Boy Scouts for the new millenium?
Boy Scouts for the new millenium?
#1Boy Scouts for the new millenium?
Posted: 5/14/09 at 12:19pm
I was never a Boy Scout, but I had friends who were, and I don't remember them talking about stuff like this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/us/14explorers.html?_r=2&hp
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#2re: Boy Scouts for the new millenium?
Posted: 5/14/09 at 12:23pm
Cathy Noriego, also 16, said she was attracted by the guns..."I like shooting them," Cathy said. "I like the sound they make. It gets me excited."
Something about this statement makes me think this isn't such a great idea.
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Updated On: 5/14/09 at 12:23 PM
#2re: Boy Scouts for the new millenium?
Posted: 5/14/09 at 12:25pm
I don't know how to react to this.
One side of me says that the training could be a good thing. Like the kid who says he wants to be a lawyer and this is helping him not only learn discipline but learn about law.
But on the other hand we're teaching kids how to use guns in a world where violence in the schools is a very real thing.
"All our dreams can come true -- if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney
We must have different Gods. My God said "do to others what you would have them do to you". Your God seems to have said "My Way or the Highway".
#3re: Boy Scouts for the new millenium?
Posted: 5/14/09 at 12:28pm
I can't see any good to this. There are a lot of constructive ways to learn about discipline and law, or anything for that matter without involving guns.
That said, at least we'd be even if we ever go to war with the warlords in Africa or Islamic militants.
....but the world goes 'round
#4re: Boy Scouts for the new millenium?
Posted: 5/14/09 at 12:30pmI think there are better ways for kids who want to be lawyers to learn about discipline and the law.
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#5boy scouts for the new millenium?
Posted: 5/14/09 at 12:32pm
looks like a good program to give needed structure and incentive to some kids.
yer all a buncha pussies.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
Updated On: 5/14/09 at 12:32 PM
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#6boy scouts for the new millenium?
Posted: 5/14/09 at 12:34pm
I love this:
"?My uncle was a sheriff?s deputy,? said Alexandra Sanchez, 17, who joined the Explorers when she was 13. Alexandra?s police uniform was baggy on her lithe frame, her airsoft gun slung carefully to the side. She wants to be a coroner.
?I like the idea of having law enforcement work with medicine,? she said. ?This is a great program for me.?
And then she was off to another bus hijacking."
....but the world goes 'round
#7boy scouts for the new millenium?
Posted: 5/14/09 at 12:37pm
A demonstrably homophobic organization arming adolscents?
I couldn't be happier.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#8boy scouts for the new millenium?
Posted: 5/14/09 at 12:43pm
Plus rape is included at no extra charge!
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#9boy scouts for the new millenium?
Posted: 5/14/09 at 12:47pmLovely. Good thing I got my son out when he was still a Cub Scout.
"This show had the WORST magnets on Broadway!"
#10boy scouts for the new millenium?
Posted: 5/14/09 at 12:48pm
Phyllis, I think you need to smack the side of your Tone-A-Tron.
#11boy scouts for the new millenium?
Posted: 5/14/09 at 12:50pm
"This is about being a true-blooded American guy and girl," said A. J. Lowenthal, a sheriff?s deputy here in Imperial County
You'd think Imperial County was in Texas.
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#12boy scouts for the new millenium?
Posted: 5/14/09 at 12:53pmkids should learn about guns from their friends like sex.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#13boy scouts for the new millenium?
Posted: 5/14/09 at 12:56pm
"kids should learn about guns from their friends like sex."
Papa, if you're going to quote Sarah Palin, you should attribute it.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#14boy scouts for the new millenium?
Posted: 5/14/09 at 12:57pmOh, I thought that was a Pelosi quote, madbrian.
....but the world goes 'round
#15boy scouts for the new millenium?
Posted: 5/14/09 at 12:58pmPerhaps I'm mistaken...it could have been Cheney.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#16boy scouts for the new millenium?
Posted: 5/14/09 at 12:59pm
yea, it sounds Cheney-esque. 
....but the world goes 'round
#17boy scouts for the new millenium?
Posted: 5/14/09 at 1:01pm
Well, seriously.
"If you play with it long enough, it's bound to go off in your hand."
Are we done?
Q
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/3/05
#18boy scouts for the new millenium?
Posted: 5/14/09 at 2:14pm
This might be the first step in allowing gays to participate.
As targets, of course.
Anyone see the movie BETRAYED, with Tom Berringer and Debra Winger?
#19boy scouts for the new millenium?
Posted: 5/14/09 at 3:25pmpull.
r.i.p. marco, my guardian angel.
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
...global warming can manifest itself as heat, cool, precipitation, storms, drought, wind, or any other phenomenon, much like a shapeshifter. -- jim geraghty
pray to st. jude
i'm a sonic reducer
he was the gimmicky sort
fenchurch=mejusthavingfun=magwildwood=mmousefan=bkcollector=bradmajors=somethingtotalkabout: the fenchurch mpd collective
#21boy scouts for the new millenium?
Posted: 5/14/09 at 5:37pmYou mean your finger, right?
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
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