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Today at a Glance:
Story Time on the Farm at the Florida Agriculture Museum, 7900 Old Kings Road North, Palm Coast (386/446-7630), from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., $7 per person, free for children under 3. Farm-themed children’s stories, visit with the animals, enjoy a tractor-pulled wagon ride.
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 PalmCoastFarmersMarket386@gmail.com
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.
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Diary: Yesterday Bob Cuff’s 75th birthday came and went here without a mention. I blame it on that trial: Death all around, unsparing. You’re in your own cruelest Guantanamo Bob, so to wish you a happy 75th is its own cruelty, but I hope you’ve thrown caution and prescriptions to the wind and that you can still taste the odd suds: it’s why I left Brown Dog’s full board in the picture below, with Colleen hugging you (“a gesture of immeasurability,” Thomas Mann would say) as I would right now. “I was articulating my doubts that the words ‘human being’ and ‘perfect health’ could ever be made to rhyme,” Mann wrote in our ever-magic Mountain. Sure. But who’s asking for perfect? We’d settle for imperfect, as it is for all of us past a certain age. We’d even settle for “the inevitable onslaught that is the end of life,” just as long as our lives’ ends are like those of death row inmates: stretched over two, three, four decades. Not months, Not weeks. We know we’re all condemned. But not just yet. Otherwise it is, as Bob would say, fuckery most foul.
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or The dilemma begins, sir, the real tragedy begins where nature has been cruel enough to break the harmony of the personality -to make it impossible from the very start – by joining a noble and life-affirming mind to a body unfit for life.
–From Thomas Mann’s Magic Mountain (1929).
Jim says
For those who will go crazy over this cartoon, according to Google AI this is what this act is:
“The United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative is a proposed provision (Section 219) within the Fiscal Year 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). It aims to permanently integrate the U.S. and Israeli defense sectors to accelerate joint research, weapons co-production, and technology sharing in fields like artificial intelligence and autonomous systems.
The initiative was introduced concurrently as the bipartisan United States-Israel Framework for Upgraded Technologies, Unified Research, and Enhanced Security (FUTURES) Act. Its primary parameters and ongoing developments include:
-Core Objectives: The act mandates the U.S. Secretary of Defense, in coordination with Israel’s Defense Minister, to establish a framework that accelerates research, development, testing, and evaluation of bilateral defense programs.
-Emerging Technologies: It focuses on collaborative investments in next-generation military capabilities, including artificial intelligence, quantum computing, biotechnology, directed energy, and advanced cyber defense.
-Industrial Integration: The legislation creates a streamlined pathway for the co-production of weapons systems and the integration of Israeli-developed technologies directly into the U.S. military’s formal acquisition and procurement programs.
Legislative Status: While strongly backed by organizations like AIPAC and JINSA, it has faced pushback in Congress. Opponents—including Representatives Ro Khanna, Thomas Massie, and groups like Amnesty International—have unsuccessfully attempted to strip the provision from the NDA.”
So, with all the countries in NATO that we already have a defense pact with that are technologically proficient and would be willing partners, we’re going to give Israel special status. And that’s just great. We already provide Israel an untold quantity of weaponry at our cost. And let’s just ignore the fact that, thanks to Netanyahu (and his puppet Trump), the USA is now in another “forever war” in the Middle East. Our gas prices are up, costs of everything continue to soar, American military personnel have been killed and wounded, an incredible amount of money has been spent so far and will continue indefinitely. And what do we have to show for this? Iran has shut down the Straight of Hormuz. We have not achieved victory. Iran still has it’s nuclear fuel and capabilities. And why would Iran negotiate to give up any of that now that we’ve attacked them brutally while “negotiating” (in February).
Under the Trump regime, we continue to partner with countries that are dictatorships or nearly so and with Israel who has been killing Palestinians and Lebanese for closing in on 3 years now. What Hezbollah did was heinous and they should not be shown mercy but what Israel has done and is doing is just as bad.
We used to be the “good guys”. When Canada, Britain, France, Italy and Denmark are your enemies, it’s very hard to make that claim with a straight face.
In November, we need to get this country back on the right track. Are Democrats the answer? I don’t know but I do know they give us a better chance than the current useless Congress we have now.
Laurel says
Sorry America, we don’t have the funds for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, SNAP, Meals on Wheels and any other programs that may help us.
“America First!” or somewhere down the line.
Dennis C Rathsam says
As the total destruction of Iran, carrys on TRUMP & BEBE will not stop til they make Iran a graveyard of desert rats. TRUMP gave them many many opertunates to save Thier lives…. The truth of it is, there’s not an Irainian with 1/2 a semblance of knowledge! They didnt hit peoples homes, nor their electric grid. He didn’t blow up their desalasation plants so they could have water! Well no more Mr nice guy. As they try to make us look like fools, talk of killing our president, its time to hang them out to dry! No more games, no more deals. These are sick vile animals with no concern for their people. 1/2 are starving & hiding. Now is the time to finish the job once & for all. A dozen or so bunker busters will trap the desert rats inside the mountain, with no way out!
Laurel says
Sorry Dennis, we already look like fools. Your hero f*cked up, and f*cked up bad. He started it, he escalated it, and he cannot end it. He’ll probably nuke them, instead of staying with Obama’s program, where we were NOT at war. If you’d get off the platforms you view, and look at what the world has to say, you’d see it. You would see what the rest of the world sees.
War is a profitable business, at the expense of our soldiers’ lives. Believe me, Trump does not care. He thinks they are “suckers and losers.”
Why anyone supports this is just such a shame, and anyone who calls themselves a “Christian,” and supports this is a downright travesty to the religion.
FlaPharmTech says
Thank you, Pierre.
Pogo says
“Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.”
― Dylan Thomas
https://www.google.com/search?q=dylan+thomas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi5GzuvAag8