If Bush* signed an executive order to ban liquor sales on Sundays and holidays...

[LoZoccolo]

...would you think that was OK?

[gollygee]

1. What would happen to all those sports bars during football season?

I don't think it'll ever happen anyway.

[AlinPA]

2. ??? What is this about?

[Pirate Smile]

7. Chavez did it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2794315

[Jim Warren]

73. delete

wrong thread

[RB TexLa]

3. Why would anyone do that?

[Pirate Smile]

8. *

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2794315

[helderheid]

4. One thing I hate about Utah n/t

[WindRavenX]

5. don't tell methat :(

I'll be having no weed OR booze? :cry:

[helderheid]

15. Just Sundays, holidays, and elections - don'tcha worry. Just plan ahead!

:hi: When do you get here?

[WindRavenX]

17. Late May/Early June

NT

[helderheid]

24. Come by and say hi

www.udpc.org

[verse18]

6. In the Bible Belt wine and liquor is banned on Sundays anyway.

[karlrschneider]

11. Yeah but Saturday night is a time the liquor stores love!

:D

[AshevilleGuy]

16. ??? We can buy wine in NC on Sundays.

[verse18]

23. Lucky you. In Tennessee it's a no-no.

A legislature in the State assembly tried to get a bill to allow wine and liquor sales on Sunday's which was shot down before it came to the committee.

[Clark2008]

56. We can buy beer on Sundays and holidays, though.

[Wiley50]

67. In Wilson county, TN you can't buy beer on Xmas day

all fuckin day long
you have to drive over the county line to Nashville

I thought that they couldn't make laws respecting the religous establishment

[libnnc]

34. but not before 1 pm

[VTMechEngr]

61. Liberal Connecticut bans the sale on Sundays and Holidays

I hate that law! Its just so redneck like.

[napi21]

77. That's not true anymore. Ga. legislature is again voting on

allowing Sundy liquor sales (with some restrictions) and during the entire argument it's been discussed that Ga. was one of only 3 states that still forbid Sun. sales. EVEN Alabama persmits some Sun. sales.

The three States that still forbid Sunday sales of beer & wine are Georgia, Connecticut, and Indiana.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. Liquor sales are already banned here on sundays and holidays.

So wouldn't that be a bit hypocritical of me to get upset about it if it happened in another country?

[ButterflyBlood]

44. Only if you support your area's current idiotic law

n/t

[bigwillq]

10. It would not be ok

:beer:

The liquor stores are closed here on Sundays, which is cool with me, but you could still drink in bars and clubs....I don't think you should ban alcohol in those places on Sundays.

[muntrv]

12. The liqour industry would hang him for lost revenue.

[Ilsa]

18. They could do worse to him: cut him off from his supply! OF course,

there's not much worse than a dry drunk. He'd probably go bomb Wisconsin or something.

[electron_blue]

13. We already can't buy it on Sundays & holidays and I think it stinks. I wouldn't like it

no matter who did it. Why do you ask?

[Marie26]

14. No

But if Chavez does it, I'm OK with it. :)

[Name removed]

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[and-justice-for-all]

20. They have already invaded my privacy enought as it is...

..If I want to buy liquer on Sundays so be it. If a religious zealot does not want to buy liquer on Sundays, they dont have too. If they did ban buying liquer on Sundays I guess Catholics can not have their blood drinking ritual then. Because if you can not buy then surely you can drink it either.

ps: FUCK AbustoCo.

[NightWatcher]

21. I live in Georgia, It's already banned on Sunday

So I have to stock up on Saturday before I go a' drinkin

[RebelOne]

46. Me, too. I make sure I hit the liquor store on Saturday.

[TahitiNut]

22. Jesus!! A whole DAY without booze?? The HORROR!!! Stock Up! Stock up!

:eyes:

[Throwing Stones]

25. if * did it, it must be okay. what a silly poll.

