GOING GREEN EDITION

Let It All Hang Out

Greenpeace are the first of the freaks to try and disturb the residents of the city. This morning they hung a banner off of the West End Bridge on the Ohio River. A few of their co-horts were arrested on the Fort Duquesne Bridge trying unfurl another banner. For several hours police negotiated with the bridge hangers about coming up and surrendering to the police. A special report by a reporter-ette for WPXI said that the police were very respectful to the protesters and the protesters were very cordial to the police.

Their spokesman said that the police just needed to "Step back, take a deep breath and let the protesters exercise their right to protest."

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Their right to protest? When you hang off a bridge, blocking traffic and disrupting everyone's life, you are no longer just protesting.

Me? I would have taken my ten inch "Rambo" knife out and cut the rope letting these protesters drop into the river. They wouldn't have drowned as the Coast Guard and Pittsburgh River Rescue were under the bridge, but traffic wouldn't have been disrupted as long as it was and people who are out WORKING and MAKING A LIVING wouldn't have had to put up with this nonsense.

Please give me a moment to pull my knuckles up off the ground so I can continue.

The funny thing about all of this is that these protesters have been arrested, will spend some time in the pokey and pay a fine ALL FOR A CAUSE THAT DOESN'T EXIST!

Global warming has been debunked, it' junk science and it doesn't exist. So these little bunch of freaks will waste the police's time and resources to unfurl a banner that doesn't matter.

Time For A Cute Little Story About Greenpeace

Several years ago, somehow or another I got put onto Greenpeace's mailing list. I would get these letters with pictures of whales and baby seals asking me to send a donation to help Greenpeace in their efforts. In the self addressed stamped envelope I would enclose a nice letter (It really was) saying that I did not believe in their cause and would they please remove me from their mailing list.

The second time, the letter was a little stronger, but the message was the same. The third time, I got a large box that a pair of boots came in. I loaded it with bricks, wrapped the box and affixed the self addressed stamped envelope onto the box. I gleefully took it down to the Post-Office. I giggled as the Mailman asked me what was in the box. I told him flat out what it was. It was bricks. He laughed and I asked him how much this was going to cost Greenpeace. It was well over $30! Needless to say, I was removed from their mailing list.

Oh, it also worked with the RNC.

Speaking of people who's cause has passed

Al "The Earth Has A Fever" Gore will be in town tonight spreading his own special brand of manure all over Point State Park. He will hold a "Global Whatever" rally in the park, there's suppose to be musical acts, but all I have seen is the clowns.

Now I may be an "Evil Conservative, but I actually do like the Earth that God has created and where I live. I know that comes as a shock to most liberals, but conservatives drink the same water, breath the same air and believe it or not, like to have both clean. Being a member of the scouts for many years I follow the "Leave No Trace" program. We leave wherever we have been the way it was, if not cleaner. We don't dump garbage in the parks and we don't take a dump in the rivers. No one in their right mind doesn't want clean air and water and no one wants to see the earth blow up. We just aren't freaks who don't have anything else to do but protest.

Like this freak from "Everybody's Kitchen" the group from Montana who as Johnny Mac (and I HATE giving this clown any free publicity) are being harassed by the Pittsburgh Police who are using their "Gestapo" and "Storm Trooper" tactics on. (Take a look at that bus, that's the good one!) This is the group that "Just wants to feed people." That's what Burger King and McDonald's are in business for.

As I have said, I am all for protest. Right now I'd like to protest the fact that most of these freaks need a bath. The sixties have come and gone, as are the "valid" causes they protested.

If they are serious about making the world a better place, they could get a job, buy the world a Coke and protest what really matters! Protest the out of control government spending, the government taking over industries they have no business in being involved in, bailing out the real crooks in Wall Street and in Congress. How about real and MEANINGFUL reform of the health care system and not just taking over 1/6th of the economy and giving everyone the same crappy coverage? How about securing our borders so we have an idea who is crossing them and what they are carrying?
Just a SAMPLE of what the visiting delegations will be getting in their "goodie bag". They can get a "personalized" Pittsburgh Penguin Jersey or an autographed puck, a Terrible Towel and an autographed Pittsburgh Pirate hat. Can't you just imagine seeing Angela Merkel in a Penguin Jersey? I don't even want to know where Nicolas Sarkozy and Silvio Berlusconi will use their Terrible Towels. As for the Pirate hat, to use an old Beano Cook line, haven't they suffered enough?

