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Weather: Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly cloudy. A slight chance of thunderstorms. A chance of showers in the morning, then showers likely in the afternoon. Highs around 90. Southwest winds around 5 mph, becoming north in the afternoon. Chance of rain 70 percent. Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.
- 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 Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
- tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
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.
The Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up starting at 9 a.m. in front of the Flagler Beach pier. All volunteers welcome.
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. Today, it’s open mic.
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.
Hammock Beach Food and Wine Classic, 5 to 9 p.m., Hammock Beach Resort, 200 Ocean Crest Dr, Palm Coast. Food & wine weekend at Hammock Beach Golf Resort & Spa. The Second Annual Food & Wine Classic will feature over 90 exquisite wines from 8 countries, with gourmet pairings from our executive chefs. Treat all your senses as you enjoy multiple live entertainment acts, interactive experiences, and explore our well-equipped retail store to commemorate the event. $175+ per person. To secure your tickets, please call Christine Losagio at 386.246.5676 or email [email protected].
Flagler Woman’s Club, the civic and social organization, invites you to the organization’s biggest fundraiser ever on Saturday, September 7 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. The Casino Night event will be held at the Italian American Social Club, 45 N. Old Kings Road in Palm Coast. Proceeds will underwrite the club’s 20-some annual charitable initiatives, including scholarships for college-bound Flagler County students. Information and tickets can be purchased at The Woman’s Club website: flaglerwomansclub.org A few more details here.
Join us for an Art Opening Reception for Palm Coast Stained Glass Artist Patricia Conway. The opening will be part of the 1st Saturday Art Walk in Ormond Beach on Saturday, September 7th from 3-7pm. Come out and meet Patricia, listen to music, enjoy light refreshments and see some great art. Part & ride the FREE Shuttle to the other venues. Talk with us for more info at 386.317.9400.
‘The Great American Trailer Park Musical’ at Daytona Playhouse, 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach, 7:30 p.m. except Sundays at 2 p.m. There’s a new tenant at Armadillo Acres and she’s wreaking havoc all over Florida’s most exclusive trailer park. When a stripper on the run comes between the Dr. Phil–loving, agoraphobic and her husband, a storm brews. Directed by: Ashley King and Melissa Cargile.
Rocket Man: Elton John Tribute at Daytona Beach Oceanfront Bandshell, 7:15 p.m., 100 Ocean Avenue in Daytona Beach. Limited tickets. prices start at $36 for some of the more affordable tickets. However, they can range all the way up to $45 for more luxurious tickets and tickets that are closer to the action.
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.
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.
 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: Ponce de Leon Drive and Point Pleasant Drive have been a cacophony of banging trucks and beeping dozers and construction tremblors for weeks as 35 acres have been razed to make room for the 74 houses of the so-called “Ponce Preserve” that will preserve nothing but asphalt, concrete, shingles and 74 new clusters of quiet desperation. But the other day the sight above arced over Ponde de Leon in a nice, brief counterpoint. No meaning, no symbolism, no mysticism. Just a few colors after a strange burst of rain out of a mostly blue sky. That’s worth preserving.
—P.T.
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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
Nar-Anon Family Group
Flagler County Beekeepers Association Meeting
Bunnell City Commission Meeting
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The purchase of illegal drugs was always a sordid process, but users and dealers (pretty much interchangeable creatures) used to attempt adherence to an idealized vision of the traffic in which smoothie dealt with smoothie in a confraternity of the hip. Crack sales tend to start with a death threat and deteriorate rapidly. The words “die” and “motherfucker” are among the most often heard. Petty race riots between white suburban buyers and minority urban sellers break out several times an hour. Every half block stand people in various states of fury, mindless exhilara-ton, and utter despair – all of it dreadfully authentic yet all of it essentially artificial.
–From Robert Stone’s “A higher horror of the whiteness: Cocaine’s coloring of the American psyche,” Harper’s, December 1986.
