No!!! . . . I can't believe this! . . . The birth certificate from h*ll! It just keeps coming back.

So last night I receive a response to my first post on Obama's birth certificate.

Forget the PDF layers. Why is Obama's registration number out of sequence (higher number than that of two others who were born and registered after his birth)?

The Big Question now is what is the reg'n number for Virginia (Tamyia) Sunahara, born on that day. One site w/ a lot of info: www.birthers.org/misc/sequential.html.

My respondent continues:

[S]suppose Obama is actually NOT qualified. What would actually happen? Would the US Supreme Court (current makeup!) vote to impeach him? Probably civil war before that. Why start civil war over this? There's plenty of other things far worse going on... and I doubt we'll have a civil war over any of it.

My thoughts: There probably won't be a full-fledged civil war over this. At least not over this, per se. But if the birthers were found to be correct all along--at least, if they were to be proven correct within the nearer rather than the longer-distant future, I expect several "heads will roll" in the federal government.

I mean, who is supposed to vet presidential candidates? Who failed to do his or her job? Who authorized the failure? Who said, "Stop looking?"

And what might it do to political relations if, indeed, it were found that the one side, who consistently and forcefully denied any hanky-panky, were to be found to have been wrong all along?

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And in case you don't notice within the linked article--I had not heard this one before, and I didn't catch it the first time I read the article:

We know that Obama has been using a social security belonging to Jean Paul Ludwig who died in June of 1981 in Hawaii.

So birthers are now claiming Obama has been using someone else's Social Security number?!?

No big deal, you say? That's a felony (see, especially, subsection (7))!

But what is this? Wikileaks 2? More fraudulent "information" (that is no information at all) from the web?

Anyone who has absolute trust in Obama's trustworthiness who has been able to find a counter-balance to these charges?

As I said above, I didn't even know people were raising these charges and I couldn't find any decent opposing evidence in the time I allotted to this story. . . .

Obama's birth certificate videos about faking demonstrate nothing untoward

I wrote to one of my sons-in-law, who does digital graphic work all day every working day:

Can you check out the claim of the nay-sayer?

Look at my blog post and see if what the guy I quote immediately beneath the video says is true. If you need a test scanned document converted to PDF and optimized in PDF, I've attached one for you. . . .

Thanks!

I have a ScanSnap S510 scanner I use regularly to transfer printed material into PDFs. If I want, I will leave the document in PDF form, or I will use the PDF to create a Microsoft Word document OCR (Optical Character Recognition).

Often, because the straight image scan is exceptionally large--way too large for emailing or posting on a website!--I will "optimize" the image. And optimization, I have found, is enhanced when I OCR and optimize.

So I sent Dave a PDF version of a high-end sales brochure I had scanned, OCR'd and optimized. The original scan had come through at over 15MB--way too big for emailing (which is what I wanted to do with it). After OCR and optimization, I was dealing with a still hefty, but far more manageable, 2MB document.

Dave replied several hours later:

Adobe Illustrator is, in fact, 'reading' layers in the file you sent me.

And he sent a screen shot of just one small portion of the document with certain portions of a few characters showing the "color shift" our analyst noted, and the remaining portions of those same characters showing no color-shift.

And then he commented--and I immediately recognized that what he said was true:

On a side note, I'm not sure why that kid said that the technology isn't there. I know that the little scanner you have can detect and separate images from text and it even converts text (that it thinks as being an image) to an image.

Okay.

Nice to know we can debunk that rumor!

No way!!! Obama's birth certificate, Round 495 (or whatever) . . .

What!?! I thought for sure this has to be one more fringe wack-o. Is it true? . . . There are a bunch more videos like it.



Someone wrote,

"Scanning an image, converting it to a PDF, optimizing that PDF, and then opening it up in Illustrator, does in fact create layers similar to what is seen in the birth certificate PDF. You can try it yourself at home."

I don't have Illustrator. Who is telling the truth?

No matter who is proven correct, I would like to note what "SecularStupidest" says on his own version of the same basic demonstration:

We do not doubt the citizenship of the President, and agree with those who believe it is an unfortunate distraction. However, as we survey the "circus" transpiring before us it is clear that the Obama Administration is acting amateurish and cynically political by 1. Not releasing a long form until now, 2. releasing an odd digitally produced document, when the original was produced by typewriter. Why not a simple scanned image of the original?, and 3. having Pres. Obama waste face time leading a press conference about the issue, when the "world" is burning all around him. Fiddle anyone?

Ouch!