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Today at a Glance:
The Flagler County Public Library will be closing for the Thanksgiving Holiday at 5pm on Wednesday, November 27th, and will remain closed through Friday, November 29th.
Schools are closed until Monday.
 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: As you can see from the dearth of anything happening anywhere but in the aisles of grocery stores the city, the county, the country are pretty much shutting down for the rest of the week. It’s as good a day as any, to calm nerves about yesterday’s piece on black cats, to have a look at the almost-new release by Naxos, the workhorse of music labels: Classical for Cats. (Spotify has it here.) Naxos released it last December. It is re-marketing it in hopes of tempting cat owners to buy it as a Christmas gift for their broods. Naturally, it’s more Classical for Cat Owners Who Think Their Cats Give a Crap About Ravel, Mozart or Chopin than it is in any way insightful about what our cats really think of sounds that to them may be no different than tinnitus in chorus. But why not. Still. I couldn’t really associate any of the pieces with cats. The album opens with Tchaikovsky’s Waltz from the Nutcracker (meh), a piece more commonly associated with Christmas and kids than with cats. There’s that sublime adagio from Mozart’s serenade that Salieri swoons over in Amadeus (a terrific scene that manages, as can so rarely be done, to describe the beauty of music in simple words). It’s worth the whole album. Every time I hear this piece, I feel like I’m floating on those oboe notes. (See the Salieri excerpt below, and the full movement performed by the London Symphony Orchestra.) It’s followed by the adagio from one of Beethove’s overly famous sonatas, the Pathetique–anther wondrous memory to me mostly because it was the theme to Adventures in Good Music with Karl Haas on WQXR in New York for decades. Again: I never heard this piece spilling out of the Winter Garden Theater as “Cats” played there starting in 1982. Bach’s “Air on a G String”? The more you get into this album, the more it feels like a Top-40 spin around the classics (there are 31 cuts). Even the Schumann selection from his “Album for the Young” seems off. They picked “Folksong.” I would have picked the Happy Farmer. Then Bach’s “Sheep May Safely Graze,” from the Hunt Cantata? Pure pandering to sheep, or to wolves who like to bugger sheep, or to happy farmers who like to bugger sheep, but cats? I don’t hear it. Same with the largo from Dvorak’s Symphony from the New World, or a laconic piece by Delius: are cats that out of it? The next-to-last piece, a Piazzolla, is just delicious for whatever kind of animal you are, as is Piazzolla almost always. But for all that, my four cats aren’t interested. They heard Cheryl rattle their kind of Piazzolla downstairs and fled. I can’t blame them. Sorry Naxos: you catalogue is the eighth wonder of the world, but this album isn’t for us.
—P.T.
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Flagler Beach Farmers Market
Flagler Beach All Stars Beach Clean-Up
Coffee With Flagler Beach Commission Chair Scott Spradley
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Flagler Beach Holiday Parade
Sunshine and Sandals Social at Cornerstone
Palm Coast Holiday Market
Rotary’s Fantasy Lights Festival in Palm Coast’s Town Center
The Kingdom Choir at the Fitz
‘The Country Girl’ at City Repertory Theatre
A Christmas Carol at Athens Theatre
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
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Books fill vacant spaces better than other collectibles, because they represent a different order of plenitude – they occupy not only the morocco-bound spine span on the shelf but the ampler stretches, the camel caravans of thought-bearing time required to read them through. If you amass a private library of hundreds of thousands of volumes, as the great Caliph Hakim II of Córdoba did before he died, in the year 976, you can feel confident that you have secured a kind of implied immortality: you die owning in reserve all the hours and years it would take those who outlive you to read, not to mention copy over, the words each book contains – and that bank of shelved time is your afterlife. And if you will your books to a cathedral library, or to a university, with the firm injunction that the books you give be chained in perpetuity (a stipulation that a number of English and Italian library benefactors included in their wills), you can’t truly die, or so you may secretly believe: you can’t sink to infernal sub-basement floors or float off to some poorly lit limbo, because your beloved delegation of volumes, the library that surrounded you in life, and suffered with you, and is you, is not tethered firmly to the present; you will live on, linked by iron and brass to the resonant strongbox of the world’s recorded thought. One testator of 1442 asked that his rare books be chained in the library at Guildhall, so that, he says, “the visitors and students thereof be the sooner admonished to pray for my soul.”
