Oh lookee, 1961 vital stats law, look at race and color highlighted for your convenience:
Posted on 05/02/2011 11:01:22 AM PDT by kiryandil
You knew I had pocket rockets, right? How often have you seen me come up with something on The Ticker without a fairly-decent set of evidence behind what I had to say?
It's time to call the curtain on this game and then go back to economics.
Find me one typewriter in the world, anywhere, that can perform kerning and I will believe this "certificate" is real.
For the uninitiated, "kerning" is the process of manipulating the spacing of letters to make the appearance more pleasing. Here's an example from this Ticker itself:
http://market-ticker.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www?get_gallerynr=1595
This process, of course, requires that you know what the next letter is. With a computer this is pretty easy, since the computer can retroactively go back and adjust, and it also can typeset the current letter with knowledge of what the previous one was.
A typewriter, on the other hand, is a mechanical device. It does not know what the next letter is that you will type, nor does it know what the last letter was that you typed. It thus has a typeface that always leaves physical space between the boundary of each character and the impression. It has to, lest letters run together and look like utter crap.
Typesetters (offset printing machines and similar) perform kerning - in fact, it's part of typesetting. But typewriters do not, cannot, and never have.
This, of course, is why the typed Birth Certificate has kerned text in it.
http://market-ticker.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www?get_gallerynr=1598
Oh, and before you say "that's an artifact of what the White House did with their automated process", here's the same thing on the AP copy, which is a simple picture scanned in, with no post-processing of materiality I can detect and no layers.
http://market-ticker.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www?get_gallerynr=1597
Oh darn.
Incidentally this is not the only example, as I show in the video.
To refute this point you must come up with a typewriter that contains a flux capacitor and thus is capable of accurately predicting the future.
I'm sure there will be people who argue some sort of explanation (e.g. "sloppy carriage") for these results. But at the end of the day, here's the point: Exactly how many of these "explanations" have to line up in this way for everything to be on the up-and-up with this document? Each of these explanations that has been proffered - tab stops, damage to the background, the low number of layers from automated processing that just happen to all be on things that would be important to change if you were forging something, the appearance of kerning, misalignment of certain fields .vs. others and more - has a probability associated with it as random chance.
How many of these random probability events have to fall exactly the right way for the explanation that everything is on the up and up to be valid?
Remember, in 1961 nobody knew this person was anyone but a random half-black baby. There was absolutely nothing remarkable about him that would distinguish him from the other kids born in Hawaii - or anywhere else - that year. There was no reason for his birth certificate to be made any more "pretty" than any other kid's, or for any sort of special treatment. Nobody knew, absent a time machine, that this person would be President in 2008.
What are the odds, folks, that it would all line up as the Obama supports claim by simple random chance?
Now about that forensic analysis we should have done on the alleged document that allegedly is in the files at the Hawaii Registrar's office in order to see if it's really 50ish years old..... This is the only way we are going to get the truth. Will the American people, Congress, or someone (e.g. a judge) demand defensible truth on this topic? We damn well should.
(I think that's my pot in the center of the table. Would you help me push the rather-large pile of chips over here please?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85yVkL94_BU
PS: This is exactly how Dan Rather got caught - typography that was impossible to produce using the alleged tool the "document" was created with.
Karl, you’re great...
I’m sure there will be people who argue some sort of explanation (e.g. “sloppy carriage”) for these results. But at the end of the day, here’s the point: Exactly how many of these “explanations” have to line up in this way for everything to be on the up-and-up with this document? Each of these explanations that has been proffered - tab stops, damage to the background, the low number of layers from automated processing that just happen to all be on things that would be important to change if you were forging something, the appearance of kerning, misalignment of certain fields .vs. others and more - has a probability associated with it as random chance.
How many of these random probability events have to fall exactly the right way for the explanation that everything is on the up and up to be valid?
Remember, in 1961 nobody knew this person was anyone but a random half-black baby. There was absolutely nothing remarkable about him that would distinguish him from the other kids born in Hawaii - or anywhere else - that year. There was no reason for his birth certificate to be made any more “pretty” than any other kid’s, or for any sort of special treatment. Nobody knew, absent a time machine, that this person would be President in 2008.
