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Weather: Mostly sunny. A chance of showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms in the morning, then showers and thunderstorms likely in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent. Wednesday Night: Mostly clear. Showers and thunderstorms likely in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60 percent.
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Today at a Glance:
Joint Workshop Between County Commission and Palm Coast Council, 5 p.m. at the Government Services Building, 1769 East Moody Boulevard, Bunnell. The two governments will discuss recent controversies at the Flagler Humane Society, atrocious traffic on State Road 100 and Seminole Woods Boulevard as the opening of BJ’s approaches, and how to spend law enforcement impact fee money.
Residential Drainage Citizens Advisory Committee Meeting, 6 p.m. at Palm Coast City Hall.
River to Sea Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) meets at 9 a.m. at the Airline Room at the Daytona Beach International Airport. The TPO’s planning oversight includes all of Volusia County and the developed areas of eastern Flagler County including Beverly Beach and Flagler Beach as well as portions of the cities of Palm Coast and Bunnell, with board member representation from each of those jurisdictions. See the full agendas here. To join the meeting electronically, go 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. The book today: Lisa Lee’s Lady Tan’s Circle of Women.
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.
 Keep Their Lights On Over the Holidays: Flagler Cares, the social service non-profit celebrating its 10th anniversary, is marking the occasion with a fund-raiser to "Keep the Holiday Lights On" by encouraging people to sponsor one or more struggling household's electric bill for a month over the Christmas season. Each sponsorship amounts to $100 donation, with every cent going toward payment of a local power bill. See the donation page here. Every time another household is sponsored, a light goes on on top of a house at Flagler Cares' fundraising page. The goal of the fun-raiser, which Flagler Cares would happily exceed, is to support at least 100 families (10 households for each of the 10 years that Flagler Cares has been in existence). Flagler Cares will start taking applications for the utility fund later this month. Because of its existing programs, the organization already has procedures in place to vet people for this type of assistance, ensuring that only the needy qualify. |
Notably: Second of two: From Statista: “Divides persist between many Black and white Americans’ views on the ongoing impacts of slavery in the United States. According to a poll by YouGov conducted in 2023, 52 percent of U.S. respondents believe that the legacy of slavery still influences society today either a fair amount or a great deal. Along racial lines a starker contrast exists, with 78 percent of Black Americans saying the same, versus just 46 of white Americans. When asked more specifically about who the legacy of slavery currently affects, respondents again answered differently. 75 percent of Black respondents said all Black Americans are affected by the legacy of slavery today, while 13 percent of Black respondents said only Black Americans who are descendants of slaves. No Black respondents selected the option for no Black Americans. Of the white respondents, only 42 percent said all Black Americans are still affected, 16 percent said only Black Americans who are descendants of slaves and 20 percent selected the option for no Black Americans. 65 percent of Black Americans said that America’s wealth as a nation today is tied to slavery, while only 26 percent of white Americans held the same view. Democrats were more likely to agree that current national wealth is significantly tied to the work done in the past by slaves (50 percent) than Independents (32 percent) or Republicans (15 percent).”
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ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
Nar-Anon Family Group
Flagler County Beekeepers Association Meeting
Bunnell City Commission Meeting
Palm Coast City Council Workshop
Book Dragons, the Kids’ Book Club, at Flagler Beach Public Library
NAACP Flagler Branch General Membership Meeting
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
For the full calendar, go here.
Metro Atlanta is a big city of 2.2 million; Atlanta is a medium city of 450,000; black Atlanta is a small city of 300,000. “The black leadership circle is a small town.” A good journalist finds good clear ways of putting things. Tom Teepen also said this: white people in the United States don’t have “leaders”; only black people have leaders. And I felt he had said that because (according to some other columnists in the paper) the current scandals about black politicians in a number of states were being used to run down black people generally. I liked the point about leaders. I thought it could be applied to many black or backward or revolutionary countries, where the leader is everything, and where journalists and others from outside, falling unwittingly into a version of the explorer’s attitude (“Take me to your leader”), bestow on the leader alone the dignity that, in another kind of place, they would bestow more widely, on the country and the people. But then I began to wonder whether-since black politics in the United States were still racial and redemptive and simple–black people in the United States couldn’t after all be said to have leaders, people they simply followed. And I wondered whether it was possible in these circumstances for black people to stand apart from their lead-ers, any more than it was possible for people of the Caribbean or Africa to stand apart from the racial or tribal chiefs whom they had created.
–From V.S. Naipaul, A Turn in the South (1989).
Ed P says
Todays daily cartoon is actually solid advice for Trump.
