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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Wednesday, July 24, 2024

July 24, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 3 Comments

Kamala For President by Bob Englehart, PoliticalCartoons.com
Kamala For President by Bob Englehart, PoliticalCartoons.com

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Weather: Mostly sunny. A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent. Heat index values up to 106. Wednesday Night: Partly cloudy. Showers and thunderstorms likely in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 70 percent.

  • Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
  • Drought conditions here. (What is the Keetch-Byram drought index?).
  • Check today’s tides in Flagler Beach here.
  • tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.




Today at a Glance:

The Flagler County Tourist Development Council meets at 9 a.m. in board chambers at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The council will discuss future funding of beach renourishment projects, and possibly consider changing the TDC’s apportionment of tourist tax dollars. See details and agendas here.

Separation Chat, Open Discussion: The Atlantic Chapter of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State hosts an open, freewheeling discussion on the topic here in our community, around Florida and throughout the United States, noon to 1 p.m. at Pine Lakes Golf Club Clubhouse Pub & Grillroom (no purchase is necessary), 400 Pine Lakes Pkwy, Palm Coast (0.7 miles from Belle Terre Parkway). Call (386) 445-0852 for best directions. All are welcome! Everyone’s voice is important. For further information email [email protected] or call Merrill at 804-914-4460.

The Flagler County Public Library Book Club meets at the Meeting Room of the Palm Coast Branch Library,  2500 Palm Coast Pkwy NW, Palm Coast, from 2:45 to 4:30 p.m. No reservations are required, but please call to verify the date and time of the meeting.  New members are always welcome so just show up to join in the literary fun. Today: An Elephant in the Garden by Michael Morpurgo.

Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library: Do you enjoy Chess, trying out new moves, or even like some friendly competition?  Come visit the Flagler County Public Library at the Teen Spot every Wednesday from 4 to 5 p.m. for Chess Club. Everyone is welcome, for beginners who want to learn how to play all the way to advanced players. For more information contact the Youth Service department 386-446-6763 ext. 3714 or email us at [email protected]

The Circle of Light Course in Miracles study group meets at a private residence in Palm Coast every Wednesday at 1:20 PM. There is a $2 love donation that goes to the store for the use of their room.   If you have your own book, please bring it.  All students of the Course are welcome.  There is also an introductory group at 1:00 PM. The group is facilitated by Aynne McAvoy, who can be reached at [email protected] for location and information.





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Notably: If you haven’t been down to the south end of Flagler Beach lately, just north of the water tower, you should: it’s a rare, fleeting tourist spot where you can watch the Army Corps of Engineers’ contractor remaking a little corner of the world. In the finished parts of the project, the beach now extends about the length of a football field or more, reclaiming what has been lost over the decades. It may not last, at least not to that extent. The Corps knows it: it’ll take more than one “renourishing” of the beach to make it stick a bit longer, and even then, the Corps knows it’s temporary. Renourishing is permanent: if the beach is to stay, the dredging–which, out of sight, out of mind, ravages the sea floor, but we’ll have to speak of that another day–will have to be repeated for ever. But it’s impressive. I took a walk down the beach the other day. I touched the sand dredged up from 11 miles offshore, from the depths where decades of onshore sand went to rest until, like Jurassic-era coal removed from its seam (but not on that time scale) it was sucked up a pipe and belched onto the beach, where bulldozer spread it like fill below a housing development. Here, there won’t be development. There’ll just be happy, amazed bathers and sun worshippers, dog walkers, fortune hunters, turtle saviors (oh, so much sea life and beach life gets clobbered when these big projects rumble through), and then there’ll be erosion, and if Flagler County has the money, we’ll do it all over again. It’s kind of like “On the Beach,” the Nevil Shute novel about the end of the world, but without a final chapter just yet.

—P.T.

(© FlaglerLive)
For once, Snack Jack's is no longer threatened. (© FlaglerLive)
For once, Snack Jack’s is no longer threatened. Below is what it looked like in 2022. (© FlaglerLive)
The view from below at Snack Jack after the storm. (© Butch Naylor for FlaglerLive)
The view from below at Snack Jack after the storm in 2022. (© Butch Naylor for FlaglerLive)
High Tides at Snack Jack had sustained some damage and was bordered by a cliff. (© FlaglerLive)
High Tides at Snack Jack had sustained some damage and was bordered by a cliff. (© FlaglerLive)
It's a beach again. (© FlaglerLive)
It’s a beach again. (© FlaglerLive)

 

 

Now this: Liszt : Mazeppa (Etudes d’exécution transcendante), Gabriel Stern, piano:




 

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September 2025
flagler county commission government logo
Wednesday, Sep 17
8:00 am - 6:00 pm

Contractor Review Board Meeting

Government Services Building
flagler county commission government logo
Wednesday, Sep 17
9:00 am - 11:00 am

Flagler County’s Technical Review Committee Meeting

Government Services Building
U.S. Attorney Roger B. Handberg at Flagler Tiger Bay today. (© FlaglerLive)
Wednesday, Sep 17
11:30 am - 1:00 pm

Flagler Tiger Bay Club Guest Speaker: Former U.S. Prosecutor Roger B. Handberg

Hammock Dunes Club
americans united for separation of church and state logo
Wednesday, Sep 17
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Separation Chat: Open Discussion

Pine Lakes Golf Club
Wednesday, Sep 17
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

