“There is danger in romanticizing ruthless cutthroats…”
The word police are apparently running out of things about which to get offended.
In a piece before the Super Bowl, Jamie L.H. Goodall, a staff historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History, penned a piece for The Washington Post headlined “The Buccaneers embody Tampa’s love of pirates. Is that a problem?”
Goodall noted that when the National Football League expanded to 28 teams in 1973, “the league awarded Tampa an expansion team, prompting a name-the-team contest in 1975. ‘Buccaneers’ won, a reference to the pirates who frequented the coasts of Florida in the 17th and 18th centuries. But team executives wanted the logo to be a ‘classy’ pirate — a cross between Robin Hood, Errol Flynn, the musketeer D’Artagnan and pirate Jean Lafitte. It was a logo the team maintained until 1997 when they switched to a more aggressive, menacing Jolly Roger.
Yet, while this celebration of piracy seems like innocent fun and pride in a local culture, there is danger in romanticizing ruthless cutthroats who created a crisis in world trade when they captured and plundered thousands of ships on Atlantic trade routes between the Americas, Africa and Great Britain. Why? Because it takes these murderous thieves who did terrible things — like locking women and children in a burning church — and makes them a symbol of freedom and adventure, erasing their wicked deeds from historical memory. These were men (and women) who willingly participated in murder, torture and the brutal enslavement of Africans and Indigenous peoples.
The writer then goes on to detail the lives of a few prominent pirates. But then she gets back to outrage.
Here is the tax bailout for Jake Day’s buddy Nick Simpson. Carl Anderton filed it and it is cross filed and endorsed as Senate Bill SB0794 and endorsed and supported by Addie Eckhardt and Mary Beth Carozza. This bill will cost city and county millions of dollars the first five years and Nick Simpson will be getting rich at the expense of taxpayers. This is for that run down property that has been dilapidated on Main Street in downtown Salisbury because Nick Simpson ran out of money. Once passed this will also open the door for Palmer Gillis and his children to build condos at our expense making his children richer. Please post this to show everyone how Republican Delegates and Senators raping us. Lets make sure we remember this and vote out every damn one of the “Wicomico Delegation,” Anderton, Mautz, Adams, Hartman, Otto, Eckhardt and Carozza.
Here are the links to the crossfiled bills:
https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/HB1179
https://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/sb0794?ys=2021RS
Wicomico County Senators Eckhardt and Carozza
HOUSE BILL 1179 SENATE BILL 0794
Cross Filed SB 794
By: Wicomico County Delegation(Carl Anderton)
Introduced and read first time: February 8, 2021
Assigned to: Ways and Means
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ACT concerning 1
Wicomico County – Property Tax Credit – Hotel or Residential Development 2
FOR the purpose of authorizing the governing body of Wicomico County or the governing 3
body of a municipal corporation in Wicomico County to grant a property tax credit 4
against the county or municipal corporation property tax imposed on real property 5
that is used for certain hotel or residential development projects; authorizing the 6
governing body of Wicomico County or the governing body of a municipal corporation 7
in Wicomico County to provide for certain matters relating to the property tax credit; 8
providing for the application of this Act; and generally relating to a property tax 9
credit for hotel or residential development in Wicomico County. 10
BY adding to 11
Article – Tax – Property 12
Section 9 – 324(d) 13
Annotated Code of Maryland 14
(2019 Replacement Volume and 2020 Supplement) 15
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, 16
That the Laws of Maryland read as follows: 17
Article – Tax – Property 18
9 – 324. 19
( D ) (1) THE GOVERNING BODY OF WICOMICO COUNTY OR THE 20
GOVERNING BODY OF A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION IN W WICOMICO COUNTY MAY 21
GRANT, BY LAW, A PROPERTY TAX CREDIT AGAINST THE COUNTY OR MUNICIPAL 22
CORPORATION PROPERTY TAX IMPOSED ON REAL PROPERTY THAT IS USED FOR A 23
HOTEL OR RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT THAT: 24EXPLANATION: C APITALS INDICATE MATTER ADDED TO EXISTING LAW.
[ Brackets] indicate matter deleted from existing law.
*hb1179*
2 HOUSE BILL 1179
( I ) IS NEWLY CONSTRUCTED OR INVOLVES SUBSTANTIAL 1
REHABILITATION OR REVITALIZATION OF EXISTING STRUCTURES; AND 2
( II ) SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASES THE ASSESSED VALUE OF THE 3
PROPERTY . 4
(2) THE GOVERNING BODY OF W WICOMICO COUNTY OR OF A 5
MUNICIPAL CORPORATION IN WICOMICO C OUNTY MAY PROVIDE, BY LAW, FOR : 6
( I ) THE AMOUNT AND DURATION OF THE TAX CREDIT UNDER 7
THIS SUBSECTION; 8
( II ) ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR THE TAX CREDIT; 9
( III ) APPLICATION PROCEDURES FOR THE TAX CREDIT; AND 10
( I V ) ANY OTHER PROVISION NECESSARY TO CARRY OUT THIS 11
SUBSECTION. 12
SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect June 13
1, 2021, and shall be applicable to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2021. 14
And yet we continue to march towards marxism the most evil twisted idealogy of hate violence oppression & greed. Takes away our GOD given rights and replaces it with submission to the state by any means nesesary. Thought police is just another tool to these tyrants
I was hoping Brady would have worn his red MAGA hat after winning the Super Bowl to trigger the media
Yo ho ho and give Goodall a bottle of Rum!
(snicker snicker)
how about the Stealers if they had won everybody would want to steal ohhh they do now anyway
It’s getting to the point where I wouldn’t have a problem leaving.
More conservative pearl clutching.
More cancel culture.
Good name for the New Republican Party !!! LOL