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Weather: Sunny. Highs in the lower 70s. North winds around 5 mph, becoming east around 5 mph in the afternoon. Thursday Night: Mostly clear. Lows in the mid 50s.
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Today at a Glance:
Drug Court convenes before Circuit Judge Dawn Nichols at 10 a.m. in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County courthouse, Kim C. Hammond Justice Center 1769 E Moody Blvd, Bldg 1, Bunnell. Drug Court is open to the public. See the Drug Court handbook here and the participation agreement here.
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Central Park, from noon to 2 p.m. in Central Park in Town Center, 975 Central Ave. Join Bill Wells, Bob Rupp and other members of the Palm Coast Model Yacht Club, watch them race or join the races with your own model yacht. No dues to join the club, which meets at the pond in Central Park every Thursday.
‘Crimes of the Heart’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Avenue, St. Augustine. 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday. $25. Book here. The three MaGrath sisters are back together in their hometown of Hazelhurst for the first time in a decade. Under the scorching heat of the Mississippi sun, past resentments bubble to the surface and each sister must come to terms with the consequences of her own “crimes of the heart.”
Babylonian Craptivity Day 10: It was unintentional, and at first I didn’t get the coincidental cleverness, the perfection of it. I had just liked the cartoon in last weekend’s Le Temps, the Swiss newspaper and its cartoonist’s sum-up of our dear felon’s executive order on gender. It helps to remember this irony: Unlike American, there are two ways to refer to Americans in French: males are Americains and females are Americaines (I haven’t kept up with Left Bank jargon enough to know how LGBTQ Americans and French and Brits are spelled, but no doubt language has evolved enough for it). So you get the joke without translation. The paper on page 30 had a review of the first novel by Laure Federiconi, a 30-year-old Swiss, La vie juste (which would translate to what? The Just Life? The Correct Life? Something around there.) The novel’s opening lines: “I am naked and eating guacamole. I am lying down in a corner of shade, staring at the workers who are busy in the small park opposite. I don’t care what they look at. My neighbors must be getting tired of me walking back and forth naked to the kettle to get tea. I am not showing off–I am just dissociating.” That’s Laure Federiconi on the front page, above left, dressed, looming above Trump. It’s about right: we are all disassociating. We haven;t gotten the heart yet to get naked.
—P.T.
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Flagler County Commission Workshop
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
‘Crimes of the Heart’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella: Youth Edition, at Athens Theatre
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Friday Blue Forum
‘Crimes of the Heart’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre
For the full calendar, go here.
As I left the hospital that day, I looked forward to the ordeal that my phantom illness had interrupted. Mean corporals with taut shiny scalps and bulging eyes would be at me again, poking their swagger sticks into my solar plexus, ramming their knees up my butt, calling me a cocksucker and a motherfucking sack of shit, terrorizing me with threats and drenching me with spittle and hatred, making my quotidian world such a miasma of fright that each night I would crawl into my bed like an invalid seeking death, praying for resurrection in another life. After that, there was the bloody Pacific, where I would murder and perhaps be murdered. But those were horrors I could deal with; in that gray ward I was nearly broken by fears that were beyond imagining.
–From William Styron’s “A Case of the Great Pox,” The New Yorker, Sept. 10, 1995.
Ed P says
Before the Dems can construct a strategy they must come to grips with their failures and get an understanding of the why. The how they failed is obvious. I’m not suggesting I speak for anyone but myself.
The name calling and shaming did not work. It’s like fat shaming someone. It’s not socially acceptable nor do you need to tell a fat person they are fat. Everyone in world is aware of Trumps faults. The chronic whining about them has sent the right to a position of indifference.
Compare it to the brain surgeon who saves your infant child’s life, giving her a chance to live a normal productive life. Did you ask if the surgeon had ever been convicted of anything, sexually abused anyone, or filed any bankruptcy, been divorced 3 times or slept with Stormy Daniels? No, personal faults didn’t matter. Saving your child meant more.
Dems need to spend more time in the Midwest instead of the east and west coast. The Midwest is were hard working people are real. You get what you see. The pace of life and values are different than the coasts. People know their neighbors, they greet strangers on the street and live a common sense existence. No they aren’t better, just different. They tend to live “realville”
Once you actually understand the daily concerns and struggles of raising a family or just surviving, the concept of tampons in men’s rooms or transgenders in sports appears ridiculous. You can’t shame people into believing otherwise when they have to decide on $5.00 worth of gas today or a gallon of milk.
Remember the Wolf Of Wall Street? “I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor, I choose rich every time” ? Millions and millions of American believe the American dream is beyond their grasp, Trump provide a glimmer of hope. That chance outweighs any of his personal faults because a regular person can admit their life is filled with mistakes and faults. Seems like the libs deny the same.
You can’t tell them that open borders are a great strategy. They instinctively know it’s gone too far. Common sense. 3 years ago you could get away with shaming the right into believing the border situation was actually a good thing, until it wasn’t. You could make the right shut up when you said” what do you want to do, fling the wet backs back over the rio grand”(PT) Not today.
Both political parties have brought us to this fork in the road. Why not quietly fasten your seatbelts, put on your sunglasses and let the right take the helm. If you are so sure and absolute that you are correct in the path forward, just wait for their failure.