:9

[Raine]

26. I wouldn't bother me

because they're too many drunks in this country and they could use a break of a couple of days now and then. It will never happen though because the liquor lobby wouldn't let chimp do it.

[ProfessorGAC]

48. Duh!

That is all.
The Professor

[Warren DeMontague]

59. Uh, prohibition doesn't work.

Trust me on this. "Drunks" will find a way to get the booze. You shouldn't depend on a Government Nanny state to tell consenting adults what they can and can't do with their own bodies, as appealing as that may sound to the authoritarian control fetish crowd.

[RedCappedBandit]

83. It already is that way in my area

and there sure as hell isn't a smaller amount of drunks



:wtf:

[ProgressiveAmPatriot]

27. I think Republicans might actually join us in impeaching him if he did that

Republicans may occasionally get preachy about temperance, but the majority like their beer, wine, and hard liquor as much as anyone. The liquor lobby would definitely call for his impeachment.

[newyawker99]

37. Hi ProgressiveAmPatriot!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Vidar]

28. Bush doesn't have the legal authority. Chavez does. Good try.

[LoZoccolo]

29. Let's say he did.

Would it be good?

[Skinner]

31. Nice dodge.

So what you're saying is that whatever a leader does is totally fine with you, as long as they have the legal authority to do it. Right.

[Vidar]

32. No, I suspect cozying up to the Church is a political move on Chavez's

part. While I don't personally like this move, it's much more justifiable then what many of our democrats duo in the name of politics, eg. take impeachment off the table.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

45. Dodge?

Isn't that what this is about? In plenty of states sales of liquor is banned on sundays and after certain hours. So that doesn't appear to be the issue, the issue appears to be the process Chavez used.

[BuyingThyme]

30. Does the ban include Red Lobster restaurants?

[ComerPerro]

33. don't see it happening

[Lone_Star_Dem]

35. No. Here he's only allowed to appoint unqualified cronies to political appointments during recesses

This is America after all.

Since I have first hand memories of what it was like when the "blue laws" were in place I don't doubt that Chavez did what he did to establish a better position within the "church"

In America I fight for separation of church and state. It's a right I refuse to let people forget we're supposed to have. I honestly have no idea how Venezuela's laws read or what rights the people there have in the same regard. As an American am I supposed to be familiar with Venezuelans rights regarding separation of church and state? Honestly, I'm rather busy fighting for our own ability to keep the two separated.

[ButterflyBlood]

36. Hell no. All prohibitionist Puritans should FUCK OFF

regardless of their political stances otherwise...

[TahitiNut]

38. Right! (Smoke 'em if you've got 'em.)

:smoke:

[JNelson6563]

39. As if the liquor lobby would tolerate that!

Apparently Venezuala needs a powerful liquor lobby. :toast:

Julie

[newportdadde]

40. You might actually see protests in the streets by Joe Average.

[Sammy Pepys]

41. He wouldn't be able to....n/t

.....

[windbreeze]

42. Isn't that each individual State's decision to make? ? ?

since when does he have the right to decide what each state does? just curious...
wb

[LoZoccolo]

43. Suppose he passed a "because I said so" law.

For example, an act that allows him to rule by decree.

[slackmaster]

65. Unconstitutional

I'd say "Fuck him."

[windbreeze]

69. oh, you mean like a dictator would do? n/t

[Judi Lynn]

71. More like the 18 month enabling law the Venezuelan legislature passed,

which they also gave him at least once before during his Presidency, and also extended to SEVERAL OTHER VENEZUELAN PRESIDENTS.

Like that.

[LoZoccolo]

72. "Enabling"...where have I heard that word before.

Oh yeah, Nazi Germany.

Godwin's Law! :woohoo:

[Rhiannon12866]

47. This is an excellent point!

Every state that I've been to seems to have different laws regarding alcohol, so this is obviously up to the states. I live in NY, and you can buy beer in a grocery store, but not wine or liquor. But in NC, where I've spent a lot of time, you see wine and even fortified wine, like sherry, in the grocery stores, but they have special stores (package stores) that sell hard liquor. Vermont and California seem to have different laws, as well... So I think that you're right about this...:hi: But existing laws haven't stopped Bush* in the past, have they?:grr:

[rinsd]

50. And even within states you can have differences.

Some states have dry counties where you cannot buy alcohol.

