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I checked and find no "yurting" rule, nor a "hoganing" rule. 😃

From IRS.GOV 01/25/2020: "INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE Number: INFO 2002-0041 Release Date: 3/29/2002 February 15, 2002 UIL: 501.03-08 501.33-00 [REDACTED] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Re: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Dear Mr. xxxxxx: We received your recent letter requesting information regarding a program you are considering adopting within your xxxxx Scout Pack. You indicate that your Pack is xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx tax exempt

BSA policy is, for BSA especially, pretty clear, as is the policy barring troop neckerchiefs not approved by council and not of identical size and triangle shape as official BSA-sold neckerchiefs. Perhaps fewer rules, and those reasonable and enforced, would make more sense for BSA and IRS. The IRS has had very drastic funding cuts over the last seven years and is relying on obsolete computers and software more and more. IRS is also the second most unpopular federal agency with voters - only VA gets worse marks, and VA is perceived as killing veterans. INDIVIDUAL SCOUT ACCOUNTS

When did singing become a bad thing per se? 😩 It can be misused to put an individual "on the spot," but many otherwise ok things can be misused.

I think it means no more than it says. if you believe I have quoted out of context, by all means supply the context rather than your opinion. This thread, including any opinions I might post, is not the official "word" of BSA.

Age Guidelines The Boy Scouts of America has established the following guidelines for its members’ participation in camping activities: Overnight camping by Lion, Tiger, Wolf, or Bear Cub Scouts as dens is prohibited. Webelos dens may participate in overnight camping. Lions, with their adult partner, may participate in child-parent excursions, pack overnighters, and council-organized family camping. Tigers, with their adult partner, may participate in child-parent excursions, day camps, pack overnighters, council-organized family camping, or resident camping. Tiger

Dean Martin haters! 😩

Not Ohio! 😵

That is what the BSA rules expressly require - in so many words.

"Congratulations to Kenn Miller, who will serve as Scout executive of the Baltimore Area Council in Baltimore, Maryland, effective January 15, 2020. Kenn began his Scouting career as a district executive and then field director of the Northeast Illinois Council in Highland Park, Illinois. He was promoted to director of field service of the Lincoln Heritage Council in Louisville, Kentucky, and then selected as Scout executive of the Black Swamp Area Council in Findlay, Ohio. He moved on to serve as the Scout executive of the Greater Cleveland Council in Cleveland, Ohio, before joining the

Try Gummy Worms. 😃

One might wonder what the correct numbers are.

Change enough of the "format" and what's the point?

Transfer your Good Turn coin from your left pocket to your right pocket.

When your organizational leadership acts as if the "customer's" desires are wrong, you get Sears.

That solution is intolerable to those wanting a change in policy, according to their writing on the subject.

Journalism, in the sense of energetic investigation and a drive for accuracy, died decades ago with few exceptions. Now it's "He said"/"She said" and "If it bleeds, it leads." CNN initially reported in its on-line version that the attack in Baghdad that killed Soleimani was by "three Katyusha rockets." I contacted them and pointed out that those rockets are WW II-era ballistic rockets - unguided area weapons - very inaccurate and that the U.S. doesn't use them. The story then changed to "drone attack." This was a big deal story and a hash was made of it right out of the gate. Th

My troop had uniformed female leaders nine years before BSA caught on that disqualifying over half the adult population wasn't helping with the critical shortage of adult volunteers. (Including a retired USMC First Sgt.) Forty years after recognizing the issue, what is the BSA "plan" to address the problem of getting more adult volunteers? Crickets. And if there is an issue of violence from a cheating adult, what is council doing? This guy should not be around for YPT reasons alone. Adult Association is supposed to be with adults of integrity. The son is stuck with him.

Sorry. Right: boards. Have access to color copying pros? We had the graphics department of a local company copy a board and mounted the copy on poster board. (Coffee spill casualty at the last moment.)

Taken as given that anything said can be twisted, the safest course would be to say nothing - or close down. Even "no comment" is used by the MSM as an admission of quilt. At the extremes, mere accusation = guilt. Advertising is a normal business expense, so long as the work is hired out at arm's length. Sacrificing the core supporters to attempt to mollify enemies is remarkably incompetent. Those who hate Scouting will never stop attacking until it is destroyed. The target should be the committed supporters and the uncommitted - those already persuaded or persuadable. In

P 32 of the Syllabus Appendix: NATIONAL YOUTH LEADERSHIP TRAINING Appendix-32 Who, Me? Game Cards Easier Category Make these game cards by copying this page on blue paper and cutting along the dotted lines. https://scoutingevent.com/attachment/BSA358/58960_1449594194_1802.pdf

Several years ago, one of our districts overwhelmingly elected a long-service volunteer as DC. The SE vetoed the election, with no reason given. Consensus is that elected DC was regarded as insufficiently servile. The vetoed guy was and is much liked and respected. Every year, there he is every day of Summer Camp, running the Health Lodge (ER RN). Does really well with kids and adults. Supernaturally calm in emergencies. Another election. Same guy elected - unanimously this time. Vetoed again. No reason given. Another election. No one elected DC - no votes for any can

It is not enough that they preside over steady failure? OK 1. I believe that good unit-level program, and nothing else, attracts youth customers for BSA and for Scouting. BSA seems to focus on everything else, including to the detriment of program. The first question before anything new is adopted or anything is discontinued should be, "How will this impact sales?" We need BSA leader who focus on program or we need Scouting to leave BSA. 2. BSA seems to believe that easily obtained "bling" is the key to membership growth, even as making bling easier to obtain tracks declinin

I quoted predictions. I assume the Green Machine currently trims it's sails to match the present wind, but it still makes dire predictions. The issue for me is damage to the credibility of what I think of as "conservation" - rationally preserving finite resources against waste. Keep making wildly inaccurate dire predictions, and even the unmistakable truth gets lost. Neo-Luddites provide noise the profligate can and do use to drown out reasonable concerns. Then we have the politicians like AOC demanding the outlawing of meat-eating, no more use of fossil-fuel, and, generally,