Gold Winger

That is true but they don't need to rip off old customers while smiling and telling you that they're your neighborhood friend.

Hot patootie, bless mah soul, I really love that rock 'n roll. Poor Eddie, he may not have liked his teddy but . . . what a guy.

Credit card companies are evil. They claim that the high interest rates are necessary because of all of the people that default. What about those of us who have never defaulted? Chase just ratched my rate up to 30% because I was a day late in their mind on making an online payment. I went from 6% to 30% in a heartbeat. Years ago, I had a bunch of credit cards that I wasn't using so I cancelled them. My remaining card rocketed my rate up from 7% to 29% because I "didn't have enough available credit." I paid it off an cancelled the card. Banks are like any other large company, they'll screw you if they can. I found out the hard way that when you use your "Check Visa" card as a credit card that if you don't have enough money in your account, you start getting overdrafts. With my old bank that wasn't the case so how I was I supposed to know. Anyway, my bank pays me a dime everytime I use the card as a credit card so I use it for everything. Coffee. A bottle of soda. A pair of socks. Well, an automatic payment when through unexpectedly and I went negative. Many times. Many, many times. That cup of coffee became a $40 cup, etc. I spent nearly $400 in overdraft fees that weekend. Ouch. So I go to the bank and talk to the manager and ask if there's a way I can prevent this in the future. I have a large savings account and want them to do an automatic withdrawal from savings if I overdraw the account. Nope. Overdraft protection? Not for my type of account. What's the solution? Check on-line more often. So I leave there and go to the bank nextdoor. They'll transfer money from savings but there's a fee. However, they'll give me free overdraft protection, free checking, no fee ATM, and a free safe deposit box if I transfer my checking and savings. Hello new bank! I went to close the old account and was asked, "Why?" I told the manager and he said, "well, we could have done that for you." Why didn't they?

How do you do, I see you've met My faithful handyman He's a bit brought down Because when you knocked He thought you were the candyman. Don't get strung out By the way I look Don't judge a book by its cover. I'm not much of a man by the light of day but at night I'm one heck of a Scouter.

Whatever, dude. You might be the server administrater but there's a good chance that code I wrote is running on your server. Look outside, the black helicopters are there. Gold Winger out.

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I believe that a man cannot be the registered leader of a troop, only an assistant.

The official answer is that "girls need a strong woman as a role model." The real answer is that men are evil. If a girl goes on a Venturing outing, a woman has to go along. Why? The official answer was given as "girls may have problems that they don't want to discuss with a man." I could comment on that but I won't, I'll just give my counter example, how many 12 year old boys would tell Mrs. Brown, the SM, that they have developed jock itch at camp? Maybe Mrs. Brown's son. The real answer again is, men are evil. The women of the world are concerned that if we go out into the woods with a bunch of girls, we'll be leering at them while they shower and doing our best to take advantage of them.

When this topic came up, I contacted the Library of Congress' research section and asked them if there had ever been a congressional resolution authorizing the Boy Scout to retire flags, perhaps in response to complaints of "flag burining." They finally responded. Nope was the answer. They did give some history on the flag code and even referenced the Boy Scout Handbook. Nothing nowhere give the Boy Scouts, VFW, or US Marine Corps special priveleges when it comes to flag retirement.

Oh dear, I've been insulted by a nameless, faceless, paranoid hillybilly. Oh woe is me. BTW, hillybilly, a brute force spam assault is easy to set up and goes very quicky when you are using distributed processing. How do I know? If I told you, the black helicopters would come for me.

GaHillyBilly, look outside, the black vans have pulled up and the black helicopters are orbiting your location.

Since the number patch is a non-starter, you're supposed to wear the number of the troop that in which you're registered. Pretty simple. If you're intent on this, there are inummerable patch making companies out there that will make custom patches. As someone pointed out, splitting may be more difficult than the original merger. Ever try to unmix cake batter? My preferred solution would be for both units to strike their colors and charter as a new unit with a new number. Then get their number patches with the lightening bolt.

Okay, you discovered what's going on. The NSA is helping to supplement the government's income by capturing and selling email addresses. know that it's all a grand conspiracy against you.

