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Weather: Patchy fog before 9 a.m. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 80. Calm wind becoming southeast 5 to 7 mph in the afternoon. Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 62. Southeast wind around 5 mph becoming light and variable in the evening.
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Today at a Glance:
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry: Flagler Beach United Methodist Church‘s food pantry is open today from 9:30 a.m. to noon at 1500 S. Daytona Ave, Flagler Beach. The church’s mission is to provide nourishment and support in a welcoming, respectful environment. To find us, please turn at the corner of 15 Street and S. Daytona Ave, pull into the grass parking area and enter the green door.
Flagler Cares is in the midst of its Second Annual “Keep the Holiday Lights On” campaign. The health and social care coordinating organization is inviting residents and businesses to support local families in need of a modest financial bridge to keep their power on this holiday season. This initiative encourages neighbors to help neighbors by sponsoring homes to ensure struggling families can keep their lights on through December. The goal is to sponsor 100 homes at $100 per home, covering one month’s electric bill for families who might otherwise face utility cut-offs during the holidays. Supporters are welcome to contribute any amount to help brighten the season for their fellow residents. Donations can be made now through the end of the year on the “Keep the Holiday Lights On” webpage at www.flaglercares.org/holiday. Check donations may also be mailed or dropped off at Flagler Cares, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite B302, Palm Coast, FL 32164. As homes are sponsored, donors can watch the campaign’s progress online as homes on the page light up — a symbol of the community’s shared compassion and care.
Notably: It is unfair to readers, who cannot book tickets at this point (it was just a two-weekend run, and it’s over), and a bit unfair to the production, for which it’s too late to benefit from attention derived from the two and a half people who may read this, but it would be a greater injustice to let pass the memory of seeing “Around the World in 80 Days” at City Repertory Theatre last weekend without yet another round of applause–not for the latent imperialism and, at least in the play, well and far hidden racism you always find in Jules Verne, not for the inherent white supremacy of the book, which contrasts western civilization with eastern “savagery,” not with the old saw of good whites saving the poor Hindu from getting burned at the stake or the scene in a Japanese opium den, the Sioux (or was it Apaches?) attack (and another attept at saving the white guy from the savages). Not, not any of that, which you accept as part of the Verne deal. But the sheer energy and fun of the play, and particularly of Khloē Perez-Mathis and the 17 characters she pulls off, or the dozen or so (or was it more) the fabulous Beau Wade (a personal favorite since his days at the old Playhouse), Agata Sokólska-Lee’s elephant, plus Cameron Hodges and Danno Waddell, who Frenchify and Britishify to sniffing perfection. You leave a bit exhausted, as you should from a trip around the world, and you wish the run wasn’t over. Yet another reminder of how good we have it here with City Repertory Theatre and the work of Diane Ellertsen and John Sbordone, who seem to be getting younger by the season. Meanwhile, there’s always another Jules Verne handy: the guy could be ridiculously bigoted, but I’ll leave to another day how much I love him all the same: there were days and months and years in my youth I could not have survived without his books. Onto “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
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December 2025
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Friday Blue Forum
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
The Bronx Wanderers at the Fitzgerald Performing Arts Center
‘Annie,’ at Limelight Theatre
Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn
‘Greetings,’ A Christmas Comedy
Santa in Bunnell
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Meeting
Peps Art Walk Near Beachfront Grille
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
For the full calendar, go here.
“Mr. Fix,” said the consul, “I like your way of talking, and hope you’ll succeed; but I fear you will find it far from easy. Don’t you see, the description which you have there has a singular resemblance to an honest man?”
“Consul,” remarked the detective, dogmatically, “great robbers always resemble honest folks. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise they would be arrested off-hand. The artistic thing is, to unmask honest countenances; it’s no light task, I admit, but a real art.”
Mr. Fix evidently was not wanting in a tinge of self-conceit.”
–From Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days (1872).
Dennis C Rathsam says
As the democrats continue thier war on TRUMP, and his policies the country continues to ask, where is the democrates plan? Its easy to complain, and call him names….But wheres thier solution? Going on TV & telling our soldiers, its ok not to listen to TRUMP! Last time I looked TRUMP was commander & chief… Theres 1 in the intire USA. TROUBLE, that’s all the donkey causes, & now once again they.ve been caught with thier hoofs in thier mouths. This wont end well for the morons that pulled this stunt, as it shows TRUMP is clearly doing what he was elected to do. You Jackasses stood by while Biden desrtoyed America, almost a year now & we still are deporting Bidens invaders….Democratic mayors,with crime ridden cities don’t want TRUMPS help. They don’t want him to stop the crime, WHY??? The people who live in these pathetic cities, cry out for TRUMPS help, He wont let them down! He never does.
Ray W. says
Hello Dennis C. Rathsam.
