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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, May 14, 2024

May 14, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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From Clay Jones: “So which is it? Is President Joe Biden a friend of Israel or Hamas? Is he a wimp or a warmonger? College students protesting America’s involvement believe he’s eager to help Israel drop bombs on Palestinian babies while right-wing nutjobs believe he’s anti-Israel and supports Hamas and Iran. Once again, let’s use MAGA cartoonist Gary Varvel as an example. He created a cartoon of President Biden wearing a Palestinian Keffiyah after his statement that he would stop sending bombs and artillery shells to Israel if it invades Rafah. There’s so much wrong about the cartoon. President Biden has been extremely supportive of Israel, not just for the entirety of his long political career, but especially after Hamas attacked Israel on October 10. He sent warships to the Mediterranean. He has sent additional weapons to Israel. He helped defend Israel from Iran’s recent drone attack. He has condemned Hamas and antisemitism. the United States has vetoed three ceasefire resolutions in the United Nations. Last month, Biden signed a bill sending an additional $17 billion to fund Israel’s war while sending $1 billion in humanitarian aid to Gaza. But Varvel puts Biden in the Keffiyeh which is either out of extreme ignorance, hatred, or both. Also, the Keffiyeh is Palestinian, not Hamas. Gary isn’t criticizing a group or organization by using the Keffiyeh, but people of a different race than him. For my colleagues like Varvel and Michael Ramirez, I don’t believe they’re implementing critical thinking as much as they’re being blind partisans. The Middle East is a little more complicated than picking a football team based on your favorite colors. You can support a Palestinian state while supporting Israel. You can oppose Israel’s bombing of civilians and not be antisemitic. You can hate the killing of civilians by Hamas and Israel and in fact, you should.”

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Weather: Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Some thunderstorms may produce gusty winds in the afternoon. Locally heavy rainfall possible in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent. Tuesday Night: Mostly cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly in the evening. Some thunderstorms may produce gusty winds in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Southwest winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.

See the daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here. See the drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?). Check today’s tides in Flagler Beach here. Check tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.



Today at a Glance:

The Palm Coast City Council meets in workshop at 9 a.m. at City Hall. It’s a busy one, with an update on the comprehensive plan, road construction projects and the latest on the search for a permanent city manager. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.

The Community Traffic Safety Team led by Flagler County Commissioner Andy Dance meets at 9 a.m. in the third-floor Commissioner Conference Room at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. You may also join virtually by computer, mobile app or room device. Click here to join the meeting. Meeting ID: 276 236 998 121  Passcode: CyEKoW [Download Teams | Join on the web]

The St. Johns River Water Management District Governing Board holds its regular monthly meeting at its Palatka headquarters at 10 a.m.. The public is invited to attend and to offer in-person comment on Board agenda items.  A livestream will also be available for members of the public to observe the meeting online. Governing Board Room, 4049 Reid St., Palatka. Click this link to access the streaming broadcast. The live video feed begins approximately five minutes before the scheduled meeting time. Meeting agendas are available online here.

The Flagler Beach Library Book Club meets at 5 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.

The Flagler County Planning Board meets at 5:30 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. See board documents, including agendas and background materials, here. Watch the meeting or past meetings here.

Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every Tuesday and on the first Saturday of every month the Random Acts of Insanity Comedy Improv Troupe specializes in performing fast-paced improvised comedy.






Notably: As a second Trump presidency approaches, we might need to move from howls to how-to–how to make it through a second administration, assuming the country or the globe will make it (we underestimate the nuclear hair trigger as we overestimate American or human capacity for reason). The concluding paragraph of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, though written in 1972, provides just such a how-to, in Marco Polo’s words: “The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.”

—P.T.

 

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Of course the Taliban are not the only ones to reject outside scrutiny. Florida’s government, after frying several prisoners in a faulty electric chair, has only reluctantly turned to other methods of execution to conform to the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition of “cruel and unusual punishment.” Yet when America’s Western allies tell it that the U.S. system of capital punishment is barbaric, local politicians and courts reply that it is their way and no one else’s business. Which is precisely what the Taliban say.

–From Thomas Franck’s “Are Human Rights Universal?” Foreign Affairs, Jan. 1, 2001.

 

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  1. Kennan says

    May 14, 2024 at 12:12 pm

    We have completely lost our way. When I say this, I’m being generous.
    It seems to me that too many people are interested in tax cuts, while watching fellow human beings be cut down in the most vicious ways. Our priorities are seated out of gluttony, self service, and nationalistic arrogance. At least so far as the people running the country.
    As far as the situation in the Gaza strip. Both political parties are exactly the same. Democrats can no longer dignify themselves as the party of the people and the party of social justice. In the wake of Gaza, their fear of Israel is palpable. Whether they know it or not, the US and Biden in particular are more afraid of being seen as anti-semi, and so much so that we become a fascist party. And when I say party, I really mean parties both parties. Our country is becoming a fascist regime. We are so interested in our own image, and an image which has no concrete value whatsoever that it is hard for me to see us being much better than the Israeli got government , which is in full Nazi mode killing women, children, civilians, and anybody in their way. They’re going into Rafa, Biden says no, but he means yes.

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