Happy Lee-Jackson Day!!!!

[underpants]

Lee-Jackson Day is a holiday celebrated in the Commonwealth of Virginia for the birthdays of Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. Also see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee-Jackson_Day

[Deep13]

1. Happy Tojo day!

[commander bunnypants]

2. henrico county is off today

bbbbbooooooooooo

CB

[underpants]

5. State-Hanover- not sure about the city

Four day weekend. Courtesy of Gov. Gilmore.

[LostinVA]

9. Fluvanna, Louisa, and Orange, too (that I know of)

I THINK Albemarle has off, too.

[Brewman_Jax]

3. This is actually a state holiday

in GA. The state government offices are closed.

[underpants]

4. Va. too

Did you catch the back drop for W's speech yesterday? I know it is the state flag of Mississippi but seriously do you think this was any accident?


On edit-PIC

[Brewman_Jax]

7. Hmm...

correct camera angle and placement of the podium, perfect bordering by head and arm...

sorry, gotta be sheer coincidence.




:rofl:

I don't buy it, either. :P

[fishwax]

26. There are no accidents with their photo ops, that's for sure

Thanks for sharing that pic, though, that'll go in the file.

:puke:

[fishwax]

27. and on the weekend of MLK day too

:puke::grr:

[kick-ass-bob]

6. Damned hicks.

:P

NC is at work today

[LostinVA]

8. The gas guy can't come out today to a friend's because of this!

She was like wtf is Lee-Jackson day??? She's from Maine, so I told her. She was like... wtf? Are you serious? I was like, notice how close it is to MLK Day. She was like OMG!!!!

[underpants]

10. Oh the gas guy is celebrating it is he?

Sounds like his company is making a statement here. Well in a way that is good-another day off for the working class.

My boss made a comment about it. I said "Yeah any reason to have another day off even trivial ones"

No comment came back.

[LostinVA]

11. My main problem with it is that is soooo close to MLK

[underpants]

13. It was Lee-Jackson-King day

but everyone was upset by that so Gov. Gilmore made it two days off. Ah your tax dollars at work.

[LostinVA]

14. *gasp* I never knew that! That is pretty bad...

[underpants]

16. Can a brother have ONE day?

NO!

They came up with that nonsense when every state started having MLK day (Arizona only agreed to it so they could host a Super Bowl). The Sons of Confederate Veterans said OH NO there has to be some Virginians ( Jackson was born in what is now West Virginia BTW) and after lots of more nonsense it was Lee-Jackson-King day<---- note the order of the names :eyes:

[LostinVA]

21. Oi

Unbelievable. They couldn't have chosen some other notable Virginians, could they? Say, even Jefferson? Okay, I am aware he was a slave owner, but if you had to pick a white guy with some issues......

And I think a brother should eb able to have one day... and I wish they'd give SOME sister -- white, black, Asian, Native American -- a day.

[hfojvt]

22. mother's day is not good enough?

Most famous guys do not have days either. There is no FDR day or JFK day even Lincoln shares his day with Washington, and all other Presidents. There is no Edison or Einstein day, no Newton day. Only Columbus has a day, but many people do not get it off. Since April needs a holiday, maybe we could have a TS Eliot day

Cinco de Mayo is a non-white day (that also happens to be Karl Marx's birthday). I was kinda hoping that unmarried childless people could have a day too.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=3211598

[LostinVA]

23. I hope you're joking...

[davidinalameda]

24. and West Virginia proudly claims him

his family farm is now the state 4-H camp

http://www.wvu.edu/~exten/depts/jmill/jmill.htm

[underpants]

25. It's a damned shamed them Rebels had to go and kill him

Oh.... was I supposed to not mention that?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_Jackson

[SaveElmer]

12. Today is the day I celebrate their defeat...

;-)

[GOPisEvil]

15. Texas State Employees have "Confederate Heroes Day", Jan. 19.

It's one of those holidays where the offices are open, but staffed only with a skeleton crew.

[underpants]

17. I am guessing there is no "Juneteenth" holiday

right?

Oh no we can't have that now can we?

[GOPisEvil]

18. Actually there is. June 19.

See? We're semi-progressive here in TX. :P

I know this date because I usually work that day to be off on my birthday which is the 17th. Unless it was on a Monday or Friday of course. ;)

[underpants]

19. Well good for them then

I take back everything I implied.

[GOPisEvil]

20. Here are the state holidays.

January 19 - Confederate Heroes Day
March 2 - Texas Independence Day
April 21 - San Jacinto Day
June 19 - Juneteenth
August 27 - LBJ's Birthday (really)