JoeBob

Hi Beavah, Go/NoGo decisions should be based on a realistically evaluated worst case scenario. Weather: Rain and thuderstorms will get you wet. Lightening strikes are a more remote danger. Hail can shred your tents, and perhaps bruise your body. Tornados and straight line winds will start dropping trees on you! You check the forecast and decide if it's worth your time to dry all your gear the next week. Not a bad worse case scenario. Climbing: In the east most rock is granite and not prone to become seriously dangerous if it gets wet. If you're caught in a rainstor

You made the right decision to cancel. Flat water canoe training on a lake barely prepares you for a river at normal levels. In the river you have to add the skills of reading the current, eddying out, downstream brace (Upstream will flip you...), ferrying, swimming in a current (Toes up - feet downstream) and river rescue. High water levels will kill beginners. The increased volume of water makes the river more violent because it is now pushing through obstacles that it hasn't worn smooth over a few thousand years. The swifter current separates the boats more quickly. Swimmers

Thanks for the link Mr. Leroy. So it would seem that the law enforcement program for Explorers has changed little since established in the 50's. The notable change is the increasing intolerance of the Politically Correct New York Times.

May I share with you the easiest way to remove any glue residue from labels or duct tape? WD-40. I kid you not! I use it all the time on camera gear; just spray a spot on a paper towel and rub off tape residue. And anybody who uses duct tape on a regular basis is bound to have a can of WD-40 within reach!

AKDenldr gave me what I needed from the leader book. The parent allowing his son to count multiple book readings as 1/10th of an arrow point is in the leadership of our pack (he's actually my boss). I needed to provide him with a written reference to refuse his highly motivated son's counting every book read in school as an elective. Done. Thanks AKDenlder ;^) JoeBob

How about a little help with this one: Wolf elective 6B: "Choose a book on a subject you like and read it. With an adult, discuss what you read and what you think about it." In the leadership book it says that a Cub can repeat an elective, but needs to do a better job the second time to receive credit towards arrow points. We have an Akela who credited his son with 15 to 20 elective points for books read as schoolwork. Since the books were progressively more difficult (we're talking 2nd grade here - books aren't long or hard), an argument can be made that each book was 'a better

Did you like that softball? "The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says that approximately 1.5 million {Auto-Deer} crashes happen each year, but the numbers are on the rise. Urban sprawl has humans invading animal habitats and compounding matters are hunting regulations that have led to an increase in the deer population. All in all, $1.1 billion in property damage and 150 deaths are caused each year by deer-vehicle crashes." http://www.carinsurancerates.com/news/150-worst-states-for-deer-vehicle-crashes.html GA is number 5 on the list of ten worst states for A

JBlake: Whenever I go deer hunting in WI (we have a small cabin near Minocqua) my Georgia friends harass me to clean my boots so as not to import the prions from CWD. How's that going?

Many states prohibit the sale of meat from game animals to protect those species from poaching. Hence there is no venison or bass in the meat department. The restaurants that offer venison in my state are serving you frozen venison from New Zealand. No wonder people think it taste like cardboard! 180 rabbits in a day is some work! My record was about 140, but that was with 6 boys shooting behind a pack of beagles. Rabbits eat a lot of soybeans. And they multiply like, well, rabbits. Farmers in south Georgia regularly get depredation permits from the DNR to shoot deer with spotl

Mark me down as a 'backwards and archaic' Southerner, and damn proud of it. I don't like what electronic games are doing to our kids ability to concentrate: they can't! The impersonal nature of the internet has enabled rude and boorish behaviour online that one would never abide face-to-face. I'll take Southern manners. It's hard to find a neighborhood where the inhabitants even know the folks next door; they're too absorbed in 'American Idol'. I thought scouting hoped to preserve some of the good qualities of the past, but ceded ground to newfangled concepts in order to attract th

'Scuse my uncouth. I admit that I hesitated before clicking 'submit'. If I could have spun off the newly developed chili recipe thread so as to protect your sensitivties, I surely would have done so. But I wanted to poke at the the namecaller to see if he wuz still lurkin', and we've only seen him here, on this thread about Bigotry in the BSA. You do know that too many habaneros in your chili can cause 'pinkpooj', right? Never said I was nice.

Haven't seen hide nor hair of 'Pinkpooj' lately. I guess his hemorrhoids quit leakin'. (That was the basis for his screen name, wasn't it?)

Dang Skeptic! I'm working late here with no dinner yet. (Checked the forum while waitng on a large file to save...) That chili recipe has got me salivating on my keyboard. My typing is challenged enough without all the slipping and sliding that you've caused me. Although I do like fresh jalapeno in my chili, that sweet recipe might turn the key for the kids. 'Preciate it! Just another Slobbering Bigot

Have y'all ever noticed that secure people who are comfortable with who they are don't mind what other folks think. Scouters are in fact a rather tolerant lot. It's the people who aren't very happy in their life who want everybody else to be just like them...

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Can you send us a link to a picture of yourself? I want to know if trolls still have warts... http://www.fotosearch.com/CSP056/k0567087/

Yup. And Georgia's suit seems to be about 2nd amendment infringements. Other than seccession, what other forms of leverage do the states have to force adherance to the 10th Amendment? Withhold tax payments?

Texas has plenty of company: (There is) "a Georgia state Senate resolution that appears aimed at opening the door for secession. This seems to be a bit of a trend: Oklahoma's Legislature this week overrode Gov. Brad Henry's veto to pass a "sovereignty" resolution, and similar moves are afoot in Georgia and South Carolina. The Tenth Amendment Center (tagline: "the powers not delegated ..."), which supports and tracks these move, lists bills introduced in 35 states, most a bit less blunt about dissolving the union than Georgia's. They've passed at least one body of the legislature, a

A Yankee comes to visit south of the Mason Dixon Line, spends his money, and goes home. A Damn Yankee! comes to visit and likes it so much that he stays. acco44: Soldiers may enlist for politics or ideals, but they die for their friends. It's an honor thing, like treating the flag that represents dead warriors with respect. Packsaddle: I married my Yankee because no self-respecting Southern girl would have anything to do with me. What's your excuse?

Green shorts might not hide skid marks as well as khaki would...

I'm a Rebel, but I've learned to avoid re-fighting the War of Northern Aggression. The even-toned historical observations of many of y'all Northern Scouters have made me right proud. I'd like to hope that if that conflict had ended differently, and this discussion was about retiring the Yankee Colors alongside a victorious Confederate States of America flag flown over a battelfield where both sides had lost warriors; that the South would have enough class to treat the Yankee flag representing their dead with honor. Soldiers don't die for nebulous causes they don't understand; only

And here I thought y'all were gonna get into too DEEP leadership in the caves...

Having a Park Commission meeting to vote to evict BSA and a City Council meeting to approve that eviction, without even having BSA present to explain their side of the issue would seem to be a pretty hostile act. Can we call that an attack? The lawsuit is merely a defense against that attack. Any untruths in the BSA suit can be challenged in court, and the matter adjudicated much more fairly that at sneaky meetings designed to circumvent public scrutiny.

From the text of the lawsuit, page nine: The City demanded, received, and accepted a non discrimination statement from CoL that has been in effect since Jan 2004. " 34. Neither the City nor anyone else has alleged that Cradle of Liberty has ever violated the Non Discrimination Statement, or that Cradle of Liberty has in any way violated the agreement reached in January 2004." The City loses because it is violating it's own agreement reached earlier in this dispute. They later held a park commission meeting to vote to suspend CoL'c lease without telling CoL of the meeting. Then one