49 minutes ago, Jax said:

My oldest did boy scouts. I would never sign him up for this garbage.

it's become a disgrace. The big question is, how much money is involved going to those in charge of it?

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• https://www.nytimes.com › 2021 › 07 › 01 › us › boy-girl-scouts-membership-decrease-covid.html

  Scouting Groups Report Losing About 1.7 Million Members During Pandemic ...

  Jul 1, 2021By Neil Vigdor. July 1, 2021. Membership in the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts has plunged during the pandemic, according to new enrollment figures released by the youth organizations, which had ...

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• https://apnews.com › article › only-on-ap-health-coronavirus-pandemic-7afeb2667df0a391de3be67b38495972

  Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts suffer huge declines in membership

  Membership for the BSA's flagship Cub Scouts and Scouts BSA programs dropped from 1.97 million in 2019 to 1.12 million in 2020, a 43% plunge, according to figures provided to The Associated Press. Court records show membership has fallen further since then, to about 762,000. The Girl Scouts say their youth membership fell by nearly 30%, from ...
• https://wng.org › opinions › the-slow-and-tragic-death-of-the-boy-scouts-of-america-1694581485

  The slow and tragic death of the Boy Scouts of America

  Sep 13, 2023One way the Scouts are trying to bolster revenue is by dramatically increasing membership dues. In 2009, it cost $10 to become a Boy Scout. Today, membership dues top $100—and that's before uniform, camp, and other costs that can run into the hundreds of dollars per year. But

Whoreta is so stupid, he can't figure out that diseased mosquitoes can also be brought accidentally from his stinking illegals?

It's odd that Florida and Texas have had outbreaks.

But more seriously - an infected ILLEGAL gets into our country, and mosquitos here bite that illegal, then someone else, then malaria can spread.

No one said malaria was contagious, whoreish whoreta. I guess whoreta sobered up long enough to type. There's good and bad to that.

2 hours ago, MLD Woody said:

In two weeks I could sing just as poorly as you could teach geometry 

In two days, I could teach English better than you, while playing my harmonica.

Required reading would be

The selfish nonsense reason woody supports the bogus man made global warming bs:

https://chapelboro.com/town-square/the-red-cockaded-woodpecker-the-brutal-effects-of-climate-change-and-government-action

8 hours ago, DieHardBrownsFan1 said:

He drives a prius and wears recycled clothes.

do not. Just because I bought my Carhartt vest at a garage sale.....

it's great for winter work.

6 minutes ago, Jax said:

The hell with gaza and ukraine, let's clean out our own country

I've felt like that often, but.... what if we stayed out of WWII..... then I decide that letting the world fall apart just puts off our own destruction in the future.

1 minute ago, LogicIsForSquares said:

I've been there and those protesters are giant dickheads for doing that on the Holocaust memorial day at Auschwitz.

 

I've been to it and it's heavy as hell when you are in there. Protesting people sobbing in there does exactly nothing other than making the people in there more upset or hardening them against their cause. 

At the Arizona monument - at Pearl Harbor...it was like that. It's a heartbreak to see all those names who died. I can't imagine seeing Auschwitz. Protesting like that seems so vicious and cruel.

6 minutes ago, Jax said:

Nice Cal. I do not have a green thumb though I try at times.

 

There's a difference between utilizing solar energy and destroying a working infrastructure for something we're not ready for by force.

Going green; probably started out as a good thought but turned into a big control/money grab by gov't.

 

 

sadly, it morphed into the un official admitting that acceptance of "mmgw" was necessary for the redistribution of wealth to poor countries.

I grew up a hunter, camper, fisherman, outdoorsman, gardener, hiker....etc. Conservation is wonderful. The polluting of streams and lakes, etc...

sicker than sick. Future generations have deserved so much better.

But mmgw is a crock - it's just a useful tool to get rich, get power (like al gore), and to manipulate others in elections and redistribute wealth.

12 minutes ago, Jax said:

 

There doesn't seem to be words to accurately describe how sick that is. Seems a lot of people can lean towards the dream of power over others or something. In class at Kent once, some long haired kid stood up and gave a speech on how "we can change the whole WORLD, man!".

drugs. something really wrong there. The rest of us, including the prof, just watched him storm out the door. Imagine 73%? of a country supporting taking over the world, even going to war over it.

