See how easy it is to Re-use leftist propaganda and illustrate how Irony is lost on them?

Obama is here!

Also. Tear Gas has been deployed on protesters in Lawrenceville. They were flipping over dumpsters.

http://twitter.com/wduq_news Has good updates

Look at what I stumbled upon. Online Police Scanner for Pittsburgh!!! This should be fun tomorrow.

@PittsburghParks  via Twitter posted this great photo of an Honor Guard march for the G20 outside of Phipps Conservatory.

Welcome to Pittsburgh World!!!!  Isn’t there a standing Graveyard exhibit immediately behind the Photographer that took this photo?

Greenpeace is the first to do something spectacular at this Pittsburgh Based G20 Summit.

Human Pinatas!

Is it really bad for me to want to watch the Coast Gaurd zoom under the bridge with giant sticks?

UPDATE: PennDOT  Traffic Cam gets some GREAT Shots.

Update (12:54): All 5 Greenpeace Protesters / Rapellers apprehended.

12:30 p.m., all five Greenpeace activists apprehended on the Fort Pitt Bridge were placed under arrest, put in a Pittsburgh police van and taken away.

Update From PittGirl via Twitter @JanePitt -

“Yo, bridge-danglers, I’m really happy for you and I’ma let you finish, but Kanye West is the biggest douchebag attention whore of all time.”

It’s tax day! Unlike tax days of past years this one has drawn (as of the time of this post) roughly 194k protestors showing their disdain for the out of control government spending, bailouts, and of course Taxes.

You’d think that a true grassroots populist movement would stoak the hearts of the left. But no, standing on the shoulders of their classy leader’s preference for “retard” jokes. The left and the MSM delved into juvenile gutter humor mocking the protests with a term more commonly used in reference to a sex act.

First we have Anderson Cooper, illustrating why CNN is no longer a trusted news source.

Maybe he should have stayed on Channel 1 where the high-school children it’s shown to would be a more appropriate audience for his sophisticated humor?

Next up we have Rachel Maddow illustrating why MSNBC never was considered a “news source”

Hmm… I mean.. yea.. Totally excercising that “sophistication”

On the flip side of criticism I see that  Paul Begala is trying to use Straw Man  ”Original Tea Party” equivalences to try to discredit the very real populist outrage.

So why are a bunch of Fox News clowns and right-wing cranks hosting “tea parties” all over the country? The Boston Tea Party, in case the clods at Fox didn’t know it, protested “taxation without representation.” Note the second word: without. The goofballs tossing tea bags today have representation. They voted in the election; they lost.

Really not that big I swear.

But look at least Begala is brining up the point that Paying taxes is Patriotic.

But for the rest of us, the civilian majority, our government asks very little. Except for April 15. On this day, our government asks that we pay our fair share of taxes to keep our beloved country strong and safe.

Not one single dime. Obama’s words on raising taxes on the poor. The AP points out another campaign promise that wasn’t quite kept.

The largest increase in tobacco taxes took effect despite Obama’s promise not to raise taxes of any kind on families earning under $250,000 or individuals under $200,000.

This is one tax that disproportionately affects the poor, who are more likely to smoke than the rich.

To be sure, Obama’s tax promises in last year’s campaign were most often made in the context of income taxes. Not always.

“I can make a firm pledge,” he said in Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12. “Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”

There is a nice video over at the Post Gazette interviewing people stocking up on cigarettes before the tax.  If smoking weren’t addictive, i’d be less upset.

I’m wondering if this increase will cause enough people to quit that tax revenues will decline. That’d be sweet.

It would appear that someone is finally paying attention:

Mr. Obama, who initially said he welcomed the effort by Congress to tax bonuses, is now taking a more measured approach. The White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, said the administration would have to consider the impact of the legislation on its wider efforts to prop up banks and increase the flow of consumer credit to families and small businesses.

Personally, if I had accepted TARP money and then had rules applied to it after I had already considered and weighed the risks and accepted it I’d be pissed.  Actions like this can help make accepting future bail outs harder… though Since I oppose the bailouts anyway… ugh. Go Congress?

Yes I know Kelo is old news, but the video is nice and Cato just posted it.   Btw.  Stevens, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsberg, Breyer  were the judges.

The CBO is predicting that Obama’s budget will spiral our country’s debt to 9.3 TRILLION dollars over the next 10 years. This is a paltry 2.3 TRILLION dollars worse than the Administrations prediction:

President Barack Obama’s budget would produce $9.3 trillion in deficits over the next decade, more than four times the deficits of Republican George W. Bush’s presidency, congressional auditors said Friday.

Mr. President! Please, read your own website:

Barack Obama will restore fiscal discipline to Washington:
Obama and Biden review the federal budget line by line and eliminate programs that don’t work or are unnecessary.