Bring Out Your Dead

Just a quick post while I decide whether or not to go for a dike trail walk.  It's pretty breezy and clouding-up fast...  The wind has switched to the southeast - which is never a good thing.

Had a half-assed workout at the Club and may just call it good.  Still sniffling...

A classic in the Anchorage Daily News today.  The legislature is poised to pass a bill that will allow the estates of the recently  deceased to file for and collect a permanent fund dividend on behalf of the dearly departed.  This has all the classic earmarks of a bad law resulting from a handful of sad situations...  How about allowing pregnant women to file for the soon-to-be-living?  Seems to me that what's good for the cooked goose ought to be good for the soon-to-be-hatched gosling...

But I digress.  The good part of the story is the quote from our tongue-tied Representative John Harris: 

"I've had six or seven people in my district that have died just in the last year that wanted to qualify and couldn't. They'll be very pleased that this bill passes," said Valdez Republican Rep. John Harris.

Read more: http://www.adn.com/2010/04/15/1228083/legislature-approves-pfds-for.html#ixzz0lJGwzgPD

The Oregonian picked-up on this story with the headline "The check could soon be in the mail for Alaska's dead"

The writer for the Oregonian, Kimberly A.C. Wilson, also enjoyed the above quote following it with the comment "So many verb tenses, so little time."

Hah!

Have a good weekend everyone!