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Trump on Sessions: 'I don't have an attorney general'

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Potential Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is having his Anita Hill moment. The White House expects that Christine Blasey Ford will testify in some capacity at Kavanaugh's confirmation hearing. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway says "This woman should not be insulted, and she should not be ignored."

Obviously, Kavanaugh could still make it onto the Supreme Court. But perhaps the President will have to look to the bench instead. How about Amy Coney Barrett? She's a woman, and the dogma lives loudly in her.

Remember, for every member of the Administration you defeat, there is an evangelical waiting in the wings. ✞👼

Trump picked the wrong judge (July 9)

The long silences of Christine Blasey Ford and Dianne Feinstein

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Alleged AMD EPYC ‘Rome’ 7nm Based 64 Core Processor Performance Leaks Out – Scores an Incredible 12,500 Points in Cinebench Multi-Tasking Benchmark

If the "leak" is true, then it looks like AMD will double cores on the "7nm" node as well as increase IPC compared to "14nm" and "12nm". Leading to a more-than-double performance increase in some cases. Assuming your OS, software, or benchmark can use all 64 cores/128 threads.

That also means that the consumer desktop Ryzen chips could be boosted to a maximum of 16 cores, from 8. Which makes sense given that Threadripper 2 was raised from 16 to 32 max cores, probably to make room for the new Ryzens.

16 cores at $500? $350? Could happen.

Ever wonder why progressives (Not liberals. Entirely different meanings.) seem to be getting wackier and farther out in crazyland as time goes by? Well, you're in luck. That's the topic of today's bedpan full of wisdom.

Progressives, unless they are an extremely small minority, are going to constantly make incremental progress towards whatever their goals are. A funny thing happens when over half of their goals have been accomplished though, they face a brutal decision. They now have an unavoidable choice to slowly watch their reasons for existing diminish as their goals do and allow themselves to become conservatives, or they must keep coming up with shiny, new things that piss them off. The problem there is that sooner or later you run out of things to be pissed off about that even make sense.

This is where the progressives historically split from the liberals, by the way. When everyone has liberty and equality under the law, as best as can be realistically managed, you have no choice but to move away from liberty and equality if you want to keep progressing rather than conserving what you already have.

See, liberals and conservatives are the same thing when the status quo is liberty and equality under the law. This doesn't work for people with a bad case of Pissed Off At Daddy Syndrome though. They have to disagree and think he's a bastard no matter what. When he's for liberty and equality, that leaves them no choice but to be the opposite if they want to remain pissed off children rather than growing the fuck up.

Just another day, here. I have things to do, but I spent a couple hours killing aliens before heading out. First stop, fuel up. Then head south into Texas, for breakfast and shopping. On the way, I met a diesel 1-ton dually pulling a trailer. He was only notable because he left a cloud of smoke drifting beside the highway when he pulled onto the highway. Going on south, I reach my breakfast destination. Walk in, take a seat, ask for coffee, then order an 8 ounce ribeye, with two over medium, and homefries. "How do you want your steak, Honey?" As always, rare, just turning medium rare - I don't like it to actually bleed when I cut into it.

I got an unusually tough steak this morning - it didn't quite reach that "melt in your mouth" texture that I'm used to. Damned good steak, all the same!

Finish eating, light a cigarette, and smoke it before paying for my meal. Yes - in Texas, you can still smoke in the restaurants. Well, some of them anyway. If the owner of the restaurant has the balls to tell the state to go fuck themselves with a cactus. This is one of the reasons I like Texas.

While I'm smoking, a vehicle pulls up, some dude around 40 gets out, grossly overweight. Then two girls get out. Elder is overweight, for sure, younger is borderline. Can't call her fat, but she's not far from it. The two girls faces look familiar - think a second - look behind the counter - uhhhh - yeah, that's got to be their mama. Right at that border between way overweight, and actual obesity. She has a face that might be described as "interesting" if you're in a generous mood. In a less generous mood, "porcine" would work perfectly. Flattened snubnose, no lips, very high forehead. The daughters share her face, but they don't look so bad yet. The younger, slimmer, daughter can almost be described as "pretty". Give her a few more years, and a few more pounds . . .

Well, time to do that shopping. Spend an hour or so driving around town, picking this up, and that. Ended up at Wally World. Mmmmmm - easter candy!! I filled a shopping cart, thought about getting another cart, but was afraid the wife would call me a glutton - or worse.

Time to head home. Cross the Red River back into Arkansas, and drive a few minutes. WTF? DAYUM!! That cloud of smoke I noticed earlier is still hanging in the air? NO WAY!! I brake, do a U-turn, and drive back south past that "smoke". U-turn again, and idle right up to the smoke. Odd - I'm not aware of ANY kind of vapor that just hangs in the air for a couple of hours. I cut the wheels, and drive completely off the road, and edge into the cloud. Below the embankment, a water hole becomes visible, which is fed by an ephemeral which is dry right now.

Now, I'm kinda looking upward into this smoke. Lighter spots, and darker spots, it still looks smoke-like or vapor-like. But, now I can see little motes within the cloud darting hither and thither within the cloud. I finally get my eyes focused on this thing, and realize that some kind of gnats are swarming. They're much too small to be Texas' famed buffalo gnats, but sure enough the little suckers are swarming!

I'm almost curious enough to step out of the Trailblazer to get a better look - but I don't feel any real need to inhale a few thousand of these little insects. Then I realize that my 6-cylinder is probably inhaling butt-tons of them. Oh-well - put it in gear, and head home. I hope I didn't kill a hundred thousand of some kind of endangered species of gnats.

Optical illusions are pretty cool, if you have the time to stop to figure them out.

*sigh* The wife exclaims, "Oh, Halloween candy!" And, she begins plotting how she's going to give it all away. But, but, but - I didn't BUY it to give it away! Now I'll have to make another stop somewhere to guy another buggy full of candy!

Myanmar's Suu Kyi: Rohingya Situation 'Could Have Been Handled Better'

Under international pressure over alleged genocide by Myanmar's army, the Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi acknowledged Thursday that her country's treatment of its Rohingya Muslims "could have been handled better."

Speaking at a World Economic Forum meeting in Vietnam, Suu Kyi also struck a defiant tone when a moderator asked her about two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar. She said their case "had nothing to do with freedom of expression at all."

It was a rare defense from Myanmar's soft-spoken leader, now 73, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. She spent nearly 15 years under house arrest at the hands of a repressive military junta, during which time she became one of the world's most famous political prisoners.

However, her reticence on both the fate of the Rohingya and the jailed journalists has been condemned by human rights groups and one-time admirers worldwide.

Nobel Peace Prize is done for tbh.

See also: Aung San Suu Kyi defends jailing of journalists in Myanmar: 'They have every right to appeal'

Previously: Evidence Of Rohingya Mass Graves Uncovered In Myanmar
Reuters reporter says Myanmar police planted 'secret' papers
World reacts to sentencing of Reuters journalists in Myanmar

I should not drink and mark up.