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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Saturday, August 2, 2025

August 2, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 6 Comments

What Trump Calls Anti-Semitic by Pat Byrnes, PoliticalCartoons.com
What Trump Calls Anti-Semitic by Pat Byrnes, PoliticalCartoons.com

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Weather: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 94. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Saturday Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly before 8pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 75. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

  • 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 its new location on South 2nd Street, right in front of City Hall, 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.

The Flagler Beach All Stars hold their monthly beach clean-up starting at 9 a.m. in front of the Flagler Beach pier. All volunteers welcome.

The annual Back to School Jam is scheduled for 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Flagler Palm Coast High School 800 gym, also known as the E. W. “Andy” Anderson Athletic Center Gymnasium, 5500 State Rte 100 E, Palm Coast. Administrators from all of our schools will be on-site to answer questions. There will also be school shirts available for purchase at each school’s booth. District personnel will be on-hand to provide information on various programs and services, including after-school programs. Our Transportation department will be rolling up its booth to address bus schedules and our Food Services team will be available to answer questions about what you need to know about the free breakfast and lunch programs that are available to all students this coming school year. Additionally, dozens of local vendors will be on-hand with information about their youth-focused activities and programs. Be sure to get photos with various mascots and the always popular “Costumers With a Cause” roaming the gym. Food trucks and a bike rodeo will set up behind the gym.

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. The gatherings usually feature a special guest.

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.

Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone: Every first Saturday we invite new residents out to learn everything about Flagler County at Cornerstone Center, 608 E. Moody Blvd, Bunnell, 1 to 2:30 p.m. We have a great time going over dog friendly beaches and parks, local social clubs you can be a part of as well as local favorite restaurants.

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.

Juxtapositions: Ezra Klein of the New York Times in his Aug. 1 podcast quotes J.D. Vance: “The radicals of the far left, they don’t need a unifying ideology of what they’re for because they know very well what they’re against. What unites Islamists, gender studies majors, socially liberal white urbanites and big pharma lobbyists? It isn’t the ideas of Thomas Jefferson or even of Karl Marx. It’s hatred. They hate the people in this room. They hate the president of the United States. And most of all, they hate the people who voted for that president of the United States in the last election in November. This is the animating principle of the American far left.” This is suspiciously like a passage I read in Daniel Boorstin repulsive little book from 1969, The Decline of Racicalism: Reflections on America Today, where he writes: “The New Barbarians in America today come not from without, but from within. While they are not numerous anywhere-comprising perhaps less than 2 per cent of our two hundred million Americans-they pose a special threat precisely because they are diffuse, wild, and disorganized. They have no one or two headquarters to be surveyed, no one or two philosophies to be combated. But they are no less rude, wild, and uncivilized than if they had come from the land of the Visigoths or the Vandals. The fact that they come from within–and are somehow a product of–our society makes them peculiarly terrifying, but it does not make them any the less barbarians.” This, by the way, was written by the man (Boorstin) Gerald Ford appointed as the head of the Library of Congress six years later, in 1975. The Decline of Radicalism reminds us that the reactionary strain in American life is not a creation of Barry Goldwater, of Ronald Reagan or of Donald Trump, but is an innate part of the country’s DNA since the two Mathers (Cotton and Increase, not to mention John Cotton), if not John Winthrop even before he touched land at Plymouth. Give me Roger Williams any day.

—P.T.

