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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 atlanticcoastau@gmail.com 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.
Flagler Cares hosts its quarterly Help Night from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Flagler County Village Community Room, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite B304, Palm Coast. Help Night is organized and hosted by Flagler Cares and other community partners as a one-stop help event. Representatives from Flagler County Human Services, Early Learning Coalition, EasterSeals, Family Life Center, Florida Legal Services, Lions Club, and many other organizations will be available to provide information and resources. The event is open to the public, free to attend, and will offer assistance with obtaining various services including autism screenings, tablets (low-income qualification), fair housing legal consultations, Marketplace Navigation, childcare services, SNAP and Medicaid application assistance, behavioral health services, and much more. Flagler Cares is a non-profit agency focused on creating a vital, expansive social safety net that addresses virtually all the health and social needs of our community. Flagler Cares works with clients to identify needs and create solutions that address those unique needs. Flagler Cares is proud to have a wide range of community partners who are committed to providing high quality services to those who need them most. Flagler Cares is also passionate about filling gaps and bringing needed services into the county where they did not previously exist. For more information about this event, please call 386-319-9483 ext. 0, or email help@flaglercares.org.
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 childrens@flaglercounty.gov
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.
Notably: Denialism is everywhere. Covid denialism. Anti-vaxxers. Election denialism. Global warming denialism. Putin denialism. Denialism of Israeli atrocities. There are even a few who still deny that Tom Friedman is a horrible writer. In 2009, long before the plagues of Donald Trump–but maybe auguring them–Michael Specter wrote a whole book on the subject: Denialism, on anti-vaxxers, “the organic fetish,” racism deniers, the absurdity and stupendous waste of abstinence-only programs. Then there’s the mother of them all: Holocaust-denialism. Not just the Shoah, but Turks’ denials of the Armenian genocide (it’s a crime there to suggest Turkey was responsible). The other day someone dropped a comment below the Conversation item on “The Problem With Shaming People for Auschwitz Selfies.” The commenter was incensed that the caption to a photo of the death camp referred to its location in Poland. It wasn’t Poland. It was Poland under occupation, It was Third Reich land, so it couldn’t possibly be Poland, and Poles had nothing to do with the Holocaust–a fallacy long discredited: Poles, like the French, like some other Europeans, played tacit and sometimes not so tacit roles in abetting the Holocaust, just as FDR did by minimizing the atrocities and suppressing Jewish immigration. So this is the new denialism: we had nothing to do with it because we were under occupation. In 2018 Poland passed a law criminalizing any suggestion that Poles were complicit in the atrocities. “Apart from raising the very questions about the role of the Poles in the Holocaust that the drafters apparently want to hide, are we not past such self-serving posturing over one of history’s greatest crimes?” asked a New York Times editorial. Poland actually justified it as following the lead of other European laws banning Holocaust-denialism. Protest convinced the government to remove the criminalizing portion of the law, and the following year it was further weakened. But clearly the denialism has its adherents. Denialism must be its own euphoric addiction. Nothing rational explains it. But don’t 69 percent of Americans believe in angels? And is that so different?
—P.T.
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Most scientists think it will be years, possibly decades, before we reap the full intellectual harvest of the Human Genome Project, After comprehensive study, we can explain a small percentage of genetic links to common disease. But there is much more we don’t understand- including how some genes work to protect us from illnesses that other genes cause. Meanwhile, that 99 percent figure has been published everywhere and is used as the basis of a propaganda war by both sides in the race debate. There is no disputing our homogeneity. It is also true, however, that we share 98.4 percent of our genes with chimpanzees. Few people would argue that makes us nearly identical to them. Even drosophila-the common fruit fly has a genetic structure that shares almost two-thirds of its DNA with humans. Does that mean we are mostly like fruit flies? The simple and largely unanswered question remains: what can we learn from the other 1 percent (or less) of our genome that sets us apart from everyone else?
–From Michael Specter’s Denialism (2009).
Angela Smith says
April 7: AAUW 40th Anniversary Celebration The link to register does not offer this option
FlaglerLive says
The link was at the bottom of the page, but trying it now shows a “this event has ended” message, which is puzzling. We will try to figure out the issue.
William Markert says
Turtlefest, April 6,veterans park,bring the family.
James says
It appears it’s going to be an active denialism (election) season it seems, with not one, but two major storms…
https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2024/apr/06/what-to-know-about-rfk-jr-and-his-threat-to-biden/
Just an political weather observation.