[cynwoody]

Yeah, right. Anybody who would get upset over CNN's incompetence needs to get a life.

Here we have Fred's photo of Loretta Fuddy down in the HDoH stacks:

We see that they store the paper documents bound in numbered, dated books. If you ever visited a deeds registry back in the old days, you know that's how they stored real estate deeds. You looked up buyers and sellers in the grantee / grantor index, which gave you book/page references, which you wrote down. Then off to the stacks. You pulled down the appropriate book, found the page, and took the book over to a copy machine and pumped in your nickels.

Back in the eighties, I happened to visit the Middlesex County Registry of Deeds in Cambridge, Massachusetts. There was a big room with card catalogs for the indexes and stacks of books. It was the bag-phone era, and the place was full of people chasing down documents and reporting back on their phones.

Nowadays, of course, the grantor / grantee indexes are computerized and lead to page images in a database.

Sadly, Hawaii decided to save some money and omit the page images. Instead, they entered the key birth details into a database and pronounced that a certified copy of those details would fulfill the law's requirements. That's all the short-form is: the output of a database query formatted onto expensive looking paper and stamped and signed by an official.

[Fred Nerks]

That’s Fuddy down in the archives, those binder volumes show the word BIRTH on the spines, so what do you think might be inside?
Real Estate deeds?
You’re not making any sense.

[Fantasywriter]

‘CNN’s incompetence’

CNN said they got the info from HI Officials. That version of ‘the truth’ was publically represented as such for nearly two years. If CNN had incompetently misrepresented the HI Officials there was ample time to correct the record.

But there was no correction; rather, the report was staunchly defended. I know this because I was personally told an obnoxious number of times that no LFBC for Obama existed, & that the COLB was all there was. I was told this was info directly from HI. I lived through that, and I remember how adamant the anti-birthers were about it.

It has never ceased to amaze me how lightning-fast the turnaround was. One day the anti-birthers were swearing to me that no LFBC existed for Obama, and that only crazy birthers would doubt the all-efficacy of the COLB; the next day the same exact anti-birthers were swearing the LFBC was the authentic, vault copy.

They are nuts. No sane person could reach a different conclusion.