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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, October 13, 2024

October 13, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Hurricanes Hitting Florida by Bob Englehart, PoliticalCartoons.com
Hurricanes Hitting Florida by Bob Englehart, PoliticalCartoons.com

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Weather: Sunny. Highs in the mid 80s. North winds around 5 mph. Sunday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the lower 60s. East winds around 5 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable.

  • 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.




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  • Flagler County Sheriff's Expo 2025

ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students: 9:30 to 10:25 a.m. at Grace Presbyterian Church, 1225 Royal Palms Parkway, Palm Coast. Improve your English skills while studying the Bible. This study is geared toward intermediate and advanced level English Language Learners.

Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village: The city’s only farmers’ market is open every Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at European Village, 101 Palm Harbor Pkwy, Palm Coast. With fruit, veggies, other goodies and live music. For Vendor Information email [email protected]

Al-Anon Family Groups: Help and hope for families and friends of alcoholics. Meetings are every Sunday at Silver Dollar II Club, Suite 707, 2729 E Moody Blvd., Bunnell, and on zoom. More local meetings available and online too. Call 904-315-0233 or see the list of Flagler, Volusia, Putnam and St. Johns County meetings here.

Grace Community Food Pantry distribution is cancelled today.




Notably: These few lines from the early essays of Montaigne have some resonance today. Change “kings” to “presidents,” and you’re set: “We owe subjection and obedience equally to all kings, for that concerns their office; but we do not owe esteem, any more than affection, except to their virtue. Let us make this concession to the political order: to suffer them patiently if they are unworthy, to conceal their vices, to abet them by commending their indifferent actions if their authority needs our support. But, our dealings over, it is not right to deny to justice and to our liberty the expression of our true feelings, and especially to deny good subjects the glory of having reverently and faithfully served a master whose imperfections were so well known to them, and thus to deprive posterity of such a useful example.” Just as useful, from a subsequent essay: “”Lying is an accursed vice. It is only our words which bind us together and make us human. If we realized the horror and weight of lying, we would see that it is more worthy of the stake than other crimes. … Once let the tongue acquire the habit of lying and it is astonishing how impossible it is to make it give it up.” Gore Vidal found Montaigne “consoling.” We are about to need a whole lot of that consolation. 

—P.T.

 

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August 2025
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Wednesday, Aug 06
10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board Meeting

Palm Coast City Hall
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Wednesday, Aug 06
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Separation Chat: Open Discussion

Pine Lakes Golf Club
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Wednesday, Aug 06
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Flagler Beach Library Book Club

315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
course in miracles
Wednesday, Aug 06
1:20 pm - 2:30 pm

The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group

Contact Aynne McAvoy
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Wednesday, Aug 06
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library

Flagler County Public Library
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Wednesday, Aug 06
5:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Flagler County Republican Club Meeting

Wednesday, Aug 06
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

Palm Coast Council and County Commission Joint Workshop on Animal Control

Government Services Building
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Wednesday, Aug 06
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Flagler Beach Parks Ad Hoc Committee

Flagler Beach City Hall
Thursday, Aug 07
10:00 am - 11:00 am

Flagler County Drug Court Convenes

Flagler County courthouse
Thursday, Aug 07
11:00 am - 11:30 am

Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library

315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Thursday, Aug 07
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center

Central Park in Town Center
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No serious American novelist has ever had any real sense of audience. C. P. Snow made the point that he would, given a choice, prefer to be a writer in England to a writer in America because, for better or worse, the Establishment of his country would read him and know him as he knew them, as the Greek dramatists knew and were known by their city’s audience. One cannot imagine the American president, any American president, reading a work by a serious contemporary American writer. This lack of response is to me at the center of Mailer’s desperation. He is a public writer, not a private artist; he wants to influence those who are alive at this time, but they will not notice him even when he is good. So each time he speaks he must become more bold, more loud, put on brighter motley and shake more foolish bells. Anything to get their attention, and finally (and this could be his tragedy) so much energy is spent in getting the indifferent ear to listen that when the time comes for him to speak there may be not enough strength of creative imagination left him to say what he knows. Exhausted, he becomes like Louis Lambert in Balzac’s curious novel of the visionary-artist who, having seen straight through to the heart of the mystery, dies mad, murmuring: “The angels are white.”

—From Gore Vidal’s “Norman Mailer’s Self-Advertisements,” The Nation, Jan. 2, 1996, in United States: Essays 1952-1992 (1993).

 

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Comments

  1. Brynn Newton says

    October 13, 2024 at 9:10 am

    Via a vis lying:

    “When a man takes an oath, Meg, he’s holding his own self in his own hands. Like water (he cups his hands) and if he opens his fingers then, he needn’t hope to find himself again. Some men aren’t capable of this, but I’d be loathe to think your father one of them.”

    ― Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons: A Play in Two Acts

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  2. Pogo says

    October 13, 2024 at 10:36 am

    @Try it sometime

    In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
    — Hannah Arendt
    https://www.google.com/search?q=Hannah+Arendt

    More is more
    https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/hannah-arendt-quotes?__cf_chl_tk=wKbnvmdIPMOZhpgn1t3P.feeBlpPMoX79QV2RLiYOY0-1728829348-1.0.1.1-aPSwXu4Vw2TMtZBIoqymrWTTOmNd2g8ITTzEcsCRv.U

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  3. Jim says

    October 14, 2024 at 2:20 pm

    The State Legislature voted in laws that prevent homeowners from suing their insurance companies when the deny claims. The news is reporting that insurance companies are systematically denying most (all?) claims from homeowners on the Gulf side of Florida post-Milton. Their remedy? Either eat the cost of rebuilding, sell it as it is or sue the insurance companies at the homeowner’s expense. Insurance companies feel it’s cheaper to deal with those who sue than to honor their commitment via the policy the homeowner paid for.
    Thank you Renner & DeSantis for looking out for Florida’s citizens.
    Between this hurricane and the pending crash of condo values in Florida, moving somewhere else is becoming something that must be considered.
    I’m glad we are banning books, firing teachers, stopping drag queen shows, halting gender treatments, stopping Haitians from coming across the Atlantic and invading us, sending police and State Guard units to Texas, flying migrants from Texas to someplace north, spending a small fortune changing New College into a jock school, and whatever else I failed to mention our state government is concentrating on… Otherwise, there would be no reason to stay in the Free State of Florida (until our insurance is needed….)

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