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The Mile of Murals public art initiative began in 2007, with the goal of nurturing and celebrating the neighborhood’s artistic persona with over 14,000 square feet of murals. Murals of every description brighten underpasses, overpasses, and viaducts, among other “urban canvases,” all over the neighborhood
Chicago, IL
Each of the presidential candidates has shown how well he responds to criticism in real life situations. (This is not one of them.)
The original photo was of tortilla making in rural Mexico. Photoleap was used to create this image.
Dexus Rolander shows his support for King Fernando of Eslandola and own leadership capabilities for the party in rather unusual fashion. There's no denying the efficacy of it on the masses - who wouldn't want to support whatever faction this guy does?
This was fun, :D Had to do a 12x12 "prominently featuring the color green," so, of course, crocodile! Also, 12x12 is awfully small!!! Hahaha!
Built for the Return of the King mini-challenge that Captain B, Kai, and I are hosting over on Eurobricks. Check it out over in the Brethren of the Brick Seas!
C&C welcome as always! :D
Matthias Schaller considers the opera house an indirect portrait of the nation of Italy in its poltical, anthropological and historical dimensions. He photographed over 150 opera houses across the country.
The nightmare is over! Well, that’s an oversimplification. In my joy at Trump’s defeat, I keep mixing up the end of this election with the end of the pandemic. They sit next to each other in one big box of hope. And I have to keep reminding myself to put on my mask before I leave the house. But the votes show Trumpism is not dead. The President won 48% of the vote.
While pondering that number is numbing, it’s also deceiving. In a recent Facebook thread of decidedly progressive friends, someone said everyone who voted for Trump was a “deplorable” and lacked any sense of humanity. My reaction was immediate. “They aren’t all ‘deplorable,’” I replied. To look at these things in high contrast, as black or white, is one of our country’s challenges. Yes, there are racists who voted for Trump. And the GOP’s heavy hitters, Mitch McConnell, Ted Cruz, Mike Pompeo, and Lindsey Graham are walking a fine line between challenging votes (which is Donald Trump’s right) and partisan and often inflammatory statements which question Americans’ right to vote.
But there are also those who voted for what they saw as their best economic interests (selfish perhaps, but deplorable?). There are also those who voted against their best economic interests, voting instead because Trump supported an end to women’s right to choose and other conservative wedge issues. There are also those who are afraid of change. It’s scary. The country’s changing. Demographics are changing. And technology is changing the way we work. People are finding themselves out of a job because those jobs no longer exist. There is a lack of critical thinking. Most of us don’t question our own biases. We follow the tenets of our tribe. And infecting everything is the pandemic.
Politics is messy. Republicans tried to make this a referendum between socialism and capitalism. They conveyed the debate in oversimplistic and fearmongering ways, harkening back to the Cold War. In 2019, McConnell said, “I never thought in my lifetime we would be debating the virtues of capitalism… having serious presidential candidates suggesting we ought to have socialism in this country. We’re going to have a great debate in 2020 about the very essence of America.” Sadly, there was no “great debate,” only name calling. Later McConnell stated, “For the first time in my memory, I actually agree with Nancy Pelosi: I am the grim reaper when it comes to stopping the Democrats’ socialist agenda.” I heard from relatives who grew up in the Soviet Union: “Joe Biden is a socialist! I lived in a socialist country. I know.” No facts could dissuade them. To do so, I’d have to convince them to look closely at the essence of this issue and not the words—to think critically. I let go.
We weren’t talking about Communism (ironic since we’ve been living with an authoritarian president for the last four years). We were and are talking about programs to help people through these very tumultuous times. We are also debating the role of government and corporations in that effort. This also means taking another look at the failures of capitalism. Trump based his “successful” economy on the stock market. But many are living paycheck-to-paycheck or have lost their jobs to the pandemic, globalism, or technological change. They can’t afford to invest. And corporations, which have focused on what’s best for their investors, should start rewarding the workers who have been an integral part of their success. It’s a discussion worth having. But not by tagging it with knee-jerk words.
The vast majority of Americans voted for a political climate change: dialing down the rhetoric and misuse of power and putting our country ahead of partisan politics. Yes, a reckoning is in order. How can we prevent this from happening again? If Mitch McConnell wants a debate, let’s have one about how to embrace the Constitution and the original intent of our Founders, while acknowledging they couldn’t possibly have predicted the changes occurring in our 21st century society. The only way we will reform our country is to reconcile, to come together for the greater good. Compromise was an important foundation at the beginning of our country. And it remains so.
