The jobless man branded ‘Britain’s most feckless dad’ for fathering 14 children has had another child – and two more are on the way. Jamie Cumming, 34, from Dundee, who lives off benefits, has had 15 children by 13 different women – and is unable to pay maintenance for any of them.
Mr Cumming’s 19-year-old ex-girlfriend birth to his latest child, a son, two weeks ago. His current girlfriend, also 19, was last night due to give birth to another boy. A girl of 17 is understood to be expecting his 17th child in the New Year . . .
Cain Attacked by Accuser; Will Not Stop His Effort to Renew America
Detractors are trying once again to derail the Cain Train with more accusations of past events that never happened. The Cain Campaign is not surprised that another female accuser has come forward due to the fact that earlier allegations were unable to force Herman Cain to drop his presidential bid to renew America.
“The American public is tired of dirty politics and smear tactics as evident of their tremendous outpouring of support for me, my family and my campaign this past month. I am running for President of the United States of America and the reality is that there are individuals out there that favor the status quo of higher taxes, more government and political cronyism and they are afraid of a Cain Presidency,” said Mr. Cain.
“I have spoken directly to the American people and have been 100% honest with them. My plan is to continue to spread my vision on how I would renew America and keep her safe. I will not fight false claims as it is not what America needs or wants,” continued Mr. Cain.
Mr. Cain has spent four decades climbing the corporate ladder rising to the level of CEO at multiple successful business enterprises. Mr. Cain is a proven leader and the type of leader America badly needs at this time in her history.
First saw the story at Ace of Spades HQ. It’s now all over Memeorandum. Shepard Smith just did 10 minutes about it on Fox News. But the press release is not posted on the Cain campaign’s Web site yet.
I was pro-Cain at the beginning, when Stacy McCain brought him to my attention and two good friends of mine started working for him. Dale Peterson endorsed him, and everyone I knew jumped on the “Cain Train.”
In fact I wanted to be on that train. Loved his speeches, thought he was witty, enjoyed meeting him at CPAC. I had all sorts of viral video ideas for him, back when he was a tabula rasa and no one knew who he was.
Then I tried to correspond with his team. One of them led me on for roughly five months. Eventually I discovered that someone else already had an exclusive contract to do all of his videos. I had been flat-out-lied to. Probably in order to keep me from working with any other candidate. When I called out this “Cain team member” about it, she was highly annoyed that I had the temerity to point out that she was lying to me.
For the past several days, in conversation after conversation, I’ve listened while friends told me what’s wrong with the Herman Cain campaign. Some of these friends are enthusiastic Cain supporters, some are not. And as I told several people who criticized the campaign’s handling of the sexual harassment allegations, “You’re not telling me anything I don’t know. Any 24-year-old with a semester of Leadership Institute training could do a better job than they’ve been doing.”
The point is, complaints like these had been piling up for months and, because of my status as the first journalist to take the Cain campaign seriously, people kept bending my ear with this kind of stuff, as if I had some power to influence the decision-making process within the campaign.
What was especially frustrating was hearing stories like Ladd’s, from people who felt they had been “led on,” told that they were under consideration for employment with the campaign and then . . . nothing.
A campaign’s hiring process is necessarily opaque to those outside the inner circle. But Ladd isn’t the only person who has expressed frustration with the staff’s operations, and not all of those who complained were seeking employment. Just sayin’ . . .
The Fox affiliate claims it wasn’t White who approached them with this story but a tipster who knows her and who allegedly was shopping the story to national media. . . . [S]he has money problems and has been accused before by a business partner of stalking and defamation. . . . And who is that mysterious tipster running around talking to reporters anyway?
The stalking-and-defamation bit suggests the woman is what you’d call “troubled.” Without regard to the credibility of her accusations, it’s generally a good idea to avoid people like that. And she produced phone records that would seem to indicate Cain didn’t avoid her.
Before we begin, some administrivia. Either through a lack of reading comprehension or just plain laziness, some folks are sending Rule 5 links to the above address. I’m coming up on semester finals and trying to wrap up other projects this month, and I’m getting tired of shuffling e-mails into the right file because people can’t follow simple instructions. Going forward, any Rule 5 e-mails found in the main inbox linked above, instead of Rule 5 Wombat where they belong, are going to get trashed. Consider yourselves warned.
Leading off, it’s the Rio Norte Line with Lucy Pinder, followed by Randy’s Roundtable with Ana Hickman and the Cowboys Cheerleaders. Fishersville Mike, on the other hand, can’t wait for the Miami Marlins cheerleaders. The Eye of Polyphemus settles this week on Michelle Williams, while Reaganite Republican continues his “Know Your Enemy” series with Ivian Sarcos, reigning Miss Venezuela and Miss World. Jake Finnegan’s Burkalesque Babe this week is Lauren Pope, and the POH Diaries brings us Alicia Silverstone. Dustbury presents not only the latest Zooeypalooza, but handy links to all the previous ZPs.
