I got $50 says Charles Johnson is killing himself right now for having backed this particular “historic” horse.
(h/t JHo)
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Charles Johnson killing himself would make for a nice bonus.
Baracky really, really likes the birther story, doesn’t he? Could they be this bold? Or this stupid?
Meanwhile during somone’s Southern California beach vacation: “Hey honey, who is that fat creepy guy with the camera at the beach yelling ‘Wingnuts!’ at the top of his voice? Do you know where the kids are?”
wouldn’t Trump have hired a typographer to look at this? This was like his whole life.
Trump was working with the Dems.
I’m not sure what to think of this, but it sure appears that the writer is correct about his evidence. One wonders what the point was of faking the document in the first place, except to paint the right as wackos. The book will change nothing politically.
that makes sense really that poor man has to bend over for Chicago bureaucrats and smile smile smile all the time just to make a buck to keep his random dirty foreign trophy slut-o-the-month happy I can definitely see him wanting to earn some major points with team socialism for a bit of a reprieve
Speaking of wiseguys, O’Keefe is up to his old tricks.
Medicaid. A fine time to be having that discussion, ain’t it?
Rush says Trump showed the way to get to Obama is take him head on. Obama can’t take that sort of heat. Rush has a point.
Trump is (at best) a pragmatic Republican. I am not sure he was working for Dems as much as street walking for Trump.
Trump is a Trumpian. No more, no less. Always has been.
Yeah, but you don’t need Trump to figure that out. I’ve had a list of people I’d like to see take him apart for years now.
Trump.…is all.i think baracky’s ss card more interesting
short fingered vulgarian!
Huh.
See, if I were forging an image (and I often doctor screen shots), I’d make a copy of each letter individually, because I usually don’t have the font from the GUI installed on my machine. Otherwise, there’s no way to reliably imitate a font, especially if it’s anti-aliased.
I also remember typewriters quite well, having used one until my junior year in college, and I know that with the old cloth ribbons, it was not unusual for the letter to not fully stamp when the ink was a bit thin in a particular spot (as it would likely be on a bottom serif).
Also, it’s entirely possible that part of the certificate was filled out at one time, then someone else with a similar typewriter filled in the rest later, when the info was obtained.
Sorry, not convinced. If you’re ‘shopping a document, the letters would all be exactly the same, including all the flaws and bumps, and THAT would be suspicious.
Charles Johnson is hilarious. He is like a particularly dickish untenured Poli Sci professor whose lecture is being audited by someone on the tenure committee.
“‘Everyone is a racist'” is what we will be studying the next 11 weeks class, with an emphasis on how Intelligent Design is both racist and homophobic, along with how anti-global warming lunacy has taken over the right wing blogosphere. No questions please, or you’ll fail.”
Yeah. I’d be more convinced if the evidence showed every instance of each letter was perfectly identical.
Then again, who knows? Maybe they learned something from Dan Rather’s mistake.
Yup!
That stuff is REAL! Because it took SO many years to find it!
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/jul/18/nevada-man-sues-dmv-over-rejection-gopalin-license/allcomments/
Offensive and vulgar licence plate!
A citizen still has a spare $50?
Geitner, get in here!
Chop-chop!!
Oh well.
Showing you my birth certificate is much harder than having my brown shirts stick their fingers up your six year old daughter’s unit – in the name of “Freedom”. (Obama bullshit)
I might not make it through this crap, but I hope (but doubt) that my contributions even come close to Terry Lakin.
“Pissed” doesn’t even begin to describe it, and cynacism is wearing thin.
WHO THE FUCK ARE THESE PEOPLE, PARTY AND COUNTRY BE DAMNED?????? STICK MORE CASH UP MY BUTT, YOU FUCKING MORONS!!!! Eat brown rice while I take your money AND STICK IT IN MY BUTT AND EAT LOBSTER FUCKING TAILS!!
YES! You fucking morons, KISS MY ASS! I AM THE GREAT OBAMA, who has NEVER accomplished anything worthwhile in his life, other than to fuck your WILLING butt, and take advantage of the crackheads who think that “Organizing” means free crack forever!(which it does!)
Woo-Hoo!!!!!
Where is MY free Blow, Mofo?
Pissed? Yeah, I really think so…
Especially since the document in question was clearly Xeroxed from a page in a bound book of records and the page was not completely flat. Lots of distortion of the letters could easily be introduced into the resulting copy.
Besides, Birther conspiracies are foolish distractions away from the very real damage this sitting President is doing to the national economy, governmental fiscal responsibility and the very founding principles of the nation. Enough already.
Convinced or not, doesn’t matter to me. I’m more intrigued by the SS#.
And, not to put too fine a point on it, but we wouldn’t have “foolish” distracting “birther conspiracies” if the media had done its job and vetted this guy.
What I will say is that they are learning that they don’t need to, because all they have to do is leave it up to us; if we find nothing, they’re vindicated for not digging; if we do, we’re fringe kooks engaging in distracting conspiracy mongering.
