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Weather: Mostly sunny. Highs in the lower 80s. Southwest winds 15 to 20 mph with gusts up to 30 mph. Monday Night: Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers in the evening. Lows in the mid 50s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.See the daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
Today at a Glance:
In Court: It’s Trial Week, with potentially nine cases on the docket. See the list here.
Palm Coast Open: A USTA Pro Circuit Event: At the Palm Coast Tennis Center, 1290 Belle Terre Parkway, Palm Coast. Check daily schedules here. In its 13th year, the Palm Coast Open features elite men’s tennis played on our hometown stage. Competitors worldwide travel to Palm Coast for a chance at winning a total of $15,000 in prize money and points toward their ATP ranking, a merit-based method to determine tournament entry and seeding based on men’s tennis rankings.
The Flagler County Library Board of Trustees meets at 4:30 p.m. at the Flagler County Public Library, 2500 Palm Coast Pkwy NW, Palm Coast. The meeting of the seven-member board is open to the public.
The Garden Club at Palm Coast Monthly Meeting: Club 51 at the Palm Coast Social Club, 51 Old Kings Road North. Arrive early at 11:30 AM to enjoy lunch (cash or credit) and the Plant Sale. The gathering continues until 1:00 PM for member check-in, raffle ticket sales, and socializing. The meeting officially begins at 1:00 PM. The February Guest speaker is Judy Jean, M.S.: Extension Agent I, Urban Horticulture and Master Gardener Coordinator, UF/IFAS Extension Flagler County. The meeting closes with raffles and door prize drawings. Visitors are welcome to the Plant Sale and to preview our club. For more club information go to our Facebook page (The Garden Club at Palm Coast, Inc.) or email to [email protected].
Nar-Anon Family Groups offers hope and help for families and friends of addicts through a 12-step program, 6 p.m. at St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Pkwy NE, Palm Coast, Fellowship Hall Entrance. See the website, www.nar-anon.org, or call (800) 477-6291. Find virtual meetings here.
The Bunnell City Commission meets at 7 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell, where the City Commission is holding its meetings until it is able to occupy its own City Hall on Commerce Parkway likely in early 2023. To access meeting agendas, materials and minutes, go here.
 Keep Their Lights On Over the Holidays: Flagler Cares, the social service non-profit celebrating its 10th anniversary, is marking the occasion with a fund-raiser to "Keep the Holiday Lights On" by encouraging people to sponsor one or more struggling household's electric bill for a month over the Christmas season. Each sponsorship amounts to $100 donation, with every cent going toward payment of a local power bill. See the donation page here. Every time another household is sponsored, a light goes on on top of a house at Flagler Cares' fundraising page. The goal of the fun-raiser, which Flagler Cares would happily exceed, is to support at least 100 families (10 households for each of the 10 years that Flagler Cares has been in existence). Flagler Cares will start taking applications for the utility fund later this month. Because of its existing programs, the organization already has procedures in place to vet people for this type of assistance, ensuring that only the needy qualify. |
Notably: Biden’s Fundraising Catches Up With Trump’s. (Synapses aside.) From Statista: Joe Biden‘s campaign raised more than $33 million in Q4 of 2023, bringing the president’s fundraising in the 2024 election cycle to the same level as that of Donald Trump – his likely opponent in the race for the presidency. Trump’s campaign only brought in slightly more that $19 million in 2023’s final quarter, less than the $24.5 million the Republican’s campaign made in Q3 of that year. Trump has also spent more money, dispensing around $46.5 million since his campaign started in Q4 of 2022. Biden, whose presidential campaign started later – in Q2 of 2023 – only began major spending efforts then and hence has so far dispensed only around $34 million. This is according to new and updated filings with the Federal Election Commission.
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Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
For the full calendar, go here.
But, as I have implied, this coverage–and with it the work of academic experts on Islam, geopolitical strategists who speak of “the crescent of crisis,” cultural thinkers who deplore “the decline of the West”–is misleadingly full. It has given consumers of news the sense that they have understood Islam without at the same time intimating to them that a great deal in this energetic coverage is based on far from objective material. In many instances “Islam” has licensed not only patent inaccuracy but also expressions of unrestrained ethno-centrism, cultural and even racial hatred, deep yet paradoxically free-floating hostility. All this has taken place as part of what is presumed to be fair, balanced, responsible coverage of Islam. Aside from the fact that neither Christianity nor Judaism, both of them going through quite remarkable revivals (or “returns”), is treated in so emotional a way, there is an unquestioned assumption that Islam can be characterized limitlessly by means of a handful of recklessly general and repeatedly deployed clichés. And always it is supposed that the “Islam” being talked about is some real and stable object out there where “our” oil supplies happen to be found.
–From Edward Said’s Covering Islam (1981).
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@President Trump and Speaker Johnson announce Israel to be 51st state
Elsewhere, President Putin announces Russian Empire of Oil, and Land, Corporation.
And so it went.