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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, July 23, 2024

July 23, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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From Clay Jones.

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Weather: Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent. Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.

  • Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
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Today at a Glance:

The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop at 9 a.m. at City Hall. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.

The Flagler County School Board meets at 1 p.m. in an information workshop. The board meets in the training room on the third floor of the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. Board meeting documents are available here.

The Flagler County School Board meets at 6 p.m. in Board Chambers on the first floor of the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. Board meeting documents are available here. The meeting is open to the public and includes public speaking segments.

Book Dragons, the Kids’ Book Club at the Flagler Beach Public Library meets at 5 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.

The NAACP Flagler Branch’s General Membership Meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. at the African American Cultural Society, 4422 North U.S. Highway 1, Palm Coast (just north of Whiteview Parkway). The meeting is open to the public, including non-members. To become a member, go here.

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.




Notably: The Democrats finally got their act together, not quite as expected–Joe Biden’s obstinacy was a bit more than anyone expected, the quick and bracing rallying around Kamal Harris was even more unexpected, and fortunate for the Democrats: they are doing what they have to do if they are to have a chance. The reactionaries, on the other hand, are reacting exactly as expected: robbed of their surest chance to win, they are all repeating the talking point manufactured for them from one K Street lobbying firm or another: Biden’s decision to pull out was a “coup,” and the Democrats are being undemocratic. A reactionary party that has spent the last decade or so shuttering every possible fair-election avenue it can, down to removing mail-in ballot boxes (as in Florida, as in Flagler), down to narrowing the election day voting window, prohibiting the aid of people in line, and in Florida, again disenfranchising felons who’ve served their time by saddling them with debt obligations before they can vote–that reactionary party is now calling the democrats undemocratic. But the reactionaries seem to be a bit nervous, scared, surprised, which is good. They did not expect the old man to pull out, and if they did, they prayed for an intramural fight to stretch to the convention, which we are not going to see. Thankfully. Kamala Harris may bring a little dullness to the race. But that’s what we need: let her stand next to the little trolling fascist as he rambles incoherently, his Biden foil gone, his own reality (or “reality,” as Nabokov insisted the word always be used, with quote marks) mirrored back to him. I was not a Harris fan. I’m a Whitmer man. But I’m all Harris now, not least because she was VP in one of the most productive presidencies since FDR and LBJ. Maybe more so, in some regards. Biden deserves the greatest heroic sendoff he’ll get at the Democratic National Convention.

—P.T.

 




 

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September 2025
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Monday, Sep 22
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Flagler County Government Tax and Budget Hearing

Government Services Building
nar-anon family groups palm coast
Monday, Sep 22
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Nar-Anon Family Group

St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church
Monday, Sep 22
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Palm Coast Charter Review Committee Meeting

Palm Coast City Hall
Monday, Sep 22
7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

Bunnell City Commission Meeting

Bunnell City Hall
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Tuesday, Sep 23
9:00 am - 12:00 pm

Palm Coast City Council Workshop

Palm Coast City Hall
flagler county schools
Tuesday, Sep 23
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Flagler County School Board Information Workshop

Government Services Building
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Tuesday, Sep 23
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Flagler County Affordable Housing Committee Meeting

Emergency Operations Center
Tuesday, Sep 23
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Book Dragons, the Kids’ Book Club, at Flagler Beach Public Library

315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Tuesday, Sep 23
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Budgeting by Values: A Virtual Class to Learn Budgeting Skills

naacp
Tuesday, Sep 23
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

NAACP Flagler Branch General Membership Meeting

flagler county schools
Tuesday, Sep 23
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Flagler County School Board Meeting

Government Services Building
Tuesday, Sep 23
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy

Cinematique of Daytona Beach
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On the cliffs of Normandy, in a small holding area, the president of the United States was looking out at the English Channel. It was only six weeks ago, on the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings, and President Biden had just finished his remarks at the American cemetery atop Omaha Beach. Guests had been congratulating him on the speech, but he didn’t want to talk about himself. The moment was not about him; it was about the men who had fought and died there. “Today feels so large,” he told me. “This may sound strange — and I don’t mean it to — but when I was out there, I felt the honor of it, the sanctity of it. To speak for the American people, to speak over those graves, it’s a profound thing.” He turned from the view over the beaches and gestured back toward the war dead. “You want to do right by them, by the country.” Mr. Biden has spent a lifetime trying to do right by the nation, and he did so in the most epic of ways when he chose to end his campaign for re-election. His decision is one of the most remarkable acts of leadership in our history, an act of self-sacrifice that places him in the company of George Washington, who also stepped away from the presidency. To put something ahead of one’s immediate desires — to give, rather than to try to take — is perhaps the most difficult thing for any human being to do. And Mr. Biden has done just that.

–From Jon Meacham’s “Joe Biden, My Friend and an American Hero,” The New York Times, July 22, 2024.

 

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