The Democratic plan was to not tariff the U.S. into economic uncertainty and the world into economic resistance.
The rest of your comment is filled with lie laundering drivel.
Skibum says
Dennis, facts matter. Bluster and disinformation in support of the lying, pedophile protecting, impeached, convicted felon in the WH who should be referred to as president bone spurs is so disingenuous. Your comment above would be laughable if it weren’t so shocking to the conscious of honorable and patriotic Americans who have enough common sense to know the difference between right and wrong… who can understand and acknowledge when a military order is inherently unlawful.
Do you not know there is a plaque mounted on one of the buildings at West Point Military Academy that says the exact same thing that Senator Mark Kelly and the others said in their video? If not, I’ll quote word for word what it says:
“LOYALTY TO THE CONSTITUTION”
“The United States boldly broke with the ancient military custom of swearing loyalty to a leader. Article VI required that American officers thereafter swear loyalty to our basic law, the Constitution.
While many other countries have suffered military coups, the United States never has. Our American code of military obedience requires that, should orders and the law ever conflict, our officers must obey the law. Many other nations have adopted our principle of loyalty to the basic law.
This nation must have military leaders of principle and integrity so strong that their oaths to SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION will unfailingly govern their actions. THE PURPOSE OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY IS TO PROVIDE SUCH LEADERS OF CHARACTER.”
So, Dennis, I have to ask you this… having now read what American military leadership has clearly established for members of our military to adhere to, including the proviso on that plaque which mimics what is stated in the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which is the higher standard to follow? Anything the president orders the military to do, or what the law allows? We have already had a Secretary of Defense from drumph’s first administration resign instead of ordering military troops to shoot American citizens in the legs who were legally protesting against the administration’s policies.
We have already had our nation’s top military lawyers overruled by the drunkard “secretary of war” regarding shooting missiles at unknown individuals in boats on the open seas, blowing them to smithereens instead of seizing their boats and detaining them for investigation, without even a single piece of evidence that proves they were drug smugglers. That not only violates U.S. laws of military engagement, it is a clear violation of international law as well.
Several federal courts have ruled that the administration’s attempts to send armed troops into U.S. cities this year is illegal and prohibitions have been put in place to prevent the president from continuing to do so… and he still talks about ignoring federal court orders and doing it anyway in violation of federal law.
There was a damn good reason why Senator Kelly and the others decided they needed to make their video and remind U.S. military personnel of their obligation to the Constitution, NOT an unhinged, wackadoodle convicted felon president who has been giving unlawful and unconstitutional orders to our military and federal law enforcement.
You may love the convicted felon sexual predator in the WH, but if so, that just shows your own immorality and lack of patriotism. If you agree with president bone spurs, you are NOT a patriot, you are a knucklehead that is in for a rude awakening when the courts and/or congress finally puts enough nails into the coffin of his own making.
Laurel says
Skibum and Ray W: Look, Dennis is so far gone, he will, most likely, never read what you write, and/or never allow himself to process what you write. He holds his loyalty to Trump close to his chest, and no amount of logic, or facts, will infiltrate. The magas revere tribalism way above the country, and justify it as patriotism, though it is the opposite. Look at January 6th, and the devil pardoned them! People don’t like to lose their friends, so rationalization is high on their agendas. I gave up on him a long time ago!
Laurel says
President Bonespurs and Simple-minded Hegseth, are going after a real soldier, Captain Mark Kelly. Those two, put together, will never come close to being the man Mark Kelly is.
First McCain, now Kelly. Do these two idiots somehow think this elevates them?
Explain to me, maga, how you can support this for more than one, split second, please. Try digging up a couple of braincells and answer me.
Pogo says
@Laurel
Thank you for giving a voice to a complaint about a national outrage — and disgrace: Trump’s shameless betrayal of our country and persecution of men and women that Trump is unworthy to even speak their names.
Moreover, Trump and his team of Florida termites’ naked subservience to Putin (and all aligned with Putin), as you noted elsewhere, is the same behavior on an international scale. To paraphrase an actual great man: Never have so few evil monsters owed so much to so few — of their fellow kind.
Appealing to Trump’s mob of wormy brained zombies? I’m afraid that will always be a futile gesture they receive as a pat on their stank but, and a belly rub too.
Laurel says
Pogo: Too funny you got more thumbs up with “stank butt” than “stank but”! How about “stank but stupid butt”? As Pee Wee said “I meant to do that!”
Meanwhile, thank you! I have received support, and compliments, from the very people here I admire the most, in just the last couple of weeks. That clearly includes you!
Now, let me see if I can locate my humble and grateful chair again.
