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Weather: Sunny with a slight chance of thunderstorms. A slight chance of showers in the morning, then a chance of showers in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. East winds around 5 mph, increasing to around 10 mph in the afternoon. Chance of rain 50 percent. Friday Night: Mostly clear. A chance of showers with a slight chance of thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
A tropical wave over the central Tropical Atlantic is producing some disorganized showers and thunderstorms. Environmental conditions appear conducive for gradual development of this system, and a tropical depression could form by early next week while it moves westward at 10 to 15 mph and approaches the Lesser Antilles. The system is then forecast to move westward to west-northwestward across portions of the eastern Caribbean Sea during the middle part of next week. Formation chance through 48 hours…low…near 0 percent. Formation chance through 7 days…medium…40 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 Daytona Beach (a few minutes off from Flagler Beach) here.
- tropical cyclone activity here, and even more details here.
Today at a Glance:
Free For All Fridays with Host David Ayres, an hour-long public affairs radio show featuring local newsmakers, personalities, public health updates and the occasional surprise guest, starts a little after 9 a.m. David and his guests talk about the recent election and what’s next. See previous podcasts here. On WNZF at 94.9 FM and 1550 AM.
Fall Horticultural Workshops at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE., 6:30 p.m on Tuesdays, 10 a.m. on Fridays. Join master gardeners from the UF/IFAS Agricultural Extension Office for these workshops that cover a variety of horticultural topics. $10 a workshop.
The Blue 24 Forum, a discussion group organized by local Democrats, meets at 12:15 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. Come and add your voice to local, state and national political issues.
In Coming Days: Sept. 4: “An Evening with Shaun Tomson” 5 p.m. at the News-Journal Center, 221 N. Beach Street in Daytona Beach. World champion surfer, documentarian and best-selling author Shaun Tomson will be the keynote speaker. The event includes a showing of the classic 2008 surf film “Bustin’ Down the Door.” Tomson, whose book “The Code: The Power of ‘I Will’” explores faith, courage, creativity and determination, has become an in-demand motivational speaker. He will speak in advance of the film and will take part in a Q&A after the showing. Sept. 19: Sheriff's Summit to Protect and Serve Seniors, 3 to 5 p.m. at the Sheriff's Operations Center, 2101 Commerce Pkwy, Bunnell. Participants will benefit from a presentation about frequent scams and frauds, have access to free document shredding and paramedicine, and will get a tour of the Sheriff's Office Museum. The event is free to the public. Sept. 19: 988 Suicide Prevention Walk: 5:30 at Wadsworth Park, 2200 Moody Blvd., Flagler Beach. The Rotary Club of Flagler Beach will host an Awareness Walk to promote the 988 National Suicide Crisis Hotline at 6:00 p.m. on September 19, 2024. Participants will walk from Wadsworth Park in Flagler Beach, over the Rt. 100 bridge to Veterans Park where we will gather for a brief ceremony. Anyone wishing to participate should arrive at Wadsworth Park at 5:30 pm. After a brief welcome, the walk will begin at 6 p.m. Participants are encouraged, if possible, to wear purple and/or teal, the colors of suicide prevention awareness. Advanced registration is not required. All are welcome at this cost-free event that aims to bring the community together to raise awareness about the importance of mental health and the critical resources available through the 988 hotline. Sept. 25: The Palm Coast Tiger Bay Club presents a candidate forum ahead of the Nov. 5 general election, Sept. 25, 5 to 8 p.m. at the Palm Coast Community Center, 305 Palm Coast Parkway NE. The forum will feature the candidates in three runoff elections for mayor and Palm Coast City Council seats. The forum is free and open to the public, and will be simulcast on WNZF and live-streamed on FlaglerLive, among other media sources. |
Notably: Le Petit Journal was once one of France’s most-read dailies, reaching 2 million readers at one point, the world’s biggest circulation. It was also a reactionary, at times anti-Semitic paper, always anti-immigrant. It is entirely archived at Gallica, the great online version of France’s national library. I clicked on a date at rando: January 24, 1935. There it was above the fold, an article about migrants from Germany creating an “immigration problem” for France: “Should they be welcomed with suspicion, or, instead, should they be helped to become good French citizens?” The question is itself suspicious. The article isn’t more reassuring: “The most enduring prejudice against migrants is a sort of fear of being conquered or exploited by them.” It’s replacement-theory bunk almost 100 years ago. Little has changed there. The prejudice has not quite been a French export: the United States has always had a love-hate relationship with its migrants (see America For Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States, by Erika Lee). But now it’s more front-page here, the way it was in France in 1935. The eeriness of the year is unnerving. Germans were evading Hitler, and many of them would end up getting shipped right back to their death in concentration camps once Nazis occupied France and used collaborators to make the trains to Auschwitz run on time. Over here the aim on the reactionary side is to recreate what Eisenhower did with his wetback program in the 1950s, “the largest mass deportation in American history,” on a larger scale. “Fascism a la Mode: In France, the far right presses for national purity,” read the headline to an article by D.Z. Mairowitz in Harper’s in 1997. Of course it was a la mode in 1935, too. That headline is now perfectly American, at least in some circles, just as whites are verging on becoming the country’s largest minority. Their agony will not be pretty, or safe for many of us.
—P.T.
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As long as I’ve covered Republican campaigns, there has been racial fearmongering: Dark-skinned people are coming to hurt you. Be very afraid. With Reagan, it was “welfare queens” glomming onto tax-free cash income. With George H.W. Bush, it was Willie Horton. Liberals would give more criminals like Horton furloughs, so they could break into your house and rape your girlfriend. With George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, it was Arab terrorists. Democrats would let them invade America and kill us. With Donald Trump, it was migrants swarming over the border from Central and South America with the intent to rape and kill, as well as the racist “birther” conspiracy about “Barack HUSSEIN Obama.” Trump, who adopted his father’s view that some bloodlines are “superior” to others, has slipped into the usual Republican race-baiting by purposely fumbling Kamala Harris’s name, mispronouncing it different ways and christening her “Kamabla.”
