The tide is beginning to turn on Sunday alcohol sales:
Under the bill filed Tuesday by Sen. Seth Harp (R-Midland), local governments could call elections to let voters decide if they want to allow Sunday sales at grocery, convenience and liquor stores. Among the co-sponsors of the bill are Senate Rules Chairman Don Balfour (R-Snellville) and Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock). The support of Balfour is significant because the Rules Committee decides which legislation is voted on by the Senate.
Only Sonny and the Christian Right stand in the way, and their influence is diminishing.
Filed under: Georgia, I ain't drunk, I'm just drinking, Sonny, the ATL
I, for one, am looking forward to buyin’ a six-pack of Bud on the Sabbath and rocking out to some Blueshammer in the privacy of my own home.
So I see you like real, down in the Delta blues. Their song about plowing the fields and picking cotton is so authentic.
I was a huge fan of Dan Clowes prior to the Ghost World movie and I thought that Zwigoff really nailed the feeling of the “Eightball” series. I’ve only watched snippets since seeing it in the theater and it makes me laugh/grimace more and more. I have not seen their second collaboration “Art School Confidential,” but I’ve heard that it’s a dog (the comic on the other hand, is classic). Bad Santa was disgustingly funny as well.
Art School Confidential was a dud — a huge disappointment. Ghost World, on the other hand, is the best movie of the decade.
The Casino is a good idea, but if it is just slots I can see fat old ladies and a kind of rough neck crowd – they need to do a real casino or not do one at all. If I am a conventioneer I am not walking down to Marietta Street just to play some stupid slots.
I am not expecting the Bellagio, but at least the Rio. Just slots sounds like a half assed casino. However, if the city is involved I would expect nothing less.
Alcohol on Sunday – you can get it in NC – why not GA. Plus Perdue is supporting Keynesian policy to save GA then he should at the very least support alcohol sales on Sunday. You know those bass fisherman enjoy a bud on Sunday.
I prefer my casinos at an occasionally reachable distance. Anyway, there’s only so much they’ll be able to do with an Underground casino, because there’s no hotel attached.
But whatever. I’m consistently amused at the efforts to make something out of that place. Downtown already has a bad rep — who the hell wants to drive there to go subterranean after dark?? The old Coke lot is strewn with homeless, and there’s no place decent to shop or eat. The condos being built there are just adding to the oversupply. It’s nowheresville.
Plans include a 29-story hotel.
Slots only may or may not work, they are easily the most popular game in Vegas.