Stosh

Welcome, sounds like you have a checkered past just like the rest of us. You'll fit in just fine.

If a boy stops by my house he will not realize there are a number of loaded guns in the house, alcohol on the shelves, beer in the refrigerator and the owners of the house will be armed. When I occasionally do a MB in my kitchen, I do leave the handgun in the bedroom, but I don't child-proof the house when minors stop over. I have 4 grandchildren that do not know the Mrs. and I are conceal carry. If they ever ask about any of these things, we will sit down and discuss the issue in great detail. My oldest daughter has recently asked me to teach her how to shoot. She is taking Hunter's Safety at the moment. She grew up in a gun-free home and at 36 wishes to know more about it for home safety.

This is why we make our own. 36" square, no problem as a first aid supplement.

Alcohol and tobacco are both legal "drugs". One can do the 1920's prohibition, but as we all know that didn't go very far. The first troop I was in was at a conservation club where alcohol was sitting unattended on the shelves. We never had a problem. The second troop I was in was at a American Legion where the bar was open attended and in another room. Never had a problem. Now I'm in a troop CO'ed by a church. No alcohol, no problem. I guess it's been my observation over the years that if people make a big deal about it being a taboo, it will be a big deal. I've had my talks with the boys about alcohol and tobacco and it was more of being open to discussion rather than coming down with both feet and squelching any future campfire talks about the subject. Is it going to stop the experimentation that goes along with this age? Nope, they'll get their alcohol and tobacco from other sources. I think the location of alcohol and tobacco isn't as important than the discussions around the subject and by making an issue taboo will not only curtail all discussions, but also increase the experimentation into what's all the fuss about. To me the lessons (not rules) are more important than the location of bottles on the shelving.

One has yet to reach the limits of the public's imagination. We're a long ways from being done.

In my state it is illegal to sell butter produced outside the United States. After all does anyone know what is going on in the food production beyond the scope of the FDA? Or Wild Alaskan Salmon, a product of China (yes, that's what the label said), And it wasn't that long ago that I thought anyone thinking females could be BOY Scout leaders, and the boys could be gay, and the leaders could be gay and now girls can be boy scouts if they lie on their application. What makes one think this analogy is ridiculous? Just exactly when will we be getting to the bottom of the slippery slope?

As I have mentioned in previous posts. One can be from anywhere to register in a unit. At one time I had youth registered from 3 different states living in 4 different councils. The summer camp my boys have attended was out of council. AS WERE ALL THE OTHER BOYS IN CAMP.. The council's camp was a 4 hour drive OUTIDE the boundary of their council. We only had an hour and a half drive to get there. at one point I was a SM in one district, a crew advisor in another and lived in a third district. I really don't think councils or districts are all that worked up about it.

Mom and dad are standing at the base of a large tree. Their child starts to climb it. It doesn't make one iota of difference whether their child is a girl or a boy. But the vast majority of time the Mom will call out, "Be careful!" while the majority of Dads will call out, "How high can you go?!!!" The reader can draw their own conclusion what this little story may indicate about being around adventurous people.

No, the application asks what IS the person's sex, not what do they think or what they want it to be. The application asks what IS the person's address and phone number, not what they think or what they want it to be. As soon as one opens the flood gates, it is only a matter of time before BSA leadership will accept pedophiles because after all, these people love to work with children just like everyone else. While one may think that pedophiles working with children unacceptable, I for one see no difference with that than giving young men free access to young girls' restrooms and locker rooms. It just depends on whether one is the parent of a daughter or not.

Of course one has to admire the parents that do it a little "off bubble". I heard of a fella in the next state over that was a mechanical engineer by trade. When his oldest boy was in Tigers, he developed a plan for putting together a derby car. His boy won every year through Webelos II. He passed down the plans to his younger brother who passed it down until all 4 boys got through Cubbing. None of the boys ever lost in all their years. When his youngest aged out of Webelos II he was asked by the if he would now share the plans with the other scouts now that he didn't have any boys in the program anymore. He said, "Nope" and burned the plans. Other than creating the plans, he had no involvement whatsoever with the boys' cars. Of course everyone figured he was building the cars for his boys.

Female? Heck, my wife spent 25 years in Alaska working for the National Forestry Service. She's not a Scouter, but with no training at all, I'm thinking she could out scout-craft 90% of the Scouters out there. The helicopter drops you off in a clearing marked on the map. Your responsibility is to check a number of survival cabins and make sure they are still supplied. Survey the possible lumber yield, and be at a pickup point anywhere from 50 to 75 miles away in 6 days. The reason why it was done this way was because the area was totally inaccessible except on foot. Never assume the women don't know what they're doing. In today's society, both men and women are often nature naive.

and if one can't provide one, they are in no position to prove it either way. Where do you think 8 year old kids learn how to get away with anything they want unless they have lessons like this? I just saw someone here in America can prove he is heir to the British monarchy. Good luck with that. I'm thinking the British laws are taken more seriously than we on this side of the pond.

