Posted on 01/18/2012 5:07:16 AM PST by IbJensen
Bump.
Whole Foods carries “Fudge Mint” cookies, from Back to Nature.
They’re better than G.S. Thin Mints.
Some neighbors came by with their daughters yesterday selling the cookies. My daughters used to sell all kinds of stuff for school and our neighbors always buy. I had no choice but to buy. On the other hand, both my daughters got pulled from girl scouts years ago because I didn’t trust the organization. Gotta choose your battles.
Some neighbors came by with their daughters yesterday selling the cookies. My daughters used to sell all kinds of stuff for school and our neighbors always buy. I had no choice but to buy. On the other hand, both my daughters got pulled from girl scouts years ago because I didn’t trust the organization. Gotta choose your battles.
I’ve seen a really nice building in mid-town Manhattan with a huge Girl Scouts sign out front. I assume this is some kind of national office.
Are New York liberals making the decisions on support for these policies?
If you’re going to do this, let me recommend to make sure the reason why is explained in 10 words or less to the girl scout in question.
Let me explain please.
I grew up in a very Democrat family. In Boy Scouts or the youth group at church one year (don’t remember which) we held fundraiser door to door.
Plenty of people said yes, and no, but one guy in particular got through to me.
When I told him the cause was UNICEF, he looked at me and said he was not going to donate because he thought that was a communist cause.
And that was it.
I had never even thought about anything like that, at that young age. Here I was living my naive life surrounded by people giving me one point of view, and here was a dissenting opinion. Presented to me matter of fact, and I didn’t know how to process it.
But I remember it to this day.
Even if you do buy Girl Scout cookies, perhaps you might tell that girl scout your beliefs.
It might make a difference.
We decided not to enroll our daughter in the Girl Scouts over these issues. I guess it’s time to skip the cookies as well. Sad cookie lover is sad.
So sad.....But so true. GSA “sold out” a LONG time ago. So far..the BSA has NOT done so.....yet..But if November goes bad...
Looks like GSUSA have been carrying a really ripe one here.
But FReepers smelled the rot 15 years ago, when GSUSA walked away from the Boy Scouts of America and their fight in the James Dale case to keep pederasts out of the BSA ranks.
You don’t have to buy the cookies. Donate money to the troop :-)
my daughter and her friend has just pulled out of the girl scouts and we informed the scout leader.
The woman is a very Christian conservative good woman and she had no clue what so ever about cross dressers, planned parenthood etc
We have to get the message out and if the older girls do come then I think it does not hurt to make it a point as to why one is not buying them.
If the girl is small then she must be with her parent or which I will inform the parent.
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“You don’t have to buy the cookies. Donate money to the troop :-)”
...wish I’d thought of that. Next year.
well i am on a diet anyways...but it is very hard for me to say no to the little ones!
bflr
And I’ve got a question: Why does the GSA need such a honking big bureaucracy anyway? If folks want to have a GS-like troop, maybe they should just start their own, call it something else, and do the kind of activities they’d like to do. Without a bunch of bureaucrats breathing down their necks, dictating an agenda, and skimming off their money.
I understand. If I have to choose between making a little girl happy or denying the GSA six dollars, I’ll do the former.
You might apply the same philosophy to religion.
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