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Weather: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. High near 82. Windy. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Saturday Night: Showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 2am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2am. Low around 75. Breezy. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
- 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:
The Saturday Flagler Beach Farmers Market is scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at its new location on South 2nd Street, right in front of City Hall, featuring prepared food, fruit, vegetables , handmade products and local arts from more than 30 local merchants. The market is hosted by Flagler Strong, a non-profit.
Coffee With Commissioner Scott Spradley: Flagler Beach Commission Chairman Scott Spradley most Saturdays (check Spradley’s Facebook page to be sure) hosts his weekly informal town hall with coffee and doughnuts at 9 a.m. at his law office at 301 South Central Avenue, Flagler Beach. All subjects, all interested residents or non-residents welcome. The gatherings usually feature a special guest.
Cracker Cowboys Fast-Draw Competition: The monthly competition is at 9 a.m. at the barn at 1665 County Road 304. All welcome. Call Cal Rodbury for information, or to become a member, 386/586-9039.
Second Saturday Plant Sale at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park, 6400 North Oceanshore Blvd., Palm Coast, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Flowers, bushes and hard to find plants. The event is sponsored by the Friends of Washington Oaks. Regular entrance fee applies: $4 per vehicle with one person aboard, $5 for vehicles with more than one person.
Mayor Jerry L. Demings Speaks at AACS 35-Year Celebration: The African American Cultural Society of Palm Coast celebrates its 35th anniversary with keynote speaker and Orange County Mayor Jerry L. Demings at 3 p.m. at the Matanzas High School Pirates Theater, 3535 Pirate Nation Way, Palm Coast. Admission is $35. Following the anniversary celebration, guests are invited to an exclusive VIP Reception and Celebration starting at 6 p.m. at AACS, 4422 North U.S. Highway 1, Palm Coast (just north of Whiteview Parkway). Tickets are available through the African American Cultural Society at aacspalmcoast.org, at 386-447-7030, or by calling Melinda at 386-569-5102.
American Association of University Women (AAUW) Monthly Meeting, 11 a.m. at Cypress Knoll Golf Club, 53 Easthampton Blvd, Palm Coast. A monthly speaker is featured. Lunch is available for $20 in cash, $21 by credit card, but must be ordered in advance. The lunch menu is available on our website. Lunch may be ordered by sending an email to: AAUWFlagler1984@gmail.com.
Gamble Jam: Join us from 2 to 4 p.m. for the Gamble Jam—a laid-back, toe-tappin’ tribute to the legendary Florida folk singer and storyteller, James Gamble Rogers IV! Musicians of all skill levels are welcome to bring their acoustic instruments and join the jam. Whether you’re strumming, picking, singing, or just soaking in the sounds, come be part of the magic at the Gamble Jam pavilion! The program is free with park admission! Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area at Flagler Beach, 3100 S. Oceanshore Blvd., Flagler Beach, FL. Call the Ranger Station at (386) 517-2086 for more information. The park hosts this acoustic jam session at one of the pavilions along the river to honor the memory of James Gamble Rogers IV, the Florida folk musician who lost his life in 1991 while trying to rescue a swimmer in the rough surf.
“Addams Family Musical,” at Athens Theatre, 7:30 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.
Grace Community Food Pantry, 245 Education Way, Bunnell, drive-thru open today from 10 a.m. to 1 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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Notably: There are as many attempted fictions about the pretended existence of god as there are universes in the stars or dark matter in the universes, which, thankfully, makes for endlessly entertaining permutations that in no way discredit the attempts: to pretend against the existence of deities is as absurd as pretending in favor. But this morning I came across one of the more inventive rationalizations of god’s existence: as epicureanism incarnate. Leave it to Voltaire to make the association. He was writing a letter to Frederick the so-called great, on July 15, 1738, and here’s what we read: “I am astonished that, amidst so many convoluted arguments for the existence of God, no one has thought to cite pleasure as proof. For, physically speaking, pleasure is divine; and I maintain that any man who drinks fine Tokay wine, who embraces a lovely woman—who, in short, experiences agreeable sensations—must acknowledge a supreme and benevolent Being. That is why the ancients turned every passion into a god; yet, since all passions are bestowed upon us for our well-being, I hold that they demonstrate the unity of God, for they demonstrate a unity of purpose.” Who can argue with that?
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She looked as if she were telling the truth, though with women, especially blue-eyed women, that doesn’t always mean anything.
