From Clay Jones: After the murder of George Floyd in 2020, the National Football League placed the phrase “End Racism” in all of its end zones. The phrase was in every end zone in every game this year (and it was in the end zone a lot more than the Dallas Cowboys), but it wasn’t in the end zone for the Super Bowl. Why the sudden change? Because Donald Trump was at the Super Bowl. The Trump regime has been on a warpath against DEI since it goosestepped into office less than a month ago. He’s not just going after government agencies either as many corporations are caving and bowing down to Trump. The NFL is replacing “End Racism” with “Choose Love,” but “Choose Love” can mean anything.” Read more at Substack.
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Weather: Sunny, with a high near 81. Light south wind increasing to 5 to 10 mph in the morning. Winds could gust as high as 16 mph. Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 62.
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Today at a Glance:
River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) Bicycle/Pedestrian Advisory Committee meets at 9 a.m. at the Airline Room at the Daytona Beach International Airport. The TPO’s planning oversight includes all of Volusia County and the developed areas of eastern Flagler County including Beverly Beach and Flagler Beach as well as portions of the cities of Palm Coast and Bunnell, with board member representation from each of those jurisdictions. The committee is responsible for reviewing plans, policies, and procedures and rank priority projects as they relate to bicycle and pedestrian issues within the TPO planning area. See the full agendas here. To join the meeting electronically, go here.
Separation Chat, Open Discussion: The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State hosts an open, freewheeling discussion on the topic here in our community, around Florida and throughout the United States, noon to 1 p.m. at Pine Lakes Golf Club Clubhouse Pub & Grillroom (no purchase is necessary), 400 Pine Lakes Pkwy, Palm Coast (0.7 miles from Belle Terre Parkway). Call (386) 445-0852 for best directions. All are welcome! Everyone’s voice is important. For further information email [email protected] or call Merrill at 804-914-4460.
The Circle of Light Course in Miracles study group meets at a private residence in Palm Coast every Wednesday at 1:20 PM. There is a $2 love donation that goes to the store for the use of their room. If you have your own book, please bring it. All students of the Course are welcome. There is also an introductory group at 1:00 PM. The group is facilitated by Aynne McAvoy, who can be reached at [email protected] for location and information.
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library: Do you enjoy Chess, trying out new moves, or even like some friendly competition? Come visit the Flagler County Public Library at the Teen Spot every Wednesday from 4 to 5 p.m. for Chess Club. Everyone is welcome, for beginners who want to learn how to play all the way to advanced players. For more information contact the Youth Service department 386-446-6763 ext. 3714 or email us at [email protected]
Notebook: Here’s a thought from André Gide’s journals (from a Jan. 6, 1892 entry) that struck home with uncomfortable force: “I notice this difference between intelligence and cleverness: that intelligence is by its nature selfish, while cleverness presupposes the intelligence of the one to whom it is addressed. Hence this: intelligence explains (Taine, Bourget; etc.); cleverness only tells (17th century). It takes cleverness to speak well, intelligence is enough to listen well.” I don’t understand what he means by that 17th century parenthetical. Hyppolyte Taine and Paul Bourget were celebrated writers of the mid-to-late 19th century, neither of them much read today. The lines struck home because I’m all shoddy cleverness and no intelligence, the cleverness a desperate veil for any kind of depth or intelligence I wish I had. Cleverness–what most journalists are, columnists especially–is a grade or two above punning. It’s synthetic. It can be manufactured. It’s a formula. Intelligence is more innate, like a talent for poetry or melody: you either have it or you don’t. Gide (“the color of truth is gray,” he’d supposedly said, a line that sums up my take on Melville) was all intelligence.
—P.T.
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Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Democratic Women’s Club
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
‘The Drowsy Chaperone,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre
Random Acts of Insanity’s Roundup of Standups from Around Central Florida
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
‘The Drowsy Chaperone,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre
Al-Anon Family Groups
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A man’s life is his image. At the hour of death, we will reflect ourselves in the past, and, leaning over the mirror of our actions, our souls will recognize what we are. Our whole life is spent tracing an indelible portrait of ourselves. The terrible thing is that we do not know it; we do not think of making ourselves beautiful. We think about it when we talk about ourselves; we flatter ourselves; but our terrible portrait, later, will not flatter us. We tell our life and we lie to ourselves; but our life will not lie; it will tell our soul, which will present itself before God in its usual posture.
–From André Gide’s Journals, January 3, 1892 (Google translation). .
Ed P says
Omg. KC helmets “ choose love”. 2 anthems sung. 100% black half time show that was not remotely mainstream. Major league sports has created hu deeds of millionaires
Did anyone see the quarterbacks and players or staffs. When will it be enough?
Sporting events are entertainment, fans don’t care about social Justice during the 4 hour event.
Susan P Mayor says
I wish your cartoons would stop being so anit-Trump.
Pierre Tristam says
I agree. I wish our Republic hadn’t become so cartoonish (that’s putting it kindly: cruel, obscene, lawless, hateful, embarrassing, reprehensible, odious: those are better descriptions). But until he stops making it so, and that’s not about to happen, well…
Pogo says
@trump, in every time and place
“As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.”
— Proverbs 26:11, KJV
Make America Grotesque Again — a Department Of Government Evil catastrophe
Duh end.
Matt says
Freedom of religion does not mean Freedom from religion.
America is a Christian based nation. “In God we trust”
Amen.
