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Weather: Mostly cloudy with a chance of showers. A slight chance of thunderstorms in the morning, then a chance of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the mid 80s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph with gusts up to 20 mph. Chance of rain 50 percent. Wednesday Night: Mostly cloudy. A chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly in the evening. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent.
- Daily weather briefing from the National Weather Service in Jacksonville here.
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Today at a Glance:
The Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board meets at 10 a.m. every first Wednesday of the month at City Hall. For agendas, minutes, and audio access to the meetings, go here. For details about the city’s code enforcement regulations, 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 Beach Library Book Club meets at 1 p.m. at the library, 315 South Seventh Street, Flagler Beach.
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.
The Flagler County Republican Club holds its monthly meeting starting with a social hour at 5 and the business meeting at 6 p.m. at the Hilton Garden Inn, 55 Town Center Blvd., Palm Coast. The club is the social arm of the Republican Party of Flagler County, which represents over 40,000 registered Republicans. Meetings are open to Republicans only.
 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. |
Editorial Notebook: We tried.
—P.T.
Now this: See the translated lyrics below.
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Flagler County Drug Court Convenes
Flagler County Canvassing Board Meeting
Story Time for Preschoolers at Flagler Beach Public Library
Flagler Tiger Bay Club Guest Speaker: Carlos M. Cruz
Model Yacht Club Races at the Pond in Palm Coast’s Town Center
Free For All Fridays With Host David Ayres on WNZF
Scenic A1A Pride Meeting
Blue 24 Forum
Acoustic Jam Circle At The Community Center In The Hammock
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They hold each others by the hand
And walk in silence
In those faded cities
which are rocked by drizzle
Only their steps ring
Hummed step by step
They walk in silence
The desperates
They have burnt their wings
They have lost their branches
Shipwrecked in such a way
That death looks white
They come back from loves
They have awaken
They walk silently
The desperates
And I know their way for having walked it
Already more than a hundred times
A hundred times more than halfway
Less old or more bruised
They are going to reach its end
They walk in silence
The desperates
And below the bridge
Water is sweet and deep
Here is the good hostess
Here is the end of the world
They cry their firstname
Like newlyweds
They melt in silence
The desperates
Let stand up the one
who throws them the stone
He only knows of love
The verb “to love oneself”
On the bridge there is nothing left
But a light mist
They are forgotten in silence
The ones who have hoped
Se tiennent par la main
Et marchent en silence
Dans ces villes éteintes
Que le crachin balance
Ne sonnent que leurs pas
Pas à pas fredonnés
Ils marchent en silence
Les désespérés
Ils ont brûlé leurs ailes
Ils ont perdu leurs branches
Tellement naufragés
Que la mort paraît blanche
Ils reviennent d´amour
Ils se sont réveillés
Ils marchent en silence
Les désespérés
Et je sais leur chemin
Pour l´avoir cheminé
Déjà plus de cent fois
Cent fois plus qu´à moitié
Moins vieux ou plus meurtris
Ils vont le terminer
Ils marchent en silence
Les désespérés
Lente sous le pont
L´eau est douce et profonde
Voici la bonne hôtesse
Voici la fin du monde
Ils pleurent leurs prénoms
Comme de jeunes mariés
Et fondent en silence
Les désespérés
Que se lève celui
Qui leur lance la pierre
Ils ne sait de l´amour
Que le verbe “s´aimer”
Sur le pont n´est plus rien
Qu´une brume légère
Ça s´oublie en silence
Ceux qui ont espéré
–Brel’s “Les désespérés” (1965)
Pogo says
@We?
Epitaphs should not be a lie too.
joe says
Anger, fear, lies are powerful forces….we’ll have to see if they are really the answers to our problems or a delusion fed to millions by a life-long con man. He promised last night to spend every bit of his strength and energy “working” for the American people – a sad joke from the man who routinely showed up in the Oval office at 11:00 am after spending the morning watching TV.
Sadly, the siren song of the demagogue feels comforting – we’ll see how it turns out.
James says
Well, all I can say is…
Congratulations President Trump!
You did it… you got the majority of the American public to vote you into office once again.
As the saying goes, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. Fool me thrice and well… I donno… could anyone be fooled three times in a row?
Apparently so!
Good luck.
Uh o says
Will be a race to gutter, our rapist in chief grabbed Kamala by the puss. Remember immigrants eat your pets so they must all be deported. Gotta love idiocracy coming true.
Ray W, says
The Wall Street Journal published an article today titled:
“What a Trump Win Means for the Economy”
The article contains a general overview and three more focused subsections.
Here are some bullet points:
General Overview
– “To fulfill [Trump] voters’ hopes, Trump’s main economic tools will be the same as in the first term: tariffs and tax cuts. But there’s a difference. The tariffs he’s planning will be broader and higher, and the tax cuts more narrowly targeted.
“The consensus of economists and investors is that tariffs will put upward pressure on inflation while tax cuts could spur growth and add to deficits, together tending to nudge interest rates higher.
“… [Trump] inherits a relatively benign outlook. Growth has been surprisingly strong while inflation has fallen substantially from its peaks, although prices are still high. The Federal Reserve is set to trim interest rates Thursday for the second time this year.”
