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Here's a tip: Stand outside the meeting room(s) and listen. Whom do you hear? Scouts? Scout Leaders? Adults? If primarily the last, move along. It's not a real Scout troop.

Based on thirty-eight year's experience in OH, PA and WV, twelve months per year, the "Timberline" is good for wind coming along the long access of the tent and poor in cross winds. In cross winds, the side collapses in and hits the occupants in the face - only bad after the first 2000 hits. Eureka came out with what was essentially a Timberline with a center hoop to solve this short-coming, the recently discontinued "Alpine Meadows." Eureka "expedition tents" had a model with several reinforced side tie-outs to resist the wind. Our Scouts can usually set up

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Churches, schools, and other organizations are also being targeted.

"Wilderness Survival Merit Badge Counselor, age 16, Camp Frontier: "Bear Bags are made of special material so a bear cannot smell the food and the other stuff in the bag." 11-year-old candidate: "How do you keep the bear a mile away upwind ?" Only two of 37 candidates had even touched the MB pamphlet. Several were 11 or younger and on their first campout ever. Everyone who attended all five 50-minute sessions - all 37 - received the Merit Badge with no testing of anyone on anything. A Scout is trustworthy.

The other Georgia: https://sputniknews.com/world/20131231186124958-Vandalized-Stalin-Statue-Torn-Down-in-Georgia/

I can quote my own southern Ky ancestors that the "War of Northern Aggression" was aimed at slavery. My late fraternal grandmother was National Commander of the Daughters of the Confederacy, so I've heard it all ("War is not civil!" is a favorite.). But there is no need to quote her as the Confederate Constitution expressly makes enslavement of the "negro" a civil right of the so-called "White Race" and the rebel leaders were explicit that the threat to the preservation and expansion of chattel slavery of the "negro" was THE casus belli: "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law

So BP "avowed" - said in so many words - that he was a "fascist." Where? When? A monarchist fascist, one must assume as he was a notable monarchist. Since you base your argument, some of which I "get," on history, you should know that, while El Duce was the model fascist, Hitler, whom you cite, was not a "fascist." He was a "National Socialist," the leader of the National Socialist German Worker's Party. He, like socialists in general, favored state control of the economy and the news media, which he imposed, and massive benefits for the workers, which somehow did not offset getting

WW II is generally thought to have been significantly more brutal than WW I. Germany invaded the Soviet Union with a goal of "eliminating" many millions of its citizens and did so, including the planned and effectuated murder of millions of Soviet prisoners of war by starvation - behavior mirrored to a lesser degree on the Allied side in 1945. Both sides engaged in deliberate mass bombing of civilians contrary to the "laws of war," and the "good guys" did it to far greater effect. The Axis used prisoners for monstrous "medical" experiments when not murdering them out-of-hand. Japan used b

I had ancestors from Massachusetts and southern Kentucky soldering on both sides during the Rebellion. Lee waged war against the United States - the Constitutional definition of "treason." Fortunately, for the Rebel leadership and for the nation, Stonewall types were not in charge on the U.S. side when it all ended in 1865. Even Jefferson Davis was spared, perhaps in gratitude for his management of the war. As for your "just" "cause," the citizens of Maryland and Pennsylvania whose property was looted in 1863 and 1864 in return, at best, for worthless rebel script would disagree

Depends on who is a "Founding Father." Richard B. Morris in 1973 identified the following seven figures as key Founding Fathers: John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington. Which killed an Indian? Jefferson by early advocacy of "removal" to the far West? Washington in the French and Indian War when most Indians allied with the French? An a field-grade officer, GW would not have carried a firearm, only a sword - primarily to point. But he directed soldiers to fire at Indians in battles and as C-in-C of the

General Thomas Jackson regarding Union soldiers, December, 1962: "Kill them. Kill them all." Shelby Foote.

John Adams. is rare but pretty easy-to-identify exception. John Jay of New York was an abolitionist as far back as 1874, but he owned slaves nevertheless.

