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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, June 17, 2025

June 17, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

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Israel attacks Iran by Tom Janssen, The Netherlands.

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Weather: Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 90s. South winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Heat index values up to 105. Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the lower 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20 percent.

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Today at a Glance:

The Palm Coast City Council meets at 9 a.m. at City Hall. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For meeting agendas, audio and video, go here.

Food Truck Tuesdays is presented by the City of Palm Coast on the third Tuesday of every month from March to October. Held at Central Park in Town Center, visitors can enjoy gourmet food served out of trucks from 5 to 8 p.m.–mobile kitchens, canteens and catering trucks that offer up appetizers, main dishes, side dishes and desserts. Foods to be featured change monthly but have included lobster rolls, Portuguese cuisine, fish and chips, regional American, Latin food, ice cream, barbecue and much more. Many menus are kid-friendly. Proceeds from each Food Truck Tuesday event benefits a local charity.

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

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: It’s been odd. Israel launched yet another major war, this one as insane as the previous one was genocidal, but the American press, and certainly the American public, is shrugging it off, as if Israeli war were like, say, just another mass shooting. Minus the need for thoughts and prayers (for whom?). Move along. Nothing to see. I imagine the majority of people think bombing Iran is no different than how Israel bombs Syria, Palestine and Lebanon the way most Americans like to snack before lunch, and with the American military firing missiles and dropping bombs in too many Middle Eastern and African Horn countries to count, it’s all part of the American decor now, a bit of noise, a bit of smoke. It’s all a joke to Americans anyway. You remember John McCain, that warmonger too often lionized for surviving a war emblematic of his country’s marches of folly, in Barbara Tuchman’s phrase, even when accounting for his honorable decision not to take the easy way out of the Hanoi Hilton when he had a chance. You remember that question a moron asked McCain at a town hall in 2007, we were losing Iraq and George W. Bush was losing the country and Israel was itching to bomb Iran but Bush wouldn’t let it. “When do we send them an airmail message to Tehran?” the moron asked McCain. Who would have thought that McCain would out-moron him: “You know that old Beach Boys song? Bomb Iran? Bomb bomb bomb…” Ha ha. He wasn’t kidding.

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  1. Pogo says

    June 17, 2025 at 6:27 am

    @The whole marching band is out of step

    … except my son — whom I taught to march.

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  2. Dennis C Rathsam says

    June 17, 2025 at 8:05 am

    Funny….. TRUMP tried many time to stop the fighting, in Gaza. Some folks are slow learners. Trump gave Iran 60 days to make a deal, They decided to give him the Middle finger….After almost 50 years of opression, & murder the Middle East, the chants death to America & death to Israel have stopped. Now as Israel destroys Iran, quite impressivly too, Trump just sits on the sidelines ready willing & able to asist. Trump helped withe the balistic missles, attacking Israel but thats pretty much it. Iran & all its might folded like a cheap suit. BEBE, wiped out most of the nuke sites, more than 3/4 of thier airforce. Israeles, own the air space in Iran, thier cities are in taters, destrction everywhere. Now Iran wants to talk….. The talking will not take place, til every bit of nuclear spaces are destroyed. There will be no more Iran, no more terror strikes…. Let the people, whove been slaves to the regine, have at it. With the help of the USA, & many Middle East countries a new Persia will stand, bringing peace & stability to this part of the world. Funny….TRUMP was right again, Peace through strenth. God bless America & God bless President Trump!

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  3. Pogo says

    June 17, 2025 at 11:10 am

    @Nothing

    … is sacred; take the same time you would use to eat a sandwich, and you’ll know a lot more than a sandwich would’ve told you:

    AI Obituary Pirates Are Exploiting Our Grief. I Tracked One Down to Find Out Why

    After the death of my sister, I was pulled into the troubling world of AI-written obituaries. This is what I learned about grief, scams and the people behind the words.

    Joe Supan, June 17, 2025 5:00 a.m. PT
    https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/features/ai-obituary-pirates-are-exploiting-our-grief-i-tracked-one-down-to-find-out-why/

    “The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.”
    ― Mark Twain

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  4. Danny says

    June 17, 2025 at 2:02 pm

    Crazy how time changes. So is Iran the good guy now? It’s certainly not Israel and their murikkkan backed genocide. Haha don’t worry an orange conman has the nuclear codes !

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  5. Skibum says

    June 18, 2025 at 9:55 am

    Dennis, what a huge pile of smelly crap you spouted! Remember the previous DEAL with Iran that Trump infamously tore up only because it had Barack Obama’s name attached to it? Now he is way behind the eight ball as Iranian nuclear enrichment is even closer to having nuclear bombs to threaten Israel and other western nations because that previous deal the idiot in the WH shot down resulted in all of the inspectors who were going to be allowed access in order to monitor Iran’s nuclear program for compliance to only peaceful purposes being refused entry to the entire country! That was years ago and since then Iran has dramatically escalated their nuclear enrichment efforts.

    It was his same philosophy with the NAFTA trade agreement between the U.S., Canada and Mexico that the idiot tore up during his first occupancy in the WH. Then he turned around and made the same deal that all of his sheeple thought was suddenly like a gift from heaven just because it was drumph that signed the deal instead of a democrat president. It proves that Drumph only likes “deals” with his name attached to them.

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