California Senate votes to revoke Boy Scouts' nonprofit status.

As if we needed more proof that the statement "We're not trying to destroy Boy Scouts, we're trying to build it" is a load of Toro Tae, we have this:

California Senate votes to revoke Boy Scouts' nonprofit status.

"Even as the Boy Scouts of America moves to allow gay youths to join its troops, the California Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would revoke the organization's nonprofit status because it does not permit the participation of openly gay adults."

One More Week.

This time next week we should be in Manila waiting for the plane for Dumaguete.

The three of us are looking forward to seeing everyone.The trip will be long and tiring. I won't have Internet access until we get settled in at Cathy's mom's place.I'd like to do as I did last trip and chronicle our stay.....I'll bring along a journal and write down thoughts on paper for later transcribing. Imagine. Resorting to pen and paper in this day and age.

Having made the trip by myself several times, it will be easier for me traveling with my family, but I'm sure J.P. will have a rough time on that long flight from JFK to Tokyo.

In the mean time, I still have to go work two more days this week and two next week - this will be a short post. I'm tired of writing about all the @#$!^%  I see going on around me; especially since nobody seems to be paying attention.

Until next time........

Go Ahead, Unfriend Me...Part Two.

It's been four days since I last posted - Go Ahead, Unfriend Me - . In that post, I wrote how I had "unfriended" four people on my Facebook friends list over their support of the Boys Scouts of America's changing policy to allow gay boys to become scouts. I see this change as a first step in allowing adult homosexuals to become scout leaders.

I also asked in that post that any of my current Facebook friends who disagreed with me on this issue to "unfriend" me as well. Now, four days later, none have done so.
What can I take from this? That all of my friends agree with me? Hardly likely. I'm sure that more than one person probably believes I'm out of line on this.

Could it be that no one has read that post? I know some have read it, but it would be a good bet that the majority of my Facebook friends haven't even bothered to check out the link I posted on Facebook.

Pretty discouraging, huh?

Even though it may be a monumental waste of time getting some folks attuned to some of the problems we're facing, I guess I'll just slog along with these posts and hope someone, somewhere will pay attention.

Go Ahead, Unfriend Me.

I've just "unfriended" four folks on Facebook.

Like everyone else I know, many of my Facebook "friends" are people I knew growing up......people I haven't seen in ages but who I remember fondly from my youth.

I've decide to remove these former friends because of their support of the Boy Scouts of America's vote to allow openly gay boys .

Many of those who had been pressuring the BSA to accept gay boys have focused their attention on one boy in particular ...... an openly gay boy from Maryland,Pascal Tessier.

I went to high school with Tessier's mother, Tracie Felker, and she's one of the people I've "unfriended".

It's not that I particularly care if Tessier becomes an Eagle Scout or not; that's not really what I object to. This move to permit openly gay boys into Scouting is merely the proverbial camel's nose under the tent. The real goal is to change BSA policy to allow homosexual men to be Scout leaders.

From People:

"Not that the controversy is over. The Scouts' longstanding ban on gay adults remains in force, and many liberal Scout leaders – as well as gay-rights groups – plan to continue pressing for an end to that exclusion even though the BSA's top officials aren't ready for that step."

In an early article,Felker was quoted as saying,"We're not trying to destroy Boy Scouts, we're trying to build it."

It may not have been her intention to destroy Boy Scouts, but that will be the end result.

Religious groups charter 70 percent of the Scout-sponsoring organizations, and while the LDS church "has released a statement expressing their support for the Boy Scouts of America after the youth organization voted to allow openly gay members" , it's unlikely that the majority of Christian churches will follow.

As I've said, I've "unfriended" four Facebook "friends" over this. To my current Facebook friends,if you support the change and I've missed you, feel free to "unfriend" me.

Democratic Propaganda.

Leftists certainly know how to be provocative, if not accurate.

Not willing to let a tragic accident go unexploited, one such Progressive posted on Facebook a photo of a young boy aiming a handgun, along with the following words:

"How can you be a party of 'Family Values' when you believe a five year old child has the right to own a gun, but doesn't have a right to health care?"

I don't recall seeing either on the Republican Party's platform.

Not everyone who supports the 2nd amendment right to own firearms goes along with the idea of giving guns to young children. While in rural Kentucky, it may be ".........not uncommon for a 5-year-old to have a gun or for a parent to pass one down to their kid," it's unlikely that more than a very tiny minority of gun owners nation-wide think it's anything other than insanity to give firearms to young children.

For the Left to suggest that Republicans want children to have guns is simply an attempt to paint all gun owners as wacko nut-jobs.

The second point put forward is equally absurd. No one - absolutely no one wants to deny any child access to medical care. Most opponents of Obamacare object to the idea that the federal government should be in control of our healthcare system; government is not well known for it's efficiency and as much as Progressives may want to convince you otherwise, objecting to Obamacare is not the same as wanting little children to die.

Rather than post slick sounding one-liners, couldn't more be accomplished by addressing the real issues?