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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, July 21, 2021

July 21, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 2 Comments

climate change Steve Sack, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
Steve Sack, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

Today at the Editor’s glance: Early Voting continues in the special election for Palm Coast mayor, culminating with Election Day on July 27. Early voting is from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily at three locations: the Supervisor of Elections Office at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell, the Flagler County Public Library, 2500 Palm Coast Pkwy NW, Palm Coast, and the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. If you are a registered voter in Palm Coast, whether Democratic, Independent, Republican or belonging to any minor party, you are eligible to vote for mayor. You may also choose any one of the three early voting locations. Early voting ends at 6 p.m. on July 24. More details at the Elections Supervisor’s site. For more background on the election and links to all the FlaglerLive candidate interviews and articles on the candidates, go here. In Medias res: Glad to see Observer Editor Brian McMillan setting straight Ed Danko, the Palm Coast councilman, who took to calling the Observer “fake news” the moment the newspaper reported on the city’s investigation of Danko’s behavior toward employees. Danko had been looking for a pretext to smear the Observer since its decision not to endorse Alan Lowe, who is running for Palm Coast mayor on the puppeteer’s ticket. McMillan also distances himself from his paper’s endorsement process, essentially a one-man endorsement by Publisher John Walsh, who is severely damaging his and his paper’s credibility by having Joe Mullins, the county commissioner and marshal of Flagler County’s parade of destructive politicians, “sponsor” the Observer’s election coverage. Breaks every journalistic cardinal rule in the book, and puts the Observer’s actual journalists in a difficult position.




Vaccinations: Appointments for the Pfizer-only clinic at the health department are preferred, but walk-ins will be accepted. Please call 386-437-7350 ext. 0 for scheduling or questions. Eighteen pharmacies in Flagler County offer COVID-19 vaccinations, and 12 of these offer Pfizer, which is approved for individuals ages 12 and over. The department is at 301 Dr. Carter Blvd.in Bunnell. For more information about COVID-19 vaccination and testing efforts, please visit https://floridahealthcovid19.gov/.




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April 2026
Sunday, Apr 05
9:30 am - 10:25 am

ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students

Grace Presbyterian Church
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Sunday, Apr 05
12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way

Flagler School District Bus Depot
Sunday, Apr 05
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village

European Village
Sunday, Apr 05
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

“My Fair Lady,” at Daytona Playhouse

Daytona Playhouse
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Sunday, Apr 05
3:00 pm

Al-Anon Family Groups

Bridges United Methodist Fellowship
Sunday, Apr 05
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

“Godspell,” at the Limelight Theatre

Limelight Theatre
Monday, Apr 06
All Day

Free Tax Preparation Services in Flagler County

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Monday, Apr 06
9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Flagler County Commission Morning Meeting

Government Services Building
Monday, Apr 06
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Beverly Beach Town Commission meeting

Beverly Beach Town Hall
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Monday, Apr 06
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Nar-Anon Family Group

St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church
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“Government, which did so little for ordinary Americans, was still the enemy, along with “governing elites.” But for the sinking working class, freedom lost whatever economic meaning it once had. It was a matter of personal dignity, identity. It began to see trespassers everywhere and became the slogan of a defiant and armed loneliness: Get the fuck off my property. Take this mask and shove it. It was the threatening image of a coiled rattlesnake: “Don’t tread on me.” It achieved its ultimate expression on the last day of 2020, in all those yellow Gadsden flags waving around the Capitol—a mob of freedom-loving Americans taking back their constitutional rights by shitting on the floors of Congress and hunting down elected representatives to kidnap and kill. That was their freedom in its pure and reduced form.”

–George Packer, “Last Best Hope” (2021).

Previously:

Maupassant's illusions | Music of the woods | Better lie than doubt | John Cheever's premature eulogy of John Updike | Updike's daily death of selves | Old age and habit according to Wharton | Marmontel's Belisaire's truth | The typical ancient Roman | Salman Rushdie realizes some people will never like him | Uncle Willy's Republicans and Democrats | Cicero on not knowing | A tyrant's culture | American regression | Bernard Rustin's Spokesmen of the Confederacy | Aged relic | Barthelme's alternative to intelligent conversation | On drunkenness | Bastards and sons of bitches | Junot Diaz's trauma |  Loyalty to a dream country | Sorrow for the Levant | Nixon resigns | Cross Creek | To die laughing | America's Hiroshima experiment | Aged beyond repair | Virtue without self-glorification | Adrift | James Baldwin dares everything | GOP menace to society | Human misery | Inflexibility as death | | Kant's Enlightenment | Belhumeur's ethics | Israel's bigoted nation-state law | More tolerant empires | American weather | Red Smith on dismal Olympics | Louis Brandeis on clear and present freedom of speech | Ishmael Reed | Don't tread on me | Wicker on LBJ's presidency | Marxist reality check | | Nelson Mandela invokes MLK | Fishermen's honor | Nuclear dawn in Almogorodo | Eric Hobsbawm's Enlightenment | | Ritchie Robertson's Enlightenment | When you don't know what you don't know | Leaving Lebanon | Rheumatic fever's side-effect | | Risk of becoming imbeciles | The blubbering of America | Why Vidal hates good citizenship history | An Elsa Morante bit | Woke aesthetics | Let America Be America Again | American artist | Custer's enduring myths | Orwellian politics | History as a weapon | Political correctness improved America

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The Cartoon and Live Briefing Archive.

The 2021 Special Election for Palm Coast Mayor

The Live Interviews:


  • David Alfin
  • Kathy Austrino
  • Carol Bacha
  • Doug Courtney
  • Alan Lowe
  • Cornelia Manfre

The Background:


  • Danko-Lowe Campaign Fabrications: Governor’s Office Refutes Incendiary Claims About Holland “Criminal Charges”
  • Milissa Holland’s Daughter Responds to Fabrications: Stop Bringing My Family Into This Immaturity
  • Fact-Check: At Palm Coast Mayoral Forum, 6 Candidates Hide Inexperience in Generalities, One Just Tells Lies
  • Palm Coast at a Crossroad: Assassins of Civility or Governance
  • David Alfin and Alan Lowe Announce for Mayor as Palm Coast Council Readies to Set July 27 Special Election
  • Palm Coast Mayoral Candidate Alan Lowe Had Declared Himself ‘Sovereign Citizen,’ Rejecting Constitution and Law for God
  • An Alan Lowe Campaign Message: 60 Seconds, 2 Violations of Law, 3 Falsehoods, 4 Misleading or Deceptive Statements
  • Ex-Councilman Robert Cuff: Palm Coast's Choice for Mayor Is Between Competent Leadership and Truly Dangerous Dysfunction
  • Councilman Barbosa Under Federal Investigation Following Allegation of Kidnapping and Extortion
  • Ed Danko Fumes, Accuses and Menaces as Politics of Destruction Point to Palm Coast Council’s Potential Direction
  • Palm Coast Councilman Ed Danko Investigated By City Over Harassment of Employees and Interference With Duties
  • Councilman Victor Barbosa Gets a Lesson on Conduct Unbecoming
  • Supervisor of Elections Kaiti Lenhart Issues Statement on Election Security

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  1. Pat W Rance says

    July 21, 2021 at 1:58 pm

    This publication is way too liberal.
    Liberalism is a disease.

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    July 22, 2021 at 9:52 am

    No problem. . . just look elsewhere for your “alternative facts”!

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