No Bull, no Fluff, No Smudges
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Today at the Editor’s Glance:
In Court: It’s trial week in felony court, with four minor cases–none of them exceeding third-degree felonies–on the potential docket. Most cases usually get resolved or continued.
The Flagler County Commission meets at 5 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 E. Moody Boulevard, Building 2, Bunnell. Access meeting agendas and materials here.
Nar-Anon Family Groups offers hope and help for families and friends of addicts through a 12-step program, 6 p.m. at St. Mark by the Sea Lutheran Church, 303 Palm Coast Pkwy NE, Palm Coast, Fellowship Hall Entrance. See the website, www.nar-anon.org, or call (800) 477-6291. Find virtual meetings here.
Keep in Mind the Summer BreakSpot: Free Meals for Kids and Teens, Monday through Friday: Flagler Schools and Café EDU is providing free meals to all kids 18 and under this summer. It started on May 31, it’s running through July 29. Meals Must be Consumed Onsite. No Identification Needed. No Application Necessary. The Summer BreakSpot Program, also known as the Summer Food Service Program, is federally funded under the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and, in Florida, administered by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Sites are locally operated by nonprofit organizations (sponsors) that provide the meals and receive a reimbursement from USDA. For additional information, please reach out to Café EDU at 386-437-7526 x1159, or email [email protected] The free meal locations are:
Flagler-Palm Coast High School 5500 E. Highway 100, Palm Coast, FL 32164 Breakfast: 7:45am–8:30am Lunch: 12:15–1:00pm Dates: May 31–July 29, Monday through Friday, except July 4.
Housing Authority 502 S. Bacher St., Bunnell, FL 32110 Breakfast: 9:00am–9:30am Lunch: 11:30–12:00pm Dates: June 6–July 29, Monday through Friday, except July 4.
Notably: The Ed Sullivan Show premiered on this day in 1948. It ran until 1971. Steven Spielberg’s “Jaws” was released on this day in 1975. “It’s a noisy, busy movie that has less on its mind than any child on a beach might have. It has been cleverly directed by Steven Spielberg (“Sugarland Express”) for maximum shock impact and short- term suspense, and the special effects are so good that even the mechanical sharks are as convincing as the people,” Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times. “If you think about “Jaws” for more than 45 seconds you will recognize it as nonsense, but it’s the sort of nonsense that can be a good deal of fun if you like to have the wits scared out of you at irregular intervals. It’s a measure of how the film operates that not once do we feel particular sympathy for any of the shark’s victims, or even the mother of one, a woman who has an embarrassingly tearful scene that at one point threatens to bring the film to a halt. This kind of fiction doesn’t inspire humane responses. Just the opposite. We sigh with relief after each attack, smug in our awareness that it happened to them, not us.”
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If any city should be able to buck that failure, it is Miami. Loved by the mega-rich, it has a strong tax base and an economy dependent on the threatened real estate. A rational state would scramble to save it. Yet the policy response to its inundations is defined by short-termism, vested interests, inadequate resources, a Hobbesian scrum of federal, state, county and city agencies, and denial. Starting with the obvious, the Republicans, who have run Florida since 1999, are an impediment to cutting emissions. The previous governor, Rick Scott, was a climate-change denier. The current one, Ron DeSantis, is better on local environmental problems, yet while recently releasing a sea-level plan he dismissed “things like global warming” as a “pretext to do a bunch of left-wing things”.
–From the Lexington column in The Economist, June 9, 2022.
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“…Ron DeSantis, is better on local environmental problems, yet while recently releasing a sea-level plan he dismissed “things like global warming” as a “pretext to do a bunch of left-wing things”.” –From the Lexington column in The Economist, June 9, 2022.
Is desantis really such an incurious, and inarticulate, boob — or is that the description of his supporters?
So we no longer have cartoons suggesting “Negroes” can’t be smart enough, or women can’t do the job, but seniors? Fair target. Seems like this day and age, old age is something to disparage. On my 69th birthday, I completed, on my own, Daytona’s Zip Line obstacle course. I’m not done yet, either. Our daughter states we are more active than the 40 somethings she knows. How about giving this bigotry the boot?
By the way, isn’t Trump around the same age? About three years difference? Maybe this is just another political ploy cashing in on this current societal approved bigotry.
I voted for Biden and if it comes down to him again (as I hope it doesn’t) against any of those protoplasmic excuses for candidates the other party is putting forward, I’d vote for him again, but let’s not kid ourselves. Biden is not just old. He’s become rudderless, he’s painful to watch and listen to, and he projects the opposite of the sort of energy this country can use in that seat. I wouldn’t want someone of his disposition operating on a heart, operating a forklift or a law seminar. But we should trust someone of his disposition to run the country? It wasn’t bigoted to say that Thurgood Marshall–as revolutionary, brilliant and life-changing as he was for decades–overstayed his years on the Supreme Court when he was barely able to hold a pen in his latter years, it’s not bigoted to to say Biden’s age is an issue. As for trump, the problem there isn’t the unfitness of age. It’s unfitness, period.
But with Trump, the age issue is ignored. The cartoon referred to age, not Biden being rudderless. He is not a forklift operator, but how do you know he can’t? That’s an assumption. As for surgery, in the olden days, many doctors delivered generations of babies, and serve their communities well into their golden years before they finally retired.
How about UK’s Queen Elizabeth II, 96; King of Norway, Harald V, 85; Pope Frances, 85; King of Saudi Arabia (didn’t say they were angels) Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 86; Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abba, 86; President of Cameroon, Paul Byia, 89; and President of Lebanon Michel Aoun, 88.
I think those of us who voted for Biden were hoping for a sort of replay of Obama, and certainly did not Trump as President. Actually didn’t believe Trump could happen. Still… …sucky cartoon.
P.S. Pierre: If you need a heart surgeon, there’s always Dr. Oz. Bazinga! :)
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