FORGIVE AND FORGET......

Everybody is entitled to make mistakes. The voters proved that by electing George W. Bush twice.

To forgive is a Godly thing to do. Forgive and forget. But the Geezer has a hard time doing it for the viewers of all the reality shows on TV. In the words of that great American Cardinal Mahoney….”Feh”!

I must confess to having made some mistakes in the past. Some real whoppers. For instance I urged most of my friends to put all their money into WorldCom; I voted for former Congressman “Duke” Cunningham for sainthood; and I swore in court that I was stuck in an elevator for 6-hours with Dick Cheney on speed.

A judge in the Philippines was fired by the country’s Supreme Court just because he claimed he could see into the future and admitted consulting imaginary mystic dwarfs. Guess they never heard about forgiving mistakes. “They should not have dismissed me for what I believed,” Judge Floro told reporters after filing his appeal. Floro was sacked last month and fined $780 after a three-year investigation found he was incompetent – if that’s grounds for dismissal than most of the judges in American courts would be standing on the unemployment line.

He was also charged with bias in a case he was trying when he asked a young, sexy defendant to sit on his lap when testifying. He told investigators that three mystic dwarfs – Armand, Luis and Angel (first cousins to Manny, Moe and Jack) helped him carrying out healing sessions during breaks in his chambers. During one “healing session” he diagnosed someone as having ague fever, shin splints, rickets and black hairy tongue disease when they actually had a bad case of hemorrhoids.

The Supreme Court said it was not within its expertise to conclude that Floro was insane, but agreed with the court’s clinic’s finding that he was suffering from psychosis. If he is not forgiven his mistakes he has decided to run for the Presidency of the Philippines. After what happened in the U.S. of A. in 2000 and 2004 I wouldn’t bet against him.