–From Nicholson Baker’s “Books as Furniture,” The New Yorker, June 12, 1995.
Dennis C Rathsam says
Isn’t it time you grew up Pierre? Your acting like a sore loser! You must suffer from TRUMP Derangement Syndrome! These cartoons are in bad taste, mocking the 47 president of the USA! TRUMPs apparently wedge in your brain! You cant shake him loose, he,s your new daddy! You have more than 4 years to deal with him, get over it! Your flip flop lying communist candidate lost! And lost big! Why don’t you be a man, grow some balls, & move on. Your in the minority now, real Americans voted change, from the failed policies of the Biden/ Harris cluster fuck of 4 years! Your turning into Hillary Clinton, cant except the fact you lost. Come on pal, your better than that, arent you?
GOP are terrorist says
I think you drank too much of the propaganda kool aid. Maybe read a book or turn off the faux news or most likely you will just keep being a magatard and waive your nazi flag around. Thats great you prefer sex offenders to lead you but most people with a brain do not.
Laurel says
Dennis, and like Trumpers: Especially when your hero is so good at giving a mic a blow job in front of his rally and on TV. All class. Golden bathroom fixtures won’t help him. But make sure you ban the books that show two penguins raising a chick. What Trump does is fine for kids to see, but penguins? Oh hell no. Trump said of his buddy, sex offender Jeffery Epstein, “He likes ’em young” and of Epstein’s fellow child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, after she was sentenced to 20 years in prison, “I wish her well.” But that’s okay with you, right?
Like the cartoon states, your boy like pervs. He is also good with rape, are you? Seems so.
Sorry man, but you are so blatantly clueless of how things really are. You and your Trumpsters ignore the facts, and they ignore the truth, because the truth hurts. You are about to get a dose of what you voted for. Traditionally, it takes about 18 months for the incoming President to either improve, or fuck up what the previous President did. Now you’ll have to cover his ugly ass constantly, and continue the blaming of others like calling them communists when you have no proof. But proof doesn’t matter either, does it?
The lawsuits are about to come tumbling down, one after another, and your taxes will be paying for them all. Enjoy.
Also, where’s Ivonka and Jared? Took their $2,000,000,000.00 from the Saudis, with your blessing. Now, we can forget about Jamal Khashoggi, right? Now you can go after other American journalists too. Cut ’em up and pack ’em in suit cases. Makes ya proud, doesn’t it?
Make America Proud Again. Watch the world as it turns its back on us. Watch our allies drop us. Watch the countries stop buying and selling to us, and turn to other countries. Trump can pay off the soybean farmers again after his last debacle. Let’s see what happens to the American dollar. Yep, we are an island.
By the way, learn when to use an apostrophe and when to use a comma, and stop worrying about other people’s balls.
Sherry says
A BIG THANK YOU LAUREL! I don’t even bother reading the “complete GARBAGE” that dennis posts. He is the worst kind of ignorant, foul, fear and hate filled brainwashed maga cult member that is not worth my time. Saying that, I admire anyone who points out the “credible facts” and pushes back on the maga terrorists and bullies.
Happy Thanksgiving Laurel, Pogo, Ray W, Dude, Skibum, Deborah, Nancy N, Jim, Bill C, and all the others who still live in fact based reality! We are incredibly blessed to have Pierre and Flaglerlive who continues to unabashedly “speak truth to power”!
Just Wow says
what news are you watching? Last I saw 8 years ago, Trump wasn’t doing any of the things he’s being said to be proposing for the his next 4 years. I’m really confused, because what my eyes see, are nothing as reported here! And I’m not a Fox watcher, or any other news channel. I’m watching and living life and am in no way scared of someone taking over my body or waiting for these bad actors from other country’s to attack us. They won’t, or they would have done it already when he was the president before.
