CHANGE COMES TO STARBUCKS: How About Just 17,000 Different Kinds of Coffee?

I HAD BEEN ASSURED THE VENEZUELA APARTMENT TAKEOVER WAS JUST RIGHT-WING PANICMONGERING:

BREAKING: Kids who live directly next to the apartment complex Venezuelan gangsters took over CONFIRMED to me that the gangsters "were doing a lot of bad stuff" like shootings and that they are happy the building got shutdown

Me: "What do you mean by bad stuff?"

Them: "Like,… pic.twitter.com/MntgTJ0NTH

— George (@BehizyTweets) September 10, 2024

HMM: It Looks Like Trump May Have Helped Himself in the Debate. “Reuters interviewed ten undecided voters before and after a debate. Six of them shifted toward supporting Trump, three leaned toward Harris, and one remained uncertain. That’s a rather solid outcome for Trump.”

PROGRESSIVE “JUSTICE”: Harris County Justice Cancels All Warrants. “A Harris County justice of the peace has recalled all warrants issued through his court thwarting law enforcement efforts in his jurisdiction to enforce traffic laws, pursue fraudulent check writers, and detain individuals who had failed to appear in court.”

MATT MARGOLIS: Five Takeaways From the Trump-Harris Debate.

IN PLENTY OF TIME FOR THE HOLIDAY SHOPPING SEASON: Potential port strike has retailers, manufacturers scrambling. “For retailers, that means holiday shipments might not arrive on time. Manufacturers might not receive parts, materials and supplies needed for production, which will lead to assembly lines shutting down. And farmers won’t be able to get their products to overseas markets, which could lead to lost sales.”

Plus: “East Coast and Gulf Coast ports handle about 43% of all US imports.”

BIDENFLATION ISN’T DONE WITH US YET: Kiss Your Giant Rate Cut Goodbye.

THREAD:

We spoke with a former CBZ employee, who, on condition of anonymity, explained how the scheme worked. Representatives from Papagayo arranged hundreds of contracts with CBZ to place migrants in the Aurora apartments. Soon, they were up to 80% full of Venezuelans. pic.twitter.com/38QqlZwmTT

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) September 10, 2024

Read the whole thing.

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is Man’s Best Friend the ‘Superweapon’ That Helped Humans Outcompete the Neanderthals?

IT IS UNWISE TO ASK UNCOMFORTABLE QUESTIONS, COMRADE:

DHS statistic establish 3 incontrovertible facts:

1. Harris imported approx 500K illegal migrants from Haiti
2. Half were flown directly to the US under a government relocation program
3. Almost all of them are still here

But the media says you are forbidden to ask questions.

— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) September 10, 2024

The State Steno Pool knows what its job is — and performed it to near-perfection during last night’s three-on-one “debate.”

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Biden Admin to SpaceX: Drop Dead! “Biden-Harris would have us lose the New Space Race — putting our entire national security at risk — in a fit of partisan pique against the man whose other company, X, had the temerity to restore free speech to just one social media platform.”

BIDEN’S INCREASINGLY HOLLOW MILITARY: Small fleet, fewer flights weaken Army aircraft training, report says.

U.S. Army helicopter crews are flying one-third of the hours they did at the peak of the past two decades, as the number of manned aircraft has declined by 20%, according to a government report.

The same report also noted that the Army saw the availability of aircraft increase as its fleet of craft has gotten younger. The Congressional Budget Office’s findings, aimed at documenting how the Army is using its aircraft, are based on service aviation data from 2000 to 2023.

In 2011, the Army saw its peak of average flying hours in manned aircraft, the majority of which are helicopters.

At that time, air crews flew an average of 302 hours each year. As of 2023, the average flight hours have dropped by more than one-third to 198 hours, according to the report.

“The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in battle,” the wise man once said.

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: ABC News Moderators Were the Big Winners of Last Night’s Debate. “The real problem was the interference from moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis, who were the most egregiously biased I’ve ever seen, and I’ve watched George Stephanopoulos do a number of these things.”

