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Tickerguy Flips A-A [A-A-K-x-x Board] (Birth Certificate)
The Market Ticker ^ | May 2, 2011 | Karl Denninger

Posted on 05/02/2011 11:01:22 AM PDT by kiryandil

You knew I had pocket rockets, right?  How often have you seen me come up with something on The Ticker without a fairly-decent set of evidence behind what I had to say?

It's time to call the curtain on this game and then go back to economics.

Find me one typewriter in the world, anywhere, that can perform kerning and I will believe this "certificate" is real.

For the uninitiated, "kerning" is the process of manipulating the spacing of letters to make the appearance more pleasing.  Here's an example from this Ticker itself:

http://market-ticker.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www?get_gallerynr=1595

This process, of course, requires that you know what the next letter is.  With a computer this is pretty easy, since the computer can retroactively go back and adjust, and it also can typeset the current letter with knowledge of what the previous one was.

A typewriter, on the other hand, is a mechanical device.  It does not know what the next letter is that you will type, nor does it know what the last letter was that you typed. It thus has a typeface that always leaves physical space between the boundary of each character and the impression.  It has to, lest letters run together and look like utter crap.

Typesetters (offset printing machines and similar) perform kerning - in fact, it's part of typesetting.  But typewriters do not, cannot, and never have.

This, of course, is why the typed Birth Certificate has kerned text in it.

http://market-ticker.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www?get_gallerynr=1598

Oh, and before you say "that's an artifact of what the White House did with their automated process", here's the same thing on the AP copy, which is a simple picture scanned in, with no post-processing of materiality I can detect and no layers.

http://market-ticker.org/cgi-ticker/akcs-www?get_gallerynr=1597

Oh darn.

Incidentally this is not the only example, as I show in the video.

To refute this point you must come up with a typewriter that contains a flux capacitor and thus is capable of accurately predicting the future.

I'm sure there will be people who argue some sort of explanation (e.g. "sloppy carriage") for these results.  But at the end of the day, here's the point: Exactly how many of these "explanations" have to line up in this way for everything to be on the up-and-up with this document?  Each of these explanations that has been proffered - tab stops, damage to the background, the low number of layers from automated processing that just happen to all be on things that would be important to change if you were forging something, the appearance of kerning, misalignment of certain fields .vs. others and more - has a probability associated with it as random chance. 

How many of these random probability events have to fall exactly the right way for the explanation that everything is on the up and up to be valid?

Remember, in 1961 nobody knew this person was anyone but a random half-black baby.  There was absolutely nothing remarkable about him that would distinguish him from the other kids born in Hawaii - or anywhere else - that year.  There was no reason for his birth certificate to be made any more "pretty" than any other kid's, or for any sort of special treatment.  Nobody knew, absent a time machine, that this person would be President in 2008.

What are the odds, folks, that it would all line up as the Obama supports claim by simple random chance?

Now about that forensic analysis we should have done on the alleged document that allegedly is in the files at the Hawaii Registrar's office in order to see if it's really 50ish years old.....  This is the only way we are going to get the truth.  Will the American people, Congress, or someone (e.g. a judge) demand defensible truth on this topic?  We damn well should.

(I think that's my pot in the center of the table.  Would you help me push the rather-large pile of chips over here please?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85yVkL94_BU

PS: This is exactly how Dan Rather got caught - typography that was impossible to produce using the alleged tool the "document" was created with.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; certifigate; enoughalready; naturalborncitizen; obama
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To: A. Patriot

Those are excellent examples of the irrational opinions of which I spoke.

Thank you.


161 posted on 05/04/2011 12:17:30 PM PDT by El Sordo (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
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To: A. Patriot

Those are excellent examples of the irrational opinions of which I spoke.

Thank you.


162 posted on 05/04/2011 12:17:44 PM PDT by El Sordo (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
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To: El Sordo

Thank you for your opinion. I was hoping you would reveal some facts to show me wrong.


163 posted on 05/04/2011 12:57:27 PM PDT by A. Patriot (CZ 52's ROCK)
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To: A. Patriot
What facts would you like?

What facts or information can I possibly present to you that Birthers haven't already explained away or moved the goalposts past?

164 posted on 05/04/2011 1:53:36 PM PDT by El Sordo (The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.)
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To: El Sordo

Remind me not to give you my locker combination.


165 posted on 05/04/2011 11:15:34 PM PDT by Tex-Con-Man
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