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Everything posted by Trevorum
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I say go for it. I know some troops still wear the red berets (gag).
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First I've heard of the values. Strange, I thought aggressive bargaining was expected in those places...
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Shocking only to our culture perhaps. Many hunter-gatherer peoples would use extended breast feeding as a birth control mechanism; lactation tends to suppress ovulation
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I've been participating in these forums for about 10 years now, I think, and this Issue has regularly been discussed. Today, I am shocked, shocked I say, to realize that the tide finally seems to have turned, at least within the sample of Scouters present on this forum, and I am vastly encouraged. Go back and read some of those long ago threads. The hate was visceral. I do have faith that sometime in the near future BSA will end it's unjust and unjustified bigotry against this class of Americans.(This message has been edited by Trevorum)
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Shop around, or not? The American way or the WOSM way?
Trevorum replied to Beavah's topic in Open Discussion - Program
"We are monkeys, after all." Speak for yourself packsaddle. Me, I'm a hominoid. -
Happy birthday to the founder of our feast, Scouter Terry!
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Hmmm... I'm starting to see a Venn diagram here, overlapping circles, BadenPowell, outdoors emphasis, inclusiveness...
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Hmmm... I'm starting to see a Venn diagram here, overlapping circles, BadenPowell, outdoors emphasis, inclusiveness...
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You nailed it right off; this is more PR than science. I'm not disputing the data or the findings, but the conclusions are self-serving.
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I don't understand either. If Spiral Scouts and Scouting For All are both 'scouting programs', why not AHG?
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Very interesting new report issued by Baylor University. http://scouting.org/filestore/pdf/210-045_WB.pdf
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Mr. Romney stands an excellent chance, especially if he positions himself as a moderate and distances himself from the anti-woman issues that seem to be popular with some Republicans.
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I've been requested to serve on staff in Relationships again. Guess I'll have to start saving my lunch money.
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BSA and Hunting Good or Ill Fitting
Trevorum replied to OldGreyEagle's topic in Open Discussion - Program
"... the City Dwellers don't understand killing animals for no other reason than you can." (emphasis added) ??? I'm not sure I understand, either ... -
BSA and Hunting Good or Ill Fitting
Trevorum replied to OldGreyEagle's topic in Open Discussion - Program
I don't consider that to be hunting. We don't generally eat varmints. -
BSA and Hunting Good or Ill Fitting
Trevorum replied to OldGreyEagle's topic in Open Discussion - Program
If you kill, you should eat it. -
Girl guides set to drop oath to God in bow to secularists
Trevorum replied to Merlyn_LeRoy's topic in Issues & Politics
Welcome, JustaHuman -
Good the see the UUSO listed, hot on the heels of Trout Unlimited. (This message has been edited by trevorum)
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I think there is abundant evidence that young adults (say, 16-23 years old) tend to make different choices and different decisions than people older than this. That's not to say those decisions are right or wrong, just different. For one thing, people of that age tend not to comprehend as fully our own mortality and the fragility of our lives. They tend to take risks that older people tend to avoid. I remember making absolutely insane choices when I was that age, because I didn't know any better and because it was exciting. That's one of the chief reasons, of course, that cannon fodder h
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AHG is a fine organization and they do a great job of providing a quality program to young girls. Of course they are explicitly exclusionary on the basis of religion. Non-Christian families are not welcome. Christian families who do not want their daughters to be exposed to other ways of thinking may be more comfortable with AHG. On the other hand, GSUSA is also a fine organization and does an equally great - some would say even better - job of providing a quality character development program to young girls. Families who want to prepare their daughters to interact with a wide range of pe
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Progress in improving Scouts vision
Trevorum replied to JMHawkins's topic in Open Discussion - Program
Before leaving a campground, our troop always polices the area. As SM, I was incredulous that the fellows simply did not seem to see the trash right there on the ground! We'd have go go back over the area 2 and even 3 times. One time, the campout fell on International Talk Like A Pirate Day (Sep 19) and we had lots of fun with that. When it came time to break camp and police the area, I told the scalliwags to look out for the "golden doubloons". After we got past the part of, "What's a doubloon?", I realized the guys actually did scour the area better than usual, looking for that treasure. -
Religious Emblem approved for Unitarian Universalist youth!
Trevorum replied to Trevorum's topic in Working with Kids
Thank you for the correction. -
welcome, andysmom! we're glad you're here!