Donald Trump has created a GoFundMe to support victims of Hurricane Helene, but just as in the case of the Trump Foundation, his fake charity, he’s using this GoFundMe politically. Trump never put money into his own foundation that a court later dissolved while banning him and his three oldest kids, Jr, Eric, and Ivanka from being involved with charities in New York state ever again. We also haven’t heard how much of his own money Donald Trump has pledged to this GoFundMe. This GoFundMe may be a literal go-fund-me for Trump. Who collects this money to be distributed? Is his or her last name Trump?” Read more at substack.
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Weather: Mostly sunny (yay!), with a high near 79. Breezy, with a northeast wind 16 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 68. Northeast wind 6 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
- Check today’s tides in Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
- tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, an hour-long public affairs radio show featuring local newsmakers, personalities, public health updates and the occasional surprise guest, starts a little after 9 a.m. See previous podcasts here. Today, David welcomes Palm Coast City Council candidates Jeffrey Seib and Ty Miller in a debate-style face-off. On WNZF at 94.9 FM and 1550 AM.
LGBTQ+ Night at Flagler Beach’s Coquina Coast Brewing Company: The monthly LGBTQ+ social for adults is scheduled for every second Friday of the month from 8 to 11 p.m. at Coquina Coast Brewing Co., 318 Moody Boulevard, Flagler Beach. “Come together, make new friends and share some brews. Going strong since Oct 2021! We feature many genres of local LGBTQ+ talent in our community; comedy, burlesque, belly dance, drag, musicians, bingo games, etc. There is never a cover charge but donations are greatly appreciated! When you register, your email is used to keep you up to date on future LGBTQ+ friendly events.
| In Coming Days: Oct. 10: Groundbreaking for Fire Station 26 in Seminole Woods: Palm Coast government hosts a groundbreaking for the future Fire Station 26 at 72 Airport Commerce Center–the road opposite Ulaturn Trail in Seminole Woods–at 9 a.m. The public is invited to attend. The brief ceremony, lasting approximately 30 minutes, will be held at the site. Parking will be available along Airport Commerce Center Way, and attendees are encouraged to wear comfortable walking shoes due to the site’s terrain. Wharton & Schultz is the lead construction firm for the project, which is expected to be completed within 12 months. Funding for Fire Station 26 comes from fire impact fees and a $5 million state appropriation of public dollars. Oct. 10: Town Hall with Palm Coast Council Member Theresa Pontieri, 6 p.m. at the Southern Recreation Center, 120 Belle Terre Parkway, Palm Coast. This event is free and open to the public. Attendees are welcome to ask questions and discuss issues that matter to them in an open forum. Residents are encouraged to join this important conversation to help strengthen community ties and ensure that every voice plays a role in shaping the future of Palm Coast. Pontieri will discuss economic development in the city and answer questions from attendees. Don’t miss the opportunity to engage and share your thoughts. Oct. 16: Flagler Cares hosts its quarterly Help Night from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Flagler County Village Community Room, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite B304, Palm Coast. Help Night is organized and hosted by Flagler Cares and other community partners as a one-stop help event. Representatives from Flagler County Human Services, Early Learning Coalition, EasterSeals, Family Life Center, Florida Legal Services, Lions Club, and many other organizations will be available to provide information and resources. The event is open to the public, free to attend, and will offer assistance with obtaining various services including autism screenings, tablets (low-income qualification), fair housing legal consultations, Marketplace Navigation, childcare services, SNAP and Medicaid application assistance, behavioral health services, and much more. Flagler Cares is a non-profit agency focused on creating a vital, expansive social safety net that addresses virtually all the health and social needs of our community. Flagler Cares works with clients to identify needs and create solutions that address those unique needs. Flagler Cares is proud to have a wide range of community partners who are committed to providing high quality services to those who need them most. Flagler Cares is also passionate about filling gaps and bringing needed services into the county where they did not previously exist. For more information about this event, please call 386-319-9483 ext. 0, or email [email protected]. |
