It's in my opinion that the best people in the world live here, if your the right kind. If you are white, protestant, conservative, and hide what you do pretty well your viewed as a pretty good person. If you live in the public eye, such as having a public job what you do is known by everyone, teachers for instance are held to a standard I'm not sure anyone could uphold in this area. After coming back from Miami I thought about this area, how much I love it and how at the same time I realize that Southwest VA is today what it's always going to be. Small towns with little money and no industry. On the streets of South Beach out in public for everyone to see is nudity, drugs (literally saw a guy hitting a bong on the street), alcohol, and pretty much everything else under the sun. Is this good? No, I dont think so but at the same time it's amazing how people are viewed there as compared to here. People judge each other like crazy here, and are honestly hipocrits in most cases. Religon is a great thing, I myself have been saved and fully believe in God and Jesus Christ. At the same time, religon holds back communites and causes problems. Every single person this board has something in their past I'm sure they want to hide, yet people in our area criticize others, why? I think it's in order to make themsevles feel better and their way is the right way regardless of others views or beliefs. Could you imagine being a minority in this area? I couldn't, it's 2007 and there is still racism in this area, sad but true. I dont know, sometimes when I have a long time to think as I did today I feel ashamed of this area, how we judge and prevent growth. I'm reminded by an alcohol vote in Big Stone a while back and how religous groups turned out in huge numbers to try to vote down liqour by the drink in our town. I respect those who went out and voted against it, at least they got out and voted. At the same time, if somebody wanted to buy liqour or drink it all they have to do is drive down beside the post office and buy it. The argument of young people seeing it came up, but how long can you live in isloation? The PV people on this board probably know hundreds of stories on me, of times when I was in the wrong when I did something I shouldn't have done but they dont bring those up just as you dont see me on here talking about them. I know them, their my friends, I respect my friends, they respect me and at the end of the day if I'm in trouble Biggin and PHD will be the first two people I call. We dont judge each other for what we are, were friends and always will be. I guess all I'm really trying to say is, respect other people their beliefs opinions and life. Your not so perfect yourself and when it's all said and done no man can judge me or anyone, only God can do that.

I'm not going to post on anymore on the non-sports forum, discussing personal accomplishments and political views is not worth defending myself and my friends for, well not hear anyway. I plan on living here the rest of my life, I'd hate for something I said on the LPD Sports Forum when I was 19 years old prevented me from getting a job down the line in a public eye.

In closing, I hope we can all get along and discuss sports in a tame manner. That is what this placed was designed for to begin with. We are losing great posters everday, anybody who cant see that is just not looking. DaneCook, Mega, Nola, OAR, Mox,Spuds Jack, MikMO (anybody know what happened to him) and others have left this place and those are some of the most informative posters that this board has seen. Sometimes this place reminds me of NASCAR, over extends itself and trys to please everyone while upseting it's base trying to regain what it once had.