Friday surprise

The jokers in DC have this habit of releasing really bad news on a Friday when nobody is paying attention.

Today the Washington Post announced that the Pentagon found Bush's military pay records from his disputed time in the Guard (i.e., when he was too stoned to fly or pass a physical and went AWOL while going into business flying plants around the country).

The Pentagon had said that the payroll records for that time period had been inadvertently destroyed.

"Previous attempts to locate the missing records at the Federal Records Center had been unsuccessful due to the incorrect records accession numbers provided," the Pentagon's Office of Freedom of Information chief C.Y. Talbott said in a letter Friday to The Associated Press.

"The correct numbers were obtained ... and the records were found."

Uh-huh. Pull the other one. It's got bells on.