7.04.2008

Friday, July 4, 2008

Could you pass the latest citizenship test?
In October 2008 a new version of the U.S. citizenship test will be taken by all applicants. Could you pass it? www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25461301/

When was the first 4th of July celebrated? This is not a trick question…
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080701/sc_livescience/whenwasthe4thofjulyfirstcelebrated&printer=1;_ylt=AmlgyL8M_eoYNeQhFySppHGzvtEF

Today on the radio broadcast of Focus on the Family: Historian David Barton (founder of Wallbuilders) will talking about Freedom, Faith and the Founding Fathers. http://www.focusonthefamily.com/ Check out Focus on the Family tonight at 9pm on WBFJ.

AS WE CELEBRATE THE 232ND ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIGNING OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE TODAY, ONE SCHOLAR NOTES THE DOCUMENT IS MORE A SUBMISSION TO GOD THAN AN ASSERTION OF RIGHTS. Dr. Larry Arnn, the president of Hillsdale College in Michigan, in an article recently published on TownHall-dot-com, says it is remarkable to remember that all who supported and signed the document were committing acts of treason against England…punishable by death. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the Declaration of Independence was the documents' four references to God. www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=165580

Out with the old and in with the new: Construction on the new state of the art medical facility (that will replace Walter Reed Medical Hospital) should be completed by 2011.

A rare and original manuscript of one of America's most patriotic songs has been discovered by a shopper browsing through a flea market in New York.
The shopper bought a framed picture of a flower for $10 dollars and found a handwritten manuscript of "America" (My Country 'tis of Thee) tucked behind the picture. The manuscript of the song (written by Samuel Francis Smith in 1831) could be worth tens of thousands of dollars. www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/03/flea.market/index.html

Larry Harmon, better known as ‘Bozo the Clown’ died on Thursday of congestive heart failure. He was 83. Harmon was not the original Bozo the clown...
www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/07/03/obit.bozo.ap/index.html?iref=hpmostpop

BOUNCE-U is collecting food items for Second Harvest Food Bank. The kids will get one hour of FREE bounce time for the donation of non-perishable food item at either Triad location of Bounce-U between 9 and noon this morning only. http://www.bounceu.com/
Greensboro: 615 Dolley Madison Road
Winston-Salem: 5086 Styers-Ferry Road

Local Baseball Action: Fireworks after Friday night's games...
WS Warthogs at home tonight thru the weekend http://www.warthogs.com/
Greensboro Grasshoppers at home thru the weekend www.gsohoppers.com/

THE AT&T NATIONAL GOLF TOURNAMENT hosted by Tiger Woods has made 30 thousand tickets available to the military and their families this weekend. Tiger can’t actually play this weekend because of his injured knee. Tiger's late father Earl Woods was a Green Beret in Vietnam.

DOT is suspending road construction during the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Posted speed limits in work zones still apply. THERE IS A $250.oo PENALTY FOR SPEEDING THRU WORK ZONES