Harris just need to get her message out and explain why she supports her agenda now, since many policies were rejected previously. People can change positions or flip flop.
They can also lie.
Will the Real Harris please stand up? Only 68 days and all we have is joy and hope?
Does 1/2 of America need more information before voting? Does anyone remember the “selling off of the President”. 1968 election? They suggested that issues bore voters, PR men coordinated slick Hollywood productions. Feel familiar?
Laurel says
That bad ole “joy” and “hope.” Who wants that?
Well, we do know what to expect from Trump, dear God, just don’t listen to his ongoing unintelligible ramblings or his inability to speak the truth. We were purposely kept from knowing who Vance was until the last minute, but now, we sure know how he feels about women, don’t we?
Wait a minute, who is Vance again? The man who would take over the Presidency should something happen to oh so healthy Trump? There is far more documentation about Harris as she has had a REAL career, as has Walz.
Pogo says
@As stated — again
https://www.google.com/search?q=v.s.+naipaul+indian+caste+system
Ray W. says
On August 5th, the stock market was claimed by pundits and other commenter to have responded to recently released economic data by precipitously falling in value.
A consistent few of the FlaglerLive commenter base saw portents of disaster just over the horizon. Had these few forgotten the all-time record by percentage set by the one-day crash of the Dow on October 19, 1987, when it fell 22.6%? When the S&P 500 also fell that day by 20.5%? Today, many of those same commenters hold dear the memory of the economic strength of the two Reagan administrations. And there were many positive economic events during the two administrations to support their views.
Yesterday, the Dow set a new all-time record.
There is a reason why Fed officials pay attention, if only scant attention, to more volatile short-term economic reports. And there is a far more important reason why Fed officials pay greater attention to releases of more complete long-term data. Jobs data on layoffs and quits is released on a weekly basis, yet even that data is also released with a four-week rolling average basis. GDP data is released quarterly. Jobs added data is released monthly, with a qualifier that it is preliminary data drawn from a small sample size. More accurate jobs data is released annually, drawn from a much larger data set. Each has its own differing value. Fed Chairman Powell has all but promised to announce lending rate cuts after the Fed’s September meeting. We are emerging in a position of strength from a severe pandemic-induced economic disruption. The proverbial “soft landing” may yet occur.
Make of this what you will. Me? Businesses, large and small, and governments, federal, state, county and city, and investors and workers, all need good data to make decisions. Wait too long for the safety offered by the best data and the opportunity of immediacy might pass all by. Act too soon on incomplete and volatile data and likelihood of erroneous thinking and overreaction rises.
I have seen 10 recessions in my lifetime. Many, but not all, have occurred due in large part to disruptions in the energy marketplace. The Suez Canal crisis, both OPEC oil embargoes, the Iran-Iraq War, the Kuwait War. Jobs lost; business sectors disrupted; stock markets upended. Yet, we all recovered our equilibrium, over and over again. Stability in thought and action remains important. Listening to doomsayers is risky, yet sometimes they are right. Winston Churchill saw the threat of Germany’s National Socialist movement from its beginning but was ridiculed and rebuked in the early years. He titled the first book of his six-book set on WWII “The Gathering Storm.”
Each of us separates the wheat from the chaff in our own way. Some see only the chaff. Just the other day, Ed P wondered where was the Harris/Walz policy position? I looked it up. It took seconds to type in 2024 Democratic Party policy release date. Immediately, a site appeared on my screen, with a date of release of July 13th. It was that easy. The platform was formally adopted last week during the Convention. I had to wonder whether Ed P had done the same and that his comment was meant only to deceive others. that he was not deceived at all, that he knew all along that the policy was out there for all to see.
We have less than 70 days to the election. More and more commenters are going to sensationalize the trivial. Others will misinform and disinform at will. I will continue to comment on energy breakthroughs and opportunities. To me, that is the important story.
But I haven’t forgotten when sleazy political operatives denigrated McGovern as a coward, despite his having completed 25 heavy bombing missions as a combat lead pilot during WWII. To me, as a young man, that meant that the sleazy among us thought my father a coward, too. My father had been a combat gunner and bombardier in a heavy bomber in WWII, after leaving high school on his 17 1/2 birthday. McGovern opposed the Viet Nam War. My father opposed the Viet Nam War.
The sleaze continued with the Swift Boat contingent. I had no use for the sleazy among us then, either.
The sleaze continues on both sides today. I have no use for any of you, either. Both vice-presidential candidates honorably served our country in their own way. My younger son honorably served as an air-traffic controller in the Gulf, like so many others who honorably served. He has a letter of commendation in his file for risking his life to save a young Marine. Were he to oppose a certain candidate, would the sleazy among us attack him using the cowardice label, too?
