Every summer, Pasadena puts together the Chalk Festival event so that hundreds of skilled artists can create large colorful chalk murals in a wide variety of styles and subject matter.
They range in style and subject matter, including funny, whimsical illustrations, serious portraits of people, recreations of classic masterpieces, incredible original designs, adorable characters, moving tributes, powerful statements, and jaw-dropping art.
Thanks to everyone who joined the 2025 Pasadena Chalk Festival. Thanks for braving No Kings Day protests, ICE crackdowns near the hotels, and the heat in Pasadena, coming together to create another Museum Without Walls.
Angry Jewish God creates sinful world to punish
This is a treasured event, and it doesn’t happen without artists, volunteers, sponsors, and all the wonderful art lovers who come to see the chalk murals.
All funds raised through merchandising and unique Silent Auction support the arts education programs of the Light Bringer Project throughout the year. Thanks for showing support so that we can continue to offer these programs to local youth.
Artist’s Applications will be posted come spring 2026.
Artists are encouraged to follow for up-to-date information @pasadenachalkfestival
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(The Thaiger) July 1, 2022: A head monk is accused of embezzling 95 million baht (~40 baht to the US dollar) and dumping half-cremated corpses into the river, Thailand’s major banks crash on pay day, and Thai fighter jets respond to MIGs from Burma (Myanmar). Sponsor: 5-star marine: 5starmarinephuket.com. #Thailandnightlife#Bangkok#ThailandNews
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The messed up origins of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
(Jon Solo) Dec. 22, 2023: Messed Up Origins.
Let's dive into the dark and disturbing story that inspired The Nutcracker Ballet. Hope everyone likes rodents.
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(The Daily Show)
July 31, 2024:
Ronny Chieng tackles Trump's painful attempt at Black voter outreach, which included insulting Black journalists and accusing Kamala Harris of not being Black [because she was exclusively Indian-American raised in Canada for most of her life]. Plus, Megan Thee Stallion declares "Hotties for Harris" at an Atlanta campaign rally, and Michael Kosta has a plan to keep the Democrats' newfound excitement going. #DailyShow #Harris #Trump #MeganTheeStallion
Hottest day in the world with Lewis Black
Kamala gets everyone on Zoom and Dems slam JD Vance for "weird" cat lady comments | The Daily Show
(The Daily Show) July 30, 2024: Ronny Chieng zooms in on the white guys who are fired up for Kamala and finds out why the Democrats are calling Trump and Vance "weird." Plus, Grace Kuhlenschmidt gets the scoop on those childless cat ladies Vance has been trash-talking. #DailyShow #RonnyChieng #KamalaHarris
0:00 - Ronny Chieng’s TDS Welcome
0:21 - “White Dudes for Harris” Zoom Raises $4 Million
2:00 - Trump Makes Argument for Not Debating Harris
3:07 - Dems Call Out Trump for Being “Weird”
4:54 - JD Vance Slammed for “Weird” Cat Lady Comments
6:24 - Grace Kuhlenschmidt Weighs in on JD Vance Cat Lady Comments
"Don't smoke drugs, kids" said a younger Jimmy Kimmel once when he was playing a blackface Carl Malone on the "Kevin & Bean Show" on KROQ FM. This was years before he had his own show that so eclipsed morning sports on alt rock radio that we never hear about those days. Viewers of Family Guy might say the same thing after watching this episode on fairy dust. It has grown all out of proportion in our memory as one of the funniest things the writer room at Family Guy Central ever came up with. Is it "pixie dust" or speed? Let's find out.
Trump is much easier to understand when we understand that he was for decades, according to close associate Noel Casler, a cocaine addict.
Trump did not clean himself up. He switched over to snorting a legal, widely-abused, pharmaceutical stimulant known as Adderall. He is addicted and can't stop.
That is part of the reason Trump is incontinent, wears adult diapers, farts and defecates in his pants in court, and has the oddest posture of any land animal since the short-armed Tyrannosaurus rex stood at a podium taking questions. (Look at him from a side view or attempting to drink water from a plastic bottle).
