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Obama's tax plan would hit me hard especially if he lifts the 90,000.00 income cap on Social Security deductions as I'm in the top 1% of earners.
More work for the lawyers and accountants to get around this. Obama's been fumbling around recently but McCain hasn't exactly been gaining. McCain just doesn't generate passion and/or excitement so far. This is not a good year for republicans. |
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I read that entire blog page that tries to "prove" the CLB is fake, and all I have to say is this guy is a total amateur. Everything he describes is perfectly consistent with what you get when you start with a less than perfect scan and over-process it to make it look better. Things like sharpness filters do weird things to text (the sharp outlines of the letters surrounded by gray "mush").
The issue with the borders overlapping is simply the result of how the master for the paper was created. Before the advent of graphics programs, everything was done by hand. For the borders, you used adhesive tape with the scrolls and stuff printed on them and applied them to the master. Once the master was done, you'd use a giant camera to take a full-size photo of the paper, which was then transferred to a printing plate via photo-resistive etching. Also, comparing the scan of Obama's CLB with those of other people, without knowing what kinds of image enhancement (as opposed to alteration) was done is pointless. Different scanners, different resolutions, different image software will produce different results. If someone from the Obama camp wanted to produce a fake CLB, they could have easily made it nearly perfect. The fact that it's not is good evidence that it's genuine. Which begs the question: Considering how easy it is to fake an electronic image, what exactly would satisfy the nut-job conspiracy theorists? I could just as easily take any of the scanned images of other peoples' CLBs and use the same logic to "prove" they were fake. Bryan, you're not exactly batting 1000. Do you remember the story of the boy who cried wolf? The more you post these ridiculous things, the sillier you look. Do you actually believe that throwing out these shaky, poorly-researched conspiracy theories non-stop does your cause any good? I'd put you in the same category as the 9/11 "truthers". There's no getting through to them either. There are plenty of legitimate reasons to oppose Obama as president. You know, policies, experience, etc. Why do you waste your time on this nonsense? |
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I especially enjoyed the part where you said that the fact that it has flaws indicates that it's authentic. Classic.
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Not nearly as much as the blog in question.
The point is, there is no way to prove that ANY electronic image hasn't been altered. The conspiracy nuts will never be satisfied, even if they were provided with a 60 meg TIFF file. In fact, when it comes to documents, the more "perfect" the scan is, the easier it is to manipulate. |
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