“Conversations in American Democracy” Celebrates Constitution Day

Pine Lakes Golf Club
flagler county commission government logo
Wednesday, Sep 17
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Flagler County Industrial Development Authority Meeting

Government Services Building
course in miracles
Wednesday, Sep 17
1:20 pm - 2:30 pm

The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group

Contact Aynne McAvoy
chess club flagler county public library
Wednesday, Sep 17
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library

Flagler County Public Library
barnhill's
Wednesday, Sep 17
4:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Central Avenue Comeback Bash at Barnhill’s Cafe Bar and Grill

Barnhill's Cafe Bar and Grill
palm coast city logo
Wednesday, Sep 17
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Palm Coast Planning and Land Development Board

Courts around Florida are overworked and need more judges, the Supreme Court found. While the 7th Judicial Circuit, which includes Flagler County, was found to need some additional judges, Flagler County was not among divisions considered in need. (© FlaglerLive)
Thursday, Sep 18
10:00 am - 11:00 am

Flagler County Drug Court Convenes

Flagler County courthouse
Thursday, Sep 18
11:00 am - 11:30 am

Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library

315 South 7th Street, Flagler Beach
Thursday, Sep 18
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center

Central Park in Town Center
Mayor Mike Norris is not participating in a series of town hall meetings all four other council members are hosting. (© FlaglerLive)
Thursday, Sep 18
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

‘Let’s Talk Palm Coast’ Town Halls with Council Members

Palm Coast Community Center
flagler county democratic executive committee
Thursday, Sep 18
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Palm Coast Democratic Club Recap Meeting

Flagler County Democratic Party HQ
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It was something I had worried about: that these figures of Atlanta, because they had been so often interviewed, and though they might appear new to the out-of-towner, might in fact have been reduced to a certain number of postures and attitudes, might have become their interviews. Like certain writers–Borges, to give a famous example, who had given so many interviews to journalists and others who, in the manner of interviewers, had wanted absolutely the set interview, the one in the file, had wanted to leave out nothing that had occurred in every other interview, that he, Borges, had finally become nothing more than his interview, a few stories, a few opinions, a potted autobiography, a pocket personality. Which was the way, I had been told, the media created two or three slogans for a politician and reduced him to those easily spoken words. I had worried about this, about not being able to get through the publicity; and with Arrington it had come to pass. I had not been able to go beyond the file.

–From V.S. Naipaul’s A Turn in the South (1989).

 

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Comments

  1. Pogo says

    July 24, 2024 at 7:02 am

    @South, but South of what, and where

    As stated
    https://www.google.com/search?q=V.S.+Naipaul+india's+caste+system

    Music and cats

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  2. Ray W. says

    July 24, 2024 at 7:09 pm

    About two months ago I posted a comment to FlaglerLive about a WSJ article bearing a headline I thought odd. Whoever wrote the headline argued that collusion with OPEC was not really much of a big deal (paraphrasing mine). To me, since collusion can provide a foundation for criminal prosecution, I wondered just how anyone could consider an American oil company colluding with OPEC not a big deal.

    I wrote of learning that a large shale oil company based in Texas had been sanctioned by the Federal Trade Commission after a finding that it had colluded with OPEC to raise worldwide crude oil and natural gas prices. Its CEO had been referred to the Department of Justice for possible criminal prosecution.

    Intrigued, I then found a federal civil lawsuit seeking designation as a class action suit, in which suit it is alleged that eight American oil and natural gas companies colluded with OPEC to raise international crude oil prices by limiting additional drilling in American oil and gas fields.

    I checked on the issue today.

    The CEO of the one oil company sanctioned by the FTC has been prohibited from interacting with the company he founded.

    A Senate subcommittee has opened an investigation into allegations that fifteen (15) American oil companies colluded with OPEC, not one and not eight.

    And, today, a Senator and a Congresswoman introduced companion bills that, if passed and signed into law by whomever is the president, would require the Department of the Interior to deny issuance of any new oil and gas leases to any energy company that is found by the FTC to have colluded with OPEC to keep oil and natural gas prices higher than market forces command. Additionally, if legally permissible, such a company would lose rights to any already existing oil and gas leases. If not legally permissible, any colluding oil and natural gas company would not be able to renew any expiring oil and gas leases.

    It’s beginning to appear that this issue just might have legs. If 15 American oil and natural gas companies are found to have colluded with OPEC to restrict their own energy production to coincide with OPEC cutting its own collective production, then tens of millions, perhaps hundreds of millions, of Americans, by artifice and plan, paid more at the gas and diesel pumps for fuel than they had to pay starting in February 2021.

    How many billions of dollars were collected as profits by American energy companies after ownership declined to drill for more oil, regardless of higher prices at the pump?

    Will the FTC find more oil company CEOs collusive and ban them from running their companies?

    Will more oil company CEOs be referred by the FTC to the DOJ for possible prosecution?

    Will there be a series of high-profile federal criminal collusion trials, or will the CEOs settle to avoid trial?

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  3. Pogo says

    July 25, 2024 at 7:55 am

    @Hello Ray W.👍

    Thank you, sir. And it’s not Déjà vu — I hope you continue this.

    A good memory can be a blessing — and curse…
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Sol_Estes

    Etc., etc.

    As stated
    https://www.google.com/search?q=haliburton+violates+sanctions+by+use+of+foreign+susidiary

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