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Weather: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 2pm, then showers and thunderstorms between 2pm and 5pm, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. High near 88. Light south wind becoming southeast 5 to 9 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Wednesday Night: Showers and thunderstorms before 11pm, then a chance of showers between 11pm and 2am. Low around 74. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
- 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:
Flagler County Industrial Development Authority Meeting, 2 p.m. at the Tourism Development Conference Room, 120 Airport Road, Suite 3. The authority will learn its job today, including a lecture on the sunshine law and ethics.
Separation Chat, Open Discussion: The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State hosts an open, freewheeling discussion on the topic here in our community, around Florida and throughout the United States, noon to 1 p.m. at Pine Lakes Golf Club Clubhouse Pub & Grillroom (no purchase is necessary), 400 Pine Lakes Pkwy, Palm Coast (0.7 miles from Belle Terre Parkway). Call (386) 445-0852 for best directions. All are welcome! Everyone’s voice is important. For further information email [email protected] or call Merrill at 804-914-4460.
Notably: I’d never made the connection before. Just days before I went to a courthouse in Brooklyn to swear the oath to my American citizenship, in December 1986, when I was not yet a reporter, a little obscure newspaper in Beirut called Al-Shiraa (Arabic for The Sail) had broken the story that tore the Iran-Contra scandal open. You remember, don’t you, when the saintly Ronald Reagan traded arms to Iran for hostages held in Beirut, when he lied to Congress about not knowing of those illegal millions his toady Ollie North was siphoning to the terrorist Contras Reagan was supporting in Nicaragua in violation of a congressional act, when he let everyone around him take the fall while pulling off his greatest performance in six decades of acting. Iran-Contra would shake the Reagan Administration to its core, trigger the biggest constitutional crisis of the century, and bring Reagan one recollection short of impeachment. “I do not recall,” Ollie North’s shredder and his concubine Fawn Hall, she of the boobs mightier than the boob she worked for, saved the president. Historians have been less kind. But we don’t read history in this country. We rewrite it. We reenact lost causes and make heroes of felons, or elect them president. I was not ready to be disillusioned so soon after swearing the oath of citizenship. I swore, happily and fanatically. Regrets? No. Not at all. Except maybe for thinking that my naturalization had created a more meaningful demarcation between the world of The Sail and the world of The Times that I read with such prideful American smugness every morning.
—P.T.
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August 2025
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Democratic Women’s Club
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Random Acts of Insanity’s Roundup of Standups from Around Central Florida
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
For the full calendar, go here.
“Yet the circumstances of their trial and condemnation were so unskillfully managed, that these wicked men obtained, in the public opinion, the glory of suffering for the obstinate loyalty with which they had supported the cause of Constantius. The rest of his servants were protected by a general act of oblivion; and they were left to enjoy with impunity the bribes which they had accepted, either to defend the oppressed, or to oppress the friendless.
–From Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776).
Jim says
Contrary to the current politically correct position, it is not anti-Semitism to state that the actions of Israel in Gaza are very much like those of Nazi’s against Jews in the 1930’s and 1940’s. The Israel military has shot and killed first responders, women and children many, many times and then claimed it was some kind of accident or defective munition. In reality, the only way you can keep killing innocents is if you want to. And then there is the multiple reports of civilians being shot just for trying to get some food at a designated pick up point. There are mercenaries that are supposed to be guarding these points who are randomly shooting people just trying to get food. And today I read that over 100 people have now died of malnutrition (starvation) as a result of the continued denial of food by Israel.
And in this country, our government supports Netanyahu as if he is some kind of democratic leader.
I think he is a war criminal and I think that Israel has done a lot of long-term damage to their claims of being a civil, democratic state. It is not anti-Semitism to state that fact. Being Jewish does not automatically mean anything and everything you do is right. I think real Jews would recognize the parallels with the actions of the Nazi’s and be ashamed. And, in fact, I know there are a lot who do see the wrongs being committed.
What is going on in Gaza is a war crime and most of the western world is beginning to speak up about it. But not in the USA. Whatever Netanyahu does is seen as justifiable and praise worthy. And, sadly, in the current atmosphere, I am not the least bit surprised; only disappointed.
Pogo says
@Bearded — and shaved, old men and crones
… sit on their butts and fatten more, while they make exiles, provide grave diggers no rest; multiply paupers, orphans, widows: grief, strife and destruction pile high til the horizon disappears.
Also, it’s Wednesday.