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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, April 4, 2024

April 4, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Dante's Inferno of the 21st century by Osmani Simanca, Brazil
Dante’s Inferno of the 21st century by Osmani Simanca, Brazil

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Weather: Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. West winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Thursday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 40s. See the daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.



Today at a Glance:

The Flagler County Canvassing Board meets today at the Flagler County Supervisor of Elections office, Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The meeting is open to the public. Check the time in the sidebar or in this chart, which includes the full year’s meeting schedule (the pdf schedule does not include the dates and times of required Canvassing Board meetings which may be necessary due to a recount called locally or statewide.) The board is chaired by County Judge Andrea Totten. This Election Year’s board members are Supervisor of Elections Kaiti Lenhart and County Commissioner Dave Sullivan. The alternates are County Judge Melissa Distler and County Commissioner Donald O’Brien. March-April meetings are for the presidential preference primary, such as it is. See all legal notices from the Supervisor of Elections, including updated lists of those ineligible to vote, here.

Drug Court convenes before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins at 10 a.m. in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County courthouse, Kim C. Hammond Justice Center 1769 E Moody Blvd, Bldg 1, Bunnell. Drug Court is open to the public. See the Drug Court handbook here and the participation agreement here.

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.

‘Bonnie and Clyde, the Musical,’ at Daytona Playhouse: March 29, 30, April 4, 5, 6, 12, 13 at 7:30pm, March 31, April 7, 14 at 2:00pm. Tickets: $25, $24 and $15 depending on age. Book here. When Bonnie and Clyde meet, their craving for excitement and fame send them chasing their dreams. Forced to stay on the run, the lovers resort to robbery and murder to survive. As the infamous duo’s fame grows bigger, the end draws nearer in this exciting musical.






Notably: Last May an Axios-Ipsos poll found that gun violence tied opioids as Americas’ top concern.  Naturally, Congress responds by renewing the ban on any gun-violence research at the Centers for Disease Control, a ban in effect since 1996, when the Newt Leroy Gingrich Congress threatened to end the CDC altogether if it continued research. The NRA, America’s own white-collar terrorist organization, ramped up its war on the CDC in 1995, when its propaganda framed CDC gun research as “terrifically biased,” in the words of an emergency room physician called Edgar Suter, an NRA mercenary who was part of Doctors for Integrity in Policy Research, the Frontline Doctors of its day.  (In the dismal devolution of American politics we go from Doctors without Borders to Frontline Doctors, from Walter Cronkite to Steve Bannon, and of course from Obama to Trump). “These studies exaggerate the risks of guns and underestimate the deterrence effect of guns. And we have taxpayers’ money being used to subvert peoples’ natural right to self-defense,” Suter was quoted as saying in a 1995 New York Times article, using NRA terminology that subverts two centuries of constitutional law, and that led in 2008 to the ridiculous Heller decision, in which Antonin Scalia proved himself abler than Jayson Blair to fabricate history cloaked in “natural right” theology. The “natural right” school of law is a pernicious conservative movement favored by the Federalist Society–whose judges now occupy a plurality of federal benches–that’s a cousin of the “intelligent design” school of theology, itself a kin to attempts to supplant the secular Constitution with allegedly and prevailing god-given rights. All of that places law in a subordinate position to the invented conceits of what, yet again, will gush into the Heller decision, all the while continuing the ban on gun research. From an American Journal of Public Health paper in 2018: “The Dickey Amendment arose in response to efforts made in the early 1990s to begin treating gun violence as a public health issue. In 1992, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) converted its violence prevention division into a center that would lead federal efforts to reduce deaths and injuries resulting from violence. Soon, studies funded by the center began to draw attention to the gun issue. In particular, a 1993 study by Arthur Kellermann and his colleagues revealed an increased risk of homicide associated with presence of a firearm in a home.1 The Kellermann study and other similar investigations struck a nerve and began to receive widespread attention in newspapers and other media. The National Rifle Association (NRA) accused the CDC of being biased against guns and began lobbying for the elimination of the injury prevention center. Although the center survived, the NRA persuaded its allies in Congress to take action. Led by Representative Jay Dickey of Arkansas, they added a provision to a 1996 spending bill declaring that “[n]one of the funds made available in this title may be used, in whole or in part, to advocate or promote gun control.”2 Congress also stipulated that $2.6 million of the CDC’s budget, which was the amount spent on firearm injury research during the previous year, would be specifically earmarked for research on traumatic brain injuries.” Onto the next mass shooting.

—P.T.

 

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June 2025
flagler county commission government logo
Wednesday, Jun 18
8:00 am - 6:00 pm

Contractor Review Board Meeting

Government Services Building
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Wednesday, Jun 18
9:00 am - 11:00 am

Flagler County’s Technical Review Committee Meeting

Government Services Building
americans united for separation of church and state logo
Wednesday, Jun 18
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Separation Chat: Open Discussion

Pine Lakes Golf Club
course in miracles
Wednesday, Jun 18
1:20 pm - 2:30 pm

The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group

Contact Aynne McAvoy
chess club flagler county public library
Wednesday, Jun 18
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library

Flagler County Public Library
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Wednesday, Jun 18
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board

Thursday, Jun 19
10:00 am - 11:00 am

Flagler County Drug Court Convenes

Flagler County courthouse
Thursday, Jun 19
11:00 am - 11:30 am

Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library

315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Thursday, Jun 19
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center

Central Park in Town Center
flagler county democratic executive committee
Thursday, Jun 19
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Palm Coast Democratic Club Recap Meeting

Flagler County Democratic Party HQ
Thursday, Jun 19
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Town of Marineland Commission Meeting

GTM Research RESERVE Marineland Field Office
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Rihard Nixon did not like guns, and he despised  the NRA. “I don’t know why any individual should have a right to have a revolver in his house,” he said in a taped conversation in the Oval Office in 1972. Never mind licensing; why couldn’t they go after handguns, period? He knew the National Rifle Association would be against it, and so would the gun makers. But “people should not have hand-guns,” he insisted, with the usual flood of expletives. A version of the conversation took place several times during his presidency, typically ending with an aide reminding him that gun control was a losing issue for the party. But Nixon persisted. When White House special counsel Charles Colson told him that the House of Representatives had stalled on a bill to curb the sale of cheap handguns known as “Saturday night specials,” Nixon was enraged. “Goddamn it!” he said.” That ought to be passed.” Years later, in that special freedom of disgraced retirement, he repeated his conviction: “Guns are an abomination.”

–From —From Dominic Erdozain’s One Nation Under Guns (2024).

 

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