Today’s column is about boyhood and Scouting. (And a little bit about life.)

Agree with the notion the Boy Scouts have endured more than their fair share of contreversy, considering the good work they do.

Simmertime:

You obviously are a hateful, racist, sexist, homophobic, far right-wing, nut bag white male.  Somebody, somewhere, might perceive your comment as flippant and sarcastic and therefore somehow remotely offensive.  You could injure their delicate psyche.  You should not be allowed to continue to spew your hateful venom that might somehow hurt someone’s feelings somewhere.  In fact, I’m considering a lawsuit against you myself because of your violent, oppressive rantings here.

Is being a Boy Scout of America a hate crime yet?

A bass-hinnette is a cap the dishwashers and line workers have to wear at the CCV to keep hair out of the food while they sing spirituals in a very low pitched slow voice.  Also called a hairnet.

Or so I’m told.

A “hate crimes” law sounds possible but dubious, very dubious. Very difficult to define properly what a hate crime is and is not. Much easier to just write another hacked up law that does nothing but gives the Supreme Court yet another piece of jurisprudence legal code to misinterpret.

I wonder if Scalia wears a bass-hinnette. Probably not; think he might be balding, and a tenor.

No, this is the vanguard of our crumbling society.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/06/show_trial.html

This is in Canada...which is almost as dreamy as europe to the yappy liberal house pets who now dominate our culture.

And it’s coming here. Ted Kennedy has already drawn up a national “hate crimes” law that will no doubt be applied arbitrarily againt political enemies the same way speech codes are used by weak minded campus faculties to avoid debating their vindictive and childlike impulses (which they call ideas).

Apparently the progressive hate mob is so busy looking backward it can’t see the police state it’s about to crash into.

I considered scouts this morning, then the Boy Scouts and the Christian group Royal Rangers. A scout, a ranger, scouts or ranges ahead of the regular militia to discover approaching opportunities and dangers. Because a scout goes alone or in small groups, he often is trained better than regular militia. But the scout is supposed to be the best representative of the capabilities of the main force, just as Special Forces, Navy SEALs, and Army Rangers should exemplify the best of our armed forces.

But as I reflected on America, I wondered where our main force is anymore. Who do the Scouts and the Rangers represent? It seems they stand out, alone, more and more among their peers and even adults, having (or, at least, being taught) the skills and values fewer and fewer people have. They seem to be no longer the vanguard of our society, but the lone holdouts of traditional values coupled with technical skills.

bob,

Don’t you ever get the urge to make up some new cliche’s? You’re starting to sound like a preacher who just doesn’t care anymore.

Perhaps your sister could apply to Harvard and take advantage of the new ultra progressive segregated swimming facilities!

Apparently you’re considerably older than I am....a boomer...which would explain your inability to move beyond 1968. The first gov I remember was Dalton. The first prez I was old enough to vote for was Reagan (second term) so, it’s hard for me to grasp the world of 50 years ago, much less continue to live in it. You must expend enormous effort keeping your resentment resevoir from stagnating. Perhaps joining Trinity Church would help keep hate alive?

A bassinette is a larger version of a charette.

I never burned or blew up anything as a kid.  Huh-uh.  Mmnope, not me.  No sirree.  You can’t prove it.  Never made pointy sticks, never slogged through a muddy swamp.  Never rode my dirt bike on public roads.  Never nailed boards to a tree to make a tree fort.  Never egged anybody’s house.  Never blew up or ran over any mailboxes.  Never shot a BB gun where I shouldn’t have.  Never skipped school and went fishing all day.  Never ran from the po-leese either.  Nope.  They didn’t have dashboard video cams back then, either.  So you can’t prove it.

As to R. Smith, well, I grew up before the alleged social welfare state. It was back in the Byrd Machine Days (also called Elective Fascism of the One Party State), yeah it was paradise ... my sister could not go to William and Mary
because she was a girl but the idiot down the street with a C average got a football scholarship, a Black dentist who moved in down the street almost got his house bombed, a rural vote was worth two votes to one rural, men were men who joined the Klan… yeah , I can see why R. Smith misses the good old days… Yeah, now we beat up on boys, I guess that is why women can still expect to make about 75% of what men make, get rid of not only abortion but birth control too and they will be back where the R. Smiths of the world want em, in the kitchen

I consider myself one of the lucky kids who got to live before the rise of the social welfare police state. If todays standards had been applied then, every kid I knew would have been stripped from our parents and placed in foster homes. Our parents, of course, would have been arrested for child endangerment or some other incorrect action. I feel sorry for the dull eyed zombies I see growing up today. They’ve all led boring, empty, ordered lives. It’s no wonder they grasp at anything new or different...even if it’s the empty slogans and shallow depth of another bygone era.

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