Fat Old Guy

Moi-lin, I've never seen anything from BSA that vilifies atheists. However, many members of BSA do see you for the godless destroyers that you are and we take comfort in the thought that when you die you will discover that there is a hell.

The BSA activity shirt and troop activity shirts (there ain't no such thing as a "Class b shirt") are uniforms just as dungarees are a uniform in the Navy. Consequently, you salute.

Hunt, which god do you consider to be a false god and why?

Moi-lin, as a pedantic liberal you should know that it is your obligation to point out errors in anything that you quote so that your readers know that you didn't err in copying it. Since you didn't identify the error, you must not have known that there was an error which means that you're stupid or that you don't read things that you're quoting which would also mean that you're stupid. Bye now, cartoon boy. Go home to your husband.

The article said, "Black is no longer useful on the uniform because it is not a color commonly found in nature. The drawback to black is that its color immediately catches the eye, he added. " Does that mean that black was once useful and once black was removed from nature it ceased to be useful? I don't know about the rest of you but I really don't like pockets on my sleeves. I hope that BSA doesn't go that way.

"What I get from this is the COR is taking the Scout's mother's word that he has completed all the requirements???" I'm a counselor for the Sports merit badge but I don't go watch every scout play in their chosen sports.

"But there's no Venture Scout Cookies! :-( " Cookie making! What a great focus for a Venturing Crew! BTW, being the pedant that I am, I need to point out that there is no such thing as a Venture Scout. Youth members of Venturing are called Venturers.

"I guess we have no option but to just go with the flow." Nah, you could join Venturing :-) BSA doesn't care if you photocopy any of their publications.

God save us from overprotective mothers. Well, make that overprotective parents. I've know many over protective fathers. Does this mom let her kid skateboard? Has she considered how the other Scouts will treat her son after his father has dragged him away from the event? I would think that the kid would be better off getting in place and then chickening out than having his "daddy" rescue him. As for the wacky mom and swimming, does your camp have the cordoned off areas for non-swimmers, beginners, and swimmers? You'd have to be asleep to drown in the every non-swimmer or beginne

Moi-lin, I know what an ellipsis is but that has nothing to do with your misplaced commas. If you knew that the comma didn't belong, you should have indicated that to show that the original quote was wrong. Obviously, you don't know much about anything which is a common problem among liberals. Suppose that you tell us what a fact is? Is "1+1=2" a fact?

ed asked, "So if the Scout completed none of the requirements for a merit badge and has a signed blue card from registered MB counselor for the badge did he earn it?" In Bob White's world yes. Then again, Bobo may have a valid point. I just read a blue card (again) and found that the counselor isn't certifying that the requirements were met but that it was "demonstrated to my satisfaction" that the requirements were met. What satisfies me may not satisfy you. So while one counselor is satisfied with a work of art from a woodcarver, another may be satisfied by the Scout simply sayi

Organizations that change their direction and focus to attract people that wouldn't ordinairily join are in grave danger of losing their identity. The Porsche Club of America has a great publication about Porsches. If you don't like fast cars, in particular Porsches, then your won't like the magazine. If the PCA started publishing articles about Mazdas on a regular basis along with articles on cooking with tofu, they'd start to lose the core of their membership. The same is true of Scouting, when you start tampering with the program to bring in kids who wouldn't have joined anyway,

My daughter is a Junior Girl Scout.

"3. The responsibility for merit badges rests solely with the merit badge counselor (article X, clause 13 of the Advancement by-laws)" Once again a reference to those secret BSA publications. We mere mortals don't have access to those special publications. I asked at our Scout Center if there was a copy of the By-Laws that I could peruse and you would have thought that I had announced that I had a gun on an airplane. We mere mortals have to use the poorly written publications like the Advancement Policy and Procedures Manual. IT says that a merit badge cannot be taken away once it

Without know you it is nearly impossible to say what the problem is. I will make some general comments and pose some questions based on my observations of teens applying for jobs. Did you show up on time for your interview? Was your hair combed? Was your face clean? Were your clothes neat, shoelaces tied and shirt tucked in? Employers, especially those whose businesses involve dealing with the general public tend to be conservative in many of their attitudes so they tend to shy away from tatoos, facial piercings, and bizarre hairstyles. Did you speak clearly and distinctly o

Moi-lin typed, "I pledge allegiance to . . . one Nation, under God." Moi-lin, when you can't get the facts straight it proves that you are a nitwit. Read the pledge and check your commas.

Ed, With the exception of welfare, just about any system that boosts the economic power of anyone is trickle down. The government buys a plane, Lockheed-Boeing-Douglas pays the workers who go and buy a refrigerator and the refrigrerator salesman can buy a car. It all flows downhill. As for starwars, it may not have been implemented but the benefits of that research benefit us all. Not to mention that the Soviets went bankrupt trying to keep up with us. Ronnie did a good job.

I looked this up long ago but couldn't post it (could it be the outsourced software?). This is the khaki entry from the Oxford English Dictionary khaki a and n A. adj. a. Dust-coloured; dull brownish yellow, drab. b. (attrib. use of B.) Made of khaki cloth. 1863 Cornh. Mag. Jan. 45 As to dress.. he [Capt. Cureton] confined himself to causing their clothes to be dyed khakee, or mud-colour. 1869 E. A. PARKES Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 395 The comfortable gray or dust-coloured native Khakee cloth. 1884 J. COLBORNE Hicks Pasha 2 We had to provide ourselves with..Karkee jackets.

Never said that 1965 was old, it is just the oldest OA handbook that I have. I'm so old that even my wrinkles have wrinkles.

I know that 1965 isn't the early days but in my '65 OA handbook it says that the sash is worn so the arrow points at the right should. No difference for any type.

khaki khaki (kk, kk) noun 1. Color. A light olive brown to moderate or light yellowish brown. 2. a. A sturdy cloth of this color. b. khakis. A uniform made of this cloth. Excerpted from The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

"The funds raised by such a group would be taxable" Not really. When you form an organization, you have a choice and you can elect to be a non-profit corporation which is not the same as charitable organization. Non-profits file tax returns but don't pay taxes. How do I know this? I've been on the board of three different non-profit corporations.

Do you mean the purple shirt from the World Jamboree?

Girl Scouts is okay. They do things differently and they have a ton of paperwork but it's an okay program. GSUSA allows girls to camping without a parent at a very young age, unlike BSA. Girl Scouts are allowed to cook on an open fire long before Boy Scouts may. Much is dependant on how the troop leader does things. Shop around.

"Sorry Jason but you can't start "your own" troop. " You could start an organization called "Supporters of Scouting in East Awfulgosh" and the organization can charter a troop.