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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. after FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam’s Reality Check. Today’s show: How to lead a better stress-free life, with the time change ahead and other stressors. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM and 1550 AM.
The Flagler Woman’s Club invites you to its Craft Extravaganza Friday, November 3 and Saturday, November 4 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. It will be held at our clubhouse, 1524 South Central Ave., Flagler Beach. Come and choose from the wide assortment of uniquely handcrafted items including home décor, gifts, clothing, accessories, holiday decoration and much more. Bake Sale, Raffles. Lunch available from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. For more information call Penny at (386)447-0399. Check out our website.
The Blue 24 Forum, a discussion group organized by local Democrats, meets at 12:15 p.m. at the conference room behind the Beverly Beach Town Hall, 2735 North Oceanshore Boulevard, Beverly Beach. It normally meets at the Palm Coast Community Center, but will be meeting at Beverly Beach through Aug. 11. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.
Central Park Bike Rodeo & Ride: 5 to 7:00 p.m. at Central Park in Town Center, 975 Central Ave., Palm Coast. Join us for an exciting and educational family-friendly event celebrating Mobility Week in Palm Coast! In partnership with the Palm Coast Fire Department, Flagler County Sheriff’s Office, Florida Department of Transportation, and River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization, the Central Park Bike Rodeo & Ride promises an unforgettable experience for all ages. Don’t have a bike? No problem! We’ll have bicycles on hand for you to use. Highlights include:
- Bike Alongside First Responders: Ride around Central Park’s picturesque lake with Palm Coast Firefighters and Flagler County Sheriff’s Deputies.
- Free Bike Helmets: Receive a free helmet for a safe ride.
- Complimentary Bike Lights: Stay visible and safe as the sun sets.
- Food Truck Delights: Satisfy your taste buds with local food truck offerings.
- Bicycle Safety Education: Learn essential tips for safe cycling.
First Friday in Flagler Beach, the monthly festival of music, food and leisure, is scheduled for this evening at Downtown’s Veterans Park, 105 South 2nd Street, from 5 to 9 p.m. The event is overseen by the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency and run by Laverne M. Shank Jr. and Surf 97.3
“Educating Rita,” a staged reading at City Repertory Theatre, starring Annie Gabis and Jack Rose, at CRT’s Black Box theater, Suite B207, 160 Cyprus Point Parkway, City Market Place, Palm Coast, 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 2, 3 and 4 and 3 p.m. on Nov.5. Tickets are $250, $15 for students. Call 386-585-9415 or visit www.crtpalmcoast.com. An engaging performance of Willy Russel’s masterful Educating Rita, an unforgettable theatrical experience that explores one working-class woman’s courageous quest to break free from her social constraints. Through witty banter and heartfelt moments, the play weaves together a tale that is both profoundly moving and hilariously entertaining.
Editorial Notebook: Today’s euphemism for terrorists: “Settler Extremists.” The Times on Thursday ran as its morning lead a story that would have been a hilarious parody of journalistic hypocrisy if it weren’t about massacres: “How a Campaign of Extremist Violence Is Pushing the West Bank to the Brink.” That’s the headline. The subhead: “Israeli settlers and Palestinians have been locked in a cycle of bloodshed for decades. But extremist settler attacks could send the conflict out of control.” The wording is packed with deception. These aren’t “settlers.” They’re colonists on land that doesn’t belong to them. They haven’t been “locked in a cycle of bloodshed for decades.” The Israeli army–itself so deceptively called “Israel Defense Force”–turns a blind eye to colonists’ violence no less than did white authorities in the Jim Crow South, to supremacists’ lynchings and murders of Blacks. And these aren’t “extremist settlers” or “extremist settler attacks.” These are terrorists, and their attacks, as even the images that accompany the article show, are nothing short of terrorism. The word “terrorist” appears once in the article, in the very same sentence as the euphemism, but in reference to Hamas: “Some of the specific incidents, like the killing in the olive grove, reflect a longstanding problem in the West Bank that has gotten much worse since the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks: Heavily armed settler extremists have operated with impunity for years, many Palestinians say, and now their assaults are becoming bolder, deadlier and nonstop.” There’s no disputing the terrorism–the war crimes–of Oct. 7. But the Times discredits its word usage with those differences. Reuters is on firmer ground with its policy of not using the word “terrorist” or “terrorism” unless its reporters are quoting someone. The preferred word is “militants,” though in its own article on colonists’ attacks, it still refers to them as “settlers.” The opening paragraphs of that article” “Mourning his father and brother, Mohammed Wadi says armed Israeli settlers from outposts overlooking his olive-growing West Bank village no longer aim low when they shoot at Palestinian neighbours. “Now, they shoot to kill,” he said. Violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, already at a more than 15-year high this year, surged further after Israel hurtled into a new war in the separate enclave of Gaza in response to Palestinian militant group Hamas unleashing the deadliest day in Israel’s history on Oct. 7.”
