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Weather: Mostly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy. Lows in the lower 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph.
- 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:
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library, 11 to 11:30 a.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach. It’s where the wild things are: Hop on for stories and songs with Miss Doris.
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, from noon to 2 p.m. in Central Park in Town Center, 975 Central Ave. Join Bill Wells, Bob Rupp and other members of the Palm Coast Model Yacht Club, watch them race or join the races with your own model yacht. No dues to join the club, which meets at the pond in Central Park every Thursday.
‘No Sex Please, We’re British,’ at Daytona Playhouse, 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach. Nov. 7, 8 and 9 at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 10 at 3 p.m. Adults $25, Seniors $24, Youth $15. This riotous comic farce notched up a staggeringly successful sixteen-year run in the West End! Peter and Frances could reasonably expect to look forward to a calm, happy start to their married life together. Owing to an unfortunate mistake, however, they find themselves inundated with pornographic material from the “Scandinavian Import Company”. Senior bank officials, Peter’s snobbish mother, and a prim, respectable bank cashier become inextricably entangled in the rambunctious events that follow.
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Notably: The scene above was glimpsed at the Flagler County Republican Party’s campaign tent at the county library on Election day. Note that Sheriff Staly’s bobblehead is in the foreground, with Donald Trump, as a grenade–as a grenade? is anyone a the REC keeping tabs on the megatonnage of irony here?–relegated to the background. The bobblehead was actually part of a fundraiser for the Sheriff’s Office’s annual Shop with a Cop event, where over 100 kids from needier families get to Christmas shop with a deputy and a $200 gift card. The bobbleheads sold for $30 unsigned, $50 signed, raising $9,000 for the event (sheriff’s employees donated $25,000). Thankfully, Trump did not blow up that one.
—P.T.
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Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
‘No Sex Please, We’re British,’ at Daytona Playhouse
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Flagler County Canvassing Board Meeting
Blue 24 Forum
The Doo Wop Project at Flagler Auditorium
Jake’s Women, By Neil Simon, at City Rep Theatre
‘No Sex Please, We’re British,’ at Daytona Playhouse
LGBTQ+ Night at Flagler Beach’s Coquina Coast Brewing Company
For the full calendar, go here.
I see politicians in Colorado, in Tennessee, in South Carolina moving against my own work, tossing books I’ve authored out of libraries, banning them from classes, and I feel snatched out of the present and dropped into an age of pitchforks and book-burning bonfires. My first instinct is to laugh, but then I remember that American history is filled with men and women who were as lethal as they were ridiculous. And when I force myself to take a serious look, I see something familiar: an attempt by adults to break the young minds entrusted to them and remake them in a more orderly and pliable form. What these adults are ultimately seeking is not simply the reinstatement of their preferred dates and interpretations but the preservation of a whole manner of learning, austere and authoritarian, that privileges the apprehension of national dogmas over the questioning of them. The danger we present, as writers, is not that we will simply convince their children of a different dogma but that we will convince them that they have the power to form their own.
—From The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2024).
Pogo says
@And so it went
Ray W, says
Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service says Russia recently “partially halted operations” at three crude oil refineries due to a lack of “Western equipment and components” currently unavailable to the country due to Western sanctions imposed on Russia after it invaded a neighboring democratic country that America swore 30 years ago to protect in exchange for the Ukraine giving up its nuclear missile deterrence system.
At issue is the simple engineering fact that parts break and equipment wears out.
Apparently, Russia is unable to obtain the needed crucial replacement parts, equipment and components from China. Russian equipment manufacturers “cover only around 30-45% of market needs and only in specific components (pumps, compressors, reactors, etc.).” No one else will sell them what they need.
What with Ukrainian missile strikes on numerous Russian refineries, the country in the short term may no longer be able to completely meet both contractual refined energy export obligations and its domestic need for refined products.
Make of this what you will.
Me? America negotiated an agreement to provide defense assistance to the Ukraine if it agreed to sell its nuclear stockpile; we didn’t want the stockpile to fall into adversarial hands. The Russian Federation was a party to the agreement; it promised to never invade the Ukraine if it gave up its nuclear warheads. Congress enacted a law to strengthen our agreement.
In a February 2014 election that the Ukrainian people now call the “Revolution of Dignity”, a pro-Russian Ukrainian president was ousted from office. The Russian Federation then invaded much of eastern Ukraine. Since 2014, Russians have occupied significant portions of Ukrainian territory, including Crimea. The 2022 invasion merely expanded their then-eight-year occupation.
President Obama did little to aid the Ukrainians, thereby appeasing the Russians. President Trump arguably did even less, thereby appeasing the Russians even more. President Biden continued the appeasement by putting the issue on the backburner until February 2022. Since that time, the West has responded in many ways unexpected by the Russian Federation.
The more gullible among us claim the war started when Biden was in office!