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Weather: Mostly clear. Highs in the mid 80s. Lows in the upper 60s.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
- Check today’s tides in Flagler Beach here.
- tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
Her Turn Women’s Surf Festival: From the organizers: “Join us for Flagler Beach’s surf festival, ‘Her Turn’. We believe in the magic of the ocean, the art of surfing and the power of bringing women together. Join us in celebrating all three in our special little beach town. All levels welcome! Bring your board and a mentality of fun and community.” Friday evening the event starts with a kick-off party at Wadsworth Park, 2200 Moody Blvd, Flagler Beach, from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday, the day begins with yoga on the beach at 6:30 a.m., and an 8 a.m. start for the competition. See the website here.
Plant Sale Supporting Master Gardener Volunteers Educational Programs, 9:30 a.m. at the UF/IFAS Extension Center at the County Fairgrounds, 150 Sawgrass Road Bunnell. Friendly Plants, Fruit Trees, Vegetables & Herbs, Gently used tools. Visit our gardens. See our progress. Learn about the facility and the role we play in our community.
The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Wickline Park, 315 South 7th Street, featuring prepared food, fruit, vegetables , handmade products and local arts from more than 30 local merchants. The market is hosted by Flagler Strong, a non-profit.
Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley: Flagler Beach Commission Chairman Scott Spradley hosts his weekly informal town hall with coffee and doughnuts at 9 a.m. at his law office at 301 South Central Avenue, Flagler Beach. All subjects, all interested residents or non-residents welcome. The gatherings occasionally feature a special guest.
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The food pantry is organized by Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Disaster Relief Agency in Flagler County. Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and active and retired military members who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers, and farms we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need. The Flagler County School District provides space for much of the food pantry storage and operations. Call 386-586-2653 to help, volunteer or donate.
Flagler Humane Society Hosts Special Adoption Event from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Flagler Humane Society, 1 Shelter Drive, Palm Coast. Calling all animal lovers. The Flagler Humane Society is excited to welcome current and future pet parents to a special adoption event sponsored by Simparica Trio. The event will spotlight pets that have been at the shelter for over 30 days. Highlights include:
- Half-off the price of adoption for any pet that has been at the shelter for over 30 days
- Ice cream treats & photo booths for pups and their people
- Free heartworm testing for the first 100 dogs
- Exclusive offer code for Simparica Trio (sarolaner, moxidectin, and pyrantel chewable tablets) that protects against heartworm disease, ticks & fleas, and roundworms & hookworms
Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone: Every first Saturday we invite new residents out to learn everything about Flagler County at Cornerstone Center, 608 E. Moody Blvd, Bunnell, 1 to 2:30 p.m. We have a great time going over dog friendly beaches and parks, local social clubs you can be a part of as well as local favorite restaurants.
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every Tuesday and on the first Saturday of every month the Random Acts of Insanity Comedy Improv Troupe specializes in performing fast-paced improvised comedy.
 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: The orange color over the United States is most notable of all–orange, not just for what Statista intends it to mean, but for its association with that other orangeade we have been afflicted with roughly since 2015, when it jumped the pages of the New York Post to invade us down to our follicles. Orange, the wonderful Alex Theroux (Paul’s brother), now in his 84th year, the author of Darconville’s Cat, An Adultery and Laura Warholic, but also if those two great collections on The Primary Colors and The Secondary Colors, classics still considered too minor against their worth (one day they’ll glitter)–orange, I was saying, is the wife of blue, the colors that apparently identified all second basemen in the National League’s inaugural season in 1881. “In China,” Theroux tells us, “orange stands for power and happiness, where it is also the auspicious hue of celestial fruit and the color of pride, hospitality, marriage, ambition, benevolence, what Ann Landers with her characteristic preschool rhetoric calls, I believe, a ‘day brightener.’ ” And this, which shades a bit closer to the unpresidential subject at hand in these, the leeward weeks of the hushmoney trial: “Many street prostitutes in the slum courts and side streets of Mexican cities, having an odd sense of what will attract men, often wear orange lipstick and orange fingernail polish.” But to the subject at hand: the map above, which breaks hearts whatever the color when it is other than green, since we still live not just in a world but in a country that finds such ample room for second, third, fourth class citizens, not to mention the non-citizens, who are just rapists and worse, according to the color of the man who really should be wearing it by now. Speaking of his cellmate: Theroux wrote The Secondary Colors in 1996, but like all good writers inebriated by clarity, he knew, he just knew, and wrote this: “ “Bill Cosby, an opportunistic, face-pulling buffoon, in my opinion, not a comedian, maybe because of the shameless and incessant spate of commercials he does on TV, looks to me not black, but orange.” Again, he must have meant that orange they wear at the Flagler County jail, and at San Quentin, as I recall.
