As a current Scout leader, I have seen much less of this. Like any volunteer organization, I suspect it strongly depends on the quality of volunteers in your local unit. I can truthfully say that amongst our leadership, I'm not entirely sure where everyone stands politically. Be we all stand together in the focus on our youth. Going camping, cleaning up parks, and generally having fun while doing good works should not have to be a political act.
Amen, amen.
We just had our first young woman make Eagle out of our Troop. On paper, because we're required to do so, we have a boys and girls Troop. But they all work together and effectively operate as a cohesive unit. Because guess what? Life is co-ed. And our Troop is growing with both boys and girls for all the reasons you mention. Mainly, because it's fun to go outside and do challenging stuff. Onward and upward.
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/25/nx-s1-5615164/pentagon-scouting-hegseth-cut-ties
I guess ole Whiskey Pete is going for more of a Hitlerjugend vibe.
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First, I don't think we're anywhere near a peace deal.
Second, whether we are or not, the Ukrainians may as well do as much harm to Russia in any days. Play until the whistle blows.
In short, why is today different than any other day?
Tagnarog is the home of Beriev, famous for amphibious maritime patrol planes. But also Beriev does a lot of one off or limited conversions of standard line aircraft into specialized mission aircraft. Think of L3 or the like in the US. My guess is that the A-60 wasn't really being used for anything which is why it was parked there in range of weapons. While blowing it up may give good feels, it really doesn't change anything on the ground or in the air. In other words, I'll bet this particular airframe was either not airworthy, or the experiments it was intended for were put on indefinite hold by the war.
No kidding. I’m over here trying to see how small I can make my rig and still do what it needs to do and these guys over here trying to make ears bleed.
I mean, he was no better than Putin. They were of the same cloth. But what if they were too busy throwing rocks at each other to be bothered with Ukraine? And we benefitted by having two awful people in a knife fight with each other?
It seems like nothing but good could have come for the people of Ukraine and the US from that scenario. Though the people of Russia...maybe not so much.
In any case, we'll never know.
This is also true. Can't wait to see how it all turns out, just hope it gets to turning out sooner rather than later.
Man, I'll never understand why Prigozhin turned around. He was fully committed and had people on his side. Moscow was wide open. He had to know he was a dead man walking if he didn't succeed. I'll never understand it.