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Weather: Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Highs in the upper 80s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent. Monday Night: Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly clear after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent.
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Today at a Glance:
The three-member East Flagler Mosquito Control District Board meets at 10 a.m. at District Headquarters, 210 Airport Executive Drive, Palm Coast. Agendas are available here. District staff, commissioners and email addresses are here. The meetings are open to the public.
The Flagler County Commission meets at 5 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 E. Moody Boulevard, Building 2, Bunnell. Access meeting agendas and materials here. The five county commissioners and their email addresses are listed here.
Nar-Anon Family Groups offers hope and help for families and friends of addicts through a 12-step program, 6 p.m. at St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Pkwy NE, Palm Coast, Fellowship Hall Entrance. See the website, www.nar-anon.org, or call (800) 477-6291. Find virtual meetings here.
Byblos: It finally arrived, the second volume of the Library of America’s edition of Hemingway’s works, this one a nicely fattish volume (LOA’s tomes have been slimming down in recent years, an unfortunate break from when we could get 1,500-pagers on Jefferson and Franklin and Parkman and Adams. 700-pagers don’t project literary grandeur so much as a touch of marketing greed, which is unlike the Library). It includes Men Without Women, A Farewell to Arms, Death in the Afternoon, and some letters from 1927 to 1932, the period covered in the volume. It will have me read Farewell a third time, but I’m not sure about Death. “Its national sport is not a game but a ritual of danger,” Barbara Tuchman wrote of Spain’s bloodlust affection for bullfighting, and Hemingway was simply too fond of that ritual for my taste, too fond of the fabrications around it–the metaphors for courage and cowardice, when I can’t help seeing just plain animal cruelty and one-sided brutality not much different from cock-fighting or similar aberrations. I’ll stick to Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley. They’re tragic enough, though Neil King Jr. in his American Ramble, the very good memoir of his walk from Washington D.C. to New York City in the nearly immediate aftermath of his cancer and the immediate aftermath of Covid, one of the characters he came across had described someone by the marginal note that someone had left on a page of Farewell to Arms, describing Hemingway: “As charming as a bottle of dead flies.” There was a time when Boston police banned Scribner’s Magazine for carrying excerpts of Farewell, but why? I cannot think of erotic passages in the book, even though I first read it in high school, when that sort of thing sticks in the memory. On the other hand, why, why, does Hemingway have Henry call Othello a n—? It is the only explicit slur in the book, as I recall (from ready notes from my last reading), but why even that? I do like this: “You are wise.” “No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
—P.T.
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September 2025
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
‘Nunsense,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
October 2025
Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board Meeting
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
Flagler Beach Library Book Club
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Flagler County Republican Club Meeting
Flagler Beach Parks Ad Hoc Committee
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“The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one?”
“Of course. Who said it?”
“I don’t know.”
“He was probably a coward,” she said. “He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he’s intelligent. He simply doesn’t mention them.”
–From Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms (1929).
Pogo says
@And so it goes
… from time to time — except when it doesn’t.
Jim says
Israel will regret all the destruction and death that has occurred in Gaza. There is no question that Hamas is evil and a terrorist actor. What they did on October 7, 2023 was horrendous and I completely understand that Israel would want to eliminate every last remnant of that group.
But over 60,000 people have died to date. And, per the cartoon, the number of journalists killed is almost beyond comprehension. And, right now, Gazan’s are starving to death and living in tents (if they’re lucky) in temperatures soaring to 120F.
Does anyone believe Israel has eliminated Hamas? Is there any indication that the end of this “war” is in sight? Is there anyone out there who doesn’t fully expect that when this finally does end, what Israel has done a great job of is creating a massive amount of angry Palestinians who will be looking for vengeance in the future. There is no path to peace.
Finally, Israel has given up any claim to being on the right side of this conflict. You don’t get to kill massively like they have done and claim any moral high ground. As far as I’m concerned, what Israel has done in Gaza is just slightly above what Putin has done in Ukraine. The only difference is that at least Israel can say they were provoked.
And for those who think criticizing Israel is “anti-Semitic”, you go ahead and take comfort in your ignorance. Murder and torture should be called out no matter who is doing it. I’m going to have a much lessor opinion of Israel from now on.
Skibum says
Jim, I completely agree with you. As much as I support Israel’s right to exist, the innocent people In Gaza who are caught in-between the Hamas fighters and the Israeli army have the same right to exist without being bombed, and now starved.
Does anyone think Netanyahu really cares about the many thousands of people his army is starving to death? He is purposely prolonging this conflict as much as he can in order to keep his own butt from being prosecuted and put in prison for corruption, and the only way he can keep the majority of Israeli citizens on his side, that that is even questionable, is to make it seem as though he is the only one capable of leading Israel though what has been a very tough time.
Even the hostage’s families have turned against Netanyahu for failing to bring the remaining ones home, and those left may never return alive. Netanyahu certainly has a LOT of blood on his hands.
