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atomheartbevo

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  1. Pretty sure A/S/L is over 30 years old at this point.
  2. We will see more coaches leaving in the middle of the night versus having this immortalized on the internet
  3. This past year has felt pretty upbeat, and yes, there's recency bias and all that, but we are seeing an uptick in interest and numbers, and I've got friends at other packs and troops that are doing better as well. I think we are also seeing a lot more interest amongst the younger kids/parents - our kindergarten and 1st/2nd grade dens are larger. I think some of it probably is people who were doing outdoor stuff during COVID and looked around and saw tjat Scouting was what worked best for them. But, as I said, since we added girls and kindergartners, we have a LOT of parents who are showing an interest or signing their kids up because we are one of the few "serious" activities where the whole family can be involved, regardless of boy or girl, and the fact that we cover Kinder - 5th grade is huge for a lot of parents. In fact, if we took girls out of our pack, we would be close to the size we were before COVID. And there's still a lot of people who didn't realize we added girls (and kindergarten), and it's just a matter of them finding out or seeing their friends' kids in it. There just really is no other activity that covers both boys and girls from kinder - 12th grade (once you move out of Cub Scouts) and that the parents can participate in as well.
  4. Wait, you're saying she picked it up off the ground and the officials missed it?
  5. The smart thing to do, you can't rely on us anymore - I don't think it's a coincidence we pulled troops from the Eastern flank. US Withdraws Some Troops from Europe But Denies Broader Pullback
  6. I've seen the full video from Air Force One, but here's the most relevant part, and looking like they'll try to find a scapegoat: Trump: "No, I wouldn't have wanted that. Not a second strike…Pete said that didn't happen." Q: "Are you saying there was no second strike?" Trump: "I don't know. I'm going to find out. But Pete said he did not order the death of those two men."
  7. More Republican Reps growing a spine.
  8. I really don't know much about Don Bacon, but he or his staff are fighting people on the internet, lol.
  9. Don't Sleep on The Hunt for Red October.
  10. And you would tell her "do what you do down on me, yeah!"
  11. The arrogance…they really can’t help themselves and in fact feel proud that we are pumping million dollar missiles into floating wreckage to kill two dudes.
  12. So yeah, tankers getting shy about Russian ports there’s another map showing some tankers in a port and then they were gone the next morning after the strikes a few days ago, but I can’t find it right now,
  13. And Franklin is wearing American flags but using a Russian weapon and not clearing his backblast area so completely on brand for Whiskey Pete.
  14. Remember, NO. MORE WARS!
  15. Whiskey Pete responds with an image from US Southern Command apparently.
  16. One of the tankers from this weekend
  17. Senegal? Ukraine not fucking around. Gonna deter a lot of companies and countries.
  18. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Arizona, said on the Nov. 30 episode of "Meet the Press" that the Senate Armed Services will hold a public hearing on potentially illegal military orders issued by U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. "We're going to put these people under oath and we're going to find out what happened," Kelly said, referring to military members involved in a Sept. 2 strike ordered by Hegseth on survivors of an initial hit on a boat that the Trump administration claimed was carrying drug cargo, as reported by The Washington Post. "People can tell the difference, should be able to tell the difference between something that is unlawful and something that is lawful," Kelly said. He added that he was concerned that orders handed down to troops would put them "in a tough place" and that they would later find out "they did something illegal," though the senator did not specify which orders would be illegal. Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, said in an Nov. 28 statement that the committee has directed inquiries to the defense department about the strikes, "and we will be conducting vigorous oversight to determine the facts related to these circumstances." Wicker, along with Sen. Jack Reed, D-Rhode Island, the ranking Democrat on the committee, have sent Hegseth multiple requests for basic information including legal justifications and intelligence underpinning individual strikes. ———— DOD probably going to ignore Congress.
  19. And it adds 10 or more years to their faces.
  20. That was my first thought.
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