JAPAN: A robot begins removal of melted fuel from the Fukushima nuclear plant. It could take a century.

A long robot entered a damaged reactor at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant on Tuesday, beginning a two-week, high-stakes mission to retrieve for the first time a tiny amount of melted fuel debris from the bottom.

The robot’s trip into the Unit 2 reactor is a crucial initial step for what comes next — a daunting, decades-long process to decommission the plant and deal with large amounts of highly radioactive melted fuel inside three reactors that were damaged by a massive earthquake and tsunami in 2011. Specialists hope the robot will help them learn more about the status of the cores and the fuel debris.

Here is an explanation of how the robot works, its mission, significance and what lies ahead as the most challenging phase of the reactor cleanup begins.

Nuclear fuel in the reactor cores melted after the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami in March 2011 caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant’s cooling systems to fail. The melted fuel dripped down from the cores and mixed with internal reactor materials such as zirconium, stainless steel, electrical cables, broken grates and concrete around the supporting structure and at the bottom of the primary containment vessels.

The reactor meltdowns caused the highly radioactive, lava-like material to spatter in all directions, greatly complicating the cleanup.

Well, that’s exactly what robots are for. On the other hand, this being Japan, you have to wonder about the chances of a giant mutated robot flattening Tokyo.

THEY LEFT OUT “CALLOUSNESS”: House Report on Afghanistan Withdrawal Indicts Biden for Stupidity and Poor Planning.

EVERYTHING IS GOING SWIMMINGLY: Audio reveals moment two Delta planes collided on Atlanta runway: ‘We just hit something… could you tell us what that was?’

The shocking incident took place at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport in Georgia just after 10 am on Tuesday, when a Tokyo-bound flight clipped the back of a jet headed to Louisiana as it was taxiing for takeoff.

‘We just hit something on the taxiway, could you tell us what it was?’ one of the pilots asked in the audio.

Air traffic control responded: ‘The whole tail of that CRJ is off.’

No word yet how that happened but there is this: Diversity in the Skies: FAA’s Controversial Shift in Air Traffic Controller Hiring.

THEY’RE IN A GENERAL PANIC OVER HARRIS: Seriously? Democrats Are Flipping Out Over Cat Memes.

IS THIS MORE OF THAT SMART DIPLOMACY?

Ukrainians will now endure Iranian, North Korean and Russian missiles that are all protected by Biden Administration policy that forbids Ukraine from destroying launchers. https://t.co/9ebgfBlkgn

— Jay in Kyiv (@JayinKyiv) September 10, 2024

AND NOW YOU KNOW… THE REST OF THE STORY:

Even soft leftism ends with hard consequences.

UPDATE (From Ed): Stacy McCain: Springfield Gets What It Deserves.

LIVE BLOG: The Trump/Harris Debate We’ve All Been Waiting For.

Cocktails optional but recommended.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: China plans to build moon base at the lunar south pole by 2035. “The first phase will be completed around 2035 near the lunar south pole, and an extended model will be built by about 2050, according to Wu Yanhua, chief designer of the Chinese deep space exploration project, speaking to media at the event.”

REMINDER: Join Us Tonight for the Presidential Debate.

CHANGE: Germany tightens border controls in immigration clampdown. “We want to further reduce irregular migration… To this end, we are now taking further steps that go beyond the comprehensive, ongoing measures.”

THE REAL STORY HERE IS THE VITAL LESSON LEARNED BY TRUMP:

RFK Jr. says Trump admitted to him he didn’t drain the swamp his first term and has asked him to help him drain the swamp moving forward:

“He said, I didn't know anything about governing and he said, we won this election, and then all of a sudden, you got to fill 60,000 jobs.”… pic.twitter.com/GH19wOsYvX

— End Tribalism in Politics (@EndTribalism) September 9, 2024

Maybe Milei can lend him a chainsaw.

“THE SANDLOT” IS AN UNDERRATED GEM: James Earl Jones: 10 Iconic Performances.