Today at the Editor’s glance: On WNZF’s Free For All Friday this morning at 9, host David Ayres welcomes Heidi Petito, the new county government administrator, Supervisor of Elections Kaiti Lenhart will talk about the coming election for mayor, Dr. Stephen Bickel and AdventHealth Palm Coast’s Wally de Aquino will talk about the latest surge in Delta-variant covid cases overwhelmingly affecting those who have not been vaccinated (see the cartoon above for a brief explanation). All starting a little after 9 a.m. with my commentary on those obscene demonstrators in Flagler Beach, whose rights to be obscene I defend. Palm Coast Little League hosts the 2021 Little League Baseball Florida Championships from Friday through Sunday at the Indian Trails Sports Complex, 5455 Belle Terre Parkway, with opening ceremonies at 2:30 p.m. Organizers in their invitation to city council members said “there are strong indications that Governor Ron DeSantis will be in attendance.” (The governor is in fact on the road. He was in Surfside yesterday, ending the day with an appearance at the Southeast Building Conference in Kissimmee, at the Gaylord Palms Resort.) Eight teams are competing from across Florida. The winning team qualifies for the next rounds toward the Little League World Series in Williamsport, Pa. It’s Parents’ Nights Out from 5:30 to 10pm at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Pkwy. NE. Parents, if you’re in need of a date night or just wish for peace and quiet around the house–or the community–on a Friday night, let the staff at the Community Center watch your kids while you have the night to yourselves. Kids will eat pizza, play games, watch movies, and have fun. For ages 5-12. $15/first child and $5/additional siblings. Registration required at www.parksandrec.fun/youth. If your child is a bit older, there’s always the Teen Chill Zone from 5:30 to 10 p.m. at the Palm Coast Aquatics Center, 339 Parkview Dr. You can hang out in the water, log-roll, play on the fitness boards, and otherwise chill in a fun and safe environment. For ages 13-17. Free, but please register at www.parksandrec.fun/teens. More info: 386-986-2323. Saturday and Sunday Auditions at the Flagler Playhouse, for the upcoming production of Neil Simon’s “Rumors,” 1 p.m. at Flagler Playhouse, 301 E. Moody Blvd., Bunnell. Auditions will be held in the back lounge of the theater. Signs will be posted. Park in back of the theater. Tour de France: Stage 19 takes the riders through southwest-central France, toward the Bordeaux region, in a 207-km flattish trek from Mourenx to Libourne.
Vaccinations: Appointments for the Pfizer-only clinic at the health department are preferred, but walk-ins will be accepted. Please call 386-437-7350 ext. 0 for scheduling or questions. June 25, 2021. Eighteen pharmacies in Flagler County offer COVID-19 vaccinations, and 12 of these offer Pfizer, which is approved for individuals ages 12 and over. The health department will offer COVID-19 testing on Friday, July 2 between 2:30 and 3:30PM at its main office, 301 Dr. Carter Blvd.in Bunnell. For more information about COVID-19 vaccination and testing efforts, please visit https://floridahealthcovid19.gov/.
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6th Annual Freedom Fest at Flagler County Executive Airport
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Gamble Jam at Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area
‘Scapino,’ at Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre
27th Annual Flower & Garden Expo
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Al-Anon Family Groups
‘Scapino,’ at Palm Coast’s City Repertory Theatre
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“We were lying there, very tense, in the early dawn, and there were just a few streaks of gold in the east; you could see your neighbor very dimly. Those ten seconds were the longest ten seconds that I ever experienced. Suddenly, there was an enormous flash of light, the brightest light I have ever seen or that I think anyone has ever seen. It blasted; It pounced; it bored its way right through you. It was a vision which was seen with more than the eye. It was seen to last forever. You wish it would stop; altogether it lasted about two seconds. Finally it was over, diminishing, and we looked toward the place where the bomb had been; there was an enormous ball of fire which grew and grew and it rolled as it grew; it went up into the air, in yellow flashes and into scarlet and green. It looked menacing. It seemed to come toward one. A new thing had just been born; a new control; a new understanding of man, which man had acquired over nature.”
–Isidor Rabi, describing the first nuclear explosion in the New Mexico desert at Almogorodo, July 16, 1945, cited in “The Making of the Atomic Bomb,” by Richard Rhodes (1986).
