Re: Calling All Boy Scouts (and Scout Leaders) Aicerno akiernox_ocasey@hotmail.com Thu Feb 3 22:51:46 2000 Jenny wrote,*br*: Hi Everyone,*br*:*br*: Just received this on another mailing list. If anybody out *br*: there is a Boy Scout or Scout Leader, this is something you *br*: might want to consider.*br*:*br*: Don't know when the original was mailed (it could easily *br*: have been more than a week, so the meeting may be a thing of *br*: the past). But I think Reverend Jim would enjoy hearing *br*: from other Pagan Scouts.*br*:*br*: Jenny*p**LOL* A beautiful dose of salts that the BSA has been needing for way too long. I made it to first class, and dropped out on my own volition. Too many damn paper-pushers and beaurocraps in our troop, and not enough of the more exciting stuff. We went caving and repelling once a year. . . and only did the repelling once. Boy Scout camp was a JOKE, I got kicked out of the Snorkling BSA class because I couldn't find a 6 mm hex nut on the bottom of lake courage which is covered in gravel and silt, and I need prescriptions lenses to see. Had I been where I am now, then, that instructer would be fish food. The Jamboree was okay, but the best part about it was when I ran into a fellow reenacter dressed up in period clothes (I think he did western fur trade reenacting). And the uniforms!!!!!!!! Ugh, they were the most awful things I've ever had the misfortion to wear. I don't like that light brown that's a poor imitation of khaki blouse and the olive drab trousers/shorts, with the olive drab/puke green socks with the red bands around the tops. The Boy Scouts USED to be a way of training children for roles in the military, that's what their founder in England intended them to be, and gosh darnnit, I agree with him. Get the beaurocraps and churches out of scouts. . . if nothing else, our children need descent role models, and beaurocraps and authoritarian religious sects don't make the cut.*p*Okay, sorry about that rant about Boy Scouts. . . I didn't have the best experience when I went through. Thanks to the Deities I'm no longer a part of that screwed up mess.*br* Calling All Boy Scouts (and Scout Leaders) Jenny 240 Tue Feb 1 19:28:36 2000