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Today at a Glance:
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. 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:This item ran on the front page of the New York Times on this day in 1908: “PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 28.-In exonerating Policeman Harrington for shooting and killing Edward Mooney, a burglar, Coroner Jermon to-day took occasion to eulogize the dead man, who, as a fireman before he went wrong, had performed many acts of heroism. He was killed while robbing a house. The policeman who shot him was formerly his bosom friend.
Coroner Jermon sald: “Not very long ago, an explosion took place in the hold of the steamship Arcadia, in which two or three men lost their lives, and others were rescued from the burning vessel. The man who deserved a medal as a hero in the rescue of these unfortunate persons was none other than Edward Mooney, the man whose body we are holding the inquest over this morning. No matter what may have led this man to commit an act which cost him his life, we cannot lose sight of the fact that in his better days he was upright, honest, and brave.”
—P.T.
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September 2025
Flagler County Government Tax and Budget Hearing
Nar-Anon Family Group
Palm Coast Charter Review Committee Meeting
Bunnell City Commission Meeting
Palm Coast City Council Workshop
Flagler County School Board Information Workshop
Flagler County Affordable Housing Committee Meeting
Book Dragons, the Kids’ Book Club, at Flagler Beach Public Library
Budgeting by Values: A Virtual Class to Learn Budgeting Skills
NAACP Flagler Branch General Membership Meeting
Flagler County School Board Meeting
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) Meeting
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
For the full calendar, go here.
Toward the end of March, in St. Louis, slush fills the gutters, and dirty snow lies heaped alongside porch steps, and everything seems to be suffocating in the embrace of a season that lasts too long. Radiators hiss mournfully, no one manages to be patient, the wind draws tears from your eyes, the clouds are filled with sadness. Women with scarves around their heads and their feet encased in fur-lined boots pick their way carefully over patches of melting ice. It seems that winter will last forever, that this is the decision of nature and nothing can be done about it.
–From Harold Brodkey’s First Love and Other Sorrows: Stories (1957).
Dennis C Rathsam says
These liberal judges, looking to see thier name in the news, have been a thorn in TRUMPS side. Those invaders aren’t going anywhere til the Supreme Court has its say.
Pogo says
@Gleanings for $100
“…we cannot lose sight of the fact that in his better days he was upright, honest, and brave.”
What is: what was, is, and will never be true, or honestly stated, or said with good intentions of or about Donald J Trump?
Good day.
Ray W, says
NBC NEWS reports that earlier today, “Israeli defense minister Israel Katz vowed to open the ‘gates of hell’ on Gaza City until Hamas agrees to Israel’s conditions for ending the war, including the release of all hostages and the militant group’s complete disarmament.”
This morning’s government minister vow comes after Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu authorized an operation to take over Gaza City. 60,000 reservists have been called up for the “expanded” operation.
The IDF, in a statement, announced that Gaza City is now a “dangerous combat zone”, a designation that allows it to suspend previously ongoing daily pauses in fighting to permit delivery of humanitarian aid into the area.
Wrote the IDF:
“We are not waiting. … We have begun the preliminary operations and initial stages of the attack on Gaza City, and we are currently operating with great intensity on the outskirts of the city.”
Contained in the IDF statement was additional language:
“We will deepen our strikes and will not hesitate until we return all the abductees and Hamas is dismantled militarily and governmentally.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
I have quoted several times on the FlaglerLive site from Ryszard Kapucinski’s Imperium. In the book’s chapter titled The Trap, he writes:
“Three plagues, three contagions, threaten the world.
“The first is the plague of nationalism.
“The second is the plague of racism.
“The third is the plague of religious extremism.
“All three share one trait, a common denominator — an aggressive, all-powerful, total irrationality. Anyone stricken with one of these plagues is beyond reason. In his head burns a sacred pyre that awaits only its sacrificial victims. Every attempt at calm conversation will fail. He doesn’t want a conversation, but a declaration that you agree with him, admit he is right, join the cause. Otherwise, you have no significance in his eyes, you do not exist, for you count only if you are a tool, an instrument, a weapon. There are no people — there is only the cause.
