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Today at a Glance:
In Court: Docket sounding before Circuit Court Judge Dawn Nichols, starting at 8:30 a.m. and a status hearing is scheduled in the case of Michael d’Angelo Gilbert.
Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, an hour-long public affairs radio show featuring local newsmakers, personalities, public health updates and the occasional surprise guest, starts a little after 9 a.m. after FlaglerLive Editor Pierre Tristam’s Reality Check. Today, all about the barrier island, beach management, and what’s up with Marineland’s Dolphin Adventure. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM, 1550 AM, and live at Flagler Broadcasting’s YouTube channel.
The Friday Blue Forum, a discussion group organized by local Democrats, meets at 12:15 p.m. at the Flagler Democratic Office at 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite C214 (above Cue Note) at City Marketplace. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.
Notably: The Queen of Sheeba is one of the great fictions of antiquity. She makes a cameo in the Hebrew Bible when she brings gifts to Solomon (her namesake of a town. Ber-Sheba, gets a few dozen mentions, but the two are not related), and she may have had a likeness in the southern reaches of the Arabian Peninsula, in the areas of Yemen or Oman. I suspect her rendition in more modern versions, especially European renditions, are more inspired by orientalism than by fact or legends indigenous to the Arab world. for all that, one of the great musical moments of the last few hundred years is Handel’s “Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” in his 1749 oratorio, Solomon, apparently a bit inspired by Telemann and Muffat. No one performs “Solomon” today. But the “Sheba” movement (all instrumental) is another story: it makes you want to give the world another chance. If Epicureans could have had an anthem, this would be it. Watch, played below by the Academy of Ancient Music with just the right tempo.
—P.T.
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August 2025
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Friday Blue Forum
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
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Philosophy, in order to exist, must distinguish itself from poetry, perhaps even oppose it. There are the great examples of Antiquity: Parmenides, Empedocles, Lucretius. But since Socrates, Western philosophy has taken on the appearance of prose, cautious, precise, meticulous, almost suspicious of poetry. There must be a boundary between the two. Isn’t it precisely the notion of the reasonable man, who can just as easily seem mad? The essence of poetry seems to me to be the violent search for freedom. This is why poets are often bad boys or apprentice lunatics. But the philosopher can only begin to philosophize, that is, to reason, because he believes, before anything else, that man is not free. Freedom is incompatible with reason. It is an activity of creation and decision-making, which would not be autonomous if it had to submit to the control of reason. And today we think that it is more profoundly us than reason. The latter could only be exercised at exceptional moments when man, lacking nothing, is not in the power of passions, and has the leisure to think of others, because he has everything he needs. In fact, we have seen the freedom of the 19th century gradually prevail over the reason of the 18th, gradually destroying metaphysics. This
freedom, moreover, came from philosophy. This clearly shows that the current crisis is a crisis of growth, not having been provoked by an attack from outside. Our metaphysics has shattered because it was based on a contradictory definition of man, both through freedom and reason. It will be forced to choose: either renounce teaching and turn to poetry, risking losing itself there, or reestablish the primacy of reason, sacrificing freedom. There is a correspondence between what happens in politics and what happens in philosophy.
–From Brice Parain’s introduction to the History of Philosophy (Histoire de la Philosophie, translated from the French, Pleiade, 1969).
Dennis C Rathsam says
Thank god for the men & woman who stepped up to the plate to save America & joined ICE. Democrats call them thugs, guestapo,Nazi,s….. I call them the saviors of our society. 77 million Americans, + the men that left the jackass party to voted for TRUMP! They want this mess that Biden created gone! Just think of all the wasted money & time Biden spent giving these invaders a free vacation, in our country & on our dime. FREE healthcare, FREE money, FREE housing…. DADADAAAAAAA. Why do you think whats left of the democrat party have a 34% appruval rating? As the old guard desperatly trys to remain in control, the socialist/ communist part of the party is all about FREE this & FREE that. Whats funny is theres no way they can keep the promises they make. Communism is a disease, that Democrats have no cure for.
Laurel says
What occurred to me recently, is there are so many vigilante militia groups, such as Proud Boys, etc., That claim to prevent government overreach in their lives. Meanwhile, the very government overreach they detest is happening right in front of them! Trump has his hands in every aspect of our lives and businesses. I wonder when this realization will pour over them!
Pogo says
@Anyone: make what you will
… you have to persuade people; not cosplay, pose, navel gaze — and all the while thanking, and flattering, yourself too. Buttigieg gets it:
Pete Buttigieg Sums Up How Trump Makes Our Lives Worse In Refreshingly Simple Way
People loved how the former transportation secretary trashed Donald Trump for “appointing incompetent people over very important things in our lives.”
By Elyse Wanshel
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-buttigieg-sums-up-how-trump-makes-your-life-worse-in-refreshingly-simple-way_n_6894b20de4b067651d4916a6
“Maybe there ain’t no sin and there ain’t no virtue, they’s just what people does. Some things folks do is nice and some ain’t so nice, and that’s all any man’s got a right to say.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Sherry says
OUTRAGEOUS! Meanwhile entitled “messiah in waiting” his “Lord Vance” used your hard earned tax money to have a river raised so he could go kayaking:
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Vice President JD Vance’s security detail had an Ohio river’s water level raised last weekend to accommodate a kayaking trip he and his family took to celebrate his 41st birthday.
