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Today at a Glance:
The Palm Coast City Council holds a special meeting to review the findings of the investigation of Mayor Mike Norris that found him to have violated the city charter. 1 p.m. at City Hall. See: “Independent Investigation Sustains Accusations of Interference and Hostility By Mayor Norris, Suggesting Malfeasance.”
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.
May Day Strong ‘We Are the Many’ Demonstration on State Road 100 in Palm Coast: 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. along State Road 100, adjacent to the Target shopping center. From the May Day 2025 invitation: “We’re organizing for a world where every family has housing, healthcare, fair wages, union protection, and safety—regardless of race, zip code, or immigration status. They’re defunding our schools, privatizing public services, attacking unions, and targeting immigrant families with fear and violence. This is a war on working people—and we will not stand down. Using the principles of nonviolence and peaceful protest, we will stand together and stand strong.”
Notably: The original Internationale is the fabulous anthem written by the Paris Communard Eugène Pottier in 1871 soon after he escaped ending among the 15,000 of his co-communards massacred by the French army after the two-month Commune, the last true revolution on French soil. Pottier meant his Internationale to be sung to the tune of the Marseillaise, an equally fabulous anthem. And so it was at Pottier’s burial in Paris in 1887, attended by 10,000 mourners at the great Père Lachaise Cemetery. He’d spent a few years in exile in, of all places, New Jersey, before that understandably proved worse than the Commune (he’d have had better luck across the rivers in Queens). So he returned to France and died. He’d written the lyrics to the Internationale after attending the Karl Marx-led workers’ congress of 1864. But eventually the anthem was set to music written by another Frenchman, Pierre DeGeyter (no relation, alas), a laborer from Lille, on a commission by that city’s mayor (not a Norris). And so the anthem evolved. It’s still as rousing as they come, like the Marseillaise. Unfortunately, the Soviets appropriated it in one of the great crimes of appropriation of the past century and a half. Ever since it’s been associated with the Soviet regime, if you could even call a government of gulags a regime–a terrible injustice to the lyrics and the music. Then again, Beethoven wrote the Eroica (his Third Symphony) to celebrate Napoleon, only to realize what a mass murderer he was. We still listen to the Eroica but disassociate it from Napoleon, and if there is to be a more accurate Beethoven on Napoleon, it’s the Seventh, with its mournful, elegiac second movement, its beats in rhythm to a procession at Pere Lachaise. The Internationale should be reclaimed. It’s as true as ever, beyond its Soviet enchainment. Back to John Reed. Back to Diane Keaton’s smile (oh, the seductions of romanticism that keep leading so many billions astray. Blame Rousseau, even–and especially–for Communism’s genocides. Give me deism, give me Enlightenment any day). And it is May 1. The one real Labor Day.
—P.T.
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May 2025
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Scenic A1A Pride Meeting
Friday Blue Forum
Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Peps Art Walk Near Beachfront Grille
Pool Safety Day
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
SunBros Cafe Celebrates the Life of Travis Sundell
Al-Anon Family Groups
For the full calendar, go here.
Arise ye workers from your slumbers
Arise ye prisoners of want
For reason in revolt now thunders
And at last ends the age of cant.
Away with all your superstitions
Servile masses arise, arise
We’ll change henceforth the old tradition
And spurn the dust to win the prize.
Refrain:
So comrades, come rally
And the last fight let us face
The Internationale unites the human race.
No more deluded by reaction
On tyrants only we’ll make war
The soldiers too will take strike action
They’ll break ranks and fight no more
And if those cannibals keep trying
To sacrifice us to their pride
They soon shall hear the bullets flying
We’ll shoot the generals on our own side.
No saviour from on high delivers
No faith have we in prince or peer
Our own right hand the chains must shiver
Chains of hatred, greed and fear
E’er the thieves will out with their booty
And give to all a happier lot.
Each at the forge must do their duty
And we’ll strike while the iron is hot.
–Eugène Pottier’s Internationale (1871).
Ed P says
Observation
Did they come for a President?
Who started the law fare war?
If all our elected officials worked toward a common goal, would the 15 most powerful groups of Washington attorneys be giving Morgan and Morgan a run for the “money”?
Dennis C Rathsam says
NO ONES ABOVE THE LAW!!!!!
Pogo says
@P.T.
So you say, I’ll have to have the American:
Pierre Tristam says
Dennis has obviously not been keeping up with his orange crush.
Sherry says
TRUMP UNLAWFUL AGAIN:
5-01-2025 A Donald Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas ruled that the president unlawfully invoked the Alien Enemies Act and blocked the administration from quickly deporting some alleged members of a Venezuelan gang.
US District Judge Fernando Rodriguez of the Southern District of Texas said Trump had unlawfully invoked the sweeping 18th century wartime authority to speed up some deportations. His decision means Trump cannot rely on the law to detain or deport any alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua within his district.
The ruling is a significant blow to Trump’s decision in March to invoke the Alien Enemies Act, which has faced numerous legal challenges and has been halted by several courts. But Rodriguez’s ruling is the first to conclude that the president exceeded his authority by relying on a law that was intended to be used during times when the US is at war.
The Trump administration, Rodriguez wrote, does “not possess the lawful authority under the AEA, and based on the Proclamation, to detain Venezuelan aliens, transfer them within the United States, or remove them from the country.”
“The President cannot summarily declare that a foreign nation or government has threatened or perpetrated an invasion or predatory incursion of the United States, followed by the identification of the alien enemies subject to detention or removal,” the judge wrote.
He continued: “Allowing the President to unilaterally define the conditions when he may invoke the AEA, and then summarily declare that those conditions exist, would remove all limitations to the Executive Branch’s authority under the AEA, and would strip the courts of their traditional role of interpreting Congressional statutes to determine whether a government official has exceeded the statute’s scope. The law does not support such a position.”
Dennis C Rathsam says
Orange crush is doing a great job!!!! HE got your panties in a bunch again Pierre…. does he give you heartburn too?
Sherry says
OOPS! To the Maga Mindless, I guess they don’t see trump. . . the “Convicted Felon and Sexual Abuser” . . . as the one who should NOT be above the law. OOPS!