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Entries from LAist tagged with 'donaldrumsfeld'

September 23, 2007

The TelePromTer-readers and out-of-touch-hate-mongers of the mainstream media thought that they were being super-cool by discussing/bitching about the presidential candidate debates that were posted on YouTube. So since that new, interesting, and youth-vote promoting aspect of the next election has been talked to death by the talking-heads, I have found these candidate related webpages to occupy me during my early in the ante meridian down-time: At SuperBook.com, you can go to their "Exotic Lines"......

Continue Reading "Presidential Election Odds and Ends"

September 3, 2007

After graduating high school outside of Chicago, most peers of mine got jobs as lifeguards at the beach, day camp leaders or book worms at Borders. For me, I went straight back to the place I was so excited to leave... to be a janitor for the summer. My high school was not just any public school, it was New Trier, a well tax-funded North Shore suburban institution, standing four stories high (five if......

Continue Reading "Janitor Zen"

March 31, 2007

By week's end, this town is regularly littered with a handful of free rags. Combined, these publications put the Tribune Company's Spring Street operation to shame as far as reporting on the dozens of municipalities that make up this metropolis of more than 12 million people. LAist reads the weeklies so you don't have to. If there's anything we missed, pretty please let us know, or better yet, drop it in the comments section......

Continue Reading "The Week in Weeklies"

November 8, 2006

In breaking news, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has resigned today amid pressure regarding his policies and stance on the war in Iraq. And quite frankly, in the wake of yesterday's election, someone's head had to roll for the way the Republicans got slaughtered in the House and are on the brink of losing the Senate too. The clip above shows the "weapons of mass destruction" debacle and web of lies Rummy got caught in......

Continue Reading "Breaking News! Rumsfeld Has Resigned!"

June 19, 2006

Times Reporter Booted From Gitmo Only three papers were allowed by the Pentagon to report on the Guantanamo Bay prison suicides from the location itself: The LAT, the Miami Herald, and the Charlotte Observer. Caribbean bureau chief for the LA Times Carol Williams has visted the controversial camp a half dozen times, but will no doubt not forget the way her latest visit was cut short quickly. According to her opinion column in Sunday's LAT,......

Continue Reading "You ask a lot of questions"

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