What are the odds, folks, that it would all line up as the Obama supports claim by simple random chance?
Actually, you can see that the ‘p’ is offset from the ‘a’ in Kapiolani...
I worked on an electric IBM Executive that did kerning in the 70s. For instance, an “i” was 1 space while an “M” was 5.
The difference between these typewriters and a manual typewriter was the ribbon. The ribbons on the IBM Executive and the IBM Selectrics (which did not do kerning) was only used once. The impression made by each key was very dark black and consistent. The ribbons on the manuals were fabric ribbons and used until they became too faint.
Please see my FR home page for an explanation of “African” as a race.
There is actually no kerning present. There are several locations where the lower case "a" looks like it is kerned with the next character, but it is because the "a" is slightly offset to the right, so it looks like it is kerned with the next charachter. This is in fact a characteristic of manual typewriters. Because the hammers to collide at times, it is possible for one to get slightly bent and therefore offset.
For other reaseons, I still believe the document is a forgery, but the kerning argument does not hold up.
I am unsure if the people who bring this “African” stuff up are just throwing mud to see what sticks, or if their memories are really that short, or if they are truly that ignorant of the facts involving their pet cause. All fervor and few facts - and a resistance to allowing the record to be corrected.
“How dare you (correctly) say there wasn't a travel ban on Pakistan in 1981, you O-bot!!!!”
“And I worked on one of their selectric / composer units in about 1972(it was an older unit) or so that produced near typeset quality, including kerning. It worked by your keying in the text, which was recorded on a mag card, and then played back with corrections and letterspacing and kerning applied.”
The downside of using that argument to explain the kerning is that it then invalidates the other explanations about the vertical misalignments of letters being due to sloppy shift-key usage. If the text is recorded on a mag card, formatted, then typed automatically, there would be no misalignments. They can’t have it both ways.
Good observation, thanks!
As the saying goes, "What matters is not what is true or false, but what is believed."
They're covering up their Kenyan birth. Inspector Smith is currently auctioning their Kenyan birth certificates on ebay. Polarik has verified the authenticity of the document in a video with Richard Kiley doing the voiceover and John Williams the soundtrack...we've spared no expense...
Thus, for a consistent looking document in those days, manual typewriters required that you hit each key with equal force, and steady speed. But that was difficult if you had varying strength in your fingers, and varying speed skills. Novices could often be identified by lighter "a" or "q", versus darker "j" or "f" characters, for example, because of the different strength of the pinky finger vs others, etc.
Also, varying skill and your training could result in having "favorite" keys, versus keys you weren't good or as speedy at.
Also, the alignment of the character hammers would degrade after a while causing spacing errors and characters that were darker on one edge than the other. Some would get so bad as to open up a "O" making it almost a "C". If you see what I mean.
Also, negligent typists, who didn't clean or brush their keys regularly, would suffer ink buildup on the hammers causing a variety of distinctive characteristics.
In summary, a document produced by a manual typewriter is similar to a human fingerprint. Serious investigators can easily match the document to the typewriter and to the typist in an office. A lost art now, methinks.
It doesn't work that way.
Fed up. I know what you mean CCguy....I’m FED UP!
To slam that close together the keys themselves get locked together. The Qwerty keyboard layout was developed to keep that very thing from happening.
Personally, back in Typing Class in 1962, I was one of three "ham-fisted" males in a class of 50 girls, and was constantly flirting with "key jams" when I got too far beyond my natural ceiling of about 60 CWAM (Correct Words A Minute). Of course, the three of us were flirting in other areas too, as I recall.
If we had video of Clinton raping and killing a girl on the White House lawn, Trent Lott said, we still could not convict, and he was correct. The birth certificate is fake, the why is the important part, because it involves practically everyone currently in office, that is why it is imperative that it be persued.
Amazing. Fact Check is owned and operated by Annenburg where Bam and Ayers worked but, Hey!, they’re not biased and wouldn’t lie! *cough*
Isn’t that for births only?
What leads you to think that the list applied to parental race as well?
Can you find ‘Caucasian’ on that list?
Birth certificates are handled by the bureau of vital stats.
Vital stat laws apply.
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