Just a short note friends about the stupidity of US Homeland Security. You know about my passport exploits, well now there's more. My son is applying for some kind of license that requires Coast Guard approval. His application and the support paperwork that he submitted was promptly returned to him the other day. Inside was a handwritten note from some Commander of something that said he overpaid by $5 and they enclosed a $145 US Postal money order. They instructed him to get a corrected money order in the amount of $140 and send everything back. Only one problem. There is no fee to file the application and the money order for $145 returned to him WAS NOT HIS! So my son's $145 richer and his damn father is still from NEW ZEALAND!Yea, yea, of course, he'll return the money, as if they were wondering what happened to it.
