Archive for April, 2011

http://www.theadvocates.org/quiz

“It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich.”
Paul Harvey, Radio Broadcaster

So as not to perpetrate a mistake, I must bite the bullet on this particular aspect of the birth certificate issue.  Fox News hired an expert to analyze the document, and concluded that, yes, a scanner could break it into layers. I must presume they hired an anti-socialist.

Even though I always get a second opinion on medical issues, and only have one opinion on this one, and have attempted to replicate the expert’s technique unsuccessfully, I concede that OCR software may likely separate a document into layers.  OCR (optical character recognition) was designed to read a document.  I scanned three different documents on two different scanners and could not separate them, but that doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen.

So, on this one, I apologize to the White House, as I was overly enthusiastic in trying to resolve the more important 14 trillion 3 billion issues.

I was asked a question on my facebook page, “What do you mean, pulled apart?”  Here’s my answer:

A document that was just that, a document that was flat and scanned or photocopied is flat, without “components.” In photoshop you can assemble a document in layers, and each layer, other than what you have placed thereon, is transparent, thus you see a combination of layers. Unless it was assembled in photoshop, it doesn’t have layers.  However, an expert hired by FOX NEWS maintains that a scanner with OCR software may likely break a scanned document into layers.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/29/expert-says-obamas-birth-certificate-legit/

The above link shows a claim that the birth certificate is legit, that scanning software separates a document into layers.  Okay, so I scanned three different documents (print, graphics, hand print, cursive) on two different scanners and tried to get them to separate into layers.  Sorry, one layer, no separation.  I need another expert, hopefully one who’s not a socialist.

“There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way
 of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned,
 and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely,
the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, 
the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance
 while making a display of our apparent knowledge.”

– Roger Bacon
(1220-1292)
Source: Opus Majus, 1266-67

Our American Aristocracy

I find it interesting that our administration uses the EPA as the ultimate weapon against increasing our energy production, yet pays absolutely no attention to the adverse effects, or costs, of their own actions.

When Obama made his recent visit to L.A., I couldn’t help but note that he brought along Marine One, the helicopter that allows him point to point transportation.  Okay, he flew in Marine One from the VA Hospital on Wilshire Blvd., to LAX.  Normally, that would be a 30 minute drive…of course a presidential drive is accompanied by a retinue of cars with flashing red lights and sirens, so lets say it was a 20 minute drive, giving him the benefit of the doubt.