1 hour ago, LogicIsForSquares said:

Bear in mind, you can find retards everywhere. When I did work for FEMA, families would have elderly family members and still refuse to evacuate even with help. They would aggressively tell you to leave then the water rises and grandma drowns during a way more dangerous evacuation. Completely preventable.
 

Obviously it’s not apples to apples but I wouldn’t use some idiot as a metric for the opinions of most Gazans.

 

Different note: If I got shot at the mall because of Obama calling in drone strikes on a civilian target, I would hope people wouldn’t go “well the majority of people voted for him so Logic had what was coming to him at the Auntie Anne’s”. Also, their elections are probably a sham and it’s not like you would live too long if you did make a fuss about Hamas stuffing ballots.
 

That said, it doesn’t mean the IDF shouldn’t move forward in trying to wipe out Hamas. It does mean that there shouldn’t be some move by parts of the media to try to dehumanize people in a shitty situation. A 6 year old being buried under rubble is fucked. That doesn’t mean the brakes will be pumped on trying to weed out Hamas.

Wow. You worked for FEMA ? Refusing to leave? That makes no sense, some people don't make good decisions for whatever emotional reasons. Some folks don't act on a danger further away, until it's too late and it's immediate. Kinda like the lady who was at Custer State Park, and wanted to pet a baby buffalo. Two events we heard about, a year apart.

The first one, a biker woman tried to get her picture taken with a baby buffalo, and got attacked by the mother - her biker belt got stuck on it's horn, and she was yanked back and forth until her belt broke, her pants came off, and she went flying through the air. The second was the same - she only lost her sweater. The ranger who told us was the one who had to go out and retrieve the sweater.

    But to refuse to leave under those circumstances, just pitiful.

Back to the Gazans - I don't understand the hatred for an entire country and people since the ancient days.

The terrorist-supporting Gazans, the kkk, black panthers, nazis, "Islamic" terrorists, groups in Uganda etc, Haiti... seems so evil, most folks can't understand it. Seems that some need to hate so much, that the reasons are artificial.

The IDF has taken the crossing between Rafah and Egypt. Why the "palestinians" refused to have their own country back in the day - their poverty and living conditions are self-created.

Children deserve so much more than death and destruction in wars they do not start.

14 hours ago, Orion said:

6 picks in the bottom two rounds.  Not much to get excited about there.  I'm thinking that some of those picks will be traded away before next April.

The extra late picks probably will be used like that - not much help to trade up dramatically, but used to trade up a little earlier in the same round. The Browns roster is so strong, I don't see 7th round picks making the team. The only hole I see in the Browns' roster, so far, is at qb. I left off the first three letters........

The Browns will surely be in contention to win the division - I just hope Winston is up to it......

9 minutes ago, Ibleedbrown said:

Fess up Cal, do you have a compost pile?

I have a big pile of leaves, accumulated over three or four years' time - it's time to use the front end loader and put it all into the garden. Neighbors contributed every year. Going to try growing watermelons this year. And a lot of green beans.

Crap. I forgot to plant the sugar snap peas. We've been really busy.

I'm going to scale back the garden, can't do 1000 tomato plants anymore - It used to be my Dad and mine's fun hobby. Probably no more than 30 or 40.

This year, I will collect a lot of the maple tree "helicopters" seeds. The seed from them - is very edible - I've toasted them and they are good, thinking of other recipes.

I made dandelion jelly again - it's always a big hit with friends.

I need somebody to help me do some groundhog skeet.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/rebeccadowns/2024/05/06/heres-how-israel-plans-to-take-rafah-n2638705

Here's How Israel Plans to Take Rafah

"

While critics of the operation express concern for civilian casualties--which would be entirely the fault of Hamas for perpetrating the October 7 attack on Israel in the first place--Israel has taken careful steps to evacuate people. 

Another way in which the Biden administration has criticized Israel and their plans for Rafah is concerns that Israel is supposedly not doing enough for humanitarian aid for civilians in Gaza. As Ravid's piece also mentions, though:

The latest: Israel Defense Forces plan to control the Palestinian side of the crossing and monitor all aid coming into Gaza, a source with direct knowledge told Axios.

