A bit more on the Obama Birth Certificate
Karl Denninger at
The Market Ticker has been picking apart various oddities in the "ofishul" Obama Long Form Birth Certificate as presented by the White House.
Differences in type, kerning, color, layers, etc... Some of these can be ascribed to the scanning of the paper and conversion to PDF format but there are some matters that will not go away.
Today,
Karl links to a
letter from Douglas Vogt of Archive Index Systems, Inc. Mr. Vogt's business is document scanning and he has some interesting observations - just an excerpt as it is a long letter:
1. Curved and non-curved type. The image we are looking at was scanned in grayscale and some part in binary which cannot be on the same image. The reason I know this is because of the shadowing along the gutter (left-hand side). It also means that the county employees who did the original scanning of all the forms, did not take the individual pages out of the post binders. The result is that all the pages in that book display a parallax distorted image of the lines and type. They curve and drop down to the left. If you look at line 2 (Figure 3) on the form that says Sex you will notice the letters drop down one pixel but the typed word Male does not. Also notice the line just below Male drops down 3 pixels.
If you open a book and look at the type on a page, you can see how this curvature happens when you get close to the gutter. That curvature is present in some of the words on the Obama certificate but not on others.
Curious to know who he really is...
Posted by DaveH at May 17, 2011 2:45 PM