Links and Minifeatures 2008 01 10 Thursday

One instance of collateral damage from our current legal system.

My wife would have loved an effective morning sickness pill, such as Bendectin is supposed to be. Her morning sickness with our first was something awful. But she couldn't, because lawyers and people looking for jackpots and scapegoats caused the manufacturer to remove it from the market in the United States.

The "first listed" plaintiff against Indiana's Voter ID Act is registered to vote in Florida.

She has a Florida Driver's License.
She has homestead exemptions in two states. The legal limit is one. Two is tax fraud, as well as the voter fraud she committed.

She represented herself as a Florida resident in order to get a Florida license and Florida property tax exemption, and willingly registered to vote in Florida as well as surrendering her Indiana drivers license as part of the process. Then she wonders why her vote is challenged in Indiana.

Time to have the property tax people pay her a visit for tax fraud. As well as introduce evidence that this law has actually prevented voter fraud in the case of one of the plaintiffs against it.

She claims she never voted in Florida, which isn't directly answered yes or no in the article, and therefore am inclined to give her the benefit of the doubt. But I doubt that all Snowbirds shared her restraint. I seem to recall more than one call on leftist sites for snowbirds to vote in two states back in 2004. Even if they share my views, nobody is permitted to vote twice, or even register in two places which renders such voting easily achievable. State voter registries are not set up to catch people registering in multiple states. But here's one who has now been stopped. And a tax cheat frustrated as well. I'd say that's two benefits from one law.

Nor do I see anything in common with the old Jim Crow "keep the black folks from voting" Poll taxes (together with grandfather laws, the origination of the concept).

Fare the well, Sir Edmund Hillary.

He seems to have done an awful lot of good with his fame.

He will be missed.

Thanks to Don Surber for his link to my article on the future of agency!

I just haven't felt much like writing these past couple days. I have lots of ideas blocked out, but nothing inspires me right now. Mind you, Wednesday's article was a monster. I've also been playing a game of Stars!, which is quite time intensive (it's only a few Meg - not much for graphics, but for someone who likes high level strategy games, quite addictive, and available shareware). Maybe I'm just a little burned out, and will feel like writing in a few more days. If you've got any questions you'd like to see addressed, now might be a good time to ask!