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  1. Interesting timing Ukraine may have hit one of Kadryov’s units. In Chechnya.
  2. Patriot doing what it was designed to do.
  3. Are we talking about The William Howard Taft?
  4. re-election. Also, he promised again not to go for world domination or genocide.
  5. Yesterday. People are claiming 30% of the Navy's combat ships are deployed in the Caribbean. I find that hard to believe.
  6. I've bitched in this very thread, and they have toned it down a bit, but they really need to move the religious stuff to optional in terms of Cub Scout advancements. In our pack and troops (and a previous pack I was involved with), we have basically made it one of those things the kids do at home. We don't keep it out of the official language we use at our meetings obviously. Unfortunately, it would probably get shot down for now at the national level, but I have a nephew and niece that would be in scouts right now if it was there (and we tell their parents that our pack doesn't put it in your face, but the language and it being a requirement still turns them off), and I've known others who were turned off by it. I've seen several packs and troops that were majority non-Christian/Jewish, so hopefully leadership will address it at some point. There are a lot of parents that are looking for alternatives to sports and getting the kids out of the house and away from screens.
  7. A friend who is a higher-up at one of the Texas councils pointed to this being a sign that those types are on their way out: Combined Troop Pilot | Scouting America It's a third option (boys troop, girls troop, combined troop). The idea of a combined boys and girls troop is something that those types would have opposed. It doesn't touch the current single-sex troops. On a side note, I do think a lot more LDSers stayed within scouting than people realize, but we are picking up a lot of non-Christian scouts in a lot of packs/troops as well. I can't tell you if scouting as a whole is growing, but the pack and troops I'm involved with are. If I were starting a new troop, it's an option I would consider, especially if said new troop was partnered up with a pack (new or existing) that had both boys and girls).
  8. Some of my best friends I've met in the past 10 years were other scout parents, and I've watched both of my kids grow through it.
  9. Odds that Elmo has had one of his bots customized to look like the ones in Ex Machina?
  10. They are going to fuck over Texans to cover any losses. This state is just so fucking stupid.
  11. It really is elevating Kelly’s profile, and Hegseth and Trump can either do the smart thing and let it die down, or play right into the trap of making Kelly look even better than he is.
  12. “Ukraine is the only country fulfilling NATO’s destiny and we owe them everything.” Hell yes Kasparov. Well said. And Witkoff is just making real estate deals.
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