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In 5,000 years, when a humanoid alien race sifts through the wasteland we ultimately created here on Earth, they will reach into the rubble of what once was the Georgia Capitol and find one piece of paper that, despite the ravages of time and the post-apocalyptic elements, will be preserved. It will be unripped. It will shine from under ash. It will have been the finest moment in this edifice’s history.

It will read:

Eureka! On Monday, state Sen. Seth Harp, R-Midland — along with three co-sponsors — pre-filed a bill that, if passed and signed by Gov. Sonny Perdue, would allow Georgia cities and counties to vote whether alcohol could be sold on the Sabbath inside their boundaries.

If you’ve long wanted to purchase booze on Sunday — be it for cooking, sporting events or to self-medicate — this is the bill you want to watch. And if you’ve ever just wanted to have a voice in the issue, it’s that too. Andre at Peach Pundit writes more on the possible political dynamics.

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Number of Georgia runoff elections for statewide, partisan positions in the past 20 years: 2

Of those two, the number in which the top general-election vote-getter (a Democrat, in both instances) won the runoff: 0

Of voters in the 1992 general election, the percentage that returned to vote in the Senate runoff: 55

Of voters in the 2006 general election, the percentage that returned to vote in the Public Service Commission runoff: 10

As of Nov. 20, the percentage of early voters in Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoff who are African-American: 22

Percentage of early voters in the 2008 general election who are African-American: 34

In past decade, average percentage of black general-election voters who voted in runoffs: 8.5

Average percentage of whites who did: 9.2

Percentage of early voters in the 2008 general election who had voted in the GOP and Democratic primaries, respectively: 25, 30

Percentage of early voters in 2008 runoff (as of Nov. 20) who had voted in the GOP and Democratic primaries, respectively: 44, 34

Source: Georgia Secretary of State

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One of the main ingredients in home-cooked meth is pseudoephedrine. Pseudoephedrine is available in over-the-counter cold meds. As a result, meth is easy and cheap — if not always safe — to make. Meth is also wildly popular in Georgia and elsewhere, having transcended its reputation as “hillbilly cocaine” to become fashionable among the urban set.

Basically, something’s got to give.

Georgia lawmakers want to stem the production of meth by setting up a MethCheck Database. The MD would track the purchases of pseudoephedrine statewide. When someone buys too much Sudafed, he or she might end up on the database — and be arrested. (Fear not — the amount of Sudafed necessary to make a decent-sized batch of meth would far outweigh what the most sickly of cold-sufferers could possibly consume.)

The Georgia Senate’s MethCheck Database Study Committee will meet on tomorrow at the State Capitol, room 455, from 10 a.m.-noon to discuss this pressing matter. Should be interesting.

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