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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, September 12, 2024

September 12, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 9 Comments

Debate Fallout by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com
Debate Fallout by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com

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Weather: A slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers. Highs in the mid 80s. East winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 90 percent. Thursday Night: Mostly cloudy with a slight chance of thunderstorms. Showers likely, mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. East winds 5 to 10 mph in the evening, becoming light and variable. Chance of rain 70 percent.

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Today at a Glance:

Drug Court convenes before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins at 10 a.m. in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County courthouse, Kim C. Hammond Justice Center 1769 E Moody Blvd, Bldg 1, Bunnell. Drug Court is open to the public. See the Drug Court handbook here and the participation agreement here.

The Palm Coast Democratic Club holds its monthly meeting at noon at the Flagler Democratic Party Headquarters in City Marketplace, 160 Cypress Point Parkway, Suite C214, Palm Coast. The June speaker is US Congressional Candidate James Stockton. Noon  32164. Stockton, running to represent Flagler County in Congress. He is the eldest son of a public school bus driver and a heavy equipment operator. He was raised in a home of morals and values based on the principle of “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” All are welcome to attend and meet Stockton. This gathering is open to the public at no charge. No advance arrangements are necessary. Call (386) 283-4883 for best directions or (561)-235-2065 for more information.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, 105 South 2nd Street in Flagler Beach. Watch the meeting at the city’s YouTube channel here. Access meeting agenda and materials here. See a list of commission members and their email addresses here.

Evenings at Whitney Lecture Series hosted by the University of Florida Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience at 6 p.m. (Note the new time.) This free lecture will be presented in person at the UF Whitney Laboratory Lohman Auditorium, 9505 Ocean Shore Boulevard, in St. Augustine. Those interested also have the option of registering to watch via Zoom live the night of the lecture. Go here to register for this month’s lecture. Microorganisms provide a large amount of the current drugs. Especially among the antibiotics and anti-cancer treatments, over 65% of our clinical treatments were directly derived or inspired from microbes. In this lecture, Dr. Loesgen will give a background on microbial chemical warfare or the chemical language of microbes, illustrate their impact on human health, and connect to ongoing microbial explorations in the Loesgen Lab at Whitney (and many labs worldwide) with stories from microbes sampled worldwide. She will take you on a journey around the globe on our drug hunt. Our global microbiomes are an exquisite source for interesting and useful chemicals, we need to protect them. Dr. Sandra Loesgen is focused on understanding the diversity and bioactivity of the chemicals produced by microorganisms. She employs a multi-disciplinary approach to isolate compounds produced by terrestrial and marine microbes to identify chemicals with functions in the microbiome and the ecosystem but also can serve as drug leads for medical applications.

‘The Great American Trailer Park Musical’ at Daytona Playhouse, 100 Jessamine Blvd., Daytona Beach, 7:30 p.m. except Sundays at 2 p.m. There’s a new tenant at Armadillo Acres and she’s wreaking havoc all over Florida’s most exclusive trailer park. When a stripper on the run comes between the Dr. Phil–loving, agoraphobic and her husband, a storm brews. Directed by: Ashley King and Melissa Cargile.

Small Business Owners Forum with Mayoral Candidate Mike Norris, 6 p.m., Amvets Bunnell, 3400 Steel Rail Dr., Bunnell.



Notably: Among the endless streams, riches and shocks of Americana I continue to discover is this: the dance marathons of the 1920s and 30s, those incredibly exploitative, sadistic shows involving young people competing for $1,000 prizes by taking part in 1,000-hour dance marathons. Yes, 1,000 hours, or 42 days of dancing, with only 10 to 15-minute breaks per hour, otherwise, if they stopped moving, if their knees touched the floor, if they fainted and could not be revived by “helpers,” or a dunk in an ice bucket, they were eliminated. Spectators turned out to these things in masses. At 25 cents, it was cheap entertainment, like Rome’s gladiatorial shows. They came out to watch people suffer. There was nothing else to it. Their 25 cents was admission enough for as long as they could stay, though if they returned the next day, after eight hours’ rets, they had to pay another 25 cents. Promoters put on all sorts of peripheral shows, marrying contestants or throwing in more grueling tests along the way. Moralist societies, the moms for liberty types of their day, would complain–not because it was unhealthy for the contestants, or dangerous, but because it was “degrading,” because they wore skimpy clothes, because they took their rest on cots on the dance floor, because there were occasional escapes under the rafters. I got my own ice-bucket wake-up to all this reading Horace McCoy’s They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, the 1935 noir novel that packs a lot more than crime porn. It’s more along the lines of something Sartre might have envied writing. It’s depressing, some scenes are devastating, the rawness of Gloria’s nihilism makes Bazarov seem like a butterfly caught in Nabokov’s net. And as history of that era , it’s as good as Schlesinger and Steinbeck. And it reminds you that we’re still the lurid, willing spectators to others’ suffering, now more often through TV. “Tonight I find the new sensation, Survivor, on CBS, where “real people” are struggling to light a fire on their desert island,” Barbara Ehrenreich wrote in Nickel and Dimed, her book on the institutionalization of Depression-like America for a third of the population. “Who are these nutcases who would volunteer for an artificially daunting situation in order to entertain millions of strangers with their half-assed efforts to survive?” Don’t miss the quote below.

—P.T.

