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The following exchange is from a conference call that Herman Cain had with a group of conservative bloggers as recorded by The Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis. (Emphasis mine…)

What are your competitors, uh, your opponents going to find in your closet if anything?

They’re gonna find that I have a 20 handicap in golf, and it has never gotten lower. They’re gonna find that in my closet. Uh, other than them finding that I have a mediocre golf game, I play just well enough to be able to enjoy it…

But other than that, I can assure you, I have an original copy of my birth certificate. I don’t have any illegitimate babies. I don’t have any mistresses.

Ya know, you tick em off and I can tell you, I have…

(Q: Any arrests?)[Laughter in the background]

I have been… what?

(Q: Any arrest record?)

Zero! I have never been arrested. I’ve never gotten a DUI warant. Uh absolutely none of that. In fact, when the specter of me running for President started to become public the sherrif of the county that I live in has already gotten calls from the opposition research people trying to find some dirt on me.

They asked him, “Has he ever been arrested?” He said, “I don’t have to tell you that, but the answer is ‘no.’” They said , “Well has he ever had a DUI?” The sherrif said, “I don’t have to tell you that, but the answer is ‘no.’”

So, no, I don’t have any of those kind of skeletons in my closet and what I have told people, if they come up with something to try and damage my reputation, they will have made it up.

Well now. let’s see what all they ‘made up’ so far…

Late October we saw 4 separate claims of sexual harrassment or misconduct.

Cain’s response? [Paraphrased:] “Lies! Damn Lies! Slander! Libel!”

November 28th 2011 (And this one’s a gem)

Herman Cain starts the morning telling world+dog “A woman is going to say I had a long running relationship with her. She’s lying!”

As promiesd, forth comes Ginger White with tales of a 13 year affair.

Cain’s lawyer said that White’s depiction of the relationship “appears to be an accusation of private, alleged consensual conduct between adults” and “not a proper subject of inquiry by the media or the public.”

Odd. I was pretty sure improper relationships was open game when it came to running for President. If that were not the case, why else would the Republican Party have been so willing to try and have Bill Clinton impeached for a single solitary sexual transgression?

Herman Cain wrote a book that came out in June of this year entitled “They Think You’re Stupid.” I’m going to guess that it would be more properly entitled “I Think You’re Stupid.” seeing how Mr Cain most assuredly must think we are all very. truly. stupid.

After very vociferously stating that the only skeleton in your closet is a bad golf handicap, managing to crush 4 distinct allegations of sexual misconduct with the power of the almighty attorney, you have the further gall to tell us that yes, you have been regularly paying the bills of another woman for 13 years, that you exchange textx with this woman all hours of the day and night and that your wife has never heard of this woman before, but it’s all just innocent kind-heartedness? Sorry, but I have to call bullshit on this one. And I further have to suggest that any person who thinks so little of the rest of America as to think we will just buy that crapload of lies not only does not deserve to helm this nation, but should be prevented from helming anything that impacts large numbers of people.

What the hell???….. Quote from Mr. Cain “My mind immediately started thinking, wait a minute, maybe his religious persuasion is different than mine!”. Are you cognizant that we live in a country of religious freedom? Do you realize that your next Jewish doctor won’t be Christian? are you just a pure jackass or are you a religious bigot?

So. In wake of Hermain Cain hiring a defamation lawyer, Lin Wood, to protect him from libel (During a political campaign? really?) I thought we’d take a quick look at his score from PolitiFact.com

• True (0)
• Mostly True (3)
• Half True (4)
• Mostly False (3)
• False (9)
• Pants on Fire (3)

I wonder if he’ll bring his lawyer to future debates to help protect his sensitive nature from incorrect statement from his opponents.

The White House, in the spirit of transpaency that it has expressed in policy and largely in practice, released a photo from within the situation room at the white house during the raid to kill Usama bin Laden. A quick evaluation of the photos reveals a fair amount of data. The photo was left largely untouched, with only a single document, that appears to possibbly be a high-resolution image of a structure, possibly the compount taken at a rather steep angle, likely by a recon drone, being digitally redacted. The likely reason is to not make public the resolution available when using drone surveillance. Some of the interesting items available through the photo are:

the laptops used at the white house are HP Elite Mobile Workstations with Centrino 2 processors (The red Intel badges tell us this).

they use fingerprint biometrics and have limited-field-of-vision screens to prevent shoulder surfing.

they have their security clearance levelseasily identifiable thanks to the massive color coded stickers on the lids

Hillary Clinton (HRC) is holding a binder that is labeled: “Top Secret – Codeword – NoForn” as well as “For Use in White House Situation Room Only”

The visible areal shot under the redacted document in front of HRC was generated by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency as determined by working backwards from their unit badge seen in the top-left corner of the document and confirmed by their posting about it on their page, matches the area listed on Google maps as the compound, which BTW is different than the location given initially on the intertubes.

the reflection in the glasses of the 4-star general standing to the left of Pres. Obama seems to indicate that the feed being watched was probably from a mobile camera, as a over-head shot would likely have been darker and used night-vision while the reflected image clearly is reasonably well lit.

And before anyone questions the image, here’s the info from the EXIF of that dicument

Dear Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari:

In this day of technology, when we know that virtually any electronic data is subject to eavesdropping, warrant-less as well as warranted collection, and just plain exposure through lost or stolen devices, just who is stupid enough to email THEMSELVES their terrorist plans? I would have to guess that if you don’t know how to use that cool little app called a memory, then maybe terrorism isn’t the field for you. Of course, considering the possible harm you could have done had you not alerted every federal office this side of Canada, we’re surprisingly glad that you, the 21st century terrorist is still so utterly technologically clueless. Thanks again for being a utter moron, though I hope your stupidity doesn’t reflect poorly on the American Educational Institutes responsible for your intellectual formation.