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Marked in Pgh on Friday, September 25, 2009 1:28:17 PM
A quick update. Pittsburgh's still standing, downtown clear (of business). I was downtown and didn't see many demonstrators. The biggest gathering of people were about twenty young Chinese tourists wandering around seeming to wonder what all the fuss was about. This was nothing compared to what happened in Beijing twenty years when the Chinese were demonstrating for freedom. There were a lot of buses and military vehicles and personnel, but no one stopped me as I walked around visiting friends. There were people on the street going to and from their work from the Blvd. of the Allies to Penn Avenue. The demonstrators were on the other side of the Lawrence Convention Center in the Strip District and Lawrenceville and I didn't see them. I heard on the radio that there were only about a thousand demonstrating along with their ACLU lawyers making fools of themselves. But they were outnumbered by bystanders with cameras watching and photgraphing some passing side show. After the 9-12 Tea Party in Washington the G-20 demonstrators were only smattering of pathetic spoiled brats and burned out 60's refugees. I was in town on Wednesday and saw some of the gray haired rejects from forty years ago wandering around and looking lost and apparently still suffering from the effects of the bad brown acid at Woodstock. The vitality is now on the right, so do not be discouraged, we are winning.