From my undisclosed location I am being told that the Saudi delegation is on it's way to the city. Time to go and see the guys with the nice bath robes and towels.

Break From The Insanity

We interrupt your G-20 coverage for real news, well sort of.

Can there be anything else more tragic than a fire, flood or Tornado hitting your home? Everything you own, the memories, your safe habitat gone. People in the south from Tennessee to Georgia are suffering the effects of mother nature and are returning to their homes to find how much of their lives they have to rebuild.
Our thoughts, prayer and broken hearts go out to each and everyone of these families who are returning home to see the full scope of this disaster.
Meanwhile, some people just need a little to get by. At least that's the PR they are trying to spin. Muammar Gadaffy Duck has set up his tent on Libya's property in New Jersey much to the dismay of BHO's State Department. Don't worry, Muammar does have some comforts, as you will see his satellite dish is hooked up so that he won't have to miss "Wheel of Fortune."
I am not a fan of Plaxico Burress. I think while he's a gifted athlete, you can put some mustard on him because he's a big hot dog. Burress went to jail yesterday for two years because his gun went off in a night club and he shot himself in the leg. First of all, New York's guns laws are the most restrictive in the United States and should be over turned. The Mayor Michael Bloomberg is a whack job in himself, saying before the trial that Burress should get the maximum to set an example. Put aside the gun argument, he's lost his job, he's been suspended by the NFL and mostly he's been embarrassed in front of his peers for SHOOTING HIMSELF. In this case, I don't think jail is the answer. You shouldn't have to do jail time for being stupid! Community Service and probation should be enough.

Well, Greenpeace just started their portion of protest week, check back later for more updates.

Pittsburgh Held Hostage Day Two

ACME SUPPLY COMPANY DELIVERS!

This report is a BLAST!

You knew it was going to happen. With all the hype leading up to this weeks G-20, the Security is here, the media is half here and the protesters are here. Just outside of the Golden Triangle is the city neighborhood of Shadyside. Shadyside is upscale, full of liberals and Yuppies. Most of the Yuppies (If not all of them) are liberal, but they like their Starbucks and upscale clothing boutiques. Funny, but the first place targeted was Shadyside. Someone found a package placed inside a planter (fashionably placed outside an upscale hair salon) with wires and writing on it that said TNT. (Wylie Coyote call your office.) If it were a real bomb, would they really write TNT on it?
No problem, the SWAT Team was called in. These guys have been overworked this year and they needed this like they need a hole in the head. The MacYapper has been ragging the Pittsburgh Police this week, saying how they are the problem, they are so dumb that they can't wait to crack heads, etc, etc, etc. I would love to be there the next time they stop his Pacer.
So, the SWAT Team comes as does the Bomb Squad and they "defuse" Wylie's home made cigar. Probably a trial run for their diversion latter this week.

Somebody's Been A Lying

Young Mayor Luke Skywalker said today that Pittsburgh was the ONLY city that was ever considered to host the G-20. Young Skywalker said that it was a big honor and we should be proud that we were the ONLY city even considered for this major event. Young Luke was not tethered to his trainer "Obi Dan Kenobi" and must not have read the memo left by the Allegheny County Chief Executive.
Over the weekend, Dandy Dan was on the radio talking about the upcoming G-20. According to Dan, they received a call about hosting the summit and they we "muling" it over as other cities had flat out rejected the idea. While they were tossing the idea back and forth, they received a call from the White House saying that they HAD been selected and that they WILL host the summit.

From what I have found out was that at least 13 other cities had turned down the opportunity to host the event and that Pittsburgh was forced to take the event. There was no discussion, the White House wasn't going to be rejected again and henceforth, the "Burg got stuck with being the host city.

