Other Crap

Here is the fake Kenyan birth certificate making the rounds this weekend.

Actually, the forger did kind of a good job. The document could pass muster with a few small changes:

• The forger needed to pick a different city of birth. Besides the fact that Mombasa is hundreds of miles from Lake Victoria, where Obama's family actually lived and still live, there is another very large problem with that location. One cannot be born in Kenya in 1961 and also in Mombasa in 1961. If Obama was born in Mombasa in 1961, he would have been born in Zanzibar. Mombasa was ceded to Kenya when Kenya became independent in 1963.
  
• The forger needed to date the document one year later. It is dated February 17, 1964 and has been issued by the Republic of Kenya. That would have worked if the document had been dated February 17, 1965. The Republic of Kenya came into existence on Dec 12, 1964. Between Dec 12, 1963 and Dec 12, 1964, the newly independent nation was known as The Dominion of Kenya.