Laurel says
JD Vance is hands down the most awkward and unrelatable politician I have ever witnessed. He can’t even order doughnuts. He told the lady at the counter to “…put in whatever makes sense.”
How about something simple like a mixed dozen, if he didn’t know what he was doing?
Wow, can you imagine him replacing Trump as President?
People, snap out of it before it’s too late!
Ray W. says
Snopes fact checked as false a September series of internet posts on X that claimed 10,000,402 registrations by “illegals” for the November election. The source of this supposedly disturbing news? A Social Security Administration site called HAVV or Help America Vote Verification. A screen shot of an HAVV tabulation appears on the fake claim. According to Snopes, what the intentionally deceptive posters did was take a screen shot of a state-by-state table of accesses to the HAVV database by state elections officials and claim that the data reflected registrations by “illegal” voters.
So one part of the false claim was true. 10,000,402 queries to HAVV data by elections officials had occurred through late August 2024, proving that state elections officials do access HAVV to check whether an individual registrant raises in an official’s mind questions about eligibility to vote. For example, if a person seeks registration to vote, but lacks a driver’s license, the official is to obtain the last four digits of the person’s social security number and check with HAVV to determine eligibility to vote.
No, FlaglerLive readers, according to Snopes, there have not been 10 million registrations to vote by illegals so far this year.
Yes, FlaglerLive readers, state elections officials are checking the HAVV site if questions arise about a potential voter’s eligibility to vote.
The question occurs to me whether one state’s officials can be more active in checking HAVV for eligibility than are another state’s officials?
Per the HAVV screen shot that Snopes found accurate for officials checking on voters, Texas voting officials checked the HAVV site 3,129,627 times this year, as of late August. Florida? 46,191 times. Why Texas, not that much more populous than Florida, would check HAVV at roughly seventy times the rate of Florida officials is a mystery to me. Georgia, a less populous state than Florida, has checked HAVV 246,698 times.
Make of this what you will.
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Jim says
When a person makes general statements about any group of people, you should immediately be skeptical of their thought processes on any subject.
JD Vance is not Vice Presidential material and certainly is not fit for the office of President. Nor is Trump for that matter but I digress…
He’s disturbed by teachers who don’t have children? Some of the best teachers I had in school were single women or just didn’t have children. I don’t remember anyone ever even making a comment about that. I don’t know why anyone would. Like everyone else in society, teachers should be judged on their performance and their student’s performance. Why would JD feel good about a teacher with kids that can’t get their class motivated to achieve their target goals? Why would he be concerned about a teacher without kids who can get a class of kids to learn, achieve and generally be interested in their class? I just can’t understand who motivates someone to say things like this.
And when Vance says this, he is in the category of every idiot in this society who blithely makes generalized negative statements about any minority you can think of. I suspect there are some teachers without kids that aren’t up to the task. I know there are some with kids who definitely are not. But I believe that the reasons for their success or failure doesn’t have anything to do with whether they have kids.
JD, do us all a favor and just shut up. You give normal people a headache with your twisted view of the world.
Ray W. says
Over the years I have commented to FlaglerLive readers on Einstein’s life-long yet unsuccessful effort to create his “unified field theory”, through which he could explain the physics of both the macroscopic world of his general theory of relativity and the microscopic world of Niels Bohr’s theory of quantum mechanics. Both theoretical physicists built their equations on the mathematics pioneered by Max Planck, a 19th century theorist. Einstein wanted to understand the workings of the universe. He wanted to understand infinity. He wanted to have a meaningful conversation with God.
Famous in their day, a series of radio debates occurred in the 30s between Einstein and Bohr, each insisting that the other’s theories were flawed.
Recently, according to an Interesting Engineering reporter, a team of mathematical theorists have bridged the Einstein-Bohr divide. He wrote as follows”
“Until now, scientists have failed to reconcile general relativity and quantum physics because the two theories describe the universe in fundamentally different ways. When attempts were made to apply both theories together — such as in the case of black holes, they produced contradictory results, making it difficult to unify them into a single framework.
