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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, June 24, 2024

June 24, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

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From Clay Jones: “In a blistering dissent to the majority opinion legalizing bump stocks, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayer wrote, “Today, the Court puts bump stocks back in civilian hands. To do so, it casts aside Congress’s definition of ‘machinegun’ and seizes upon one that is inconsistent with the ordinary meaning of the statutory text and unsupported by context or purpose.” Writing for the majority, Clarence Thomas wrote, “We conclude that [a] semiautomatic rifle equipped with a bump stock is not a ‘machinegun’ because it does not fire more than one shot ‘by a single function of the trigger.” And to that, Justice Sotomayer responded, “When I see a bird that walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.” That also applies to corrupt Supreme Court justices. When I see a justice taking free vacations and other gifts from sugar daddies, that justice is corrupt. When a justice’s wife participates in trying to steal an election, or his wife is flying treason flags from two of their homes, that justice is compromised and needs to recuse himself. If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it’s a corrupt duck.
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Today at a Glance:

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.

Pizza, Pastries, and Planning: Flagler 2050 Public Meeting: 6 p.m. at the Emergency Operations Center (EOC), 1769 E. Moody Blvd., Bldg. 3, Bunnell. Tonight’s workshop will be an opportunity for Flagler County residents, business owners, and visitors to provide input on the project as well as to learn about the progress to date. The Comprehensive Plan has been underway since mid-2023 and is being led by the Flagler County Growth Management Department. For more information, visit tinyurl.com/flagler2050.

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 in 2025. To access meeting agendas, materials and minutes, go here.






Notably: The historian Steven Hahn writes perceptively in Illiberal America (2024) that “illiberal solutions always seemed the resort for liberal-directed problems.” Case in point: the eugenics movement of the 1920s in America was very much a liberal project championed by the economist Irving Fisher and, most of all, by Margaret Sanger, who’d founded the Birth Control League in 1921 to “elevate the function of motherhood,” but also to develop “a race of well-born children” (Sanger’s words) and advocate “sterilization of the insane and feeble-minded.  Speaking no differently than Jim Crow’s bigots, she saw a “menace to civilization” in the “lack of balance between the birthrate of the ‘unfit’ and the ‘fit,’ and saw “no more urgent problem” than the “over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.” (The headline of a Sanger biography’s review in The New York Times in 1992: “Margaret Sanger, Warrior for Women’s Rights.”) She held a national conference on birth control framed by those principles in December 1921. Participants were a who’s who of liberalism. They included Herbert Croly, the editor of The New Republic, Will Durant (though I’m hesitant to call him a liberal: these days he’d be to the right of Patrick Buchanan), Theodore Dreiser, Havelock Ellis, and Winston Churchill (no liberal, that one). Durant in a footnote in Our Oriental Heritage had written: “Blood, as distinct from race, may affect a civilization in the sense that a nation may be retarded or advanced by breeding from the biologically (not racially) worse or better strains among the people.” The philosophy, which Theodore Roosevelt had loved in his day (favoring sterilization of criminals and the feebleminded), would culminate in Oliver Wendell Holmes’s 1927 opinion upholding legislation giving government authority to sterilize “imbeciles,” and one of Holmes’s most repellant phrases (there were so many from that justice too often too wrongly considered a stylist): “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” Sanger supported the decision. Holmes appears to have been reincarnated as French novelist Michel Houellebecq. In 2020, Planned Parenthood announced it would remove Margaret Sanger’s name from its Manhattan health center and from an award. I’ve never been comfortable with the erasure of history or the canceling of individuals in most contexts. But removing a name here and there is neither. It’s more of a proper reckoning, the way laws change, the way morals change. We are not imprisoned by “founders,” a worthy lesson to keep in mind about those other ones, who tend to stifle more than inform our present, or our more humane reparations toward the future. 

—P.T.

 

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June 2025
Sunday, Jun 29
9:30 am - 10:25 am

ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students

Grace Presbyterian Church
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Sunday, Jun 29
10:00 am - 11:00 pm

Pride Month Finale Freedom Walk

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Sunday, Jun 29
12:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way

Flagler School District Bus Depot
Sunday, Jun 29
12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village

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Sunday, Jun 29
3:00 pm

Al-Anon Family Groups

Silver Dollar II Club
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Monday, Jun 30
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Nar-Anon Family Group

St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church
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Up until now, Planned Parenthood has failed to own the impact of our founder’s actions. We have defended Sanger as a protector of bodily autonomy and self-determination, while excusing her association with white supremacist groups and eugenics as an unfortunate “product of her time.” Until recently, we have hidden behind the assertion that her beliefs were the norm for people of her class and era, always being sure to name her work alongside that of W.E.B. Dubois and other Black freedom fighters. But the facts are complicated. Sanger spoke to the women’s auxiliary of the Ku Klux Klan at a rally in New Jersey to generate support for birth control. And even though she eventually distanced herself from the eugenics movement because of its hard turn to explicit racism, she endorsed the Supreme Court’s 1927 decision in Buck v. Bell, which allowed states to sterilize people deemed “unfit” without their consent and sometimes without their knowledge — a ruling that led to the sterilization of tens of thousands of people in the 20th century. […] We don’t know what was in Sanger’s heart, and we don’t need to in order to condemn her harmful choices. What we have is a history of focusing on white womanhood relentlessly. Whether our founder was a racist is not a simple yes or no question. Our reckoning is understanding her full legacy, and its impact. Our reckoning is the work that comes next. And the first step is making Margaret Sanger less prominent in our present and future. 

–From From Alexis McGill Johnson, from “I’m the Head of Planned Parenthood. We’re Done Making Excuses for Our Founder,” The New York Times, April 17, 2021.

 

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  1. Ray W. says

    June 24, 2024 at 8:16 am

    In yet another fact check, the truth is that George Washington owned slaves. At age 11, he inherited 10 slaves. He bought slaves. When he married, Martha Washington owned slaves inherited from her first husband. At the time of his death, George Washington, according to his ledger, owned 317 slaves.

    Why do I write this? This past weekend, during a speech to a gathering held by a conservative Christian group, former President Trump said this during a rail against renaming schools, military bases, and other facilities originally named for slaveowners and Confederate leaders:

    “How about George Washington high school? ‘We want the name removed from that high school.’ They don’t know why. You know, they thought he had slaves. Actually, I think he didn’t.”

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  2. Pogo says

    June 24, 2024 at 9:09 am

    @While I remember

    When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
    — Desiderius Erasmus
    https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/desiderius-erasmus-quotes

    And moreover
    https://www.google.com/search?q=Desiderius+Erasmus

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  3. Ray W. says

    June 24, 2024 at 11:55 pm

    The Trump campaign has released a fundraising email:

    “I want you to remember what they did to me. They tortured me in the Fulton County jail, and TOOK MY MUGSHOT. So guess what? I put it on a mug for the WHOLE WORLD TO SEE!”

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  4. Laurel says

    June 25, 2024 at 4:15 pm

    He’s such a poor, little victim. Why would anyone want an eternal, whining victim to run the country? I wish he would take his multiple deferments, his cofeefee, his bigotry, his name calling, his endless, incessant babbling, and his nasty, nasty self and go home…and not to Florida.

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