• The source said Israel believes taking over the Rafah crossing will eliminate Hamas' main ability to show it is still ruling Gaza.
• In the coming days and weeks, Israel wants Palestinians from Gaza who are not connected to Hamas to be involved in the control and distribution of aid entering the Strip from Egypt, the source said.
• Israeli tanks and other ground forces entered the eastern outskirts of Rafah on Monday night as part of the first phase of Israel's military operation in the southern Gaza city, Israeli officials said."
• *****************************

yep. Vapor needs to apologize. The slur against the IDF about "genocide" is just a dishonest lie.

Really, Vapor? these are your heroes?

"Go head and kill the children" ???

Sounds like your "palestinians" want to die. Sounds like "genocide" is by

self-destruction.

You should apologize.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/05/06/an-idf-officer-called-a-palestinian-civilian-to-evacuate-the-call-is-horrifying-n2638683

Here's An IDF Officer Warning a Palestinian Civilian to Evacuate. The Call Is Horrifying.

"Here is a call from an IDF officer to a Palestinian civilian in Rafah, urging him to evacuate his family. The man, “Abu Younes,” is reluctant to heed the advice, even telling the officer that they want to die. He also says he wants no peace that comes from Israel. It’s an interaction with a death cult. It’s evil. You can hear children in the background."

16 minutes ago, Canton Dawg said:

Solar panels have been around a long time, and their efficiency has improved over the decades.

I think they have a niche in certain applications, but they still have a way to go for widespread use.

That’s not right wing, that’s common sense.

But if it makes you feel better.

We have a small generator that is solar-powered, we can use it for camping, and if the power goes out, it has run the

fireplace insert fan for about 6 hrs. Pretty cool stuff - the panels are about 3' x 5', I wired them in a pair. Can recharge in about 3 hrs. Won't run a hot plate or anything like that - but it's cool.

meanwhile, another Pres Trump hater, dirty fani willis, refuses to appear ....

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/05/06/fani-willis-refuses-to-appear-before-state-senate-investigative-committee-chairman-threatens-subpoena-n2173849

Fani Willis Refuses to Appear Before Georgia Senate Investigative Committee, Chairman Threatens Subpoena

time for dirty judge, his dirty prosecutor to stop the bs and throw this fake trial back into the toilet it came from.

https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/05/06/trump-trial-smasher-das-witness-testifies-trump-did-not-direct-payments-to-michael-cohen-n2173838

Trump Trial Smasher: DA's Witness Testifies Trump Did Not Direct Payments to Michael Cohen

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  Why Do Woodpeckers Peck and How to Stop Them

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4 minutes ago, Jax said:

Is that what Al Gore told you?

    IT seems that pecker adopts anti-honesty out of anger that the entire country isn't gay, trans, perverted and/or socialist/communist.

I also think woody HATES because he hasn't been allowed to marry his nest.

1 hour ago, MLD Woody said:

https://apnews.com/article/israel-aljazeera-hamas-gaza-war-eba9416aea82f505ab908ee60d1de5e4

 

 

Nothing says "free press" like kicking press you don't like out of the country...

not a "free press". Not "don't like".

Just dishonest, pro hamas, pro radical islamists, pro-dishonesty.

You are completely unable to contribute anything legit to any discussion.

furthemore:

"

Israeli–Palestinian conflict

During the Second Intifada, Palestinians killed by Israelis were referred to as "martyrs"; Israelis killed by Palestinians were not.^[156]

Israel announced a "boycott" of the Arabic broadcaster on 13 March 2008, accusing it of bias in its coverage of the Gaza Strip conflict and toward Hamas.^[157] Israeli government employees declined interviews and denied visa applications for the organization's staff. Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Majalli Wahabi accused it of focusing on Palestinian suffering and ignoring that of Israel: "We have seen that Al-Jazeera has become part of Hamas ... [sic] taking sides and cooperating with people who are enemies of the state of Israel."^[157] According to Israeli officials, Al-Jazeera covered the Gaza incursion but not Palestinian rocket attacks against the Israeli city of Ashkelon. Wahabi said that the Israeli Foreign Ministry would send letters of complaint to the organization and the Qatari government. Officials of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah party has accused Al-Jazeera of bias toward Hamas (with which it is at political loggerheads), and Fatah official Mohammed Dahlan sued the broadcaster.^{[158][159][65][160][161][162]} Al-Jazeera agreed to discuss its coverage of Mideast conflict, and the issue has apparently been settled.^[163]

