{"id":48297,"date":"2016-10-11T23:31:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T03:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=48297"},"modified":"2016-10-13T00:40:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T04:40:06","slug":"thumbs-101216","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/11\/thumbs-101216\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATED: Thumbs! (10\/12\/16)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(<strong>Editor&#8217;s Note<\/strong>: I&#8217;m flagging this in the &#8220;Errors &amp; Omissions&#8221; category because I&#8217;m retracting some comments that I made in one of the items.)<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>What I got is what you want. If you want <strong>Thumbs!<\/strong>, that is.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Big Boards that we have in storage have gotten quite dusty lately. Let&#8217;s clean one off and bring it out to play.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, if you don&#8217;t know how <strong>Thumbs!<\/strong> is played by now, you&#8217;re on your own. Heh.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Thumbs UP!<\/strong> <\/span>to Brenda Bowman. I&#8217;ve always admired Brenda Bowman for her desire to truly help the community in any way possible. She&#8217;s as close to a political mastermind as you&#8217;ll find in the Southside region, but Brenda plays her political cards only when needed. <del>Brenda&#8217;s known as a strong Republican, but she&#8217;s earned my highest praise for taking a stand recently. Brenda didn&#8217;t jump in line with the Republican party and get behind Donald Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign. That earned her a lot of animosity with some of the local Republican party members, but Brenda didn&#8217;t give a fark and did the right thing. I detest partisan politics. Brenda Bowman has risen above partisanship. That&#8217;s rare in the current political climate.<br \/>\n<\/del><br \/>\n<em>(<strong>Editor&#8217;s Note<\/strong>: I&#8217;m retracting the part about Bowman&#8217;s Trump disapproval. We met tonight and she said her support for Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign remains strong. The rest of the comment stands.)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Thumbs DOWN!<\/span><\/strong> to the perpetually uninformed people who think that the City of Danville has any say-so on a proposed Hooters restaurant. As long as the location is zoned properly for a restaurant, the city can&#8217;t block it from happening.<\/li>\n<li>And another <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Thumbs DOWN!<\/strong><\/span> to those same perpetually uninformed people who say &#8220;Danville doesn&#8217;t need another (insert business type here).&#8221; Let me make this perfectly clear. It&#8217;s none of those people&#8217;s business on how a private company or investor wants to spend their own money. If eighteen more mattress stores decide to locate in Danville, I&#8217;m totally in favor it (and you should be too). I&#8217;m still totally in favor of it even if they all close down within three months&#8230; because for those three months, they&#8217;re paying tax revenue that the city hadn&#8217;t budgeted for. More tax revenue from sales and rentals means less money having to come from the existing budget. And on that note, let&#8217;s segue to&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Thumbs UP!<\/span><\/strong> to entrepreneurs like Steve DelGiorno &amp; Rick Barker. Those two people are great examples of why this region is continuing to rebound from the low economic points in the past. I&#8217;m pointing out DelGiorno &amp; Barker because they&#8217;re the two principals in the new coffee shop\/wine bar being built at the intersection of Holbrook &amp; Main Streets. One of the Usual Complainers said &#8220;How many coffee shops can Danville support?&#8221;. The correct answer is &#8220;Who cares? It&#8217;s not your money.&#8221; It&#8217;s DelGiorno&#8217;s &amp; Barker&#8217;s money. I&#8217;m very glad they&#8217;re spending it in Danville.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And let&#8217;s stop at four <strong>Thumbs!<\/strong> for this article. Believe it or not, we&#8217;ve got more coming up here on SouthsideCentral!<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/7aTEWad.jpg?resize=250%2C250\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Editor&#8217;s Note: I&#8217;m flagging this in the &#8220;Errors &amp; Omissions&#8221; category because I&#8217;m retracting some comments that I made in one of the items.)<\/p>\n<p>What I got is what you want. 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It's a shame that the laws don't give the council the chance to immediately order a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Thumbs!&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Thumbs!","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/featurescentral\/thumbs\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"sclogo","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11695,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/05\/breakdown-pittsylvania-county-bos-organizational-meeting\/","url_meta":{"origin":48297,"position":1},"title":"BreakDown: Pittsylvania County BoS Organizational Meeting","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"January 5, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"We made our predictions for Chairman of the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors yesterday and we were comfortable with them until around 2PM today. 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We were LIVE! at Tuesday's Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors meeting in Chatham. This article is now complete, so enjoy the recap and photos. We've outdone ourselves on this one. I'm sort of ashamed to say that this is the first Board\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;GovernmentCentral&quot;","block_context":{"text":"GovernmentCentral","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/governmentcentral\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/mqiitpE.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/mqiitpE.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/mqiitpE.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/mqiitpE.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":32884,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2016\/07\/21\/thumbs-72216\/","url_meta":{"origin":48297,"position":3},"title":"Thumbs! 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Yeah, I'll explain the guidelines yet again. UP! is good. DOWN! is bad. Let's pull out the Big Board! Thumbs UP! to the River District Association. 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