Today at the editor’s glance: The reconvened and renamed Blue 22 Forum, what organizer Mike Cocchiola describes as “an open forum for everyone to speak freely” that leans left but is open to “Democrats, independents and recovering Republicans” meets at the African American Cultural Society on U.S. 1 for its weekly discussions, at 12:30 p.m. (If other political groups out there want their own meetings announced, by all means, send in those notices or post them here.) Temperatures in the 90s are now here to stay, and that drought index keeps climbing fast: it’s now at 430 on average in Flagler. At this rate, you can expect wildfires to start popping up by weekend: Flagler County is now in the yellow, or “moderate,” category for the risk of wildfires, according to the state Division of Forestry. Allahu Akbar: The arrest reports of the two men who beat a Flagler sheriff’s corrections deputy at the county jail last week noted how one of them, clearly not knowing his god from his ass, yelled “Allahu Akbar” as he pounded the deputy. Makes you wonder what the 20-year-old mass-murderer in London, Ontario, was yelling when he plowed his truck into a Muslim family out on a Sunday stroll a couple of days ago, killing four of the five family members. Whether it’s allahu akbar or praise the lord, religion is the lingua franca of fanatics.
Vaccinations: The Flagler County Health Department (DOH-Flagler) is continuing its COVID-19 vaccination opportunities for the next week. Here are this week’s sites:
- Wednesday, June 9, 4:30 to 6:30PM — After-Hours Vaccination Clinic at DOH-Flagler, 301 Dr. Carter Blvd in Bunnell. Ages 12 and older — Pfizer only
- Thursday, June 10, 4:30 to 6:30PM — After-Hours Vaccination Clinic at Flagler County Tax Collector’s office, 2525 Moody Blvd. in Flagler Beach. Ages 18+ — Moderna only.
Appointments for the Pfizer-only clinics at the health department are preferred. Please call 386-437-7350 ext. 0 for scheduling or questions. The health department will offer drive-through COVID-19 testing on Friday, June 11 between 2:30 and 3:30PM across from 120 Airport Road. This site may close in the event of storms.
The Live Calendar is a compendium of local and regional political, civic and cultural events. You can input your own calendar events directly onto the site as you wish them to appear (pending approval of course). To include your event in the Live Calendar, please fill out this form.
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Scenic A1A Pride Meeting
Blue 24 Forum
Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock
Flagler County’s Cold-Weather Shelter Opens
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
It’s Back! Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
For the full calendar, go here.
“We’ll return to planet earth now and continue.”
–County Commission Chairman Donald O’Brien at the commission’s June 7, 2021 meeting, immediately after past and current Commission candidate Jane Gentile-Youd addressed the commission with unusual ferocity.
Previously:
Scheherazade | Mann’s Crude virility | Ernie Pyle | Reagan’s gays | Too much art | Internment | Refracted hate | Online behavior | Groovy Tennyson | Overwork | There is a God | On Lincoln | Killing the planet | A Vietcong infantryman | Property v. minorities | Originalism | Liberty v. fatality | Blanche Gardin | Poe’s old age | Whose Christian tradition? | The real socialists | Roberto Bolaño | WSJ v. China | GOP radicals | Worrying about Jesus | Norilsk
Pogo says
@FlaglerLive
RE: “…“We’ll return to planet earth now and continue.”
–County Commission Chairman Donald O’Brien at the commission’s June 7, 2021 meeting, immediately after past and current Commission candidate Jane Gentile-Youd addressed the commission with unusual ferocity…”
Try that youtube link on your device. Do you consider the sound quality useful? If so, useful for what?
@Jane Gentile-Youd
Good luck. Of what I was able to hear, you’re correct. The smug response from the stuffed shirts lounging in the stuffed chairs speaks for itself.
And why are those creeps so relaxed? Well, think about it. Who can YOU (or the rest of us) actually turn to? desantis? moody? scott? rubio? waltz? Good luck with that:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Trial-novel-by-Kafka
And so it goes.
MikeM says
It looks like this cartoon shows us that minorities are too stupid or lazy to get an ID to vote. I bet the person that drew this
is woke and white. All of my friends of color want only valid voting and are insulted by this cartoon. As they should be.