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Fantastic interview with Greta Van Susteren.

The Republican leadership isn't conservative. . . . [Conservatives] constitute a threat to the way Washington views the country. And I don't think it's so much conservative versus liberal, although it is; it's Washington versus the rest of the country.

It's a must-see interview. He talks about Detroit, poverty, the fact that the Democrat party needs a permanent underclass, immigration and more.

Below the fold is the first of several parts. Follow the links for the rest. more...

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Happy Wednesday.

"Slutbag," "b--ch," "t--t," "c--t" <-- words a Democratic comms director used to describe a lowly intern. Tell me again about that War on Women. The comms director in question defender herself by saying she thought it was an "off the record" conversation. Everyone knows it's alright to call women slutbags as long as you do it off the record, right?

The new EPA chief is tired of talking about jobs: "Can we stop talking about environmental regulations killing jobs, please?" Sure thing, lady. Just as soon as you stop issuing environmental regulations that kill jobs.

There's a bizarre interview with Sen. McCain at the New Republic. I can't tell at what points he's joking or not. For example, "[a]m I happy? IÂ’d like to be president of the United States." Okaaaaay.

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File under you can't trust anyone or anything these days.

...Running any games, even the most demanding titles, returned a GPU frequency of 480MHz...

...Firing up GLBenchmark 2.5.1 however triggers a GPU clock not available elsewhere: 532MHz. The same is true for AnTuTu and Quadrant...

...We should see roughly an 11% increase in performance in GLBenchmark 2.5.1 over GFXBench 2.7.0, and we end up seeing a bit more than that. The reason for the difference? GLBenchmark 2.5.1 appears to be singled out as a benchmark that is allowed to run the GPU at the higher frequency/voltage setting.

The S4 is already a dazzling piece of high performance hardware. Why even bother with a cheap swindle like this? You can't get away with it and not get caught; not these days. There's just too many geeks with too many skilz out there.

Aside from the embarrassment of getting caught, offering artificially high benchmarks for generation "n" of product raises the bar that generation "n+1" needs to jump over to have a performance delta that people are willing pay for to get an upgrade.

Unless you're facing stiff, similarly performing, competition in generation "n", which Samsung is NOT, there's no economic incentive to even try cheating. Deliberately understating performance is actually more to your advantage when you have untapped design headroom and no real competition.

Geeky power/heat Q and A below the fold.
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Here's a palate cleanser.

And I don't care who you are, you'll have at least the seed of a tear in the corner of your eye.

(In a good way.)

Video here or below.
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Sorry to stack up another post like this but there's a lot of chatter about it.

A hot college intern named Olivia Nuzzi joined the Weiner campaign, then started dishing dirt on some of the goings on inside of it. Weiner's communications director, Barbara Morgan, attacked the intern using all sorts of NSFW language. Including the c-word, and including, awesomely, "slutbag."

Oh, btw, sometimes Olivia Nuzzi looks like this:

Pictured: A dirty, dirty girl who's just like up for anything.
Allegedly.

Obviously, this is another major embarrassment for Weiner, putting him in a difficult spot-- AllahPundit pointed out that Weiner can't hardly fire the communications director for "inappropriate messaging," now can he?

On the other hand, the woman says she thought she was off the record, and certainly, it seems she believed that. Who would speak this way on the record?

So here's a Democratic woman calling a Democratic girl a "slutbag." So apparently it's not just conservative radio hosts who say such things after all.

Wow -- we actually sometimes use spicy language. Who knew?

This War on Women business sure is full of nuances, textures, contradictions and complexities -- I'm happy the media works so hard to keep The Narrative simple for us.

The tattletale intern has now updated her Twitter profile to include a new description of of herself.

Update: Weiner announces a "major speech" reaching out to "all parts of the progressive movement, such as c*nts, tw*ts, c*mdumpsters and hosebeasts."

Breaking: Weiner drops from 37% to 22% with Slutbags, Tw*ts

OMG: Welcome to America, 2013. more...

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Fun Fact of the Day: Shark Bites Are the Leading Cause of Death in Peruvia

So how is that even possible given its land-locked location and the relative lack of tornadoes?

Well it turns out that Peruvia is infested with one of the deadliest species of land-sharks known to science, Apristurus krampus. The Peruvian land-shark is a cunning and deadly beast that is fully mobile on land and water, and can flawlessly speak all 34 Peruvian dialects as well as the forbidden language of love and affection. With no natural enemies it freely roams the Peruvian countryside via the network of cess pools and figures large in the national imagination.

