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.
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.
www.ahgonline.org
well i am on a diet anyways...but it is very hard for me to say no to the little ones!
bflr
Dollar General Store sells the very same cookies that the Girl Scouts sell, in their own packaging — Clover something — for $1.50 per box.
As for the GS themselves, I had no idea. Thanks for enlightening me.
My wife is my daughters troop leader, and as troop leader she has the discretion to accept or deny any applicant that wishes to join her troop. So where some of this comes from, I have no idea. In fact, any parent (Mom, Dad, Aunt etc...) that wishes to be involved with any troop function or meeting, a background check will have been completed prior to joining the troop. My wife keeps all these records on file as well as a bank account for the troop funds and dues.
f you are a federal taxpayer you support Planned Parenthood to a far greater extent than the Girl Scouts or any other group that receives grants and funding from nonprofits and corporations
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=12829
If you have children in school taught by teachers who are part of a teacher’s Union, that union supports Planned Parenthood. Ditto if you have any relatives who are employed by large unions- all tied to PP
Churches?
How about World and National Council of Churches? And other religious organizations? Does your church support Planned Parenthood and other liberal causes? Heres an ad for Jewish Women volunteers for PP.
http://www.volunteermatch.org/search/opp1937.jsp
Baptist Youth Group
http://hamptonroads.com/2009/03/planned-parenthood-church-team-sex-ed-teens
Catholic Schools
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=9941
Ever donate to the United Way or any of the businesses or organizations that support it?
http://www.americanreformation.org/apostasy/PlannedParenthood.htm
How about universities?
http://www.ncregister.com/blog/how-catholic-universities-support-planned-parenthood
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=9941
How about businesses and corporations? Your bank? Your investment company? Any of them provide any donations or funding that finds its way directly or indirectly to Planned Parenthood? Purchase or enjoy any items today produced by Kraft Foods, Nabisco, big pharma? AT&T? Exxon? Congrats, you supported PP
http://www.newsinfaith.com/?p=1262
My point is, if the Catholic Church (and other churches) cannot even fence itself off from PP, how is any national girls organization supposed to immunize itself from the abortion culture in this society?
As a 6-year volunteer, I believe we do a good job of maintaining GS traditional values at the GS troop level!
And what one “Mom” calls “child labor” we call “earning your own way” which is why GS have been selling cookies to fund their own troops for many decades! The profit margin per troop is not 10%, more like 20%+ depending on incentives. The girls set their own goals and budget for using their troop money (unless they have a poorly trained leader). And the cookie money goes to the troops and Councils, not to National, which gets royalties from the logo and branding.
At least 10% of the cookies sold by girls in my community get donated to homeless shelters, military troops, nursing homes etc. No one there complains. The girls vote who they donate to.
My bartender is selling for her daughter. A no would probably get me some funny tasting beer?
These young girls hawking cookies is really annoying to me. They can be pushy even in their sweet youthfulness. I have volunteered for and with my children many hours in many ways but I would HATE the daily vigil some of these moms put in with their kids selling cookies. The shame is that the local group gets such a small amount to keep. It looks to me like a racket to me. Supporting the agenda and the creative nonsense of people like Ackley is not community service or leadership. It seems more like a union supported by child labor.
I told two little girls no this year. I felt bad about it, because I didn’t want to hurt their feeling and their father is one of my husband’s good friends, but I can’t support the girl scouts.
I have been reading all about this lately. My Goddaugher, she is the daughter of a close friend from high school, is in a troop nearby and she calls on us about GS cookies every year. Mind you the mom (my friend) and her non-Catholic, but cooperative husband are raising their daughter Catholic. So I send my refusal with several links to articles from LifeSite News along with links to AH Girl troops in the area as well as their national website. She writes back; ‘OK we won’t call you this year’.
I can GUARANTEE she didn’t explore any of the links, and I can further GUARANTEE she voted for Hussein in 2008 and will pull for the ‘steaming log’ again in 2012. Her dad was a union painter so she will never be turned from supporting the Rats.
Rats - Party first, all others a distant second at best, including faith. I will never understand it.
In my experience, they did this grudgingly, and only when asked.
Now that their fellow-traveling agenda is getting some well-deserved daylight, the GS folks are parading the cookies for troops as if they actually supported it (some of the local members did, but few if any of the higher ups.)
Needed. A competing girls' organization which is American-centric, and teaches traditional values and responsible decision-making and worthy goals.
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