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Today at a Glance:
Watermelon Festival at European Village, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 101 Palm Harbor Parkway, Palm Coast. Get ready for one of the sweetest days of the summer! Join us for the Village Open Air Market Watermelon Festival. Live Music All Day, Petting Zoo, Bounce House Fun, Local Vendors, Food & Drinks, Fresh Watermelon & Summer Vibes.
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]
The Battle of Shallowford, a play at Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Avenue, St. Augustine. 7:30 p.m. except on Sunday, 2 p.m. Buy tickets here (generally $37.60 for adults). The play centers around the dramatic events that unfold when the residents tune into Orson Welles’ famous “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast. The locals, who rely on the radio for news and entertainment, are thrown into a frenzy when they believe an actual Martian invasion is taking place in their own town.
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.
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Notably: “A man is more a man by the things he keeps silent about than by the things he says.” The line, found in Camus’ Myth of Sisyphus, ought to be the guiding principle of comment sections and social media platforms from here to the top of Sisyphus’s mountain. Futile as it may be.
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June 2026
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Art Dycke’s Celebration of Life
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
Local Ham Radio Clubs Test Emergency Capabilities June 27-28
Palm Coast Historical Society Executive Board Meeting
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Pride in Bunnell at 2K Ranch
Al-Anon Family Groups
For the full calendar, go here.
This is where I don’t understand my own feelings. When I say to my colleagues that the women should have just told Quin to stop, that I had told him to stop and had made him stop, they inevitably tell me that the power was disproportionately his, and that even if in theory the women could have pushed back they should not be expected to, they shouldn’t have to. I get aggravated then and splutter about female agency versus infantilization, etc. I say, yes, he acted badly. I was angry at him too. But did he deserve to lose his job, his right to work, his honor as a human? Did he have to be so completely and utterly crushed? Couldn’t people have just made fun of him for being a dirty Jiminy Cricket and left it at that? (A sweet cricket, crossed with the wicked Foulfellow fox—hi-diddle-dee-dee! )
–From Mary Gaitskill’s “This Is Pleasure,” The New Yorker, July 8, 2019.
Pogo says
So, children should be seen and not heard. Right.
This too
Florida Sens. Rick Scott and Ashley Moody could have put an end to President Donald Trump’s outrageous $1.776 billion slush fund with their votes this past week. But they didn’t.
https://www.jcbruce.com/p/weekly-debrief-both-senators-from
And this — still unfinished business…
https://www.google.com/search?q=date+era+passed
“What is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1838.Geoffrey_Chaucer
Ibid
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Geoffrey+Chaucer
Dennis C Rathsam says
The people that migrated to the USA, who really help build the American, were from Europe. They are the ones that contributed to the Idustrial Revolution! No one from the Middle East came, Cubans came, Germans came, along with the Poles, the Spainards, the Italians. The French, the Portugese, & settled in America, quickly learned the language, & became a community. Many NY city cops were Irish. The never bitched about the food here in America, they never rioted, & wished death to America. These men fought side by side with America during the world wars. Where were the Muslums when we took Pork Chop Hill, or returned to the Philipeans? BIDENS INVADERES, Did shit! Came in through the back door, with no vetting, then they complained the food we gave them sucked. Free room & board , yet they still complained! Now they want to change our laws that we’ve all cherished for 250 yrs. The Europeans, imbraced the American culture & our way of life. They didn’t come here dressed in robes, with turbines on thier heads. Refusing to adapted to our christian values. They bitch about bacon, & BBQ Ribs! Who are they to tell us what to eat in our country? Look at the FRAUDE in Minn, Maine,Ca,Chicago,Portland. These folks are robbing tax payer monies ment for the kids & the poor! Thank God TRUMP is deporting these useless people, who steal from our generosity!
Skibum says
For someone who has such horrendous spelling, it became apparent to me while trying to read through your latest diatribe that you must have been asleep at the switch in history class as well. But if there had been courses in conspiracy theories and racism, wow, you surely would have aced them! It’s no wonder the most corrupt, inept, racist con man and sex abuser to ever ascend to the presidency attracts those who are so unabashedly proud of him.
Are congratulations what you are seeking for your personal endorsement of despotism? Because, despite your assertions about the “useless people” in the United States being anyone who isn’t of European ancestry, I can think of a whole bunch of born and bred, fair skinned American citizens who perfectly fit that description. And this country would be so much better off having neighbors of the variety that you are hating on, rather than the moronic, racist maga trailer park thumpers who are working so hard to destroy everything that America has learned and achieved in the past 250 years.
The dude says
Yes yes… immigrants helped build this country… like the chinese who worked on the railroads basically like slaves… or the real slaves that the MAGA morons are trying to whitewash out of our history… or even the irish who were treated quite horribly at the time…
AND… immigrants have continued to help build this country, and maintain it, all the way up until this day.
As a matter of fact the orange shit stain imports maids every year, because he doesn’t want to pay his help… are those imported maids for Mar-a-Lardo also “INVADERES” there Dennis???
Laurel says
“Undocumented immigrants contributed an estimated $26.2 billion to the Social Security Trust Fund in 2023. However, most of them will never collect these benefits.”
-Search Assist, americanimmigrationcouncil.org, cbpp.org
The future reduction of our Social Security is set for the year 2032, I believe. Neither Republicans nor Democrats are doing anything to resolve this important matter.
With immigrants gone, both parties will cry that they have to reduce the amount by one third of the amount you collect.
This is intentional.
Stop voting by the attached letter, and stop voting for the people with the most money behind them. Stop listening to one sided shows and podcasts. Do your research.
It’s your future!
Ed P says
Hello Laurel.
The actual net cost to tax payers is 150 billion dollars per year.
You have to include, local, state and federal costs minus their SS and tax contributions.
