Monthly Archives: April 2011

Birther Bishop back

You remember the “grandmother tape,” the edited recording that kick-started the birther movement? The fellow on the US end of the call was street preacher and Anabaptist Bishop Ron McRae. McRae has now joined the ranks of the forensic document … Continue reading

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Berg is not thinking…

Not to be upstaged by Barack Obama’s long form birth certificate, Phil Berg, the grandaddy of the birthers, has come up with a press release, titled: What about Obama’s Indonesian Citizenship? In that release he says: Soetoro/Obama renewed his Indonesian … Continue reading

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Taitz v O’Donnell

What’s Orly Taitz been up to lately? I checked her web site yesterday to see what she had to say about Obama’s long form birth certificate, and there was nothing; however, Orly did have something to say yesterday, or at … Continue reading

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Will the release of the president’s birth certificate settle the so-called birthers issue?

National Public Radio (NPR) hosts an unscientific poll that says “no.” It has been the conventional wisdom on my side of the fence that the NPR web site visitors are right. I, and many others have said, nothing will convince … Continue reading

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Kapi’olani Maternity and Gynecological Hospital

A misleading sentence in the Wikipedia article on Kapi’olani Hospital has led some to believe that the hospital where President Obama was born was not named what his birth certificate says it was in 1961. The Wikipedia has been corrected … Continue reading

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Layers, and layers and layers, oh my!

The PDF provided by the White House is not a simple image, but is comprised of multiple layers. The the background appears in one layer (plus some of the handwriting), Dr. Onaka’s stamp is another layer, and most of the … Continue reading

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