The guns are not there to protect the harbor, but are trained on the homes of prominent pro-southern Baltimoreans.
Posted on 03/17/2016 2:17:26 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Just update it for the times by replacing it with “corporate scum.”
Post of the day, TSR!
Great balls of courage.
(I’m kidding! I’m kidding! I’m kidding!)
Sex is a valid metaphor, but it calls things to mind that are typically so powerful with respect to our typically weak minds, that it’s easy to do it to excess and then, yes, guttersville. The bible isn’t afraid to go into territory that some consider vulgar. But it doesn’t stay there. It gets back out. One person’s gutter is another person’s watering trough.
“Maryland lawmakers took a step Thursday toward scrubbing references to “Northern scum” and other Civil War-era phrases from the official state song. “
That’s because they realized that they had, finally, become Northern Scum themselves.
I’m from Baltimore and nobody every sang the state anthem beyond a few lines because nobody knew them or wanted to.
So Miller wants to be proud of Maryland? The SOB wrecked the state, along with Busch, O’Malley, Dixon, Burwell, Mikulski, Cummings, Cardin, and all the other leftist Democrats and a few ahole Republicans including Sen. Mac Mathis.
I watched a beautiful city go from one of the top in the country to one on the top of the dung heap of America.
Democrat state leader Miller “IS THE PROBLEM”, not a stupid song.
If you can’t recognize the problem, you can’t solve it.
They sure won’t say “Marxist scum”.
“She’ll come” refers to Maryland joining the Confederacy. Northern scum refers to New York Union troops that were attacked in the streets by Baltimoreans. “The tyrant’s heel is on thy shore” refers to Abraham Lincoln, who had the Maryland legislature arrested.
Not New Yorkers, but Mass regiments.
April 19. Again.
$43,500 a year plus per diem per Senator for a 3 month job and they waste their time on a song?
Oh wait...Maryland
It depends on the meaning of “burning.” Burning with desire can be a good thing in the proper frame and context, for example.
Give credit where due -- they already disarmed all the state's universities earlier this week, making them sitting ducks.
Complete morons.
In 1860, amongst the slave-states, only Delaware had fewer slaves than Maryland, and no state had more freed-blacks than Maryland.
Indeed, almost half of African Americans there were freed, lawfully, and slavery could be said to be dying out, naturally.
And unlike the governors of Missouri and Kentucky, who were strongly pro-Confederate, Maryland's Governor Hicks was strongly pro-Union.
Hicks was a Know-Nothing, sort of the Donald Trump of his day, and pretty well reflected Maryland political sentiments of 1860.
So, when push came to shove, after Fort Sumter (April 12, 1861), Maryland's legislature voted on April 29 against secession 53-13, 4 to one.
And yes, Maryland did supply about 30,000 troops to the Confederate Army, but also 60,000 Union troops, two-to-one.
So Maryland's state song is unrepresentative of political sentiment of 1861, but does certainly represent the triumph of Lost Causer mythology within the Democrat party on April 29, 1939, when it was first adopted.
Excellent post.
Pretty soon it will be like the “East German” anthem from Top Secret!
Hail, hail East Germany
Land of fruit and grape
Land where you’ll regret
If you try to escape
No matter if you tunnel under or take a running jump at the wall
Forget it, the guards will kill you, if the electrified fence doesn’t first.
That is hilarious.
The guns are not there to protect the harbor, but are trained on the homes of prominent pro-southern Baltimoreans.
The number of freed slaves in Maryland was nearly 50% of all African Americans.
The next closest city was New Orleans with 13% freed blacks.
So those Union guns were there to protect all free people, as well as those who wanted to be.
Baltimore had strong rebel sympathies. It had mobs fighting Union forces. That is why it was under the gun. As was the vast territory around DC - to protect DC rather than, God forbid, the GovFederalis having to move their butts somewhere else. As happened in 1777. Nor never mind the people thrown in jail because they were southern sympathizers.
You can spout off about “slave-owning” and freemen, but that supposes it was all about slavery, again. 2-1 is not a huge majority anyway, as in fact, 1/3 is a significant minority.
There were also strong sympathies in Monty Co, and also all the way up through Western MD. Never mind Eastern Shore.
Bottom line is, there is some reason Yankees felt the need to threaten MD citizens. There was a significant portion which threatened the Fed city.
How silly can you get, right?
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