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Weather: Sunny, with a high near 79. Breezy. Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 63.
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Today at a Glance:
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students: 9:30 to 10:25 a.m. at Grace Presbyterian Church, 1225 Royal Palms Parkway, Palm Coast. Improve your English skills while studying the Bible. This study is geared toward intermediate and advanced level English Language Learners.
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village: The city’s only farmers’ market is open every Sunday from noon to 4 p.m. at European Village, 101 Palm Harbor Pkwy, Palm Coast. With fruit, veggies, other goodies and live music. For Vendor Information email [email protected]
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from noon to 3 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.
Al-Anon Family Groups: Help and hope for families and friends of alcoholics. Meetings are every Sunday at the Bridges United Methodist Fellowship at 205 North Pine Street, Bunnell (through the gate, in room 8), and on zoom. More local meetings available and online too. Call 904-315-0233 or see the list of Flagler, Volusia, Putnam and St. Johns County meetings here.
“My Fair Lady,” at Daytona Playhouse, 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach. Box office: (386) 255-2431. Tickets: $30 for adults, $20 for youth. 7:30 p.m. except on Sunday, 2 p.m. The tale of a cockney flower girl transformed into an elegant lady, featuring one of musical theatre’s greatest scores.
“Godspell,” Limelight Theatre, 11 Old Mission Avenue, St. Augustine. 7:30 p.m., except Sunday, 2 p.m. Godspell is a vibrant, contemporary musical inspired by the Gospel of Matthew. Framed as a group of strangers who come together to form a joyful community, the show blends storytelling, comedy, and song to explore themes of love, compassion, forgiveness, and faith. Through energetic ensemble numbers and heartfelt moments, the characters share parables that illuminate timeless moral lessons, culminating in a moving portrayal of sacrifice, hope, and the enduring power of unity.
“The Sound of Music” at Athens Theatre, 7:30 p.m. except Sunday, 2:30 p.m., 124 North Florida Avenue, DeLand, (386) 736-1500. Cost: Adult $37, Senior $33, Student/Child $17, groups of 8 or more $30 per ticket, all including processing charge. Book here. As the world begins to change, one woman brings something the von Trapp family hasn’t known in a long time—joy. When Maria steps into their lives, she brings laughter, music, and a renewed sense of connection—just as the world outside their home begins to shift in dangerous ways. In a time of rising fear and uncertainty, their bond becomes an anchor—and their courage, a quiet form of resistance. The Sound of Music is a timeless story of love, family, and standing up for what truly matters, brought to life with one of the most beloved scores in musical theatre history. Music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse. Run time: 2 hours and 45 minutes with a 15-minute intermission.
Notably: I touched on this yesterday here. I am doing so again, because I keep having conversations about it, with the words, how can this be happening, recurring in every conversation. We have these conversations because as David Rousset first put it in his Univers Concentrationnaire, his short 1947 book on surviving Nazi death camps, “normal people don’t know that everything is possible.” They refuse to know,. They cannot know. Not because they are stupid, but because they are moral. Their moral sense prevents them from even conceiving of horrors that result in gas ovens for human beings, in CIA torture chambers, in ICE executions, in an alleged president threatening to end civilizations. “This common-sense disinclination to believe the monstrous is constantly strengthened by the totalitarian ruler himself,” Arendt writes in Origins of Totalitarianism, “who makes sure that no reliable statistics, no controllable facts and figures are ever published, so that there are only subjective, uncontrollable, and unreliable reports about the places of the living dead.”
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April 2026
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Story Time with Miss Kim at Flagler Beach Public Library
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Palm Coast Democratic Club Recap Meeting
Town of Marineland Commission Meeting
“Godspell,” at the Limelight Theatre
“The Sound of Music,” at Athens Theatre
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Flagler County Cultural Council (FC3) Meeting
Friday Blue Forum
“Godspell,” at the Limelight Theatre
“The Sound of Music,” at Athens Theatre
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What runs counter to common sense is not the nihilistic principle that “everything is permitted,” which was already contained in the nineteenth-century utilitarian conception of common sense. What common sense and “normal people” refuse to believe is that everything is possible.!2 We attempt to understand elements in present or recollected experience that simply surpass our powers of understanding. We attempt to classify as criminal a thing which, as we all feel, no such category was ever intended to cover. What meaning has the concept of murder when we are confronted with the mass production of corpses? We attempt to understand the behavior of concentration-camp inmates and SS-men psychologically, when the very thing that must be realized is that the psyche can be destroyed even without the destruction of the physical man; that, indeed, psyche, character, and individuality seem under certain circumstances to express themselves only through the rapidity or slowness with which they disintegrate.? The end result in any case is inanimate men, ie., men who can no longer be psychologically understood, whose return to the psychologically or otherwise intelligibly human world closely resembles the resurrection of Lazarus. All statements of common sense, whether of a psychological or sociological nature, serve only to encourage those who think it “superficial” to “dwell on horrors.”
