help me out. looked for thread on TANG memo on MSWord?

[PretzelWarrior]

what in the F*ck is going on here? how do we refute this? if it catches wind and isn't refuted fast....dammm...why can't Kerry's reaction team be this fast?

[madinmaryland]

1. i saw a pdf early. didn't bookmark it.

[Dogmudgeon]

2. Here is one article on the memo

http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=291

--bkl

[PretzelWarrior]

6. thanks. I hope some more comes out and FAST

this is such bullsh!t. I can't believe how these bastards work the system morning, noon, and night.

[Gman]

3. These assholes started this shit

then emailed the thread all over the Internet.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1210987/posts

And they talk about Democrats and "wild eyed conspiracy theories".

[HFishbine]

4. Oh, my. How can we possibly fight shear stupidity?

If all Bush did was miss a physical, I say God bless him.
Bush has proven himself a brave American President.

He knew the liberal press would tear his military records apart with their teeth, yet he boldly released them any way.

What a great man. What an honest man!

The more I learn about George Bush, the more I admire him.

Kerry, on the other hand, is a total coward. He hides his records in shame. He runs. He winces. I can imagine the horrors we'd find in those! Kerry is a small, small, weakling. He 's far from qualified for the Presidency.

If he's afraid to do something as simple as release his military records, imagine how he'd run and hide from a terrorist attack!

[demwing]

15. Thanks. I'm on a diet.

And that just made me lose my appetite.

:puke:

[HFishbine]

5. This might help

The Selectric II had a Dual Pitch option to allow it to be switched (with a lever at the top left of the "carriage") between 10 and 12 characters per inch, whereas the Selectric I had one fixed "pitch".

The Selectric II had a lever (above the right platen knob) that would allow the platen to be turned freely but return to the same vertical line (for inserting such symbols as subscripts and superscripts), whereas the Selectric I did not.

As for the "theories" about the font:

Both Selectric I and Selectric II were available in standard, medium, and wide-carriage models and in various colors, including red and blue as well as traditional neutral colors, and both used the same typeballs, which were available in many fonts, including symbols for science and mathematics, OCR faces for scanning by computers, script, Old English, and more than a dozen ordinary alphabets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric_typewriter
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The world's most popular typewriter in 1972 was perfectly capable of creating superscripts.

BONUS: For a good laugh, click on this link to the Selectric Typewriter Museum (yes, there really is one. I think it's operated by a Democrat): http://www.selectric.org/selectric/index.html

[LisaM]

7. LOL, they can't handle the traffic

site is down due to "excessive hits."

[PretzelWarrior]

8. I saw that. pretty funny. they never thought they'd get slammed

by people eager to prove or disprove a point in presidential politics.

[HFishbine]

9. Oh, he's now refuting IBM

He previously had the page offline because of excessive hits from "conspiracy theorists" (his words).

[Mick Knox]

10. Your source says

Sorry, but due to excessive hits, this page is temporarily out of service.

Please check back after the election.

For those who want my opinion...the documents appear to be done in Word, and then copied repeatedly to make them "fuzzy". They use features that were not available on office typewriters the 1970s, specifically the combination of proportional spacing with superscript font. The IBM Executive has proportional spacing, but used fixed type bars. The Selectric has changeable type elements, but fixed spacing (some models could be selected at 10 or 12 pitch, but that's all). The Selectric Composer was not an office typewriter, but apparently did use proportional spacing. These were very expensive machines, used by printing offices, not administrative offices.

At least my low opinion of TV news remains intact.


Great source that IBM Museum. Thanks

[HFishbine]

14. Actually

The source for my original post was wikipedia.org.

I just included the link to the "museum" because I found it googling and thought it was kind of funny.

[PretzelWarrior]

11. I think he meant FREEPER conspiracy theorists

never mind. this guy's an a$$hole

[frylock]

16. excessive hits of crack

[Zorra]

12. Freepers are clutching at straws. We frame this debate, the facts are

on our side, and the memos are real.

Let them lie, piss, and moan all they want - it's a done deal, Bu$h is AWOL. A DESERTER. Nothing can change that fact.

Nothing.

[Lex]

13. Yep, and their side is on the defensive NOW.

Scrambling, trying to refute.

That's way I like it. Let THEM play defense.