Make of the general overview what you will.
Me? Just last week the Journal predicted that regardless of the election outcome, the winner would inherit an economy that is the envy of the world. If accurate, Trump will soon inherit a strong economy, just as he did in 2017. He says he will impose 60% tariffs on imports from China and 10% on imports from certain other countries. What a candidate says on the campaign trail is one thing. What a candidate either submits to Congress for approval or imposes via executive order can be entirely different from what a candidate promises on the campaign trail.
Here are the subsections.
“Trade comes first”
– “Trump’s first-term tariffs had no noticeable effect on inflation. because they were relatively modest, and globally subdued demand and investment and slack labor markets were pushing in the opposite direction. On the eve of his election, wages were rising just 2.4% a year. Bond investors expected future inflation to average 1.8%, below the Fed’s 2% target.
“This time Trump has promised much higher tariffs — at least 60% on China, and 10% to 20% on everyone else. Such a combination would lift U.S. tariff rates to their highest since the 1930s. And it would come when demand is brisk, supply chains are vulnerable to geopolitical conflict, and memories of inflation are fresh. Wages are growing 3.8% a year, and bonds see future inflation at 2.3%.”
“Then come taxes”
– The 2017 tax cuts sunset in 2025. If extended long enough or made permanent, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) estimates that the extended tax cuts “would cost about $5 trillion over 10 years.”
– Trump’s proposals to lower corporate tax rates, to exempt tips and Social Security benefits and overtime pay from taxation, alongside his proposals to allow deductions for car loan interest and state and local taxes would “add about $4 trillion to the deficit over 10 years”, also according to the CRFB.
– Deutsche Bank predicts a 0.5% boost in 2025 growth with the proposed lower taxes and an extension of the 2017 tax cuts and a 0.4% boost in 2026, without considering the impact of tariffs. “With a 60% tariff on China and 10% on everyone else, Deutsche estimates the net effect on growth becomes negative.”
– “Tax cuts would also add to the deficit and put upward pressure on interest rates.” JP Morgan rates strategist John Barry, without considering the impact of an extension of the 2017 tax cuts, “estimates Treasury’s current schedule of debt auctions is enough to fund next year’s deficit, but would fall $3.3 trillion short from 2026 through 2029. …
“If the Treasury starts upping auction sizes to finance larger deficits, that is likely to put upward pressure on yields.”
“Regulations”
– “Trump has proposed lighter regulation, for example of mergers and of the oil-and-gas industry. These ought to boost growth and business confidence and hold down inflation. But economists think the effects are too difficult to identify in the broader economy. For example, U.S. oil production and gasoline prices are driven mostly by global prices, which are in turn heavily influenced by OPEC, sanctions, Middle East conflict and Chinese economic growth.”
Make of this what you will.
Me? I submit that the WSJ author correctly argues that the international energy marketplace drives crude oil prices. Right now, the U.S. produces a record amount of crude oil per day. Brazil, Canada and Guyana have upped their respective production figures, too. OPEC complains that some member nations are exceeding production quotas. The prices for crude oil has already dropped some 15% this year. WTI crude, last time I checked, hovers around $70 per barrel. A Saudi energy minister warned fellow member nations that oil prices could drop to $50 per barrel if member nations keep exceeding their quotas.
Months ago, OPEC announced production increases, but the cartel keeps pushing back implementation dates. If too much foreign oil floods into the international energy marketplace, American energy producers are not likely to increase their own crude oil production levels. In that scenario, any production increase by American energy companies would further drive down prices, something American energy CEOs don’t want.
Pogo says
@Oh, yeah — excoooooose me
Good luck, fat Hitler Jr. (and Jeffrey Epstein, and too many other scumbags to name)
Tip of the shitberg
https://www.google.com/search?q=epstein+calls+trump+bff
Ya done ya self proud — ‘Murica.
Land of no turn signals says says
All over but the crying.
Kennan says
What have we learned? Crime pays. What else have we learned? America is racist. America is misogynistic. No policy, Just identity. A country that talks smack on a nearly constant basis to successfully take the attention off of what it doesn’t do.
The biggest guilty party is our two party system. Is it hasn’t worked for decades. The absolutely lowered bar crescendo in the last eight years. Two parties that do nothing more than tit for tat. Two parties that are so far apart, and hate each other so much, that when it comes time for bills laws and policies, nothing gets done. And it never will. It never will.
We all know what a piece of garbage Donald J Trump is, but irregardless of your party affiliation this great American experiment has failed. Coke and Pepsi don’t do it, because Coke and Pepsi became Crips and Bloods.
The answer is a multi party system. Very simple. More parties bring more overlap. You don’t have two candidates that couldn’t be more different instead you have, let’s say six. Out of that six, you will find common ground. How much I don’t know, but you will find common ground . Europe has been doing it for decades upon decades. They took the concept of democracy and ran with it. Although not perfect. They at least have democracy. We have to stop doing the same thing over and over and over again and hoping for different results. It’s not gonna happen. Are we this dumb?