–From Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951).
Jim says
Well, let’s see…
JD Vance just left Pakistan with no deal. Nothing. No agreement to give up nuclear materials nor allow inspectors to monitor. Gas is over $4/gallon. The Straight of Hormuz is closed unless Iran grants permission or the shipper ponies up a couple million dollars. The cost of almost everything is climbing as a result of rising fuel pricing. Our military has expended an untold quantity and costly ordnance which now the Trump administration wants to up the Defense Department’s funding by 50% next year.
Trump starts a war without any consultation with our (soon not to be) allies and then criticizes them like a child when they won’t come clean up his mess. Our national reputation and standing has been further eroded by this war and Trump’s Easter Sunday threat to “annihilate a civilization”.
And what do we have to show for it? Was it worth it? Are we better off?
Meanwhile, Trump has moved on. Did you see the current rendering of the “Arc de Trump” that he’s put out? Over twice the height of the Lincoln Memorial and gilded in gold. So appropriate. The most likely candidate for Worst President Ever will have his own monument as well as a ballroom that’s bigger than the White House. We’ll all get to see it after he’s gone and we’re in the worst shape that this country has seen in my lifetime.
I don’t know how any thinking individual can see what is going on and still support this guy. Sometimes in life, if you want to improve the situation, you have to admit you were wrong. It continues to dumbfound me that there are still people who think all is well even as Rome burns down around them.
Laurel says
And, who the f**k are Jarod Kushner, and his real estate buddy, to travel around the world on our dime, to supposedly negotiate war endings? What a calamity! We are being screwed by a gang of thieves!
Skibum says
You are right on target, Laurel. It goes without saying that the completely incompetent fool in the WH never sent REAL intelligent, experienced negotiators to fight for America’s interests because he is only interested in his own personal interests and sent his son-in-law and a trusted sycophant to make sure their loyalties were in the right place at all times.
And poor old little Marco’s feet are probably hurting and sidelined as well because of being forced to wear too big, bozo clunking shoes the idiot prez put on him to control him, belittle him, and show him who’s boss!
Wow, what a circus shit show on the world stage!
Ray W. says
According to an April 10th WSJ story, stocks of Iranian short- and medium-range ballistic missiles remain, despite administration claims of complete destruction.
The combined U.S. intelligence agencies issued a report, writing in part:
“Iran still has thousands of ballistic missiles in its arsenal that it could use by retrieving launchers from storage areas.”
Make of this what you will.
Ray W. says
Yesterday, writes a Newsweek reporter, Mark Carney, Canada’s Prime Minister, talked to Labor Party convention attendees that he anticipates national export growth over the next decade to double to $300 billion, Canadian.
He added:
“With our new Buy Canadian policy, when the federal government spends, we will select Canadian suppliers by default. … The days of our military sending 70 cents of every dollar to the United States are over. … Weare going to build Canada strong with Canada steel, Canadian aluminum, Canadian timber, Canadian workers.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
I will comment on this point over and over. When you treat a neighboring populace, any foreign populace, like shit, they tend to remember it.
Is it fair to wonder for just how long Canadian enmity toward American goods and services will remain a winning political argument? Prior to Trump repeatedly denigrating the Canadian people, PM Carney was expected to lose a national election by double-digit seats. He won, with his Liberal Party taking 169 seats to the Conservative Party’s 144 seats, falling three seats short of a 172-seat majority.
Ray W. says
CNN reports that five opposition legislators recently “crossed the aisle” to join Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party. Liberals also won two special elections.
I checked. PM Carney now leads a majority government of 173 seats out of 343 total. Canada recognizes five political parties that hold seats in its national legislature, along with three independents.
The reporter opines that PM Carney will direct his newly gained additional political power to reduce “Canada’s dependency on its southern neighbor.”
In the time since he became Prime Minister, Carney, per the reporter, has become one of the world’s “loudest global voices” against President Trump’s “economic intimidation.”
In the reporter’s words, during a World Economic Forum speech last month, PM Carney warned of “an end of the international rules-based order and called for the middle powers to band together.”
Last month, PM Carney told an Australian audience that his strategy toward President Trump was based on “respect but not obsequiousness.”
Last week, he told Canadians:
“United we will grow Canada stronger, a Canada for all, a Canada strong that no one can take away.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Is it reasonable to argue that, at least in part, political momentum in Canada is to turn its economy away from ties and cooperation with the United States as quickly as possible? That there exists a new-found political value in a government policy to grow trade with nations other than the United States? If so, can anyone predict just how long the political value will persist?