Pierre Tristam says
Yes it does, in so far as the public realm is concerned: I do not have the right to impose my belief on you in a public school, at a public meeting, in a public square. You do not have the right to impose yours on me. You and I are free o exercise our beliefs, even in public, as long as we do so on our own. For example, a Muslim putting down a prayer mat at the airport or at a rest stop and praying is fully within his/her/their right, just as would be the case in school (outside of class time). A Catholic taking a moment to pray privately in those or any settings would be equally fine. But for a government dais to blare out a Christian prayer (as they do in Bunnell, as they do in many other places) is a gross violation of my right not to be assaulted by such impositions, as it would be if, as is now legal, a chaplain were to harass my kids at school, or a prayer would be recited, muezzin-style, at an athletic event hosted by a public school.
Laurel says
Matt, you continue to amaze me! First, I’m not going to tell your group where “In God We Trust” started, simply because y’all will continue to ignore it, as you always do. Second, though the population in the U.S. is predominantly Christian, (22% have no religion and 9% have another), different sects, that doesn’t mean it is to be forced, once version, on all.
Freedom of religion DOES mean freedom from religion, if that’s what an individual wants. Mind your own business, and keep your superstitions to yourself.
And so it is.
Jackson says
I’m amazed that the very people who were, “boycotting the game”, are so upset by its features!!! 🏈🏈🤡
Matt says
Pierre, You are contradicting yourself. If what you are saying about what is and is not allowed to be covered in a classroom, why is it that sexual perversions and transgender concepts Are perceived as normal and okay by you leftist types ?
This same type of paradox is prevalent throughout the psycho left wing nut job communist mindset.
For instance, You falsely claim that donald trump is not “following the law” When, in fact, you just happened to disagree with his enforcing the laws that are already on the books that you don’t want enforced.
Entering our nation illegally is a crime. No matter how much you are in denial of that fact is this truth will never change.
Your mind-boggling lead twisted response to someone’statement that they wished your daily cartoons were not so anti Trump.
Proves my point beyond any & all doubt. Apparently you’ve got an echo chamber mounted on your shoulders and surrounding your head with a one way valve on it, so that the only The only thought that can exit the chamber is one that is skewed and peppered by extreme leftist indoctrination.
Sherry says
“In God We Trust” has absolutely nothing to do with Christianity. Educated people understand that many non- Christian religions worship a higher power known as a God. When considering the massive atrocities committed in the name of “my God is greater than your God”, all religions should be considered inhumane.
The phrase “separation of church and state” began as an establishment accusation against dissenters rather than as a dissenting demand, and it first became part of American popular politics in 1800 during the election of Thomas Jefferson, years after the First Amendment had been carefully drafted to balance different complex points of view. Beginning in the 1840s, nativists became leading advocates for the separation of church and state because they were suspicious of the power and dogma of the Catholic Church, and they sought to separate the Church from American government.
I agree with Laurel. . . keep your religious mythology and superstitions to yourself. Thanks!
Ray W. says
Ed P. starts his comment with “Omg.” He ends with: “[F]ans don’t care about social Justice.”
In between, he implies that too many black millionaire players have been created by sports, that too many black coaches are on the sidelines of sports, that the Super Bowl’s halftime event was not mainstream enough (i.e., too black). He asks: “When will it be enough?”
Had Ed P. not asked when would it ever be enough, I could not have used the term “implies” in my response.
In Ryszard Kapuscinski’s “Imperium”, the author writes:
“Three plagues, three contagions, threaten the world.
“The first is the plague of nationalism.
“The second is the plague of racism.
“The third is the plague of religious extremism.
“All three share one trait, a common denominator — an aggressive, all-powerful irrationality. Anyone stricken with one of these plagues is beyond reason. In his head burns a sacred pyre that awaits only its sacrificial victims. Every attempt at calm conversation will fail. He doesn’t want a conversation, but a declaration that you agree with him, admit that he is right, join the cause. Otherwise you have no significance in his eyes, you do not exist, for you count only if you are a tool, an instrument, a weapon. There are no people — there is only the cause.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
I have long asserted the wisdom behind Lincoln’s observation (if it truly was his observation) that all great problems are insolvable. If a problem can be solved, it cannot be called a great problem.
Famine, slavery, war, sexual violence against women, each can be called a great problem. At no time in human history have any of these issues ever been solved. But that state of existence does not mean that we should ever stop trying to solve them.
Can it legitimately be argued that racism and nationalism (no matter the color) and religious extremism, each are also unsolvable problems? If that is so, then can it also be argued there can never be enough emphasis on stopping racism.
Skibum says
Matt, if your opinion that the 2nd Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of religion doesn’t also mean freedom FROM religion if one so chooses, then by your own definition every one of us here in America would be constitutionally bound to have, maybe even prove, some type of religion in order to adhere to our U.S. Constitution, would we not??? Your opinion flies in the face credulity and common sense. But even misinformed or ignorant people are allowed to have opinions, so many of us may just choose to say to you, “Bless your heart”.
Ed P says
Ray W,
Opps, you have made a mountain out of a mole hole again. Entertainment in my eyes is entertainment. I accept all that the NFL did, when publicly pressured to do so. What I rejected was the farce of the comic’s representation of white power.
Again, you have over stated an understanding of who I am or am not. I’m not that complexed. Perhaps you give me too much credit?
White power nor racism exist in my world so I didn’t measure every single word, nor do I minimize what you or anyone else verbalizes in my orbit.
In fact, I learn from children. Some of my greatest mentors were those who were severely flawed and demonstrated “what not to do.”
With all that said, there is always room for improvement and I will be more sensitive in future posts. Thanks.
Matt says
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