Running scared?

[FScouter 24]

Watch it. Wrong thinking will be quickly punished. Right thinking will be as quickly rewarded.

 

The secret forum censor

[kraut-60 10]

GaHillBilly; Packsaddle got the answer 'fore I could reply, and he's right..we are fortunate to have this forum...back to topic, boy howdy and jeepers palomino, does Sarah ever have 'em checkin their sixes to see if any tail feathers are left...I love the fact we still have a few REAL leaders that arent career politicians...John McCain and Sarah Palin...Change that makes sense!

[croushorn 10]

Just a quick hit, my perspective was we saw a statesman last night, compared to a politician last week. This will be an interesting 60 days.

[GaHillBilly 10]

I wasn't really criticizing -- I did think it odd, but as I noted, nothing wrong.

 

For the record, I think scouter.com & usscouts.org are generally more useful than scouting.org.

 

Actually, as I've noted the degree to which BSA is marketing for $$$, not integrity in the shops, Boys' Life and so on, I've found myself wondering, "What would be missed if BSA national closed up, but placed all their copyrights under Creative Commons?", including uniform design. So far, I've thought of a few things that would be missed, but many more that would not.

 

A thread for another time, perhaps.

 

GaHillBilly

[CalicoPenn 729]

"Edited part: Did I mention that the moderators are Talosian?"

 

Shouldn't that be Organians?

 

Talosians were the beings who put people in cages and gave them illusions of youth and beauty.

 

Organians were the beings that forced peace and the neutral zone between the Federation and the Klingons (and presumably the Romulans).

 

Or did I just prove how much of a Star Trek geek I really am.

 

Calico

[gwd-scouter 11]

"Sarah Palin supported earmarks attached to the Congressional bill that remained after the "bridge to nowhere" was canceled."

 

Pixiewife: she did, in fact, keep the money to be used at the State's discretion for other infrastructure projects. She also was for the bridge project...before she was against it.

[kraut-60 10]

Its a safe bet the moderators could be Organians...but certainly not Ekosians.

[OldGreyEagle 5]

tell you what, if you would have said the democrats are the new Khmer Rouge I would have closed the thread just as I would have if you said the Democrats were the Idi Amin's of the 21rst Century. Tell me what the democrats have done that parallels Krystelnacht, tell me the name of the Democrats Gestapo, tell how you came to the conclusion that the Democrats are the Nazis of the 21rst Century. Dont talk about political correctness, dont talk about censorship tell me the logic that brings you to the conclusion that Democrats are like the Nazis. Anything else is empty rhetoric trying to take the interest away from the statement The Democrats are the Nazis of the 21rst Century.

[packsaddle 753]

The Talosian speaks to Captain Pike in "The Cage"

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059753/quotes

 

It wasn't a perfect quote but close enough. Meg Wyllie was one of my favorite character actresses (the Talosian Keeper, referred to by the other Talosians as 'magistrate').

Calico, I guess I have to make a similar confession, sigh.

 

Edited Part: I'm trying to figure out why OGE made that response...plus Beavah has me worried about what it is on page 22 of the G2SS that makes me evil if I violate it. I'm actually reading it right now and ... I mean, 'evil'? I don't get it.

I'm thinking that the whole world would be a better place if everyone was a Trekkie. You have to admit, neither political party has any better grasp of reality.(This message has been edited by packsaddle)

[kraut-60 10]

OGE; Any explanation regarding my inflammatory statement will likely fall short of satisfying the answers your post demands. What I posted was rude, arrogant and un-scoutlike...I would like to offer my apology to any I have offended by my ill-mannered post that equated the Democratic Party as the National Socialists of the present times.

 

I would ask you here OldGreyEagle to please suspend my membership in this forum...its clear I am out of my depth here and dont deserve the priveledge of posting in this forum.

[OldGreyEagle 5]

FScouter, I guess thats another memo that didnt get out, obviously its left thinking, not right thinking that will get rewarded

[GaHillBilly 10]

OGE, on the Forums where I've acted as a moderator, one of the requirements has always been that the moderators read posts CAREFULLY, before moderating them.

 

Perhaps, that's not a requirement here. Or if it is, perhaps that memo failed to reach YOUR desk?

 

My statements were about how NPR -- NOT the Democrats -- were twisting the news, apparently to serve their agenda. I did not, and would not, equate the Democrats and NPR. NPR, in my observation, is far, far left of average Democrats. Obama may also be to the left of average Democrats, but even he's not that far.

 

Also my point was not about politics, per se, but about how horribly despotic regimes in recent history have depended on an acceptance of such propagandized news as a means of gaining support. Certainly, I could have referred to other regimes, such as Stalin's and Mao's, who behaved in the same way. But, generally people are far more familiar with the Nazis, than with the Stalinists or Maoists.

 

This point was, I believe, warranted. And if I wish to make it heard, I have to use vocabulary and images generally familiar. Nazism is such an image. The fact that it is familiar is partly due to that extra-historical iconic status it has acquired. But, one has to work with the language that exists, not the one that might be wished for.

 

It's not as if I only object when those to the left of me politically, behave this way. I could have spoken of similar distortions that exist in my own church denomination, and have done just that locally . . . but it's far to esoteric for this forum. More familiarly, I have -- check my past posts -- commented on my local council's complicity in similar dishonesty, with respect to MB and Eagle mills. But I don't yet know that whether this is as bad a problem elsewhere as it is in my council, so I tried to avoid assuming that in comments that refer to Scouting nationally.

 

Please before you react next time, take the time and make the effort to read posts CAREFULLY first. I know from my own experience what a pain doing so can be. But, it's part of the job.

 

 

GaHillBilly

[NJCubScouter 1389]

kraut, your apology is appropriate and appreciated, but as for your "resignation"... how about if you are just more careful with your analogies in the future? Of course I am just one member of the forum.

[FScouter 24]

Move away from the alcove.

[Gold Winger 9]

" tell me the name of the Democrats Gestapo,"

 

We can't, the "Ge" of Gestapo is for "geheime" which means "secret" so if we knew who they were, they wouldn't be geheime.