1nighthunter
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Registered: Jan 2008
Location: USA
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Re: OFF TOPIC [SORT OF ]
quote: Originally posted by VA.REB
ALL OF YALL KNOW HOW PROUD I AM OF OL VA. , AND HOW MUCH I LOVE ALL OF THE SOUTH. BUT THIS CONCERNS ME MORE THAN SWEET TEA AND GRITS. THE SOUTH IS CHANGIN, IT MAY BE BECAUSE OF YANKS MOVIN DOWN, OR , THE ENTERAINMENT INDUSTRY,[TV, MOVIES,ETC.],OR WHO KNOWS WHAT. BUT WE ARE LOSIN OUR ACCENT, CONSERTIVE VALUES, AND OUR SOUTHERN HERITAGE.WE ARE BEING ATTACKED!!I DONT HAVE THE ANSWERS FOR THIS , BUT , I WAS REMINDED THE OTHER DAY OF SOMETHING I HAD HAPPEN TO MY SON IN SCHOOL A FEW YEARS BACK. A NEW YORK TRANSPLANT TEACHER WAS TELLIN MY SON THAT HE COULD NOT PRONOUNCE HIS WORDS RIGHT. I WAS WORRIED THAT HE MIGHT BE GETTIN A SPEACH PROBLEM, SO MY WIFE WENT TO TALK TO THE TEACHER ABOUT IT. IT TURNS OUT TO BE IT WAS HIS ACCENT SHE WAS TALKIN ABOUT. I WAS EXTREMELY UPSET TO SAY THE LEAST!! WE TRIED TO TELL HER, THAT IF HE WAS IN NEW YORK IT MIGHT BE A DIFFERENT, BUT SHE NEEDED TO REMEMBER SHE WAS IN VIRGINIA NOW AND ''WHEN IN ROME DO AS THE ROMANS DO'', THAT WENT OVER LIKE A LEAD BALLOON. ANYWAY, THATS ONE OF THE MANY CHANGES OUR STATE HAS WENT THROUGH SINCE THE GREAT NORTHERN INVASION OF THE 80S. THEY HAVE A THING NOW WHERE THEY ARE TELLIN US THAT OUR CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS NEED TO BE CLEANED, BUT TRUTHFULLY , I THINK ITS A PLOY TO GET RID OF THEM OUT OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS. ONCE THEY GIT THEM DOWN THEY WILL PROBALLY SAY IT COSTS TO MUCH TO PUT THEM BACK UP. IT DONT TAKE A ROCKET SCIENCTIST TO FIGURE THAT ONE OUT. BUT IT AINT PASSED TO DO THAT YET, [AND I HOPE IT DONT]. AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, HOW IN THE WORLD DID 2 OF THE MOST CONSERVITVE STATES IN THE OLD SOUTH [VA. AND NC.] HELP ELECT BARAK OSOMA OBAMA, TO THE WHITE HOUSE. THIS I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND,[ EXCEPT FOR THE TRANSPLANTED YANKEE VOTE]. I COULD GO ON AND ON , BUT GOD SAVE THE SOUTH, AND GOD BLESS YALL ALL.
Thats because most of us set back and let them do it by not voting and taking a active part in our local government thats one thing I have learned in dealing with Board of Supervisors meetings in our county only the left wing nuts show up for public input I am thinking were are all the normal people at most are busy earning a living and raising kids and not interested in taking away somebody's right to do something like hunting or trying to get the government to supply everything so they do not have to work
THEY CAN ONLY TAKE IT IF YOU LET THEM we need to quit rolling over and playing dead and stand up and be heard
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