Pogo says
Today’s cartoon: 100% 👍
Seek, learn
… and know.
https://www.google.com/search?q=prisons+of+syria
Ibid
https://www.google.com/search?q=prisons+of+iran
Ibid
https://www.google.com/search?q=prisons+of+china
Fill in the blank
https://www.google.com/search?q=prisons+of+
EC: File
“Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend”.
Proverbs 27:17, KJV
https://www.google.com/search?q=proverbs+27:17+kjv
Ray W. says
The EIA publishes an Electric Power Monthly report. Data for January 2026 came out on March 24, 2026. Eight battery energy storage systems (BESS) were finished in January in locations spread out across the country, as were two new wind farms. Of the 17 solar plants that began operating that month, seven opened in Florida.
From a different EIA report, between February 1, 2026 and January 31, 2027, eight natural gas-powered plants and 10 coal-fired plants are scheduled to close.
Make of this what you will.
Sherry says
Great examples of the trump/Maga “Alternate Reality”. . . it appears trump is so detached from “fact based” reality, he really believe his own dangerous “CON GAME”! No “intelligent” person really believes trump is completely mentally healthy. This from the AP:
When The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board wrote that Trump had claimed a premature win in Iran, the president responded in a social media post Thursday, “Actually, it is a Victory.”
On Saturday he posted that news outlets “love saying that Iran is ‘winning’ when, in fact, everyone knows that they are LOSING, and LOSING BIG!” Asked later in the day about the state of negotiations with Iran, Trump responded, “Regardless what happens, we win.”
Claiming the winner’s mantle has been part of Trump’s psyche since he was a young man and a New York real estate developer. It has persisted on matters great and small.
The golf tournaments at his clubs, where he is the perennial champion. The adverse court rulings where he insists things went his way. The deals he announces that are never consummated.
“He has this fictional narrative in his head” and is “like a screenwriter,” said David Cay Johnston, author of “The Making of Donald Trump.” “When you need to change the narrative, you just change it. ”
No example is as stark as Trump’s rejection of his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the 2020 election, an outcome affirmed in 60-plus court cases and by his own attorney general. Yet Trump has declared victory so often that his supporters believe him. He knows the power of repetition and volume.
Pogo says
Duh Sunshine State
“… One particularly alarming listing in the historic Florida city of St Augustine features a room styled as a school classroom, complete with a chalkboard, desk and a flogging bench …”
https://archive.is/Rw3lv#selection-1115.0-1115.179
Wait till this stuff hits the fan — I can hear the MAGA church ladies clucking about locker room talk, and the MAGA men talking about anything but — to cover their butt.
Skibum says
Leaving Pakistan already without an Iran deal? So much for the fart of the steal.
Sherry says
“fart of the steal”. . . Laugh Out Loud funny, Skibum! Thanks!
Mothersworry says
Before the meetings trump was screaming that the Iranians had to open the strait . Today he is babbling about the US forming a blockade to close the strait. Of course he’s competent, let’s see where the fool is on Tuesday.
Ray W. says
On April 12th, Windward, a news outlet covering all things maritime, reported that, as of April 11th, 17 ships had either entered or exited the Strait of Hormuz, a rusty-hulled oil tanker had split open while docked in Antwerp-Bruges, creating a major spill, and 172 tankers are heading toward U.S. Gulf Coast ports. The inbound tanker traffic is expected to result in port congestion as ships await filling.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
The hull that split open while docked suggests at least two things. First, with so many tankers caught on the wrong side of the Strait when war broke out, is it reasonable to infer that even the most decrepit and corroded of tankers will be pressed back into service at a time of limited supply? Second, if a corroded hull can split open at dockside, what might heavy seas do to such tankers?
Other things come to mind.
A few days ago, I commented on the rise in daily lease rates for tankers. Pre-war, rates were some $60k per day. Now, $300k per day is accepted. $240,000 extra per day to transport crude oil means we all pay more at the pump, not just for the higher prices commanded for the oil itself.
I checked. A normal freight transit from Houston to Haiphong, Vietnam, takes at least 35 days. I chose Haiphong because Vietnam is reportedly already running out of reserve supplies of oil. A 35-day voyage at $240,000 extra per day is $8.4 million in transport costs added to the original cost of the oil. This may explain why “landed price” is commonly used valuing commodities in international trade. The value of crude oil at extraction point is important, but the price paid to the driller doesn’t include transit costs and fees.
And, do crew members who risk their lives to operate corroded tankers receive hazard pay? Or is the risk considered an externality?
PB says
Do you have proof Trump will destroy mankind? It should have your names in place of Trump, you are traitors and deserve to be prosecuted. Do you really love hurting more than half of the nation? I hope you go to prison for what you did!
Skibum says
He said it! Not mankind! Go knock on his door.