The Enlightenment’s emphasis on rationality quickly came under attack. Figuring that reality is mechanistic offend pietistic Germans, as it seemed to lead to Deism at best, and atheism at worst. The French absorbed the Enlightenment by way of Rousseau and arrived at the Terror, a.k.a. the French Revolution.
The news of Barney Frank ejecting really puts Tea in the teacup. Via Sissy Willis, we have Brendan Steinhauser offering a bi-partisan list of people who may not be on Santa’s ‘Nice’ list next month:Remember: it’s all swell and spiffy to decry the corruption, and eject the incumbents, but unless the next round of knobs is elected specifically unwind the system that drives all this corruption, those new knobs will be indistinguishable from the current round in no time flat.
Glenn’s chief rivals in the Republican primary are former Rep. Pete Hoekstra, who has a record of supporting Big Labor, and Detroit charter school founder Clark Durant, who is backed by much of Michigan’s GOP establishment.
UPDATE: Here is the script of the video:
Lou Dobbs: “. . . critics, predicting the fall of the American empire” Glenn Beck: ” . . . something far worse than the depression” Michael Savage: “America is the biggest debtor in the history of human civilizaiton” Pat Buchanan: “Socially the country seems to be disintegrating” Bill O’Reilly: “We are in decline.” Laura Ingraham: “Dominance of the United States is slipping away by the day” Fred Thompson: “We’re beginning to go like all the rest. We’re starting to decline.” Mark Levin: “It’s just a nation in decline. It just is.”
Gary Glenn: “How many times have we heard this before? In 1979, pundits predicted American decline. The president said our best days were behind us. And Americans were uncertain about the future.
“But decline is a choice. A choice Ronald Reagan refused to make.”
Ronald Reagan: “It is time for us to realize that we’re too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We’re not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline. . . .
“And after all, why shouldn’t we believe that? We are Americans.”
Gary Glenn: “We need that leadership again. For more than two centuries, America has been a light of freedom to the world. That freedom lifted mankind from the horse and carriage to the moon in 70 years.
“Now pundits say we can’t balance our checkbook? I don’t think so.
“In the span of human history, the dream that is America is a candle in the darkness. It’s up to us — you and me — to make sure that flame doesn’t go out.
“Can we cut government spending and make the sacrifices to keep Freedom’s torch burning for our children and their children?
“Of course we can. We are Americans.
“I’m Gary Glenn. I approved this message. And I need your prayers and financial support today to be the next US Senator from Michigan.
“With God’s grace, we will restore the greatness of our Republic.”
There is to be a 1300 EST press conference, wherein the relatively un-sordid details are trotted about for public consumption.
Along with whatever else he packs, this blog would like to suggest a couple of other bits of rubbish that can go with him:
Wow, I guess the deck I scanned those cards from might be collectable. I can’t seem to find the web site anymore.
US Representative Barney Frank, the state’s highest-profile congressman and one of the nation’s leading liberal voices after being among its first openly gay elected officials, has decided not to seek reelection next year.
A close adviser told the Globe today that the new district in which Frank would have had to run next year was a major factor in his decision. While it retained his Newton stronghold, it was revised to encompass more conservative towns while losing New Bedford, a blue-collar city where the Democrat had invested a lot of time and become a leading figure in the region’s fisheries debate. . . .
Not a word about Frank’s scandal-tainted legacy and involvement in creating the housing bubble.
The one thing Barney has going for him is a massive amount of seniority. If he and his party were solidly of the opinion that they would be taking back the majority in the House next fall, he would doubtless be back at the front of the line for one or more of any number of influential committee leadership spots. That translates to a lot of power and influence and would probably make it a bit harder to just walk away. Does this sudden exit indicate that the Democrats have pretty much given up hope of that happening?
He deserves to be considered a corrupt creature of Washington whohelped usher in the Great Recession. Frank was among the Democrats who prevented scrutiny and reform of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac when it could have prevented the economic collapse. Republicans at the time wanted more oversight and regulation of Fannie and Freddie. Frank and many of his fellow Democrats stood in the way.
Top Barney Frank job prospect: Advising wealthy Wall Street clients how to weasel out of the Dodd-Frank regulatory monstrosity. Cha-ching!
Read the whole thing: She also includes Ladd Ehlinger’s famous “Dancing Barney” video. Advice to bloggers: Everything you need to know about aggregated commentary, you can learn by watching Malkin when big news breaks: Update, update, update!
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