The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, October 19, 2024

clay jones maga fema NRA — From Clay Jones: “I saw a post yesterday by some MAGAt complaining again about hateful rhetoric leading to attempts of violence against his orange messiah, never mind the fact that Trump and his goons continue to say the world will end if Vice President Kamala Harris wins. Also, never mind the fact that Trump’s hateful rhetoric and lies is putting other people’s lives in danger. In North Carolina, a man has been charged with “going armed to the terror of the public.” A 44-year-old man was threatening Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) workers who are in the state helping survivors of Hurricane Helene. The sheriff’s office said deputies encountered him after receiving a call that a man with an assault rifle had made a comment about “possibly harming Fema employees” working in its jurisdiction in the storm’s aftermath. There have also been rumors of trucks full of armed militia men who are hunting FEMA workers. All this shit is because of lies being pushed by Trump and Republicans, lies like the government manipulated the hurricane to force people off their land to clear the path for lithium mining, Fema diverted disaster relief to providing care for immigrants, FEMA is only helping Democratic voters and not Republicans, victims are only receiving $750 to rebuild, etc.” Read more at Substack.

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Weather: Partly sunny. A slight chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs around 80. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph with gusts up to 25 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.
Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy. A slight chance of showers in the evening. Lows in the upper 60s. Northeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.

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.

Today at a Glance:

The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at Wickline Park, 315 South 7th Street, featuring prepared food, fruit, vegetables , handmade products and local arts from more than 30 local merchants. The market is hosted by Flagler Strong, a non-profit.

Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley: Flagler Beach Commission Chairman Scott Spradley hosts his weekly informal town hall with coffee and doughnuts at 9 a.m. at his law office at 301 South Central Avenue, Flagler Beach. All subjects, all interested residents or non-residents welcome. Today’s guest: City Manager Dale Martin.

Bunnell’s Italian Festival , Oct. 19 and 20 from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. at Flagler County Fairgrounds, 150 Sawgrass Road, Bunnell. The Italian Festival will be a weekend long event with both indoor & outdoor booths/activities. The City is planning a family festival for people to enjoy affordable, healthy, and wholesome fun. Admission to the Festival is FREE with parking being a $1.00 per car donation to the non-profit organization working the parking area. From classic comfort foods to exotic flavors, Bunnell Italian Festival offers a wide range of street food options. We also have a variety of craft beers, wines and cocktails available for purchase. Come hungry and ready to explore. In addition to amazing food, Bunnell Italian Festival also features live music, games and activities for all ages. You can enjoy everything from local bands to international performers.

Democratic Women’s Club of Flagler County meeting at 9:30 a.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE.

Maze Days at Cowart Ranch, Fridays from 5 to 10 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sundays from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Cowart Ranch and Farms, 8185 West Highway 100, Bunnell. $15 per person, children 2 and under free. Get lost on a 5 acre walk through maze (approximately 30-60 minute adventure). Pick the perfect carver or edible pumpkin at our Pumpkin Patch with lots of sunflowers and of picture opportunities! Some pumpkins grown right here on the farm. Try to spot the cattle herd on the Tractor driven Hayrides (approximately 15 minutes). Get up close and friendly with farm animals. (Chickens, goats, calves, pigs and more!) Pony Rides! (Not included with entry- $8 or 2 for $15 & legal guardian must sign waiver). Challenge your friends and family at our hand pumped water driven Ducky Dash game. Roll and Race down our NEW Rat Race game that’s a Ratatoullie blast. And plenty more.

Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The food pantry is organized by Pastor Charles Silano and Grace Community Food Pantry, a Disaster Relief Agency in Flagler County. Feeding Northeast Florida helps local children and families, seniors and active and retired military members who struggle to put food on the table. Working with local grocery stores, manufacturers, and farms we rescue high-quality food that would normally be wasted and transform it into meals for those in need. The Flagler County School District provides space for much of the food pantry storage and operations. Call 386-586-2653 to help, volunteer or donate.

Random Acts of Insanity’s Roundup of Standups from Around Central Florida, 8 p.m. at Cinematique Theater, 242 South Beach Street, Daytona Beach. General admission is $8.50. Every third Saturday RAI hosts Live Standup Comedy with comics from all over Central Florida.

Notably: We do not mourn the loss of lives such as Yahya Sinwar’s, the Hamas leader and architect of the Oct. 7 massacre of some 1,200 Israelis, among many other massacres and bombing campaigns. We do not mourn the loss of lives such as Hassan Nasrallah’s, the leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon whose Shiite militants held Lebanon hostage since the early 1980s, who provoked innumerable Israeli incursions, invasions and massacres, and whose name, “victory through God,” was as off the mark as his two fateful and idiotic decisions a) to send his fighters to fight in defense of Syria’s Assad, that other butcher, then to open fire on Israel after Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorism. Nasrallah was not a fool, and by some account he knew that he was taking risks and pushing Hezbollah much further than Iran ought to have been allowed to push it. But he complied. He sped his patrons’ jingoism. He paid the price. So we don’t mourn him or Sinwar. But that doesn’t mean that we celebrate their killers, particularly the one killer: Benjamin Netanyahu (never call him “Bibi,” that boot-licking moniker even the likes of Thomas Friedman still call him), who has nothing to credit him above the likes of Sinwar and Nasrallah. (If Stalin had killed Hitler and Mussolini, he would not have been Stalin any less: an obscene and disproportionately out of scale analogy of course, but befitting a Netanyahu obscenely master of disproportion.) Nevertheless, Israel’s mass killer—his kill tally so far in Gaza and Lebanon is approaching 50,000 just in the current wars—has a chance to partially redeem himself this time: will he agree to a cease-fire in Gaza and Lebanon? If he doesn’t, his terrorism will earn him a circle of hell even lower than the two mass murderers his forces just killed.

—P.T.

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