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You don't know me and you don't know when I became a scouter and yet you make this false claim as if you actually know something. You don't. I was a scouter for years prior to the previous policy and didn't know about that policy until a DE blind-sided me (and the rest of the Pack) with a diatribe on this subject at our B&G. Until that moment, it hadn't been mentioned at RT, or in any of the notices sent from the council. I'll give that DE this much credit: at least he was honest.

Please cite the cases that make what you claim clear.

Bad Wolf, I'm sorry you feel that it is somehow bad that your ability to impose YOUR values on me and my grandchildren has diminished with this policy change. But I guess that's to be expected. I have always advocated individual choices and freedoms. This policy change is a step in that direction.

North to South, or South to North?

I wish I could predict what my grandsons will do. They're not old enough yet for cubs. But I recognize that with all the different alternatives out there, they and their parents will make the best decision they can for their own interests. I will support whatever they decide, but there is no way that I'm going to intrude on that decision. I will only offer my support however they decide.

I'll be on the trail on Tuesday. Just a segment. There was a time that I would blast through everything. Today, I like to experience everything, just sit once in a while and listen and watch everything around me and enjoy the experience. It takes forever to get there but it isn't a race anymore. That's my story and I'm sticking with it.

Hedgehog, it pains me to inform you that if they DO issue such an invitation, my personal experience is that they also might do that in order to show you how OLD you are..."What, we have to wait for HIM again?" LOL, if this happens, just play along and enjoy the stroll.

Yep, it's difficult to make sense out of that.

I can tell you this about that section of the trail right now: IT'S HOT!!!!!!

I took a 6-week, around-the-continent camping trip with my daughter. We shared the tent. She was 18yo. The only problem was my snoring and an occasional banana slug intruder in the Pacific NW. Scouter99, you linked to a previous thread about a 'touching' incident. I point out that the touching was by another boy and there was no information about the contact itself nor its context. We basically don't know much about that incident.

Also...welcome to the forums.

Stosh, That's what this unit does too. If the patrols want to they can 'customize' with a design. I have a really nice mug. It says, "Don't let the turkeys get you down" and has a cartoon of a turkey. Got it one Thanksgiving. Moggie, that is a great photo. It says it all, what a great-looking group! SSScout, a tool is the way I remember it too. That's why we rejected the small triangle and went with homemade...so they can actually be used for all sorts of things. You can actually use one to immobilize a sprained ankle for example. I still have some of the old triangles, though. Maybe in 100 years I can make some money on eBay, lol.

Thinking error lesson: I have not (and I'm fairly certain that NJ hasn't either) made any such assertion in the first place. You falsely claimed that we did.

So without an activist court we'd be without those rights, right?

Thanks, I missed that part. I can use this as an example of how NOT to create answers to questions.

I did a search on the words, "freedom to associate" and "freedom of association" and couldn't find those in the Bill of Rights. Am I missing something? Also, "Right to privacy". Must be in there somewhere.

The best way to learn from failure is to learn from someone else's failure, lol. But many of us don't seem to choose that path.

David, as I understood these things, and I could be wrong, all of the freedoms are freedoms for individuals first...groups in the respect that individuals form them. NJ can probably provide the needed clarification if any.

NJ, as for understanding? I think he's calling me a 'lady'.

"We"? Only a very few of "us" seem to be completely consumed and obsessed with things sexual in these forums. I will be very happy to delete any and all such discussion in the future. Is that what you advocate?

If my memory serves me, I have only ever removed one photo. It was the same one that NJ removed within the last 24 hours... but was re-posted by the same forum member in a later response. READ my note.

Welcome to the forums Cohnhead. That's a great moniker.

Yeah, I just read it too and I agree.

Thanks Terry. I wish I still had my old footlocker...but it never contained anything like what you just shared. Scout Salute!

Thanks to WMTurner and Stosh: Spammer has been banned and posts deleted.