–From Maureen Dowd, “Trump By the Numbers,” New York Times, Aug. 11, 2024.
Ed P says
Todays cartoon amplifies how hypocritical the left can be when describing what is vile and distasteful. The incident was between Trump staff members not Trump.
The image of 2 “ladies” on Trump’s arms when they were actually gold star families is very rich.
Sure the buck stops at his door step, however, it is reported that someone’s family member requested a photo. Mistakes were made and acknowledged but the derangement continues.
Come on down off the high horse and just be real for a change.
Pierre Tristam says
Thumbs up. At graveside, of course, as we play Taps for master dissemblers.
Ray W. says
In May 2019 my uncle, Joseph Warren, was laid to rest in Arlington, which is nearly full today. Many deserving veterans are turned away from this high honor.
A 26-year veteran who retired with a rank of Lt. Colonel, he flew 90 combat missions during WWII, mainly in P-47 fighter-bombers. Two of his planes were deemed no longer airworthy after he landed the badly shot-up planes. He received the highest honor the Belgian government could bestow on a foreign soldier for his actions during the Battle of the Bulge. On reconnaissance during the battle, he spotted a hole in the cloud cover over a Belgian railroad marshalling yard in a valley in the hill country. Flying low in heavy weather amidst hills is dangerous enough. Alone, he attacked the heavily defended choke point. He scored a direct hit on the turntable. Out of bombs, he repeatedly strafed the surroundings, hitting fuel storage tanks and destroying an ammunition dump. These actions were recorded on his wing cameras. On one run, a 20 mm cannon shell blew off his canopy. His plane had over 200 holes, yet he made it back to base.
Uncle Joe retired after 26 years of service. My father commonly said Joe declined promotion because he loved to fly. Lt. Colonels fly. Most of the rest of his career was flying heavy refueling tankers. He commanded the first transatlantic helicopter flight, the first round-the-world jet flight.
I have to think that if he were alive today and running as a Democrat for prominent office, my uncle would be branded a coward by the “pestilential” among us.
Full military honors, with caisson. When the entire family was called into a briefing room prior to the service, we were specifically briefed on what we could and could not do. We had parked our cars and entered the building. I watched family after family enter the briefing room until we were called. We travelled as a family to and from the burial site. No one got to the site without being briefed.
I can’t help but infer that the photographer was briefed and that he knew he was not supposed to be doing what he planned to do. I concede that I don’t truly know what happened in the Trump entourage. But if the members of that entourage went through what my family went through, the photographer is in the wrong and no lies will ever change that.
As an aside, who in their right mind demeans a public servant for doing her job. Having a mental episode? Really! What type of “pestilential” does one need to be to say that!
Ray W. says
More economic reports dropped yesterday.
While monthly economic reports are generally considered as less important than longer-term studies, due to the volatility of the data, the Fed does watch closely the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index. Forecast by economists to rise by 0.2%, it rose 0.2%. Annualized, that would mean a 2.4% inflation rate. The 12-month inflation rate was 2.5%.
A second statistical report, the “core inflation” component, which strips out the highly volatile food and energy components, also reflected a 0.2% monthly inflation rate. The 12-month “core” inflation rate was 2.6%.
The Reuters article lead off thus:
“U.S. consumer spending increased solidly in July, suggesting the economy remained on firmer ground early in the third quarter and arguing against a half-percentage point interest rate cut from the Federal Reserve next month.”
In another report released earlier this week, the preliminary GDP report released in July was updated, as it always it. Sometimes upwards. Sometimes down. Often, it remains the same. The 2.8% GDP growth rate reported in July was increased to 3.0%.
Make of this what you will. Me? Our economy remains strong. It remains the strongest in the world since the pandemic. It has not been destroyed. We are better off now than we were four years ago.
Ray W. says
Per The Cool Down, Colorado-based Forge Nano began selling an innovative lithium-ion battery in July that can charge in 10 minutes.
The innovation? Forge Nano calls it “Atomic Armor.” A nanocoating process “prevents harmful chemical reactions that can cause performance problems.”
The battery’s component parts are roughly 90% sourced from American parts manufacturers. Manufacturing costs are reduced by 20%.
The target customers include electric trucks, off-highway vehicles, motorcycles, and aerospace and DOD machines.
Per The Cool Down, “[t]his is just the latest in a regular stream of headlines from around the world documenting fascinating battery innovations.”
Make of this what you will. Me? America lost some 20 years of innovation to the mass political hysteria and resulting economic stupidity caused by the Solyndra episode. How could we as a nation be so dumb? We could be leading the world in battery manufacturing, but politics held back the economic gains that could have been realized.
I will say this over and over again. As a youth, I first read about the Japanese government sponsoring five motorcycle races in the 50s. The personal transport industry, demolished in the bombing of WWII, was struggling. Roughly 150 different motorcycle manufacturers came and went. Bankruptcies were commonplace. People invested life savings and lost everything. Banks failed due to business loans going unpaid.
The five highest scoring companies received government grants to build or upgrade their factories. We know these five winning companies today as Honda, Suzuki, Kawasaki, Yamaha and Bridgestone. Private enterprise, aided by government grants during a time of struggle, meant all the difference.
Only the ignorant claim that governments don’t create jobs. Yes, private industry is commonly more efficient, but less efficient is not always bad. Sometimes, two things can be good at the same time.