I'm God's gift to Americans and the world.
Trump is hardly human, more Draconian. But what's arguably worse (and dementia victim Genocide Joe Biden, even with all his body-doubles, has his own set of insurmountable problems, to be sure) are the poor MAGAots. What other choice do they have?
The false teeth on all of the Trumps, except apparently good Barron who is being protected by his fierce Yugoslavian mother-bear, Melanija Knavs-Trump, bespeak their false tongues.
The moment the fart and feces are released?
Who among them is more amusing than the man who by his own admission was or is a crack addict who found Jesus, Mike "My Pillow" Lindell? Here he is going off.
Jimmy Kimmel had Mr. Lindell on his show and now hires an actor who can hardly even measure up to the ridiculousness of the real guy. Is this what stimulant addiction does to everyone?
I debated the Pillow Guy who almost cried
(Adam Mockler) May 3, 2024: Interviewer Adam Mockler with MeidasTouch debates MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, aka the "Trump Pillow Guy." Their debate gets incredibly heated. instagram.com/adammockler, twitter.com/adammocklerr, tiktok.com/adammockler. Adam Mockler: amock
Vote third party like Dr. Jill Stein (Green) or RFK Jr. (Independent) or watch more entertaining videos that have nothing to do with boring politics, like the one above
And now for something completely different
Jerry Garcia, not tripping on acid, saw a naked Black man run from bushes
into traffic to be hit by car, fly over it, and survive - all caught on camera
Naked man runs through traffic, gets hit by car in South LA
(FOX 11 Los Angeles) May 17, 2024: A naked man going through a mental health crisis ran through traffic in South LA. Subscribe to FOX 11 on YouTube: @foxla. A message to our children? "Don't smoke drugs, Kids."
MxR Plays, April 2024; Adam Mockler, 5/3/24; Fox 11 LA; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Imagine the infamous Noah Levine (recovering American drug addict and author of Dharma Punx/Against the Stream plus founder of a for-profit recovery center in Hollywood, sued out of his position as any kind of Dharma leader but still hustling to have a center). Now imagine him as a monk who has not committed sexual misconduct crimes or harmed many people around him, all full of tattoos and a shiny bald head. What is left is a kind of Ajahn Sujato (not the Australian Buddhist translator formerly known as Anthony Best of SuttaCentral.net fame) or Graham with his thick accent and scruffy appearance. Ten years a Theravada monk in the Thai tradition makes him a thera or "elder." So bravo that he survived parajika ("defeat") free, clean, having overcome drugs like crack! Home of The New Day Sangha| Dharma Outreach
Banned on Facebook, banned on YouTube, and now Twitter has deleted Breitbart News’ Periscope livestream of a Washington D.C. "press conference" held on Monday [July 27, 2020] by the group America’s Frontline Doctors (americasfrontlinedoctors.com) and organized and sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots. Is the cure (and prevention) zinc, hydroxychloroquine, and Cipromax...? More
Facebook has removed a video posted by Breitbart News earlier today [7/27/20], which was the top-performing Facebook post in the world Monday afternoon, of a press conference in Washington, D.C. held by the group America’s Frontline Doctors (americasfrontlinedoctors.com) and organized and sponsored by the Tea Party Patriots.
The press conference featured Representative Ralph Norman (R-SC) and frontline doctors like Dr. Bob Hamilton and others sharing their views and opinions on coronavirus [the not-so-novel SARS-2, 78% the same as COV-1, as reported 15 years ago in NIH's Virology when Dr. Anthony Fauci was director] and the medical response to the pandemic [and the police state lockdowns across the country]. YouTube (which is owned by Google) and Twitter subsequently removed footage of the press conference as well. Video by Matt Perdie.
The video accumulated over 17 million views during the eight hours it was up on Facebook, with over 185,000 concurrent viewers. [It had to be stopped because it runs contrary to the fearmongering we are all being fed by the mainstream.]
A video timeline of Trump’s military crackdown on demonstrators before his "Hitler-Bible" photo op
This meme's Photoshopped, so does it count?
