Comprehensive? No, but long history of observation, made much easier by the theatrics of one of the doyennes of perpetual outraged vitimhood in the county.

The manure comments came on a day when Mrs. brought in a pound of bologna sausage to wave at the podium while reviling the dais, and the (issue-free) remarks included that she really wanted to bring in a load of manure from someone's barn and dump it in front of them to show what they REALLY were, but had decided against it. Big of her, to choose wasting food over a public health nuisance for that day's onanistic acting-out.

Coach Grigsby? Seriously? I was there and spoke that day, as did Mrs. Kelly, who did her "you are the Taliban" show on that occasion. I saw both Kelly and Grigsby's performances, and quite frankly they were both emblematic of the ugliness brought to bear in the public process by the oligarchs of "real" Loudoun--those handful of the perpetually outraged who feel the world is theirs alone.

Yes, the Kellys have a nice shop. Good. I would never shop there, or recommend it simply because of the years of ugliness displayed by the proprietress, just as there are other businesses I choose not to patronize because of actions personally witnessed that lead me not to wish to give them money.

SS statue? Really? I guess if you think the local government is the Taliban when it doesn't show up to personally get their marching orders from you, then it makes sense. Have a nice day, if that's possible for you here in the dregs of the kyriarchy.

I agree that the courthouse is not the place for it in our time. It is hard not to think that it had a message when it was put there in the first place, and equality was not the message.

The rise of so much bullying "secessionist" sentiment in Virginia and the south as a whole these days is sadly not a fluke given that we have a President who is African American.

The Kellys were not on trial. Grigsby was and Grigsby is spouting his trash here too, which is how he got to be subject of the discussion. Everyone but you including the jury clearly saw that nothing the Kellys did is in any way comparable to Grigsby's defamation (slander in common language). Like the Weintraubs I was around at the time and saw the people who dumped the toys pick them up again. Does having duct tape on your mouth or wearing a mask equal slander, of course not. Not at all sure what you think you heard about manure, didn't hear that at any board meeting I ever attended around that time.

Nice work YOU trying to steer the argument off course. Let's return, would you think a statue of an SS officer was a nice monument in Berlin? My opinion is that eventually Loudoun took down the signs over the public drinking fountains that said white and colored, and maybe it's time to rethink the statue, and maybe the Republican Party in Loudoun ought to rethink its reliance on people like Grigsby. The way you stand up for him and Delgaudio it's impossible to have any respect for you or your opinions at all.

The first part is addressed to you, which is why it has your name on it, and references your comment of 16:47 on the same date.

Separated by some space is the second part, which is addressed to Hillsboro (which is why it uses Hillsboro's name--see how that works?), and answers their comment of 18:20 on the same date, which specifically references John FLANNERY, to whom I was referring in my remarks, as I clarified to elderberry when they decided to continue John F's, your and their own derailment of a thread about a statue into the Kelly v. Grigsby trial.

But thank you for the projection of your own habitual obfuscation in getting everything back on track where it belongs in your preferred reality, with the progressives nanny-triumphant over the ever thick and dim.

The issue isn't the presence of the statue, it's the location, the fact that the soldier is guarding the court house where *all* people expect equal justice.

The Kellys have their own issues, i.e. Halloween masks to give public comment in, throwing toys on the floor of the boardroom, sitting in public with a taped mouth, threatening to dump manure in the boardroom, and accusing elected officials of being the Taliban, along with props.

They seem fortunate to be able to support their property and lifestyle on the proceeds of a small designer yarn shop in a small historic community (really. but I'm guessing the ag deferral helps too), so I do have to wonder what the admission of business records might have shown.

At any rate, nice further example of angry ranting from a progressive, but sorry, you have assumed the wrong John for your diatribe.