Many an unwary Peruvnik has ended up in a shark's belly and nearly every family can tell you a sad tale of a gullible daughter who fell for the charms of the sunyigazemberputz as it's known in the local tongue. Which is why at every meal you'll still hear the familiar Peruvian homily, 'Let eternal suspicion and the body of a Bulgarian keep the shark away."

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Well the logic does make sense.

Your employer must tell you what is expected of you and what is forbidden of you.

That's why they give you that stupid corporate harassment rulebook.

The city is Filner's employer now.

So, if the city didn't tell him he couldn't grope women, isn't that really the city's fault?

Eric "Otter" Stratton just emailed me: "Well played. Very well played."

"Filner never received sexual harassment training required under the law."

"The city failed to provide such training to Mayor Filner," FilnerÂ’s lawyer Harvey Berger wrote in a July 29 letter to City Attorney Jan Goldsmith. "In fact, it is my understanding that such training was scheduled, but the trainer for the city unilaterally cancelled, and never re-scheduled such training for the Mayor (and others.) Therefore, if there is any liability at all, the city will almost certainly be liable for 'failing to prevent harassment under Government Code Section 12940(k)."

In the meantime, an eighth accuser stepped forward.

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And no one in DC ever heard anything, even though he spent 75% of his time there and only a little bit in San Diego, and even though a San Diego reporter says he heard.

Oh there's a couple of jokes at the link.

Exit quote: "Filner made it very clear how powerful he was, how he was pulling strings all over San Diego... that there could be repercussions for our district."

That's the reason why the woman didn't report it, she says.

Jake Tapper talked to some Democrats who are now willing to say they were vaguely creeped out by Filner.

Allah has some more about that, as Democratic hack Hilary Rosen admitted late in his show that she'd heard some vague things about him that she didn't elaborate on. (Video at the bottom, go towards the end.)

Someone should ask Lori Saldana. I've done everything to make this connection happen short of convincing her to sit on a reporter's face.

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On secret mission the USS Indianapolis was returning from Tinian to Leyte Gulf after having delivered the world's first operational atomic bomb.

Just a little after midnight Indianapolis was attacked by Japanese submarine I-58. They fired six torpedoes, two landed on target. One blew the bow from the ship, the second struck almost midship next to a fuel tank and powder magazine. Indianapolis sank in twelve minutes.

Twelve minutes.

Of the 1,196 aboard, about 900 made it into the water in the twelve minutes before she sank. Few life rafts were released. Most survivors wore the standard kapok life jacket. Shark attacks began with sunrise of the first day and continued until the men were physically removed from the water, almost five days later.

Rescue began on the 4th day when PBY commander Lt. Adrian Marks observed men in the waters being attacked by sharks. Disregarding a standing order not to land at sea, he put his aircraft down and rescued 56 men, putting them in the fuselage and then tying them to the wings. On the 5th day the destroyer USS Cecil Doyle (DD-36 arrived on scene at night and risking further attack used their searchlights to aid and rescue.

Of the 900 who made it into the water, almost 600 perished.

The commander, Captain Charles Butler McVay III was court-martialed and convicted for negligence. On November 6, 1968 he committed suicide with his service revolver. There were many controversies surrounding the affair, the Navy said he should have zig-zagged, others said command should have granted his request for destroyer escort. Nobody wanted to talk much about the delay in rescue operations. Officially McVay was exonerated in 2001 by Secretary of the Navy Gordon England.

Even though it's a bit inaccurate, this epic scene from Jaws is where many of us first heard the story of the Indianapolis. more...

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Sorry, I'm just phoning this in now because I'm trying, with no success of course, to shame the media into actually taking an interest in a Democratic scandal.

But this is as usual a comprehensive piece by AllahPundit on a topic I've been trying to avoid, to wit, the coming civil war in the party, as the Accomodationist Wing once again ignores the Constitutionalist Hawks.

And I'm sure the Accomodationist Wing can offer us all sorts of excuses why "this isn't the right time" and all of that. I suppose it is true -- and I can't be a baby about this and deny it -- that an actual government shutdown could cost us our chance at the Senate, and even lose us the House. And, if the latter were to happen, we'd lose our one source of power to stop Obama, at least until 2016.

And yet, and yet. I think these arguments about the political inadvisability of certain actions usually mask the real reason for abeyance: I don't want to, I don't agree with that, I don't want to take on the Permanent DC Complex of bureaucrats, donors, and media. I want to just drift along the sweet river Apocalypse. But I don't want to admit these things to my voters. Instead I will always just dress everything up in terms of poll numbers.

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