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The problem with cubs and temporary patches is not that they aren't allowed; it's that the "progress toward rank" plastic attachment -- or the equivalent for Tigers -- hangs from the right pocket button and obscures any temporary patch you sew on the pocket. I spent an evening sewing my Tiger's first patch to his shirt (yes, I'm a slow seamstress - er, seamster) and then realized that you can't see the thing anyway. MF

Vicki Wrote: "Prairie Scouter wrote >Do you think it's possible to separate the actions of BSA's national office from the local Scouting units? > I don't think it is possible. The local Scouting unit, while chartered to a CO, gets its identity from the National organization - hence the ability to use the name "Boy Scouts of America" and all the associated materials instead of being "Boys Associated with ABC Church." As National goes, so do we. Can't have it both ways." Actually, it is possible to separate the actions of BSA's national office from the local units, and it h

The bigger problem with the Army's flag patch is that they specified that it should go below the "combat patch" -- the unit patch a soldier who has been in combat wears on his right shoulder for the rest of his career; his current unit patch is on his left shoulder. By putting the full color flag below the subdued combat patch, the appearance of a row of soldiers standing in formation is uneven -- some flags are high (soldier who was never assigned to a unit in combat) and some are low. Moreover, this regulation puts the flag below another patch, which is probably a violation of the

Warning: long post ahead. It's time for a reformation. Someone should nail some theses to the door of the BSA Headquarters (...he typed in full ironic mode). Here's the first page: We need a new Boy Scout program that is free of the baggage of homophobia and insistence on belief in God. There are wonderful aspects to the Boy Scout and Cub Scout programs -- encouraging love and respect for the wilderness, developing a sense of citizenship in boys as they grow into young men, teaching skills to protect boys in a world that is often dangerous. I believe that these are the things tha

Bob is right to correct me on the charge: it was of course child pornography, not pedophilia. Sloppy on my part, and what I get for typing late at night. I still wouldn't want the guy anywhere near my children. But I stand by the rest of my post. Senior employees of Scouting are leaders in the general, and truest sense of the term. Their actions reflect on the program as a whole. To split hairs and redefine them as "mere" employees is evading the issue. Thanks, MF

"It's the hypocrisy, stupid." Seven pages of posts, and I'm surprised no one has made this point yet. I'm a new member of the forum, but it seems as though many of you have argued with each other about so much for so long that any new topic just leads you to fall into old patterns of hostility. The problem with Mr. Smith -- the vulnerability of the BSA as a whole -- is the hypocrisy. The controversies which have surrounded the Boy Scouts for the last few years have led the BSA to hold itself up as a paragon of moral virtue, despite the many people in this country who see the BSA's

My Tiger just received his diamond Tiger badge at this morning's Blue and Gold (since when did it become breakfast, rather than dinner?). He's very proud of it, so now we have to put it on his uniform. But it still has the peel-off paper covering a sticky back, which I assume is a holdover from the previous Tiger program where you stuck the patch on a belt device, rather than on the blue shirt. I've used GooGone before, so I guess I could stick it to his shirt and sew it down for good measure. But I'd rather not. Does anyone have any suggestions? Should I sew it down with the pap

Keynesian economic theory is about macroeconomics; it's not really relevant here. The behavior of firms is microeconomics. Not to belabor the point, but FScouter is right. To put it another way, companies try to maximize profits, not simply raise them. "Maximize" doesn't mean they go up; it often means they go down. I spent the last 12 years in IT, and I can assure you that profits can go down, even when you try real hard to make them as high as possible. Same thing for the textile industry. Moving all production offshore may be necessary just to keep profits level and keep the stoc