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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 Flagler County Beekeepers Association holds its monthly meeting from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Flagler Agricultural Center, 150 Sawgrass Rd., Bunnell (the county fairgrounds). This is a meeting for beekeepers in Flagler and surrounding counties (and those interested in the trade). The meetings have a speaker, Q & A, and refreshments are served. It is a great way to gain support as a beekeeper or learn how to become one. All are welcome. Meetings take place the fourth Monday of every month. Contact Kris Daniels at 704-200-8075.
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. Mayor Catherine Robinson is scheduled to deliver the annual State of the City Address. It may be watched here. 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: They made a desert and called it peace. The line is attributed to Tacitus quoting Calagus, a warlord of the first century from what today is known as Scotland. Accurate or not, it’s accurate as far as Israel’s miserable razing of Gaza is concerned. Israel is calling it quits but for its usual way of occupying foreign land and calling it something else, the way it occupied a swath of south Lebanon’s land along the Israeli border from 1982 to 2000, calling it a “security zone.” This occupation zone now splits Gaza in two, because splitting Gaza from the West Bank, and splitting the West Bank in about 50 disparate pieces, isn’t enough. Israel is going to balkanize Gaza too. It’s having its “mission accomplished” moment. We all remember Bush the Littler on the USS Abraham Lincoln on may 1, 2003, after his stage-managed landing in a fighter jet (“In this battle, we have fought for the cause of liberty, and for the peace of the world. Our nation and our coalition are proud of this accomplishment,” he said as Iraq was balkanizing into civil war and preparing to claim over 100,000 lives, including 4,00 American lives.) The Israelis have killed about 33,000 Palestinians to date in gaza, among them a few thousand Hamas militants. But Hamas isn’t dead, nor defeated, and that alone, as in the war against Hezbollah in Lebanon in 2006, is enough, in the fanaticism of the region, to lend the propaganda victory to Hamas. But it couldn’t have been otherwise short of an actual razor-wire-to-razor-wire genocide, and that much, Israel would not have been allowed to carry out. What it hopes is that by destroying 70 percent of homes in Gaza, some sort of exodus to Arab countries will now follow, slowly emptying Gaza as a “humanitarian” expedient, but in fact as a fulfillment of the neo-Zionist (as opposed to its more honorable, more co-existing antecedent) push to cleanse as much of the West Bank and Gaza of Palestinians as possible. Massacres only go so far. But The Economist has it right in its latest headline: “The IDF is accused of military and moral failures in Gaza.” Haaretz has it more right. It ran this analysis by Anshel Pfeffer on its front page, across six columns at the top of the page, on April 11, headlined: “Israel’s military maneuver in Gaza was a pointless success.” In sum: “A successful maneuver without a viable strategy to follow it is just that: a maneuver for the sake of maneuvering. In hindsight, a more limited ground offensive was called for, which would have caused Hamas and Gaza less damage but would have left Israel with more options afterward.” The story below that one, still on the front page but below the fold, since Arabs are always second, third and last-class human beings in Israeli eyes (at least Haaretz recognizes their existence, as the Jerusalem Post and most AIPAC-aligned Americans do not): “There’s no way to quantify the suffering in Gaza.”
—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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Operation Iraqi Freedom was carried out with a combination of precision and speed and boldness the enemy did not expect, and the world had not seen before. From distant bases or ships at sea, we sent planes and missiles that could destroy an enemy division, or strike a single bunker. Marines and soldiers charged to Baghdad across 350 miles of hostile ground, in one of the swiftest advances of heavy arms in history. You have shown the world the skill and the might of the American Armed Forces. […] Today, we have the greater power to free a nation by breaking a dangerous and aggressive regime. With new tactics and precision weapons, we can achieve military objectives without directing violence against civilians. No device of man can remove the tragedy from war; yet it is a great moral advance when the guilty have far more to fear from war than the innocent. […] In the battle of Afghanistan, we destroyed the Taliban, many terrorists, and the camps where they trained. We continue to help the Afghan people lay roads, restore hospitals, and educate all of their children. Yet we also have dangerous work to complete. As I speak, a Special Operations task force, led by the 82nd Airborne, is on the trail of the terrorists and those who seek to undermine the free government of Afghanistan. America and our coalition will finish what we have begun.
–From George W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech, May 1, 2003.
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The Dutch, according to Haaretz, are also calling for sanctions against rampaging settlers in the West Bank. It’s so obvious why the US and Israel are not members of the World Court at The Hague, isn’t it? After the massacre at Deir Yassin in 1948, Martin Buber wrote to David Ben Gurion that the new country was beginning on definitely the wrong route. They’ve been on that wrong route ever since. Peaceful coexistence should have been the aim, not an apartheid nation state.
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Lets review all of tRump successes
tRump promised to build a wall. He only did 458 miles out of 2,000. Most of it was repair or replacement, not new.
He promised to make Mexico pay. They didn’t.
He promised to cut the deficit. He added $8T to it.
He promised to unveil a new health care plan. It didn’t exist.
He promised a middle class tax cut. He cut taxes for the rich. The middle class is paying for it.
He said he wouldn’t play golf as President. He made 250 visits(way more than Obama) to his own golf clubs. It cost taxpayers $150 million.
He said he’d increase economic growth by 4%. He didn’t. President Biden did.
He promised an infrastructure plan. He had none. President Biden signed a massive one.
He promised to hire “the best people.” He fired 3/4 of them, and then said they were the worst ever.
He promised to bring down the price of prescription drugs. He didn’t: President Biden did.
He promised a Hillary lock up . It didn’t happen. Promised we’d win the trade war with China. We didn’t , It cost about a quarter million jobs and hurt Americans not help them.
He promised his corporate tax cuts would help and benefit Workers and corporations would use that money to invest in American workers. They didn’t, they used that money to buy back stocks .
He promised to bring back and revive the coal industry. Never happened more coal jobs lost during his presidency.
He promised to drain the swamp. He didn’t: He WAS the swamp. Jan 6th–Fake Electors.