All this hearsay is nothing more than that, hear say !! Get over yourselves, you all defiantly need to grow up, the Country voted, and as I see it, The majority want change, be it whatever !! The next 4 years haven’t even started yet, and all I hear and see, is crying coming from the Left!
I ask a few questions. How, can a person burn through Billions of dollars, and not win the job of President, if the person was all that great ? And…..still owe millions ? And you want this person to run our great Country ?? Just wow !!!!!
YankeeExPat says
He’s your new daddy! ?
Dennis , I think you are experiencing a wee bit of a man crush yourself
Are you perhaps experiencing a thrill going up your leg as with Obama?
This to shall pass . Go watch some football on T.V. and have a cold beer,………and NO Gladiator movies !
BillC says
Trump’s victory margin over Harris was 1.62 percent. That’s smaller than any winner since Bush in 2000, when the margin was 0.51 percent. Going back further, only John F. Kennedy in 1960 and Nixon in 1968 won the popular vote by smaller margins, 0.17 percent and 0.7 percent, respectively.
The only “derangement syndrome” is the belief that Trump won in a landside. “Empty barrels make the most noise”. That means you are loud and rude but factually deficient, proud to be ignorant. You represent the MAGA base well. We’ll see in 6 months how you feel after Trump crashes the economy and causes inflation to come roaring back and health care collapses.
Denali says
Bad taste? That is rich coming from one who supports a convicted felon, an adjudicated rapist and a liar. One of the great things about this country is the freedom to speak your mind without retaliation. At least that is true today, next year it may be different. You also have the right to not read or view items you find repugnant. Personally I find it interesting that there is not a right leaning media source comparable to Flagler Live.
But more importantly, please learn to use the English language properly. You might be taken a bit more seriously if your grammar, spelling, punctuation and word usage was at least equivalent to that of a tenth grader.
Pogo says
@Any time is a good time to speak of cats
https://www.google.com/search?q=why+was+cat's+cradle+banned
The End
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Ray W, says
More good news for Republicans.
Gallup ran a poll between November 17-20 about consumer confidence in the economy. Yes, just two weeks after the election and consumer confidence in the American economy is up.
Here are a few bullet points:
– “The higher confidence in the economy is being driven by Republicans, according to Gallup. Their confidence in the economy has gone up 29 points since October, from -72 to -43. Independents’ confidence in the economy went up nine points to -25, but Democrats’ confidence 10 points since October to +27.”
– “‘Republicans’ views about national conditions are likely to become increasingly positive in the coming months, while Democrats’ opinions will likely sour,’ Gallup wrote. ‘Once Trump and the Republican Congress are installed in their offices in early 2025, Republicans’ assessment of the economy, state of the nation and federal leaders are expected to surpass those of Democrats.'”
– Costas Panagopoulos, a Northeastern University political science professor said, “[t]hey likely reflect views about the election outcome more so than any meaningful economic assessments. The economy doesn’t change that quickly, and there have been no major changes in key economic indicators to justify big changes in perceptions of the economy.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Professor Panagopoulos is likely correct. The economic indicators continue to point to a strong economy, as they have for years. Nothing of economic significance had really changed in the two weeks after the election. Perhaps a bump in the road here and there.
As the Wall Street Journal recently opined, President-elect Trump will be inheriting an economy that is the “envy of the world.”
We were not economically destroyed during the Biden years. We are better off economically than we were four years ago.
It seems that a number of Republicans are finally coming to the realization that the economy was strong all along after all. Good for them! The cognitive dissonance from their lying about President Biden’s economic policies seems to have been too much and they are realizing that they were wrong.
Ray W, says
More good economic news, FlaglerLive readers.
Each quarterly Commerce Department GDP report has an initial reporting date, a revision date, and a final report date.
America’s estimated third quarter GDP report came out about three weeks ago. Today, the revised estimated report issued. On December 19th the final report will drop.
