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Is this a real Columbia University ID for Barack Obama?
Facebook ^ | 10/10/13 | unknown

Posted on 10/10/2013 6:00:51 PM PDT by cincinnati65



TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: barry; birther; criminalstatedept; eligibility; fakebook; fraud; gullibility; naturalborncitizen; obamafraud; ohgoodlord
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To: Irenic

I don’t buy snopes on this.

I’m not saying it’s real, but where’s another 1981 card to compare against?


41 posted on 10/10/2013 6:21:54 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: HereInTheHeartland
But thought a poster here debunked the picture saying that bar codes were not used on student ID’s at that time.

That sounds reasonable to me. I doubt Columbia was advanced enough at the time to use the same technology as the local supermarket was using for inventory control. ;~))

42 posted on 10/10/2013 6:21:54 PM PDT by Ditto
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To: PAR35

oh sorry my bad


43 posted on 10/10/2013 6:23:04 PM PDT by bigheadfred (INFIDEL)
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To: JackOfVA
No, bar codes were not used in 1981. And the photo is an older Barry.

They started putting barcodes (UPC) on products (Wrigleys gum being first) in 1974.

44 posted on 10/10/2013 6:24:10 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: House Atreides

The original poster just asked whether it was phony. A valid question. You may remember the George Bush service records Dan Rather promoted on CBS? Sharp eyed Freepers helped establish those documents were fake.


45 posted on 10/10/2013 6:29:26 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: House Atreides

Isn’t “fake but accurate” the relevant standard on the left?


46 posted on 10/10/2013 6:38:20 PM PDT by sphinx
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To: HereInTheHeartland

“Bar codes back then; don’t think so.”

The only bar codes I remember back then were...no spitting on the ugly women, and last call. Other than that, the bars I frequented were “codeless”.


47 posted on 10/10/2013 6:39:42 PM PDT by moovova
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To: moovova

Hmmm; I remember some of those bars!


48 posted on 10/10/2013 6:40:27 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Sign at WWII Memorial: NORMANDY WAS CLOSED WHEN WE GOT THERE, TOO.)
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To: cincinnati65
Not that yahoo answers is always correct, but according to them barcodes were first used in library books in the early 1980s.

This is from a page about Bar Code History: bar code history

"The event that really got bar code into industrial applications occurred September 1, 1981 when the United States Department of Defense adopted the use of Code 39 for marking all products sold to the United States military. This system was called LOGMARS, and is still in use today by the US military."

It may not be his id, but not due to the bar code.

49 posted on 10/10/2013 6:40:36 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Boogieman

Yes that looks like the photo.

If that photo is legit, the card is fake.


50 posted on 10/10/2013 6:42:00 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: House Atreides

I get why you say that frauds should be a avoided on FR. But i sometimes wonder if going to the dark side is not such a bad idea. The info wars are being fought and we seem to lose under normal laws of engagement.


51 posted on 10/10/2013 6:42:16 PM PDT by lovesdogs
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To: cincinnati65
I'm a bit famous I guess, I made it to Snopes...
I created that fake ID years ago, here's on of my original posts to FR, scroll down to number 28.
link.
I could point out the minor flaws, but they're readily apparent.

Just do a google search to see my other photoshops.
52 posted on 10/10/2013 6:44:53 PM PDT by frankenMonkey (Here's a big "Howdy!" to all the guys at NSA!!!)
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To: kristinn

Forgery.

why forge something that never was


53 posted on 10/10/2013 6:45:09 PM PDT by molson209 (Hillary Clinton)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Earlier I looked around a bit but I couldn’t find a 1981 ID example. I saw several links saying it was a forgery, it seems this has been floating around for a while. Got me but the 1996 timeline for Columbia using barcoded ID seems to point to forgery.


54 posted on 10/10/2013 7:04:18 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: JackOfVA

....In June of 1974, the first U.P.C. scanner was installed at a Marsh’s supermarket in Troy, Ohio. The first product to have a bar code included was a packet of Wrigley’s Gum....

http://inventors.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=inventors&cdn=money&tm=89&gps=141_5_1152_576&f=10&su=p284.13.342.ip_&tt=2&bt=4&bts=76&zu=http%3A//www.adams1.com/history.html


55 posted on 10/10/2013 7:04:39 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

The Smithsonian Institution’s Museum of American History had an exhibit on the history of the bar code back in 1999. It was the Silver Anniversary of the UPC which was first used in 1974 for a six pack of Juicy Fruit.


56 posted on 10/10/2013 7:19:26 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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To: HereInTheHeartland
Bar codes back then; don’t think so.

Back then? The use of linear printing patterns for identification was patented in 1949. Barcodes were being used in supermarkets in the 1970s. The DOD mandated the use of barcodes (Code 39) in 1981 for all products sold to the military. Barry graduated from Columbia College in 1983. However, this card and this number belongs to a student from 1998.
57 posted on 10/10/2013 7:22:24 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: cincinnati65

The crown seems a bit self indulgent, but I doubt it’s his, as there are Christian Crosses on it.


58 posted on 10/10/2013 7:26:59 PM PDT by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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To: cincinnati65

Impeachment File on Communist “B. Hussein Obama,” aka Barry Soetoro, a legal citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.


59 posted on 10/10/2013 7:33:19 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Marxist Obama'care' Insurance violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: Salamander

Barcoding go as far back as 1952. Uniform Product Codes were first used in 1974. So, there is an outside possibility this is not a forgery. There is one way for Barry and Columbia to disprove this. Release his transcripts; unredacted


60 posted on 10/10/2013 8:00:10 PM PDT by Minutemantek (VETERAN & FREE THINKER)
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