Many commenters have to have noticed that I counter those who seek to disinform and misinform and that I oppose those who ask just when they can start beheading Democrats or display vulgar bumper stickers and flags, but I seldom comment about dredging canals or building too high or school board elections. Lie to the FlaglerLive community in the manner of a “pestilential” partisan member of faction and I just might respond. Justify political violence and I will respond.
Laurel says
Ray W.: You are a good man, and the real deal.
I think the problems are most people are followers, which is actually normal for human nature, and they don’t like to think things out. That puts them in a difficult position. It’s easier to be told. White men are very afraid to lose their apex position. They surly don’t want to be treated the way they have treated others. White women sometimes choose to get minimal acceptance from their men.
Keep trying. You may get through to a few.
I believe EdP knows better.
Ray W. says
This is a thought exercise on numeracy, or the ability to speak, know, and understand numbers, and how public innumeracy can be manipulated by politicians on both sides of the aisle.
During a Meet the Press appearance this past Sunday morning, vice-presidential candidate JD Vance stated:
“If you go back to the Trump presidency, we had 12,000 factories that were built during Donald Trump’s presidency.”
Imagine the mental picture evoked by that language? 12,000 new factories built in four years, including during th0se final 10 months of devastation caused to the economy by the pandemic!
Reporters from the Washington Post remembered that phrase. Former President Trump had uttered it, to their finding, 15 different times, including during his 2020 State of the Union address to Congress and to the American people. To be fair, the SOTU claim occurred with just under a year to go in that administration’s only term, so the 12,000 factories claim was based on three years of data, making it even more impressive.
The Post debunked Trump’s claim then. It then debunked Vance’s claim again.
Reporters looked for and found the source of the claim, which was the “Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages”, released by the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS).
The category within the report? “[E]stablishments in private manufacturing”, with establishments defined as “any establishment ‘engaged in the mechanical, physical, or chemical transformation of materials, substances, or components into new products.”
According to Post research, 80% of those 12,000 new “factories”, aka, establishments, created in the Trump era employed five or fewer people.
The BLS description continues, with the definition encompassing establishments “that transform materials or substances into new products by hand or in the worker’s home and those engaged in selling to the general public products made on the same premises from which they are sold, such as bakeries, candy stores, and custom tailors.”
Yes, the application of heat during baking chemically transforms ingredients into what we call cakes. Putting cans of sweetened condensed milk into a pressure cooker makes caramel, but I don’t recommend it. Taking in a suit transforms the suit. All can be called factories by politicians during an appearance on a political talk show.
Home catering can be called a factory. When my niece married some 12 years or so ago, my older brother asked my wife and I to cook the rehearsal dinner (except the desserts) for 90 people. Since my wife and I know what we are doing in a kitchen, we did so; it went off without a hitch. Had I charged my brother and SIL for our labor, I would have built a factory in my home, under the Vance definition.
The Post went on to disclose that using the data from the full four years of the Trump administration, the figure was 18,000 newly created establishments, nee “factories.”
In comparison to the Biden administration, through the first quarter of 2024, meaning 13 quarters, the figures for establishments created was 39,000, more than double the “factories” created during the Trump years.
The Post then gave Mr. Vance Four Pinocchio’s for his utterance.
Make of this what you will. The innumerate among us hear the siren song of political rhetoric. Entranced and dazzled, they picture 12,000 new Hyundai factories in whatever southern state will give the best incentives and think tariffs under Trump worked and that we were better off four years ago than we are today. We weren’t.
Sherry says
It’s not just FOX. This is the kind of low life filth and garbage trump is forwarding about Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton on social media. Character Matters! Republicans, is this the kind of person you are “still” supporting for President of our country? Really? What does that say about you, while your children are looking to you to set an example? Take a good read:
The post – originally posted by another user – featured photos of Harris and Hillary Clinton alongside the comment: “Funny how blowjobs impacted both their careers differently…”
The comment was an oblique reference to innuendo surrounding Harris’s former relationship with Willie Brown, the San Francisco mayor. The mention of Clinton – Trump’s defeated opponent in the 2016 presidential election – alluded to the affair between Monica Lewinsky, a former White House intern, and her husband Bill Clinton in the 1990s, which came close to ending his presidency.
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It was not the first time Trump had made lewd references to Harris. On 18 August, he shared a video by the Dilley Meme Team, a group of rightwing content creators, to the soundtrack of a parody of the Alanis Morrisette song Ironic that contained the lines, “She spent her whole damn life down on her knees”, as an image of Brown appeared behind a picture of the US vice-president and her husband, Doug Emhoff.