The Associated Press reported on today’s revised figures. Here are some bullet points:
– “The American economy expanded at a healthy 2.8% annual pace from July through September on strong consumer spending and a surge in exports, the government said Wednesday, leaving unchanged its initial estimate of third-quarter growth.”
– “U.S. gross domestic product — the economy’s output of goods and services — slowed from the April-July rate of 3%.”
– “But the GDP report still showed that the American economy — the world’s largest — is proving surprisingly durable. Growth has topped 2% for eight of the last nine quarters.”
– “Within the GDP data, a category that measures the economy’s underlying strength rose at a solid 3.2% annual rate from July through September, up from 2.7% in the April-June quarter. This category includes consumer spending and private investment but excludes volatile items like exports, inventories and government spending.”
– “Consumer spending, which accounts for about 70% of U.S. economic activity, accelerated to a 3.5% annual pace last quarter, up from 2.8% in the April-June period and fastest growth since the fourth quarter of 2023. Exports also contributed to the third quarter’s growth, increasing at a 7.5% rate, most in two years. Still, the third-quarter growth in both consumer spending and exports was lower than the Commerce Department initially estimated.”
– “But growth in business investment slowed sharply on a drop in investment in housing and in nonresidential buildings such as offices and warehouses. By contrast, spending on equipment surged.”
– “When he takes office next month (sic), President-elect Trump will inherit an economy that looks broadly healthy.”
– “Growth is steady. Unemployment is low at 4.1%. Inflation, which hit a four-decade high 9.1% in June 2022, has fallen to 2.6%. That is still above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target, but the central bank felt satisfied enough with the progress against inflation to cut its benchmark interest rate in September and again this month.”
– “Wednesday’s report also contained some encouraging news on inflation. The Federal Reserve’s favored inflation gauge — called the personal consumption expenditures index, or PCE — rose at just a 1.5% annual pace last quarter, down from 2.5% in the second quarter. Excluding volatile food and energy prices, so-called core PCI inflation was 2.1%, down from 2.8% in the April-June quarter.”
Make of this what you will.
Me?
Once again, solid proof that we were not economically destroyed during the Biden years. President-elect Trump is about to inherit an economy that the Wall Street Journal calls the “envy of the world.” We are economically better off than we were four years ago.
Adolf got elected too says
Treasonous trump is a rapist and convicted felon. I will never support him. But hey turn up the hate immigrants are the new Jews right? So chief rapist is dismantling and sabotaging the nation and its institutions. Magatards are know for their incompetence. Enjoy the dumpster fire, should be millions of people suffering from this dip shits agenda within a year. Hope you are one of them if you voted for this imbisile.
Bye bye merica says
Gonna get at least 2 years of total government sabatoge. Magtards out to make sure nothing works but you for pittance. USA was corrupt from top to bottom! All good things must come to an end…..
Bob says
notion of insanity. Doing the same thing over and over with the same result. Identity politics does not work anymore
Ray W, says
Yet another significant economic achievement for Cheniere Energy.
Its Corpus Christi export facility just received regulatory approval to introduce natural gas into its “Stage 3 liquefaction expansion”.
From what I can glean from various sites, Stage 3 will be the final expansion of the site. The first two operating stages currently produce roughly 15 million tons of LNG per year. When Stage 3 becomes fully operational, an additional 10 million tons of LNG capacity per year can be exported.
The Corpus Christi site can berth and fill two of the world’s largest class of LNG supertankers at a time. The first batch of LNG product for export is expected to be produced before year’s end.
As I have commented before, this is the facility that the EIA predicted will reach full buildout before the end of 2024. Two more LNG facilities are expected to come online next year. When all permitted capacity is operational, current LNG export capacity is expected to double, according to the EIA.
There Cheniere Energy story is quite interesting, and I have written of much of it over time.
Sharif Souki cofounded Cheniere Energy as a small shale oil exploration company. Around the turn of the century and long before the Shale Revolution, the company pivoted to LNG importation. At the time, no operational American LNG export facility existed. Cheniere risked everything to build the import facility; it was completed in 2008, right when the Shale Revolution started.
