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Donofrio team pries previously known information out of Hawaii

by Dr. Conspiracy on 02. Oct, 2009 in Birth Location, Leo Donofrio

Leo. C. Donofrio

Leo. C. Donofrio

I don’t want to make too much fun of Donofrio and his article DoH Reverses Course – Releases Index Data For President Obama, Stanley Ann and Barack, Sr; No Records For Maya Exist. While the fake dramatic aura written into his article is silly, at least it presents some facts.

It has been clear to me since last year that this, and another approach to obtaining records from Hawaii, if pressed, would result in disclosure of this  already-public information. The other approach is the Verification in Lieu of a Certificate. But the information pried out of the Department of Health, is the same information the DOH sent to the Hawaii news service and was subsequently printed in two Honolulu newspapers 47 years ago. I suppose it’s nice that Donofrio has another voice from the same source saying the same thing, but there is no surprise here. This really is “old news”.

Leo also “learned” that Obama’s sister, Maya Soetoro-Ng does not have a Hawaiian birth certificate which–while still claimed otherwise by birthers as recently as by a filing in Hollister v. Soetoro a week ago–is impossible under Hawaiian law. So TechDude (who claimed he could see that the COLB was constructed from a base copy of Maya’s birth certificate) is exposed as a fraud (wait, TechDude was already exposed as a fraud).

It remains to be seen if Leo Donofrio will be believed or demonized by the birthers. The odds are on the latter.

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The Long Form – reconstructed

by Dr. Conspiracy on 22. Aug, 2009 in Birth Certificate

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Over the months, bits and pieces of evidence have come forward that provide at a partial view of what President Obama’s original birth certificate must look like.

Starting with the COLB released by Barack Obama himself, we add the recently confirmed Mother’s Usual Address from the newspaper birth announcement, the certificate number from FactCheck.org photographs, the name of the hospital from the President himself in a letter to the hospital on the occasion of their centennial celebration, and some formatting hints from the Nordyke Twin’s certificate.

I took a birth certificate from 1963 and reconstructed a Barack Obama birth certificate with the most accurate content I could. I did not attempt to make a forgery: the fonts don’t match exactly and the security paper background is obviously cut and pasted. But if and when a long form is published, this is the content we should expect to see. The only thing I guessed about was the age of Obama’s father: I put 24, but it could have been 25. If anyone has his date of birth documented, please tell me (and tell the Wikipedia!).

I may kick myself for this but here it is:

Exhibits:

  1. “Nordyke” long form 1961 (copy printed and sealed in 1966)
  2. Obama COLB 1961 (printed and sealed in 2007)
  3. “Edith” long form 1962
  4. “Alan” long form 1963

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Hau’oli la hanau President Obama

by Dr. Conspiracy on 05. Aug, 2009 in Lounge

Birthday Boy Obama

Birthday Boy Obama

As usual, I’m a little behind, but a belated Happy Birthday to you, President Obama, born August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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A tale of two images

by Dr. Conspiracy on 02. Aug, 2009 in Birth Certificate

I got an email from Charles Kerchner (Kerchner v Obama) pointing out that as far as birth certificates go, we have two images on the Internet, one saying President Obama was born in Honolulu and the other in Mombasa, Kenya. He says they are of equal value since they are just images, and indeed the Kenyan certificate is of greater value because while the Kenyan Ambassador has confirmed Obama’s birth in Kenya, and the President’s grandmother testified that she held the baby in Mombasa, no one has come forward to say they were present at Obama’s birth in Hawaii.

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Kenya

Obama COLB

Hawaii

As with most birther misdirection, a little bit of truth is mixed with lies to fool the credulous.

The truth is that they are both pieces of paper on the Internet, but there are differences.

Kenyan Birth Certificate:

  1. Very low resolution photos, making it relatively easy to fake.
  2. The claim that Obama’s grandmother said she held him in Mombasa is a bald-faced lie.
  3. The Kenyan Ambassador denies ever saying that President Obama was born in Kenya.
  4. We have no idea where the document came from (no provenance)

Hawaiian Birth Certificate

  1. Confirmation of registration and Hawaiian birth by state health department
  2. High-resolution scans and photos, more difficult to fake, examined by independent news organization
  3. Birth announcement in 2 newspapers
  4. Clear provenance, campaign officials say it was ordered from Hawaii, and it was presented by (then) Senator Obama himself.

