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Wasn’t quite sure where to put this, but wanted to share something I made to celebrate our first in-person Troop meeting since the first of March. Plague Doctor neckerchief. 😆

POPULAR WBGV BUMPER STICKER: ""Earth First! We'll Strip Mine the Other Planets Later." Part of SBR is "repurposed" coal strip mine. "The Scouts bought the land from Meadow Creek Coal Co. for several million dollars, Hartley said. " The acreage thus being repurposed from a surface coal strip mine has been variously described, from the Reservation being "located on" a former strip mine (BSA: "strip-mine-turned-Scout-camp") to only 1500 acres (about 14%) being former strip mine. Such sites routinely create acidic water pollution as runoff leaches sulfur from coal-bear

That's true that many have the means, but how many will have the mindset to resist? Far too many will comply, at least until it is too late to recognize that the time to resist has passed, at which point they may no longer have the means.

I've seen this comment repeated by many (especially on Facebook). You may be talking about the Antifa protestors, which could be true, but this does not apply to the Black lives protestors. Who is ignoring the other homicides? Many of the protestors are from inner city churches who also march after murders. Others run or work with non profits who are working with youth in the inner city (from Boys & Girls clubs to many others). I question people who think that few in the community are not attempting to help. I have personally donated time and money to organizations in the inner cit

Now you know why the term "mindless rabble" exists

My wife and kids protested at my bugling when I started...you can buy a mute that helps...nothing flashy...just a $10-15 model from Amazon. Go in a room, close the door, use the mute, and you will keep the peace

"Virtue signaling" is a vendor of luxury vacations which I have never heard of sending me an ad in which he asserts "We are all in this together." Or decrying the mind-rending but statistically minor killing of civilians by Police while ignoring the several orders of magnitude greater rates of civilian-on-civilian homicides, typically of like-on-like.

Absolutely, we have too many testimonials from survivors that their families and neighbors were complying, because, being the good citizens, that is what you did. How different might things have looked in the early- to mid- 1900s if millions had resisted early, instead of complying. I'm afraid that we will have a similar view in hindsight.

BSA (Debtor) requested court permission to hire appraisers for four high adventure facilities located in Florida, Minnesota and parts of Canada, New Mexico, and West Virginia… This application is scheduled to be heard July 9 also when participating councils deliver assets list? https://casedocs.omniagentsolutions.com/cmsvol2/pub_47373/825916_868.pdf (128 pages) To efficiently advance these chapter 11 cases and engage in substantive negotiations regarding the Debtors’ assets and a plan of reorganization, the Debtors have determined, in their business judgment, that they require apprai

Anyone remember the ' shrieking girl " at Yale? Or the madness at Evergreen Collage? Or the riots at Berkley? We older folks just shook our heads and said " Just wait until they graduate and move into the real world, they're in for a real shock. Then they'll grow up." Well they graduated and turns out that WE are the ones who are shocked. They haven't grown up, and the really terrifying thing is I don't think they are going to until its way to late. Some of the political leaders are obviously using the mob to further their own ends. But a mob is a dangerous thing. Ask M

I saw this posted on a scouting Facebook page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Eastman?fbclid=IwAR3fyvSFgGmlx5zYeyhqv0ALDB8KJRkjsIT7fVLABCLoqfmHoPgxYHlyQYk If true, it is pretty cool that a Native American played such a crucial role creating the BSA.

didn't see the date. made me feel better to get it out..

Yes, it is obvious. A scout who can afford jamborees and high adventure trips is not likely to care about increased fees. It's the scouting families who can't afford the high-end stuff that I'm worried about.

Scouts is not a particular bargain. It's just as expensive as any activity today, even when you try and do it cheaply. Between me and my kids, we've done just about every youth activity there is and the cost is dependent more on how involved you want to be and at what level. Scouts has got to stop with this inane argument because it's a naval lint exercise used to prevent addressing some of the issues why families are increasingly turning away from scouting. Any parent with young kids involved in multiple things today knows it's not part of the family decision making equation. The local value

And then we have the cost of a visit to a major amusement park where you spend half your time standing in hot lines and buying over-priced food, as well as the entrance and parking. I admittedly no longer have the patience or focus to make a chart of say a dozen various youth activities and their average annual costs. But, as you have noted, Scouting is "still" overall a bargain. Much of the yelling is partly due to simply the "fact" that the organization has always been a comparative bargain. And the uniform, while nice to have and hopefully most will at some point, is not a requirement.

I would tend to agree with you if the OP said outside forces were telling the unit this needs to stop, but this just isn't the case. It is the unit committee who is telling the scoutmaster this needs to stop. I am much more doubtful about the claims that this is working and succeeding, as I am with the assertion that it has unanimous support from the boys' unit. The opposition from the unit committee might indicate otherwise. In any case, if the scoutmaster and the unit committee are at loggerheads on this issue, I think the COR needs to step in and settle the issue.

I wouldn't dismiss the possibility that one or more of the boys actually objected to having a girl run for SPL of the boy's troop. The current climate of the two units might be such that the boys felt like they could not express their opinions about the election without facing condemnation for being sexist. Continuing on that thought, it might also be remotely possible that some of the boys expressed these feelings to their parents, who consequently raised these issues at the committee meetings. Having some committee members object to the election is a problem. If it is actually the bo

Not only the above as shared by @HashTagScouts, but also, Scouts cannot serve in positions of responsibility outside the units with which they are registered. The girls may share committees and unit numbers with the boys, but they are still registered as different units, and therefore cannot serve in positions outside their own troop. Technically, those poor boys have no SPL - certainly not according to the BSA. They have a Scout from an outside troop doing the job, but nobody from their own unit gets the experience. That's a real shame. Mind you, I doubt that this kind of controversy wou

https://i9peu1ikn3a16vg4e45rqi17-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Family-Scouting-Program-Update.pdf https://i9peu1ikn3a16vg4e45rqi17-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/UPDATED-Family-Scouting-FAQ-2-11-191.pdf "BSA is single gender – all girl troops or all boy troops. Chartered organizations may choose to have an all boy troop and all girl troop “linked” with a common adult volunteer troop committee." Zero mention of a common youth leadership... https://filestore.scouting.org/filestore/familyscouting/pdf/Program-for-Older-Girl-Update-and-FAQ-

Of course you can! One, policy dictates that the girl cannot be SPL of the male unit in the first place; ergo, her election was invalid before it even took place. Second, there are no such things as "terms" when it comes to BSA troop positions. Youth leaders serve until the unit realizes they need - or decides that they want - new leaderership. If you read the various handbooks, guides and publications regarding the BSA troop leadership positions, you will find that you can hold an election whenever you want, whenever it's needed. Here it is CLEARLY needed; the only problem is that the adults

It's a bad day when SM's have consider optics on anything besides their field specs. I've always been frank with scouts when we haven't been running the program as its designers intended. (Generally that's because the committee has some apprehension about youth leadership, apprehensions about a specific youth, or apprehensions about the integrity of advancement.) I try to explain why. If the youth think I'm stupid, we adjust. This has usually meant getting the committee to chill regarding youth-lead, but it has also meant getting them to stay sharp on training. @yknot I think most

You can hold elections whenever you want. Yes you just had one - but it wasn't done properly, and that negates much of the whole affair. Also, it's (frankly) irrelevant how recently your past election was held. There are no time limits, no term requirements, and no stipulations stating that you can't hold another election whenever it's necessary or desired. And right now, it is. You aren't taking ANYTHING from the youth by doing so - in fact, you are GIVING them back the proper program that you should have been giving them in the first place. You are in no way bound to your past election, and