Sherry says
For all of you Maga Newsmax and Fox Lovers. . . the “lies” just go on and on:
Newsmax will pay $67 million to settle Dominion lawsuit over network’s 2020 election lies
by Newsmax becomes the latest right-wing outlet to settle a defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems over the broadcasting of 2020 election lies.
Newsmax becomes the latest right-wing outlet to settle a defamation lawsuit from Dominion Voting Systems over the broadcasting of 2020 election lies.
Egregious lies about the 2020 presidential election are going to cost Newsmax $67 million.
To avert a high-stakes trial, the right-wing cable channel has agreed to pay Dominion Voting Systems $27 million this month and another $40 million in the next two years.
The settlement deal was struck last week and disclosed in a Newsmax financial filing on Monday.
The lawsuit was filed against Newsmax in August 2021, in the wake of Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat. After losing, Trump and his allies, including many Newsmax guests and on-air personalities, spread the baseless lie that the election results were fraudulent.
Earlier this year a Delaware judge ruled that Newsmax did air defamatory statements about Dominion by falsely accusing the company of rigging the 2020 election.
Then money talked, just as it did when Fox News settled with Dominion on the verge of a similar trial in 2023. Fox agreed to pay $787.5 million, a gobsmacking sum that weighed on Fox Corp’s quarterly earnings at the time.
Wake up says
Tear gas and tasers by masked men to even protest the pedophile! Armed protests are now needed to fight the fascist! Don’t kneel to Nazi intimidation!
Pogo says
@As stated
Veteran says VA Health Connect saved his life
read://https_news.va.gov/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.va.gov%2F141962%2Fveteran-says-va-health-connect-saved-his-life%2F
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…
Dr. Lev Goodman says
Giant bulbous cartoon nose on a cartoon of the world’s foremost Jew? I see antisemitism is alive and well in Flagler County.
You would think after the six billion that died in the holocaust, people would say “NEVER AGAIN”.
Sherry says
@ dr. goodman. . . with all due respect. . . You would think that a people and culture and nation that suffered the horrific “unspeakable” atrocities of the holocaust would NEVER EVER create such atrocities for “other” human beings! This utter hypocrisy is beyond belief!
Skibum says
Dr. Goodman, one can certainly still be supportive of the Israeli people while condemning (even penning a cartoon caricature of) Israel’s horrible, corrupt and indicted leader. Israel needs to get rid of Netanyahu and vote in someone who can be an ethical and moral leader for that nation.
What your comment suggests is that those of us who see our own president as immoral and corrupt, and make fun of him and his unhinged escapades or see cartoonish caricatures of him with his orange face and tiny hands are somehow against our country like we hate America or something, which is absurd.
I for one cannot see any semblance at all of anti-Israeli sentiment in that cartoon. Do you really believe that any one man in Israel, even if totally corrupt and considered reprehensible to many in his own country should be adored and respected at home or abroad? I hope not.
BillC says
@ Dr Lev It wasn’t “six billion”. BTW Hamas took 251 hostages. The number of Palestinians in Israel, the Occupied Gaza Strip, Occupied East Jerusalem and the Occupied West Bank is now estimated at over 5.3 million, exceeding the Jewish population of 5.2 million. Israel has held all the Palestinians hostage for decades in the world’s largest prison camp.
Sherry says
The majority of US persons polled are in favor of a Palestinian nation :
WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) – A 58% majority of Americans believe that every country in the United Nations should recognize Palestine as a nation, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, as Israel and Hamas considered a possible truce in the nearly two-year-long Gaza war.
Some 33% of respondents did not agree that U.N. members should recognize a Palestinian state and 9% did not answer.
Kennan says
Round and round we go. In addition to the treasure trove of horrors live streamed to the world; Benjamin Netanyahu and the IDF have also murdered 270+ journalists. They murdered a group of Al Jazeera reporters. Netanyahu said, dishonest that one of the journalists was a Hamas operative. A claim that was debunked for lack of evidence. Given all the killing Israel has done in the last 22 months, it’s not surprising they killed so many reporters. No news is good news if your Israel.
I will address, Dr. Lev Goodman directly. Your” so-called world’s foremost, Jew” is nothing more than a” criminal Nazi” wrapped in the star of David.
With all due respect, Dr. Goodman,BiBi… The little troll we know as Benjamin Netanyahu is the biggest antisemite of all. He walks away from negotiations constantly, because he knows if he cuts a deal and gets hostages back then he can’t keep killing Palestinian civilians.
You, Dr. Lev Goodman, throw out antisemite labeling to pander to Israel, killing everyone in sight. You use the holocaust to justify the 21st century holocaust Israel administers now? When you say things like that you desecrate the memory of the 6 million Jews killed in the holocaust. For what? To play victim and forget what is happening now? You may be a doctor, but certainly not one versed in history.