Suddenly, there was no need to import LNG, as ample supplies of American natural gas became available.
Cheniere’s stock, once floating around the $50 per share price, hit $1.00 on October 24, 2008.
Cheniere pivoted again.
As the company already had brand-new completed LNG storage tanks, it bet that it could convert the Sabine Pass, Louisiana site from an import facility into an export facility.
Eventually borrowing some $30 billion when it didn’t have enough money to make payroll, Cheniere beat the odds. Both the Sabine Pass and Corpus Christi plants are either fully built out or almost fully built out. Cheniere is America’s largest LNG exporter by volume. It’s stock currently sits at just above $222 per share.
Make of this what you will.
Me? Cheniere Energy survived and then thrived over the years, first under the Obama administration, which issued the permits to build the Sabine Pass plant. It thrived under the Trump administration, which issued the permits to build the Corpus Christi plant. It thrived under the Biden administration, which gave regulatory approval to finish buildouts of both plants.
The gullible among us have bought into the lie that Democrats are communists, or Marxists, or Socialists. The professional lying class of one of our two political parties repeats such lies at every opportunity. The inept disinformation launderers on the FlaglerLive site repeat the lies, over and over again. This means you, Dennis C. Rathsam, and you, too, JimboXYZ. Democrats believe in the rule of law.
Some three years ago, I first raised the idea on FlaglerLive that never before in our history of many recessions had a $6 trillion unfunded stimulus package been tried in response to an economic shock. Even during the Great Recession, the total unfunded stimulus package was under $2 trillion. Today, economists still debate whether the Great Recession stimulus packages were too much or too little.
No one knew, I then argued, what the outcome of the unprecedented financial experiment would be. We still don’t know what will be the final effect on the federal debt. I agree with Fed Chair Powell that it we don’t address the debt issue, it could in time become “unsustainable.”
Had Congress not initially thrown $2 trillion at the crisis, we might have blown through the definition of recession and entered into the realm of depression. Economists now say that we lost just over $7 trillion in GDP output during the first few months of the pandemic.
Such was the fear at the time of the initial Senate vote that the first $2 trillion in unfunded stimulus money passed by a vote of 96-0 in the Senate. Yes, a Republican-controlled Senate unanimously passed Trump’s first stimulus package. Trump’s second stimulus package, this time $900 billion, soon passed, though this time the Senate vote was not unanimous. Our children may never forgive us for the debt we will leave them, but had we gone into depression, the economic effects likely would have been far worse than just the $9 trillion lost.
At this early time, I did not know of the importance of the Fed expanding the credit market by an unprecedented $3 trillion more dollars.
I knew of the Fed’s decision to lower lending rates to 0%, but only barely comprehended its combined impact on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages of as low as 2.7%. We all know now that hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Americans competed over too few homes in an effort to lock in the low mortgage rates. Home prices soared, triggering inflation. Rental home rates soared, too, triggering more inflation.
Nearly every economist of that time was predicting first an overheated economy from all the spending, followed by a Fed-instigated rise in lending rates, followed by inflation, followed by a significant rise in the unemployment rate, followed by a “hard landing” into recession. I, too, thought recession likely.
Positive jobs added economic report after positive jobs added economic report began and then kept rolling out, month after month after month. Other positive economic news first trickled then soared.
In time, articles began appearing in which economists were quoted as predicting a soft landing, meaning no recession.
After a while the initial few became a majority of economists. In time, almost all economists came to accept the thought that recession was less and less likely to occur.
Then, a few economists began to predict what was once thought impossible. The economy might never land; it would possibly glide back into full health.
Now a majority of economists accept a non-landing future, though some still think a soft landing likely and a few outliers still predict recession.
All the while the Biden administration kept watch over distributing the remainder of the unspent Trump-era stimulus packages, as well as the distribution of the Biden-era stimulus packages.
Our economy has had the strongest economic recovery from the pandemic economic freefall of all of the world’s developed economies. No reasoning commenter could fault the way the Biden administration has weathered the storm. It is impossible to call a potential full economic recovery a bad thing. It might be less good than it could have been in a perfect world, but it wasn’t bad.
