FROM M. C. A. HOGARTH:  Zafiil Volume 1: FireBorn UnPainted.  #CommissionEarned

Enter into the heart of an alien race in the first historical novel set in the Peltedverse…

Thousands of years ago, the God of the Faulfenza promised His people He would send a messiah to lead them into a Golden Age, alongside the Others: aliens who would be to them as brothers and sisters. Not a generation has passed without longing for the fulfillment of that Promise.

Zafiil Paidiiza Qodii has dreamed of finding the Others since she was a child, a dream that spurred her to train as leader of one of the Faulfenza’s galactic scout teams. Against all odds, hers is the ship that makes the prophesied discovery–and reveals the cost of the God’s promises, and the part she is destined to play in His designs…

Zafiil: FireBorn Unpainted begins the epic saga of the Faulfenza’s first contact with the Pelted Alliance, and unveils at last the mysteries of one of the Peltedverse’s most beloved alien races.

NEIL SAID “THEY CAN HAVE ROGAN OR YOUNG. NOT BOTH” – APPARENTLY HE MISSPOKE:  Crosby, Stills & Nash rejoin Spotify after 5-month protest of Joe Rogan.

Leftists. It’s like you can’t trust a word they say!

OH, PLEASE CLARENCE ISN’T BLACK, HE’S CONSERVATIVE:   Glenn Greenwald slams CNN’s Rex Chapman for ‘racist’ attack on Clarence Thomas.

I should know. I haven’t been the same since the lefties proclaimed me a white Mormon Male.  My husband and kids still haven’t recovered from the shock.

DON’T CARE ABOUT THE EFFECTS AIR QUALITY – THEIR EFFECT ON OUR NATIONAL SPIRITS ARE PRICELESS:   July 4 fireworks drastically drop US air quality, cause health risks: meteorologists.

LEST WE FORGET, LEST WE FORGET:   Why we really celebrate the Fourth of July.

AS A PEOPLE, WE’RE VERY STRANGE. IN A GOOD WAY:  A Singular People!

STILL RUNNING A FUNDRAISER ON MY BLOG:  TANSTAAFL DAYS- Day Four – Happy Fourth and thank you to everyone who has donated so far! Free sF Picture Released Under Creative Commons License.

This is not an emergency. I’m simply trying to fund the blog/get something for all the time I spend blogging. Because my family is getting tired of being told “I’m on a mission from G-d” and keeps reminding me I don’t even have the cool sunglasses!

WELL, THEN:  CNN Wants You to Know That Recession Declarations Are Racist.

BOOM!  July 4, 1776: Second Continental Congress Adopts Declaration of Independence.

WHICH WILL BE THE LAST COUNTRY TO DIE FOR THE GREEN FABLE?  Netherlands farmers, fisherman revolt against government greenie impositions.

WELL, OF COURSE THEY DO:  Terrorist ‘Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine’ Endorses Massachusetts Mapping Project Targeting Jewish Supporters of Israel.

NOR ARE THEIR TODDLER TANTRUMS:   Repeal of Roe Doesn’t Appear to be Helping Democrats Politically So Far.

BECAUSE OF COURSE THEY DID:  Media Hoax: News Outlets Misreport Justice Clarence Thomas Quote in NY Vaccine Mandate Case.

SOMETHING TO REMEMBER ON THE FOURTH: “As it happens, the last state to give up slavery was Biden’s dead-end, dead-beat Delaware, a slave state that remained in the Union and to which the Emancipation Proclamation did not apply and ‘Juneteenth’ was unknown and irrelevant. The bastard sliver of New Sweden finally abolished slavery, essentially at federal gunpoint, on Dec. 6, 1865, the day the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified.”

Plus:

Has Biden—who never met a Southern racist Democrat (George Wallace, Robert Byrd) he didn’t want to buddy up with—ever acknowledged and apologized for his useless state’s rancid history? Fat chance; instead, throughout his hacktastic political career, and in earlier delusions of running for president, he explicitly identified his state with the South during the Civil War as he pandered for support:

The same story went to quote a presidential primary campaign speech Biden had given in Alabama in which he said “we (Delawareans) were on the South’s side in the Civil War.”

Leave it to the Democrats, the party of slavery, segregation, secularism, and sedition that started the Civil War, to nominate and elect a senile dinosaur from the last human-bondage state in the Union.

Don’t be so namby-pamby, Michael. Say what you really mean.

I’LL BE TRAVELING for the next week or so. I won’t be entirely offline, but except for some scheduled posts it will mostly be my merry band of co-bloggers while I get some needed offline time. Have fun!