The U.S. Secret Service said it requested the increased waterflow for the Little Miami River, first reported by The Guardian, to ensure motorized watercraft and emergency personnel “could operate safely” while protecting the Republican vice president, whose home is in Cincinnati.
But critics immediately blasted the action as a sign of the vice president’s entitlement, particularly given the Trump administration’s focus on slashing government spending.
Are you really happy with such things Maga? Really?
Vote r for pedophiles says
Haha democracy died a while ago! We’re a fascist oligarchy !!! We just removed millions from healthcare to help enrich the oligarchs more. Yes people will die but that’s a sacrifice they are willing to make! Murikkka- money is lord
Ray W, says
While I have read many articles about last Friday’s BLS jobs report, only Newsweek, thus far to my knowledge, has reported on a June Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) report on state-by-state first-quarter GDP figures.
According to that BEA report, among state first-quarter GEDP figures, Nebraska had the worst figure, at -6.1% growth.
Earlier this week, Nebraska Republican Congressman Don Bacon went on record with CNN:
“We’re now in a troubled time. … And honestly, in Nebraska, the GDP here has decreased by 6 percent over the last year. … And it’s all about trade. It’s all about getting corn and soybeans out the door.”
Representative Bacon opined in a separate interview: “What we’re seeing is basically a recession economy in Nebraska and Iowa right now.”
The reporter wrote:
“… [M]any economists still expect tariffs to create headwinds for the U.S. economy in the coming months, with certain states — those reliant on imports and vulnerable to any reciprocal actions — expected to feel an outsized impact.”
London School of Economics professor Thomas Sampson told Newsweek there exists “too much uncertainty over the future of U.S. trade policy. …” for anyone to make with confidence predictions about future GDP growth figures. He added that he expects “tariff increases to act as a small drag on the U.S. economy, … slightly reducing growth compared to what would have been achieved otherwise.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
To certain Nebraska’s soybean farmers, President Trump’s initial tariff on Chinese-made imported goods triggered a retaliatory tariff by China on exports of American-grown soybeans that negatively impacted them. The state-wide impact of the retaliatory tariff severely affected Nebraska’s overall soybean marketplace. To any farmer who is thinking of filing for bankruptcy after several years of severe drought put him or her on the precipice of economic disaster, the impact of China’s retaliatory tariff on soybeans is massive. To him or her, Trump’s tariff policy is crap. To the national economy, the impact is miniscule and the determination of whether Trump’s tariff policy remains unknowable.
For the Florida farmer who recently told a reporter that he had to plow under his entire crop of tomatoes because tomato prices had dropped as Mexican farmers flooded the market with tomatoes in hopes of making money before Trump’s tariff on Mexican tomatoes took effect, Trump’s tariff policy is crap on a personal scale. To the national economy, it is too early to tell the outcome.
To the Oregon cherry grove owner who has to let $250,000 to $300,000-worth of cherries rotting on the trees because of Trump’s immigration policy, the policy is crap. He knows the value of his itinerant pickers. He knows of their good character and of their reliability.
To the many vengeful and gullibly foolish FlaglerLive commenters among us, all undocumented immigrants are “illegals.” To these commenters, vengefulness is a positive character trait. In reality, immigrants who perform a necessary service to our economy without vengefulness are of much higher personal character than the character of the vengeful among us. Unfounded hatred for the “other” has never been, is not now, and never will be a positive character trait.
This cannot be said too often. When a judge or a hearing magistrate enters an order that an undocumented immigrant is illegal, the undocumented immigrant becomes an illegal immigrant. Whenever a gullible FlaglerLive commenter says that an undocumented immigrant is illegal, it means nothing at all. The undocumented immigrant remains undocumented.
Yes, who knows what the law will be tomorrow. But today is not tomorrow. Today, improper entry without documentation is a minor misdemeanor offense. Remaining in the country without documentation is not criminal at all.
Sherry says
OUTRAGEOUS! This regarding “Chief Chauvinist” Hegseth desiring the repeal of women’s voting rights:
Hegseth reposts video on social media featuring pastors saying women shouldn’t be allowed to vote
By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN
Updated 3:54 PM PDT, August 8, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — The man who oversees the nation’s military reposted a video about a Christian nationalist church that included various pastors saying women should no longer be allowed to vote.
The extraordinary repost on X from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, made Thursday night, illustrates his deep and personal connection to a Christian nationalist pastor with extreme views on the role of religion and women.
In the post, Hegseth commented on an almost seven-minute-long report by CNN examining Doug Wilson, cofounder of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, or CREC. The report featured various pastors of the denomination advocating the repeal of women’s right to vote from the Constitution and congregants saying that women should “submit” to their husbands.
Hey Maga women. . . is this what you want? Are ya’ll happy now?