RememberSchiff

Schools around here are state required to cover the content of Citizen in Community/Nation/World in far greater detail, as well as requiring community service hours for graduation. A big plus is that their field trips are during government operation hours; they can see the state house in session or a trial in progress! It is frequently asked question on this forum if scouts can count (double dip) their school community services hours for Star and Life service hours. There are other aspects of citizenship via the Patrol and Leadership Methods that we should concentrate on. I see no loss i

I wrote (Pell and federal) loans at questionable for profit colleges The past two companies that I worked would NOT approve tuition reimbursement for employees who enrolled in for-profit schools like Univ of Phoenix, Capella, Wossamotta U. and other internet-based colleges nor would they interview job applicants with online degrees from such schools. There are other issues of high cost and high drop-out rate with those schools very though they are supposedly accredited. Yeah, Univ of Phoenix got a sweetheart deal from Congress. Still seems a bad idea. Loans to students attending

Just some ideas... Maybe we need to be smarter with the dollars in our pocket or mend the holes in our pockets Maybe instead of spending billions each month and American lives to insure the security of Afghanistan school children, we did it first here with our own. Maybe instead of wasting $24 billion in student (Pell and federal) loans at questionable for profit colleges we spent it on school security and mental health institutions. Oh and we allow forcible institutionalization, the kind the CT ACLU killed in December which might have prevented the Newtown shooting. Mayb

Great idea, I LIKE IT! Scouting is a journey with Eagle being the destination for my more ambitious scouts. My scouts viewed NOA as a side trip or a bunch of side trips? They can map their own. Focus on the outdoors and scoutcraft and leave the classroom stuff to schools or as electives. Maybe replace Wilderness First Aid MB with a real WFA course. In general, scout-up the requirements for these merit badges, in particular Wilderness Survival and SAR. Replace Eagle project with an Eagle trek. Eagle candidate plans and leads a patrol on a trek, no adults. Did I say I like it

A database of incident reports ONLY has value to me, unit leaders, and my PLC in activity planning if we can search and view the original report indexed by incident report number, location, date, council, unit number, injury. The incident narrative and leader recommendation is what we want to read not data analysis pie charts or stats. This is really where the adults and scouts learn from the mistakes of others and this pays forward big time( AMC's or NOL's incident reports). I will ONLY comply if this learning value is preserved and accessible for leaders and scouts. So far, it just seems to

Well speaking for myself Do you consider the right to own a fire arm as important as the right to vote or the right to free speech? Yes. Maybe because I have been a crime victim more than once, I consider the right to self defense (life) most important. Second.... people keep saying a restriction is unconstitutional. If the majority of the population thought it needed changing couldn't you just change the constitution? Our constitution can be amended/ratified only by our elected federal and state legislatures. We the people cannot vote for a Constitutional Amendment. Our Founding F

Might be useful to ask families why they chose those scouting programs over ours. Open response not canned multiple choice.

Maybe, but Hacker scouts appears targeted at upper elementary, middle school kids.

Yes, I would like steel shot used at the shotgun range and if the lead deposits at the rifle range are a threat to the ground water, excavate berms and either rebuild to trap the lead for recycling or use green ammo for short range target practice. The latter is more likely as the use of lead ammo is getting banned more. Do it sooner or the government will tell you to do it later? My $0.02,(This message has been edited by RememberSchiff)

Not hackers breaking into computers but kids with adult mentors USING tools, woodworking, robot-building,...Badges but no uniforms. Inclusive. Membership 32,000 nationwide. Website https://diy.org/ Probably more hands-on than our survey STEM merit badges? News Story from NPR http://www.npr.org/2012/12/23/167285991/with-growth-of-hacker-scouting-more-kids-learn-to-tinker Geek Scouts and Maker Scouts are similar but not nationwide,...yet. http://www.geek-scouts.org/ http://makerscouts.org/ Maker Scouts is a burgeoning group looking to build a next generation scouting

Sorry, I forgot. Checking the Fieldbook..."Lead by example"? ..."often mistaken for rabbit scat by Tenderfoot scouts"...must be somewhere else in here...

Yes as does mercury, arsenic, E.coli,... The issue is where and concentration level.

