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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The reason the BSA is discriminating against fat scouts is they are not attractive to the pedophiles in the organization. The pedophiles want good looking, athletic boys to enjoy their perversions; no fat scouts for them.
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I hear the fhe final competition is called, “Hide the Salami”.
BSA = Boy Sickos of America.
homosexuality kills.
[Yes, the best way to fight obesity is to NOT let children go outside and exercise.]
Gotta have Über standards for der New Übermenches.
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Once upon a time this was a useful instrument for pointing the direction a boy should go.
Today, not so much - as the needle has fallen off and rendered the tool into a directionally errant piece of plastic memorabilia.
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