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Obama and the Boy Scouts


Maybe I'm feeling bitter today, but I wonder what will be said and done when President Obama meets with the Boy Scouts this afternoon to hear their State of the Nation annual report.  Will he have the guts to refuse the honorary presidency of their organization?  Will he suggest that government funding of BSA end if they don't make some changes (None of the funding is explicit, but it's there, in the use of government facilities for free or nominal charge, the military's support BSA, and so on.)  Will he even mention the way in which BSA systematically discriminates against homosexuals and non-religious people? 

Of course he won't.  He'll do nothing, have some happy pictures with cleancut young kids, and go on his merry way.  Blah.

I'm glad that I have daughters.  Go GSA!

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If you are President of the United States you have to thank god a lot and pat boy scouts on the head.
It is customary as they say.

Hey, I love the avatar. It smokes!!!!!

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Tycho Brahe is pretty awesome. :-)

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Same ol' same ol' . . .

Back in the mid 50s we in the Woodcraft Rangers were often called "kommie kids," "wild injuns" and "faeries." Most of us wore it as a badge of honor among the bullies of the playground.

Not much has changed ... When supposed adults are in charge.

~OGD~

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