COVID-19 is apolitical. It’s one concern all Americans share, be it for our families or communities. And our individual actions have a cascading effect throughout the nation. It’s unconscionable and deadly when we’ve become “Patient Zero” in our towns because we didn’t take precautions. We need to protect each other. Exit polls showed voters were most concerned about the coronavirus and the economy. What often gets lost is they are intrinsically linked. Our economy is critical to our success. But to get there we have to follow science, not politics. The more we adhere to scientific evidence, the quicker we’ll be able to get past this health emergency and address our economy. This is the political climate change this election heralded. Remember, there are millions of Americans who are suffering. And our wounds run deep. It is every American’s responsibility to lend a hand—even if we can’t agree on everything.
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Follow the history of our country's political intransigence from 2010-2020 through a seven-part exhibit of these posters on Google Arts & Culture.
Dang, what a time to call an election. Just as the hive is reaching peak activity, buzzing with bee-dancing, spring coursing through us all. It's May. The month and our overlord. Looking towards my future self in June I can only comment 'he misses May'. Well Mrs May, make hay while the sun shines eh?
It's just possible that elections are better called (Saul) in November, I wouldn't be so busy smelling the sweet scent of wildflowers and watching the scudding swallows over the meadows. Perhaps I would have space inside my head for politics or maybe I could sleep through it all.
This is a party political broadcast on behalf of the Outlaw Sauce Sachets Society
Does this really need explaining? On how many levels of wrong are sachets of sauce?
Let me write you a list:-
- Each sachet has enough sauce to satisfy the requirements of a small mollusc if that mollusc wwas attempting to eat an all day breakfast. At least five are required in all cases (sachets not molluscs)
- If your fingers are at all greasy you can't open the bloody things anyway
- When you do manage to open the pathetically small sachet a highly skilled sachet operative will still only manege to get half of the contents onto their plate. The other half will remain in the sachet, will get on your fingers or you will wear it in some way
- Often there are 900 sachets of vinegar, two of mayo and precisely none of ketchup. Something must be done!
Oh hang on, mid campaign we've had a rebrand...
This a partly poltical rant on behalf of the legalise carrying your own bottle of sauce into the greasy spoon party.
- Greasy cafes, posh and otherwise take note. Once I have paid £5-8 for a fry up you will totally destroy any pleasure I am anticipating if you ask me if I want any sauces and you give me a plastic mouse sized lilo. I'd rather have no sauce at all you total b********!
- First they come for your sauce bottles, then what?
I'm not being flippant honest ;-) and I am not apathetic but the world is still turning.
While photographing this this morning the wood was alive with the glory of life, a dozen warblers ejecting waves of wobbly song and the power and energy of growth kicking the door down to my soul, the breeze teased and the hazy sunshine oscillated between milky and piercing me with warming rays.
The air a-buzz with hyped up invertebrates and despite my mind filters only letting in a little of all this inveterate splendour eveything is there in that moment.
And I am whole.
Donald Trump is on trial in the Senate. Evidence was gathered and presented in the House, but the President and his administration refused to allow important officials with direct information to testify: people like Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former National Security Advisor John Bolton, and White House Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney.
From the beginning, it's been clear Republican Senators would like to sweep this "inconvenience" under the rug. The Party is Trump's now. He has shown he is ruthlessly vindictive. And, any defectors will be severely punished. Simply, they are afraid for their careers and have put them ahead of our country.
During the Senate trial, new evidence has come to light: Lev Parnas' texts and testimony about the President's actions to withhold funds and arms until Ukraine opened an investigation on the Bidens, a dinner party audio tape of Parnas accusing American Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch of telling Ukrainians that Trump will be impeached, and at the same dinner, Trump telling guests to "get rid of" the Ambassador. And, now leaked parts of Bolton's upcoming book confirm Trump held back Ukrainian aid until they announced an investigation of the Bidens. The New York Times reported Bolton's attorney submitted his manuscript to the White House for review of classified information on December 30, 2019. This gave the White House a sense of what a Bolton testimony could do to the President's case and made blocking his testimony even more critical.
Will this make any difference? Despite all this new evidence, most Republican Senators see no need to enter new evidence. Maine Senator Susan Collins wondered why this new information wasn't part of the House's investigation (even though the President refused to cooperate and Parnas was given permission to reveal his information by a judge only after the House had concluded its investigation). When told this, Collins unbelievably replied, "Doesn’t that suggest that the House did an incomplete job, then?" Where is the interest in justice?
With Bolton's revelations, it might make it more difficult to ignore the call for witnesses. But, he also becoming a pariah in the Republican Party. The White House has described him as "disgruntled employee" who took memos he should have left behind. And, Republican Senators are distancing themselves from him.
