Museum of the Confederacy Considering Name Change

The Richmond Times-Dispatch ^ | 20 February 2006 | Janet Caggiano

[miss marmelstein]

We seem to be determined to ruin all our rich, regional color, don't we? Everyone complains that in America when you go out onto Highway Whatever, it looks the same from NY to California. But, weirdly, we seem to be determined that our wonderful small cities and towns go the same way.

[stand watie]

not hardly. we REAL sons of dixie "kicked them out the door" for being "grannies" & TURNCOATS.

fyi, ONE of them was my friend. he too was a turncoat, so he had to go.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

TRUE!

free dixie,sw

[Corin Stormhands]

Travellers isn't a restaurant anymore. The Homebuilders Association owns the building and uses it as their HQ.

[stand watie]

YEP! the Richmond city council is FILLED to overflowing with LIBs, DIMocRATS, turncoats & south-HATERS!

a pox on them all.

free dixie,sw

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

fyi, ONE of them was my friend. he too was a turncoat, so he had to go.

Like N-S said a few days ago, the things you southrons are proud of never cease to amaze me.

[stand watie]

GOOD. we may NEED a place where the HEROES & MARTYRS statues will be HONORED!

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

small loss, imVho.

as i remember it, the food wasn't that good & the service was WORSE.

free dixie,sw

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Museum of the Confederacy

Museum of the Ongoing Surrender?

[Corin Stormhands]

I was there way back in 1985, I think shortly after it opened (but my memory could be faulty).

I was working on the statewide races. We did more drinking than eating there.

[stand watie]

i understand. (CHUCKLE!)

free dixie,sw

[wideminded]

I am a 'yankee' but nevertheless I found it very interesting to visit the Museum of the Confederacy and the Confederate White House. What was truly shocking was that all the land that once surrounded Davis' house had been sold and was now occupied by a huge university hospital that literally loomed over the museum and mansion buildings only a few feet away.

It's not that I think Davis was such a wonderful individual, but it was just a shocking lack of respect for the preservation of history. I had the same feeling upon visiting the site of a temple of the Hawaiian religion, now surrounded by an industrial area.

[proudofthesouth]

Excellent point! PC is going to be the death of this country and world and will give the Muzzies the opportunity to take over.

[billbears]

Not what my ancestors were fighting for, I don't care what your revisionist history tells you. They were fighting for their homes, fighting against a centralized government gone wrong, fighting against the oppression from the north in the guise of higher taxes to protect damned yankee industry.

They want to change the name? How about Museum of the Last Vestiges of the US Constitution on this Continent? Or Museum of the Last Descendants of the American Revolution?

[Non-Sequitur]

They want to change the name? How about Museum of the Last Vestiges of the US Constitution on this Continent?

ROTFLMAO!!!!

[stainlessbanner]

Got that right

[stainlessbanner]

bttt

[smug]

That probably wouldn't work since states have no rights;

They once did, it was called the 10th Amendment. May she rest in peace.

[MACVSOG68]

They once did, it was called the 10th Amendment. May she rest in peace.

Well, as many times as I've read the 10th Amendment, I've never seen it giving the states "rights". Unfortunately, too many people actually believed that, and it took a civil war to rectify, and a hundred years more, but most now understand a state has powers, while persons have rights.

[smug]

understand a state has powers, while persons have rights.

You are right, it does say that. I was, in my mind, associating the fact that their "right" to exercise those "powers" are now diminished if not dead.