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Absolutely no one is prevented from sharing their opinion. All that is happening is that EVERYONE is sharing their opinion in ways that others do not like, and so those who do not like your opinion have the freedom to equally verbally or through action they have the right to do express their opinion. The duck guy is not even being suspended for what he said, but how he said it.. Most liberals are not surprised or offended by his opinion on the subject, just his crass statements.. He is suspended, not fired.. I am sure A&E is holding out for an apology that allow Phil the right to stand

Well right now my son is the Cub Master, and "NO" he would no longer want to be Scout Master for the troop.. In fact I am waiting for when he bows out of the Cub Master position.. This summer he moved so now to do anything with the Pack it is an 1.5 hour trip to come back to this area.. When he does make that move though I fear if anyone will step up to take the CM position, since as of right now, we have no one wanting to even take on ACM positions.. Actually I took on UC when the only Adult leader was a very absentee Cub Master who had done NOTHING with the pack from the start of the s

Only if people get run over, more often then not.. And then those who want to prove that getting hit by a motorcycle is awful, go out and stomp and jump up and down and kick and hit with a baseball bat those people who got hit by the motorcycle in order to make sure that they are as bad off as getting hit by semi.. My point is when going through this, it was not my family situation that had any negative effect on me.. It was my teachers who did not want to waste time on me, telling me to my face that I was not worth the time and energy as I was from a broken home.. Or the minister of my

Maybe a child raised in a loving home with mother & Father is the best.. But, I can tell you from personal experience that a child raised in a home with a mother & father who no longer love each other, or where one or both parents are abusive is worse then being raised in a home with a single mother (or single father).. And I would imagine many children who are being raised by a homosexual couple will tell you that it is far more preferable then being an unwanted child who is simply "in the system".. Are you also advocating that if a parent dies, the child should be ripped away from th

If it is really 2 days and they don't plan to do any Cub Scout advancement in those two days, I would just have them register with the Troop.. The only reason you would need to reregister them with the Pack would be if they are doing CS advancement after the rechartering. It saves the $1, it also saves on confusion.. I know my son once reregistered with a Troop due by Dec 31st.. In January he changed troops.. So we put in a transfer and paid the $1.. Six months later found out he was still registered with his old troop.. When they researched why, it was because they processed the transfe

RememberSciff - Remember that it is no longer a Tour Permit but a Tour Plan, and it is now not required on every outing, but only if you go out of council or plan some event with some hazards, like boating or rock climbing.

Woops posted in the wrong place.

OOE - If most troops at your roundtable sleep on cots, have you ever noted this when at a camporee near them? It does seem strange, because it does limit where you camp. I would imagine these troops do not backpack.

don't know if this is crafty enough, because it is also scientific. A hovercraft. http://hoverkid.hovercraft.com/photos/03-balloon-hovercraft/03-balloon-hovercraft.html or http://www.minieco.co.uk/quick-craft-balloon-hovercraft/

testing this out, to see if I have the same problem as twocubdad. Of course, I never had a time I could open & create replies either, just that replies don't change who and what time the thread had activity on it. edit : Guess it's something specific with your setup Twocub.

Welcome.. Most times all it takes is an opinion, and perhaps some thick skin when others disagree with your opinion.

That's why I think the church is not the CO.. That this might be a "friends of" organization that simply used the church as it's meeting place.. Otherwise, I don't know, people not understanding how the program worked, I don't think could get that high up without the Council straightening out the mis-information.. The troop I am UC of I think may have assigned their own COR, not understanding the position and it is not up to the troop to appoint.. Our DE told me they have listed for COR someone other then the IH, when I know our IH planned on being COR of the BSA units.. Now, things may hav

I agree with everyone else, that if the Troop splits, you being the group leaving will not get to take all the toys.. It will stay with the half of the group that is staying.. On top of that, if the COR is also the IH, then he would be the one that is the person to go to in order to ask for anything, the minister of the church has no say in anything, he basically has decided to have nothing to do with the unit.. The church is just providing the space. It is almost like a group of parents did form this group, As DuctTape put it. If you formed a group called "Group of Citizens" or "Friend

No pictures, but I will share this.. Plan to read it at the Pack slumber party as a bedtime story ~~ ‘Twas the Campout Before Christmas By Kimberly Gilbert With Apologies to Clement C. Moore ‘Twas the campout before Christmas, and all through the Pack All the parents were sleeping, each one in their sack. The wet socks were hung up on a half-hitch taut line, In hopes they’d be sorta dry by den hike time. The Cubs were all snuggled in cold weather mummies, With too many s’mores stuffed down in their tummies. And Ma on the air mattress and I

I would have said the same thing ScoutNut, except this year our IH decided not to find a new COR and take the role on himself, when time came to recharter I asked council if we would have a problem and was told the IH being the COR is very common.. Really if your IH is actively engaged in the BSA unit, why would he need an middleman?.. It does make sense.