Trump bears acknowledgment for his part in the recovery, as does Fed Chair Powell. Each of the three leading figures should be lauded for their actions.
The “pestilential” partisan members of faction among us will never acknowledge the Biden administration’s role in presiding over what was once thought impossible, but that proves nothing. Our founding fathers knew such people were uneducable and so do I.
One day perhaps I will again explain the concept of educability and its opposite, uneducability, as it was taught to and understood by our founding fathers, and its effect on the inability of the gullible among us to exercise intellectual rigor.
President-elect Trump is about to inherit an economy that the Wall Street Journal calls “the envy of the world.” America was not economically destroyed. We are economically better off than we were four years ago.
Ray W, says
CNN has a story about today’s Commerce Department release of the monthly Personal Consumption Expenditures (both goods and services) price index for October, a gauge the reporter says is favored by the Fed.
Here are some bullet points:
– Consensus among economists prior to the release was that the PCE percentage increase over the past 12 months would be 2.3%. The reported increase was 2.3%.
– Consensus among economists prior to the release of the October monthly PCE increase over September would be 0.2%. The monthly increase came in at 0.2%.
– Services, when separated from goods, rose 0.4% for the month. Goods rose 0.1% for the month.
– Food and gas prices “held relatively stable.” When food and gas prices were severed out of the overall PCE price index, the “core PCE index” rose 0.3% for the months and 2.8% for the past 12 months.
– “‘Core has basically gone nowhere for six months,’ Dan North, senior economist for Allianz Trade North America, told CNN. ‘And 2.8% is a long way from 2%. And 2% doesn’t mean just bumping 2%, it means getting to 2% or less indefinitely.”
– “‘The big picture is inflation is still a risk; that hasn’t changed,’ Elizabeth Renter, senior economist at NerdWallet, told CNN in an interview. ‘But this report is not cause for alarm.'”
– The process of reining in high inflation was expected to be bumpy, and the latest reading may be just that. However, some persistent price pressures (for significant expenses like rents and mortgages) are keeping inflation from stabilizing at the central bank’s target 2% rate.”
– “‘The disinflationary trend that we saw earlier this year has effectively stalled as we head into what’s likely to be a bumpy 2025 inflation ride,’ Olu Sonola, head of US economic research for Fitch Ratings, said in a statement. ‘The Fed will be concerned and cautious. However, the totality of the data continues to point in the direction of a rate cut in December, while guiding towards a very slow pace in 2025.'”
– “‘The proposed tariffs to Canada and Mexico are an upside risk to our inflation forecasts,’ Deutsche Bank Research economists wrote Monday in a note.”
– “The PCE price index is part of the Commerce Department’s monthly Personal Income and Outlays report, which includes comprehensive data on how Americans earn, spend and save.”
– “And in October, that financial foundation was indeed strong for the economy-powering consumer: Personal income shot up 0.6%, the largest monthly increase since March; and disposable income (income minus taxes) was up o.7% in nominal terms and 0.4% when taking inflation into account.”
– “Spending, which economists expected would take a hit because of back-to-back devastating hurricanes to hit the Southeast, held up as well, rising 0.4% for the month (and 0.1% when accounting for inflation).”
– “‘This is a good setup for holiday sales,’ North said, adding he expects holiday spending to outpace the National Retail Federation’s forecasts for a 2.5% to 3.5% bump in sales for the season.”
– “‘It’s important to keep in mind that, on average, the economic picture is good, and consumers are spending heartily, but there’s a lot of color and nuance hiding beneath those aggregates.’ [Renter] said.”
Make of this what you will.
Me? Even when factoring in the negative economic effects of two major hurricanes on spending, the monthly spending figures for October remain strong. And the inflation figures remain stable.
As the Wall Street Journal opined, Presidential-elect Trump will soon inherit an economy that is the “envy of the world.” We were not economically destroyed. We are better off economically than we were four years ago.