“A mind touched by such a contagion is a closed mind, one-dimensional, monothematic, spinning round one subject only — the enemy. Thinking about our enemy sustains us, allows us to exist. That is why the enemy is always present, is always with us. When near Yerevan a local guide shows me one of the old Armenian basilicas, he finishes his commentary with a contemptuous rhetorical question: “Could those Azerbaijanis build such a basilica?’ When later, in Baku, a local guide draws my attention to a row of ornamental, art nouveau houses, he concludes his explanation with this scornful remark: ‘Could Armenians construct such apartment buildings?’
“On the other hand, there is something one can envy both the Armenians and the Azerbaijanis. They are not beset by worries about the complexity of the world or about the fact that human destiny is uncertain and fragile. The anxiety that usually accompanies such questions as: What is truth? What is good? What is justice? is alien to them. They do not know the burden that weighs on those who ask themselves, But am I right?
“Their world is small — several valleys and mountains. Their world is simple — on one side we, the good people, on the other they, our enemies. Their world is governed by an unambiguous law of exclusivity – us or them.
“And if another world exists nonetheless, what might they want of it? Only that it leave them in peace. They need to be left in peace so as to thrash each other all the more thoroughly.”
My position of the Palestinian reality has long been the same.
There are vast numbers of Israeli Jews who are not religious extremists; it is the small number of murderous Israeli Jewish religious extremist settlers who are driving the slaughter, just as they have been driving the slaughter for a thousand years.
There are vast numbers of Palestinian Muslims who are not religious extremists; it is the small number of murderous Palestinian Muslim religious extremists who are driving the slaughter, as they have been driving the slaughter for a thousand years.
Both religious extremist groups know who married outside their faith 1000 years ago. They know who murdered who 100 years ago. They know who snitched on who 10 years ago.
Why?
Because both groups are infected with the plague of religious extremism.
When Hamas murderers unleashed hell on Israeli Jews, they went door to door throwing grenades into Jewish homes. The world in horror deplored the acts.
During the Nakba of 1948, when Jewish murderers unleashed hell on Palestinian Muslims, they went door to door throwing grenades into Palestinian homes. Jewish soldiers also fired anti-tank rounds into a mosque filled with Palestinians seeking safety, killing many inside. Within a few days, 14,000 Palestinians had been forced from their village homes onto their own trail of tears to Jordan.
When in the 70s a Jewish historian asked the 1948 Israeli general who had led the Jewish troops about the slaughter and forced exile, the general said it was us or them. He explained that the village was in strategic spot. He had to order the slaughter to drive out the Palestinians. As he saw it, he had to preserve the future of Israel.
Despite the efforts of the best minds over a millennium, no one person, no one organization, no one nation, has ever been able to reason with the Muslim or Jewish religious extremists who both claim sole control over Palestine.
Today, some argue that the Palestinians are at fault; they started it. Others? The Jews are at fault; they started it.
Both arguments fail for one simple reason. The religious extremists have never in a thousand years wanted to stop killing their enemy. All both sides of religious extremists want from everyone else is to be left in peace so as to better permit them to thrash each other.
Ray W, says
A Daily Beast reporter wrote:
“French President Emmanual Macron has upset the Kremlin after calling Russian President Vladimir Putin an ‘ogre’ and a ‘predator”. … ‘For his own survival, [Putin] needs to keep eating,’ Macron said after meeting with President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on August 18. ‘That means he is a predator, an ogre at our gates.’ Russia … accused the Frenchman of lobbing ‘low-grade insults.’ ‘This is unworthy of a head of state,’ said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.”
The reporter then commented on Russian strike on Kyiv involving 600 drones and over 30 ballistic and cruise missiles, killing 23, including four children, a strike that occurred soon after President Trump met with European leaders to discuss the Russian invasion of the Ukraine.
Make of this what you will.
Ray W, says
According to The Daily Beast, Portugal’s President, during a recent address at the center-right government’s party-organized youth initiative, said:
“I am saying that, objectively, the new U.S. leadership has strategically favored the Russian Federation.”
He also stated to his party’s youth:
“The supreme leader of the world’s greatest superpower is, objectively, a Soviet, or Russian, asset. He functions as an asset.”
Make of this what you will.