You say "The COR owns the unit" in which case maybe not.. If your COR is also your Institutional Head then he is the end all in the decision maker.. BUT, some CORs are not the institutional head, this is the head of the organization you are chartered to. The COR could be the middle man between the IH & the troop.. So if your COR is not the minister of the church, or the President of the organization or whatever, then you can go to them.. Beware though the IH will more take the COR side especially if he knows the COR, doesn't know you personally, and really hasn't involved himself in kn

next time look at the very bottom see if you see the message : "Do you want to open or save 108421db.json (17 bytes) from scouter.com?" (option buttons) Open, save, cancel the json file name may be different.. But, it looks like it locks up, it is sitting waiting for a response. "Cancel" works fine.

Not in the MB pamphlet, but one of the main rules for any MBC, repeated constantly is " not add to, delete from, or modify the merit badge requirements in any way" Better stated is this.. "â—¾Don't make the requirement more difficultâ€â€or any easierâ€â€than stated. A Scout may undertake more activities on his own initiative, but he cannot be pushed to do so " That at least gives you something you can do.. You can offer, to go further in the subject as long as it is an invitation, not a push.. If the scout is hooked on the subject, they will probably be happy to work further

You can not find a real one, but no reason you can't make your own sort of jokingly.. I know our SM once made these big wooden boards he cut round and had just painted the Life saving merit badge on for a thank-you for someone who had used his lifesaving skills in an emergency situation.. So he presented him with the overlarge symbol at a COH with some nice words of appreciation.

I guess I was wrong about the thread "Can I bring my younger son to scout campouts?" being the only thread who now does not consider comments to someone's post not being acknowledge in the last person and time someone posted to the thread.. This Thread is doing the same thing.. Sentinel947 commented to SSScout, but it didn't register that he was the last to post to this thread. Since I am doing a new post, this one should show up as me being the last to post to this thread..

Ok, that was enough for that post. Yesterday. I was logged in, but I lost the new thread button, and I also lost the post and comment button everywhere.. I thought I would log out and log in and hoped this would fix it, but when I logged out, the screen flashed, but I stayed logged in.. I tried the contact us. but I could send anything. Because when I hit send it said something about it couldn't send because ??? something like no human intervention ?? or something.. I had it in my mind they wanted me to do one of those type in this picture of crazy hard to decifer letters.. But there wasn

But in the "New to Scouting" area, thread "Can I bring my younger son to scout campouts?".. RichardB commented, then I commented to him and one other post in that thread. RichardB still showed up as the last person to post. Then BP commented to RichardB, still RichardB was shown as last person to post, also my first comment to RichardB had disappeared. I commented to BP. Still RichardB was the last person to post. This morning I created a new post in the Thread, and then I became the last person to post on the thread.. Thought it was fixed. But see Sentinal has commented to RichardB, a

It's weird even though there have been others who have written after RichardB, he stays displayed as the last person to make a comment. I don't have anything to add, just seeing if a new message rather then a comment to RichardB will kick it out of being hung up on Richard.

BP This rule is definitely not new, and really if you read it. It doesn't say you cannot... period... It just says it is discouraged, because it is not healthy for the troop or the under aged youth.. Therefore, if you want to ruin your troop with pack level campouts, go ahead.. But, basically National really sees things more the way myself and Eagle92 see it.. It really should be used as a last resort, that the boys can not go on a trip without the parent with youth in tow.. So you have the control and the say.

True, and not true.. The SM did not bring along his daughters or under aged sons.. He brought along his boy scout aged sons.. The thing, is that the SM did not do the program for the scouts in the troop, he did it for his sons.. The only thing we get from the OP is that he wants to bring his under aged son with him for father/son bonding.. He did not post any reasoning why this was necessary to help the troop out of some crunch, or consider pros and cons of the situation, and come up with some rationalization of why the pros won out.. But, just simply he and his son.. No thought to the effe