Posted on 06/03/2014 7:08:52 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew
Quick look for BSA Merit Badges:
Cit in Comm, new Reqs —
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Scouting/BSA/Citizenship_in_the_Community_Merit_Badge
Cit in Nat, new Regs —
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Scouting/BSA/Citizenship_in_the_Nation_Merit_Badge
I would like to respond further that you have laid out some fine notions in your own right, especially as concerns politicians taking oaths.
Our age is not receptive to notions of truth, honor, integrity, and the like. There have been modifications and exceptions to the Oath of Citizenship so that a citizen who might object to the concept of “God” might still be able to vow allegiance in good conscience (!?).
The philosophical and theological implications of citizenship have been discussed in tomes. When dealing with liars and relativists, oaths are as meaningful as a Monet on display in a public sewer.
Only 1/6 of the population in our midst elected the Prevaricator in Chief. “Only” might be a bit mild and discouraging. These are tough and interesting times. All the more reason for us together to be reminded of what citizenship means. I have not reached the point of renouncing citizenship. If you cannot stomach an oath now, why not renounce?
“Emperor Charles I of Austria and Karl Franz Joseph Ludwig Hubert Georg Otto Marie are the same person.”
I had never heard or read of him referred to in this way.
Thank you. Keeps me humble as well as off the game show Jeopardy.
I now also know that Karl in English is Charles as well as Carl. Another “duh” moment.
Trebeck! A few more years on Free Republic and I am coming for you.
Those are great starting points on which to elaborate further. Thank you. It should not be too difficult to draft a paragraph on each.
I like, “You have the right to go to school.” LOL. I bet that flies real good with the scouts. Well, there are *some* self-starting, ambitious students out there.
When I hear/read “Ethan Allen” it is furniture that comes to mind. . . . and “The Price is Right.” Well, MI has been known to produce the very best in that regard.
"Polish" meaning of Polish ethnicity, rather than actual citizen of Poland, which was at that time a separate country? So... from perhaps Galicia? In the Austro-Hungarian Empire? Whereabouts exactly?
Regards,
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