—P.T.
Now this: Brel’s “Fernand,” with the lyrics in both languages below–presumably provided by AI.
To say that Fernand is dead
Dire que Fernand est mort
To say that Fernand is dead
Dire qu’il est mort Fernand
To say that I am alone behind
Dire que je suis seul derrière
To say that he is alone in front
Dire qu’il est seul devant
Him in his last beer
Lui dans sa dernière bière
Me in my fog
Moi dans mon brouillard
Him in his hearse
Lui dans son corbillard
Me in my desert
Moi dans mon désert
In front there is only a white horse
Devant y a qu’un cheval blanc
Behind it is only me crying
Derrière y a que moi qui pleure
To think that there isn’t even any wind
Dire qu’y a même pas de vent
To wave my flowers
Pour agiter mes fleurs
Me if I were the Good Lord
Moi si j’étais l’Bon Dieu
I think I would have remorse
Je crois qu’j’aurais des remords
To say that now it’s raining
Dire que maintenant il pleut
To say that Fernand is dead
Dire que Fernand est mort
To say that we are crossing Paris
Dire qu’on traverse Paris
In the very early morning
Dans le tout p’tit matin
To say that we are crossing Paris
Dire qu’on traverse paris
And it looks like Berlin
Et qu’on dirait Berlin
You, you, you you don’t know
Toi, toi, toi tu sais pas
You sleep but it’s sad to death
Tu dors mais c’est triste à mourir
To be forced to leave
D’être obligé d’partir
When Paris still sleeps
Quand Paris dort encore
I’m dying of desire
Moi je crève d’envie
To wake people up
De réveiller des gens
I will invent a family for you
J’t’inventerai une famille
Just for your funeral
Juste pour ton enterrement
And then if I were the Good Lord
Et puis si j’étais l’Bon Dieu
I don’t think I would be proud
Je crois que je ne serais pas fier
I know we do what we can
Je sais on fait ce qu’on peut
But there is a way
Mais il y a la manière
You know I will come back
Tu sais je reviendrai
I will come back often
Je reviendrai souvent
In this fucking field
Dans ce putain de champ
Where you should rest
Où tu dois te reposer
In summer I will cast shadow
L’été je ferai de l’ombre
We will drink silence
On boira du silence
To Constance’s health
À la santé d’Constance
Who doesn’t care about your shadow
Qui se fout bien d’ton ombre
And then adults are so full of shit
Et puis les adultes sont tellement cons
That they will wage war on us
Qu’ils nous feront bien une guerre
So I’ll come for good
Alors je viendrai pour de bon
Sleep in your cemetery
Dormir dans ton cimetière
And now good God
Et maintenant bon Dieu
You had a good laugh
Tu as bien rigolé
And now good God
Et maintenant bon Dieu
And now I’m going to cry
Et maintenant j’vais pleurer
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Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
In Court: Splash Pad Case
Flagler and Florida Unemployment Numbers Released
Blue 24 Forum
988 Suicide Prevention Walk
Flagler County Canvassing Board Meeting
Jake’s Women, By Neil Simon, at City Rep Theatre
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Democratic Women’s Club
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Flagler County Public Library Book Club
Jake’s Women, By Neil Simon, at City Rep Theatre
Random Acts of Insanity’s Roundup of Standups from Around Central Florida
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[John] Marshall then penned a sentence one of the most misquoted he ever wrote-summarizing his benign judgment of the new president. In Marshall’s words, “The democrats are divided into speculative theorists and absolute terrorists: With the latter I am not disposed to class Mr. [Thomas] Jefferson.” In his 1916 biography of Marshall, Beveridge inexplicably omitted the word “not” from this passage, thus giving it the very opposite meaning that Marshall intended.” The result was to overstate Marshall’s fear of Jefferson and to charge him with a partisanship he did not embrace. Beveridge’s false depiction of Marshall’s attitude was accepted by a generation of scholars and writers. As a consequence, Marshall was painted far more conservatively than he deserved to be. The High Federalists might have considered Jefferson an “absolute terrorist,” but John Marshall certainly did not.
–From Jean Edward Smith’s John Marshall: Definer of a Nation (1996).
