Posted on 07/15/2013 12:26:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai
This year’s Boy Scouts of America’s national Jamboree is being billed as the most physically demanding in its history: There’s rock climbing, rappelling, whitewater rafting and biking. And Scouts will go about the sprawling, hilly landscape the old-fashioned way—on foot.
Thousands of Scouts gather for 10 days starting Monday at a new location in West Virginia. Officials designed the 1,000-plus acre Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve to take advantage of the Mountain State’s natural assets, and they also put into place new physical fitness requirements that eliminated morbidly obese Scouts from participating. …
This year, 30,000 Scouts ages 12 to 20 and their leaders were required to meet a threshold for body mass index and other health factors before being allowed to participate. Jamboree applicants with a BMI—a measure of body fat determined through height and weight—of 40 or higher were deemed ineligible. Those who fell between 32 and 39.9 faced providing additional health information to Jamboree medical staff.
Nationally, about 17 percent of children ages 2 to 19 are considered obese—triple the rate from a generation earlier, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. …
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Yes, the best way to fight obesity is to NOT let children go outside and exercise.
The absolute worst thing that has ever happened to scouting is the creation of the professional scout. Fire them all now, return to an all volunteer organization, or watch it crumble, knowing you could have done something about it.
They're inclusive if you're immoral, but not if you're FAT!
They're inclusive if you're immoral, but not if you're FAT!
Exactly, it’s all about the optics. This requirement appears to parallel the ones for the High Adventure bases, like Philmont Scout Ranch. Had a great time there as an adult on a trek in 1995 with two other adults and 7 teenage boys trying to leave us in their dust.
Are the Boy Scouts still around? I thought they went out of business when they became a homosexual advocacy group for teen-agers.
Isn’t AIDS considered unhealthy?
Not when in “full-blown” stage and is “treatable”.
We are out. Has morally straight been edited out yet?
Are they giving out free condoms and lube for the tenting activities after lights out. The New Scouts. Is there a merit badge for this?
The perverts only want attractive victims in their tents.
What, no Interior design or fashion design classes? How about the ball room dancing sessions?
I hope that means they are prohibiting anal sex there at the jamboree, if they truly want healthy, health-conscious scouts.
Anal prolapse, among other things, ain’t exactly healthy for you.
Only skinny queers are allowed.
So, are they going to have a Golf badge soon?
Remember, the new spelling is thcoutth.
Yeah, like a week in the woods is going to change that....
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Because gay scouts don’t want to look at naked fatties. They want to be surrounded by sexy, naked, slender scouts.
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