Bailiff! Whack his peepee!

"You don't help yourself with other nations when you turn away . . . or when you refuse to deal at length with the United Nations. You have to earn that respect. And I think we have a lot of earning back to do." - John Kerry (1st Presidential Debate, September 30, 2004)

Hmmm . . . I wonder exactly what kind of genious, what kind of culture, what kind of "nuance" we can learn from our European superiors? Well, let's see, kids!

In January,> a judge in Breda, Netherlands, officially ruled that a 46-year-old bank robber, who stole money worth the equivalent of $8,400(US), could only be charged with a crime worth about $6,100(US) because the court had to let the man offset the equivalent of $2,300(US) that he paid for his gun, as a legitimate business expense. [Associated Press, 1-27-05]

I think the crook would have gotten more justice from >the judge that Cheech and Chong were sentenced by . . .