It is despairing to see those we've elected and trusted with our country to act in such a cavalier way. A recent poll shows that 71% of Republicans want Mitch McConnell to call witnesses. As evidence mounts, the coverup to protect the President reveals the corruption at the highest levels of our government.
This impeachment trial is a whitewash.
See the rest of the posters from the Chamomile Tea Party! Digital high res downloads are free here (click the down arrow on the lower right side of the image). Other options are available. And join our Facebook group.
Follow the history of our country's political intransigence from 2010-2018 through a six-part exhibit of these posters on Google Arts & Culture.
Matthias Schaller considers the opera house an indirect portrait of the nation of Italy in its poltical, anthropological and historical dimensions. He photographed over 150 opera houses across the country.
'A Chinese Journey - The Sigg Collection'.
Noordbrabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch.
'Death of Marat' (2011) by He Xiangyu. The sculpture on the floor is Chinese artist and poltical activist Ai Weiwei, who was in prison when this artwork was made. It was placed in a corner in front of a window that shows the street behind the museum. A strange effect!
Kunstwerk 'Death of Marat' van He Xiangyu.
Een pop die de bekende Chinese kunstenaar -en politiek activist- Ai Weiwei moet voorstellen ligt op zijn buik op de vloer met het hoofd naar beneden, in een hoek van het museum voor een raam. Het effect is vervreemdend.
He Xiangyu maakte deze sculptuur in 2011 toen Weiwei in China in de gevangenis zat, officieel vanwege belastingontduiking.
Taken at Anti ACTA protests in London, a women face obscured but clearly smiling.
© Nathan Lucking / NILPhotography
Whether you're spending the day in prayer or just generating a pile of waste products, hope you're having a good one.
The Obama administration and the UN is finally ready to get serious with Kim Jong-il. And this time, they mean it!!!!!!!
Portrait of Maggie Thatcher.
Based on a photograph by Daniel Berehulak / Getty Images
11.6 x 16.5 inches
Sign placed by the DC Board of Elections encourages voters to Vote by Mail or Vote in Person, on Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC.
A magical evening, so full of interesting comments, I wish I recorded it all… Here are some:
In response to recent results on the poor performance of the U.S. educational system compared to other nations:
“For too long the Democrats have been focused on the teachers unions and the Republicans have focused on local control and property taxes, and neither party has focused on the children. At the fourth grade, our students are internationally competitive, but my 10th grade there is a huge chasm. It’s not as if their brains have been sucked out. The educational system has failed them. In other countries, they go to school longer each year and they test for performance. I was a big advocate for charter schools in 1992 when there were just a few of them in the nation. Charter schools are driving the best results in public schools today.”
“Even though I have 2 million people I am keeping alive with my AIDS drugs, if I could impact just one issue, it would be energy. If we address green energy, it will create the economy where we can address education and healthcare.” (CGI)
He was a big fan of solar thermal, mentioning it several times. So I was happy to update him on Brightsource having booked over $9B of new solar thermal installations for California in the past year.
Responding to Dean Ornish's question about exporting our bad eating habits:
“Childhood obesity is one of the the biggest health issues in America. The hungry in America do not have enough income to eat, and the obese do not have enough income to eat well.”
“The Democratic Party should be known as fiscally conservative and socially liberal.”
So I had to ask him his opinion on a curiosity I discovered during a debate with a Republican on the eve of the 2000 election about whether W would help shrink the government. For some reason, my Republican friend dropped the thick OMB budget book on my desk with the argument that government bloat was becoming dangerously high. I was curious and built a spreadsheet with the OMB data for all U.S. Presidents since they started collecting stats. With very few exceptions, government spending (Federal, State and Local) as a percent of GDP grew during the Republican Presidencies and shrank during the Democratic Presidencies. And then W set a new record.
As someone proud of his record in balancing the budget, why do you think that is? As a political cynic, I thought it was easiest for Presidents to get laws passed that run counter to party rhetoric.
“Well, your friend will not like to hear that the main reason is that Democrat Presidents help promote economic growth. Growing the GDP is a good way to fix the ratio. And the Republican rhetoric about who spends more is misguided. They just don’t like where the Democrats spend. The Republicans like to spend too, on defense and roads.”
“While it’s true that some of the factors in the recent economic collapse were related to the reasons you usually hear such as related to the SEC, poor regulation of banks, etc, a basic factor was that even before the banking collapse, during the eight years of the Bush Administration, our country basically stopped growing jobs. We no longer had the equivalent of the IT job growth that occurred during my years in office, and no new industries, so the annual income of the average American dropped by $2,000 per year under Bush.”
In response to a dinner guest’s praise for Chelsea:
“Chelsea called me to say she has good news and bad news. What’s the good news?
