Great to see you commenting again, Sedate.

One part of the GOP (1% -ers) have put another part under their vampirical control. Count Romney is bringing ‘em home this fall!

my sister and i checked on the internets to see what the procedure was. there was a website that would get it for you, and, of course, they charge you for it. if i remember correctly, i think it was 15 bucks, but if you needed it within a few days, it was twice that. oh, let me add that my mom was lucky that we have computers, because she doesn’t know how to use one, so she would not have been able to find out any info. so, we filled out the form that asked for date of birth, parents’ names, etc. and sent it. they took the money, but they wrote and said that the city could not locate the birth certificate. that’s when the long-distance phone calls became necessary. you see, there were a few problems. number one, my mom legally changed her first name when she was in her late teens or early 20s. that meant that she was issued a new birth certificate. the other problem was that, for some reason, my grandfather’s name as listed as benjamin instead of abraham. my grandparents didn’t speak a lot of english when they came here, so we don’t know if they made the error or if it was a clerical error on the part of the city or the hospital. we had to pay the city more money since the site we first used kept the money for doing a search of the records.

all in all, it took almost 2 weeks and wound up costing close to 50 bucks (not counting the long-distance phone calls) and lots and lots of aggravation.

when they say that you need a photo i.d. to vote, even those people who do drive might find themselves up a creek with no paddles, because the laws in floriduhhh are ridiculous when it comes to renewing a license or floriduhhh state i.d. card.