—P.T.
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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
It’s Back! Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
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The flurry of history-and-tradition opinions prompted an uproar among liberal court-watchers. What counted as historical or traditional? The open-ended nature of the terms seemed to invite a freewheeling survey of the 18th and 19th centuries. It’s “basically a fancy way of saying, ‘if men in power didn’t recognize this right as fundamental in ye olde times, we won’t recognize it now,’” tweeted Joseph Fishkin, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles. The court was playing “memory games,” in the words of a widely cited law review article about Dobbs by Reva Siegel, a Yale law professor. Why does the conservative majority “appeal to history and tradition in exactly those cases in which it is changing the law?” she asked in another, forthcoming piece. […] The history-and-tradition test could have even more far-reaching effects on other areas of law. Last year, for example, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit considered a challenge to Tennessee’s ban on gender-related medical treatments for minors, brought by parents who argued that they had a 14th Amendment right to make decisions about treatments on their children’s behalf. In the majority opinion of a three-judge panel, Judge Jeffrey Sutton agreed that parents have the right to make decisions “concerning the care, custody and control of their children” — but ruled against the parents, because they hadn’t shown that a right to new medical treatments was “rooted in the nation’s history and tradition.” A month later, another federal appeals court similarly upheld an Alabama ban on gender-related care for minors Applied literally, the history-and-tradition test turns on whether a new practice is like an old one. If not, courts can discount whatever modern goal it is supposed to serve. But some of the justices are already wrestling with whether they have painted themselves into a corner.
–From Emily Bazelon’s “How ‘History and Tradition’ Rulings Are Changing American Law,” New York Times Magazine, April 29, 2024.
Pogo says
@From the record
Lest it be forgotten
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/04/republicans-congress-palestine-israel-double-standard/
And obviously is forgotten
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-on-same-sex-marriage-i-am-absolutely-comfortable/
And too
https://www.5newsonline.com/article/news/local/outreach/back-to-school/obama-biden-comments-pushed-up-same-sex-marriage-announcement/527-8dac5050-f881-4888-9d71-ac23370bda49
Even a broken clock is correct once every 12 hours:
“Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.”
― Billy Graham
ASF says
That “35,000” cartoon count is , indeed tragically (albeit, cynically) cartoon-ish–considering how the Gazan Health Ministry (and its associated partners) casualty numbers never take into account how many of that number actually is comprised of Hamas fighters, ther Humkan Shields and/or Palestinian cvilians that are killed by misfred Hamas/IJ rockets that land back into the Palestinians’ own backyards (deaths which are usually ascribed to being the result of “Israeli airstrikes.”)
And, of course, the Israeli deaths that result from the unending rocket fire launched against them (The Iron Dome is not infallible) and the terror attacks that continue–as well as the fates of the remanng hostages–are brushed aside for propaganda purposes.
Pierre Tristam says
ASF, AKA AIPAC, for the Israeli war crimes defense. Unfailing. Unconscionable.
ASF says
I am not a member of AIPAC (although I am supportive of Israel and feel that those who feel similarly supportive and concerned have every right to advocate for what is important to them.)
Are you a member of CAIR? The same implied aspersions could be cast upon CAIR–which is a Pro-Arab lobbying group–that you seem to be levying against AIPAC–and me–in the comment above.
Beyond that, stand by the points I made in my post.
Pierre Tristam says
Comparing AIPAC’s genocide apologists to CAIR (I’m not a member if anything, but I have nothing against CAIR) is like comparing the 2,000-lb bombs AIPAC lobbies the US government for (to massacre Palestinians whose lives matter not) to a slingshot. But you go in standing by your obliviousness to mass graves. Anything else would be surprising.
Ray W. says
Why would you ever stand by any of your comments about Israeli policies toward Palestine? You are a consistently vengeful person; it oozes out of your words towards innocent Palestinians. There are millions of innocent Israelis, too. Vengeance hurts everyone. Vengeance seems to be everywhere in that ancient land. By definition that makes any comment by you a bad comment. You might be less bad than other commenters out there, but you are a harmful vengeful commenter. Please start future comments about the horror that is today’s Palestine by stating that you oppose all murderous religious extremist Jewish settlers. Balance might do you good.