“For example, general relativity predicts a black hole’s core is infinitely dense, while quantum physics suggests such infinities can’t exist.
“General relativity works well for large-scale objects, while quantum physics accurately describes microscopic phenomena, but what’s the need to unite them? Well, there are two big reasons for that. First, combining these would provide a complete understanding of the universe across all scales.
“This is important because many concepts such as black holes, or the Big Bang are probably results of the conditions where both quantum physics and general relativity played a role. Understanding them requires a theory that integrates both.
Second, one cannot fully understand the science behind quantum gravity, Hawking radiation, string theory, and various other phenomena without connecting the dots between the theory of general relativity and quantum physics.
“To link them, the researchers developed a mathematical framework that ‘Redefined the mass and charge of lepton (fundamental particles) in terms of the interactions between the energy of the field and the curvature of the spacetime.’
“‘The obtained equation is covariant in space-time and invariant with respect to any Planck scale. Therefore, the constants of the universe can be reduced to only two quantities: Planck length and Planck time,’ the researchers note.
“This equation mathematically proved that the Einstein Field Equation related to the theory of relativity is equal to the quantum equation. The study authors claim it can provide answers to various questions that have been a mystery.
“For instance, it might explain why black holes don’t collapse, what were the conditions during the Big Bang, and how space-time entanglement works.”
Make of this what you will.
Ray W. says
Here is an interesting thought exercise.
Texas Governor Abbott today released a document announcing the removal of over one million “ineligible voters” from the state’s voter rolls.
“OVER 6,500 NONCITIZENS.”
“OVER 6000 VOTERS WHO HAVE A FELONY CONVICTION”
“OVER 457,000 DECEASED PEOPLE”
“OVER 463,000 VOTERS ON THE SUSPENSE LIST”
“OVER 134,000 VOTERS WHO RESPONDED TO AN ADDRESS CONFIRMATION NOTICE THAT THEY HAD MOVED”
“OVER 65,000 VOTERS WHO FAILED TO RESPOND TO A NOTICE OF EXAMINATION”
“OVER 19,000 VOTERS WHO REQUESTED TO CANCEL THEIR REGISTRATION.”
So, here’s an obvious unanswerable question from the data supplied by Texas officials.
If Texas, like Florida, requires people to list party affiliation or non-party affiliation when registering to vote, then Texas officials should know just how many noncitizens registered to vote as Republicans. What can be inferred from this category if Texas officials decline to list the percentage of ineligible noncitizens who are Republicans? The actual proof might be in their possession, yet they don’t list it. The same question applies to each category of removed voters.
I have to wonder just what would happen to the argument that Democrats try to steal elections if a majority of the “ineligible” Texas voters who were removed from the voting rolls had registered as Republicans?
Ed P says
Not really the point if it’s Republican, Democratic or NPA, yet it’s important. The importance and alarming fact is the system is flawed.
Even if all these registered voters were 100 % were Republican, could it lead to voter fraud? When couldn’t a registered Republican vote Democrat in any general election, dead or alive, legit or not.
Just saying
Ray W. says
Thank you, Ed P.
If, Ed P, the main Republican argument in the 2024 national race is that Democrats are planning to steal the election (it is the main argument), then your comment has it all backwards. Each of your arguments mean nothing to those who intend to argue that an election was stolen if they lose. Thus, it is of critical importance to their argument that Republicans don’t reveal the voting makeup of this study, and the Republicans know it. To those “pestilential” partisan members of faction among us all, who cares what the actual vote is?
You are right that the Texas voting systems has flaws. You are right that Republicans have controlled politics in Texas for decades and they have allowed the flaws to exist all that time.
On the other hand, every other state’s election system has flaws that can be exploited by the pestilential among us.
