Oxfam International activists, including one posing as US President Barack Obama stage a mock football game in Pittsburgh Steelers colors

Protesters Come to Oakland UNV Pitt News

G20 Riot Police Trap U of Pittsburgh Students on a Staircase and Tear Gas/Pepper Spray Them

Another "Free Tibet" photo by kdkaradio

Unions Demands Jobs to Quell Recession Pic by Mojustice

Police clash with protesters, students in Oakland

LMFAO

For folks that don't get it, Pirates set the record this year for most consecutive losing seasons

(Caution LOUD!) Sound Weapons used on American Citizens G20 Protests

Rubber Bullets by PG Admin5

This says it all

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Lovely urban neighborhood Pittsburgh police & demonstrators turned N2 madhouse by Mojustice

Demonstrators w/ signs by @Mojustice

Protesters outside Mellon institute appealing for media presence in Tibet

Monks Marching

Seeds of Peace Kitchen Bus Police Harassment

Danger: Climate Destruction Ahead - GreenPeace

Police State

@greenpeaceusa09 Bridge Protest

Message Delievered at G-20

Greenpeace activists, rappelled off of some of Pittsburghís iconic bridges with massive banners displaying their message to Group of 20 leaders gathering for the September 24 summit. The banners, one nearly 80-feet by 30-feet in size, take the form of stylized ìroad signsî that warn of the political maneuvering and delay that have put a international climate treaty in jeopardy as the world enters the final stretch on the road to Copenhagen. The banners were hung in the downtown area on September 23, 2009. More Pics

More about Me for my new Twitter Followers

This Picture isn't the best cause I copied it from The 40 Years of Rolling Stone Magazine DVD. They interviewed me and a bunch of other steelworkers back in the mid 80s when the Steel Mills were closing. The picture was taken across the river from the Carrie blast furnace that is still there. I am wearing a Save Dorothy tee shirt, we tried but she is gone now. My hair is a lot longer now and I weigh a lot more, eating much better now. If your new to the blog go back year 2006 or search the blog for my poem The Big Gray Ugly. It's about what happened when US Steal closed the Homestead Mill and the effect on our lives at the time. Folks that aren't following me I am @wolfdancer5 on Twitter.

How bout a nice cup of coffee and plywood

Irony at it's best - "Pittsburgh welcomes the world" Pic by @geeves

My Bank Down Town Boarded Up, Pic by @Mojustice

Riot cops disrupting lunch of G-20 Protesters

The Teabagger Socialist-Free Purity Pledge

From The Daily Kos

by Laura Clawson

Fri Sep 18, 2009 at 01:00:04 PM PDT

Daily Kos readers are awesome and send awesome emails:

I, ________________________, do solemnly swear to uphold the principles of a socialism-free society and heretofore pledge my word that I shall strictly adhere to the following:

I will complain about the destruction of 1st Amendment Rights in this country, while I am duly being allowed to exercise my 1st Amendment Rights.

I will complain about the destruction of my 2nd Amendment Rights in this country, while I am duly being allowed to exercise my 2nd Amendment rights by legally but brazenly brandishing unconcealed firearms in public.

I will foreswear the time-honored principles of fairness, decency, and respect by screaming unintelligible platitudes regarding tyranny, Nazi-ism, and socialism at public town halls. Also.

I pledge to eliminate all government intervention in my life. I will abstain from the use of and participation in any socialist goods and services including but not limited to the following:

• Social Security
• Medicare/Medicaid
• State Children’s Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP)
• Police, Fire, and Emergency Services
• US Postal Service
• Roads and Highways
• Air Travel (regulated by the socialist FAA)
• The US Railway System
• Public Subways and Metro Systems
• Public Bus and Lightrail Systems
• Rest Areas on Highways
• Sidewalks
• All Government-Funded Local/State Projects (e.g., seeIowa 2009 federal senate appropriations)
• Public Water and Sewer Services (goodbye socialist toilet, shower, dishwasher, kitchen sink, outdoor hose!)
• Public and State Universities and Colleges
• Public Primary and Secondary Schools
• Sesame Street
• Publicly Funded Anti-Drug Use Education for Children
• Public Museums
• Libraries
• Public Parks and Beaches
• State and National Parks
• Public Zoos
• Unemployment Insurance
• Municipal Garbage and Recycling Services
• Treatment at Any Hospital or Clinic That Ever Received Funding From Local, State or Federal Government (pretty much all of them)
• Medical Services and Medications That Were Created or Derived From Any Government Grant or Research Funding (again, pretty much all of them)
• Socialist Byproducts of Government Investment Such as Duct Tape and Velcro (Nazi-NASA Inventions)
• Use of the Internets, email, and networked computers, as the DoD's ARPANET was the basis for subsequent computer networking
• Foodstuffs, Meats, Produce and Crops That Were Grown With, Fed With, Raised With or That Contain Inputs From Crops Grown With Government Subsidies
• Clothing Made from Crops (e.g. cotton) That Were Grown With or That Contain Inputs From Government Subsidies

If a veteran of the government-run socialist US military, I will forego my VA benefits and insist on paying for my own medical care

I will not tour socialist government buildings like the Capitol in Washington, D.C.

I pledge to never take myself, my family, or my children on a tour of the following types of socialist locations, including but not limited to:

• Smithsonian Museums such as the Air and Space Museum or Museum of American History
• The socialist Washington, Lincoln, and Jefferson Monuments
• The government-operated Statue of Liberty
• The Grand Canyon
• The socialist World War II and Vietnam Veterans Memorials
• The government-run socialist-propaganda location known as Arlington National Cemetery
• All other public-funded socialist sites, whether it be in my state or in Washington, DC

I will urge my Member of Congress and Senators to forego their government salary and government-provided healthcare.

I will oppose and condemn the government-funded and therefore socialist military of the United States of America.

I will boycott the products of socialist defense contractors such as GE, Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Raytheon, Humana, FedEx, General Motors, Honeywell, and hundreds of others that are paid by our socialist government to produce goods for our socialist army.

I will protest socialist security departments such as the Pentagon, FBI, CIA, Department of Homeland Security, TSA, Department of Justice and their socialist employees.

Upon reaching eligible retirement age, I will tear up my socialist Social Security checks.

Upon reaching age 65, I will forego Medicare and pay for my own private health insurance until I die.

SWORN ON A BIBLE AND SIGNED THIS DAY OF __________ IN THE YEAR ___.

_____________ _________________________

Signed Printed Name/Town and State

Mary Travers, a Member of the 1960s Folk Trio Peter, Paul and Mary, Has Died

Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol on Kindle is Amazon top seller

I Love My Kindle

Jim Carroll Band - Catholic Boy

R.I.P. Jim Carroll

The Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died

We’re #37! The Musical Genius of Paul Hipp…

Thanks to SHANNYN MOORE: JUST A GIRL FROM HOMER

Fear of A Black President

Unlike RayGun Obama didn't indoctrinate School Kids.

The Great Indoctrinator: Reagan pushed conservative ideology in speech broadcast to schools

From The DailyKos

In a speech broadcast to classrooms nationwide in 1988, Ronald Reagan pushed his anti-government, low-tax ideology, adding that he had supported "Negro" educational institutions.