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The first verse of The Star Spangled Banner is all that is sung before sporting events, etc. but a 3rd verse (see bold below) has been called racist. So should we just scrap the entire song and pick a new one?

O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watch’d were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream,
’Tis the star-spangled banner—O long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore,
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a Country should leave us no more?
Their blood has wash’d out their foul footstep’s pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their lov’d home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with vict’ry and peace may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserv’d us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto–“In God is our trust,”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Britney Spears said Wednesday she wants to get married and have another baby but her conservatorship forbids it — and requires her to take birth control against her will.

“I want to have the real deal. I want to be able to get married and have a baby. I was told right now under the conservatorship, I’m not able to get married or have a baby,” Spears, 39, told a Los Angeles Superior Court judge during an explosive court hearing about her “abusive” conservatorship.

“I have an IUD inside of myself right now so I don’t get pregnant. I wanted to take the IUD out so I could start trying to have another baby but this so-called team won’t let me go to the doctor to take it out because they don’t want me to have children.”

"Pieing" has become an epidemic. I'm not sure what has caused its resurgence from the days of silent film over 100 years ago, but there is no denying it has become a ubiquitous form of expression. It seems that these days, instead of a Charlie Chaplin or Fatty Arbuckle-type individual, the victims are almost always female. And often times, it is the direct result of an angry exchange. But of course this isn't always the case. How do you feel about pieing? Is it funny... or is it something else? VOTE!

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Why are so many young females being terrorized with cakes and pies? It is occurring at an alarming rate. At first I thought the incidents were isolated and rare. But they keep happening and they are happening everywhere... on BOTH sides of the pond! WTF? VOTE!

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Eurovision had to skip 2020 due to the pandemic. But it is back in 2021! The finals are on Saturday. You may not realize the contest's importance. It has launched the careers of performers such as Bucks Fizz.

LINK - The Eurovision Song Contest 2021: Rotterdam

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“A man came out of the car,” 11-year-old Alyssa said. “He had a knife in his hand. I tried running off but he grabbed me. He took me with his arm and I was able to get him down to the ground and I was able to get away.”

She ran to the nearest house. Her neighbor, Douglass Rudolph, had his door open.

“She comes running around the corner toward me hollering my name and some guy was trying to get her,” Rudolph said.

Alyssa’s mother, Amber Bonal, is thankful she got home safely.

"Her first words were, 'Somebody tried to kidnap me. He grabbed me by my throat and he had a knife.' She said she was able to kick and she tripped him and freed herself," Alyssa's mother said. “She’s an amazing little girl.

She usually watches Alyssa closely but this time she was a couple minutes late getting outside.

“I want parents to be extra aware,” Amber said. “Even parents that watch their kids 24/7. The one time you don’t… that was the one time that I was running late. I had to change the baby’s diaper.”

When this happened, Alyssa was playing with some blue slime as she usually does. Deputies say when they found Stanga, he had some of it on him.

“He got caught blue-handed,” Amber said.

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Singer Demi Lovato has revealed they are nonbinary and are changing their pronouns, telling fans they are "proud" to make the change after "a lot of self-reflective work."
Lovato, who rose to fame as a teenage movie star and has become one of the world's most popular singers over the past decade, made the announcement to fans in a video and tweets posted online on Wednesday. VOTE BELOW!

I'm getting my 2nd Pfizer shot tomorrow. What about you? Are you pro-vax or anti-vax? VOTE BELOW!