'I have been asked to be my school’s nominee to be a Rhodes Scholar.'
What’s the bad news?
'I am not going to pursue it.'
Is it because you are afraid that you won’t get it?
'No, I think I would.'
Is it because of who your parents are?
'No, I think I would get it on my own.'
Well then why?
'It’s because everything I have in my upbringing makes it unfair. The scholarship should go to someone like you, where it would make a huge difference in someone’s life.'
It was my most proud moment as a parent.”
Dang, what a time to call an election. Just as the hive is reaching peak activity, buzzing with bee-dancing, spring coursing through us all. It's May. The month and our overlord. Looking towards my future self in June I can only comment 'he misses May'. Well Mrs May, make hay while the sun shines eh?
It's just possible that elections are better called (Saul) in November, I wouldn't be so busy smelling the sweet scent of wildflowers and watching the scudding swallows over the meadows. Perhaps I would have space inside my head for politics or maybe I could sleep through it all.
This is a party political broadcast on behalf of the Outlaw Sauce Sachets Society
Does this really need explaining? On how many levels of wrong are sachets of sauce?
Let me write you a list:-
- Each sachet has enough sauce to satisfy the requirements of a small mollusc if that mollusc wwas attempting to eat an all day breakfast. At least five are required in all cases (sachets not molluscs)
- If your fingers are at all greasy you can't open the bloody things anyway
- When you do manage to open the pathetically small sachet a highly skilled sachet operative will still only manege to get half of the contents onto their plate. The other half will remain in the sachet, will get on your fingers or you will wear it in some way
- Often there are 900 sachets of vinegar, two of mayo and precisely none of ketchup. Something must be done!
Oh hang on, mid campaign we've had a rebrand...
This a partly poltical rant on behalf of the legalise carrying your own bottle of sauce into the greasy spoon party.
- Greasy cafes, posh and otherwise take note. Once I have paid £5-8 for a fry up you will totally destroy any pleasure I am anticipating if you ask me if I want any sauces and you give me a plastic mouse sized lilo. I'd rather have no sauce at all you total b********!
- First they come for your sauce bottles, then what?
I'm not being flippant honest ;-) and I am not apathetic but the world is still turning.
While photographing this this morning the wood was alive with the glory of life, a dozen warblers ejecting waves of wobbly song and the power and energy of growth kicking the door down to my soul, the breeze teased and the hazy sunshine oscillated between milky and piercing me with warming rays.
The air a-buzz with hyped up invertebrates and despite my mind filters only letting in a little of all this inveterate splendour eveything is there in that moment.
And I am whole.
In the streets of Hebron, Palestinian Territories
April 2011
My dear Flickr friends, I want this picture to be the closing one of the Palestinian reportage. There would be more of them. But I hope I shared what is enough to show what I saw, what I felt.
I invite you all to go and look with your own eyes, how the situation is in the troubled land. I will never justify terrorism, suicide attacks and violence. I consider poltics and pacific resistance as the only way to pursuit peace and justice. On the other hand, I will never justify segregation, humilliation, children arrest, violation of simple human rights. I will never justify manipulation of facts and use of religion for political tasks. I sincerely fell in love with the humanity I discovered in the Palestinian Territories. Even if all I saw seems to speak of division, conflict and mutual hatred, I do hope peace may prevail one day. I am sincerely convinced that nobody can live happy with her/his own soul, knowing that her/his happiness is based on privation and pain for others. You cannot build a peaceful existence for your family, if you're building your own private oasis within an oper-air golden cage, made of check-points, soldiers, security obsession, weapons and death. I believe many people, just outside the Palestinian Territories, just beyond the curtain, in their wealthy settlements, are sincerely convinced they are not doing bad, they struggle for something they consider correct, or blessed by God. Well, you always have to care what is just behind the curtain. If peace will be, one day, it will also be a consequence of a new self-awareness of the ones, who built-up the wall. A golden cage will never be safe. If you bring dignity away from the people you consider your enemy, you're losing your own dignity. As human being.
In the final jam of a British Championship roller derby bout against the Killahurtz Roller Girls Norfolk Brawd Political Vagenda has taken a star pass and then had a long exhausting battle against a Killahurtz wall to hang on to a slim but winning lead.
You couldn't make this stuff up!
A long tale but a good one blog.txfb-ins.com/texas-living/weird-history-clay-henry/
Illustration of Donald Trump on a trash bag with the hashtag #trashtrump and web link trashtrump.com
Dang, what a time to call an election. Just as the hive is reaching peak activity, buzzing with bee-dancing, spring coursing through us all. It's May. The month and our overlord. Looking towards my future self in June I can only comment 'he misses May'. Well Mrs May, make hay while the sun shines eh?