 

Now this:


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October 2025
pierre tristam on the radio wnzf
Friday, Oct 10
9:00 am - 10:00 am

Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF

WNZF
palm coast democratic club
Friday, Oct 10
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm

Friday Blue Forum

Flagler County Democratic Party HQ
Friday, Oct 10
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

‘Sweeney Todd’ at Athens Theatre

Athens Theatre
flagler beach farmers market
Saturday, Oct 11
9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Flagler Beach Farmers Market

In Front of Flagler Beach City Hall
scott spradley
Saturday, Oct 11
9:00 am - 10:00 am

Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley

Law Office of Scott Spradley
grace community food pantry
Saturday, Oct 11
10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way

Flagler School District Bus Depot
washington oaks state park plant sale
Saturday, Oct 11
10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park

Washington Oaks Gardens State Park
aauw flagler branch
Saturday, Oct 11
11:00 am - 1:30 pm

American Association of University Women (AAUW) Meeting

Cypress Knoll Golf and Country Club
Saturday, Oct 11
12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Peps Art Walk Near Beachfront Grille

Saturday, Oct 11
7:30 pm - 10:00 pm

‘Sweeney Todd’ at Athens Theatre

Athens Theatre
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For the full calendar, go here.


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The passage throws a good deal of light on the psychology of Cotton Mather. Such visions were clearly the result of abnormal stimuli, acting on a neurotic temperament. From both sides of his family he inherited a tense nervous system that was aggravated by precocity and an unnatural regimen. The inevitable result was a hothouse plant of Puritan forcing. His religious exaltation flowered from the root of egoism. His vanity was cosmic. He esteemed himself a beacon set on a hill, a divine torch which the very hand of God had lighted. The success or failure of God’s plan for New England, he believed, rested on his shoulders; and with such heavy responsibilities devolved upon him he was driven, hot-haste, by the prick of urgency. The king’s business requireth haste. The work of the Lord cannot wait upon sluggards. “O then To work as fast as you can,” he wrote in The Magnalia, “and of soul-work and church-work as much as ever you can. Say to all Hindrances… ‘You’ll excuse me if I ask you to be short with me, for my work is great and my time is but little.'” And so with an amazing activity that was little short of neurosis, he gave himself over to the great business of managing the affairs of New England in accordance with God’s will.”

–From Vernon Louis Parrington’s Main Currents in American Thought (1927).

 

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Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Dennis C Rathsam says

    August 2, 2025 at 7:12 am

    NEW CARTOON!!!!! HOW COULD I ALREADY SAY THAT?

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  2. Pogo says

    August 2, 2025 at 8:07 am

    @The remedy for assholes

    … like the androgynous Mr. J.D. Vance, IMO, is much more likely found in Groucho Marx’s repartee with Margaret Dumont, than earnest pedantry, replete with requisite linguistic flourishes, that confirm Vance’s phony umbrage on behalf of people he only knows about, very slightly, and has never been of. But shit, that’s just my opinion; I’ll happily refund whatever I’ve ever been paid for it.

    Keep punching.

    I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
    — Groucho Marx

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  3. Pogo says

    August 2, 2025 at 10:35 am

    @Ray W

    … and Co. Reading all your comments, every word (and thank you) — thought I’d drop this off:

    As stated
    https://www.google.com/search?q=World+Manufacturer+Identifier

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  4. Pogo says

    August 3, 2025 at 7:40 am

    @Dennis C Rathsam

    Congratulations on your ascension, you’ll be sharing offices with Ms. Benslama-Dabdoub. Are you acquainted?

    Epistemic Violence and Colonial Legacies in the Representation of Refugee Women: Contesting Narratives of Vulnerability and Victimhood
    Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 March 2024

    Malak Benslama-Dabdoub
    https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-law-in-context/article/epistemic-violence-and-colonial-legacies-in-the-representation-of-refugee-women-contesting-narratives-of-vulnerability-and-victimhood/5D3ED6332FC7D1049901CA48B2B3FBD4

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  5. Laurel says

    August 3, 2025 at 4:35 pm

    Pogo: Made the jump to Linux! Learned of debian, distros and flavours. Picked Mint Cinnamon, as it is popular with newcomers, and many tend to stay with it, even the much more experienced. It is also perfect for my older laptop, that I rarely use. Right now, I’m booting off USB, and may go ahead and install it.

    😎 !

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  6. Pogo says

    August 5, 2025 at 11:48 am

    @Laurel

    Happy trails; a good choice — enjoy.

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