Pittsburgh Tea Party

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Pittsburgh Tribune Review

Several thousand jam North Shore for bailout ‘tea party’

By Tony LaRussa
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Saturday, April 11, 2009

Several thousand people jammed into Allegheny Landing on the North Shore Saturday afternoon for an event dubbed as a “Tea Party” to protest what they believe is excessive government spending to bail out faltering corporations and the economic stimulus package.

The keynote speaker was Alan Keyes, a conservative political activist and former diplomat under President Ronald Reagan.

He told the cheering crowd that had gathered next to the Clemente Bridge that while some of the blame for the nation’s economic woes “can be laid at the feet” of greedy Wall Street bankers and complicit politicians, they “should go home and look in the mirror” and shoulder some of the blame for not electing fiscally conservative leaders.

The event culminated with the tossing of tea bags into the Allegheny River as a symbolic jesture that harkened back to the Boston Tea Party, the iconic 1773 event in which colonists boarded ships in Boston Harbor and destroyed tea in a tax protest.

Tony LaRussa can be reached at tlarussa@tribweb.com or 412-320-7987.

copyright © 2009 by The Tribune-Review Publishing Co.

Obama’s 850 mile pizza run

When Obama tells the American public, that we have to give up a piece of the pie, I guess he wasn’t talking about his piece or his pie.

This article from The Sun tells how he flew a special chef hundreds of miles (at the public’s expense). I guess this is his way of spreading our wealth. Have you no shame, Mr. President?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2372287.ece

BARACK Obama liked a restaurant’s pizzas so much he has flown the chef 850 miles to make some at the White House.

The US President got a taste for Chris Sommers’ pizza while campaigning in St Louis, Missouri, last year.

After Mr Obama’s election win, Chris offered to deliver frozen pizzas to the White House but was told he couldn’t because of security concerns.

So he took 20lb of dough and three gallons of sauce to Washington.

Chris was due to cook lunch at the White House yesterday, reported People.com. He said: “It’s surreal. It’s a huge honour.”