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For the pinglist I started, some have been added by request, and no one has so far asked to be removed, so here goes, some surprises:

From Kansas to Washington, Barack Obama's 'Story'

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President Obama's mother Stanley Ann with her parents, Madelyn and Stanley. According to family lore, via Maraniss, she was named after her father, who wanted a boy. Another possible piece of inspiration: Madelyn's favorite actress was Bette Davis, who played a female Stanley in the 1942 movie "In This Our Life." PHOTO: COURTESY OF DAVID MARANISS

When her father, a furniture salesman, moved the family to Vernon, Texas, Stanley Ann (far left) attended 3rd and 4th grades at Hawkins Elementary School, where she joined the Friendly Bluebirds troop. PHOTO: COURTESY OF DAVID MARANISS

Growing up "amid the gloom of the Cold War," a friend once said Stanley Ann (top row, fourth from right, without vest) had "a sense of hope and not despair," Maraniss relays. In high school, she was a member of many clubs, including the Mercer Girls social service club. PHOTO: COURTESY OF DAVID MARANISS

In 1960, when Stanley Ann (left) was a senior at Mercer Island High near Seattle, this advertisement appeared in the school yearbook. "She was not the sort to primp or pay much attention to appearances," writes Maraniss. "She wore plaid skirts and saddle shoes and Peter Pan collars." PHOTO: COURTESY OF DAVID MARANISS

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Don't forget to read the whole article, but I can't help pointing out that the girl he identifies as fourth from right back row, IS MAXINE BOX and she didn't forget her sweater. And the image is STILL cropped. Why? Why not show us a full page of this mysterious 1960 yearbook?

In 1960, when Stanley Ann (left) was a senior at Mercer Island High near Seattle, this advertisement appeared in the school yearbook

That's another pic that has been cropped. You'd think the owner/clerk would be in the picture or at least some indication what the name of the business was. At least that's how the ads were done in my old yearbook. It looks like a clothing store with the whatever it is on the counter that is prepackaged. Also, there's the usual for that era, gum at the register. SAD sure does have a thing about not looking at the camera...

What's with all the cropped pictures and chopped off heads in the "From Kansas to Washington" story? What was the date for the article?

The above "King Obama" sidewalk pic has been around for years but the same sidewalk below doesn't have "King" on it. There are many discrepancies in the cracks of the sidewalks so we have another REALLY BAD photoshop. Which is the fake and which is real or are they both fake? Notice, as is his m. o., he blames someone else for carving his name.

David Maraniss who provides the Balloon Boy with Genevieve produces a wider shot of the Girl Who Wasn't There.
Not only is she the only one who forgot her sweater.
She is the only one not looking at the camera.
The only one not smiling for the shot.
The only one not bending her elbow.
At least three in the second row (Jones, Hayward and King) are cut off to our right, to Space Girl's left.
It's as though she were dropped into the shot digitally.
Like Tourist Girl in her trenchcoat:

She's not the Girl With Bette Davis Eyes--she's the girl with Zombie Body-Snatcher Eyes

Just a side note:

It has been theorized that the birth certificate number assigned to tiny Virginia Sunahara, who died less than 24 hours after her birth at Wahiawa Hospital on August 4, 1961, was reassigned illegally to Obama to create a false birth story. Is this a “conspiracy theory” which the government has tried to counter? Because the Hawaii Department of Health had told a requester of a verification letter for Virginia that she “didn’t exist,” was her birth record destroyed and the number stolen?

When Virginia’s brother asked for a certified copy of his sister’s long-form birth certificate from the Hawaii Department of Health, he was refused, and a short-form certificate with a number much higher than those appearing on the birth certificates of the Nordyke twins, born on August 5, 1961, was produced. When Mr. Sunahara filed a lawsuit to obtain the long-form, he was denied by Judge Rhonda Nishimura,who ruled in favor of the Health Department’s “right” to determine in which form a vital record would be released. The Health Department’s defense attorney was Deputy Attorney General Jill T. Nagamine. Nagamine had refused to corroborate anything on Obama’s purported birth record to Zullo when he and a deputy sheriff were performing their investigation in May.

Nagamine also stonewalled the Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett, suggesting that he was not “eligible” to receive a verification letter in lieu of a certified copy of Obama’s birth record. During the previous administration of Gov. Linda Lingle, Nagamine had refused to corroborate former Health Department Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino’s claim that she had consulted with the attorney general’s office about releasing a statement about Obama’s birth certificate. Zullo does not believe that the information purportedly sent by Nagamine to Bennett is authentic.

If the birth certificate is not real, is the birth date?