Copters and Boats and Cars OH MY!

The United States Coast Guard has shut down the Three Rivers surrounding the city. Across the river from the Convention Center, you can't even use the park that is in front of the new ALCOA Building. Helicopters from the Coast Guard, National Guard, Secret Service and God knows who else are flying all over the place. Speed boats race up and down the river, it is just so EXCITING! It's like the Regatta never left!
If you are within 20 miles of the Golden Triangle, you would see and hear so many helicopters, you would think there was an air show going on. Every hour security gets ramped up another notch. It's a pain in the butt if you NEED to go into the city, but pretty exciting otherwise. In this day and age, it is unfortunate, but you need to have HEAVY security to protect the world's leaders and BHO too! By Tomorrow night, the city will in effect be locked down and ready for the motorcades to come rolling into the city. There are conflicting reports of where the leaders will stay. Some reports say they will be staying in the city, other reports say they will be staying at the Nemacolin Resort, located in Fayette County about 50 miles outside of the city. If that is the case, Marine One will be busy bringing the dignitaries into the city. Otherwise you'll see a lot of black SUVS and Limos flying through the city with their security details.
Smile for the nice man with the nice rifle!

With all the Black SUVS flying around the city it's plain to see why the government doesn't want you to buy one. THEY WANT THEM FOR THEMSELVES! Wonder if they bought any during that "Cash For Clunkers" sale?
I swear to God that the last time I saw this many black SUVS parked in one spot is when I drove by the GM factory that makes them! I wonder what the discount is for the government when you buy like FIVE THOUSAND of them at a time? I wouldn't mind buying one of these used. You know they have been taken care of, kept clean inside and out! You know these guys don't want to get inside a car that would dirty their black suits. Maybe they would leave you a pair of those Ray Bans they wear.

Soup Kitchen Woes.

There's a group from Montana that has come to Pittsburgh to "cook" for the protesters. They originally camped out in Lawrenceville (which is a neighborhood just outside of the "Downtown" area. Well the "Fuzz" kept hassling them that the owner of the property told them to leave. Well as they were leaving, the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Division stopped them and made sure they donated to the city. Well, they drove around and drove around and found one of our old school buildings and set up shop there. Well those nasty Policemen came and hassled them some more. The ACLU filed charges against the Police with a Federal court and had a hearing today. Guess what? They TOSSED the charges. So now they are on the Northside running their generators and smoking out the residents.

Now if you would see the bus and the people inside of it, several thoughts would come to mind. The first thought is "Gee, they don't have a shower on that bus" and the second would be, "Are they with the circus? I haven't seen that many clowns come out of a vehicle since I was at the circus!" It makes for great television. "All we want to do is feed the people," was all this maggot infested, pot smoking, FM type, kept saying. "The Cops just keep hassling us!" My guess is that a resident of the area will accidentally drop a lit cigarette and the bus will be a memory.

From what we are being told now, more roads are going to be closed. Thank God I am hunkered down in my "undisclosed" location.

See you tomorrow kiddos!

The FREAKS Are In The House!

Welcome to Pittsburgh FREAKS! Protest marches started Sunday and are continuing today and through the rest of the week. This afternoon during a live remote, KDKA-TV reporter Andy Sheehan was interviewing a cute little protester about her protest. A few of her fellow protesters were dressed like world leaders and pretending to be asleep. At 12:18, an alarm went off and the world leaders "woke up" to the cries of protest about the environment.

When he asked her if they were going to stay non-violent, the little cutie kept saying "We are so happy to be here in Pittsburgh." She wouldn't give an answer to the question, so that either tells me they are planning something or trying to fake everyone out to get them so more attention. From the looks of her, she wouldn't want to get her nails dirty, so I'm guessing they just want the attention.
Code Pink (O) has set up their "tent" city inside Point State Park, at least for today and tomorrow hen their permit expires. Of course they are all full of love and dope, crying for the children of the world. Others were marching and singing Kum-By-Ya and "We are the world," as they marched through the city. (I know something about tents from being in the scouts and I can tell you a swift gust of wind will send them into the Mon River!)

