Today is September 1, 2023.  Before I get into SALT, let me send you back to my posting of exactly a month ago, alerting you to  Super Blue Moons in the month of August , for here are some global photos from  Time  of the recent Blue Moon.  The summit of Piestewa Peak in Phoenix by Rob Schumacher: The Pyramids of Giza, Egypt, by Mohamed Eishad: So by now you've figured out why the color of the Blue Moon is not blue.  But if not, go back to my  1August2023 posting .  From David Gray, behind a ferris wheel at Stokes Hill Wharf, Darwin, Australia: A photo by Izhar Khan from Sydney, Australia: As seen by Tariq Zewahi from Liberty State Park, New Jersey: Over the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, by Tayfun Coskun: Photo behind the Marin Bay Sands in Singapore by Roslan Rahman. No Blue Moon, but my photo of the Marina Bay Sands  when I was there last year. Alexander Zemlianichenko's photo in Red Square, Moscow, with St. Basil's Cathedral to the right. Want more?   Watch this vid

Joe and Jill Biden came and went.  A lot of unanswered questions about the Lahaina Apocalypse.   A  Star Advertiser  article  this morning about how this all started seems to exonerate Hawaiian Electric as the cause.  The number of deaths stayed steady at 115, with a thousand or so still missing.  A horrid thought is that most of them might forever be unidentified, for the fire was so sudden and hot that it was like an incinerator, and bones were turned to ashes, then scattered by the nearly hurricane speed winds, perhaps making it impossible to determine who is who and what is what.  Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner group that revolted exactly two months ago, apparently was killed, and probably assassinated, in a plane crash near the town of Kuzhenkino today.  Putin strikes again.  Here is a  list of who he has eliminated  in suspicious ways. Surely you will want to watch live from Milwaukee the  first Republican presidential debate  on Fox News today at 9PM EDT.  Trump will no