I dunno, great question. We had fist fights not gun fights back then. Fist fights on the bus, in school, in the neighborhood, at scouts, everywhere except church where the nuns hit us Anger needs an outlet or a quick release? Another $0.02,

I would say something like Many current and past scouters and scouts are working at the local level to make scouting more inclusive...to reach all boys interested in being a scout. I would mention units that have stated on their websites their policy of inclusion and where that inclusion has grown to their councils. In some cases these inclusion policies have been in place for years. Mention Mount Diablo-Silverado Council approved a gay Scouts Eagle application and sent it to National. Mention that two National Board members support a policy change and one of those two is

I was out on openin' day of waterfowl season this fall. I wish we could ban semi-automatic shotguns just so some fellows would learn how to shoot. By the time you've lit off your 5th round, it's time to admit that yeh missed the dang thing and should stop sprayin' lead in a big arc heedless of what's around yeh. Contact the game warden. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has banned lead shot for waterfowl hunting nationwide since 1991. There's been several studies both pre and post ban about use of lead shot. I am not a hunter, but I discuss the environmental effects of lead in Env

So you are selling your Glock?

Beavah you missed the point. The certain reimbursement for the impressment of your horse, etc. after the war as you would expect if owning a horse was your Constitutional right; that reimbursement was not there. So I doubt, our pragmatic Founding Fathers would have considered owning a horse a right, with all the other bills to be paid. During WW2 via a FDR executive order, our government impressed Japanese Americans into internment camps for up to three years. The Constitutional rights of these Americans had been violated and in 1988, a $1.6 billion reparation program was set up. Po

...the investigation is in progress which I hope includes a drug test, mental health background check, motive determination, gun ownership,...

but do yeh think da Founding Fathers would have considered horses a right? That if yeh owned a horse, the government could stop you from using it or take it away? Doubt it, because like the British, the Continental Congress and Continental Army were documented horse thieves. "On 4 November 1775 the Continental Congress recommended that the legislatures of the New England states empower Washington to impress wagons, horses, vessels, and other necessities for the transportation or march of his army. This power was to be delegated to the Quartermaster General.37 Subsequently, Washingto

I dislike speakers using backdrops of American flags (just one please, not 30), kids, troops, policemen,... The speaker and his speech should be able to stand without props. However, I do enjoy the rare occasion when someone is asleep in that backdrop. One backdrop that I would like to see is a stack of money, as in "Today I propose ... and here's the money to pay for it." My $0.02,

I give the ARRL credit in trying to interest our iPhone, Facebook youth in amateur radio. Last year, the ARRL helped the BSA released the Morse Code Interpreter strip (above left pocket) and this year the new Amateur Radio Operator strip (right sleeve) for any scout or scouter who holds a valid FCC-issued Amateur Radio license. http://www.arrl.org/news/bsa-to-offer-amateur-radio-operator-rating-strip More impressive than OMGWTF Internet Acronym Interpreter or Facebook Friend strips. I made that up as a joke, those don't exist do they?

As to what "arms" we can bear, look at Supreme Court decision District of Columbia v. Heller - "This Second Amendment rights case was brought by a group of libertarian lawyers on behalf of plaintiffs with respectable backgrounds and appealing reasons for seeking relief from the District of Columbias extremely restrictive gun control regulations. The challenged statute prohibited the possession of a handgun by almost all D.C. residents, and required that all firearms be kept in an inoperable condition. This effort to disarm the citizenry had been in place for over 30 years, and was the mo

Boy Scout Troop 358 of Grace Baptist Church, Philadelphia return for the SECOND time to march in the Presidential Inaugural Parade this Monday January 17, 2013, Martin Luther King Day. They are the only Boy Scout troop marching in the parade, though I am sure other individual scouts are in the parade but associated with leadership, sports, and school programs. http://www.philly.com/philly/video/BC2103577881001.html

Over the years, I have often heard jokes like "...the only things scouts lie about is having girlfriends" from non-scout acquaintances. "Yeah yuck, yuck, not true!" Enter Eagle Scout, Notre Dame football player, and Heisman Trophy candidate Manti Te'O with the tragic story of the death of his non-existent girlfriend Lennay Kekua. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/17/fenno-manti-teo-girlfriend-story-a-wild-ghost-chas/ Bizarre and why? Did he want added sympathy in hopes of winning Heisman? The good news; people and the embarrassed sports media are more interested in

Annual losses were about $50K, Mount Baker Council gave the Friends of Black Mountion until Dec 31 to 1. raise $60K to cover potential losses, FoBM raise $64,560 2. Get at least 300 campers over 3 weeks, FoBM only got 251 by deadline. Fewer than 20 signed for first week. http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2013/01/17/2842079/boy-scout-board-cuts-summer-camp.html Just know what I read in article, but it seemed the Council focus was just on dollars and numbers and not the underlying camp summer program. I can't understand why we don't open scout summer camps to non-member boys sp