–From Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest (1929).
Laurel says
According to Cornell, drinking alcohol is consent to sexual assault. The wealthy parents want it excused. The Epstein files are no longer in the news, so those girls (now women) know that they will never see justice, and society thinks them unworthy.
If you continue to support these offenders of children, you are complicit.
How will you vote?
Ed P says
Hello Laurel,
Can you explain the why, if anything damning to Trump/Republicans was in fact in the Epstein file, why do you believe releasing/leaking that information would have been a bridge too far for the Democratic Party and far left to cross?
Laughable to believe because it would have been illegal to release.
Sometimes the actual answer is the simplest.
Maybe there isn’t any bombastic connection to reveal.
It’s called logic.
What happened to looking forward. Oh, that only applies when certain politicians get “called on BS”.
Laurel says
EdP: I hereby grant you King of Trump Excuses!
“Donald Trump is mentioned more than 38,000 times in the latest batch of Epstein files.”
– Search Assist, Yahoo, PBS
You think Trump, and his administration, is refusing to release all the Epstein files because all the 38,000 mentions of him were about tea parties? And that’s only half the files. You think the leaking of files about manipulating and screwing children is worse than the actual act of trafficking kids for sexual exploitation? The leaking the information, you find is the problem? THAT is your “logic?” You find it “laughable?” You think leaking information about sexually abusing children for monetary gain is a “bridge too far the Democrats?” I don’t, and never said I did. Why did you say I did? You have often written that I have written something I haven’t.
For whatever reason, Trump does not want the whole of the files released. His administration redacted the names of the perpetrators, and released the names of the victims. Does he want to hide the information because he is guilty of being a predator of children? I don’t know. Is it because he wants to protect his friends? Or is it he tries to hide innocuous tea parties? Regardless, he is hiding the information and preventing the prosecution of his friends.
YOU explain the reason. You explain the logic, and the relevance of importance, and priorities. Meanwhile, stop twisting my words.
Ed P says
Hello Laurel,
First, what are you ranting about?
Nothing in my post quoted, nor misquoted you.
Let’s start with that.
Second, the investigative files, aka Epstein files, spanned multiple administrations. Parts of the investigation reach back to 1996. 2005 Palm Beach PD launched their own investigation. FBI officially opened its Federal investigation in 2006. And extensive legal files were created from 2009-2017 for civil legal issues.
Now, if hundreds of people from both sides of the aisle who are not Trump acolytes had access to even a scintilla of damning information, why do you not believe it would have been leaked. Common sense says it would.
Are you suggesting a multi year, multi law enforcement, and multi administrations are all colluding? A 30 year cover up?
Quite the conspiracy.
May I suggest there could be real legitimate reasons for the redactions, none of which a layman or common citizen would be privy to. There are plenty of government secrets that none of us will or may need to know. Don’t be naive.
You do know there really are spies, right?
Unlike many people, I refuse to let my personal ideologies dominate my perceptions. Ever hear of the saying, “ if all you have is hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
Rigorous research is only accurate if you let the search lead you to the answer. If you start with your preconceptions and drill until you confirm them, you will probably be wrong.
Reality and financial limitations are guard rails that the left often ignores.
For example, our debate about universal health care and its prohibitive cost. If it was possible at any scale/size, why doesn’t California or Vermont have it?
The only way it could work, would be to mandate grossly overcharging the young and healthy, and rationing the seniors and informed. Denying procedures, withholding life saving drugs or extending wait times for visits and procedures are routine in foreign countries.
We are better than that.
That’s what I refer to as being realistic.
Ps King? Thank you. Much better than being the Jester…
Pogo says
Everything in its place
… and a place for everything.
People are strange
When you’re a stranger
Faces look ugly
When you’re alone
Women seem wicked
When you’re unwanted
Streets are uneven
When you’re down
When you’re strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you’re strange
No one remembers your name
When you’re strange
When you’re strange
When you’re strange
People are strange
When you’re a stranger
Faces look ugly
When you’re alone
Women seem wicked
When you’re unwanted
Streets are uneven
When you’re down
When you’re strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you’re strange
No one remembers your name
When you’re strange
When you’re strange
When you’re strange
All right, yeah
When you’re strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you’re strange
No one remembers your name
When you’re strange
When you’re strange
When you’re strange
— People Are Strange, by Jim Morrison and Robby Krieger, 1967
Nobody asked, but still…
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nbrviv says
unless I missed something, the cartoon says the DJT awarded the presidential medal of freedom to the Cornell Seven.
this does not appear to be accurate
Slice of Lime says
Cause the illustrator is sauced on Canadian whiskey. Elbows out.
