Archive for April 25, 2005
Immigrants driver’s license (limited) bill
Apr 25th
The Senate recently proposed (Sub) S.B. 189 [bill text] entitled "AN ACT CONCERNING MOTOR VEHICLE LICENSES FOR
CERTAIN RESIDENTS WHO ARE NOT CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES AND
RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS FOR COMMERCIAL DRIVERS’ LICENSES." Really. This bill called for restricting the validity of the driver’s license of someone who is not a citizen and is in the country on a visa of limited time-period, until the expiration of that visa.
Meaning, when your visa expires, your driver’s license expires. If you renew your visa, then you have to renew your driver’s license.
It just seems like an unnecessary measure. Undoubtedly it would increase the volume of paperwork at a DMV office and perhaps even lead to disclosure of information that the DMV probably has no right to know. Fortunately, the bill failed to make it out of committee.
Proponents say the bill is required to "combat terrorism". Yeah, my buddy who paid $40,000 over three years to get a graduate engineering degree and is working for a corporation now is a "terrorist threat". I recognize that such a threat might be realized some day – but the bill, the way it is, is too broad and could lead to potential discrimination against immigrants.
Maybe Danbury should adopt it as an ordinance. They’re already banning volleyball.
QOTD
Apr 25th
While surfing Project Gutenberg [you really should know this website - it is a great resource for thousands of books in the public domain] today, I came across Joseph Devlin’s "How to Speak and Write Correctly" [e-text], and stumbled upon this quote:
Consider the contrast between the well-bred, polite man who
knows how to choose and use his words correctly and the underbred,
vulgar boor, whose language grates upon the ear and jars the
sensitiveness of the finer feelings. The blunders of the latter,
his infringement of all the canons of grammar, his absurdities and
monstrosities of language, make his very presence a pain, and one
is glad to escape from his company.
Well said! I just thought I’d share it.
Prosecutor pearls of wisdom
Apr 25th
I thought of many titles for this post: "What the F%@#?", "Oy Dios Mio!", "Are you kidding me?", but what defines this statement overheard by PD Law Clerk, is that it is just completely mind-boggling.
"I’m glad I don’t have your job. Your clients sometimes go to jail even when they haven’t done anything wrong."
Yeah, because sometimes, when they haven’t done anything wrong, they still decide to just walk up to a jail and ask to be admitted. They impose sentences on themselves just for the heck of it.
I’m still shaking my head.
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