While this little forgery exercise does make it clear that one should be skeptical of documents on the Internet, it also teaches a lesson on authoritative sources and confirmation, vs things that some from nowhere.

There are various internal inconsistencies that have been pointed out that suggest that the Kenyan certificate is more a hoax than a forgery (e.g. the certificate number 47,044 – Obama was 47 years old when he became the 44th president of the U. S. )  One wonders if the signer ODUYA is a play on “Oh, do ya?”, not unlike “Oh really? — O RLY? Once folks on the Internet have had time to paw over it for a few days, I’ll issue a report.

UPDATE!

The original document used to fake the Obama Kenyan Birth Certificate has been found. End of story, thanks to Koyaan.

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The elephant in the room

by Dr. Conspiracy on 02. Aug, 2009 in Lounge, Media

newsConservative leaders and pundits are suddenly teeming to address the elephant in the room, the Birthers. For months, there was scant Media coverage of the Obama denialist phenomenon, save bits in the Washinton Independent and the papers in Chicago and Honolulu. Now there are major articles almost every day. (For samples of the stories, see the Obama Conspiracy Theories Media page.)

From the liberal side the articles ridicule the birther movement. Conservatives not only ridicule the birther movement, but they say that the birthers are hurting the Republican party. It’s not only the birthers that are hurting the Republicans. The Conservative fringe has driven out moderates and literate folk, leaving not much more than stupid old southern white guys (according to the Daily KOS birther poll). Republicans in the last election, by running the likes of Sarah Palin (fundamentalist, unqualified) and stooping to the worst kinds of propaganda and mud slinging, already set the tone for the fringe ascendency: the Birthers, the Tea Parties and the Citizen Grand Juries. This is what happens when Rush Limbaugh becomes leader.

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Vital Statistics

by Dr. Conspiracy on 01. Aug, 2009 in Tutorial

I was explaining to Ms. Conspiracy about “African” on the President’s birth certificate, and thought a short article would be helpful for my readers.

In a birth registration, the record is in two parts: the legal portion and the statistical portion. They have different purposes and are treated differently.

The legal portion is governed by law. It contains the facts of birth for legal purposes. It is prima facie evidence of the facts it contains. There are strict laws and regulations about what can change and how it can change (legal name changes, adoptions, paternity, etc.)

The Statistical portion (which is rarely disclosed to the public) contains medical information about the birth: complications of pregnancy, method of delivery, risk factors, congenital abnormalities, etc. The statistical record does not have the same legal constraints on how it can be changed. It includes “coded” information. Coded information is information where text is quantified: an example is a “place code”. (more…)

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Clearing the smoke, or blowing more smoke? (Update 2)

by Dr. Conspiracy on 27. Jul, 2009 in Birth Certificate

A new article titled: “Clearing the Smoke on Obama’s Eligibility: An Intelligence Investigator’s June 10 Report” has been posted on the Western Center for Journalism web site (while an impressive name, the site is just another front for Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily).

…In December ‘08 a retired CIA officer commissioned an investigator to look into the Barack Obama birth certificate and eligibility issue. On July 21, 2009 westernjournalism.com obtained a copy of the investigator’s report. Here is an unedited version of the report.

What are the telltale marks of a “fake”?

Let’s cut through the BS right up front. There is no CIA officer; there is no “intelligence investigator”. That’s just set decoration to lend an air of mystery and secret knowledge. Somebody (my guess is that it’s Ron Polarik) ordered a copy of the Hawaiian laws from 1955, and reedited  them to make it appear that the writer was some sort of expert, and that the resulting “report” was serious. But how about the content, which purports to be an analysis of Hawaiian vital statistics law?

The bias of the report is immediately evident in this damning accusation:

The fact that Obama refuses to release the vault birth certificate that would instantly clear up this matter almost certainly indicates that the vault birth certificate is probably a BC2 [unattended birth] or possibly a BC3 [delayed certificate].

Here is another little trick in the report, which suggests that the Hawaiian Health Department is lying!

The document at the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands website indicates that at the time she [Health Department spokesperson Janice Okubo] made this statement it was false, and that a procedure was in place for application for “the original Certificate of Live Birth.” (more…)

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