I have repeatedly commented about my elder daughter’s first effort of voting in a presidential election in 2004. At that time, if a precinct workers deemed a prospective voter’s signature flawed, a provisional ballot was to be issued to the voter, so that the canvassing board could review the signature at a later time and decide whether the votes on the provisional ballot should be allowed. It was a misdemeanor back then to fail to offer the provisional ballot to the voter, if the effort to exercise the right to vote was denied to anyone for any reason. My daughter, a registered Democrat, lived in a Republican dominated county. When she attempted to vote by affixing her signature to a form, a precinct worker said that her on-file signature that she had signed a few months earlier did not match that day’s signature. She turned away my daughter without offering the mandatory provisional ballot or calling over a supervisor. Upset, my daughter called me that night. I apologized to her for not teaching her that Republicans have always tried to steal elections, just as Democrats have always tried to steal elections; I should have taught her about provisional ballots.
I already knew from sworn testimony that in 2000 an all-Republican canvassing board in Duval County had voted to disallow over 27,000 votes from a number of majority-Black precincts, citing “election irregularities.” Since no Democrats were watching the county’s canvassing board, no one found out about the disallowance vote until long after the Florida vote totals were certified as valid, and the state’s Electoral College votes went to Bush. Since Black voters were commonly voting at an 8-1 ratio for Gore in other communities, it is likely that Gore won Florida by over 20,000 votes, just as statewide precinct exit polls had indicated.
I was a very young adult when I figured out that any scheme that could be devised by the mind of mankind can also be exploited by the mind of mankind. Many statutes are vague or overbroad. Others are overly narrow in scope. These are subjects taught in constitutional law courses. It is in the realm of the vague or overbroad statute that executive orders thrive.
As an aside, Ed P, after you and others grasped ahold of the “flip-flop” phraseology, I decided to watch Darkest Hour again.
The theme of the movie is the Conservative Party’s effort to throw Churchill to the wolves. Chamberlain resigns his office of Prime Minister. The initial name for replacement was Lord Halifax, but he declined, saying it wasn’t his time. Churchill was named Prime Minister on May 10, 1940, the day the full weight of the Wehrmacht fell upon the Allied armies. Using threats and bluster, Halifax and Chamberlain, members of the War cabinet, tried to maneuver Churchill into suing for peace, using Mussolini as an intermediary. At one point, Churchill agrees to explore the issue of suing for peace after glancing to his cabinet ally, Anthony Eden, who signals his assent to pursuing negotiations. Mere days later, Churchill gives the second of his three great wartime speeches to Parliament; the “We shall fight them on the beaches” speech. Parliament rousingly demands that Churchill not negotiate for peace. As Churchill sits down next to Eden after the speech, Eden comments about Churchill flip-flopping. Churchill replies: “Those who never change their minds never change anything.”
Make of this what you will. Me? It is the height of folly to insist that leaders should never change their minds just for the sake of not changing one’s mind. Flip-flopping can be the subject of legitimate critique, but there is a difference between critique and a criticism.
A critique has been defined as “a detailed analysis and assessment of something, especially a literary, philosophical, philosophical, or political theory. A critique is impersonal, constructive, specific, expert, informal and selfless.”
A critic has been defined as “a person who tends too readily to make captious, trivial, or harsh judgments, a faultfinder.”
Criticism seeks to tear a person down, while critique seeks to help improve. Criticism focuses on the critic’s goals, while critique is motivated by the intention to serve the creator’s goals. Criticism is judgmental and focused on placing blame, while critique is descriptive and focused on finding solutions.
I put this to you, Ed P. Are you a critic, aiming to tear down, or do you critique, aiming to build up? What should be the focus of every one of your comments? For months now, I have been critiquing your comments. In the beginning, you just claimed things without checking. I criticized. You initially were defensive, correctly thinking me a critic. Your comments were so inaccurate that it seemed to me best to go after you. When you showed signs of actually looking into things before you posted something, I changed into critiquing you. Now, I support you. Not always. Not in every way. Again, the issue isn’t whether I agree with you. You took the effort to improve. Thank you. Keep flip-flopping. It is doing you good.
Ray W. says
CNN published an in-depth article about undocumented immigrants registering to vote.
