Man stuck in tree! LAFD responds.

Here’s a twist on the ‘ol “Cat stuck in tree, news at 11!” gag, via LAFD Alerts: Reported Landscaper stuck in a tree, unable to self rescue. @11:19 AM The LA Times, via Associated Press follows up: Los Angeles Fire Department...

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A message to anti-McCain/Palin musicians

Oh, liberal musicians and bloggers, how you fail to find an opportunity when its staring at you from behind rimless glasses. Last week, the McCain camp came under fire for using “Barracuda” as VP candidate Sarah Palin’s theme song...

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Anti-Scientology protest this morning at Will Smith supported elementary school

The anti-Scientology group known as Anonymous announced that at 7:30am this morning they will be picketing outside of the New Village Academy private elementary school in Calabasas due to the school’s use of “Study Technology”...

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McCain + Palin = offshore drilling

LAist’s Jeremy Oberstein believes that VP candidate Sarah Palin’s support of drilling in Alaska “could represent a massive change in federal off-shore drilling policy that could have a decades long affect here.” If McCain...

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Sarah Palin’s abstinence only education policy fails in the worst way.

17 year old Bristol Palin pregnant. She’s still in high school. She’s unwed. Her mother, VP candidate Sarah Palin, is a pro-life Republican who believes that abstinence only education works. Governor Palin told an Alaskan pro-family...

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Times unveils top 25 L.A.-centric films from past 25 years. What did they miss?

Besides the glaring absence of “Grand Canyon,” and a few others based an apparent rule disallowing more than one film per director, the LA Times has put together a solid selection of films highlighting Los Angeles. I can’t argue...

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Sarah Palin: Governor of San Francisco?

John McCain’s Vice Presidential running mate, Alaska’s Sarah Palin, went from mayor of a town of 8,500 to governor of a state with 670,000. Dallas Morning News blogger Colleen McCain Nelson tries to put this into perspective: Her entire...

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Police arrest suspects in Playa del Rey home burglaries

Larry Altman at the Daily Breeze reports that suspects in the Playa del Rey home burglary I posted photos of the other day were apprehended after an attempted burglary in Redondo Beach last Thursday.

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McCain’s VP pick to be announced within hour… eBay’s Meg Whitman still a possibility

There’s still some buzz surrounding the chance McCain will pick California resident Meg Whitman as his Vice Presidential pick. I don’t buy it, but here’s a few off hand reasons why or not she’d make for a decent pick: Why he...

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McCain pulls POW card on Leno

As much of an Obama supporter as I am, for a number of years I was also big on McCain. While there are some serious issues I disagree with him on, I felt he was a no bullsh*t guy with lots of integrity, more a Republican by default than effort. Even...

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