Laurel says
Let me tell you why I think Democrats are always shooting themselves in the foot:
The Republican office is open Monday thru Saturday in Palm Coast.
The Democrat office is open Monday thru Friday in Palm Coast.
So, Democrats, how about opening your office on Saturday too? Just for four hours? Maybe the working guy can drop in on his day off, ya know? Especially right before a midterm election? Since a lot of volunteers are retired, you’d think…
💥BANG!💥
Ray W. says
Seeking Alpha reports that Shell just acquired a 30% interest in a fossil fuels exploration effort off the coast of Canada’s Newfoundland and Labrador provinces, called Bay du Nord.
The project is a “phased subsea development tied back to a floating production, storage, and off-loading vessel. …”
A project investment decision should be made by early 2027. First oil is anticipated in 2031.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Some 20 years ago, I held the belief, like many others, that renewables might quickly
reverse the seemingly inexorable upward trajectory of demand for more and more crude oil. I had not thought the issue through. I was looking at the problem from an American perspective, not from a global perspective.
At the time, daily global crude oil production was under 90 million barrels.
But, while I was considering population growth as the primary driver of crude oil demand growth, I was not giving full credit to the global maturating of consumer demand for climate-controlled homes and personal transport vehicles and appliances and infrastructure.
I was thinking more in terms of more than 300 million Americans consuming goods at an high rate and less in terms of more than eight billion humans wanting to consume goods at a high rate.
If we burn through products derived or refined from more than 100 million barrels of crude oil per day just to provide goods primarily for the 1 billion people who live in the more developed world, just how much crude oil will we need to extract each day to provide enough goods for the other seven billion people as their country’s economies continue to grow?
Let’s face facts. A young well-educated professional Indonesian couple wants personal transport and a climate-controlled home just as much as we do. They worked hard for their educations and have every prospect for family success. That couple’s desires will strain grids just like ours do. Demand for electricity and gasoline and diesel fuel grows as national economies pivot to meet their growing needs. If everyone on earth consumed energy and products like Americans do, just how much crude oil would have to be extracted each day?
Prior to onset of war, global daily crude oil production was trending toward 108 million barrels of crude oil. Of the major crude oil consuming nations, only China was approaching a tipping point of reducing reliance on products derived from crude oil.
After onset of war, global demand for crude oil has significantly dropped. But young families still want what they want.
Once the war ends, will global demand for crude oil return to its inexorable rise?
Jim says
Trump announced he’s buying diesel fuel from Russia. Reports say the total to be purchased is about a 7-day supply. The price is unknown. This after threatening any country that buys Russian oil with sanctions. Sure doesn’t seem to be worth much to be an American ally anymore….
In another update, Trump says it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president. It’s quite okay for Putin to run Russia and continue his unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, however. Somehow, Trump has Russia as the “good guys”.
Trump has spent somewhere between $9.7M and $12M on his recent spate of adds promoting himself. The uproar was enough that he backtracked and now says his PAC will pay for any future adds. However, he won’t reimburse the government for what’s been spent to date. I’d venture further to state that I’ll bet there won’t be any more adds placed that’ll come out of his pocket.
It’s time to just flatly state that Trump is not president for all Americans; only his select billionaires and sycophants. No president ever has done more to damage this country, isolate us from our allies, abdicate leadership of the free world and cozy up to dictators. And let’s not leave out the grifting of Trump, his family and many members of his cabinet and administration. He has damaged our capabilities in education, medical care and research, our military capability and our lack of trust of the DOJ, FBI and ICE just for starters.
Trump lies constantly and even his most loyal minions can now see it even as many still try to excuse and justify his behavior.
But his days are numbered.
“Judgement is coming and right soon” to paraphrase an appropriate saying.
Vote on November 3 or sooner. Vote for making America great again. Not the bullshit crap MAGA spouts mindlessly. Let’s actually vote some people in that promise change. It’s not that I think the Democrats are the solution; it’s that the Republicans are clearly the problem and they need to go home (and many need to go to jail). Let’s give the Democrats a chance to start turning this ship around. We definitely can’t keep the current “leadership” in place.
