Wow

I should have checked my stats earlier.  I saw that on August 1st, I suddenly had 1000 hits on my site which is, needless to say, many, MANY times the norm.  Apparently my “Many Layers” post was linked by MyDD, which was then quoted by Daily Kos on the front page.  And thus 1000+ hits.  That also explains why there were so many comments as well.

Making Shit Up

The website that shall not be named appears to be making shit up again.

So they found “anomalies” by zooming into Obama’s birth certificate at zoom levels of 300 and 400.  Of course, at that level the pixilization is so bad – even on the large version – that it’s rather hard to tell what might be an anomaly in the birth certificate from either flaws in the paper, jpeg pixilation, or both.

For example, here is an area with some supposed anomalies:

This is what it would actually look like zoomed x4.  Now, not only can I not find the alleged anomalies above the text in the Obama birth certificate – at least any anomalies which clearly aren’t widespread over the image due to jpeg pixilation, but I actually see anomalies not even alleged – such as the semi-circle under the T in “Birth.”

I’ve tried doing this with various versions of the birth certificate, just in case some had been resaved – but nothing.  There is just nothing there.

My conclusion: they’ve resorted to plain out completely making shit up.

Added Thought:

I also find it very convienient to them that they aren’t showing any close up views of the most important alledged anomalies.  The show zoom-ins of some artifacts which may be on the paper or due to pixilization somewher else randomly on the page, and they show a zoom in of an area with what the supposed replaced text was and thus destroying any possible anomalies that had been there, but no zoom in of the area unaltered.

This doesn’t even address the issue that, if someone was going to delete already existing information on the page, they wouldn’t have just barely covered the letters, leaving some anti-aliasing behind, they would have covered the entire area up with a cut and paste copy of another area of the background – or if they were really good, different areas of the background assembled together.  Given the pixilation, it’s not like it would be easy to tell different areas of the background apart.

Non-germane Update

I also find it humerous how they’ve been demanding that Florida and Michigan be seated 100%, and now that Obama is saying that they should be given 100% votes at the convention, they’re now saying he’s “Morally Bankrupt.”  So does that mean that they didn’t want them seated 100% after all, or that they wanted someone else to force the decision onto Obama (like they could do that).