The Washington Post analyzed hours of video footage and obtained audio of police communications and other records to assemble the most complete account to date of the government's June 1st crackdown on peaceful demonstrators in Washington D.C.
Late in the day on June 1, demonstrators gathered near the White House, on the edge of Lafayette Square, to take a stand against police abuses following the killing in custody of Minneapolis resident George Floyd.
Similar demonstrations had spread across the country. Many were peaceful, though some included property destruction and clashes instigated by heavily armed police.
Christian Hitler was backed by the Vatican.
At about 6:30 pm, just north of the White House, federal police in riot gear fired deadly gas canisters and grenades containing chemical irritants and blinding rubber pellets -- with one journalist known to be permanently blinded in one eye due to a rubber bullet or pellet so far -- to scatter the peaceful demonstrators.
The military actions -- with help from federals guards trained to quell prison riots -- cleared the way for the president, surrounded by the nation’s ambitious law enforcement and military leaders, to walk to the historic St. John’s Church for a three-minute photo op.
Watch how a remarkable hour of Trump’s presidency unfolded in a bumbling attempt at propaganda, even bringing in a Bible, a revered symbol of the nation's past.
Is Beijing using COVID-19 as cover to extinguish democracy in Hong Kong?
(ABC News In-depth) While in 2019 Hong Kong erupted into unprecedented and sometimes violent demonstrations against the Beijing-appointed government, in 2020 the streets appear eerily quiet by comparison.
(China in Focus/NTD, May 25, 2020) Exclusive Wuhan widow interview; Contradicting virus figures; Harvard prof rebukes China media claim
Like much of the world, Hong Kong's daily life in the interim remains suspended as the world waits for a coronavirus reprieve — a situation the city's pro-democracy activists say Beijing (the capital of mainland communist China) and their semi-autonomous government are exploiting.
In the last month, a slew of high-profile arrests and a new battle over interpretation of the city's mini-constitution and "basic law" have many worried that while the world is distracted, China is snuffing out the democratic movement in Hong Kong.
Unusual Report: Protests erupt again
(NTD) Hong Kong erupted into protests on Sunday [May 24] in the wake of a new Chinese law. Many fear an end to freedom in HK and a military takeover by the Chinese regime. Beijing is vowing to push ahead with a controversial law that would end Hong Kong’s autonomy. The White House says it could lead to sanctions. The former British colony’s special status could be at stake. Officials continue to downplay the severity of the outbreak in China's northeastern Jilin province. But an internal CDC report gives a different story. In an exclusive interview, a widow in Wuhan tells her heart-wrenching story of how the CCP’s cover-up of the virus in early January led to her husband’s death. And a Harvard professor speaks out after being misrepresented by Chinese state media on the origin of the virus.
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How much of a headache is Hong Kong to China's police state?
I'm afraid I may have Wuhan Flu, I mean...
(Inside Story) China is moving toward passing a "national security" law for Hong Kong that could see the most significant reduction in its autonomy since Britain handed it back to China in 1997. It had remained a British colony for many years.
Premier Li Ke-Chiang announced the bill at the National People's Congress or NPC, China's biggest annual political gathering.
The draft law has seven articles and will almost certainly be approved by the congress. Once passed it would allow Chinese agencies (like secret police spies) to operate in Hong Kong to "prevent, stop, and punish acts endangering national security."
So with China now planning to get directly involved in the territory's affairs, is this an assault on capitalist free trade, freedom, or nominal democracy?
GUESTS: James To Kun-Sun, senior legislator for Hong Kong's Democratic Party in the Legislative Council
Andreas Fulda, senior fellow with the Asia Research Institute at the University of Nottingham
Rong Ying, vice president of the China Institute of International Studies
Smedley Darlington Butler (1881–1940) was a USMC major general, the highest rank at the time. He was the most decorated Marine in U.S. history when he passed away. During his 34-year career as a Marine, he participated in military actions in the Philippines, China, Central America, the Caribbean during the Banana Wars, and France in WW I. He later became an outspoken critic of U.S. wars and their consequences. He even exposed a businessmen's plan to overthrow the U.S. government. He received 16 medals, five for heroism, and was one of only 19 men to receive the Medal of Honor twice, one of three to be awarded both the Marine Corps Brevet Medal and the Medal of Honor, and the only Marine to be awarded the Brevet Medal and two Medals of Honor, all for separate actions. In 1933, in the Business Plot controversy, he told a congressional committee that a group of wealthy businessmen/industrialists were plotting a military coup to overthrow U.S. Pres. FDR.
