It is done - in the rain no less. ** -- Guy LeDouche 07/01/2020 5:42PM
Good. I'm so done with glorifying confederates. -- Faz d. Hoo 07/01/2020 4:46PM
Hope they brought ponchos. Wait, can we still say Poncho? ** -- jackethoo 07/01/2020 4:33PM
Only when the CHiPS are down! ** -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 4:51PM
Only leaving a stone wall ** -- Tuckahokie 07/01/2020 2:46PM
You win. :D ** -- Seattle .Hoo 07/01/2020 3:12PM
LOL...good one ** -- GoochlandHoo 07/01/2020 2:50PM
Pathetic. Jackson died in battle for Virginia. He should be hailed -- ryno hoo 07/01/2020 2:46PM
No, he did not. -- DanTheFan 07/01/2020 6:34PM
He was killed by friendly fire. But tell yourself whatever you need -- SixerHoo 07/01/2020 5:11PM
Uh, that’s still being killed in battle. ** -- JMHoo 07/01/2020 7:54PM
150 years from now -- HoosGuy 07/01/2020 11:42PM
Gave his lifes as a traitor for a treasonous cause & should be celebrated? -- WaxHoo 07/01/2020 4:40PM
When did they put the statue up Ry? ** -- Lazarus 07/01/2020 3:49PM
100 years ago. ** -- ryno hoo 07/01/2020 4:20PM
Thanks, then it wasn't much of a memorial to the war was it? ** -- Lazarus 07/01/2020 4:27PM
Most of the statues were installed when the CSA Veterans were into their -- Tuckahokie 07/01/2020 4:06PM
Just because they didn't believe they were traitors doesn't make them right ** -- Faz d. Hoo 07/01/2020 5:27PM
Most here in NC were put up well after most had died and all statues were -- Lazarus 07/01/2020 4:11PM
I don’t think we can say there was any one reason they were put up. -- JMHoo 07/01/2020 8:00PM
True about White Supremacy. Witness the speeches made at the unveiling. -- Lazarus 07/01/2020 9:08PM
I believe that was Mr. Carr of Carrboro. Yes, despicable man. ** -- JMHoo 07/01/2020 9:12PM
Amen brother. ** -- Lazarus 07/01/2020 10:40PM
I suppose white power was part of the Virginia reasoning...but -- Tuckahokie 07/01/2020 4:19PM
Well, I grew up reading the Richmond Times Dispatch during the 60s & 70s. -- Lazarus 07/01/2020 4:26PM
I grew up in Campbell County. Which school was which? -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 5:00PM
Yep and Campbell County a run down wreck for black kids in Rustburg. Since -- Lazarus 07/01/2020 5:41PM
I remember the Rustburg kids crashing Brookville Middle School for one -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 5:44PM
Great kid. My Mom knew his mom. My brother played baseball with his uncle -- Lazarus 07/01/2020 5:48PM
He lit up the Nelson County Gym. -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 5:50PM
I played a lot of games against Nelson County. Dennis Scott ran a 49.9 -- Lazarus 07/01/2020 5:54PM
Football program has been abysmal for a decade. -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 5:58PM
Keep the statue. However, don't manipulate history. Jackson fought ... -- Blah 07/01/2020 3:18PM
Actually, he died from pneumonia a week after being accidentally (link) -- Hoo TV 07/01/2020 3:54PM
Objectively speaking on this, it is pretty crazy how much history that -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 3:58PM
My family originates from the Chancellorsville area. Actually Chancellor, -- Hoo TV 07/01/2020 4:09PM
Yep. Aware that Chacellorsville is not actually a real place. -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 4:12PM
20 & 3, with just a flashing red (yellow?) light in the middle of vast -- Hoo TV 07/01/2020 4:23PM
I'm so old Mary Wash was a girl's school in my day, and though I haven't -- southdenverhoo 07/01/2020 8:21PM
Me, too, for my first 22 years. But then I was a "townie" for much of that. -- Hoo TV 07/02/2020 01:41AM
I started one year after the first women undergrads. ** -- southdenverhoo 07/02/2020 07:36AM
Yup, 20. 15 gets me up to 20 from Cville area. -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 4:24PM
