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.
Michael Jackson proved that you can be born a poor Black boy in America, and grow up to be a rich White woman.
Brilliant deductive work FRiend. If you were drawing a salary from FR, you would certainly have earned your pay with this.
As others have pointed out however, the trick now is to somehow get this more media attention that won’t just be explained away.
I can think of three broadcasters off the top of my head that might be inclined to run with this, Rush Limbaugh of course, Glenn Beck possibly, and perhaps Michael Reagan.
And if I were one of those broadcasters, I would paint this issue as being one that Obama has to clear up himself, not his staff, not his wife, not his family members, certainly not Komrade Kos or those clowns. Obama has to cough up the real item here, no more xeroxes or photoshopped specials, real paper, real raised seals, real certificate numbers, because if he doesn’t do it now, we can be sure that the Clintons WILL do it before or during the ‘Rat convention.
If Obama is serious about winning the Presidency, he has to establish beyond any question that he is indeed Constitutionally eligible to serve.
LOL
Was Obama circumcised
Oh please NO! The bathing suit picture is disgusting enough. I can’t stand to look at this creep.
“Does anyone else have any thoughts on this?”
They might have just recorded whatever information was provided by the mother. If Ann Dunham said “African”, perhaps that’s what they put down.
I must admit I still don’t feel I know whether the Obama web birth certificates come from a genuine source or not.
While I hope Barack loses, but I’m not confident he is ineligible.
He doesn’t have to be constitutionally eligible to serve, for the American people are too polite to tell him otherwise.
Once again, the blacked-out certificate number speaks volumes. If nothing else, everyone should demand that Obama provide that. It will provide the date the certificate was filed and provide a reference against which the accuracy of the rest of the document can be validated.
I think that is the REAL smoking gun.
You haven't been in many male locker rooms, have you? While most white males are circumcised, a number are not; and I would say that a significantly higher percentage of black males are not.
I wouldn’t put anything past the left.
“Now Roger Whittaker is also African, but he is not black.”
LOVE IT!! Roger Whittaker has long been my example. Why, if he moved permanently to the United States, he’d be an African American! Wouldn’t that be a hoot??
bmflr, keep up the good work
If anyone’s found a smoking gun, it’s
Texas Darlin in the thread “Divided Loyalties, Obamas Eligibility Problem, PART 2 [REVISED]”. Amazonia seems to be saying there is a HI ColB for Maya from 1971.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2040486/posts?page=3939#3939
Maya gave an interview to some magazine saying she was born in Java; but there is a copy of a Birth Certificate in the TD post showing a birth in Hawaii in 1971
Obama’s mother was fluent in the maneuverings to establish citizenship even when her child was born out of the country. Now, THAT’s a smoking gun.
With the American mother, does it matter where he was born? He probably thinks he was born in HI, one of his strongest states.
It is a Muslim practice to preserve not only the circumcised foreskin but the first diaper of boys.
Like we bronze first baby shoes. Or did, anyway.
That sure the hell is. Was there a doctor there who specialized in Hawaiian ‘births’? For fellow travelers?
Maybe Judy Bonesky knows.
That's the impression that I had also.
I’m not an expert, but I’ve seen it posted several times that the applicable section of the immigration law states that an american parent would need to have been on american soil for at least 5 years. Obama’s mother did not meet that requirement. It means he’s a citizen (naturalized) but not natural-born, per the law.
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