Letter to the Editor The Sun-Sentinel

July 4, 2010

Letter to the Editor
The Sun-Sentinel
200 East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301

RE: How many states in the nation and stars on the Flag in 1912?

Sirs,

I know that your editorial staff is dedicated to the self evident proposition that whatever Lord Barack the Beneficent says is true. That’s why I wasn’t too shocked when your overt/covert defense of him extended to Geography.

Last year, when he said that there were 57 or 58 states, modern American Liberal journalists [as if there were any other kind!] turned their heads away. Journalists were too busy keeping their restlessly tumescent legs form releasing the full chakra to comment on trifles such as that. Besides, he hadn’t said something awful like “nuculeayour”.

You have a most interesting story on the American flag on the back page of today’s Opinion section.

I once thought I was pretty good in Geography. Alas, as Dr. Johnson explained why he was wrong on a different matter, I confess to the same malady. “Ignorance madam. Pure ignorance.”

You say that there were 56 stars on the flag in 1912. “8 rows with 7 stars”. Although I never had to face the horrors of the FCATs 8 x 7 is 56. That means when Alaska and Hawaii joined the Union the number of states in the Union became at least 58. More importantly, it means President Obama was right.



Kevin Smith

PS – I’ll be shocked, shocked if next week you announce that one of those stealth states, either White Water, South Ohio, Oz, North Utah, or Blivit is where I can find an Austrian/English Affirmative Action unicorn farm cum “ass kicking” adult sleep away camp.