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Posted on 09/10/2004 12:47:25 PM PDT by WoodstockCat
Hannity just said a story will be filed later today that from sources inside CBS that the source of the documents is also the one who provided the Abu Grihab prison photos.
I'm gonna join ya, but I'm making mine a coffee & Kahlua. More relaxed, but still wide awake. lol
Mine enjoys stomping the heck out of those cereal and soda boxes. " Have to flatten them so they don't take up as much room in the garbage"
I can remember that our high school secretary got one of these impressive IBM electric typewriter--with the ball! Cadillac! Imagine that! Kids would even go into the office and lean over the counter to look at it. Secretaries were proud to type on it--this was when running an office was a choice career for career-minded women. Men were not good typists, generally, in my memory. Killian, I suppose, could have been the unlikely exception. But his wife scoffs.
Could Killian have had some lavishly exotic typewriter? Unlikely, but possible. I guess they were handing them out right and left to state Nat'l Guards?
The heading is suspicious. Perfectly centered--took me days in a typing class to learn this. Killian doesn't sound like the kind of anal-retentive who'd take pride in typing a header when not bothering would be just as easy.
Share your concern - they're helping to create a strawman that can be knocked down.
They cannot be legit. That's impossible. There was no typewriter in the 70s that could produce a document that would be absolutely identical to a document produced by MS Word today.
Then on top of that you have the fact that Killian's superior who was mentioned by name had already retired by the date of the memo.
Then there's the fact that both the widow and the son of Killian say that not only did these NOT come from the family (where else would they get ahold of PERSONAL files?) but the content of the memos is not consistent with what they knew about Killian.
Killian's son says he didn't know how to type...wrote his few memos out by hand. Do you think he'd go to all this trouble??
"Yes you could get some paper from 1972 and you could probably get a typewriter from then too, but whoever manufactured these docs didn't get the typewriter so who would think they would bother to get the paper? silliness indeed...
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Exactly. Which is why suggestions that that one make no sense at all. If the forger had been careful enough to get old paper, they'd have done this on an old typewriter and we'd be none the wiser. That's why I'm suspicious that this was a deliberate plant meant to be discovered. I just can't figure out who and why. It's just too clumsy.
This is going way beyond their normal bias, partisanship and socialist political activity.
Curly quote, true type font, questionable signature... A retired officer having enough power to be mentioned in one of the memos...
Cough up the originals, cuz if they were typed in a typewriter, the characters will have been stricken into the paper & even after all these years, that would show up.
Exactly my point! Not to mention he could have found the "th" key? Not buying it.
"...Are you SERIES? Of course I do........it's HUGH!..."
Series-Hugh-Base-Moose Ping!!
Uh, you would have to know about "Watergate" to know...
LOL. That's good.
"Killian's son says he didn't know how to type...wrote his few memos out by hand. Do you think he'd go to all this trouble??"
For the 112th time, of course not. The memo's a forgery. I'm just trying to get people focused on the real ways it can be shown to be a forgery and to stop talking about junk.
No, Killian would not do that!
I'm not defending anyone. I'm just trying to cut down on the noise that makes no sense.
I wonder if Kerry will try to have Bush killed??? If they would forge documents they how far would they go??
Kerry has already plotted assinations of Senators.
I am serious, really.
John
I'm sorry, I don't believe that.
Holdin' my place....
NO, IT CAN'T. AND HERE'S THE PROOF.
Fire up MS Word and try this excercize. Type a line "A aaaaaaaaaa" (leave off the quotes - ten a's - the first "A" is merely because MS word caps the first character, this will trick it)
Then type "A bbbbbbbbbb". 10 b's Note that the line is a different length.
Do "A ffffffffff". A third length.
Do "A iiiiiiiiii". A FOURTH length.
Do "A mmmmmmmmmm". A FIFTH length.
The point is that the IBM Executive proportional font had three different space widths. This proves that MS Word Times New Roman has AT LEAST FIVE character widths.
This will have to be confirmed with a genuine specification for MS Times New Roman. Anyone here can help me?
Perhaps it's possible you could use combinations of the three different widths in order to do the five. But it's worth the research.
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