Democrats Delay Bill Release to Conceal Details

Human Events ^ | 2/13/09 | Connie Hair

[Crazieman]

Democratic staffers released the final version of the stimulus bill at about 11 pm last night after delaying the release for hours to put it into a format which people cannot “search” on their home computers.

Instead of publishing the bill as a regular internet document -- which people can search by “key words” and otherwise, the Dems took hours to convert the final bill from the regular searchable format into “pdf” files, which can be read but not searched.

Three of the four .pdf files had no text embedded, just images of the text, which did not permit text searches of the bill. That move to conceal the bill’s provisions had not been remedied this morning at the time of publication of this article. (You can find the entire bill on the House Appropriations [http://appropriations.house.gov] website.)

[MortMan]

If the posted files are scanned images of the pages, rather than PDF-printer generated text in PDF format, the search feature in Acrobat Reader and even Acrobat Pro is useless without extensive OCR (Optical Character Recognition) processing of the file - which would take hours, if not days, depending on the quality of the scans.

[libs_kma]

The only way to fight this after it passes is to not pay taxes.

And to do that you have to register as a Democrat. That's so you can remove any possibility of being prosecuted and still run for office if you choose.

[cc2k]

AppyPappy wrote:

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You can easily search a PDF

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When they were first posted, they were scanned images in a PDF file, one graphic image per page. This was bad in two ways. First, you couldn't search for text in the "pictures." Also, the original PDF files were huge.

If you had a PDF reader that could do OCR on the graphics, you could extract the text and search it. But with a plain Adobe reader, you couldn't search.

Some time after 8 this morning, they changed the files on the house rules committee server. After that, they were much smaller PDF's, with mostly searchable text, and graphic overlays for the hand written notes. This might have been in response to complaints that the oiginal files couldn't be easily searched.

Or it might have been for practical bandwidth reasons. Those servers at the house rules committee have been very slow today, even after the change over. I'm sure the links were saturated this morning when people first got up and started downloading the files.

[Lumper20]

As reported this day Obama spent a small fortune on high dollar lawyers( probably Soros’s money)to seal his college transcripts and all his background Info to include COLB from the prying eys of those he serves.