LISTEN TO MR. JEFFERSON:  This morning I suggested that readers take today to re-read the Declaration of Independence.  If it’s late where you are, and you just can’t keep your eyes open, you can instead listen to Mr. Jefferson himself (or rather a computer generated facsimile) read it to you.  

AGING ROCKERS QUIETLY CRAWL BACK TO SPOTIFY AFTER SHORT-LIVED JOE ROGAN PROTEST: “Crosby, Stills & Nash have ended the protest they began against Spotify five months ago over the streaming service’s deal with podcast king Joe Rogan. The aging harmony rockers’ music returned to Spotify July 2, according to Billboard. They had pulled their catalog in solidarity with erstwhile member Neil Young, who was upset at Rogan’s penchant for interviewing guests with different points of view on COVID.”

OPEN THREAD: Open, to falling from grace.

JOHN HINDERAKER: Happy Independence Day? [Updated.]

We have been seeing poll data for some years, indicating that liberals generally are not proud to be Americans. The Washington Times headlines: “Independence Day on track to be a conservative holiday, experts say.” The article cites the sorts of poll data that are now familiar. For example:

A nationwide survey of 2,000 college students reported Tuesday that 76% of self-identified conservative undergraduates feel “proud to be an American,” while 40% of liberals feel likewise.

This year, we are seeing more liberals not just ignoring the 4th of July, but condemning it.

Read the whole thing.

SPACE: New Zealand Joins ASAT Testing Ban.

ROBERT CRIMO, HIGHLAND PARK PARADE SHOOTING PERSON OF INTEREST, TAKEN INTO POLICE CUSTODY.

Related: Highland Park 4th of July shooting person of interest: Who is Robert Crimo?

More: Concerning Social Media of ‘Person of Interest’ in Highland Park Mass Shooting.

THIS INSURRECTION BROUGHT TO YOU BY TIME-WARNER-DISCOVERY: Is TBS Really Proud of Sam Bee Endangering Supreme Court Justices?

BEE: I can’t describe how painful it is to be here now in a place where the Supreme Court has the power to erase 50 years of constitutional law. Make no mistake, this is not where it ends. Conservatives will not rest until they have come for all of our rights. Everything we have fought for will be lost unless we take it back. It’s not just about voting in November. It’s about doing everything in our power to protect and help vulnerable people access abortion across state lines. And we have to raise hell in our cities, in Washington, in every restaurant Justice Alito eats at for the rest of his life, because if Republicans have made our lives hell, it’s time to return the favor.

It’s quite tempting to urge Bee to simply go back and raise hell in Canada. (She has dual citizenship after getting naturalized in 2014.) It’s also quite tempting to suggest Bee should have someone harass her at restaurants, and see if she likes it.

If violence actually does happen to a Supreme Court justice, Bee already has her excuse prepared, based on her response to Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson attempting to assassinate Steve Scalise in 2017: Sam Bee Rips Right-Wing ‘Idiots’ Blaming ‘Unhinged Left’ for Congressional Shooting.

And on Democrat Jon Ossoff’s loss to Republican Karen Handel in yesterday’s Georgia special election, Bee zeroed in on the one super PAC that “crossed the line” by claiming Ossoff’s supporters included “unhinged leftists” who were “cheering” the shooting of congressional Republicans.

Oh, that must be why he lost,” Bee said. “The ‘cheering last week’s shooting’ demographic is basically zero. The unhinged left is even less powerful than the hinged left, which is saying a lot.”

But since the right is “kind of short on boogeyman these days,” they have blaming everything from Snoop Dogg to Kathy Griffin to Shakespeare in the Park for inspiring violence against Republicans. “That is appalling,” Bee said of the pro-Trump activists who interrupted Julius Caesar. “Protesters managed to get tickets for Shakespeare in the Park? If you guys can get me into that treasonous play with black Founding Fathers who are rude to Mike Pence, give me a call.”

“Shakespeare and Snoop Dogg are not responsible for last week’s shooting just like Sarah Palin was not responsible for Gabby Giffords’ shooting,” Bee said. “The only violent assaults Palin has ever committed were against moose, grizzly bears, wolves, and the English language.”

“Look, can we all try to be vigilant without being fucking idiots?” she asked. “Guys, it’s summer!”

Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

Flashback: Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History. And additional examples of leftist violence and eliminationist rhetoric at the link.

ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Bette Midler gets mobbed by leftists after admitting biological women exist.

TIME HAS A PRICE: “Interest rates aren’t simply prices; they are information. The negotiation process helps borrowers and lenders determine fair terms. If financing costs are too high, it tells the borrower to reconsider if their plan is feasible.”