Posted on 02/28/2008 9:53:57 AM PST by fgoodwin
Q: Let’s talk about your new book, “On My Honor,” which draws on your experience as an Eagle Scout and champions the values of the Boy Scouts of America, to whom you are donating your royalties.
A: Yes, to their legal-defense fund.
Q: Which has been fighting the A.C.L.U., to keep gays out of the scouts. Why do you see that as a worthy cause?
A: I am pretty clear about this one. Scouting ought to be about building character, not about sex. Period. Precious few parents enroll their boys in the Scouts to get a crash course in sexual orientation.
Q: It’s a shame the Scouts are alienating so many American kids when they could be a force for equality and civic unity. What about the Boy Scout merit badges? Do they ever update them?
A: Oh, yes, absolutely. I was looking at a young man’s sash the other day, and he had merit badges on there I didn’t know.
Q: I was just looking at the hundred-plus merit badges online and was surprised that the Boy Scouts haven’t introduced more relevant projects than coin collecting.
A: They’ve done that. They’ve reached out and included things like the environmental-science badge.
Q: I know they have a dog-care merit badge, but why not a child-care badge?
A: Why not teach scouts how to change a baby’s diaper and help out moms? I don’t have a problem with that.
Q: How about a merit badge in vegetarianism?
A: It’s out there. It’s your choice. We raise a lot of vegetables down here in Texas. We like for people to eat vegetables.
Q; And instead of a shotgun-shooting merit badge, how about a gun-control badge?
A: Now you’ve stepped across the line. Remember, you are talking to a Texan.
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A: It’s out there. It’s your choice. We raise a lot of vegetables down here in Texas. We like for people to eat vegetables. Where's the merit in that?
Q; And instead of a shotgun-shooting merit badge, how about a gun-control badge?
A: Now you’ve stepped across the line. Remember, you are talking to a Texan, you limp-wristed, loafer-wearing leftie moronic piece of media scum.
Good post!
You go girl!
;<)
buy the annoy the NYT!
Allegra for Governor!
NYT = rabid a$$hats
Speaking of fatherhood, Gov. Perry was in San Antonio signing copies of this book Tuesday.
It happens that Tuesday was my daughter’s birthday. I skipped the book signing to take my daughter out for dinner at one of her favorite restaurants.
Sometimes being a dad involves tough choices, but this was a no-brainer for me, even though I bought the book in advance and would have loved to thank Gov. Perry for writing it, and even though my daugher is a card-carrying Liberal who had just early-voted in the Democratic Primary that very day!
Thanks for the ping - I’ll get this book for the husband and sons!
The only good Slimes reporter is a dead slimes reporter.
Vegetarian......Navajo for piss poor hunter !
Just my opinion of course but......show me a real true vegetarian and I will show you a grey pale unhealthy woman. Show me a male vegetarian and I will show ya a guy looking to get laid by a female vegetarian. Same guy that will sneak too the drive up at the local burger joint to and from home !
Perry’s interview is impressive regarding the BSA. I am an Eagle Scout as well, May of 70. Best thing that could have ever happened too me as a youngster. Skills taught, learned, experienced and observed carried me through life
Perry should have cold-cocked the puke for trying to rope him into that sort of stuff.
In case you missed it.
NYT self-parody alert.
True story. When I was a kid back in the 60s, there was a family in our carpool who were sandal-wearing, shaggy-haired vegetarians. We didn't call 'em hippies, that term didn't really have currency yet, but they were scruffier than beatniks - and not as cool either.
Anyhow, they MADE their two kids (who were my age - early elementary school) be vegetarians too. Those were the sickliest, thinnest, palest kids you ever saw. Every bug going around school, they caught it and were sick for ages. They just hung around on the playground, didn't run and wrestle with everybody else.
Another kid in our carpool was our pediatrician's daughter. Pediatrician was a good friend of my parents, and he agonized with them over whether he should speak to the vegetarian loony-tunes about how they were ruining their children's health. Don't know what ever happened, that was above my pay grade.
How long before we need a death watch thread?
Homosexuals LOVE innocene.
Just like heterosexual males - they too like INNOCENCE and “untouched females”. So homosexuals like “untouched males”. Some draw boundaries on age and some don’t. The same is true of heterosexual males. Homosexuals by percentage, have less problems raping or indulging with minors than heterosexual males - by percentage within their segment of the population.
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