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Victory Boyd – The Star Spangled Banner

6:01 pm

An evening pause: Victory Boyd was supposed to perform the national anthem at the opening game of the NFL’s 2021 season. They canceled her because she has refused to get vaccinated for religious reasons. She responded with this performance made available to all. The NFL should burn in hell.

Her passion in singing the last two lines of the anthem are important. The words, “The land of the free, the home of the brave,” are meant to remind us that you can’t have the former without the latter. Right now, every time I see someone mindlessly wearing a mask I wonder if the latter still exists.

Sing it! Believe it! Make ’22 the year that freedom and courage return to America.

Hat tip Mike Nelson.

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On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 
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"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

2 comments

2 comments

  • wayne
    July 5, 2022 at 5:29 am

    Mike Nelson-
    Great video!

    I haven’t watched an NFL game for years and totally forgot about this woman being cancelled.

    So, let me get this straight– the racist & misogynistic NFL once again targeted birthing-people and people of color?
    (It’s an intersectional-trainwreck meets cognitive-dissonance.)

    Can anyone recommend a good version of the Anthem which has all the lyrics?

    “O! thus be it ever when free men shall stand
    Between their loved homes and the foe’s desolation;
    Bless’d with victory and peace, may our Heaven-rescued land
    Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation
    Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just —
    And this be our motto — “In God is our trust!””

  • wayne
    July 5, 2022 at 5:29 am

    Mike Nelson-
    Great video!

    I haven’t watched an NFL game for years and totally forgot about this woman being cancelled.

    So, let me get this straight– the racist & misogynistic NFL once again targeted birthing-people and people of color?
    (It’s an intersectional-trainwreck meets cognitive-dissonance.)

    Can anyone recommend a good version of the Anthem which has all the lyrics?

    “O! thus be it ever when free men shall stand
    Between their loved homes and the foe’s desolation;
    Bless’d with victory and peace, may our Heaven-rescued land
    Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation
    Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just —
    And this be our motto — “In God is our trust!””

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