Posted on 07/27/2008 3:13:09 PM PDT by Polarik
Sometimes, you don't always find what it is that you're seeking on the Internet. At least, not when you could have really used it.
I decided today to search through the web archives to locate other COLB images that have not been seen since their original posting. What I found was downright shocking!
First, props to Brian Ledbetter and his blog, The Snapped Shot, for providing both the references to my original, June 20 post, and for providing what was presented as "proof positive" that the Kos image was genuine. The "proof" provided was an animated GIF showing the DeCosta COLB morphing into the Kos COLB.
The conclusion reached by the eager detractors and debunkers of my theories was that the similarities between the two prove that both images are genuine, and that all of the differences I found in the Kos image -- the anomalies of the text -- were, and I quote:
"inconsistencies that've been pointed out can now be attributed to scanning/copying/encoding/transmission artifacts."
Or, the SOS, the same old stuff that every detractor has tried to postulate as the only reasons for the vagaries of the Kos.
A light went off in my head, and lights were flashing.
Unwittingly, the creator of this GIF just provided me with the smoking gun I needed that conclusively proves my theory!
After cropping both the Kos image and the DeCosta image down to just the outer edges of the borders, I decreaed them proportionately to 921 x 903 pixels each.
First, the Decosta image:
Now the Kos image:
To make my case even stronger, I performed Sobel edge detection on each image, and then created an animated GIF from both to demonstrate the closeness of the alignment.
They overlapped perfectly. Presenting, the DE-KOS-TA composite:
OK, like what are the odds of having two COLBs, one that we know was from Sep 9, 2002, and one that was 'allegedly' from June 9, 2007, with different border patterns, lining up perfectly on the placements of the borders, images, headers & footers, text fields, and data fields?
Like the odds of winning the lottery.
What are the odds that the Kos image was manufactured directly from the DeCosta image?
Take the odds! You'll win every time.
For comparison purposes, here is a composite of the DeCosta image with an overlay of Michele's image (another genuine COLB):
As you can see, although the top of the COLB image is similarly placed -- which is what you would expect it to be -- there is quite a difference in the placement of the text, which is also expected given the different time periods in which they were originally produced.
But, what is not expected are the anomalies in the Kos image. From where did the other date come? Why does it seem like the 'hidden seal' on the Kos image is smaller and shifted up and to the left relative to the DeCosta image? Why is the date stamp on the Kos in a different place? Why does this date stamp look so prominent on the Kos when the 'hidden seal' is hardly visible?" Why is the font of the Kos date stamp different from the DeCosta date stamp when everything else is the same?
These questions certainly do not detract from the fact that the DeCosta image served as the basis for the Kos, but it raises the question as to whether there was a second COLB -- one that could have been Obama's -- but contained information that he did not want to release to the public.
After all, the first one used for the forgery belonged to someone other than Obama.
Since I created my Kos clone to be the same size as the Kos, there is no doubt that an enlarged copy of the smaller DeCosta image became the "canvas" for the Kos "original. Then, copious amounts of cutting and pasting from another COLB's background was done to cover up the existing information, followed by typing directly onto the copied background while in Photoshop, or another image editor.
The bottom line is that the Kos was never a true copy of Obama's birth record, if it ever existed as a COLB. There is nothing to rule out the copying of parts from a second COLB (such as the background, seal stamp, and date stamp) belonging to someone other than Obama.
To me, this case is closed.
Now, the only thing left for me to do is to follow the same procedure I used to create the Kos clone shown in my previous post (which was made from Michele's COLB) by using the Decosta COLB as the starting point for the Kos clone.
THEN, we can now bid adieu to the doubters, the detractors, and the debunkers who were way off course with their rebuttals, and welcome back the faithful who never waivered from that nagging feeling that what they were looking at, was a fake!
All hail the DE-KOS-TA image.
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I’m not getting any error popups
The BC threads with the original KOZ BC made me wonder about some things
I have been to FR profile pages with a gizmo that tells your IP
I will ask the roving tech guy if/when I get a chance.
Four laptops at Congressman Wolf's hacked by Chinese after one laptop was left unattended and accessed by a Chinese agent.
What is the explanation for a single thread of a site with thousands of threads displaying the error.
A door ajar; a seatbelt unfastened. An activex siphoning data.
Oh! Oh! It detected the problem with the CERTIFICATE of Live Birth--
Oh--Bama! You are so BUSTED!
[ gizmo that tells your IP]
Yes, there are sites where you can get the code to put them on webpages. The difference is that when you come to one, only you are seeing the IP.
The one I told about on another site was for someone else to see your ISP, location wise. Your MSNTV is probably taking care of you. Our security settings are different for different areas of the web. ‘Trusted zones’, not trusted zones and then the whole WWW.
Active X controls CAN be bad. Wish someone with more knowledge had posted about it.
>>>>I saw the surge thread and a comment that Hil may call for a roll vote. Man that convention is going to be something.
One of our local reporters will be at that convention. Then at our group’s dinner. So we are getting a personal briefing!
I think this was the cleverous graphic yet!
Approved by the 12th Iman ROFL!
Aquarius
A - quar - i - us!
[An activex siphoning data.]
That’s exactly what they do! Should have pinged John Robinson but guess he wouldn’t reply.
When I was first coming here it popped up each time I came. Now it is completely gone - for me. If someone posted something to do that, they have ‘turned it off at the source’ just like we can remove our image in the host file.
>>>Four laptops at Congressman Wolf’s hacked by Chinese after one laptop was left unattended and accessed by a Chinese agent.
Did you see the thread that Obama’s half brother lives in China and owns a web server company?
I hate coincidences.
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Remote editing - Yup
I can swap a .jpg to a .gif format and swap in a juge still .gif (such as a photograph) to replace an small animated .gif
The key is you cannot use width=”” height=”” in your <img src=”TAG” )
Right! Lol, I’m pretty good at knowing how to do that myself now too!
I’m still getting the security certificate - but only when I go back to the first page and click the headline.
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Just a little tip for those who think hotlinking somebody else’s images or audios is “OK”
It can post an embarrassing graphic on your posted FR comment - forever!
Yes, as someone learned not so long ago. Lol.
Do you have any idea why it is happening? If you click ‘accept’ you download an active X!
...what’s an ‘active X? (Luckily, I’m so suspicious, every time I saw it, I only clicked the red x and made it go away.)
Please tell me how it works. I’m a dummy...
Lol, read my post #133 where I had looked up the Certificate business; Check the link there.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2052236/posts?page=133#133
Active X can be good, and it can be bad, depending on the site and what it’s trying to do.
That is the part I wanted you to know about. There was a bit about it in the link I posted too. I am well aware of the dangers of some of these.
When you accept a Security Certificate you are opening yourself to this. It said it was a valid one but I still just closed it. Why would I need it here?
Thanks for your link devolve!
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My dinky WebTV Plus knows all at 56K
And laughs at popups and viruses
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Unless I create the popup that redirects you to Hawaii!
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Do that - and I’ll go there!! Lol.
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