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Alas, poor GBB! I knew him,Stosh -- a fellow of infinite leadership, of most excellent woodskills He hath bore a pack on his back a thousand times, and now how adored in my imagination it is! My reverence rises at it. Here taught those skills that I have practiced I know now how oft. Where be your gibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set Irving on a roar? Not one now to mock your own grinning? Quite membership-fallen?

We're scouters. We've always been torquing to make it work.

Not a problem @WisconsinMomma it just means the competitive field has less participants. I don't care either, but there are a ton of people out there that think differently and they are driving the bus.

Sorry to mix metaphors or genres or space-time, but are you out of your Vulcan mind? Spoiler: Leia flying through space was as unseemly as a laughing Vulcan.

Spoilers follow. Having just watched it this weekend, I can't see where anyone can leave the theater with the idea that there was some sort of feminist agenda. Also, it wasn't that capitalism is bad, it was that war profiteering was bad. As far as female leadership, (spoilers follow), Leia almost died, the other female general did die, and the female tech almost died. In the end, Luke sacrificed himself to allow everyone escape. This was the best Star Wars movie since The Empire Strikes Back.

The Sinister Face of Doom?

I've never been completely convinced by that, at least not in a scouting context. What is true is that girls become more articulate than boys at an earlier age which can give the impression of maturing more quickly. I think it a mistake though to necessarily see that as a sign of excessive wisdom. Boys and girls tend to bring different things to the troop/patrol.

LDS scouter here. Report this to your District Commissioner, District/Council Advancement chairs. This shouldn't be happening regardless of unit. It's unfortunate that BSA doesn't have a verification system in place for merit badges and counselors signing off for blue cards, because then parents, random adults and basically anyone else who can hold a pen can print merit badges for boys like they're monopoly money. In our unit, I produce a blue card each time the boy is wanting to work on a merit badge, and I provide them with the contact information for MB counselors using the d

I let my boys know up front that they have 100% of my trust in all their decisions they may make. However, if that trust is ever broken, they will never again achieve 100% I then leave it up to them to decide how they wish to proceed. Out of the past 45+ years, that trust has been broken maybe a half-dozen times. The interesting thing about broken trust, the boys that want to earn it back work harder than those that simply maintain it in the first place. The biggest obstacle to this whole thing is whether or not the adults wish to trust in the first place. A few, like me, do. Most d

" ... soon i'll be a Jed eye...." Thanks be to Yankovick for making all clear >>

Only boys are allowed to bull's-eye womp-rats in their T-16's around here. Sir, the possibility of successfully navigating this thread is approximately 3,720 to 1. Anger, fear, aggression; the dark side of the Force are they. Easily they flow, quick to join you in a fight. If once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will, as it did Obi-Wan's apprentice.

I'm gonna counter-vent here. When the BSA announced this, with the barest sketch of what they thought would be how things would shake out for the Cub Scout program (and giving no details on what the Boy Scout program might look like), they also made it pretty darn clear that they would be releasing the details later - sometime in 2018 for the Cub Scout program and a stay tuned for the Boy Scout program. Ok - I get it - folks are frustrated by what they see as a lack of communication on the details but my question to everyone is simply - why is it National's and/or your local Council's fa

It's funny how many people want to claim that "real" Star Wars fans hated the film, yet no matter how much they pout, the numbers clearly show that the VAST majority of people loved it. I can easily claim to be one of the biggest Star Wars fans on this forum; no far I haven't seen anybody here who can even approach the devotion and love I have for the films (look into my costume and memorabilia collection if you have any doubts). But I will say this - The Last Jedi is an artful, beautiful movie, powerful in its messages, heart-breaking in its action, and deeply moving in its implic

I got given this badge at the Spanish National Jamboree. The leader didn't have the greatest of English (but way better than my Georgian!) so I think the story goes was that she was involved in setting up scouting locally, or maybe in Georgia (yes, we're not talking the state here). Looks like they got some help from BSA. She said, and I did understand this bit, that this was the very first custom made badge produced by/for Georgian Scouting after they formed in the 1990s. I was rather touched she gave this to me.

Ok, Big Spoiler Alert for anyone who hasn't seen it. SSF, it is obvious that you have strong feelings about this and there probably isn't any point in debating it with you, so I won't try. We each see things "from a certain point of view," but it's not the same point. I do want to take issue with your characterization of Luke, and I realize that I am probably in the minority among Star Wars fans on this. Yes, for the vast majority of this movie he was a real downer, having basically given up on the galaxy and just living on his island catching fish and rejecting Rey's efforts to ge

OA will not be known also as Order of the Amazons.

I don't know or particularly care who the first Eagle was or who the first female Eagle will be. This is small stuff.