I probably haven't traveled that route since I left C'ville 30 years ago ** -- Hoo TV 07/01/2020 4:38PM
We go that way to hit Fredricksburg and up 81 to Potomac Mills. -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 4:40PM
Come on, man, 95. I remember when they built 95. We used ride our bikes -- Hoo TV 07/01/2020 4:50PM
I'm losing it. YES 95!!!! -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 4:52PM
Sorry about your shitty heritage ** -- Fuzzy Dunlop 07/01/2020 3:09PM
My children are direct descendants of Confederate Generals from NC -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 3:10PM
I've got them on both sides. Our family split when the got to America, some -- Seattle .Hoo 07/01/2020 3:36PM
Not sure how many I would even have on my side. My Mom was adopted -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 3:41PM
Dissed by a guy calling himself Fuzzy.Ouch! ** -- Wahoo Gus 07/01/2020 3:32PM
We're buddies. I'm fucking with him. -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 3:37PM
Pathetic is right... pathetic that anybody ever built statues to people -- 81_Hokie 07/01/2020 3:06PM
Then you surely object to statues of Crazy Horse, Tecumseh, Red Cloud, etc. ** -- Sabremetrician 07/01/2020 5:11PM
Be happy he wasn't available for Gettysburg. ** -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 2:54PM
Missed a potential semi-final match up with Custer. ;) ** -- Seattle .Hoo 07/01/2020 2:59PM
Jackson would have likely made a difference in that Battle. -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 3:03PM
Jackson might made a difference on first day, when Lee wanted Cemetery -- JohnHoo2 07/01/2020 3:37PM
Have you read Gingrich and Forstchen's Gettysburg trilogy? -- JohnHoo2 07/01/2020 3:30PM
Yes. They were getting obliterated in the Western Theater as well. -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 3:36PM
Didn't Vicksburg fall that July 4? I remember understanding at one point, -- southdenverhoo 07/01/2020 5:30PM
It did. They didn't celebrate Independence Day again until 1946. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 07/01/2020 6:55PM
I believe so. I actually read that speech out to class in either 3rd or -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 5:33PM
J.E.B. Stuart ended up kind of being the goat didn't he? Showed up late and -- Seattle .Hoo 07/01/2020 3:11PM
Pickett's Charge was a complete desperation act on the 3rd Day of the -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 3:15PM
The Gettysburg battlefield is an absolute must see. Up there with Pearl -- Seattle .Hoo 07/01/2020 3:41PM
Looking at the field, I can't imagine what must Lee be thinking to order -- JohnHoo2 07/01/2020 3:46PM
That's what I always think looking at that expanse, too. Are you serious, -- Seattle .Hoo 07/01/2020 3:50PM
How could somebody who had seen Marye's Heights not see that? -- southdenverhoo 07/01/2020 6:45PM
Suicide Mission. ** -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 3:48PM
Went to Sharpsburg(Antietam) and Gettysburg for a week long trip when -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 3:44PM
Modern Warfare and Medieval Medicine...a tough combo ** -- Tuckahokie 07/01/2020 3:22PM
There was an interesting PBS series, Mercy Street, about a hospital in -- Seattle .Hoo 07/01/2020 3:44PM
Really enjoyed that show, too bad it didn't last ** -- U Remember 07/01/2020 4:02PM
Kind of left us hanging didn't they? ** -- Seattle .Hoo 07/01/2020 6:57PM
It's coming down legally. That's how it should be done. -- Blah 07/01/2020 2:20PM
Winston is sleeping in his crate next to my desk. ** -- Hokieesith 07/01/2020 2:37PM
To bad you don't reside in Richmond. You could walk him thru Churchill -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 2:55PM