The left forgets that there are an infinite number of ways to traverse the continental United States. The right has decided we don’t want to meander in our EV on US Rte 66 but rather take the jet. Get out of the way. It’s our turn.
Laurel says
Ed P: I’m mostly in agreement with what you wrote, but about half way down, you lost me. I agree that the left didn’t figure out that sounding alarms deafened people, that did happen. But then you went to “Get out of the way. It’s our turn”? No, I don’t think so. You continue the divide. Keep in mind that President Clinton balanced the budget with far less crazy town. Without being a felon. Without lying about minorities. Without freeing convicted criminals. Without deserting the Capital Police. Without putting targets on the backs of good people, without stealing earned income the middle class to provide more income to those who don’t need it.
For a long time now, we heard more and more crazy crap from Trump. Trump supporters dismissed it, telling us what he “really meant” and it’s all “bluster.” How’s that “bluster” now? He does cut taxes to the rich, and favors the rich. Now, he is going after veteran’s benefits. They are getting letters in the mail, right now, telling them their benefits will be cut, they must show up to the office (even though they are working) or get fired (where is desk now?), if they make over a certain amount it will be cut back (means testing) and take a small buy out. Maybe they will get fired if they don’t take the buy out? So, why would anyone join the military if the benefits promised/earned could be cut back, or removed, at any time? Where is the trust?
He is going after the veterans. The paintings of our Generals are coming off the walls in the Capital. Promises made, promises denied. The very men and women who keep us free with their bodies and their lives. So, if he has no problem going after our veterans’ benefits, he will have no problem going after our earned Social Security and our earned Medicare. His “bluster” will becoming really real, really soon.
Hail to President Bone Spurs. He could never be the man Four Star General Milley is. He could never be the man Senator, and war hero, John McCain was. So the portraits come off the walls. Baby.
Now, Trump is blaming the last night’s air crash on Obama, Biden, and DEI hires.
He disgusts me.
This is your turn? Keep your “bluster.”
Pogo says
@Word of the day
https://www.google.com/search?q=arrogance
…and frequent companion of kochsuckers.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kochsucker
“It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in. And so on, all day. Standing back from all your natural fussings and frettings; coming in out of the wind.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Hope springs says
Only way to stop Nazis we learned 80 years ago. Now the Nazis have internet and nuclear weapons. Need a very well armed militia and bunch of tech bros to create ways to communicate without Nazi interference. Once it’s all burnt to the ground and the maga Nazis removed we can rebuild something better.
Ray W, says
Yes, Laurel, less than 24 hours after a deadly air crash, President Trump has announced causation as based on a DEI hire by the FAA.
At a press conference, Trump said: “I put safety first. Obama, Biden and the Democrats put policy first. … They actually came out with a directive: ‘too white.’ And we want people who are competent.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Is there any better evidence of the existence of a professional lying class at the top of the Republican Party? No investigation into the crash is anywhere near complete. The black boxes have yet to be recovered. Trump, bereft of facts, claims that if the FAA hired only white people the crash would never have occurred.
Ed P. says liberals need to get out of the way. Perhaps, that is so. Since I am more conservative than most of today’s Republicans, I do not have to get out of the way. But I will always oppose the vengeful among us. As an aside, Ed P., spreading garbage about the positive impact immigrants have on our economy does not reflect well on you. Economist after economist says immigrants are an asset to our economy. Please stop wandering through life fooling yourself. This issue is nowhere near as clear cut as you claim.
However, after more than 30 years of prosecuting and defending people, I long ago came to accept my father’s admonition: Sometimes, the only thing you can do for a person is stand back and watch as he drowns in his own spit.
Pogo? Thank you. I am well aware that I haven’t had a day in quite some time when there were no problems to be solved. Some people think problems are bad things to be avoided. I accept that most of our daily problems offer opportunities for growth that are to be embraced. Yes, many quotes attributed to Lincoln are not really his, but he is said to have commented that all great problems are insolvable. If a problem solvable, it cannot be deemed a great problem.
Pogo says
@Ray W
Hi, sure is nice to see your contribution to light and reason return. I blame you (and thank you) for introducing me to The Cool Down — now it’s must reading.
Regards. be well.
Ed P says
Ray W,
It may not be clear cut to you that the voluminous illegal migration is a positive or negative because reporting is spotty at best. The most recent “expert” estimates are that they are a net fiscal drain. After 4 years the true costs are being revealed. Many of the immigrants that do work are low skilled. Many are not working.When “all the costs” of all the programs necessary for them and their families, it’s a net drain. The talking points that they “add” to the economy has fallen apart. Too many, too fast. Over whelmed the system.
I’m not declaring that normal or controlled immigration is not a good thing, it is. Because we need skilled immigration too.
Finally, name calling or velvet gloved criticism such as going through life fooling myself or allowing one to drown in his own spit is unproductive.
Just prove me wrong or lump my posts into your “ group” of crazies that you just roll your eyes when you read. Maybe we can’t disagree without being disagreeable. I’m an acquired taste.
If I crossed those lines since our early days when crossing swords, I apologize.