Valley Girl Scouts

Campus Report ^ | January 16, 2009 | Malcolm A. Kline

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Valley Girl Scouts

by: Malcolm A. Kline, January 16, 2009

As the season approaches when we load up on Thin Mints, we might want to ask ourselves what happened to the group that sells them. Where Girl Scouts of yore were taught to be prepared, parents of today’s troopers may ask themselves “For what?”

Christina Hoff Sommers, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, has shown in her book, One Nation Under Therapy, how the Girl Scouts have morphed into a touchy-feely organization. “The Girl Scouts now give out stressless badges which they can earn by focused breathing, exchanging foot massages or keeping a feelings diary,” she said in a seminar at AEI three years ago that we reported on.

At least one observer puts the tipping point for the transformation of the venerable group down to the time that the Girl Scouts national council invited feminist icon Betty Friedan to its board. Indeed, the Girl Scout Council of the Nation’s Capital (GSCNC) provides a brochure on Sleep Away Camps that the Obamas might be comfortable sending their daughters to but the Palins may not be so wild about.

Actually, some of the camps look like they are designed for parents rather than their progeny. Consider this GSCNC catalogue offering: Camp Evening Shade.

“How Green Are You?” the catalogue asks. “Come join us and find out.”

“Do you know your carbon footprint? Explore creek bed and learn what is happening in our wetlands.”

“Have fun while going green with us at camp. What are you doing to improve our environment?”U. S. Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., found more than 650 international scientists who dispute the claims of man-made global warming.....

[Clint N. Suhks]

I think the GS went Libtard when they allowed Sodomites be part of the leadership.

[svcw]

I thought this was interesting:

The Girl Scout Promise

On my honor, I will try: To serve God* and my country, To help people at all times, And to live by the Girl Scout Law.

* The word "God" can be interpreted in a number of ways, depending on one's spiritual beliefs. When reciting the Girl Scout Promise, it is okay to replace the word "God" with whatever word your spiritual beliefs dictate.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Desdemona]

The year I was 10, I gave up the Girl Scouts for Lent and never went back. Talk about bettering myself.

Now, if I could just break the addiction to Tagalongs (those things are so addictive it must be a plot).

[steelyourfaith]

Here's my vice:

[tutstar]

gnip...

[Marie2]

The little girls are usually perfectly sweet but the upper leadership of the Girl Scouts is hardcore liberal.

I put my girls in Missionettes.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

There has long been a need for a “real men” boy scouts-alternative as well. By the equivalent of First Class, they should know how to:

1) Use a double bladed ax, hatchet, knife, chainsaw, and heavy pulleys safely and effectively. Safely use and clean several varieties of handguns and rifles. Proper use of a longbow.

2) Clean and cook a fish, rabbit, and chicken while keeping a good level of cleanliness. Trail, track, stalk and hunt game. Build a safe fire pit, make a fire with a flint, make a lean-to from scratch, chop down and debark a tree. Fishing, swimming.

3) Basic automotive maintenance, map and compass, how to use a sundial, navigate by stars, plant and animal identification, rock and mineral identification, other wilderness survival.

4) First aid and hygiene. Semaphore, mirror and light signals, Morse code and emergency signals. Operational planning and leadership.

There’s always more.

[Lil'freeper]

OHFERCRYINOUTLOUD

I'm embarrassed to have ever been a girl scout.

[Chickensoup]

My girls did very well in missionettes.

The church folded before my last one was through.

Very sad