Kinda like they’ve realized if they don’t pass a budget, it matters not; if we do nothing, fiscal problems are our fault; if we offer a plan, it kills the old and the young alike and is extremist and racist in nature, the product of fringe kooks.
if the media had done its job and vetted this guy
What the hell are you talking about? They’ve been hoping for a president like this for decades! They did vet him; that’s why they pushed so hard to get him elected.
Sheez, Jeff, it’s almost as if you think the media is supposed to expose bad things.
Maybe they learned something from Dan Rather’s mistake.
Dan Rather didn’t make a mistake; he was railroaded by the VRWC.
Go ahead, keep picking on trains, people.
Highball.
“I’m more intrigued by the SS#.”
yep: like did he buy the rezko thing with a phony ss#? but the available help is in ak dumpster diving or email jingy mikejackson looking.
“Go ahead, keep picking on trains, people.”
picking on the fed regs and union cum slut whores
OK, now that one IS bizarre.
Hasn’t it been that way since the Reagan Administration?
Is that the Coors Light Silver Bullet, guinsPen? On my fancy-schmancy 2500×1600 monitor the icons are quite tiny.
Speaking of Heh!
But…
No Heh for you!
Obama got his social security number in ’61? I didn’t get my number until ’72, when I turned 18. That lucky bitch.
It’s probably hard to tell jokes when people are starting to realize that the joke is on them.
…when people are starting to realize that the joke is on them
Chup,
But what is notable is who is realizing it.
Not exactly tea-partiers attending these types of announcements.
“OK, now that one IS bizarre.”
it is fun to vet the grifter. i like ” the sting” it is chitown like. nice merrygoround
With this I probably need some sort of easy-to-follow thingamajob.
Even here, where I trust folks, I either vacillate between “whatever” and “it’s a trap”.
It’s a weird thing. I need some sort of explanation as to why he’d pull this shit. Why he’s release something so easily falsifiable.
It’s a tic I have.
“why he’d” rather than “why he’s”
“We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow. And let there be no misunderstanding—we are going to begin to act, beginning today. 7
The economic ills we suffer have come upon us over several decades. They will not go away in days, weeks, or months, but they will go away. They will go away because we, as Americans, have the capacity now, as we have had in the past, to do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom. 8
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. 9
From time to time, we have been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. But if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price. 10
We hear much of special interest groups. Our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and our factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we are sick—professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truckdrivers. They are, in short, “We the people,” this breed called Americans. 11
Well, this administration’s objective will be a healthy, vigorous, growing economy that provides equal opportunity for all Americans, with no barriers born of bigotry or discrimination. Putting America back to work means putting all Americans back to work. Ending inflation means freeing all Americans from the terror of runaway living costs. All must share in the productive work of this “new beginning” and all must share in the bounty of a revived economy. With the idealism and fair play which are the core of our system and our strength, we can have a strong and prosperous America at peace with itself and the world. 12
So, as we begin, let us take inventory. We are a nation that has a government—not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the Earth. Our Government has no power except that granted it by the people. It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed. 13
It is my intention to curb the size and influence of the Federal establishment and to demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the Federal Government and those reserved to the States or to the people. All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States; the States created the Federal Government. 14
Now, so there will be no misunderstanding, it is not my intention to do away with government. It is, rather, to make it work—work with us, not over us; to stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it. 15
If we look to the answer as to why, for so many years, we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on Earth, it was because here, in this land, we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before. Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on Earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay that price. 16
It is no coincidence that our present troubles parallel and are proportionate to the intervention and intrusion in our lives that result from unnecessary and excessive growth of government. It is time for us to realize that we are too great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams. We are not, as some would have us believe, doomed to an inevitable decline. I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing. So, with all the creative energy at our command, let us begin an era of national renewal.”
I probably haven’t been paying enough attention.
Was that at the link or someplace earlier that I missed?
it was here bh
http://www.theobamafile.com/_eligibility/SocialSecurity.htm
bh,
I think this is the strange SS# story referred to above.
hard to parphrase this much strangeness.
Maggie beat me, old and slow I am.
Thanks, you two.
I’ll read those links.
This Danger.
“Maggie beat me,”
Me too but, my story was much stranger;)
Hey geoffb,
Think ya could come up with a resume or job application or something on this guy?
No such thing exists I’d bet. Everything done verbally, quietly, favor for old friends style.
Meh. Letters look the same to me. Variation likely due to differences in keystroke pressure. The “ee” case is the only questionable one, but the first “e” appears to be on the curved part of the certificate, and may explain why the horizontal stroke is tilted.
Leslie Ragan
Me? I’m Jade.
When I started college I gave my SS# to the registrar with the middle digits and the last two digits transposed. It caused me no end of headaches since, at the time, they were still using SS#’s as Student ID’s. I also know some legitimate Americans who did not have or did not know their SS#’s when they got to school and had to apply. I also knew some Freshman who did not know how to swim.
That said, I do know at least three people, one from Ghana and two from Ireland, who applied for and received US SS#’s while in school here.
I’m sure that the numbers assigned to those people were pulled from a pool of unassigned numbers and the normal “rules” do not apply to them. Seriously.
I’m more interested in who made the choice to pick a classic underachiever to be the next President, how they figured they could control him when he got in, and what, exactly, we are going to have to do to fix their mess.