Nope, did a google image search and only those associated with scouting had triangle to the back and the ties/bands to the front. Most were so short they could hardly tie. The military seaman's tie is just that, it is more in the shape of a men's tie than a square or triangular necker. Call it what you want, by some peoples' definition a dress tie is a necker. Yet when one looks at someone wearing one, it in no way invokes the idea of scouting. Take a triangular scarf toss it over the shoulders like a shawl (aka necker) and fasten with a rubber band. It could leave the impression of a scout. The Canadian Scouts I met in Alberta were wearing shorts, sandals, t-shirts and triangular scarves with the point to the back and a turks-head woggle. No two neckers were the same color, not had any markings on them, just a single color, mostly pastels, both guys and gals. Sure looked like Scouts to me and having asked, yep, they were Scouts.

Applying for membership in a male organization using a male organization application when one is not male, can be construed as fraud. Rush to judgment, just produce a birth certificate and that should be plenty of evidence one way or the other.

Not necessarily. Until it comes home to roost, many are taking a wait and see position before making a final decision. If the local option falls apart, more units might just be moving on down the road.

Might be more an issue of training and knowing the job, rather than being forced to join OA. Pretty hard to promote certain parts of the program when one knows nothing about it.

Never cut the bottoms off of Scout pants. Hem them up and be ready to let them down as needed. Resale and usefulness to another scout is appreciated if they have a bit of room to grow as well.

Did the unit know this was a girl signing up for Cub Scouts? Did the parents commit fraud on the application? These are issues that could alter whether or not a person stays a member. Falsify a job application and even though you were hired, you could be let go on the spot if discrepancies are found. Nothing discriminatory about that at all. It's called fraud.

Some summer camps no longer use the blue cards, which tosses a wrench in the whole process for the boys. And as an added note: Most of the MB reports that do get turned into the troop are incorrect. Well, in our case ALL of the MB reports we have ever received have been incorrect in one fashion or another. Totally unreliable.

Ascots are not neckers, they are silk scarves. Ask the question, how many neckerchiefs are tied and now many are fastened with some sort of slide or piece of jewelry. Cowboys wore what would be referred to as a bandana and would not necessarily be easily distinguished from others without chaps, riding boots, spurs and a wide brimmed hat. Others who rode for reasons other than herding cows tended to wear dusters and did not need any other protective clothing other than a wide brimmed hat. A woman wearing a fashion piece of cloth around her neck would most likely have it described as a scarf, not a neckerchief and it usually was pinned or loosely tied with it hung to the front rather than to the back. These "neckers" were purely ornamental and totally without practical use, just like the men's dress tie, which if one had a very vivid imagination could define it as a "necker" as well. It's kinda like the fire alarm going off in a building one is not familiar with. It might be a really different noise than what you are accustomed to, but you know it's a fire alarm! I read once that when people drag their fingernails on a chalk board, the noise it makes is identical to the noise monkeys make to warn the others of an impending danger. Thus the natural reaction to it yet today even in humans. http://www.livescience.com/57106-why-fingernails-on-chalkboard-hurts.html Like auditory, visual cues work the same way.

One cannot go by the hat size to insure it fits, one also has to take into consideration head shape in a full brimmed hat like the campaign hat. A person with a oval head will distort the brim of a round formed hat so that the front and back will dip depending on how much pressure is put forward and backwards on the hat.

Scarves or Neckerchief???? I wear scarves all the time in the winter and never get identified as a scout. Most "cowboys" wore neckers, but inside the shirt. It was often used to keep the trail dust out of their lungs when they rode the rear of the herd or was robbing the local bank. It was also a towel, wash cloth, etc. same type of camp usage as expected of the scout. The military carried "handkerchiefs" which were 36" square, and were often tucked in coat pockets or tied around the neck. Most of these were made of silk so that they could be easily dried and compressed into a pocket without creating a lump. Just because it is worn around the neck it isn't a neckerchief. It might be a tie, a scarf, or such that wouldn't be worn in the way the scouts wore it, woggled or fastened with some sort of "slide" and triangled outside the garment hanging down in back. I thought of that when writing it, but technically park rangers are law enforcement personnel either on the federal, state, or county levels. If we had a national police force, they would probably wear the campaign hat in the same manner the RCMP in Canada wears them.

Don't assume that outright. There are quite a few Eagles out there that had multiple partial MB"s signed off by the SM in my neck of the woods. On troop in particular NEVER had a MB that wasn't from Summer Camp, MB Day programs or taught by the SM/ASM in the troop.

I have no problem with this situation, he earned the award, no questions asked, he gets the award. Lone Scouts do it all the time due to distance and schedules in life. I don't know of any of the Cub awards that are based on being active in a den or having to participate in so many Cub activities. I may be wrong, the requirements change so often since I was a Web I & II DL.