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  1. 19 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

    if the Ukrainian special forces are so damn good, then why can’t they kill Kadyrov - - leaving evidence it was an FSB action.

    It seems like it’s just about time for a second front in Russia, no?

    Interesting timing  Ukraine may have hit one of Kadryov’s units.

    In Chechnya.

     

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  2. 3 hours ago, NWBuck said:

    Sure, Taft *may* have weighed more, but I'm willing to bet there was some muscle under the insulation (unlike La Naranja Gorda) 

    Are we talking about The William Howard Taft?

     

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  3. 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.

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  4. 13 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

    Having spoken with my main connection at Scouting HQ yesterday, I get the sense that the super conservative older generation - the ones who stood in the way of co-ed Scouting - are slowly going away.  I think that's a good thing for the organization as a whole. 

    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).

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  5. 1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Actually, Donald, you're both fat.

    Pritzker, however, unlike you, is not a slob.  He actually dresses like a billionaire.

    Robin Leach would be ashamed of him.  Well for many other reasons as well. 

  6. 3 hours ago, chainsaw said:

    Please don't talk about Epstein or high prices tomorrow.

    I just want to talk about this Mandaly guy who is the new mayor of New York City that Trump just loved.  I had never heard of him until I saw that video and photo of Trump with him. He must have a lot of good ideas for Trump to think so highly of him and to be so happy to be around him.    

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  7. 3 hours ago, Gatorubet said:

    if the Ukrainian special forces are so damn good, then why can’t they kill Kadyrov - - leaving evidence it was an FSB action.

    It seems like it’s just about time for a second front in Russia, no?

    I don’t hear of him going near any battlefields any more.  Or outside of Chechnya.  

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  8. 2 hours ago, MagicSoccerSpray said:

    I want this to be true, but how so?

    @Gatorubet covered most, but I'd say that Ukraine is getting modern fighters in numbers the Russians can't (along with the munitions for them), and Ukraine is increasing production of their homegrown long-range munitions (drones/missiles) which are performing admirably, all the while Russia can't currently keep up with air defense system production (as Ukraine continues to destroy/degrade them and target the manufacturing chain). 

    Russia also can't seem to shake the strategy of lobbing a significant number of missiles/drones at civilian targets, which, just as the Germans did during the Battle of Britain (when they switched from targeting the RAF to civilians), is going to bite them in the ass, since every missile or drone put into civilian targets is a missile or drone that's not used against military targets. If their production/acquisition slows down, they are going to wish they had those missiles and drones.

    When Germany was unable to defend the Fatherland from allied bombing, things started turning slowly, and then suddenly. There's going to come a point where Ukraine drops the Kerch bridge, and shuts down large-scale navel re-supply to Crimea, and starts putting missiles into Moscow. They are already hitting power facilities around Moscow as it is, and there seems to be few targets in Crimea and along the Russian coastline that Ukraine can't touch (and Ukraine has been working over Russia's cargo ships that would be used to supply Crimea).

    I won't join Gatorubet in his bet about next June, but I do think things will look completely different by then, and probably even by February.  This is a very unique moment in history - Ukraine is able to put an economic (and arguably psychological once the heating and electricity fails for longer and longer times) pressure on Russia that few other countries in history have been able to accomplish in the same situation.

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