Pogo says
@Lex Luther to become Florida Man he always was
Amazon founder Bezos plans move to Miami from Seattle
Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/amazon-founder-bezos-plans-move-miami-seattle-2023-11-03/
Amazon made $1 billion through secret price raising algorithm -US FTC
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Amazon punished its own sellers to limit Walmart’s reach, FTC says
https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-punished-its-own-sellers-limit-walmarts-reach-ftc-says-2023-11-03/
How long til the Cayman Islands accepts Florida’s surrender and raises the islands’ flag over the state?
Ray W. says
As you have earned so often in the past, you deserve once again, the thanks of all FlaglerLive readers and commenters. Once, again, Mr. Tristam, thank you for offering perspective on but one of the several the great challenges that have always faced mankind. The issue is not one of agreement in whole or in part; it is one of consideration, of contemplation, of attempting to fully understand that which is inexplicable.
Laurel says
It’s not “complicated,” it’s the absolute refusal to make peace.
Ray W. says
Several months ago, I discussed Thomas Jefferson with my youngest son, who recently returned to college under the GI Bill; he was taking a federal government class.
His professor had taught that Jefferson and John Adams were political enemies. I differed with that assessment. I explained that, yes, Adams was a staunch Federalist, and that Jefferson was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party, aka Jeffersonian Republican Party as it is referred to today, and that they had their philosophical differences, but I pointed out that during the Revolution, Jefferson joined Adams and Franklin, who were already in France, to attempt to persuade France to continue to support both financially and militarily the rebellion. For years, Adams and Jefferson worked side by side in France to further the American cause; they even lived together for a time. If you read many of their correspondences, you will find evidence of a great respect for each other, despite their differences. My son looked up some of the correspondences and later declared that they were “political frenemies.” I had never thought of it that way, but then again, people of my age do not often think in the same way as the generation following my own. Slang takes many forms, and I admit the I kind of liked this use of slang.
One of the major differences between Jefferson and Adams centered on the issue of military defense. Jefferson supported militias, thinking that a standing army and navy carried its own risks to the fledgling nation. Adams, greatly concerned about growing threats from Great Britain, persuaded Congress to fund the building of a 11 more Constitution-class men of war vessels, believing that England would think twice before attacking America in the face of a fleet of 12 warships that were more than a match to anything England possessed (it was no accident that the original Constitution was called Old Ironsides, as American shipbuilders greatly valued the “live oak” lumber that England could not access. Live oak was stronger than any other wood available to the British and the swamplands of the American south were scoured for suitably large live oak trees that could be trimmed and bent without use of joints, allowing for extraordinarily strong warship frames and hulls.).
Jefferson succeeded Adams in the presidency (Electoral College vote was 73-65) and immediately defunded the fleet, allowing it to sit idle at their moorings. Adams bitterly opposed this policy. But this was a policy difference, not a hatred for each other. Admittedly, Jefferson did promote a policy of small gunboats to protect various American ports, so America did have a navy during his administrations, but the small gunboat policy proved disastrous in the early phases of the War of 1812.
Both men were well-educated, and both men understood reason in the form that it was taught in in the universities of their day.
To those FlaglerLive commenters among us who believe that Jefferson was a founding father of the Constitution, he was not. While he wrote the Declaration of Independence, the simple fact is that after America achieved independence from Great Britain, Jefferson was named as the lead envoy to France when America was still operating under the Articles of Confederation, a posting that he held for many years. He was not selected by his fellow Virginians to attend what is now called the Constitutional Convention, nor was he elected as a delegate to Virginia’s ratification conference. He did write a number of editorial columns that can be characterized as “anti-federalist” during the long debate over adoption of the Constitution, so his views were known during the ratification debates, but the Constitution was ratified as is, and only later amended by the first Congress with the adoption of the Bill of Rights.
Had Jefferson’s voice been heard during the months-long Constitutional Convention prior to its publication, we might have a significantly differently worded Constitution today, perhaps not even a constitution at all. Jefferson was strongly opposed to a strong central government (the central tenant of the Federalists), thinking it possible that such a government would greatly infringe on individual rights, the core of his ideal of limited government. Yet, as president for eight years, I have yet to find any effort by Jefferson to amend the Constitution, to weaken the centralized federalism of his day, or to do away with it altogether; it seems he was content to preside over the American experiment by fostering legislative action through persuasion, not by constitutional revision. He did persuade Congress to do away with the Alien & Sedition Acts, and he famously engineered the Louisiana Purchase, perhaps one of the greatest economic triumphs and any American presidency.