Scouts were invented in England as a prop for imperialism. Stated purpose if I remember correctly. So they can't be used to prove anything about U.S.
Carrol
-----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of Alan Rudy Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 10:00 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Garden of earthly delights
Come on, Chuck! Boys will be boys, no pain no gain, kids learn by making mistakes, scout summer camp is animal farm - its good training for the dog-eat-dog world of adulthood, and a million other things scout leaders are/were known to think... I aced Cub Scouts, flew through Webloes (or whatever it was called), and thought the Boy Scouts were irresponsible, really jerky, new scout and nature abusers, so I quit after the first canoeing trip...
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Chuck Grimes <c123grimes at att.net> wrote:
> Under the title, what we were...
>
> Just for sickness USA, I went through some political cartoonists and found
> this amazing cover. It is supposed to be joy, but really look at what
fills
> this kid's brain, which is a vision of hell:
>
> http://www.animationarchive.org/pics/cady01-big.jpg
>
> A blood red sun rises in the east over the garden of earthly delights, and
> this is a boyhood dream?
>
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