This Jamboree has a Mosh Pit!
Posted on 07/27/2005 9:25:30 PM PDT by SandRat
It's a rough Jamboree!
President postponed his visit. (Did they postpone the memorial service?)
Scouts ill, and some still hospitalized.
Wonder if there's anything left to go wrong?
Someone did a terrible disservice to the family publishing the "Leaders screw up and violated our standards" release. It's always possible to say there's an investigation going on and give the family a bit of emotional breathing room before they point the finger at them.
Is it just me or does this read like its Bush's fault for the effects of the heat wave?
I think the intended messages are: #1 Bush's fault, #2 Boy Scouts are dumb, and #3 Boy Scouts are wusses when they don't have air conditioning. Lib media triple header.
300 out of 40000 scouts = less than 1%
Shouldn't the headline be:
More than 99% of Boy Scouts successfully brave the extreme heat with no ill effects.
If truth and accuracy was the media's stock and trade.
Yep. But it wasn't Bush who cut the power line. That was Karl Rove.
This Jamboree has a Mosh Pit!
Geeeeeeeee.... Where was the media when my Reserve Unit transitioned from C-130s to C-141s; stood at Parade Rest for three hours in an open, un-air conditioned, 100 degree plus Maintenance Hangar awaiting the arrival of then Maryland Governor William Donald Schaeffer???
Oh, yeahhhhhh... Schaeffer decided to No-Show and sent some third string hack flunky instead!
Jack.
I would not have gone flying in todays' thunder and lightning storm. Not with wind gusts of 40mph! It's getting so very, very sad. Not funny sad. Just sad when the left instantly blames everything on the President.
It definitely reads that way. In fact, the headline combined with the first few sentences makes it sound like the evil and diabolical George Bush ran late, left the poor Boy Scouts hanging, and failed to notify them he wouldn't be there until they were all sick already.
Bingo. Folks just don't watch their water intake, and it has to be water (The caffeine in soft drinks apparently is a mild diuretic, pretty much offsetting what you take in as water). I regularly work outside with temps in excess of 100.
Still, they should know better, especially when the humidity is high and they're sweating bullets. We don't get that kind of warning here most of the time. You don't sweat all that much when the RH is howering in the teens or less.
I think the lib-media is blowing this all out of proportion though. It looks like a pretty small percentage to me.
I was looking at the Dummies posts at thier site and they are all blameing Bush for this. I know he is the controller of the U.S., but damn he can control the weather too?
I just looked back through my old scouting manual - 'heat stroke' IS in there; didn't bother looking for 'metal tentpoles'.
(out of curiosity - can a single 'Darwin Award' entry have MULTIPLE names?
I tell my Boy Scouts that if they don't need to pee at least twice a day then they aren't drinking enough water.
Heat stroke in listed under the First Aid Merit Badge knowledge requirement. It is also a knowledge requirement for Second Class rank, which is the rank that is one step up from Tenderfoot.
Reminds of the time in Miami when I waited 11/2 hours from GWB to show up back in 2000. It was hot as hell, but at least I got to shake his hand.
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