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Weather: Partly sunny with a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 80s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent. Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. North winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
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Today at a Glance:
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village: The city’s only farmers’ market is open every Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at European Village, 101 Palm Harbor Pkwy, Palm Coast. With fruit, veggies, other goodies and live music. For Vendor Information email [email protected]
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students: 9:30 to 10:25 a.m. at Grace Presbyterian Church, 1225 Royal Palms Parkway, Palm Coast. Improve your English skills while studying the Bible. This study is geared toward intermediate and advanced level English Language Learners.
Jesus Christ Superstar at City Rep Theatre, 160 Cypress Point Parkway (City Marketplace, Suite B207), Palm Coast, $7:30 p.m. except on Sundays, when at 3 p.m. Tickets are $30 for adults, $15 for students. Book here. One of the great rock musicals of all time takes us on a spiritual, emotional and provocative journey that enthralls, edifies and invigorates us. With an all female cast, the CRT production explores these compelling themes from a different perspective. The ride of a lifetime.
‘The Great American Trailer Park Musical’ at Daytona Playhouse, 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach, 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.
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from noon to 3 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. |
In Museums: At the height of the Clinton-and-Lewinsky gogo years, when the American economy was as jovial as it ever got since the full-employment joys of World War II (the last time mass murder and genocide overseas was so profitable to so many on these shores), the federal government opened the Drug Enforcement Administration Museum and Visitors Center in May 1999. It’s still there, 700 Army-Navy Dr., in Arlington, Va. “The valuable work of keeping Americans safe from dangerous drugs comes alive at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Museum & Visitors Center,” it tells us. It has “grown from one special agent’s collection of narcotics law enforcement badges into an exciting interactive learning environment.” Put another way, it’s a tribute to the 50-year-old futility known as the war on drugs, if we date it back to when Richard Nixon declared it roundabout 1972, when he was getting doped up on Watergate. And look at those “highlights,” presented with the straight face of an Elmore Leonard character: “A pair of platform shoes worn by an undercover agent inserting himself into cocaine rings in the 1970s.” “The ledger from the Corona Hotel in Washington State, where agents noticed that one room in this hotel was never rented, and in it, they discovered a trove of illegal drugs.” “A prison suit and two gold- and diamond-encrusted guns owned by Mexican drug lord El Chapo.” Peter Carslon, reviewing the museum for the Washington Post when it opened, wrote: “The United States government’s newest museum displays hash pipes, hookahs, bongs, American-flag rolling papers and several bags of marijuana. It also has grubby old syringes, bent spoons, a pill bottle labeled “heroin,” and a grisly photo of a junkie killed by an overdose. Plus a diorama titled “An American Head Shop, Circa 1970s.” It’s a museum about dope. And why not? America has museums devoted to just about everything – the Jesse James Museum, the Liberace Museum, the Kansas Barbed Wire Museum, the Museum of Whiskey History, the Hot Dog Hall of Fame. So it was probably inevitable that somebody would create a museum devoted to two of America’s multi-billion-dollar obsessions – getting wasted and trying to stop people from getting wasted.”
—P.T.
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Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Flagler County Canvassing Board Meeting
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library
Flagler Tiger Bay Club Guest Speaker: Carlos M. Cruz
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
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
For the full calendar, go here.
But before we kick back, relax, and wait for racial justice to trickle down, consider this: Obama chose Joe Biden, one of the Senate’s most strident drug warriors, as his vice president. The man he picked to serve as his chief of staff in the White House, Rahm Emanuel, was a major proponent of the expansion of the drug war and the slashing of welfare rolls during President Clinton’s administration. And the man he tapped to lead the U.S. Department of Justice—the agency that launched and continues to oversee the federal war on drugs—is an African American former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia who sought to ratchet up the drug war in Washington, D.C., and fought the majority black D.C. City Council in an effort to impose harsh mandatory minimums for marijuana possession. Moreover, on the campaign trail, Obama took a dramatic step back from an earlier position opposing the death penalty, announcing that he now supports the death penalty for child rapists—even if the victim is not killed—even though the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the death penalty for nonhomicides unconstitutional and international law strongly disfavors the practice. The only countries that share Obama’s view are countries like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and China, which allow the death penalty for things like adultery and tax evasion.
–From Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow (2010).
Pogo says
@P.T.
SMH
Jim says
This is a cartoon of Netanyahu giving a thumbs up in a grave yard. And I get it.
But, in the USA, we have photographs of an ex-president really grinning and giving a thumbs up over the graves of fallen heroes of this nation. And you can say some of those families asked him to be there – which is true – but giving a thumbs up over dead heroes clearly shows his failure to see their loss as sad or meaningful. To him it’s just another photo op for the campaign.
But I guess a guy who says the National Medal of Freedom is a better medal than the Medal of Honor shouldn’t be expected to really give a s— about those men and women buried at Arlington. They’re just “suckers and losers”. And the people that get the Medal of Freedom look a lot better than most of those getting the Medal of Honor (another quote).
So, MAGA world, vote for ol’ DJT. He cares for our military about the same amount as he cares for you.
But you just can not (or will not) see it…
Ray W. says
NBC NEWS wrote of the Haitian pet-eating story as follows:
“Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Sunday decried former President Donals Trump’s baseless claims that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio were eating dogs and other pets as ‘garbage,’ but stopped short of directly condemning the former president and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance, for spreading false claims.
“There’s a lot of garbage on the internet. You know, this is a piece of garbage that was simply not true. There’s no evidence of this at all,’ DeWine said during an interview on ABC’s ‘This Week’ when asked whether it’s responsible for Trump to push those claims.
“Asked what he would say to Trump after pointing out there is no truth to his claims on Haitian immigrants, DeWine condemned hate groups that have marched in Springfield as part of a hate campaign against Haitian immigrants, before going on to praise Haitians as hard-working people who have brought ‘positive influences’ to the town.”
Make of this what you will.
Laurel says
In south Florida, I have worked around Haitians immigrants. This claim of Trump’s and Vance’s is so insulting, and so ignorant, that I cannot believe that they are not ushered out the door with a swift kick to the britches. Should Trump win, he will decide which (dark) immigrants are legal or not. He has already stated he will build camps for immigrants, and he will “round immigrants up.” Since he has a lack of interest in facts, as does his loyal, that should be the nightmare along the lines of Nazi camps.
Which of my fellow Americans are complicit?
I truly hope that Trump, Vance and their following, are NOT representative of our wonderful country. The embarrassment needs to end. They are both straight from hell, and can go straight back, in my opinion.
Ray W. says
In an article devoted to the study of a possible spread of potential for political violence in America, published by the LA Times, a late June survey of more than 2,000 Americans showed that 6.9% of respondents (statistically equivalent to 18 million adults) believe it justifiable to use force to restore former President Trump to the White House.
Ten percent of responding Americans (statistically equivalent to 26 million adults) believe it justifiable to use force to keep former President Trump away from the White House.
“The researchers found that millions of those, in both camps, who said political violence would be warranted also owned guns.”
Make of this what you will.
Ray W. says
During an interview this morning on State of the Union, vice presidential candidate JD Vance “defended his right to spread [claims of Haitians eating pets].”
“If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that’s what I’m going to do.”
Make of this what you will.