BLOOD TIES

Remember this? Disgusting.

At the order of a federal appeals court, a Federal District Court judge in Portland, Me., has reopened the sentencing hearing for a boy who as a 14-year-old in 2002 set fire to a boatyard containing an engine that belonged to former President George Bush and was sentenced to 30 months in a maximum security juvenile prison.

The reopening will give the family of the teenager, Patrick Vorce, a chance to argue that he was treated illegally when Judge George Singal, of Federal District Court in Portland, had him sent to a juvenile prison in Pennsylvania that is under contract to the federal Bureau of Prisons, said his lawyer and stepfather, Robert Mongue. The prison is a 13-hour drive from Patrick's home in Kennebunk, Me., and provides little education or counseling services, his family and lawyers say.

See, the kid was really a terrorist. He set fire to a boathouse that, in addition to other boats, contained one belonging to Der Fuehrer's DNA pool.

"He... he tried to kill my father."

The family that sticks together....
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