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Today at a Glance:
Nothing doing today, other than: Happy Birthday Sheriff Staly. Time for Veuve-Cliquot.
Notably: An item worth rear-view mirroring 365 days from now. From Statista: “Eight in ten respondents said that next year, we can expect the world to warm further still. This belief was most widespread in Indonesia (91 percent), the Philippines (89 percent) and Malaysia (88 percent). In a similar vein, more than seven in ten (72 percent) of respondents said they expect to see more extreme weather events in the country that they live in than last year. Meanwhile, many respondents were doubtful over whether the government in their country would introduce more demanding targets to reduce carbon emissions more quickly, with only 52 percent of respondents saying it was likely authorities would act in such a way. Respondents in China were the most optimistic about this prospect (84 percent). Views on whether the conflicts currently raging in the Middle East and Ukraine will come to an end in 2025 were pessimistic. Only around two in ten people thought it would be the case in the Middle East. In Ukraine, closer to three in ten thought the same, but this still marks a four percentage point drop on predictions from the same time one year ago. Just one in three people worldwide thought that people in their country would become more tolerant of one another, marking a fall of two percentage points since last year. In terms of the online world, nearly two thirds of respondents said that they expect AI will replace jobs in their country in 2025. At the same time, 43 percent agreed that AI will lead to many new jobs being created in their country. When asked whether respondents thought that many more people will live in virtual worlds next year, 59 percent of respondents agreed it likely would be the case – up from 56 percent in 2022.”
—P.T.
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August 2025
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
Flagler Beach Planning and Architectural Review Board
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
Palm Coast Code Enforcement Board Meeting
Separation Chat: Open Discussion
Flagler Beach Library Book Club
The Circle of Light A Course in Miracles Study Group
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 9-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Flagler County Republican Club Meeting
Flagler Beach Parks Ad Hoc Committee
For the full calendar, go here.
“However, the climate has not changed; and the sky of London is just as cloudy as it was then. Everything changes in bodies and minds with time. Perhaps one day the Americans will come to teach the arts to the peoples of Europe. The climate has some power, the government a hundred times more; religion joined to the government still more.”
–From Voltaire’s Questions sur l’Encyclopedie (1772).
Pogo says
@Thank you Voltaire
… there’s a lesson in most things:
Voltaire: Enlightenment Philosopher and Lottery Scammer
The French government was trying to raise money by running a bond lottery, but a group of intellectuals had other ideas
Kat Eschner
November 21, 2017
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/voltaire-enlightenment-philosopher-and-lottery-scammer-180967265/
And so it goes…
https://floridalottery.com/
Ed P says
Not a chance. Trump’s ego and ability to suck all the oxygen out of a room will prevent Musk from an underground coup. We all know who looses that pissing contest.
Pogo says
@20 days in January 2025 will see
… on 01/06/2025, the terminal illness of the government of the United States of America will be confirmed and proclaimed, and on 01/09/2025 President Carter’s state funeral service will take place:
Jimmy Carter will have funeral services in Plains, Ga., Atlanta and Washington, D.C.
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/30/g-s1-40552/jimmy-carter-funeral-mourning-plains-georgia-washington
And on January 20, 2025, the world’s best known Archie Bunker impersonator will become POTUSS (President of the United States supposedly); presently, it is unknown if trump will take its oath while sitting on President Musk’s knee.
Pogo says
@Good night…
Skibum says
There are a number of “what ifs” that, until the recent era of the maga idol worship of their “orange Jesus”, virtually nobody with any common sense would have even taken seriously questions such as posed in this political cartoon. And unfortunately, America has become the political cartoon of the world stage. Not merely because drumph will be the first convicted to soon occupy the WH. Not merely because of the hundreds of his convicted maga insurrectionist rioters serving federal prison sentences that drumph has vowed to pardon and set free among us once again, making a mockery of our justice system. Not just because of the complicit republi-con members of Congress, who have adopted the “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” model after losing their collective spines and groveling at the feet of one of our nation’s most despicable elected presidents just so they can kiss his ring an vow total and complete allegiance to his every whim as he demands. No, not because of any one of those horrible, anti-democratic truths, but because of ALL of them combined, the horrible example of a human being who never saw a woman’s genitals he couldn’t stop himself from groping will once again be at the helm of our nation’s power, to the shock, the horror, the astonishment of many of us here in America and around the world. God help us! No, on second thought… God, please FORGIVE us, for we know not what we have done.
James says
https://lasvegassun.com/news/2024/dec/31/trump-calls-it-the-center-of-the-universe-mar-a-la/
James says
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masque_of_the_Red_Death_(1964_film)
Laurel says
It was Musk’s money backed campaign, that massively targeted the swing states, that got Trump elected. Musk has one up on Trump…cash. He can piss farther.
Laurel says
Pogo: Oh my goodness, after faithfully watching “The Andy Griffith Show” as a kid, then much later, seeing “A face in the Crowd” (I was not aware of the movie for decades) was a shocker for me! Andy Taylor was my idea of a man. Lonesome Rhodes was at the end of the spectrum! It was like repeatedly getting my face slapped.
Andy Griffith was one hell of a good actor.
Laurel says
…other end of the spectrum…
Laurel says
“The party of law and order.” I think not.
Laurel says
Trumplicans, guess who was not invited?
Well, the ultra wealthy are happy.
Ed P says
Laurel,
Kamala Harris raised $1.65 billion.
Trump raised $1.09 billion.
Leads to conclusion that she lost the race despite significantly outspending Trump. So is it fair to say money raised/spent did not decide the election?
Obviously, Musk in moments in time is the richest individual in the world.
DOGE will be an advisory position. Can we agree that all presidents have and should have advisors?
Spend a nano second, check out Biden’s closest advisors who have ties to big businesses and Wall Street. Even a few billionaires.
Objectively and intellectual curiosity might ease the hysteria.
Skibum says
The maga law and order credo: law and order for thee, but not for me!
Laurel says
So now your angle is to add the word “hysteria” in response to my comments?
Nah, won’t work.
Sherry says
Dear Laurel,
Just love the chauvinistic use of that misogynic word “Hysteria” NOT! However, we must always “consider the source”. . . therefore not surprising.
I thought perhaps we would all benefit from reading the history of that dastardly term:
Hysteria was basically the medical explanation for ‘everything that men found mysterious or unmanageable in women’, a conclusion only supported by men’s (historic and continuing) dominance over medicine, and hysteria’s continued use as a synonym for “over-emotional” or “deranged.” It’s also worth noting how many of the problems physicians were attempting to fix in female patients, were not problems when they presented in male patients. Gendered stereotypes, like the ideas that women should be submissive, even-tempered, and sexually inhibited, have caused tremendous damage throughout history (and continue to do so today). It doesn’t seem so coincidental then that most modern treatments for hysteria involved regular (marital) sex, marriage or pregnancy and childbirth, all ‘proper’ activities for a ‘proper’ woman.
All things considered, most doctors and women alike were glad to see hysteria deleted from official Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1980.
Ed P says
Sherry,
Now step into the 21st century. In your post you state it is no longer recognized as a medical condition.
It’s a behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess- political hysteria Merriam-Webster 2025.
Back to your unyielding mantra- “ credentialed facts” Thanks for actually debunking your own post.
Laurel says
Sherry: Yep.
“New Latin, from English hysteric, adjective, from Latin hystericus, from Greek hysterikos, from hystera womb; from the Greek notion that hysteria was peculiar to women and caused by disturbances of the uterus” – Merriam Webster Dictionary
You know, something a hysterectomy can cure.