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A Quick Look at Today:
Randy Starve-Away, U.S. Representative Fine Visits the Oldest Sewer Plant on the Palm Coast: Along with Palm Coast City Council members, the Republican congressman, who was elected in a special election last April, is set to visit Waste Water Treatment Plant 1 in Palm Coast’s Woodlands (26 Utility Drive) on Wednesday at 10 a.m. Months ago, Fine was supposed to visit, but it was canceled. If there is any change to the 10 a.m. time, it will be posted here.
The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State will hold an open discussion on the subject from noon to 1 p.m. at the Pine Lakes Golf Club Clubhouse Pub & Grillroom (no purchase required), 400 Pine Lakes Pkwy, Palm Coast (0.7 miles from Belle Terre Parkway). The discussion will be free-flowing and open to the public. If you want the best directions, call (386) 445-0852. Everyone is welcome! Everybody’s opinion matters. For additional information, contact Merrill at 804-914-4460 or send an email to [email protected].
The Flagler County Public Library hosts a weekly chess club for teenagers aged 9 to 18:Do you prefer playing chess, experimenting with new moves, or perhaps engaging in friendly rivalry? Every Wednesday from 4 to 5 p.m., the Flagler County Public Library hosts a chess club at the Teen Spot. From novices who wish to learn how to play to more experienced players, everyone is welcome. For additional information, email us at [email protected] or call the Youth Service department at 386-446-6763, ext. 3714.
Notably, our president is becoming more and more like Shah every day. The Make Believe Ballroom was a famous afternoon show on WNEW, the AM radio station in New York City, back in the day. During my college years, I worked at a check-cashing business on 36th Street and 4th Avenue in Brooklyn, where I first learned about it. My manager was Gene Kronberg. Throughout the day, he kept the radio on WNEW. It might be repeated. It could have been far worse, too. The music was excellent. The recollections are nearly such. It came to an end in 1992 when WNEW ceased to be the oldies station it had been since the show’s inception in 1935. A public radio station in Rochester, New York, currently broadcasts a version of the Make Believe Ballroom, but as public radio’s existence is coming to an end, it will soon be more pretend than pretend. Considering that Nero may have received more abuse than he deserved for reportedly dancing to the Make Believe Ballroom while Rome burnt, this film that was shown on X is apt. However, Gibbon reminds us that he actually constructed his Golden Palace, Domus Aurea, immediately following the fire, causing a legitimate outcry, as Edward states.
Goddamn. Someone created a brand-new, flawless advertisement for Trump’s ballroom. It would be terrible for Trump if this went viral.
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August 8, 2025: CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism)
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Particularly in 1971, when the shah held an extravagant festival to commemorate the 2,500th anniversary of Cyrus the Great’s Persian Empire, the populace became disgruntled. A city of mansion-like tents, decorated by Jackie Kennedy Onassis’ White House decorator, emerged on the remains of the ancient city of Persepolis. To feed the sixty monarchs and heads of state on the guest list—the Ethiopian emperor had a seventy-two-person retinue—eighteen tons of food were shipped in. A procession including 1,700 troops dressed in traditional garb passed 15,000 recently planted trees. Using personalized Baccarat crystal goblets, Dom Perignon 1959 and Château Lafite Rothschild 1945 were quaffed. Eighty cooks were brought by Maxim’s of Paris. At that time, the country’s per capita income was $250. (A case of Château Lafite Rothschild 1945 sold for five hundred dollars.) Students who came to protest were brutally thrashed as the shah toasted to a world free from anxiety, dread, and the continual threat of annihilation while 50,000 imported songbirds chirped. Just out of sight were some of the worst slums in the nation. The cost was estimated to be between $100 million and $200 million.
From Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980 (2020), by Rick Perlstein.
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