Posted on 05/10/2005 8:34:42 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Are campaign nomination papers available on the web from when he was running for SOS of Washington. If they are, we could compare his legal name.
I'm taken, drat! I'm SURE I could turn him from his evil liberal ways.
(That's the codependent in my talking.)
So where'd the check come from? He went down to a bank and got a cashier's check for the minimum amount made out to himself. He used any of the techniques mentioned below to create the bogus check and then went and cashed his check to get his money back.
The first thing I thought was that all the details on the check had been covered (tape, paper, etc.) and a copy made of the check. Then the cash amounts, payee, etc. were all filled in and the whole thing re-copied. He also could have scanned the check into Photoshop and wiped out all the detail (made it consistent w/ the check background color/pattern) and filled in the blanks.
How special. Well, H2OMan seems to have a little problem conjugating "to sing," but other than that, I mean.
my = me.
Sheesh! Time to go home.
Hmmmmmm.
We must be bumping into each other in DUmmieland.
They're secure.
In fact, the whole of DUmmieland could be re-created (if the real DUmmieland ever mysteriously evaporated) just from what we've saved of it here.
I'm sure we could persuade him....
(remember, I have a whip)
LOL!
I'm going home. All this talk of Johnny Depp, and Viggo, and Mel Gibson... well, I'm leaving.
Y'all behave!
If we did, you wouldn't like us as much!
LOL!
This looks like a repro of a report done earlier; could be copy of test done when AS first announced to DU that he had cancer. There is no reference to cancer, and the history does not refer to any previous diagnosis, which, if AS's original claims of a cancer diagnosis were accurate, would be noted.
Doctors Hartman and Pannu might be interested in seeing their names so publicly attached to the report of a patient whose presence in their facility on that date and time has not been independently established.
Perhaps they are willing to have their names used so publicly to prove that they are not "blood-suckers." AS referred to the doctors at Johns Hopkins as "blood-suckers" when they "demanded an up-front payment of $25,000," an extraordinary claim by AS.
AS's companion, termite, posted that AS was in "Swedish" hospital, at a time when the delusion du jour was that AS was fighting against the heartless bureacracy at Johns Hopkins, and was a victim of the incompetence of the Johns Hopkins mailroom.
Was the test done at "Swedish" hospital and the report re-copied, typing in Johns Hopkins and using the names of Doctors Hartman and Pannu?
Whatever the hopes and longings of the true believers at DU to show AS vindicated, the use of the names of institutions and professionals to promote this might be of interest to the agencies that exist to protect the reputations of the institutions and their medical staff.
Extraordinary.
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Though I ususally get personal checks or money orders from my ebay buyers, I get at least one cashiers check a month - and I have never seen one without a patterned background.
Giving Undie the benefit of the doubt, I thought it possible (for a split second) that he had just used a blank piece of paper to cover the bank name on the check while scanning it...impossible. Absolutely impossible.
Even FAKE cashiers checks have the patterned background and watermarks. I could work-up a replica of Undie's "cashiers check" in less than 5 minutes using Microsoft Word and plain white paper.
The two "checks" have differing routing numbers: 32-8188/3250 and 32-6188/3250.
http://www.fedwiredirectory.frb.org/results.cfm
32-8188 is the Verity CU in Seattle.
HMM, 6188 doesn't seem to exist - maybe it USED to...
I can't speak for all banks, mine says: Official Check
You sure are handy to know!
I never thought about this being a pre "cancer" diagnostic report. I just commented that it didn't look like any preprocedure radiology report with a known diagnosis that I have ever seen.
So do you think that he could have scanned his original Washington CT scan report into the computer, and changed the "letterhead", date, and Dr.s names? That's pretty ingenious, especially if it was truly pancreatitis like others have inferred, and treated with antibiotics.
Now the tin-foil hat is being put on.....
I remember when he was first having problems, for a couple of days he was explaining that although he was as sick as a dog, he thought everything would be OK. The love fests on DU were unbelievable...."OH Andy take care of yourself" " OH Andy we love you, let us know if you need anything" etc...About a week later after he was feeling better, he got a call from the DR. telling him the "bad news". Maybe it all started as an innocent disorder, and he decided to make it into a money making venture?
OK Tin - foil off, I hope Andy makes a full recovery, and he truly is in my prayers.
Okay. Thanks. :^)
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