I had posted this in the Birther Summit thread, but I'll repost it here:
It's official. Dean Haskins "big news" was that he was harassing the Sunahara family.
WAS BABY VIRGINIA SUNAHARA'S IDENTITY STOLEN?Quote:
"As was previously reported, in October and November, we spent a total of 2 ½ weeks in Hawaii on an investigative assignment"
And we would really like to know who was bankrolling you too.
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" It was at the beginning of that stay that we met Duncan Sunahara, a highly informed, but unassuming guy, complete with his signature coconut palm frond hat. He was a military veteran with an obvious deep love for his country."
Translation - he was someone we could easily sucker or buy off.
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Duncan knew that his sister was born in the same hospital that he had been a few years earlier, and that she was transferred to another hospital, but he didn't know which one (and his elderly mother could not remember). He had visited the birth hospital, Wahiawa General, and both Queen's and Kapi'olani Medical Centers, but was not able to obtain any information from them. We were able to help him procure all of the medical records from the day Virginia spent in Wahiawa General, and found that she was transferred to Kapi'olani, but Kapi'olani insists they have no records on file. It does seem odd that Wahiawa would have the records, but Kapi'olani supposedly does not (how much room could it take to store a roll of microfilm?). This certainly seems "convenient" for them.
Not really. Most hospitals don't keep 50 year old records of deceased patients around.
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"When we visited the Department of Health, we weren't quite sure what we would find, since Loretta Fuddy had insisted that Virginia's records didn't exist. However, we were pleasantly surprised that Duncan's application produced several certified copies of Hawaii's new short form birth certificate (which they now absurdly call their "long form"). Upon closer inspection, we learned that the number assigned to Virginia's birth certificate is 151-1961-01180, and realized that, statistically, that number simply cannot be legitimate."
Remember how the birthers claimed that the number on Virginia Sunahara's birth certificate must be the same as on Obama's??
Translation - "Damn! It was a different number after all!!!"
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"Now, here's what's wrong with that number: we all know that the last group of numbers on the "certificate" Barack Obama claims is his official record is 10641, and his certificate was supposedly processed on August 8, 1961. We also know that the Nordyke twins were assigned the numbers 10637 and 10638, and their certificates were processed on August 11, 1961. Virginia Sunahara's birth certificate states that it was processed on August 10, 1961, but the number it was assigned is 443 higher than the Nordyke twin whose certificate was stamped with the number 10637."
Not particularly curious at all. If each hospital used a pad or batch of certificates with pre-printed numbers on them. Virginia Sunahara was born at Wahiawa General, not Kapi'olani Medical Center, where Obama and the Nordyke twins were born at. Which means that each batch had a different sequence of numbers.
If one is in the reality based community, it's no big statistical mystery at all. Only the conspiracy minded would see some deep dark problem here.
Also, Haskins' understanding of math is just as flawed as his understanding of statistics or civics. 10637+443=11080, not 01180.
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To refute the ridiculous argument that birth certificate worksheets were pre-numbered, and clerks kept small stacks of them on their desks for processing, that is not only patently false, but also, by federal law, would be illegal. Birth certificate "worksheets" (what they call blank birth certificate forms) are kept at the hospitals, and it is there where the information is entered onto them. Once all the information has been entered, they are sent to the DOH, where they are processed using a Bates machine, which enters certificate numbers sequentially, and then the date of processing is stamped onto them. Basement bloggers who suggest otherwise simply prove their lack of factual knowledge with that argument (as if any further proof of that were needed)
*Chuckle* While Dean Haskins is rather hypercritical at denouncing "basement bloggers without factual knowledge", (since that description describes most of the birthers), again it's not a big statistical surprise either. If the numbering was done using a Bates stamp rather than a pre-printed form, then the answer is quite simple:
1) If the Bates numbering was done in pre-processing at the hospital, then each hospital would have had a block of numbers to work with.
2) If the Bates numbering was done at the Department of Health, then each clerk would have a block of numbers to work with to keep them from accidentally using the same number.
Remember, this was done in the days before wide-spread use of computer technology, where using a "block system" to assign numbers would have made more sense and protected against accidental duplication.
And again, Dean Haskins shows how petty and thin-skinned he is.
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"We went back to the DOH the next day to try to obtain a photocopy of Virginia's original birth certificate, but were told that Duncan was not allowed to receive that (according to DOH rules). When we pointed out to Supervisor Jesse Koike that their "rules" were illegal, according to Hawaiian statutes, he told us that Duncan would have to discuss that with Dr. Alvin Onaka. We spent four hours waiting to speak with Onaka, who eventually instructed the security guard to throw us out of the facility (which seems to be outrageous behavior from someone with nothing to hide)."
Seems like perfectly understandable behavior from a director and an agency who keeps getting harassed and attacked by a group of conspiracy nuts.
And I strongly suspect they were doing more than just "waiting". I'd bet money that harassing the staff and clients was part of it as well.
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"It is still unbelievable that, in 2008, our so-called media dispatched teams to sift through Sarah Palin's trash looking for anything they could find to discredit her, but did nothing of the sort regarding an empty suit Marxist from Chicago who refused to provide any substantive documentation regarding his eligibility."
Bias much Zampolit Haskins??
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