In the paragraph devoted to the Texas numbers listed above, CNN used the term “potential” noncitizens on voter rolls, a term missing on the Texas governor’s message. The term “potential” changes everything. CNN reports that the 6500 “noncitizens” issue has already been referred to the state’s Attorney General “for investigation and potential legal action.”
If CNN is accurate in its reporting, then it is likely that the governor has engaged in what may be a massive, yet likely false, publicity stunt slightly more than two months before a national election. Some 2000 of the “potential” non-citizens have a voting history.
Ed P, it appears you are right again, everyone involved in politics lies, particularly those who stand to gain by grandstanding about barely existent voter fraud.
Even stranger, CNN referred to a Texas Tribune investigation that revealed that in 2019, Texas authorities, using an old list that included people who at one time said they were non-citizens, published another list, this one having 95,000 non-citizens on the voting rolls. A review of that list found that many of the 95,000 people had become citizens in the interim. Imagine this scenario. People tell officials years or decades earlier that they are non-citizens. Texas finds their names on current voter rolls and checks lists using ancient data. But Texas fails to check on whether the people on the list have become citizens in the interim. Voila! 95,000 non-citizens illegally registered to vote. “Texas agreed to a court settlement to end the review.”
That’s right, FlaglerLive readers, a court had to force Texas officials to stop doing what they were doing. And Texas agreed to stop. Five years later, just before a national election, Texas publishes a new list with 6,500 registered supposed non-citizens but leaves out the critical term “potential.”
Per CNN, zero cases against potential non-citizens have been initiated by the Texas Attorney General.
Ohio recently reviewed its voter lists and removed “154,995 abandoned or inactive voter registrations.” 597 were referred to the state’s Attorney General for “further review and potential prosecution.” for registering as a non-citizen to vote. 138 of them “appear to have cast a ballot in an Ohia election.” The span of years during which the 138 votes were cast was not provided.
In Georgia, a “first-ever citizenship review of its voter rolls” to place. 1,634 people “had attempted to register to vote were not able to be verified.” All were placed into “pending citizenship” status. None of the 1634 names could be associated with an actual cast vote.
In Pennsylvania, due to a “glitch” in the registration process, 168 “unauthorized” people were “thought to have been registered to vote” in Philadelphia between 2006 and 2017. No word on how many ever actually voted.
Over a 19-year span, Kansas found 67 possible non-citizens attempting to register or actually registering to vote. A federal district court judge ruled that many of the 67 events could be explained by “administrative anomalies.”
In Arizona, its Secretary of State said that since a 2004 ballot initiative, Arizona had “disenfranchised” 47,000 people who had initially registered to vote, but when noticed to come in and provide proof of citizenship had not responded. Maybe some were deceased. Maybe some had moved out of state. Maybe some just didn’t want to bother to provide the documentation. And maybe some were undocumented voters at one time and had become naturalized citizens. The Secretary of State said, “I take no pride in the idea that we have denied eligible citizens the right to vote in far greater numbers than we would have prevented the vanishingly rare noncitizen voting that is alleged to be happening across the United States of America.”
The Heritage Foundation, a conservative bastion if there ever was one, documented 25 instances of prosecution for voter fraud where citizenship was at issue across the country over a 20-year span. Yes, public records reveal that 1.25 undocumented voters have been prosecuted each year for 20 years among a nation with a population growth of over 60 million people over that span of time.
Make of this what you will. Me? If the Heritage Foundation can document 25 allegations of non-citizen voting fraud over a 20-year span, when who knows how many thousands of municipal, county, state and federal elections have occurred, I say the system has been working exceedingly well.
We spent untold millions of dollars to find those twenty-five cases and the gullible among us scream that national elections are being stolen.
One presidential candidate claims that he received more votes than Biden in 2020, when Biden beat him by 14 million votes. What fools he thinks his followers are.
I say keep spending the money because each instance of non-citizen voting needs to be determined. As Ed P says, the system has flaws, perhaps tiny flaws, but flaws, nonetheless. Just don’t lie so much about fake numbers. And please stop disenfranchising valid voters.