Laurel says
From the BBC:
“Hegseth was speaking in Normandy 82 years after allied forces stormed French beaches to liberate Nazi-occupied Europe in 1944.”
“”Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies,” [Secretary of Defense (and Fox Entertainment commenter)] Hegseth said. “Beaches in Spain, in Italy, in Greece and Bulgaria. Boats and men arrive. When will European capitals do something about that invasion?””
This administration cannot get any more stupid. Because Trump hates the French President Macron, we are now meddling in Europe’s political business, which is none of our business. He loves to spread the hate, and his little butt kissers comply. Such a damned embarrassment.
Pogo says
Hello L
Hegseth and the old POSs who hired him understand their own words and motives no better than the mobs they lead.
They (trump, hegseth, et al.) are inarticulate tools of malignant fat cats: wealthy, highly educated reactionary nativists. Trump and his ham-fisted stumble bums, chum the water, and serve the will of monsters, on the stage next to them, and in their skyboxes. The monsters, in a priviledge youth, read Rand, Heinlein, etc, a canon of cold-eyed cynicism that initiated them into their religion: the god in their own shaving mirrors.
Hegseth is literally reciting the plot of one of their holy texts:
As stated
https://search.brave.com/search?q=intersection+of+Republican+Party+and+The+Camp+of+the+Saints+&summary=1&conversation
Ibid
https://search.brave.com/ask?q=The+Camp+of+the+Saints&conversation
I share a well known idea — not a discovery. Make what you will of it.
Laurel says
As usual, Pogo, you hit the bullseye. I believe you are correct.
Here’s my dilemma. I’m a very Earthbound soul. I believe in science, in logic, in experience and in others. I do not belong to a religion, and am very skeptical of spiritual experiences people claim to have, even though I have had my own.
I think it was Hermann Hesse who wrote about good and evil, and how they are both integral to the human experience. Sort of dependent. I just figured some people were good, and some were nasty assholes! Now, in my latter years, I’m starting to think that pure evil is real. What is happening to us now, politically, is rife with evil. Just, plain, evil.
Trump is no genius, no leader, and his crew, if you will, appears to be less knowledgeable. But there is a deeper manipulation going on. The manipulation is coming from a small group of those who do not want to be known. They dole out fear. They feed peoples on fear. They feed people on lies. They feed people on hatred. They are empty. They pass on their unhappiness to what we call the maga, or the loyalists, who are generally people who are not exposed to “others.” Not in a personal sense. They lack the experience that “others” are simply people like them, who have the same wants and desires to have families, friends, good work, good food and relaxation. So, these maga don’t really know any better, not having a meaningful relationship with someone “different”. Not to be mean to say that, but it’s the experience they lack. So, it’s so easy for a person, with bad intentions, to say “They’re eating the dogs. They’re eat the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there” or “quiet, piggy.” There is no love, no good intentions, and no peace in a statement like that. Just emptiness.
It’s just evil.
There are those who say these evil forces will lose out, and destroy each other. That actually does make sense to me. If we were to purge all “others” and have no one left except white Christian nationalist, or only mega-corporations, or whatever “us only” group, they would immediately form their own hierarchy and control each other. The same hatred and emptiness would occur. That is the current state of the human. Maybe, just some humans. It’s a learning curve for all.
Pogo says
Hello L
Thank you for your thoughtful reply; that’s quite a lot to address. I will simply say that, IMO, spiritual, and supernatural, are two entirely different matters.
I’m guessing you may have read Siddhartha? Always, recommended.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Siddhartha
The fate of this latest master race will be the same as all who came before them, entropy; or as Trump likes to mumble, so great, the greatest, beautiful, like you can’t even believe…
https://www.google.com/search?q=entropy
It (the thing, Trump) is right, I can’t and I don’t.
Regards, be well.
https://www.google.com/search?q=chaucer+the+task+of+learning+too+great+for+the+time+we+have
Laurel says
Yes, I read Siddhartha quite some time ago. I have not forgotten the end result of his search.
I’m always trying to understand why people do what they do, and why some are never happy.
When push comes to shove, I evolve back into an optimist, and I believe we will overcome.
I just wonder if I’ll get to see it.
Sherry says
“When push comes to shove, I evolve back into an optimist, and I believe we will overcome.
I just wonder if I’ll get to see it.”
Me too, Laurel. . . me too!
Sherry says
IGNORANT INDEED:
Asian immigrants, particularly laborers from China, formed the backbone of the western construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad in the 1860s. Over 10,000 Chinese workers were hired by the Central Pacific Railroad, making up about 90% of the workforce that carved tracks through the rugged Sierra Nevada mountains.
These workers performed the most backbreaking and dangerous tasks, such as hanging from cliffs in baskets to hand-chisel rock and detonate explosives to clear tunnels. Despite facing systemic racism, significantly lower wages than their white counterparts, and dangerous working conditions that cost hundreds of lives, their vital efforts physically connected the American continent.
Sherry says
Ignorant Indeed:
Key Pillars of Contribution Infrastructure and Agriculture:
During the mid-20th century, programs like the Bracero Program brought millions of Mexican workers to the U.S. to lay down railroads and harvest crops, literally feeding the nation and keeping transport networks operational during critical times.
Economic Backbone: Migrants from Latin America continue to sustain vital sectors of the U.S. economy, including residential construction, hospitality, and agriculture, frequently filling labor gaps where domestic shortages exist.
Entrepreneurship: Hispanic immigrants punch well above their weight in business creation. They make up a disproportionately high percentage of the country’s entrepreneurs, taking in hundreds of billions in sales and employing millions of Americans.
Fiscal Contributions: The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has projected that increased tax revenues from immigrant populations will significantly lower the national deficit, generating a trillion-dollar positive economic effect over a decade