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  1. After years on Surly/Shag/Hornfans, I never knew there was a scouting thread until I happened to run across it tonight. Excellent. My journey to scouting was unconventional, as I was never involved as a kid. My eldest got roped in by friends in 1st grade, so we joined our school's pack. He took to it like a duck to water, and we had a solid den leader with a pretty large/active pack, so we got involved pretty quickly. Fast forward two years and the outgoing committee chair pleaded and begged for me to take over - I finally said yes after 3-4 nos. The incoming cubmaster ghosted us right before the new school year, so I ended up doing both jobs for 18 months until we finally found a new cubmaster (thank heavens). In the meantime, our youngest had gotten involved too and ended up in a den that grew to 16 boys. I still sort of kept BSA/scouting culture at arm's length (simply because I only knew the Cub Scouts side of things) until our oldest crossed over and joined a troop. He's in a great medium-sized troop (about 35 boys with a co-chartered girls troop of 12 girls) with strong scout and adult leadership. In the three years we've been involved, I ended up doing IOLS and other trainings, taught a couple merit badges and have chaperoned too many campouts to count - and loved every minute. It's really gotten me into camping in a big way, too - much to my wife's chagrin since her interest in camping has really waned since our pre-kid days. Bpth our boys are in the troop now and I've just accepted the committee chair position beginning next school year, so I'll be kinda shadowing our current CC (the same guy I succeeded as CC in the pack) this coming spring. Our oldest just did his OA ordeal this past weekend and we've both signed up for Philmont this coming summer, so I guess we're really in it for the long haul now. Glad this thread is here - I look forward to reading more!
  2. We had a Facebook group like that pop up in our district at the beginning of the year. They pushed all their folks to submit comments to the school board to be read at their meeting when reopening plans were discussed; most of them were along the lines of "if you don't reopen immediately I'm pulling my kids out and so are my friends in our neighborhood, and you can't afford to lose us." They weren't approving requests, so a friend who was in the group already let me in. It was pretty toxic. I looked around but never posted anything, and then an admin kicked me out a few hours later - I guess I didn't live in the right part of the district (or was friends with the right people) to be a part of their club.
  3. It was blatantly obvious this was coming. They're going to railroad this through, despite all the hopes/prayers/dreams otherwise. And honestly, if the whole situation were reversed - a conservative judge dying, but with Dems having the majority in the Senate as well as the presidency (but with pres running behind in polls against a strong R challenger) - they'd probably do the exact same thing. "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." - Plato
  4. EDIT: Now I see this was already posted above. I'll leave this here since the NBC story linked in this post goes into a little more detail. TL;DR - Looks like they want to identify Democratic Party-led cities and withhold federal funding as punishment. Also seems like a pretext to mess with voting in said cities on Nov. 3. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/justice-dept-deems-new-york-city-portland-seattle-anarchist-jurisdictions-n1240600
  5. Abbott reopening restaurants/retail/offices to 75% capacity except in RGV. Oh, and nursing homes too. https://www.texastribune.org/2020/09/17/greg-abbott-texas-coronavirus/
  6. Why a four-year gap between each term? Do they assume things will get so bad during each term that the Trump in power will lose re-election?
  7. Meanwhile, over at TexAgs.
  8. For near-lifetime Dallas guys like me who love history, this is a hell of a listen - and reminds me of the substance that really drew me to the Ticket in the first place (beyond the Gordo sense of humor).
  9. Capital One tower in LC, next to the Chase building in Jeff's video.
  10. TIL that two of my all-time favorite movies (this one and Pee-Wee's Big Adventure) were released the same weekend in 1985. How did I never know that?
  11. Good Lord - this is the first time I've actually read posts on that board. It makes the TexAgs politics board look like a downright sensible bunch of folks by comparison 😮
  12. Gohmert's middle daughter Caroline, who makes music in LA under the moniker BELLSAINT, seems to be of quite a different position politically... https://twitter.com/carolinebrooks7 https://twitter.com/bellsaintmusic
  13. This. And all the replies to this tweet about "liberal agenda" are just stupid. The Ticket guys are pretty much just addressing current issues at hand in the absence of sports of any significance to discuss. I assume that, for these listeners, anything less than direct Fox News-style criticism of anything BLM/protest-related is a "liberal agenda".
  14. It went well in Plano. Update: https://mobile.twitter.com/planofirerescue/status/1279626557255028736?s=21
  15. Good on BSA for doing this - it's needed right now. As a Scout dad, this pleases me. https://scoutingwire.org/bsas-commitment-to-act-against-racial-injustice/# The full thing is worth reading, but here's the significant part:
  16. The new podcast from the Lincoln Project talks about that in their introductory episode - it's an interesting listen. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/republicans-defeating-trump/id1514968525
  17. That buffet tho. (Not right now, obviously)
  18. Distract, defer blame, repeat.
  19. And if you still doubt this could be true for this swath of the American populace, go read the politics board on TexAgs for a while and you'll be convinced.
  20. The headline sums it up nicely. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/opinion/jared-kushner-coronavirus.amp.html
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