Today at the Editor’s glance: Weather: Partly sunny in the morning, then becoming mostly cloudy. Highs in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Tuesday Night: Showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Lows in the lower 60s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent.
In Court: Nothing on the felony court docket today.
The Palm Coast City Council meets at 9 a.m. at City Hall. The council will hear a report from its auditor on the city’s financial health, take an additional application (the Palm Coast Music Festival) for its cultural arts grants, and consider a couple of other matters.
Food Truck Tuesdays is presented by the City of Palm Coast once a month from March to November. Held at Central Park in Town Center, visitors can enjoy gourmet food served out of trucks from 5 to 8 p.m.–mobile kitchens, canteens and catering trucks that offer up appetizers, main dishes, side dishes and desserts. Foods to be featured change monthly but have included lobster rolls, Portuguese cuisine, fish and chips, regional American, Latin food, ice cream, barbecue and much more. Many menus are kid-friendly. Proceeds from each Food Truck Tuesday event benefits a local charity.
Notably: It is not Oxymoron Day, but it is Belarus Constitution Day. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died in 2020, would have been 89 today. And 51 Muslims would have been living ordinary lives had they not been massacred on this day in 2019 in Christchurch, New Zealand, when Brenton Harrison Tarrant, 28 at the time, a white supremacist fluent in alt-right bile, murdered them in two separate mosques. He was sentenced to life in prison on each of the 51 counts of murder. He was designated a “terrorist entity.”
Now this:
French Senator Claude Mahuret, denouncing Putin and the fifth column represented by the French extreme right:
"Vladimir Zemmour, Joseph Vissarionovitch Mélenchon et Anastasia Le Pen sont depuis longtemps les généraux en chef de cette cinquième colonne" : @ClaudeMalhuret épingle la "propagande de Poutine et du FSB" en France #UkraineRussiaWar pic.twitter.com/9I3lz42hML
— Public Sénat (@publicsenat) March 1, 2022
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“I am certain, I have friends, my investments are secure; my parents will never abandon me; I will always be treated with justice; my book is well written, it’ll be well received; I’m owed money: I will be paid; my lover will be faithful (and swore it); the CEO will get me ahead, so was promised me in passing: so go all those phrases anyone who’s lived a little will scratch from the dictionary.”
–From “Certainty, Certitude,” in Voltaire’s “Questions sur l’Encyclopedie” (1770).
Come On Man... says
Interesting to note that the Keystone Pipeline Biden immediately cancelled upon becoming president would of hurt the business interests of Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway, who owns a majority of the horribly inefficient railroad currently used to transport the oil. Mr Buffett is a huge donor to democrats but expects a return on his investments, he does not wish to compete with a constantly flowing pipeline preferring to charge a premium for each RR tank car full of oil.
Mark says
No matter how much you wish for that pipeline it’s not going to deliver oil to your door or drop the prices. Even if construction was never stopped no oil would flow through it at least until the end of 2023. As for the “inefficient” BNSF you mention…”On Saturday, freight rail carrier BNSF reported record profits for 2021. The company’s operating income for the year was $8.8 billion, which represented a significant 13.7 percent increase from the previous year. Revenue also increased to $22.5 billion, which was 11.6 percent above last year’s total.” … Not too bad for an inefficient railroad for 2021.
NotWoke says
What a great cartoon, exactly right.
High gas prices have much more to do with US supply and demand. Biden has discouraged the supply, and still does. Demand is up as the economy recovers. Russian imports are very little impact on supply. US production could easily make up for the Russian oil imports, but Biden is beholden to the climate crazies.
Putin would not have invaded Ukraine if we had a real leader. So trying to stop him now does threaten nuclear war. It’s too late now, the Ukrainians will have to save themselves. The US is not to be feared. The US must fear Russia.
Come on, Man says
@ Mark,
You actually just solidified my point. Heavy “Dark Money” donations from Buffett to liberal super-pacs buys influence to eliminate potential competition, bolstering his stock portfolio immensely. loading oil into tank cars and driving it to refineries is very inefficient compared to a constantly flowing pipeline between Northern oil fields and Southern refineries.
Mark says
U.S. oil production is tied to the oil companies that pump it out and refine it. Your question should be why the oil companies are sitting on 20,000+ drilling permits?