It's just possible that elections are better called (Saul) in November, I wouldn't be so busy smelling the sweet scent of wildflowers and watching the scudding swallows over the meadows. Perhaps I would have space inside my head for politics or maybe I could sleep through it all.
This is a party political broadcast on behalf of the Outlaw Sauce Sachets Society
Does this really need explaining? On how many levels of wrong are sachets of sauce?
Let me write you a list:-
- Each sachet has enough sauce to satisfy the requirements of a small mollusc if that mollusc wwas attempting to eat an all day breakfast. At least five are required in all cases (sachets not molluscs)
- If your fingers are at all greasy you can't open the bloody things anyway
- When you do manage to open the pathetically small sachet a highly skilled sachet operative will still only manege to get half of the contents onto their plate. The other half will remain in the sachet, will get on your fingers or you will wear it in some way
- Often there are 900 sachets of vinegar, two of mayo and precisely none of ketchup. Something must be done!
Oh hang on, mid campaign we've had a rebrand...
This a partly poltical rant on behalf of the legalise carrying your own bottle of sauce into the greasy spoon party.
- Greasy cafes, posh and otherwise take note. Once I have paid £5-8 for a fry up you will totally destroy any pleasure I am anticipating if you ask me if I want any sauces and you give me a plastic mouse sized lilo. I'd rather have no sauce at all you total b********!
- First they come for your sauce bottles, then what?
I'm not being flippant honest ;-) and I am not apathetic but the world is still turning.
While photographing this this morning the wood was alive with the glory of life, a dozen warblers ejecting waves of wobbly song and the power and energy of growth kicking the door down to my soul, the breeze teased and the hazy sunshine oscillated between milky and piercing me with warming rays.
The air a-buzz with hyped up invertebrates and despite my mind filters only letting in a little of all this inveterate splendour eveything is there in that moment.
And I am whole.
I was hoping for a Royal Flush, but I think I may be playing with the wrong deck.
(I will catch up with EVEYONE later today and tomorrow. I've been busy planning, organizing, and now executing, a sold-out, two-day market that will feature hand-made products created by over 60 artist;; Also battling the poltics of censorship in the arts here.)
Life is a constant battle.
The source images for these caricatures are images in the public domain as follows: Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Clarence Thomas, John G. Roberts, Elena Kagan, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy and Samuel Alito.
The background is a photo by Carol M. Highsmith and the trauma team is a photo from the Scots Mission Hospital available via the Library of Congress.
Photograph of the historic 2008 presidential election by Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
For more Election 2008 photos, see USA TODAY's photo gallery. For the latest poltical news, see USA TODAY's On Politics blog.
© 2008 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc.
These caricatures were adapted from the following sources:
Cheif Justice John Roberts - a photo in the public domain by Steve Petteway available via Wikimedia. Justice Samuel Alito - a photo in the public domain available via Wikipedia. Justice Anthony Kennedy - a photo in the public domain from Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States and available via Wikipedia. Clarence Thomas - a photo in the public domain by Steve Petteway and available via Wikipedia. Justice Antonin Scalia - a Creative Commons licensed photo available via Wikimedia.
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The bodies are adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Maryland GovPics's Flickr photostream. The Supreme Court background is adapted from a Creative Commons licensed photo from Mike's Flickr photostream.
Between block 10 and block 11 lies the reconstructed death wall, a place where the SS shot thousands of people, mostly poltical prsioners. A real wall of shame.
Supreme Court of the United States 2011: Left to right around circle. Chief Justice John G. Roberts (Chief Justice), Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, Elena Kagan, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, Clarence Thomas and Anthony Kennedy (Center).
The source images for these caricatures are as follows:
John G. Roberts - photo by Steve Petteway in the Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States via www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/press/Oath/Kagan_and_Robe...
Antonin Scalia - photo in the public domain available via Wikimedia Commons
Samuel Alito - photo in the public domain available via Wikimedia Commons
Elena Kagan - photo in the public domain by Steve Petteway, photographer for the Supreme Court of the United States and available via Wikipedia
Ruth Bader Ginsburg - photo in the public domain by Steve Petteway available via Wikipedia
Stephen Breyer - photo in the public domain by Steve Petteway and available via Wikimedia Commons
Sonia Sotomayor - photo in the public domain by Steve Petteway, photographer for the Supreme Court of the United States and available via Wikipedia
Clarence Thomas - photo in the public domain by Steve Petteway and available via Wikipedia
Anthony Kennedy - photo in the public domain from Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States and available via Wikipedia