BSA spent more. Costs are rising. Initially budgeted at $176 million through 2013, the Summit's cost is now estimated to reach at least $350 million by the end of this year and $439 million by the end of 2015, according to Scouts documents reviewed by Reuters - That is more than the organization's $274 million endowment. To keep up, the Scouts issued new bonds last year - more than doubling their previous borrowing for the project." Former strip mine in W.Va. to become home to Scout Jamboree. The Scouts bought the land from Meadow Creek Coal Co . for several mi

Payroll to meet.

The sale of camps seems to always involve controversy, merited or not. One of our council camps - 1700 acres on a lake - was sold for about $200/acre to a company run by a former council middle manager. The sale was announced months after the fact, an hour into a raucous meeting about "the future" of the camp. The plan was to turn the property into a land fill. The locals raised some serious cane with the state government and stopped that plan cold. It seems doubtful that the feds would have approved due to the drainage of the property into "navigable waterways" of the United

Our best DE, before our SE eliminated districts, was a Queen's Scout from the UK. He managed to start several Muslim units in the "inner city." Best metrics in the council. Very popular with volunteers. Fired. Why? We are not supposed to know. But we do. Insufficiently subservient to the ever-changing cast of middle managers. Cheers!

What I agreed to before was, in part, due to my opinion of the integrity of B.S.A. at that time.

"These are really volunteer and program issues." So let's blame the volunteers, who can only "vote with their feet" and their pocketbooks. That should raise morale - and contributions. The beatings will continue ...... Why do we need BSA if the people we collectively pay many $millions have no responsibility for results? We had ninety-nine troops in the Cleveland, Ohio, area before BSA even arrived in 1912. One hundred and five years later, with a much larger population, I doubt we have that many - actually meeting - in the same area today. We have sold off three camps and part

You think people who come here represent the norm? Think again. Adults are the critical, diminishing resource for effective program., There were a few adult-shortage such issues in the late 1960s, but the membership bloodbath of the "Improved Scouting Program" brought the shortage of adults to the fore. BSA has done nothing to correct this problem. Indeed, as a District Chairman, I got a letter of reprimand for directly recruiting adults, actually only Eagle Scouts, as volunteers. That was, and apparently still is, contrary to policy. Something about safety. I was also told not

"Useless" training should be replaced by useful training. The BSA position-specific syllabus since 2000 does not allow coverage of the topics in sufficient depth so it is often boring for those with Scouting experience and shallow for those with no Scouting experience. Excellent staff can ameliorate the time deficiency only slightly with "home-work" materials and high energy. Wood Badge does not "explain," or "demonstrate" the Patrol Method. Many participants see it as modeling the adult-run troop method. After all, the "adults" (staff) run almost everything and almost all training

Ah a Pittsburgher! The capital of Scotland will be shocked to learn that it has lost its "h," having had it for centuries. Not to mention Edinburgh, Ohio, Greenburgh, New York, Hamptonburgh, New York, Plattsburgh, New York, Newburgh, New York, and Edinburgh, Indiana, - at least some of which have residents who know how to properly pronounce "burgh" [no "g" sound]. 😃 But here's hope: Prince Valiant appears weekly in more than 300 American newspapers, according to its distributor, King Features. https://www.comicskingdom.com/prince-valiant/archive

The crossing had a Yield sign ("CROSSBUCK") and the train was required to sound its whistle at the whistle post and ring its bell through the crossing. These latter two measures contribute less to safety in an era of closed windows, air conditioning, and entertainment systems. Fortunately, the train did not derail, so the 200 passengers and the train crew were not injured.

As of December, 2018, Susan Blanchard was described in a newspaper article as a Scoutmaster of Troop 3752 in Colchester, County, Vermont. As such, she is a spokesperson for herself. What sources she has that allow her to speak to the motivation of Mark Stinnette I cannot discover, but, like Lincoln, Mark is a lawyer so he must be a bad guy. 😉 "Suzanne Blanchard, the troop’s Scoutmaster, said her daughter Sarah has participated in Scout activities for years because of her older brother. This year, she could finally earn merit badges and officially be called a Scout. All these gir