Aristarchus (310 B.C. to 230 B.C.), reasoning from careful observations, developed the theory that the earth was a globe, and it revolved around the sun (heliocentrism), instead of the popular belief at the time that it was the other way around.

Eratosthenes (276 B.C. to 95 B.C.), picking up where Aristarchus left off, established the circumference of the earth accurately, to within approximately 100 miles.

Nevertheless, there are some people today who still insist that the earth is flat—maintaining that all this "nonsense" about space flight and landing men on the moon never happened. All the news film one saw on television, they claim, was done in the Disney studios.

Now hear this:   no matter how many people insist—and even vote for—the ideas that 1) the sun goes around the earth rather than the earth orbiting the sun; 2) the earth is flat and all the film we see "allegedly" from space is done either at Disney Studios or Industrial Light and Magic; and 3) Barack Obama is not an American citizen because he was not born in the United States—does not alter the facts that 1) the earth orbits the sun; 2) the earth is round, not flat; and 3) Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan father and an American (from Kansas, dead center of the United States) mother, was born in Hawaii on August 4th in 1961. Hawaii became the 50th state, admitted to the union on August 21st, 1959, approximately two years before Barack Obama was born. The Certificate of Live Birth IS the official and legal Birth Certificate issued by the State of Hawaii. And many, many other states.

(If a baby was stillborn, in most states, for the record, they would still issue a birth certificate, but it would not be a certificate of live birth, for obvious reasons.)

And furthermore, since one parent, his mother, was an American citizen, that means that he is an American, whether he was born in Kansas, Hawaii, Kenya, or on the third moon of Barsoom.

No matter who—or how many—believe—or vote—otherwise. And that includes ignorant, drooling rednecks.

Facts and Truth are not determined (or altered) by plebiscite.

Don Firth