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Today at a Glance:
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library, 11 to 11:30 a.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach. It’s where the wild things are: Hop on for stories and songs with Miss Doris. And isn’t that the only thing that matters today?
 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: Today is Bunnell City Manager Alvin Jackson’s birthday. The preacher-manager, the sunniest man in Bunnell, is 62. Wish him a happy birthday. He’s not been having an easy time of it, facing some of those private challenges some of us do that upend life and turn us into fulminating Jobs, but Jackson, as always, is keeping his cheer. He is the Job of the last chapters, not the earlier ones. Happy Birthday Alvin, and we are rooting for you and yours.
—P.T.
Now this: (But imagine her talking to cancer.)
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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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“But I went on. What else could I do? Usually when you’re at the end of your rope, you find a little more rope.”
–John McEnroe, You Cannot Be Serious (2002).
Laurel says
Here’s the thing about that commandment, it states “Thou shall not kill” but doesn’t say what, or whom. Do we just assume it means humans? Would that be a correct interpretation?
James says
Well Laurel, God by definition deals with absolutes, so I would assume God meant “Thou shalt not kill” in the broadest sense possible.
What’s interesting (to me anyway) is that if I recall from my brief readings of Moses story, he didn’t actually make it all the way to the promised land.
The reason for this seeming to be left open and unresolved.
I have always held the belief that it was partly due to his moment of anger and/or disgust, in which he threw the tablets… he in effect threw stones. Ones which were unlike any other… if you believe the story.
As was then pointed out more precisely in my opinion by Christ in the new testament.
Just say’n.
Pogo says
@FWIW
Keep on kicking Biden, calling for heaven now, and flirting with third party shits who could hand the election to the house of unrepresentatives — Jared, his father-in-law, and uncle Bibi (settlers on meth) can’t wait for the next chapter of the Florida Plan:
https://www.google.com/search?q=kushner+gaza+waterfront
Gaza’s real friend — not:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/speaker-mike-johnson-says-plans-invite-netanyahu-speak-congress-rcna144427
The hits just keep on coming…
ASF says
Funny, how supposedly “progressive” forces seem to focus so obsessively–and seemingly exclusively–on changes needed to be made (immediately if not sooner) by Israel while Hamas and the PA get a free pass (even for using their own populace as Human Shields.) In fact, “pakesitnian resistance forces” are being rewarded for the war they started and continue to perpetuate with the promise of yet another attemot at a “two state solution.”
Antony Blinken keeps talking about the magical “Two State Solution” as though it is some new cutting edge concept that’s never been attempted before. The fact that the Palestinians have turned down no less than five two state solutions since 1948, followed by threats of Intifada, is an inconvenient fact that some folks would rather blithely ignore.
Israel is supposed to welcome the idea of a two state solution being forced on them at this point in time, despite several polls taken in the Palestinian territories indicating that a vast majoruty of Palestinians approve of Hamas’s conduct on October 7th and blaming all the violence commited on that day and ever since on the Jews.
To hear the “Liberal media” and Democrats tell it, everything Israel (and especially Netanyahu) are doing to try to defend themselves in the face of the Palestinians’ repeated threats to commit more October 7th massacres in the future, is an “over-reaction” and completely wrong.
To hear the Far Left contingent tell it, this current state of affairs is ALL about how Snidely Whiplash Israel and the “Zionists” genocidally target poor completely innocent Palestinians for kicks and giggles. Never mind that those completely innocent”Palestinian civilians” continue to wreak terror attacks against Israeli civilians which their governments continue to pay them to wreak with “humanitarian aid $$ given to them by the US government and others. Never mind that there is plenty of photographic and video evidence of the Palestinians’ spitting and jeering at both dead and living hostages being paraded through the streets of Gaza as well as reports of hostages being held–and abused– in civilian Palestinian homes.
The severed head of one Israeli was found in a Gazan Ice Cream shop freezer due to the fact that the “trophy holder” was trying to sell it online for $10,000. But it seems that that sort of thing is supposed to be taken “in context.”
Apparently, the Palestinians’ goal of annihilating Jews and laying claim to absolutely everything “From the river to the sea” is an acceptable state of affairs. Jews should just suck it up, forget all about that “Never Again” thing and settle for some politically correct “Never mind” editing instead.
Sorry. But, no.