One guy called news reporter and talk show host Marty Griffin the other day. With all the freaks expected this week and the fear of destruction of property he had a unique prospective on things. His idea was that all the people who showed up for the Steeler's and Penguin's parades all go to Lowes and get axe handles. (Shades of Lester Maddox) With the axe handles they could protect the downtown businesses better than the Police could and do things the Police couldn't do. After the G-20 was over, you could just return to axe handles to Lowes! (I may be wrong, but I don't think Lowes is in the business of tool rental.)

I have a relative that works for a financial institution in the city. (I can't say which one) Now the financial institutions in this city have spent MILLIONS of dollars to protect their buildings and workers. They were told that the intelligence they have obtained said that the protesters were going to target workers of these institutions on Tuesday and that you should wear "old" clothes as they were planning to shoot the workers with urine and feces.

I can tell you that if one of these FREAKS would try that with me, my Lester Maddox Limited Edition Axe Handle would be firmly embedded in their head. As they were thrashing around on the ground with whatever gray matter they had left (after smokin' their dope) flowing out, after I would reach into my coat pocket and pull out my can of RAID and give them a nice shot in the eyes.

Thankfully, like Marty Griffin, as an influential member of the media, I will be at an "undisclosed location" with a birds eye view of the freak show going on around me and will be quite safe and won't have to worry about any confrontation.

(I will still have my can of RAID with me though)

It's almost laughable that the freaks who are doing this helped put BHO in office and now they are protesting HIM!

OMG, LOL!! How can you protest the "Messiah?" He's the "Chosen One," our "Savior." There are images of BHO as Jesus Christ!! How can you protest "HIM?" Holy Batman Robin! "Oh the humanity!"

Did these people not get the memo? BHO is one of them and they are ready to take him down? Talk about eating your young! The fact is, BHO is now a full fledged member of the establishment, he knows the secret hand shake and has his own key to the executive washroom. These are anarchist who won't work within the system, but will do everything they can to bring down the system.

Look, I am all for demonstrating and making your point. If you want to march and shout, you have every right to do that without being impeded. That your right and my right. If you want to carry a sign saying you hate this country, knock yourself out. If you want to shout nasty, vile poems and chants that don't rhyme, be my guest. If you want to lay down in the street and let people use you like a door mat, hey more power to you.

It's when you throw urine, feces, paint, skunk urine, slim or anything else at someone else that I have a problem. That's not free speech and it's not a form of expression. When you throw a USA Today dispenser through a window, light a molotov cocktail and throw it anywhere, or over turn any car, break windows and destroy things, that is not part of free speech.

So to the demonstrators and freaks I say, Welcome to Pittsburgh! Stop at a bar have a draft beer and pay our 10% drink tax! Unwind at the casino, have dinner, enjoy the city. Take a lot of pictures and tell your friends about our nice town.

If you try and destroy things, don't come a crying when a Lester Maddox want-a-be opens up your head with an axe handle. Play nice!

During Pittsburgh's "Summit Week" this correspondent will be giving you daily updates and more as the situation warrants.

Pittsburgh A City Of The Future!

Welcome to G-20 week! If you live or work in the City of Pittsburgh, you have been warned through the media and the representatives in the city to stay away, well sort of. You can come into the city, but you can't drive and most public transportation will drop you on the outskirts of the city, or as we Pittsburghers' called it, "Dawntown." About a quarter of the city is a "restricted" zone for obvious reasons and the anarchist have their destruction plans ready to go.

So I pick up the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette today and see BHO's picture on the front page and a headline that says: "Obama Calls Pittsburgh A Model For The Future."

Before I go any further I want to say that I love this city. There is no prettier side than driving through the Fort Pitt Tunnels and being greeted by the "Golden Triangle." To you left will be the new casino, the Carnegie Science Center, Heinz Field and PNC Park. Straight ahead you will see some of the most beautiful skyscrapers in this country. There's PPG Place which looks like a glass castle, the old US Steel Building (now holding the letters UPMC on top), the Koppers Building, the Mellon Bank Tower, I could go on and on. It is a beautiful city. The fountain at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers where the Ohio River starts is astounding and everyone should see it as photos does not do it justice.