Notably: The billboard above, glimpsed during a recent trip to cancerland, as Cheryl and I sometimes think of Gainesville (kindly: the town’s doctors have so far made cats of us lives-wise), brought to mind a couple of red-stop reflections. The first is a matter of history: progress is an invention, and a recent one. As Hannah Arendt writes (in On Violence, of all places), “The notion that there is such a thing as progress of mankind as a whole was unknown prior to the seventeenth century, developed into a rather common opinion among the eighteenth-century hommes de lettres, and became an almost universally accepted dogma in the nineteenth.” Before the Enlightenment, there was no such thing as expecting that society could “progress” toward something bigger, better, richer. There was teleology (defined as explaining anything by its alleged final cause, which requires a lot of imagination, sizeable balls, and a lot of arrogance). But teleology is not progress. I’d argue that as a precursor of ends-justify-means ideology, it’s the opposite of progress. Teleology is religion’s friend, so ironically it cannot be the friend of progress, even though what I’m getting at is the second thought that this billboard elicited: the utter falsehood of its anthropomorphic hopefulness. Human progress has no finish line? I can picture a mushroom cloud or two, or the finish line we are rapidly approaching by way of climate change, if it’s humanity as a whole we are imagining. But the billboard’s other falsehood is its message. It’s not aimed at “humanity,” but at the single human being eying the billboard at a red light. It is a sales pitch. Shop your illness with us: you’ll be happy. But it is only about finish lines. What UF sells, what we all sell each other in the end, what we sell ourselves, is that delay from the finish line. The last thing we want is to hurdle and hurtle toward it. If it’s finish lines we’re being honest about, and how can we not be, the last thing we want to be is that athlete, who–assuming he’s not an AI creation–will face his finish line no differently than the rest of us, immortalized though he might illusorily be on a marketing billboard for the year or two UF will use that pitch. Then what? Discarded. Done. Finished. Marketing campaigns have shorter lives than wild kittens. Human progress has no finish line because it is its own illusion.
—P.T.
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October 2024
Friday, Oct 11
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Friday, Oct 11
Flagler County Canvassing Board Meeting
Flagler County Supervisor of Elections Office
Friday, Oct 11
Blue 24 Forum
Palm Coast Community Center
Friday, Oct 11
LGBTQ+ Night at Flagler Beach’s Coquina Coast Brewing Company
Coquina Coast Brewing Company
Saturday, Oct 12
iFish Flagler In-Shore Tournament
Saturday, Oct 12
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Saturday, Oct 12
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Law Office of Scott Spradley
Saturday, Oct 12
Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
Saturday, Oct 12
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Flagler School District Bus Depot
Saturday, Oct 12
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Meeting
Cypress Knoll Golf and Country Club
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In the next four centuries, Christianity was often to have disastrous effects. Confident in the possession of the true religion, Europeans were impatient and contemptuous of the values and achievements of the peoples and civilizations they disturbed. The result was always uncomfortable and often brutal. It is also true that religious zeal could blur easily into less avowable motives. As the greatest Spanish historian of the American conquests put it when describing why he and his colleagues had gone to the Indies, they thought ‘to serve God and his Majesty, to give light to those who sat in darkness and to grow rich as all men desire to do’. Greed quickly led to the abuse of power, to domination and exploitation by force. In the end this led to great crimes – though they were often committed unconsciously. It sometimes brought about the destruction of whole societies, but this was only the worst aspect of a readiness to dominate which was present from the outset in European enterprise. The adventurers who first reached the coasts of India were soon boarding Asian merchantmen, torturing and slaughtering their crews and passengers, looting their cargoes and burning the ravaged hulks. Europeans could usually exact what they wanted in the end because of a technical superiority which exaggerated the power of their tiny numbers and for a few centuries turned the balance against the great historic agglomerations of population and civilization.
–From J.M. Roberts’s History of the World (1976).
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