 

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“Do you ladies have children of your own?” Gloria asked, when the door had closed.
“We both have grown daughters,” Mrs. Higby said.
“Do you know where they are tonight and what they’re doing?”
Neither woman said anything.
“Maybe I can give you a rough idea,” Gloria said. “While you two noble characters are here doing your duty by some people you don’t know, your daughters are probably in some guy’s apartment, their clothes off, getting drunk.” Mrs. Higby and Mrs. Witcher gasped in unison.
“That’s generally what happens to the daughters of reformers,” Gloria said. “Sooner or later they all get laid and most of ’em don’t know enough to keep from getting knocked up.
You drive ’em away from home with your goddam lectures on purity and decency, and you’re too busy meddling around to teach ’em the facts of life–”
“Why–” said Mrs. Higby, getting red in the face.
“I–» Mrs. Witcher said.
“Gloria–” I said.
“It’s time somebody got women like you told,” Gloria said, moving over and standing with her back to the door, as if to keep them in, “and I’m just the baby to do it. You’re the kind of bitches who sneak in the toilet to read dirty books and tell filthy stories and then go out and try to spoil somebody else’s fun–”
“You move away from that door, young woman, and let us out of here!” Mrs. Higby shrieked. “I refuse to listen to you. I’m a respectable woman. I’m a Sunday School teacher–”
“I don’t move a f— inch until I finish,” Gloria said.
“Gloria–”
“Your Morals League and your goddam women’s clubs,” she said, ignoring me completely, “–filled with meddlesome old bitches who haven’t had a lay in twenty years. Why don’t you old dames go out and buy a lay once in a while? That’s all that’s wrong with you.”

–From Horace McCoy’s They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1935)

 

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Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Ray W. says

    September 12, 2024 at 9:16 am

    A Daily Mail article cited to a conservative pollster who was described as a “GOP polling expert”, Frank Lutz. The “so-called ‘Nostradamus’ of pollsters” said when asked if Harris had won: “I think more accurately is that Donald Trump lost.”

    And, Lutz said that former President Trump “gave ‘very close to’ the worst debate performance he’d ever seen, citing as low points Trump’s references to migrants eating dogs and praising Hungary’s leader Viktor Orban.”

    Make of this what you will.

    3
  2. Ray W. says

    September 12, 2024 at 10:13 am

    Here’s a snippet from a Karl Rove editorial column about the debate, published in the Wall Street Journal:

    “But there’s no putting lipstick on this pig. … Mr. Trump was crushed by a woman he previously dismissed as ‘dumb as a rock.’ Which raises the question: What does that make him?”

    4
  3. Laurel says

    September 12, 2024 at 11:11 am

    Trump is freaking bonkers. He is nuts!

    2
  4. Sherry says

    September 12, 2024 at 1:42 pm

    LOL! This cartoon has done an absolutely excellent job at portraying the “trump loving” Republican commentators on many media outlets. Somehow they managed to completely ignore trump’s incoherent, lying, meltdown. . . while scraping the bottom of the barrel to find something, anything for which to criticize Kamala Harris. Yes, that “IS” their job. However, in this circumstance, such criticism makes them look small, petty and blatantly pandering.

    How would any of you manage manage to “hold it together” at all debating with a unhinged person on TV with over 80 million people watching? Not only did Kamala provide a master class in how to win a debate, but she provided much needed information on her perspective on important policies.

    Those who use FOX talking points to say she didn’t provide enough details have become so inured to trump’s royal proclamations, they have forgotten that our President is not a king or queen. They do not (YET) have the sole power to simply wave their hand to have their minions implement their wishes. Our President still has checks and balances imposed by Congress, the courts, the justice department, and many other federal agencies.

    For example, if Kamala Harris lad out specific details of her plans and Congress blocked her, while in office, then her political opponents/the press would rip her apart and call her a failure. At this point, she must be careful to be “general” in her statements and not promise what she may not be able to deliver, because Kaala Harris is not the “dictator” that trump sees himself as.

    Vote for Kamala Harris as President. . . not Emperor!

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  5. Sherry says

    September 12, 2024 at 2:22 pm

    Just take a moment to read about this back and forth on X by MTG, and trump’s latest favorite conspiracy theory racist laura loomer. . . is this what the Republican party has de-evolved into? OMG!

    https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4876003-greene-loomer-clash-racist-harris/

    2
  6. Ed P says

    September 13, 2024 at 7:04 am

    Is anyone concerned how far left the radicals have moved the Democratic Party?
    The question of whether Harris can distance herself from Biden should really be how does she distance herself from her liberal radical ideology?
    And yes, she beat Trump in the debate. However, what did the voters learn about policy?
    To springboard off of Pelosi, maybe we just need to elect her to find out what she really believes.

  7. The dude says

    September 13, 2024 at 8:37 am

    Yes.
    And they’re nowhere near rock bottom yet…

    Jimbo or Dennis will be by shortly to demonstrate why.

    1
  8. Pogo says

    September 13, 2024 at 12:11 pm

    @Hello, Ray w.

    More, evener than most, the infamous ought to have their name spelled correctly — no?

    As stated
    https://coolcommunicator.com/estate-tax-death-tax-change-public-opinion-overnight-video/

    3
  9. Laurel says

    September 14, 2024 at 1:26 pm

    QUICK! DUCK! Here comes the ketchup!

    1

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