The city is a great place to raise a family. The cost of living is low. The city is home to some of the greatest medical innovations known to man, from the discovery of the vaccine for Polio to the pioneering of transplants, our hospitals are some of the best in the world. For education, Pittsburgh can't be beat with some of the best Universities in the country such as The University of Pittsburgh, Duquesne University, Point Park University, Robert Morris University, LaRoche College and Carnegie-Mellon University just to name a few.

It is home to the three time Stanley Cup Champions Pittsburgh Penguins, the nine time College Football National Champions Pitt Panthers, five time World Series Champion Pittsburgh Pirates and the six time Superbowl Champions Pittsburgh Steelers. The city and surrounding areas have produced such notable sport figures as Dan Marino, Joe Namath, Joe Montana, Mike Ditka, Tony Dorsett and a list that would fill a notebook.

The point is, this is a great city and a city that I love and could have left, but didn't.

It is not a city of the future.

It is if you consider a city of the future one that is insolvent and thirty years behind the times. I don't.

One of the problems is that the city has been run by the same party for over 70 years and while some advances have been made, the problem is that the "machine" controls everything and allot of things don't get done. We have three beautiful rivers that until recently have not been developed. It has only been in the last ten years or so that they have even started to develop the rivers resources. The "downtown" area is a mess. Recently there has been some redevelopment, but not enough to really change the make up of the city. The "Fifth and Forbes" corridor (the area in between the two major streets running through the city) needs to be redone, but politics and historical groups have stopped all progress.

While this is a great city, but just because a couple of new "green" buildings have gone up does not make it a "City of the future." The city needs to get it's house in order, lower the tax rate for businesses and workers, have another "Renaissance" that makes this city viable again for business. Less than 20 years ago Pittsburgh was home to more Fortune 500 Companies than any other city except for New York. Today, there are less than five. Allegheny County has a White Elephant 13 miles from the city known as the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport. When it was built it was one of the most beautiful airports in the country. Today it is a ghost town with three and a half of it's four concourses closed. Flights in and out of the airport as less than one third of what they were even 10 years ago. Business needs to be nurtured and brought back into the region before it becomes the city it once was.

While Pittsburgh is a great place, it is NOT sadly, a "City of The Future."

Nice Work Comrade!

George Bush was a Cowboy, a disgrace to the United States. The world hates us because of him. European leaders think he's an idiot. We need someone who the rest of the world will respect, someone who will repair the relations severed by George Bush's actions!

For eight years we heard that. For eight years and two elections we heard how we need someone, someone like John Kerry or BHO who will repair the relationships with the European leaders that evil George Bush wrecked.

So, um, How's that working out for you?

In case you haven't heard, BHO has scrapped plans to build a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic. Poland is saying the "US sold us out" and the Czech's are singing from the same hymnal. BHO says there are better systems out there and the United States is going a different route.

What that route is has yet to be determined. For the near future (and further down the road) the United States will protect Europe using the Navy's defense systems onboard ships now deployed in the Med. (That's the Mediterranean Ocean for those of you in McKeesport PA)

I have all the faith in the world in our Navy. It holds a deep and special place in my heart, having served our great country as a Naval Petty Officer, but to base the whole defense of one continent on a couple of ships is beyond me.

Make no mistake about this, the French are nervous as are the Germans. Italy and Spain are not sleeping well and neither is the rest of Eastern Europe. One day after BHO made his announcement, another announcement came out that Iran "probably" already has a nuclear weapon. Makes me want to go out and book that European vacation tomorrow.

Vladimir Putin is a happy guy. He finally has a US President who will follow his orders. See the Russians have deals in place with Iran and now that great comic in Venezuela Hugo the great. He supplies the technology for the nukes and they supply him with the oil he needs to keep his Zils running through the streets of Moscow.

