This week my country 'tis of thee sweet land of liberty celebrated 242 years since declaring it's independence from England. This Independence Day seemed more like a realignment in which long-time allies including England, France, Canada, Mexico, Australia, and Germany are being chastised and punished by the current administration, while adversaries like Russia, China, and North Korea are now treated like pals.

I think there's something fishy going on here, but if you listen to #TheTrumped we should not fear because their boy knows what he is doing and all can rest easy that we are in good hands. How can you argue with that?

Also Canada Celebrated Canada Day on July 1st, and on June 12th Russia celebrated Den' prinyatia Declaratsii o gosudarstvennom suvernitete RSFSR. This last bit of information may be required knowledge here in the U.S. if our President* keeps praising, appeasing, doing the bidding of, and fluffing Putin.

One more thing -- one week after 5 journalists were shot and killed at a Maryland newspaper, murdered because they were journalists, the President of the United States said of the media, "They are so damn dishonest," and "75 percent of those people are downright dishonest. Downright dishonest. They're fake," and "These are really bad people." If these attacks from the bully pulpit continue does anyone doubt that such words will inspire members of #Cult45 to kill more journalists?

Today's BAGeL Radio debuts will include new music today from Goon (Los Angeles, CA, @goonband), Tanukichan (Oakland, CA, @tanukichanmusic), and  wimps (Seattle, WA, @thesewimps).

The show is live-hosted from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. (probably more like 4 p.m. today) Eastern U.S. Time and is followed by 2 hours of uninterrupted music.  The show is then rebroadcast in it's entirety beginning at 7 p.m., then again on Saturday at 5 a.m. and 3 p.m., and one final time on Sunday at 1 a.m., followed by a rebroadcast of this week's  Fuzzy Road radio show at 11 a.m. and then a couple of old  480 Minutes episodes from this week in past years, making for hosted shows all weekend long.

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