Some towns refuse to grant liquor licenses.

[Rhiannon12866]

51. That's absolutely true. I know some counties in NC are dry.

The one where my grandmother lived happened to be one of them...:banghead::D

[slackmaster]

66. Only if state law allows localities to make up their own rules

California does not. You can buy alcoholic beverages anywhere in the state except between the hours of 2:00 AM and 6:00 AM.

[Rhiannon12866]

78. Really? When I was in California, I went to a grocery store

that was open all night to pick up some over-the-counter medicine for a sick friend. While I was there, I picked up a few other things, including a bottle of wine, since I discovered that they sold that there, too. (Here in NY you can only buy wine in a liquor store.) But the check-out line was really long, and by the time I got to the cash register it was just after midnight and the checker put it aside, wouldn't let me buy it, said it was too late, since it was after midnight...:shrug:

[windbreeze]

70. Yes, individual states do have different rules/laws...

I have run into that myself...
wb

[Rhiannon12866]

80. When my grandmother first moved to NC,

and I went to visit her there, I was in a drug store, I think, looking for the shampoo, and was taken aback to run into the wine section, LOL. Here in NY, you can only buy wine in a liquor store. And when I was in Vermont with my mother, she stopped at a liquor store to buy a bottle of wine, but she was told that they don't sell wine in liquor stores, so she came out with a bottle of sherry...:crazy:

[Forkboy]

49. That's ok...I'd buy it on Saturdays or the days before said holiday.

Damn...that was simple.

[ulysses]

52. you evidently don't see

how Chavez is Satan.

:D

[Forkboy]

54. I'm trying but he's so cute and fuzzy,and he sleeps in a racecar bed,which I think is adorable.

:)

[ulysses]

55. LOLOL!

Good to have you back around, man. :D

[Forkboy]

58. I want to see these people really stand up for their right to drink

I can see the slogans....

Booze? Yes...Socialism? No Thanks!

Alcoholics Against Chavez!

You Either Drink With Us Or Against Us!

The Only Good Beer Is A Dead Beer!

This Vomit Doesn't Run!

Get A Drink Morans!

[ulysses]

60. better a thick, foamy head than red?

:rofl:

[Forkboy]

62. Hehehe

They practically write themselves. :D

[ulysses]

63. that they do.

:D

[treestar]

53. Suppose it was for "national security purposes?"

terra, terra, terra!

[ulysses]

57. ...would Al From change a minor detail and claim the idea as his own?

[slackmaster]

64. States have the power to regulate retail sales of alcoholic beverages

Therefore it is not within the scope of power of the President to issue such an order.

He could issue one, but it would not carry any force.

[tnlefty]

68. I can't purchase liquor or wine on any given Sun. and most

holidays. Beer is sold after 12 p.m. on Sundays and most holidays.

Liquor stores that have liquors and wines are closed by 11:00 p.m. always.

[Warren DeMontague]

74. I'm not terribly pro Chavez OR pro liquor sale restrictions- but if this is the worst you can come

up with on the guy, I have to say you're flailin'...

[LoZoccolo]

75. I don't think we've seen the worst of it yet by far.

And of course, he'll have a trail of people making excuses for why it is good for him to put out all these decrees.

[Skidmore]

76. If * actually did that, we would have people stampeding to DC

to haul his tush out of the WH and tar and feather him on the Fox Noise Network. Sad, but true.

[RedCappedBandit]

79. New York already has restrictions on liquor sales

especially on sunday.. I think its BS, but hey..



free country, right?

[frogcycle]

81. if someone posted a survey on whether the moon is green cheese would it start a lengthy discussion?

[Forkboy]

82. Give it a try and let's see.

:)