National Public Radio Discontinues Reading the Declaration of Independence

A post by Todd Starnes alerts that National Public Radio (NPR) has ditched its annual ritual of reading the Declaration of Independence. NPR, derisively referred to by Starnes as “National Public Welfare Radio,” announced the cessation of reading the Declaration. Which staffers at the taxpayer-funded radio network had been reading aloud the document since 1988.

The void that would have resulted from not reading the Declaration was not unfilled. “Instead, NPR broadcast an 11-minute conversation about whether or not the Founding Fathers actually meant the words “all men are created equal.” Here’s a link if you’d like to listen to their “screed” (which also reminds us frequently that many of the Founding Fathers owned slaves).

Starnes disclosed that he owns “KWAM, the leading news talk radio station in Memphis, Tennessee. It angers me that my tax dollars are used to prop up a broadcast competitor that spits on our Founding Fathers and our Founding Documents.”

https://theleoterrell.com/national-public-radio-discontinues-reading-the-declaration-of-inependence/?utm_source=jeeng

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Retired Spring Grove police chief with 47 years of police service dies at age 69

(Spring Grove is 30 miles from Highland Park)

Authorities announced that former Spring Grove Police Chief Thomas Sanders, who served as a police officer for 47 years, has died at age 69.

The Spring Grove Police Department made the announcement Saturday morning, saying it was “with heavy heart” to announce his passing.

Sanders was a long-time Spring Grove resident and served as a volunteer firefighter, village president, chief of police.

He also served as a village trustee for the Village of Spring Grove at the time of his death.

Sanders started his career in law enforcement in 1978 at the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office.

He transitioned to multiple assignments and retired as a sergeant from the sheriff’s office.

Sanders came out of retirement to serve the community as police chief for the Spring Grove Police Department from May 1, 2007, until his retirement on April 30, 2021.

In total, he served as a police officer for 47 years.

“[He] will long be remembered as an architect for the foundation of the Spring Grove Police Department and a mentor to younger Officers,” current Spring Grove Police Chief Michael Niedzwiecki said.

“Tom was an honorable man who always put the best interests of his Officer ahead of his own needs and served as a mentor for many Officers in his Career,” Niedzwiecki said.

Sanders was a dedicated husband, father and grandfather “that will be greatly missed by his family and officers alike,” Niedzwiecki added.

https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2022/07/02/he-will-be-greatly-missed-retired-spring-grove-police-chief-with-47-years-of-police-service-dies-at-age-69/

Notable events 1947

Is it odd to have this many plane crashes within weeks of each other?

June and july - ufo / men in black / roswell

May 29

An Air Iceland Douglas C-47 on a domestic flight in Iceland crashes into a mountainside killing all 25 people on board.

A United States Army Air Forces Douglas C-54 Skymaster crashes on approach to Naval Air Station Atsugi, Japan, killing all 41 on board in the worst aviation accident in Japanese history up to this time.

Douglas DC-4 Mainliner Lake Tahoe, operating as United Airlines Flight 521, fails to become airborne while attempting to take off from LaGuardia Airport in New York City, runs off the end of the runway, and slams into an embankment, killing 42 of the 48 people on board in the worst aviation disaster in American history until the following day.

May 30 – Eastern Air Lines Flight 605: A Douglas C-54 Skymaster crashes near Bainbridge, Maryland, killing all 53 aboard (49 passengers, 4 crew), in America's worst commercial aviation disaster to that date.

May 31

Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected prime Minister of Hungary, is forced into resign and go exile under pressure from the Soviet-backed Hungarian Communist Party led by Mátyás Rákosi. The fellow traveler Lajos Dinnyés replaces him, which grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.

Alcide de Gasperi forms a new government in Italy, the first postwar Italian government not to include members of the Italian Communist Party.

June

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Marshall Plan.

June – The Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is introduced.

June 5 – U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall outlines the Marshall Plan for American reconstruction and relief aid to Europe, in a speech at Harvard University.

June 7 – The Romanian Army founds the association football club CCA (Clubul Central al Armatei – The Army's Central Club), which will become the most successful Romanian football team during its time as CSA Steaua București.[18]

June 10 – SAAB in Sweden produces its first automobile.

June 11–15 – The first Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod is held in Wales.[19]

June 15 – The Estado Novo in Portugal orders 11 military officers and 19 university professors, who are accused of revolutionary activity, to resign.

June 21

Seaman Harold Dahl claims to have seen six unidentified flying objects (UFOs) near Maury Island in Puget Sound, Washington. The next morning, Dahl reports the first modern so-called "Men in Black" encounter.

The Parliament of Canada votes unanimously to pass several laws regarding displaced foreign refugees.

June 23 – The United States Senate follows the House of Representatives, in overriding President Harry S. Truman's veto of the Taft–Hartley Act.

June 24 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.

June 25 – The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is published for the first time as Het Achterhuis: Dagboekbrieven 14 juni 1942 – 1 augustus 1944 ("The Annex: Diary Notes from 14 June 1942 – 1 August 1944") in Amsterdam, two years after the writer's death in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

July

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July 1 – The United States begins the National Malaria Eradication Program, successfully eradicating malaria in 1951.

July 6

1947 Sylhet referendum: A referendum is held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition of India.[20]

The first prototype AK-47 assault rifles are built to the design of Mikhail Kalashnikov.

July 8 – Roswell UFO incident: A supposedly downed extraterrestrial spacecraft is reportedly found near Roswell, New Mexico.

July 9 – King George VI of the United Kingdom announces the engagement of his daughter Princess Elizabeth to Lt. Philip Mountbatten.

July 11 – The ship Exodus leaves France for Palestine, with 4,500 Jewish Holocaust survivor refugees on board.

July 17

Indian passenger ship SS Ramdas is capsized by a cyclone at Mumbai, India, with 625 people killed.

Alleged date when Raoul Wallenberg dies in a Soviet prison. It is not announced until February 6, 1957. There will be reported sightings of him until 1987.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947