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Weather: Showers and thunderstorms likely after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 93. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Sunday Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 74. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
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Today at a Glance:
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]
Gamble Jam: Musicians of all ages can bring instruments and chairs and join in the jam session, 2 to 4 p.m. Note that in a temporary change from the regular schedule, Gamble Jam will be the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month through August 17. The program is free with park admission! Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area at Flagler Beach, 3100 S. Oceanshore Blvd., Flagler Beach, FL. Call the Ranger Station at (386) 517-2086 for more information. The park hosts this acoustic jam session at one of the pavilions along the river to honor the memory of James Gamble Rogers IV, the Florida folk musician who lost his life in 1991 while trying to rescue a swimmer in the rough surf.
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.
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from noon to 3 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.
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.
Notably: I gave you a characteristically endless entry about Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea yesterday. Here’s a shorter one. Verne’s books when he published them were all illustrated by the great Edouard Riou, who had no idea what a prophet he was. Here’s one of his illustrations in 20,000 Leagues, of a shipwreck the passengers of the Nautilus glimpse during their voyage. The ship’s name? Florida:
—P.T.
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August 2025
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
Flagler County Commission Morning Meeting
Beverly Beach Town Commission meeting
Nar-Anon Family Group
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
Flagler Beach Planning and Architectural Review Board
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
For the full calendar, go here.
… this planet that’s dead to me.
–Captain Nemo, From Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
Dennis C Rathsam says
Everyone on this forum, is all about affordable housing….The demand is great, yet the morons who created this cartoon shows exactly what needs to be done. Land needs to be cleared so homes can be built. SLEEZE is the democrats middle name!
Pogo says
@P.T.
Bravo. Today’s cartoon, your commentary (and included illustration) — extremely well done.
Thank you.
Laurel says
This is what you have when nobody’s home is in charge.
Psychopath
noun
A person who engages repeatedly in criminal and antisocial behavior without remorse or empathy for those victimized. A person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, cunning, manipulating, glibness, exploiting, heedlessness, arrogance, delusions of grandeur, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, disregard for morality, lack of acceptance of responsibility, callousness, and lack of empathy and remorse. Such an individual may be especially prone to violent and criminal offenses. A person diagnosed with antisocial or dissocial personality disorder.
– The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Sound familiar at all?
Ray W, says
Hello Laurel.
I experience bouts with delusions of grandeur. Hopefully, they are minor, rare, and fleeting, but who am I to say?
On the other hand, I long ago, just after numerous ads prompted me to the discovery of crepey skin, abandoned any hope of regaining my youthful wrinkle-free boyish figure.
After reading Dennis C. Rathsam’s comment at the top of the thread, the one about opening our national lands to exploitation because he believes we have a lack of developable land in private ownership, when in fact plenty of developable land exists outside the boundaries of our national forests, I looked in your definition for lie laundering as evidence of sociopathy. Not finding it there, Mr. Rathsam is safe for now from meeting the definition of sociopath. The personality disorder diagnosis of compulsive lie laundering remains in question.
Oy, vey!
As an aside, the increases in crude oil quota limits for the 23 OPEC+ cartel nations, dating from this past April, are really kicking in. This morning, I spotted a neighborhood gas station selling regular gas for $2.71 per gallon.
All FlaglerLive commenters ought to anticipate that somewhat soon, Dennis C. Rathsam will start laundering the lie that the Trump administration is responsible for the drop in gasoline prices. He already repeatedly laundered the lie that Biden was responsible for increases in gasoline prices after OPEC turned down its production of crude oil in order to increase profits.
Here are the facts. U.S. crude oil production has not gone up since Trump took office. Output from OPEC is significantly higher that it was when Trump took office. Simple supply and demand. OPEC increases worldwide supply of crude oil in order to regain lost market share and to punish offending OPEC member nations that were exceeding production quota, worldwide demand remains stable, glut in crude oil in storage tanks develops, prices drop.
Futureless teen says
Almost half of all single family homes are sold are to corporations. And that was a national forests with a possible cure to cancer you just logged for a few dollars to some rich guy! But hey what you would u expect when the orange terror places a logging CeO in charge of the national Forrest service haha that all unfortunately is no joke! Sorry future kids no national parks for you they were sold off so a billionaire could get richer! True story! What do you think of the new national slogan- Murikkka- where work will set you free…? Or united corporations of Murikkka – where profit is worth more than lives! Both are great for the new fascist regime! Kids may go hungry or not get their cancer treatments but think of the tax breaks Bezos and Zuckerberg now get! Thanks republicans!Greed over People(gop) every single time!
Theres literally a party of stupid says
Money is being manipulated by an orange convict with the mentality of a toddler. The guy that’s bankrupted or committed fraud with every company he’s ever touched has a masterful plan to ruin any assistance for human survival for his own self enrichment will definitely do right by you though bhahahaha! Apparently republicans love Hitler as the Germans did 100 years ago!
Laurel says
Ray W: I believe that Mr. Rathsam is not the psychopath, or sociopath, he is the victim of one. Therein lies the lie laundering. I believe that Trump is a narcissist. I also believe him to be a psychopath. He cares for nothing but himself.
“A narcissist is a person who is extremely self-centered and has an exaggerated sense of self-importance, often lacking empathy for others. This behavior can lead to difficulties in relationships and a constant need for admiration.”
– Merriam-Webster, Mayo Clinic
A narcissist is generally a person who requires a great deal of attention, and admiration, in order to feel *whole*. That person uses people who are empathic, according to Carl Jung, to feel *real*. Dennis is empathic, and shows this when he writes about wildlife, and how much he cares for animals. The perfect target for a narcissist. Narcissists use these people, and manipulate them.
A perfect example of this need to manipulate was shown when some of Trump’s maga base became angry with him after the Epstein list vanished. He then posted, on Truth Social, every single buzzword, or buzz phrase, that worked for him in the past, in one tweet:
– crooked Hillary
– the laptop from hell
– political fraud
– voter fraud
– rigged election
– radical left lunatics
– Obama
– Biden
It goes on and on and on, trying to trigger his victim’s emotions, which of course, means he’s desperate and afraid. He has to get them back in line to feel whole again. He will find a way for most of them.
I do believe he is scared to death of Melania. She knows who he really is.