Oh and for those of you who think the former head of the KGB is not the one really running the show in Russia, I have this bridge in Brooklyn and some prime swamp land in Florida I'd like to talk to you about. Make no mistake. Vladimir is the straw that stirs the drink in Russia. (Sorry Reggie)

Putin was furious with Bush for first coming up with the idea of the missile defense system for Eastern Europe and then for not backing down when Putin demanded that the idea be scrapped.

See Vladimir is use to getting his way and old "W" was not buying it, even though he looked deeply into those beautiful eyes of Putin and said he could see into his soul.

So let's review what we learned. Israel will probably have to go it alone against Iran and if they fail, Eastern and Central Europe will probably have to pay part of the price. Remember Mahmound I'm-a-nut-job's threat to Europe as well as Israel?

Do you really think the leaders of Europe have the same amount of respect for BHO as they did Bush?

So I'll ask again?

How's that working out for you?

Nancy's Chickens Are Coming Home

With sincere apologies to Reverend Jeremiah Wright. "Queen Nancy Pelosi's chickens are coming home........to roost."

On Thursday, Queen Nancy was asked a question, something along the line of are you fearful of violence, or something asinine like that. Queen Nancy trying to redo the old Smokey Robinson and the Miracles song, "Tears of a Clown" got all choked up and said: “I have concerns about some of the language that is being used because I saw … I saw this myself in the late '70s in San Francisco,” Pelosi said, choking up and with tears forming in her eyes. “This kind of rhetoric is just, is really frightening and it created a climate in which we, violence took place and … I wish that we would all, again, curb our enthusiasm in some of the statements that are made."

Several things just jump out at me and I could write for hours on just that statement, but in order to spare you dear reader, I'll just hit the highlights.

When George W Bush was President, the left (of which Queen Nancy is a part of) said things like, "Dissent is good, it's healthy, IT'S AMERICAN."

Now that the left is in control (for now) all of a sudden it's "frightening" creating a climate of "violence."

The left truly has no shame.

At the beginning of the protest, it was Queen Nancy who called the demonstrators "Nazis." It was Queen Nancy who said the movement was "Astro-Turf." It was Queen Nancy who took a five gallon can of gasoline and poured it onto an already smoldering fire! Now she's afraid of the violence? What violence? I have not heard of one act of violence coming from the conservatives or constitutionalists.

Maybe Queen Nancy is looking into her crystal ball, looking into the future and knowing how she and the other members of congress are screwing the American people and she knows they can only take so much, maybe she's fearful of what she's done.

Will she be hypocritical enough to write the Pope a ten page letter asking him to pray for her?

The left who have control of the congress are screwing the American people and they know it. They also know they are going to pay. Their approval rating is just a tick above 23%. That's even lower than that of the evil George Bush.

They now have a record, one that the American people can see and understand. They own all the legislation passed since January 2009. They (and BHO) own the "stimulus" package. They own "Cap & Tax." They plan on owning "Health Care Reform." They own it and YOU know it.

Some of them got a healthy dose of it this August if they were brave enough to hold "town hall meetings." The one's that didn't, they know, believe me they know. Some like Barney Frank could care less what you and I think. They are much more smarter than we are and they know what's best for us. Without them, we would be lost, without a rudder or a paddle. Thank God we have them.

Some like Chuckie Schumer don't have a clue. Chuckie is too busy running to get in front of a camera. (Three tourist this week were injured as Chuckie fought to get in front of their cam-corder.)

Some, like Arlen Specter are sweating bullets (no pun intended) knowing they probably will be sent home packing in November 2010.

My biggest fear right now is that this group of jackasses will loose in 2010 and in between the period from November and January, they will shove something down our throats as a going away present.

I could go on and comment about the "violence" Queen Nancy saw in San Francisco in the late 70's, but the doctor doesn't want my blood pressure going up THAT much.

If Queen Nancy and her band of minions are so afraid of violence, if they are living in fear, cowering behind their desk. If they feel that the American people are going to get violent and take it out on them, then they can put a stop to it. They can as Barney Fife would say "Nip it, Nip it in the bud."

The can stop screwing the American people.

They can finally do the right thing, for once it their career.

Just do the right thing.