Ray W. says
In July 2024, the Biden administration issued $1.1 billion in federal stimulus money grants that Congress had ordered him to spend to car companies for them to “repurpose” 11 car assembly factories across eight states.
This past Tuesday, while addressing Baltimore rally attendees, President Trump said:
“We didn’t build a car plant for 44years in this country. Now, we’re building more car plants than we ever have in this country.”
The Associated Press fact-checked the statement.
Over the past four decades, the reporter uncovered, some two dozen new automobile assembly plants opened.
And, during the four Biden years, Ford and Tesla and Lucid each opened new car assembly plants. Rivian repurposed and then reopened a formerly closed Mitsubishi assembly plant.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
As mid-term voting looms, is there more and more pressure on people to lie for political gain? But why brazenly lie about things that can be so easily fact-checked?
The more interesting question might be whether Trump was openly trying to take credit in front of some of his followers for the results of Biden’s stimulus money grants to repurpose car factories when he claimed that American is building more car factories than ever before?
Laurel says
Why so brazenly lie about things that can easily be fact checked? Maga has no need for facts, and rarely bothers to fact check anything.
“They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there.”
Has life improved for Haitians who live in Springfield?
Ray W. says
Haaretz reports that Russia is directly aiding Iran by sending Russian drones and Russian missiles to replenish Iranian munitions stockpiles.
According to the reporter, since onset of war, Iran has launched more than 4,000 drones and “at least” 2,000 ballistic missiles.
In June, despite U.S. claims of having destroyed Iranian missile capabilities, Western intelligence experts assessed that Iran had retained 75% of its pre-war munitions, and that it still possessed the manufacturing capability of rapidly producing more munitions.
Since 2023, the reporter writes, Russia has been helping Iran develop the ramjet propulsion technology necessary to power supersonic cruise missiles.
Make of this what you will.
Pogo says
When, during Putin’s time as leader of Russia, has this not been true:
The rats of the plague of this world
https://www.google.com/search?q=china+russia+iran+north+korea+alliance
… and their wingman and bestie
https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+continues+call+for+ukrainian+surrender
This thing
https://www.google.com/search?q=wingman+and+bestie
Ibid
https://www.google.com/search?q=trump+record+of+admiration+for+murderous+dictators
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Laurel says
I thought Trump was Putin’s bitch in the first term, and I think nothing has changed in the second term.
John McCain considered Russia, and Putin, our enemy. McCain is rolling over in his grave. I wish he was still with us, and I would bet that if he was, the vast majority of this awful crap would not be going on today.
Ray W. says
Euronews reports that southwestern Spanish solar arrays are being built high enough off the ground to shade and promote growth of bell pepper plants and grape vines and dragon fruit.
In Germany, an apple orchard grows underneath solar panels.
But, agrivoltaics projects do not yet work everywhere.
Make of this what you will.
Me?
So long as the promise of a second, or in some cases, a third income stream from solar power plant leases exists, some farmers will sign on to experiment with growing crops and raising herds amidst or underneath solar array support posts.
If sheep under a brutal West Texas summer sun congregate under shade-providing solar panels to chew on shrubs and grasses, effectively mowing the grounds, a sheep-herder who has two income streams will think the lease a positive, regardless of what her neighbors think.
A Spaniard who watches his vegetables suffer sun-stress under a brutal summer sun will welcome less-summer-sun-stressed fruits and vegetables that grow beneath his solar array, regardless of what his neighbors think.
A German who harvests apples from beneath a solar array will both sell the apples and accept the lease payments.
The world is early in agrivoltaics experimentation. Is this a “Model T moment” for farmers all over the world?
In years to come, who knows how many farmers around the globe will learn how to better increase crop yields or herd growth amidst solar panel arrays, while happily cashing solar company lease payment checks?
Pogo says
Or
AI, enhanced by quantum computing, will dispense with unnecessary biological elements altogether.
Innovation abounds.
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Ray W. says
Ukraiska Pravda reports that Russian sources are admitting that Ukrainian drones just took out the power supply for a Yandex Cloud data center in the Russian city of Vladimir.
A Yandex spokesperson said:
“Yandex’s data centre in Vladimir has been completely shut down as a result of a drone attack. No one has been injured.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Perhaps, at another time, I might never have commented on this story. But, the sudden level of honesty being displayed by Russian figures about Ukrainian drone attacks means exactly what? That lying about the obvious, the easily refuted, has become counterproductive?