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Rumsfeld Gets Icy Treatment in Taos
Albuquerque Journal ^ | Friday, March 23, 2007 | Polly Summar

Posted on 03/24/2007 10:39:57 AM PDT by woofie

TAOS— This small mountain town is known for leaving its celebrities alone. That's why Julia Roberts can shop for yarn at La Lana Wools and Anthony Hopkins (aka Hannibal Lecter) can thumb through the pages at Brodsky Bookshop undisturbed.

But Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense? That's a different story.

While living in Taos, Rumsfeld has suffered a number of public indignities, from being burned in effigy to being refused a hot chocolate by a bartender.

But last week's description of a verbal fracas aimed at Rumsfeld by writer Jeff Conant, posted on an Internet political newsletter at www.counterpunch.org, may have been the most unpleasant.

Happening across Rumsfeld, who was sitting on an outdoor deck at the Taos Ski Valley, Conant wrote that he raised his voice, saying, "Well lookee here! If it isn't Donald Rumsfeld, our favorite local war criminal!"

Conant added a few more comments before Rumsfeld's guests, who appeared to be two female Secret Service agents, stood and started toward him. Moving into the restaurant, Conant announced that Rumsfeld was outside, if anyone wanted "to tell him what you think of his war."

On Thursday, workers at the ski area were blasé about Rumsfeld and his appearances there.

"He was here at the hotel for lunch, maybe a month ago, wearing a baseball cap," said Greg Jaramillo, who was working the grill on the outdoor deck at the St. Bernard lodge. "People aren't real psyched he lives here, but I don't know that anybody really notices him much."

His co-worker, John Woolery, added, "I think there's people in Iraq who'd like to talk to him. But that's why he likes this place— nobody cares."

(Excerpt) Read more at abqjournal.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: newmexico; rummy; rumsfeld; taos
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To: woofie
"I think there's people in Iraq who'd like to talk to him...

You mean the hundreds and hundreds of thousands who,on the day the last nationwide election was held,proudly and defiantly raised their ink stained thumbs as if to say to the world "this day never could have happened with Sadaam (or his pals) in office" ?

21 posted on 03/24/2007 10:52:00 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative ("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

Significant?
Hardly.

God bless Rummy.
The years to come will prove the effectiveness of his leadership.


22 posted on 03/24/2007 10:52:03 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: concentric circles
Jeff Conant punk ass can be reached at: jeff@hesperian.org
23 posted on 03/24/2007 10:52:54 AM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: woofie
I took a deep breath, and, being on my best behavior, I said, "I can respect that." No point arguing politics with people when you've just told off the politicians themselves.

Smart move for a coward. A 75 year old man isn't as likely to knock out all of your teeth as a random stranger you choose to assault. The teeth should have been gone anyways. It's only a matter of time.

24 posted on 03/24/2007 10:53:14 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia
But it sure as hell feels good when you do it.

Especially when telling the story and exaggerating your bravery in the face of "evil" gets you laid by little Leftist Media Groupies for weeks on end - which I expect was Conant's real motivation in confronting Rumsfeld. ;)

25 posted on 03/24/2007 10:53:14 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("Wise men don't need to debate; men who need to debate are not wise." -- Tao Te Ching)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Those be the ones!!!


26 posted on 03/24/2007 10:53:40 AM PDT by GW and Twins Pawpaw (Sheepdog for Five [My grandkids are way more important than any lefty's feelings!])
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To: 3AngelaD

I wish we could throw the SOB out of the US. There are tons of leftists who spout anti-American nonsense but would never in a million years give up their US passport.


27 posted on 03/24/2007 10:54:14 AM PDT by Aikonaa
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To: woofie

Don't be surprised if this guy is lying about what he said to Rumsfeld.


http://tinyurl.com/2xahu9


An Open Letter to America



Jeff Conant



Poems from Twenty (Survey) Questions (on corporate globalization) and a Statement of Hope



Sanitation Decisions

Toilets are important
or good all over the world
for washing
hands to block the path

block the path
of germs, is to part-
icipate in filth
be a bladder infection or

toilet voice in
sanitation decisions why
women need toilets
or men need more sh*t

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28 posted on 03/24/2007 10:54:56 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: Fido969

"Hey, try refusing to serve Jesse Jackson and let me know how it turns out."

I'm more amused by the thought of what would happen if he tried to burn Jesse Jackson in effigy. Traditional style, with the noose around the neck. Freedom of speech, right?


29 posted on 03/24/2007 10:55:03 AM PDT by james500
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To: woofie

Don't worry about it, history will take care of these morons. By the time the books are written about this war, these people will be bragging that they lived near Rumsfeld.


30 posted on 03/24/2007 10:55:10 AM PDT by McGavin999 ("Hard is not Hopeless" General Petraeus)
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To: woofie

You can just tell that Jeff would enjoy
women's underwear over his head.

31 posted on 03/24/2007 10:55:29 AM PDT by Doctor Raoul (What's the difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic? The Free Clinic knows how to stop leaks.)
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To: kcvl

jeff@hesperian.org

Jeff Conant, Environmental Health Book Coordinator

1919 Addison Street, Suite 304
Berkeley, CA 94704
USA

tel: (510) 845-1447, Fax: (510) 845-9141
toll free in the US: (888) 729-1796
email: hesperian@hesperian.org


32 posted on 03/24/2007 10:55:30 AM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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To: Rummyfan
"..........the Horny Hick from Hope....."

LOL!!!

33 posted on 03/24/2007 10:55:39 AM PDT by teletech (Friends don't let friends vote DemocRAT)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

Even when this guy writes he has a lisp.


34 posted on 03/24/2007 10:56:01 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Aikonaa

Yes, it is a tragedy that Comandante Marcos was not allowed to keep him. He could insult Mexicans all day and no one would be the wiser.


35 posted on 03/24/2007 10:56:04 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
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To: woofie

Yeah, these are the same people who would prostrate themselves if the 'toon came to town, despite his adventures bombing the balkans.

This makes me sick -- Rummy is a hero.


36 posted on 03/24/2007 10:56:13 AM PDT by ellery (The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. - Edmund Burke)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia

Yeah, that exposes the writer as *exactly* what you'd expect. Such courage! Truth to power, man, truth to power!

That very phrase, "truth to power", reveals so much about the psychology of the left.


37 posted on 03/24/2007 10:56:20 AM PDT by HarryCaul (www.whitehousepresscorps.com)
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To: woofie
I'm done with this type of idiotic foolishness.

Mr. Rumsfeld is welcome in my home anytime for any length of time.
38 posted on 03/24/2007 10:56:41 AM PDT by Vision ("Be delighted with the Lord. Then he will give you all your heart's desires." Psalm37:4)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia
From a neighboring table a pair of buff, wind-tanned blonde women in puffy green ski jackets stood up and moved toward me. It was clear that they were his Secret Service escort, well-armed no doubt. I looked at the two and, in a fit of patriotic bravado, I said "I'm just expressing an opinion here. As far as I know, that's still legal. It's a free country, right?" I enclosed the word "free" in the cute little hand-gesture for quotation marks.

Pussy...

39 posted on 03/24/2007 10:56:45 AM PDT by Doctor Raoul (What's the difference between the CIA and the Free Clinic? The Free Clinic knows how to stop leaks.)
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To: woofie

I'll take Rumsfeld over the froot loop anyday.


March 13, 2007
How to Talk to a War Criminal
Greeting Rumsfeld in Taos

By JEFF CONANT


http://tinyurl.com/35es3f


40 posted on 03/24/2007 10:57:00 AM PDT by kcvl
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