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[GSA] Girl Scouts proven to be Lesbian Anarchist Jesus Haters! More at 11.
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Eh, it wasn't really all that bad. Once we graduated to Trailblazers, we went to Indiana Beach once a summer. Sure, it somehow coincided with the localized monsoons Indiana apparently has, but fun times were had regardless.
Honestly, watch the BSA episode of Bullshit sometime. They take the organization to task while pointing out that some members and leaders are absolutely awesome.
I've never heard a critic of the BSA suggest that the members are all bad people.
So people who try to defend the shitty, discriminatory policies of the BSA by pointing to cool people within said organization are hardly addressing their critics.
Like, at all.
Which is not to accuse you of defending their policies, or Justin for that matter. Justin was just whining about how the criticism hurts his feelings, but his complaints are rather overly dramatic, since the criticism has always been about BSA policy, not "zomg those evil boy scouts".
The BSA annoys me particularly because of the manner in which they defend themselves. They are very quick to accuse their critics of every terrible thing under the sun, and they have used Congress as literal bullies to force their way into the public sphere even as they cling to their private status and the immunity it gives them from anti-discrimination laws.
So this is an organization that might be made up of decent people, but it is led by absolutely the worst sort of people.
So it doesn't get a pass, and I'm sorry the BSA uses kids as rhetorical human shields and chucks them in front of every criticism rightfully aimed at the larger organization. That's their doing.
Hooters wouldn't let me be a waiter.
I thought those tight shorts looked great on me.
Also, on the BSA, their national policies may be a little batshit crazy, but they tend to be more forward-thinking at the local level. Hell, my Scoutmaster was an aethiest, and no one cared, just as long as he got the job done.
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Buffalo Wild Wings (or B-dub as we like to call it) started curbstomping Hooters when it arrived. Ridiculous variety in wing flavor, less embarrassing uniforms, and less pressure to tip and cheaper too.
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However, girls cannot be Boy Scouts.
Edit: Oh shit, beaten. GG reading the thread, Spec.
Not really, google returns many examples that run counter to this theory.
And one anonymous complaint and he won't be a scoutmaster anymore.
I've got to get this off my chest;
I miss the old cookies. What the fuck, people? Sure the thin mints are tasty, but what happened to the boxes of simple chocolate and vanilla cookies?
And more to the point, who the fuck killed the peanut butter boxes? Those things were absurdly good!
... I'm sorry, I'm not sure where that came from.
Edit, okay, calmed down a little, and since someone will probably point it out, a quick google search shows that they sell all kinds of cookies all over the place. Must just be the local troops/bakeries or something. Though now that I think about it, I don't recall the last time I saw girl scouts selling anything anywhere. Boy scouts once in a while selling apples perhaps, but even that's pretty rare these days.
Girl scouts no longer go door to door due to pedo fearmongering. You can find them setting up shop outside supermarkets sometimes, but most people get girl scout cookies through their co-workers who have scout daughters.
Fair enough. According to the girl guides of Canada website, the traditional vanilla and chocolate cookies are sold during the spring. Just in time for me to fall off the wagon on this recent diet/fitness regimen. I guess my office just doesn't have many people with daughters in Guides, because I can't remember the last time someone tried selling them to the staff.
Anyway, sorry to drift off topic. Yay for girl guides (and their cookies), that pic in the OP is awesome and the people pushing this nonsense are in need of help.
I assume that the Islam bit is about atheism etc. destorying Christian motherhood thus paving the way for the rise of the Muslim demographic.
Or it's just more stupid shit.
I really don't think you understand the mindset of these people. If their children do not believe in exactly what they believe they will go to hell. Satan is constantly tempting and tricking them into doing that. Therefor all other belief systems are actually the same belief system, the devil in disguise leading them to hell. really. Its the most insane and scary bullshit. But it's easy to get people to buy videos from you if you play into that fear.
Well obviously, they slave away in treehouse bakeshops being forced to make them too.
I mean they even look like keebler elves.
The people in it who are lovely, which I can only imagine outnumber the people in it who are geese, should either endeavor to take over the organization and stop being discriminatory or leave and do their own teaching kids to tie knots. They don't get to continue insisting that yes but but they're good in the face of not actually changing anything for the better. "Not being cruelly discriminatory" is the starting point of being a nice person, not the victory lap.
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