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| [Gaza] To feed the multitudes without them getting blown up, relief agencies should air drop food all over the crushed city. Just sprinkle food with tiny parachutes attached. It’s better than what they are doing now. Try something different, but don’t drop frozen turkeys like Les Nesbitt did on the Thanksgiving episode of WKRP. |
 [Tariffs] I’m not very smart, I’ll cop to that because I just found out that the American businessman (and Americans) are paying the tariffs not the Chinese. A smart person told me that if an American businessman buys a widget from China for $100, China ships it to the USA at the $100 price and pays no tariff. As soon as the widget crosses our border the American businessman has to pay the tariff. He’s the importer – not China. The widget now cost the American businessman $100 plus the tariff, say $20, who will now raise the price of that widget plus the $20 tariff; and being American, he will add a few extra bucks to the inflated price because he knows that his customers are expecting a big price increase and he’s greedy. Americans are being taxed for all these tariffs, not the country that made them or shipped them here. |
| [Horse For Sale] The US Army is selling their horses. The Military Equid Program is finally closing up shop. Link |
 [R.I.P. Sharon Gimbel] aka Jersey Girl, who owned Easy Does It Hair shop in Marathon passed away Friday at Jersey Shore Medical Center at 6AM after a 9 month fight with cancer. Her husband Charlie asks you to pray for her. Thank You. |
| Tracking salt water intrusion outside of the Florida Keys. How rising seas are killing southern U.S. woodlands. A steady increase in sea levels is pushing saltwater into U.S. wetlands, killing trees from Florida to as far north as New Jersey. But with sea level projected to rise by as much as six feet this century, the destruction of coastal forests is expected to become a worsening problem worldwide. Link |
 [Pretend Band] The Velvet Sundown band admits they’re AI after weeks of speculation. Link |
| [Auto Pilot Failure] Family of woman slain in 2019 Card Sound Road crash blames Tesla autopilot for her death. The Tesla ran a stop sign and plowed into a parked SUV she was standing next to on the other side of the road. Link |
 I think the Bay Point bar may have been called ”Paradise Palms” at one point. Or maybe not. It was a cool, divey spot similar to the old ”Coral Isle” on Stock Island. The loss of them both was a Key’s tragedy. |
| [India’s Sweeping Vehicle Ban] India’s capital tried to ban fuel sales to petrol cars older than 15 years and diesel cars older than 10. With good intentions that many have categorized as overzealous, officials hoped this would keep millions of polluting vehicles off the roads to fight toxic air. A traffic policeman said, “We have been instructed to call in scrap car dealers if such vehicles come in.” Link |
 [Cheese Doodle Scandal] I have 2 packages of Cheese Doodles purchased at Dollar Tree about a month apart. The 1st one contains 4.25 oz. The 2nd one contains 3.25 oz & is brazenly marked, “10% more doodles”.Should we have another protest march? |
| [Population Correction] Will there be a massive population correction before the end of the century? Humans may be using the Earth’s resources at an unsustainable rate. Video |
 [Big Pine Library Book Club] James by Percival Everett is the book for the July 18th book club discussion (10am this Saturday at the Library). Full Menu > Book ClubPulitzer Prize Winner • #1 New York Times Bestseller • National Book Award Winner • A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and darkly humorous, told from the enslaved Jim’s point of view. When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond. Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim’s agency, intelligence, and compassion as never before. |
| [RMS Empress of Ireland] How I solved the century-old mystery of a miraculous shipwreck survivor. In a disaster worse than the Titanic, it was believed a young man swam over six kilometers to safety. It didn’t add up. Link |
Has anyone heard or seen any updates on the  frankenskeeters they released a couple of years ago? Do we have less skeeters? I can’t tell. |
| [Fundraiser] Join us for a fun happy hour event at Dive Bar Shirt Club, Key West on Thursday, July 24th. All proceeds support Keys AHEC children’s medical and dental clinics. Your ticket includes entry, food, 1 drink voucher (bonus extra happy hour drink if you arrive before 6:30pm!) Friends of AHEC decal and annual membership. $60. Purchase Tickets |
 Oldest known dog breed reveals hidden human history. Canine genetic history could settle a debate about a Viking outpost and human migration. Link |
| Deep philosophical questions that will probably give most people a headache. Link |
 [Balance] Humans built so many dams that we shifted the north pole by 3 feet. Our redistribution of mass on the surface has gone a bridge—or a dam—too far. Link |
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| [Captain Doom and Gloom] Deli vehicle ban is between the right to life and the right to livelihood. Ha Ha Ha! They want to ban too many vehicles, but no mention of sterilizing the random hatching of 10,000 mutants per day. Time to fly that “special’ satellite over there and to other trash dumps. It never ceases to amaze me that we still fight wars and how we cull down the useless eaters to maintain the value of product lines and the manufacturing of war toys. With the development of such exotic weapons that can attack and cook a dime from 500 miles in space, to chemicals that can sterilize whole countries in minutes, to other toys the demented have developed insanely to play with. My question is, why? Has life become so boring these crazies need to harm and kill for enjoyment, like back in the old days of Greece and Rome? Or is the sun burning to hot again? Or some unknown infection that controls logical thought and hate? Whatever it is, it has happened many times before and this time it just might be a bit too much to handle ~C D & G |
 [Crooks] Investigators laid out 291 empty queen conch shells that they say were illegally harvested between July 7 and July 10 by people staying at a vacation rental in Hey Haven. |
| [Free Game] Dog Walk. A short casual interactive story. Play a big, adorable dog traversing through winter woods and help out a little kid decorate a snowman with colorful items hidden in the environment. Video |
 [Lookalike Cars] I must agree with Captain Doom. All new cars do look similar (except for the very high-end cars). The only different car I see is the Hyundai Santa Cruz. It’s a bit of everything. And it does that ‘everything’ very well. LinkThe Nissan Cube is another different car, but it’s ugly like a delivery car or something. Link |
| [Free Game] Replicube is about generating 3D objects made up of tiny little cubes. Video |
 Efudex (fluorouracil cream). I was just prescribed this by a dermatologist for skin cancer. Please tell me that it has given people positive results. |
| The current Coconut Telegraph was published on 7/15/25 at 8:30 am. |
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