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Weather: Mostly cloudy in the morning, then becoming partly sunny. A chance of showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Highs around 80. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent. Wednesday Night: Mostly clear in the evening, then becoming partly cloudy. Patchy fog after midnight. Lows in the upper 50s. West winds 5 to 10 mph.See the daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
Today at a Glance:
The Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets at 10 a.m. every first Wednesday of the month at City Hall. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For details about the city’s code enforcement regulations, go here.
Separation Chat, Open Discussion: The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State hosts an open, freewheeling discussion on the topic here in our community, around Florida and throughout the United States, noon to 1 p.m. at its new location, Pine Lakes Golf Club Clubhouse Pub & Grillroom (no purchase is necessary), 400 Pine Lakes Pkwy, Palm Coast (0.7 miles from Belle Terre Parkway). Call (386) 445-0852 for best directions. All are welcome! Everyone’s voice is important. For further information email [email protected] or call Merrill at 804-914-4460.
The Flagler Beach Library Book Club meets at 1 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library: Do you enjoy Chess, trying out new moves, or even like some friendly competition? Come visit the Flagler County Public Library at the Teen Spot every Wednesday from 4 to 5 p.m. for Chess Club. Everyone is welcome, for beginners who want to learn how to play all the way to advanced players. For more information contact the Youth Service department 386-446-6763 ext. 3714 or email us at [email protected]
The Flagler County Republican Club holds its monthly meeting starting with a social hour at 5 and the business meeting at 6 p.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn, 55 Town Center Blvd., Palm Coast. The club is the social arm of the Republican Party of Flagler County, which represents over 40,000 registered Republicans. Meetings are open to Republicans only.
 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: It really never gets easier, watching the sack of Congress that January 6. It’s not the sack of Genoa in 1522 or the sack of Rome in 1527, it’s not Manzikert in 1071 or Constantinople in 1453 or or 9/11, it’s certainly not anything in the league of Antietam or Gettysburg, or even the Birmingham bombings, the bombing of four little girls especially. But nor were the assassinations of Kennedy, King or Malcolm in those leagues either, aside from the disproportionate consequences those instants, those bullets, had on history. The disproportionality of the Jan. 6 insurrection was more in its potential than in what it achieved, since it achieved nothing other than lay bare the banditry and rapacity of its chief instigator. But the disproportion is also in what followed, in the way the country responded (admirably in some circles, revoltingly in others), and in the way, in some of these circles–CPAC, Trump’s synapses–it has continued to turn the insurrectionists into heroes, beatifying them the way they beatified Ashli Babbitt, waiting for the day when they can canonize them, so they can be taught and glorified in Florida schools, as I’m sure they already are in some classrooms. This is where we are picking up from when Trump is elected. It may not be The Day After, but it will be the day after Jan. 6, and in matters of consequences, I’m not sure how different that will be than our own sack.
—P.T.
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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
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We profess ourselves to be loyal citizens of these United States; and by loyalty we mean a candid and loving devotion to the object to which a loyal man–a loyal husband, a loyal friend, a loyal citizen devotes himself. We eschew the attenuated arguments derived by trifling scholars from meager etymology. We take the core and substance of this weighty word, and pledge ourselves that we will loyally not merely outwardly and formally, according to the letter, but frankly, fervently and according to the spirit adhere to our country, to her institutions, to freedom, and her power, and to that great institution called the government of our country, founded by our fathers, and loved by their sons, and by all right-minded men who have become citizens of this land by choice and not by birth who have wedded this country in the maturity of their age as verily their own. We pledge ourselves as National men devoted to the Nationality of this great people. No government can wholly dispense with loyalty, except the fiercest despotism ruling by naked intimidation, but a republic stands in greater need of it than any other government, and most of all a republic beset by open rebellion and insidious treason. Loyalty is preeminentlv a civic virtue in a free country. It is patriotism cast in the graceful mould of candid devotion to the harmless government of an unshackled nation.
–From Francis Lieber’s Address at the inaugural meeting of the Loyal National League, Union Square, New York, April 11, 1863.
Land of no turn signals says says
Why not equal time with Biden pulling the strings on the DOJ?