You adopted a 19 yr old Cuban too? ** -- TomGlansAski 07/01/2020 2:45PM
Does he have Cigars? -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 3:08PM
Asking for a friend? -- TomGlansAski 07/01/2020 3:14PM
I thought about her the other day. -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 3:18PM
Yeah, it was hardly a good deal from her perspective and I think she -- TomGlansAski 07/01/2020 3:25PM
Billy Boy really liked to get his dick wet. -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 3:26PM
Your "Gimp"? ** -- HokieDan95 07/01/2020 2:43PM
We know. You talk about your dog like an old lady talks about her cat. ** -- Blah 07/01/2020 2:40PM
(s) ** -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 2:56PM
I thought I would give you an update. You always seem -- Hokieesith 07/01/2020 2:42PM
I only know because you constantly talk about your dog. ** -- Blah 07/01/2020 2:45PM
What do you mean by constantly? -- Hokieesith 07/01/2020 2:47PM
I wonder how I know about your Great Dane, Winston, on an anonymous board? ** -- Blah 07/01/2020 2:49PM
Because I've mentioned him a few times? -- Hokieesith 07/01/2020 2:51PM
That's what you want. Fine by me. ** -- Blah 07/01/2020 2:53PM
Doesn’t sound like the process is actually being followed by Stoney. -- RML Hoos 07/01/2020 2:30PM
He's pressing on. Safety of the Protestors is a major concern of his, -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 2:33PM
Trump should order it back up so we can watch your head explode ** -- TomKazanski 07/01/2020 2:28PM
He has no authority whatsoever to do that except in your fantasy world. -- SixerHoo 07/01/2020 3:23PM
You guys are cheering on someone for using emergency powers -- TomKazanski 07/01/2020 3:28PM
Trump has no emergency powers to restore a city-owned statue. ** -- SixerHoo 07/01/2020 3:30PM
I don't give a shit about statues. Keep it up or take it down. If you ... -- Blah 07/01/2020 2:36PM
You don’t give a shit about statues...but you post repeatedly -- Moneyshot 07/01/2020 2:39PM
LOL. I've always been consistent with my views on statues. -- Blah 07/01/2020 2:43PM
Wasn’t aware that I had any particular narrative on statues -- Moneyshot 07/01/2020 2:54PM
Odd ... you're confusing me with someone else like JMHoo. -- Blah 07/01/2020 3:03PM
I don’t care much about “statues” generically. -- Moneyshot 07/01/2020 3:34PM
That's fair. Honestly, I don't care. However, I do understand ... -- Blah 07/01/2020 6:52PM
Trump has no authority to do that. His head would explode. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 07/01/2020 2:36PM
Stoney using “emergency powers” to remove against advice of city attorney -- RML Hoos 07/01/2020 2:16PM
OK, one thing that sticks out. -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 2:32PM
Really? He's actually saving the statue. If the council wants it back ... -- Blah 07/01/2020 2:26PM
Hmm. Thought he was in the free and clear on this one. -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 2:22PM
I wonder how much his actions are influenced by threats to his well being? -- CAVern 07/01/2020 2:23PM
Didn't waste any time. Probably a good thing. Now, where is it going? ** -- GoochlandHoo 07/01/2020 1:52PM
Sad...but it’s probably time ** -- Moneyshot 07/01/2020 2:01PM
July 1. Yes. -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 2:14PM
It's really a shame about Lee as many people don't really understand him. -- IB4TECH 07/01/2020 2:21PM
He was a traitor. ** -- DanTheFan 07/01/2020 6:39PM
As were the Minutemen. ** -- IB4TECH 07/01/2020 8:46PM
The bedrock of the Revolution, in which they fought, -- DanTheFan 07/01/2020 11:45PM
All that is happening around us tells me we are still yet to -- hoobedda 07/01/2020 2:43PM
Their aim is inclusiveness for all in America. -- jdubforwahoowa 07/01/2020 2:53PM