@Render 🤣 👍🏿 at least you can smoke while the belly growls.

Also have 2 batches of limoncello going from last week.
Ignore the spaces: I just stash them wherever they fit in the bar cabinets 😂

Elon Musk seems to be a national security nightmare.

In my opinion, seems to be unstable and prone to make bad decisions & shouldn't be trusted in matters that affect our national security.

#NationalizeStarlink and #NationalizeSpaceX

https://twitter.com/SenJackreed
https://twitter.com/nsagov
https://twitter.com/secdef

this provoked a chuckle:

“You’re lucky,” McConnell continued. “You can say the things that we all think. You’re in a position to say things about him that we all agree with but can’t say.” (A spokesperson said that McConnell does not recall this conversation and that he was “fully aligned” with Trump during the impeachment trial.)

Portraits in courage... 🙄

1st release of treated Fukushima #nuclear #wastewater complete, operator says. A 2nd round of wastewater will be released in the next few weeks after crews inspect and clean the Japanese nuclear facility. #pollution https://www.foxnews.com/world/1st-release-treated-fukushima-nuclear-wastewater-complete-operator-says

I know I post a lot of Twitter* screenshots, but it's always a good time to drag Michael Tracey, and this is a particularly fine example of the genre.

* I refuse to call it by That Other Name, especially since they haven't even bothered changing most of the UI branding

Paul Bremer: "I'm going to fire the entire Iraqi army, creating a group that will become ISIL. This will result in horrible blowback for everyone, including the U.S."

Putin: "I can beat that with one missile."

🤔
CNBC
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday praised Elon #Musk, calling the Tesla
and SpaceX founder a “talented businessman.”

Putin made the comments at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, as he spoke about Russia’s space program.

“Elon Musk ... is undoubtedly an outstanding person. It must be admitted. I think the whole world admits it. He is an active, talented businessman,” Putin said, according to a Reuters translation.

More:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/12/russias-vladimir-putin-praises-elon-musk-as-an-outstanding-person.html

Starlink engineers are also locked in a 24/7 non-stop down to the second battle with Russian electronics warfare jamming units and hackers to keep the service up and running.

And Musk/Starlink is billing the US DoD (hence the tax payers) for that service.

EoF (for now)

Fox has some NEW legal problems: they're being sued by New York pension funds for malfeasance, essentially, in airing such gross lies that they're fielding multiple billion-dollar lawsuits.

"HAVE A CAT."
"NO, THANK YOU. I DO NOT LIKE CATS."
"HAVE ANOTHER CAT."
— Michael Crichton, "The Terminal Man"

https://www.thedailybeast.com/nyc-pension-funds-sue-fox-news-for-neglect-over-election-lies

#Politics "The U.S. is giving Iran's money back to them for humanitarian aid." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZU0q3_A9h4

' UKRAINE RETAKES RUSSIAN OIL RIGS IN THE BLACK SEA '

Not verified, but 🤞🏿

https://youtu.be/8MHpjT0iSv8

https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-retakes-gas-drilling-platforms-russia-crimea-special-forces-video-2023-9

Elon Musk seen as working counter to U.S. interests in dealings with Russia, China

https://youtu.be/SK2eKWk_SkQ

#Military
#Extremism

(Why do surveys report differing numbers of support for extremism in veterans?)

How to Put RAND Findings on Veteran Support for Extremism in Context.

"One limitation is the possibility that participants under report extremist views as they may recognize that doing so is socially undesirable."

by Todd C. Helmus, Ryan Andrew Brown, Rajeev Ramchand

https://www.rand.org/blog/2023/09/how-to-put-rand-findings-on-veteran-support-for-extremism.html

NEXTA @nexta_tv

UN calls torture part of Russian state policy

UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Alice Jill Edwards:

"Torture used by the Russian military against Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war has reached such a level that it can be called a systemic, state-approved policy.

This is not random, anomalous behavior. It is organized as part of a state policy to intimidate, instill fear or punish in order to obtain information and confessions."

Visegrád 24 @visegrad24

The Spanish 32-year-old humanitarian aid volunteer Emma Igual has been killed in a Russian drone strike near Bakhmut.

Rest in Peace Hero