunday

Indiana has decided you can’t buy alcohol from the store on Sunday.  Even dumber is that you can’t buy cold beer from grocery or convenience stores.  They sell it warm.  What the fuck.

The group “Hoosiers for Beverage Choices” has collected over 20,000 signatures to change this.  Thier goal is simple:  bring Indiana’s alcoholic beverage laws into the 21st Century by promoting convenience, real choices, and competitive prices, all while maintaining regulations that prevent minors from accessing alcohol.  Sounds good to me.

Of course, you have your token liquor store owner whining about why he only wants to participate in the free enterprise system six days of the week.  Brad Rider of United Package Liquors thinks alcohol sales on Sunday will lead to increased consumption by minors.  “If they open us up on Sundays and we happen to lose cold beer, we’re gonna be out of business.”

Huh?  It seems that you have a little inventory control problem, Bradley.  Either that or you just suck at spotting fake IDs.

Richard Tucker

This asshole is one of the main reasons we can’t buy alcohol on Sunday.  His name is Richard Tucker, and he uses his influence at the Capitol to shoot down any effort by the people of Georgia to buy booze whenever they want.  Liquor store owner and well connected Georgia businessman, he’s definitely entrenched in the good ol’ boy network.  He’s got the jowls to prove it!

He spews that same tired old argument about not being able to turn a profit on Sunday.  Maybe he could afford it if he weren’t buying off politicians.

Turns out there are only twelve liquor stores in Gwinnett county, where his store is.  So perhaps Richard just can’t handle a little competition.

Apparently he’s no fan of democracy, either.  In addition to opposing the citizens’ desire to purchase alcohol on Sunday, he got one of his buddies on the bench to seal a lawsuit filed against him by United Community Bank.  Superior Court Judge Ronnie K. Batchelor says that disclosure of the allegations would cause Mr. Tucker to suffer intimidation, insult and embarrassment.

So you’re a threat to free choice, you’re afraid of someone stealing your business, and you can’t handle criticism.  Why don’t you get on a horse and go up to the mountains where you won’t bother anyone.  But on the way, stop by your liquor store and swipe a bottle of whiskey off the shelf, even if it’s Sunday.  I doubt you’d let a silly law get in your way, Dick.

Or should I say Boozeiana?

The Farmerville city council, in a 4 to 1 vote, has struck down an ordinance prohibiting sales of alcohol from midnight Saturday to 6 AM Monday.  You can now buy liquor starting at 2 PM on Sunday, presumably right after church.

The pastor at the Baptist church doesn’t like it, dark shadow that it is.  Another guy, still reeling from the chicken plant fiasco, prayed and prayed and prayed that he could force his beliefs on everyone, but to no avail.

Councilman Taylor doesn’t want his “one day out of the week we have to celebrate Jesus Christ” interrupted by devil worshiping beer drinkers.  Buy your alcohol on Saturday like those poor bastards in Georgia, he commands.  Just curious, Mr. Taylor, are you only capable of worshiping your god one day out of the week?  Maybe he’s not looking Monday through Saturday.  Now’s your chance to go do something naughty.  I won’t tell!

But from the sea of ignorance, up swims citizen George Finley with these wise words, “Take God out of it.  You’re not God and his thoughts aren’t your thoughts.”

Thank you Mr. Finley.  Now go enjoy your new freedom and have a beer after church.  (Or before church, for a more hilarious effect)

Finally finished processing my shots from the Rock & Roll Monster Bash from a week ago.  Monster Bash is an afternoon of sun-burnt, southern, psychobilly goodness at the Starlight Six Drive-In Theater in Atlanta.

There’s booze, broads, bands, and when the sun goes down, classic grindhouse B-movies.  This year it was the original Tales From the Crypt and The Howling.

And oh yeah, it’s on a Sunday.

Fortunately, I had taken Governor Perdue’s advice and bought my 18 pack of Miller High Life the day before.  I hope he forgives me for not going to church.

Kearney, NE 1909

Ok, so it’s not Georgia, but Nebraska.  A group of  convenience store owners in Kearney wants the ban on Sunday alcohol sales lifted. Kearney is apparently one of two towns in Nebraska that prohibit carry-out sales of alcohol on Sunday.  Hell, it could be worse, like a statewide ban.

Liquor store owners, as the trend seems to go, oppose opening on Sunday.  Chuck Becker of Bill’s Liquor would have to break traditional values to stay competitive.

“Sunday is for family, I feel pretty strongly about that, that is just the way I was raised.”

Yeah, so Monday through Saturday it’s “Screw you, wife and kids!  I’ve got booze to sell and money to make!”  Dude, If you only spend one day out of the week with your family then you’re doing it wrong.  With the economy as crappy as it is, you should have no problem finding someone to cover the store for you.

Besides, in Georgia we’re told to believe that anything having to do with alcohol is “anti-family”.  That goes for sex toys and science also.

Good luck, people of Kearney!

Hello from the great state of Georgia!  Where the churches politicians have made all our important moral decisions for us.  Most ridiculous among them being the law that says you can’t go into a store on Sunday and buy alcohol.

The initial goal of this website is simple:  Bring citizens together into a unified voice to repeal this unnecessary law.  When that’s done, we’ll take a look at other strange legal/religious “coincidences”.

Stay tuned!