Hammer left Iraq with his unit in March, then flew from Kuwait to San Francisco in cargo-class. He traveled first class with an Alley Cat Allies volunteer to Denver. Bousfield met the kitten at the airport. Right, right, right yes, okay I’m crying, but in a good way. That’s one saved.

Here’s a little heads up for those who might be registered voters in Utah.

Okay, Jack Ryan saying this: ‘I’m better if i’m in a church’ back in April is pretty funny in retrospect. I swear, I was looking for something else.

The company declined an interview but suggests in an e-mail to NBC News that critics are politically motivated: “When Halliburton succeeds, Iraq progresses. Sadly, a few people don’t want either of those results.” Man, they use the same plays out of the playbook, but adapt! So cool! Such arrogant assholes! So Cheney-like in their masterful inactivity! Let me translate a bit for you: Critic=traitor whistleblowers=terrorists progress=we’re not the fall guys for Iraq’s problems anymore I suppose next they’re going to steal General Motors’ line about what’s good for Halliburton is good for the nation. How many days until the election?

A career thief who stole old books from the University of Oregon library and sold them on eBay sought leniency but got none Tuesday in Lane County Circuit Court. Well, I’ll have to have a chinwag with my old Oregon friend who’s now at the LC about this. According to the article, he devised an unsophisticated way to bypass the electronic sensors at the entrances. Let’s see… I’d guess that would be sling the book in a UO bookstore drawstring bag and chuck it out the nearest open window in the Reserve Reading Room, first floor northeast. If that’s too…

A veteran federal agent assigned to O’Hare International Airport tried to extort $10,000 from an immigrant living illegally in the U.S. by threatening to have him deported, according to charges made public Wednesday. This makes me feel much safer. Because this is the only Federal employee on the take who’s tasked with guarding our borders, right? Right?

Fresh from their latest gig at the White House Press Briefing hosted by Scott McClellan, it’s the new comedy troupe “Not The Stenographers!” Actually, I saw them described as “stenos” on another website the other day in connection with the “Irish journalist asks Bush harrrrrd questions” story. From reading between the lines, and totally in my humble and uninformed opinion, it seems like some of the people asking tough questions know perfectly well that the answers won’t be all that newsworthy. Either that, or their editors will veto them rather than make the White House press secretary look like a…

Here’s a link to Carole Coleman’s Bush interview with George Bush before his arrival in Ireland for the summit. She asked a lot of tough questions and pointed followup questions – Bush appeared to be somewhat irritated that the followup questions came faster than he could parrot the usual rote answers back to her. There’s also an official White House transcript here, most likely somewhat cleaned up. Bush didn’t come off so badly, so long as they were discussing things dear to his heart, like his beloved and still illusory weapons of mass destruction. He lit up with pleasure when…

From a press release quoted by Salon: MOVE OVER MICHAEL MOORE… Disney & Move America Forward Team Up to Show a Brighter Side of America (SACRAMENTO) — Move America Forward is teaming up with Walt Disney Pictures to present an exclusive screening of Disney’s “America’s Heart & Soul” on Monday, June 28, 2004 at the Crest Theater in Sacramento, California. The private screening takes place at 1:00 PM and members of the news media are invited to attend. “Americas Heart & Soul” opens in theaters nationwide on Friday, July 2nd. Unlike the negative and misleading storyline of Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit…

… Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor will be branded an “activist judge” by a right-wing flack for saying this: Justice O’Connor wrote that the campaign against terrorism notwithstanding, “a state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation’s citizens.”