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Today at a Glance:
In Court: Circuit Judge Terence Perkins holds arraignments, takes please and issues sentences in low-profile cases for much of the day, and at 2:30 p.m. hears a motion to modify Jayden Jackson’s bond conditions: Jackson was arrested on April 29 and charged with hit and run with a death of a woman, a first degree felony. (See: “Jayden Jackson, 21, a Sheriff’s Deputy’s Son, Is Arrested in Hit-and-Run Death of Shaunta Cain on U.S. 1.”) His bond conditions include a ban on driving. His attorney, Josh Davis, will ask the court to allow Jackson to drive to and from work. Assistant State Attorney Jason Lewis objects.
The Flagler County Commission meets in workshop at 1 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The commission will discuss health insurance costs for county employees, a cost of living raise, and infrastructure issues at Daytona North, also known as the Mondex.
The Flagler County Commission meets at 5 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 E. Moody Boulevard, Building 2, Bunnell. Access meeting agendas and materials here. The five county commissioners and their email addresses are listed here.
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.
 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: When Fortune reported on the nation’s wealthiest people in 1968, there were just 153 people with a net worth of more than $100 million, with just two billionaires: J. Paul Getty and Howard Hughes. Six men had a net worth of more than $500 million, among them H.L. Hunt, the oil executive, and Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid camera, porn’s most fortunate slingshot. Forbes that year noted that when it had made its list in 1957, it had used the $50 million benchmark to determine the year’s wealthiest people (155 people were over that line then). A little contrast: Oxfam in 2016 released a study on privilege, power and inequality, summing it up with this abstract: “The global inequality crisis is reaching new extremes. The richest 1% now have more wealth than the rest of the world combined. Power and privilege is being used to skew the economic system to increase the gap between the richest and the rest. A global network of tax havens further enables the richest individuals to hide $7.6 trillion. The fight against poverty will not be won until the inequality crisis is tackled.”
—P.T.
Now this: Robert Reich: Should billionaires exist?
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Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Scenic A1A Pride Meeting
Blue 24 Forum
Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock
Flagler County’s Cold-Weather Shelter Opens
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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The greatest factors making for communism, socialism, or anarchy among a free people are the excesses of capital…. It is certain that among a free people every excess of capital must in time be repaid by the excessive demands of those who have not capital. Every act of injustice on the part of the rich will be met by another act or many acts of injustice on the part of the people.
—Louis Brandeis, quoted in Lewis Paper’s Brandeis (1983).
Pogo says
@P.T.
“…and Edwin Land, inventor of the Polaroid camera, porn’s most fortunate slingshot…”
The younglings (sic), hipsters, and boomers too, have created an encore for the old girl. Let’s not forget Land’s business/invention was ubiquitous in the production of identification credentials; including South African “passes” — part of another page of history. I used to carry one in an attache case, on a job I did: limited surety agent. First comes the booking photo, followed by the bondsman’s photo. You don’t have to go home, but if you’re not in court when your name is called, you will be back where I met you the first time.
James says
https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-melania-trump-family-spend-fortune-2018-7
… Still has nothing I want.
Just my opinion.
James says
Brings to mind a quote from an old movie I viewed recently… a somewhat deep observation on life.
Such is the stuff…
“The stuff that dreams are made of.”
The “Falcon” had turned out to be a heavy piece of worthless lead. An explicit punctuating example of the sad, one could almost say, pointless motivations behind the actions of the characters. And stepping back, in a strange breaking of the “forth wall,” perhaps also of the movie industry itself… and further still, of the lives of those in the audience as well. For how much of ones life does one carry around the heavy stuff of dreams (past and present)?
A great sage observation made even more accessible by the use of a well chosen prop.
Shakespeare wouldn’t be disappointed.
Just an opinion.