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Weather: Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers in the morning, then partly sunny with showers with a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Southwest winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent. Sunday Night: Mostly cloudy. Showers with a chance of thunderstorms in the evening, then a chance of showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms after midnight. Lows in the mid 60s. Southwest winds around 5 mph. Chance of rain 80 percent.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
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Today at a Glance:
Paws for Music: Benefit for Community Cats of Palm Coast: The Annual Paws For Music event at 1405 Saloon from 2 to 5 p.m. is a fundraising event for Community Cats of Palm Coast, a local 501c3 nonprofit Cat Rescue organization that serves the community. Our mission is to reduce the homeless stray population in Flagler county. Entry fee is $20 and includes a beverage and choice of hamburger or hotdog and chips. There will be live entertainment, raffle basket and more! Hosted by 1405 Saloon. Tickets here.
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]
RockabillieWillie At City Repertory Theatre: Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m., City Repertory Theatre, 160 Cypress Point Parkway (City Marketplace, Suite B207), Palm Coast. Tickets are $25 adults and $15 students, available online at crtpalmcoast.com or by calling 386-585-9415. Tickets also will be available at the venue just before curtain time. Get ready for Shakespeare like you’ve never heard—or seen—before! RockabillieWillie mashes up scenes from The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo & Juliet, and Henry V with a jukebox of rockabilly hits. Musical numbers like “Willie and the Hand Jive,” “Love and Marriage,” and Buddy Holly’s “Oh Boy” are reimagined to playfully clash and complement Shakespearean drama. Adapted by John Sbordone, RockabillieWillie is dedicated to the proposition that “All’s well that ends.” Don’t miss this fun, fast-paced ride through the Bard’s greatest hits! See Rick de Yampert’s preview: “City Repertory Theatre Untames Shakespeare, Doo-Wop and R&B with “RockabillieWillie.”
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.
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.
Al-Anon Family Groups: Help and hope for families and friends of alcoholics. Meetings are every Sunday at Silver Dollar II Club, Suite 707, 2729 E Moody Blvd., Bunnell, and on zoom. More local meetings available and online too. Call 904-315-0233 or see the list of Flagler, Volusia, Putnam and St. Johns County meetings here.
Babylonian Craptivity Day 103: It was pretty squalid around Paris after the French Revolution and through Napoleon’s reign in the first 15 years of the 19th century. There were no sidewalks in most neighborhoods. There was no sewage system. Sewage ran down the streets. It was so filthy that a whole industry of so-called décrotteurs thrived. Décrotteurs is French for unshitting, “crotte” being the French word for merde: unshitters walked around Paris, cleaning the shit off the boots of passers-by, since there was little by way of public transportation, and anyway Paris was then as it is now, primarily a walking city. It seems time to bring back the old industry. It would thrive in the United States, in the redder states especially, and redder counties, like our own little Paris on the Intracoastal here: every day walking around this place feels like wading in shit thanks to the shah’s regime of filth and Goebbelsiana. I return from covering public meetings, where so often now commenters from the floor feel obliged to invoke the shah in the most worshipful terms, feeling more fecal than if I’d swam in one of those purifying tanks at Waste Water Treatment 1 in the Woodlands. That place is a rustic park in comparison. So let’s bring back the décrotteurs and deploy them across the country. They’d be America’s fastest-growing industry, tariff-free.
—P.T.
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May 2025
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Paws for Music: Benefit for Community Cats of Palm Coast
Al-Anon Family Groups
RockabillieWillie At City Repertory Theatre
Flagler County Commission Morning Meeting
Beverly Beach Town Commission meeting
Nar-Anon Family Group
For the full calendar, go here.
As is so frequently the story with autocratic regimes, with the passage of time, corruption set in. At the top, starting from a zero base, all the Bonaparte family amassed considerable fortunes either from loot obtained abroad or by other means. Napoleon’s sister Pauline Borghese was able to acquire one of the most sumptuous houses in Paris, on the Faubourg Saint-Honoré. To the lasting benefit of Britain, the Duke of Wellington bought it after Waterloo. He gained the respect of Parisians when, as the victor, he could have grabbed it for nothing, but insisted on paying the full market price. It remains the British embassy, grandest of all the embassies. Josephine, the penniless Creole, in 1809, the year before Napoleon divorced her, could count hundreds of different dresses; Cambacérès, Napoleon’s chancellor, could afford to strut around the Palais-Royal dressed like a millionaire peacock, an early-day Field Marshal Goering; Talleyrand, also a self-made man, as we have already seen, had no hesitation about playing the markets with insider trading to amass vast wealth.
–From Alistair Horn’s The Age of Napoleon (2006).
Bill Boots says
I wouldn’t send 2cents to Jones for this childish attempt at what, obviously he used up his last funcioning brain cell, the senseless babble accompianing it will be judged at our highest level of the Supreme Court
Jim says
This is from NBC News directly from an interview with Donald J. Trump with Kristen Welker, NBC News “Meet the Press” on May 4, 2025:
“The Constitution’s Fifth Amendment says “no person” shall be “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”; it does not say that person must be a U.S. citizen, and the Supreme Court has long recognized that noncitizens have certain basic rights. Trump has also said that while “we always have to obey the laws,” he would like to see some “homegrown criminals” sent to El Salvador as well, a proposal that was widely panned by legal experts.
When Welker tried to point out what the Fifth Amendment said, Trump suggested that such a process would slow him down too much.
“I don’t know. It seems — it might say that, but if you’re talking about that, then we’d have to have a million or 2 million or 3 million trials,” he said. “We have thousands of people that are — some murderers and some drug dealers and some of the worst people on Earth.”
“I was elected to get them the hell out of here, and the courts are holding me from doing it,” he added.
“But even given those numbers that you’re talking about, don’t you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president?” Welker asked.
“I don’t know,” Trump replied. “I have to respond by saying, again, I have brilliant lawyers that work for me, and they are going to obviously follow what the Supreme Court said.””
Part of the oath of office Donald J. Trump took on January 20, 2025: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
Donald J. Trump doesn’t know if he has to uphold the Constitution. For all of you out there who think this guy is “America First”, neither you nor he have a clue as to what America is. He does not have an option for supporting the Constitution – he SWORE to do so. Failure to do that is grounds to be removed from office. This country can not survive with leadership not dedicated to supporting the laws of this country. I just can not believe there are so many people who constantly fail to see what is happening.
And, although it has nothing to do with the subject, anyone who posts a picture of himself in the papal robes at any time, but particularly right after a real pope dies, has mental issues beyond belief. And this guy is president. So for those of you MAGA people who claim to be religious, think about that some before you – yet again – justify Trump’s disgusting behavior.
Merrill Shapiro says
The idea of modern day décrotteurs is spot on!
Clay Jones is wrong when he says “The Trump Regime mistakenly deported immigrant Abrego Garcia.” There was no mistake about it. The administration has, once again, shown how lawless and out of control it is!
Pierre Tristam says
The presidency is over. We now have a dictator.