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Today at a Glance:
The Palm Coast City Council meets at 6 p.m. at City Hall. The council, in an agenda heavy with controversial items, is scheduled to re-hear the land-use matters surrounding the Cascades development in Seminole Woods. (See: “Bowing to Bitter Public Opposition, Council Kills Seminole Woods Apartments and Limits Development to 416 Homes” and “Cascades Development in Seminole Woods Back on the Table for a Re-Hearing, Putting in Question 416-House Limit.” The council is also scheduled to hear the land-use application for Old Kings Village, which was also delayed after Polo Club West residents protested. See: “Approval of 205-Home Old Kings Village Delayed as Polo Club West Residents Say Developer Is Not Negotiating.” For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.
The Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board meets at 6 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The board consists of Carl Lilavois, Chair; Manuel Madaleno, Nealon Joseph, Gary Masten and Lyn Lafferty.
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every Tuesday and on the first Saturday of every month the Random Acts of Insanity Comedy Improv Troupe specializes in performing fast-paced improvised comedy.
Notably: This is the insurmountable advantage for any national candidate from here on, an advantage Democrats continue to underestimate at their own expense. From the Guardian: “A USA Today and Suffolk University survey showed Trump was ahead with 39% support among Latino voters surveyed, compared to Biden’s 34%, signaling a slump since 2020, when Biden garnered 65% of the approval from Latino voters. The data also highlights a broader trend of decreasing support for Biden among various key demographic groups, including young voters. The decline in support among Latinos is seen as a canary in the coal mine for Democrats, signaling potential challenges in retaining a key part of the electoral coalition that built Biden’s election victory in 2020.”
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For “terrorists,” read “guerrillas” or—as President Ronald Reagan would call them in the years to come—“freedom fighters.” Terrorists, terrorists, terrorists. In the Middle East, in the entire Muslim world, this word would become a plague, a meaningless punctuation mark in all our lives, a full stop erected to finish all discussion of injustice, constructed as a wall by Russians, Americans, Israelis, British, Pakistanis, Saudis, Turks, to shut us up. Who would ever say a word in favour of terrorists? What cause could justify terror? So our enemies are always “terrorists.” In the seventeenth century, governments used “heretic” in much the same way, to end all dialogue, to prescribe obedience. [The implication] was simple: you are either with us or against us. For decades, I have listened to this dangerous equation, uttered by capitalist and communist, presidents and prime ministers, generals and intelligence officers and, of course, newspaper editors.
–From Robert Fisk’s The Great War for Civilisation (2005).
Pogo says
@FWIW
Start after his (Adam Smith) end:
“…For it may be observed, that in all Polytheistic religions, among savages, as well as in the early ages of heathen antiquity, it is the irregular events of nature only that are ascribed to the agency and power of the gods. Fire burns, and water refreshes; heavy bodies descend, and lighter substances fly upwards, by the necessity of their own nature; nor was the invisible hand of Jupiter ever apprehended to be employed in those matters…”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essays_on_Philosophical_Subjects
All that came before:
As stated
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Moral_Sentiments
As stated
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lectures_on_Jurisprudence
As stated
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wealth_of_Nations
Something to do as the world sleep walks into oblivion (the state of being completely forgotten).
Happy New Year
Laurel says
Re: J. Carville. BANG! Do Democrats have any part of their feet left? If so, they can shoot it off by not realizing the Dems have no apparent intention of banding together and influencing voters.
Larry says
True, Democrats don’t stick together. Republicans do stick together, right or wrong, which presents the current problem and why trump is still being supported by Republicans. Even after all we know about his criminal activities and anti-American rhetoric, his guilty verdict for sexual abuse. How women and especially Veterans (I’m a Viet Nam era Veteran and never trumper) can support this 5 time draft dodger is mind boggling. Biden’s age and other detriment are trivial compared to trump.
Laurel says
Larry: I know! It absolutely amazes me that veterans support Trump! He has insulted them right and left, put them down, and disparaged a man (McCain) who was considered a war hero for 50 years. A man who was shot down, put in a prison camp, tortured and didn’t give up his men, went on to serve us in Congress. Trump could not lick his boots.
Trump has bragged about sexually assaulting women, been convicted of sexual assault, has verbally insulted women’s looks and bodies and minds, yet women hold his political signs, showing they think little of themselves.
Just how many people of African and Hispanic heritage are members of Mar A Lago? Maybe some are allowed to work there. Poor, white guys with their Confederate flags and trucks held together with bungee straps really believe Trump in on their side. He laughs at them.
I could go on and on, but so many people are so easily lead, and are very willing to vote against their own interests. I guess it’s just the human condition.