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Weather: Cloudy. A chance of showers, mainly in the morning. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 60s. North winds 5 to 10 mph.
Today at the Editor’s Glance:
In Court: Except for County Judge Andrea Totten, who is not getting a break–33 cases on the pre-trial docket–all other court activities are off today.
Thanksgiving: With schools off all week, all government activities are winding down today, or pretending to be open, ahead of the four-day holiday.
Christmas Tree Lot: Parents and scouts from Boy Scout Troop 281 and Scouts BSA Troop 4281 are selling 500 trees from a farm in North Carolina starting today at 9 a.m. at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 156 Florida Park Drive North in Palm Coast. Trees start at $80. The lot will close at 5 p.m. It will be closed for Thanksgiving but reopen Friday from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. From then on out, the hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturdays, 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. Sundays, and 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Friday.
World Cup: After a fabulous day Tuesday that saw Saudi Arabia beat Argentina (well, it could have been more fabulous had a less abject nation done so) and France awoke from a 1-0 deficit to crush Australia, 4-1, today Morocco play Croatia at 5 a.m., Germany and Japan go at it at 8 a.m. then Spain and Costa Rica at 11 and Belgium and Canada at 2 p.m.
Notably: Thanks to Lebanese Independence Day, which never gets any respect, we missed Rodney Dangerfield’s birthday yesterday, and missed the fact that he shares that birthday with Charles de Gaulle–the priggish, pompous French president, not the airport to which he gave his name. It was also the anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species, though today in 1936, Life (the magazine) was born. So much useless information, all in preparation for the uselessness
of turkey tomorrow. Why isn’t the burger our national Thanksgiving meal?
Now this:
Flagler Beach Webcam:
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Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Al-Anon Family Groups
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Around the country, countless Americans are suffering a very particular type of Covid grief — a mixture of anger, sorrow and shame that comes with losing a loved one who has consumed social media falsehoods. On Tuesday, in what was likely his last appearance in the White House briefing room before he retires from government service at the end of the year, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, President Biden’s chief medical adviser, pleaded with Americans to speak out against scientific misinformation.
“The people who have correct information, who take science seriously, who don’t have strange, way-out theories about things but who base what they say on evidence and data, need to speak up more,” Dr. Fauci said, “because the other side that just keeps putting out misinformation and disinformation seems to be tireless in that effort.”
Experts say the spread of health misinformation — particularly on fringe social media platforms like Gab — is likely to be a lasting legacy of the coronavirus pandemic. And there are no easy solutions.
–From “A Lasting Legacy of Covid: Far-Right Platforms Spreading Health Myths,” by Sheryl Gay Stolberg, The New York Times, Nov. 22, 2022.
Ray W. says
Happy Thanksgiving to all FlaglerLive readers and commenters.
And a special Happy Thanksgiving to Mr. Tristam and his family for providing this space to anyone who wants to comment on any subject matter, with the sole restriction against those who desire to spread misinformation/disinformation. Thank you, Mr. Tristam!
Pierre Tristam says
Thank you Ray! I lift my Kwak beer to you (as I mourn the impending demise of Dunderbak at Volusia Mall).