FScouter

Nothing here that is political. Why don't you put it in the Girl Scout forum?

Good to hear Eamonn that you're still alive and kicking (and not the bucket). Scouting is something that stays constant in one's heart, despite the level of activity or lack thereof. I've come to the conclusion that volunteers would be well served by taking a break after four years of service. Those of us that put in many more years wind up taking a much longer break. Every now and then I have a twinge of an urge to attend the next district committee meeting, or offering to help out a struggling SM find his way. We shall see.

The little buggy things seem to be working themselves out. Nice improvements.

BP's vision is "long gone" only to the extent that your troop or any troop has abandoned it. Let's not blame the evil "National" for what we do or don't do in our own troops.

Only the first 40 posts are displayed, and there is only Page 1 of 1. Others are being written as evidenced by the "Last Post" notation on the menu. Wonder where they're getting posted?

Buy an Eagle patch off e-Bay and present it to him at a court of honor.

I managed to fix a few buggy things, most importantly the inablility to get into forums. Simple - delete cookies, reboot the browser, and log in again.

It's true... I saw it on facebook.

It's true... I saw it on facebook.

There are a number of forums that my IE cannot get to.

For the time being, regular e-mail works. Who knows what the new software should or should not allow. Some of us can't even get into various forums, let alone posts within forums. I'd suggest waiting a few weeks, letting it work out its bugs, for the time being.

Clicking on the "Program" forum will not open it. Nor will some other forums, but some will open.

If a unit does not have an interesting and exciting program and boy are drifting away, I'd respectfully suggest that the unit leader examine what it is they are doing and not doing that result in a boring program. There are a ton of units that do exciting adventures week after month all year long and pull it off just fine. It is quite disingenuous to blame one's failure on distant "bureaucrats" and the evil empire in Texas. Just go camping!

I'd rather have a mentally ill maniac chasing me around with a screwdriver than with some big honking gun.

Add one more statistic to the CDC data Twocubdad presented (which was for 2009): While there were 554 unintentional deaths from firearms, there were 18,610 unintentional non fatal firearm-caused injuries during the same year. Crazy.