Pogo says
@Correction it is
stank butt
The Dude says
Go check out Drudgereport today and the top three headlines are:
JOB LOSSES ACCELERATE
CONSUMER CONFIDENCE SPIRALS
TURKEY PRICE UP 24%
Yet Palm Coast’s very own Baghdad Bob is here yelling at the clouds, and slaughtering the English language like it’s one of those Thanksgiving Turkeys that costs 24% more this year…
You can’t make this shit up… Pure comedy gold.
Sherry says
Wonderful Robert Reich echos your excellent comments Skibum, Pogo, Laurel, and The Dude! For me, trump and hegseth are Pogo’s “stank butt” traitors who are not worthy of being in the same reality as the Mark Kelly’s of this world.
Now that I think about this, trump and all those disgusting, despicable idiot core supporters of his do not live in the same reality as “true patriots” like Senator Kelly. Their “Alternate Reality” of doom is a gaudy golden Sodom and Gomorrah hell filled with fear, anger, hate, self loathing, immoral criminals, pedifiles, racists, fascists, insurrectionists and liars! Their MO is bullying, doubling down, trolling, name calling, intimidation, and law breaking at every turn!
This from Robert Reich:
Senator Mark E. Kelly, Patriot of Patriots
The contrast between him and Pete Hegseth or Trump couldn’t be more larger
Robert Reich
Nov 25
Friends,
On Monday, the social media account of Pete Hegseth’s so-called “Department of War” posted that the department is investigating Senator Mark Kelly, a retired Navy officer.
Kelly’s supposed offense? He participated in a video reminding members of the armed forces that they have no duty to follow illegal orders — a concept enshrined in the Code of Military Justice, the shameful case of Lt. William Calley during the Vietnam War, the Geneva Conventions, and the Nuremberg Trials.
I’ve known Mark for several decades. I saw him pilot rockets into space. I gave a blessing at his marriage to Gabby Giffords.
I visited with Mark soon after Gabby was shot. He was brave, steadfast. If she survived (which wasn’t at all clear at the time), he was determined to go on with their lives together, doing whatever needed to be done. He has done that. Today, although not entirely recovered, she lives a reasonably full life, and they continue to support each other in every way.
When Mark ran for Senate, he was equally determined to go on with the work Gabby had begun as a member of Congress.
Few people are more dedicated to the ideals of America and the principles of the Constitution than Mark Kelly.
As for Pete Hegseth, well, the less said the better.
The social media announcement put out by Hegseth’s “Department of War” mentioned “serious allegations of misconduct” against Kelly, suggesting that Kelly could be recalled to active duty “for court-martial proceedings or administrative measures.” This is a dangerous move — almost as dangerous as putting federal troops into American cities over the objections of their mayors and governors.
Trump likes military tribunals because they don’t require the same extent of due process as regular trials — and Trump has shown his contempt for due process. In the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump called for those he perceives to be his enemies to be prosecuted in military tribunals. He said former representative Liz Cheney was “guilty of treason” because she participated in the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Kelly has posted:
“When I was 22 years old, I commissioned as an Ensign in the United States Navy and swore an oath to the Constitution. I upheld that oath through flight school, multiple deployments on the USS Midway, 39 combat missions in Operation Desert Storm, test pilot school, four space shuttle flights at NASA, and every day since I retired—which I did after my wife Gabby was shot in the head while serving her constituents.
“In combat, I had a missile blow up next to my jet and flew through anti-aircraft fire to drop bombs on enemy targets. At NASA, I launched on a rocket, commanded the space shuttle, and was part of the recovery mission that brought home the bodies of my astronaut classmates who died on Columbia. I did all of this in service to this country that I love and has given me so much.
“Secretary Hegseth’s tweet is the first I heard of this. I also saw the President’s posts saying I should be arrested, hanged, and put to death.
“If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies who care more about their own power than protecting the Constitution.”
Today, Kelly refuses to be silenced by a disreputable secretary of defense and a twice-impeached occupant of the Oval Office who’s been convicted of 34 felonies.
I believe Mark Kelly would make an excellent president.
Laurel says
Trump should be removed from office. He is nothing more than a 10 year old, somewhat evil, spoiled brat. He may be doing insurmountable damage to our country, while promoting Putin. It looks like he may be using the ruse of shooting unknown people out of the ocean, as an excuse to invade Venezuela. That would make Putin happy. We don’t need an aircraft carrier to stop six people in a fast boat.
I have hope and faith that we can overcome this destructive individual, and push his incompetent sycophants out of office for good. They all shame us.
Sherry says
Regarding the excellent political cartoon. Maga “Denial is much more than just a river in Egypt”! We must never forget. . . trump is the Treasonist who pardoned many of the criminally guilty Jan. 6th “Insurrectionists”!
Kennan says
Yup,
1,675 to be exact.
So much for the law and order party. America first? No. MAGA first.
Billionaires first.
Evangelicals with no moral compass, filing for ethical bankruptcy every minute.
They all have blood on their hands.
Time to let them drown in it.