Pogo says
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“We were lying there, very tense, in the early dawn, and there were just a few streaks of gold in the east; you could see your neighbor very dimly. Those ten seconds were the longest ten seconds that I ever experienced. Suddenly, there was an enormous flash of light, the brightest light I have ever seen or that I think anyone has ever seen. It blasted; It pounced; it bored its way right through you. It was a vision which was seen with more than the eye. It was seen to last forever. You wish it would stop; altogether it lasted about two seconds. Finally it was over, diminishing, and we looked toward the place where the bomb had been; there was an enormous ball of fire which grew and grew and it rolled as it grew; it went up into the air, in yellow flashes and into scarlet and green. It looked menacing. It seemed to come toward one. A new thing had just been born; a new control; a new understanding of man, which man had acquired over nature.”
–Isidor Rabi, describing the first nuclear explosion in the New Mexico desert at Almogorodo, July 16, 1945, cited in “The Making of the Atomic Bomb,” by Richard Rhodes (1986).
Local says
Typical dem cartoon… a person with a backpack of vaccines is going to hit the ground as hard as the stereotyped guy not wearing a back pack of vaccines. Not all antivacciners are wearing red hats….but it goes to show the idiot with the vaccines jumped without a parachute also…..hmmmm
Darren May says
I guess you never learned how to interpret a political cartoon in school. The Anti-Vaxxer is not wearing a parachute. The parachute on the other guy is labeled as the vaccine. He would be protected more by the vaccine than the person without the vaccine.
Sherry says
WOW! FOX seems to have stripped some people of their ability to understand a metaphor. Truly Disturbing!
Ray W. says
If a rabid Fox News viewer forms credulity for a television program not dedicated to educating its viewers, the Fox viewer becomes uneducable. While the act of forming credulity for Fox News gives Fox News credibility to that viewer and only to that viewer, that does not mean that Fox News will ever take the leap toward beginning to accurately inform its viewers of the factual truth. With the rabid Fox News viewer lacking veracity from the outset and unable to form credulity for other more credible news sources, the everyday Fox News viewer simply cannot learn, as Fox News has no interest now nor has it ever had any interest in teaching him or her the factual truth.
The concept of educability was Thomas Reid’s gift to philosophy some 260 years ago. Our founding fathers were well versed with Reid’s philosophy and came up with a constitutional form of government. In academia, Thomas Reid is considered to be one of the founding fathers of a Common Sense movement that swept through America and most of Europe during the latter part of the 18th Century and into the 19th Century. Common sense, so obviously lost on Local, requires that an individual consider common sense as a process, not as a result. If common sense is a result, someone else can decide common sense for you. If it is a process, you must go through the process repeatedly for your entire lifetime. Once you surrender common sense to another person, you are at their mercy, whim or caprice. One interpretation of Local’s post is that he surrendered common sense to others a long time ago. Now, buffeted by the winds of election loss and unanchored by his political party as it struggles to adapt to its leader’s emotional whims, he will be swept willy-nilly into the political maelstrom for a long time to come. Who can predict what Local will come to believe?
Gina says
Ray W: LOL how could one blame this on FOX surely Local has lived long enough on this planet to know what common sense is or maybe he doesn’t have any, and I do not mean this in a negative way, I mean some people just don’t have any common sense, has nothing to do with their intelligence, my spouse for example, a scholar, can out speak anyone on almost any topic, a man of the world, loads of book knowledge, an educator for over 40 years but has difficulity with a simple idea, I guess one would say no “street smarts” or maybe he is a victim of “muddled thinking” as you once spoke about. People do not listen today, they are quick with running their mouths and coming to conclusions about people they don’t know or disagree and resort to insulting people, calling people vile names, no wonder people become disenchanted and defensive. I live by my mantra once compassion is lost for your fellow human being it’s all over for everyone, no one wins everyone loses. I hear things on FOX that I do not agree with as well as MSNBC and CNN, the same goes for other newspaper and other media outlets. None of these stations really educate anyone they are all in it for their own agenda, the real education starts at home then in our schools and universities. If you don’t have a good solid basic foundation this is when people become dependent on other outlets to base their beliefs and cannot think for themselves. Maybe we should have more critical thinking taught in our educational system.