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Weather: Showers and thunderstorms likely before 10am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 10am and 3pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 3pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 83. Windy, with a north wind 17 to 22 mph, with gusts as high as 31 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 72. Breezy, with a north wind 11 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
- Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
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- Tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
‘Nunsense,’ at St. Augustine’s Limelight Theatre, Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Avenue, St. Augustine. 7:30 p.m. except on Sundays, 2 p.m. Tickets are $37.55 per person. Book here. Definitely “habit-forming”, this riotous show takes us through a fundraiser organized by the Little Sisters of Hoboken. They are trying to raise money to bury one of their sisters who was accidentally poisoned by the convent cook, Sister Julia (Child of God). Originating as a line of greeting cards, Goggin expanded the concept into a full musical that became the second-longest off-Broadway run in history.
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.
Editorial Notebook: Like Genesis, in the beginning of the Trump plan for peace in Gaza there is light, or the semblance of light, an oddly reasonable slant of light: end hostilities, return all hostages dead or alive, release 250 Palestinians under life sentences (Marwan Barghouti should be at the top of that list), redevelop Gaza for the people of Gaza, “who have suffered more than enough,” let Hamas members stay who want to stay (disarmed), let those leave who want to leave, full aid allowed back in and through the UN and Red Crescent, not Israel or Hamas. Then comes the punchline: while Gaza will be “under the temporary transitional governance of a technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee,” the committee–to be called “Board of Peace”–will be chaired by Trump, with “other members and heads of State to be announced, including Former Prime Minister Tony Blair.” Some of them may or may not be called Sykes, Picot and Balfour. The plan suggests the Palestinians can take back control at an unspecified point, but we heard that in 1967 and 1993, too. That segment is prefaced by lines like this: “A Trump economic development plan to rebuild and energize Gaza will be created by convening a panel of experts who have helped birth some of the thriving modern miracle cities in the Middle East.” This line is interesting: “No one will be forced to leave Gaza, and those who wish to leave will be free to do so and free to return.” Free travel: an end to Gaza as the world’s largest prison, alongside the West Bank. Also: an International Stabilization Force to be deployed but its makeup is unspecified. “Israel will not occupy or annex Gaza,” a line slipped in there to ensure the kind of poisoned pill Netanyahu needs to refuse the deal (it’s not Hamas you have to worry about). This, too, is almost lovely: “An interfaith dialogue process will be established based on the values of tolerance and peaceful coexistence to try and change mind-sets and narratives of Palestinians and Israelis by emphasizing the benefits that can be derived from peace.” But maybe too lovely, too idealistic, and oddly un-Trump. Some of these lines make you wish he applied the same principles in the United States. But it reads too much like a ploy, a 22-point Wilsonian 14 points that borrows pages from the French and British mandates that got us here, and that leaves entirely silent the most salient issues of all: Palestinian independence, an independent Palestinian state, and the same principles applied to the West Bank.
—P.T.
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December 2025
Holiday Plant Class Series
Holiday Sale to Benefit Area Homeless
Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Flagler Beach All Stars Beach Clean-Up
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
John’s Towing 35-Year Celebration at Joan B. King Park
Flagler Beach Holiday at the Beach Parade
Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Palm Coast’s Starlight Parade in Town Center
‘Annie,’ at Limelight Theatre
‘Greetings,’ A Christmas Comedy
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
For the full calendar, go here.
“But the principal dogmas of Orientalism exist in their purest form today in studies of the Arabs and Islam. Let us recapitulate them here: one is the absolute and systematic difference between the West, which is rational, developed, humane, superior, and the Orient, which is aberrant, undeveloped, inferior. Another dogma is that abstractions about the Orient, particularly those based on texts representing a “classical” Oriental civilization, are always preferable to direct evidence drawn from modern Oriental realities. A third dogma is that the Orient is eternal, uniform, and incapable of defining itself; therefore it is assumed that a highly generalized and systematic vocabulary for describing the Orient from a Western standpoint is inevitable and even scientifically “objective.” A fourth dogma is that the Orient is at bottom something either to be feared (the Yellow Peril, the Mongol hordes, the brown dominions) or to be controlled (by pacification, research and development, outright occupation whenever possible).”
–From Edward Said’s Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient (1978).
James says
Can a new “Florida Man” eating contest be far behind? …
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/us/florida-pet-peacocks-killed-cooked.html
Just a (horrible, but not surprising) thought.
The headless horseman rides again says
“… Mr. Trump’s revelation that he had told Mr. Hegseth to use American cities where he has deployed troops as “training grounds” for the military. …”
Joe D says
Dare we even HOPE that such a PEACE DEAL would be agreed upon by all parties involved….
If this proposal is accepted for Gaza/Israel/and the Middle East….EVEN I would suggest Trump deserves the Noble Peace Prize 😳
However the Israeli Prime Minister would have to go back to free elections and being unpopular in his own country….like he was BEFORE this war began…..so he would ACTUALLY LOSE POWER….by ending this war….we’ll see!
To be honest says
… I’m sorta hoping he wins.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/qanon-shaman-trump-lawsuit-capitol-riots-b2835709.html
Ray W. says
Thank you, Mr. Tristam, for the Sykes-Picot video.
In 1928, Winston Churchill was asked by his friend, Lord Max Beaverbrook, to read a proof of a soon-to-be-released book titled “Politicians and the War.” Churchill wrote to his friend:
“I have now read it all. I think it vy valuable & sincere, recalling the earliest Max I knew, — when he still had worlds to conquer, & kings to captivate.
“… [Y]ou have produced a vital — tho limited — too limited — contribution to the slowly emerging truth. ‘What happened & Why!’ After all that is history or what history ought to be.
“But what a tale! Think of these people — decent, educated, the story of the past laid out before them — What to avoid — what to do etc, patriotic, loyal, clean — trying their utmost — What a ghastly muddle they made of it!
“Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Dr. Thomas Reid, whose philosophy of educability was taught to those of our founding fathers who attended college or university, held that a person was uneducable from birth unless he or she matured enough to acquire both of two qualities: 1. Veracity, meaning the ability to speak, know and understand the truth about a subject matter, and 2. Credulity, meaning the ability to believe that someone else had the ability to speak, know and understand the truth about a subject matter.
Without the acquisition in life of both of these qualities, a person would forever be uneducable.
Just before the Revolutionary era, a time that academia today deems “The Age of Reason”, Dr. Reid introduced his theory of educability. Dr. Reid is considered one of the Age’s founders. He was an advocate of a branch of reason called “Common Sense”. Educability formed the center of his contribution to modern philosophy.
Sherry says
Was trump fed years old videos to manipulate him?
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge in Oregon temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from deploying the National Guard in Portland, ruling Saturday in a lawsuit brought by the state and city.
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, who was appointed by Trump during his first term, issued the order pending further arguments in the suit. She said the relatively small protests the city has seen did not justify the use of federalized forces and allowing the deployment could harm Oregon’s state sovereignty.
“This country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach, especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs,” Immergut wrote. She later continued, “This historical tradition boils down to a simple proposition: this is a nation of Constitutional law, not martial law.”