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I've been hearing about that clown's support of Trump. And, about the snoopy Dog putting him down for it. And, assorted other nonsense responses to the Caney guy.

Now, let's be clear here - I don't like West. He's about as dumb as two boxes of rocks, IMO. In an interview, he said "They wanted to execute Galileo for saying the sun revolves around the earth". The host attempted to correct that little mis-statement, and West says he's really not interested in the details. Yup - two boxes of rocks.

Still, the guy is kinda, sorta, at least TRYING to think for himself. He gets an "E" for effort, anyhow. He likes Trump. A black dude who rejects the Democrat mantra. Maybe he's smarter than he looks? Well - probably not, but maybe smarter than he acts? Hmmmmm . . . Anything is possible.

Still - we have a rather popular person (Don't ask ME why he's popular!) who bucks the trend, and supports the President of the United States.

And, for that, West becomes "Uncle Tom. Ass nigga".

Alright, so the snoopy guy is the only one to use those exact words. (Well, the only one I've seen quoted as using those words.) Still, half of the D oriented population in the US suddenly hates West, for his political preferences.

“The blacks weren’t always Democrats. You know it’s like the plan they did, to take the fathers out the home and put them on welfare. Does anybody know about that? That’s a Democratic plan,” West said while wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat.

“Ninety percent of news are liberal,” he also said. “Ninety percent of TV … LA, New York, writers, rappers, musicians; so it’s easy to make it seem like it’s so, so, so, one-sided.”

OK, soooo - maybe West ain't smart. Still, he demonstrates that he's smarter than at least half of America's "progressive" "leftist" "socialist" "Welfare" "communist" supposed to be "Democrats".

Oh yeah - he demonstrates a little bit of wisdom in that last quote. He does seem to recognize that rappers aren't musicians. "writers, rappers, musicians:" He clearly distinguishes between rappers and musicians - maybe I'll have to up my estimate of his intelligence to THREE boxes of rocks?

Ass nigga. Is that an ultimate insult, among black folk? Or, is that just a generic insult, like, "You suck"? Or is that to be taken in context? Like, if I were to say it, I would be shot immediately, without so much as a warning. But, if another black guy says it, it's just so much banter?

Imagine if West got a vanity plate "A55NIGGA". I might have to salute the guy for being that ballsy. Still not smart, but ballsy. There are so few ballsy people left in this country, you gotta respect that. Well, I respect defiance, anyway.

BTW - how in the FUCK do you get "Conyay" out of Kanye? It still looks like "Caney" to me. His existence helps to lower the literacy rate in this country!

“I'll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years.”

― Lyndon B. Johnson

Elon Musk’s Ultimatum to Tesla: Fight the S.E.C., or I Quit

The SEC’s “Punishment” of Elon Musk Is Exactly What Tesla Needed

Tesla Is 2 Years Ahead Of Schedule On Gigafactory 1

Tesla will screen 'Cars 3' at Gigafactory as thank you to employees

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Thrown in here to avoid Tesla fatigue.

Posting this in anticipation of a trending hashtag. See also: #KavanaughHearings.

https://twitter.com/mihow/status/1045325066857263104

A Second Front Door.

Consider this for a second.

A SECOND FRONT DOOR.

This is what sexual assault does to a person. This is heartbreaking. Deeply heartbreaking.

Get Mark Judge into one of these hearings.

Ooh, Dr. Ford used the encrypted Washington Post tip line (generates a "utm_term" in the URL, which doesn't sound so secure...). Good advertisement for the existence of that service, I think. The ratings for this event are probably high.

Ford mentions the death threats. We don't care!

That coffee break moment.

Dianne Feinstein enters into record 140 letters from friends and neighbors, and "1,000" from female physicians. Also she is actually asking the witness questions, whereas Grassley has deferred to his female proxy.

Turns out she has that #SecondFrontDoor. And her home is a place to host Google interns...?

She brings up epinephrine and norepinephrine to explain how her basic memory functions work and that she knew it was Brett Kavanaugh who assaulted her.

She brings up her hippocampus again in a response to Senator Leahy.

Party or gathering?

Uncomfortable encounter at the Potomac Village Safeway! She said "Hi" to Mark Judge, who was arranging shopping carts.

Did she say something about reporters trying to talk to her dog?

Answer about other PTSD risk factors sounds about as evasive as it does scientific.

Mitchell is attacking Ford's fear of flying!

Ford got her polygraph within 24 hours or so of her grandma's funeral.

Booker: "speaking YOUR truth".

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Kavanaugh (BK) is pissed off.

He won't be intimidated into withdrawing from the process. "I have never sexually assaulted anyone... ever."

BK has a friend who was sexually abused! BK's voice wavered as he was talking about his mother. And a lot more as he talks about his 10-year-old daughter praying for Dr. Ford.

Choked up as he talks about his father keeping detailed calendar-diaries, a practice he adopted. BK is listing actual dates he was in D.C. on weekends. June 4, August 7, August 20-22.

"I liked beer. I still like beer."

Lol: https://twitter.com/jameshohmann/status/1045396951846539265

Brett Kavanaugh notes that the summer that the sexual assault allegedly took place, when Christine Ford says he pinned her down on a bed, he had spent a lot of time lifting weights and doing strength training.

^ Tweeter is a WaPost reporter.

Good thing there is a recess, because while BK was emphatic and pretty clear in his opening statement, he seemed a bit flustered during questioning.

Chris Garrett is "Squee"!

Durbin tries to get BK to turn his head to Don McGahn. Doesn't work. But he is getting BK flustered on the subject of an FBI investigation.

Senator Lindsey Graham mounts the defense.

BK defends his use of "Ralph Club" in his yearbook. Because he has a weak stomach. And "Renate Alumnius" has nothing to do with sex.

Dem overplaying his hand: "Do you believe Anita Hill?"

Why you don’t really have a ‘type’

“Beauty still is in the eye of the beholder, but our on-going work suggests that the beholder may be changing constantly,” says Haiyang Yang, assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School and author of a study that found that our sense of beauty can change based on other people’s opinions. “It can be argued that the advent of the internet age may be causing people to change their beauty standards faster than ever before in human history.”

Sexy 'Handmaid's Tale' Halloween costume pulled after sparking online outrage

I Don't Know How to Feel About This Sexy Handmaiden Costume

Now you'll have to go as a Roblox instead.

Brett Kavanaugh, wife and Christine Blasey Ford all receiving death threats: GRAPHIC LANGUAGE

It's 2018. Why is a public figure receiving death threats "news"? There must be individuals out there making death threats to several people every day (hundreds per year), and the chance of them getting caught and brought to trial is minimal.

Pointing out that you receive death threats or mere angry emails does not mean you should get any sympathy. It was news a decade or two ago, but no longer. The Internet is a whirlwind of hate, and as long as (relative) anonymity exists, it will stay that way. And that anonymity is more valuable than the chance to get rid of (a % of) routine death threats.

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

my name jeff

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

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.

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!