My son's pack paid for the loops. If you earned it twice and really wanted a second loop, mom or dad could spring for it. Never heard of mom or dad buying a second loop.

I guess he's not famous enough, Phil is the weather prognosticator, Gus is the lottery guy.

"An 11 year old does not belong in cub scouts no matter what grade he is in. At that age he is a boy scout." That depends. If all of his friends are in a Webelos Den, he'd probably be better of with them.

"lets just say one is married one not." So? One of my bestest friends in the whole wide world is a woman to whom I'm not married. I'm pretty sure that I haven't seen her nekkid since she was two and I was three. If see was visiting and I had a campout planned, I'd probably ask her to go along because she like camping. Would we share a tent? Nope. Would we run off behind a tree and neck? Nope. Would her husband object if she went away with me for a couple days? He hasn't yet. Would some dirty minded person think that something was going on? I'm sure they would. What would the boys think? They'd probably say, "cool, Mr. Winger has a friend who's a babe and is really cool because she camps and talks about guns and things." The question asked by someone else still stands, do you think that something untoward is going on or, better yet, do you have evidence that something is going on?

I'd wear my Venturing uniform, if I wuz you. I wear my BSA uniform to Girl Scout functions to show my support of the program and that our two programs have similar functions and goals. If I was a sailor and invited to my friends retirement fromt the Army, I'd wear my sailor suit. It's a Scouting event, wear your Scout suit.

"And, "QWEVsd23AXXdfj2sx AT aol.com" will never be spammed, unless it's published." Nahhhhhh. They don't do addresses that make sense. They star with A then B and so on and so on and eventually they get to Zasrbedsm12832782@aol.com" I have about 20 email addresses including ones that I use only to send mail to myself, even those eventually get some spam.

If you look at the joining requirements, if he's eleven, he can join Boy Scouts. Pretty simple. However, you might want someone else to have a chat with his mother about staying with the boys in his grade and how he can cross over into Boy Scouts in the spring. This would give him an opportunity to bond with peer group. However, if mother and son want Boy Scouts, you have two choices: accept it or drive them away. Just my thoughts.(This message has been edited by Gold Winger)

Gee, it's gone from a guy who didn't chip in for food to some guy with immoral values which conjures up images of dancing nekkid around the campfire. "I am part of this group, ASSM, parent or member of society, I can, and will do whatever it takes to protect our Scouts. I will add forms or paperwork to protect our Scouts at any cost!" I'm guessing that "ASSM" is an "ASM." You can create all the forms you want but you really, really have no authority to enforce anything or create anything. What every you say or do has no weight. Really it doesn't. As someone else pointed out, you work for the SM. If you went to your boss at your paid job and said, "Boss, I created this form for you to fill out every time you need more coffee. . ." what do you think his reaction would be? I'd like to know how this guy used resources that the Scouts could have used. I know that if I was an SM and my bestest friend from college was in town when there was a campout planned, I'd probably invite him to come along to see what it is that I've been doing for the past decade and why I invest so much time in it. Could he add to the program? Probably not? Would he get in the way? Probably not? Would the guys like to talk to him around the campfire? Former Naval officer, world traveller, business man, pilot . . . you tell me. Would that be a benefit to the troop? Probably. I really want to know about this immoral behavior.

" I was livid and demanded answers from the District Chair, who stated that there were problems while I was doing my job( I never knew of any until that moment)." It's always nice when that happens. What do you mean there's a problem? Why didn't you say something?

"I agree with BW completely, resign" Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. . . . That's GeeDubya not BeeDubya. Puh-leeeeze don't get us mixed up. BeeDubya is the irritating maven of rules and documents and I am the irrascible but lovable trouble maker.

Since your job doesn't seem to be important, they obviously don't need your service. I'd resign, detail the reasons in a letter and send copied to the DE, DC, and SE. Imgaine how your recruit feels. He signed up to do X and suddenly he's drafted to do Y. I've been in that situation, I've volunteered to do something because of my expertise and when I show up, I'm put on some other task that I didn't want to do in the first place. Very irritating. In the end, you have enough other Scouting irons in the fire that you don't need the put downs or need to feel guilty about walking away from one of them.

A fake military history gets you drinks in a bar, chicks, glory, etc.. A fake Scouting history gets you the opportunity to do more work.