War? Shmore! We're making big money.
After he retired in 1931, he did a nationwide tour with a speech titled "War is a Racket." It was so well received that he wrote it out, expanded it, and published it as a short book.
Obey. Don't question authority!
It was condensed in Reader's Digest, which boosted its surging popularity. In the introduction to the condensed version, Lowell Thomas praised it.
War Is a Racket points to examples, mostly from WW I, that prove that industrialists are subsidized and enriched by publicly funded wars.
Their operations generate massive profits for private corporations and companies that milk money from mass human suffering.
"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."
[That's why we have wars, not the lies they us and repeat in the mainstream media.]More
China has warned it might be losing patience with what it calls a "color revolution" in free Hong Kong.
It has said those who play with fire must not mistake Beijing's restraint for weakness. They will eventually be punished by the police state.
A few days after that warning, young demonstrators and troublemaking protesters were back on the streets for the tenth straight weekend.
They've defied a police ban on some of the marches and faced teargas in response.
(Fox News) Rightwing view on CIA/USA fomenting Hong Kong agitation
Activists have also staged a peaceful demonstration at the international airport, to make arriving tourists aware of their campaign.
Protesters want chief executive leader Carrie Lam to resign, greater democratic reform, and an inquiry into alleged police violence.
But Lam says her priority is to stop the unrest, which she says has hurt the city's economy.
What options does China have to deal with anger in Hong Kong? And is severe military intervention possible with the implementation of police state tactics?
GUESTS
Presenter Mohamed Jamjoom
Editor-in-Chief and Founder Tom Grundy,Hong Kong Free Press
China Political Analyst Einar Tangen who advises Chinese gov't on economic and development issues
Director of the China Institute Steve Tsang, SOAS University of London
(TEDTalks) Freakonomics author Steven Levitt presents new data on the finances of drug dealing gangs. Contrary to popular conception, he says, being a gang-member street-corner crack dealer isn't lucrative: It pays less than minimum wage. And your boss can kill you.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED (technology, entertainment, and design) Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes -- including speakers such as enlightened neuroscientist Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al "Loser" Gore, and Arthur Benjamin. TEDTalks cover many topics and science, business, politics, and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at ted.com/index.php/talks/top10.
People Watching, Season 2, Episode 3; Crystal Q., CC Liu, Sheldon S., Wisdom Quarterly
WARNING: F-word, cussing, and sensitive issue being dealt with in an in-your-face way!
(Cracked) People Watching Season 2, Episode 3, Aug. 27, 2018. Check out the shop for People Watchingswag. Follow on Facebook (subnormality). Join the discussion with the "Secret Losers Anonymous" group. Twitter, Instagram.
The Israeli military killed murdered at least 61 Palestinians in [the world's largest open-air prison] Gaza.
Israel has also deliberately wounded 2,700+ more, often maiming them, for daring to protest yesterday’s U.S. opening of an embassy in Jerusalem (rather than the capital of Tel Aviv).
They are also protesting Israel's colonial occupation and the attempted stealing of their land.
It was the deadliest day for Palestinian demonstrators since they launched the nonviolent "Great March of Return" on March 30th, 2018.
Jewish Finklestein speaks out against Israel
Palestinian leaders are accusing the Israeli military of carrying out of deliberate war crimes during yesterday’s crackdown.
More demonstrations, protests, and a general strike across the Palestinian territories [the tiny West Bank and even tinier Gaza] are planned for today.
Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman, herself Jewish, gets an update from Gaza with war correspondent Sharif Abdel Kouddous. More + VIDEO
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