In February 2009, Israel again imposed sanctions on Al Jazeera after Qatar closed the Israeli trade office in Doha in protest against the Gaza War. Israel had considered declaring Al Jazeera a hostile entity and shutting its Israeli offices, but after a legal review the Israeli government decided to impose limited measures restricting the organization's activities in the country. All Al Jazeera employees would not have their visas renewed, and the Israeli government would issue no new visas. Al Jazeera staff would not be allowed to attend government briefings; its access to government and military offices was reduced, and it could not interview Knesset members. The organization would only have access to three agencies: representatives of the Prime Minister's Office, the Foreign Ministry, and the IDF Spokesperson's Unit.^[164]

On 15 July of that year, the Palestinian National Authority (PA) closed down Al Jazeera's offices in the West Bank in an apparent response to claims made on the channel by Farouk Kaddoumi that PA president Mahmoud Abbas had been involved in the death of Yasser Arafat. The Palestinian Information Ministry called the organization's coverage "unbalanced" and accused it of incitement against the PLO and the PA.^[165] Four days later, Abbas rescinded the ban and allowed Al Jazeera to resume operations.^[166]

In August 2011, Afghan bureau chief Samer Allawi was arrested by Israeli authorities and charged with being a member of Hamas.^[167] Walied Al-Omary, Al Jazeera bureau chief in Israel and the Palestinian territories, said that a military court accused Allawi of making contact with members of Hamas' armed wing.^[168] The Committee to Protect Journalists Middle East and North Africa program coordinator Mohamed Abdel Dayem stated that "Israel must clarify why it continues to hold Samer Allawi."^[169][170] Allawi was imprisoned for over a month and fined $1,400 after pleading guilty to meeting with Hamas, a militant group viewed as terrorist by Israel and most of the West.^{[171][172][173][174][175][176][177]} In 2013, UN researcher Nicola Perugini was accused by UN Watch of fabricating a United Nations Human Rights Council session in his Al Jazeera article about the latest UNHRC report on Israeli settlements.^[178]

During the 2023 Israel-Hamas war, Al Jazeera was conducting an interview with a wounded Gazan resident, who blamed Hamas hiding amongst civilians for his wounds; Al Jazeera promptly ended the interview.^{[179][180][181]}

Al Jazeera has also been accused of pushing Hamas propaganda, repeatedly broadcasting statements by Hamas' military and political leaders calling for a broader uprising and aligning themselves closely with Hamas' preferred language for the conflict.^[182] In addition, Israel accused several journalists of Al Jazeera of assisting or commanding Hamas units in their fight against Israel.^[183][184]

Al Jazeera cameraman Samer Abu Daqqa was killed by an Israeli airstrike on 15 December 2023 targeting Al Jazeera bureau chief Wael Al-Dahdouh, who was also injured during the strike.^{[185][186][187]}

The IDF accused one of Al Jazeera's journalists in Gaza of being a deputy commander for Hamas and released images of him handling various weaponry.^[188][189]

In late March 2024, Al Jazeera published a story alleging that IDF soldiers have committed rape at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. After an investigation by Hamas, it was found that the story was fabricated by a Gazan woman who wanted to "arouse the nation's favor". Subsequently, Al Jazeera removed all relevant material without releasing a formal retraction.^[190][191]""

58 minutes ago, MLD Woody said:

https://apnews.com/article/israel-aljazeera-hamas-gaza-war-eba9416aea82f505ab908ee60d1de5e4

 

 

Nothing says "free press" like kicking press you don't like out of the country...

it wasn't a "free press" - it was "owned" by hamas and radical muslim groups. Talking out of your tail feathers is so much a birdbrain knee jerk reaction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_controversies_and_criticism

"Egypt

Al Jazeera has faced considerable criticism and backlash in Egypt and other Arab countries; from ordinary people, media outlets, and governments who accuse it of supporting Qatari agenda and Islamists such as the Muslim Brotherhood^{[22][23][24][25]} Al Jazeera has been criticized by an Egyptian newspaper for its allegedly-biased coverage of news related to Egypt and its government. According to the Egypt Independent, many Egyptians believe Al Jazeera's attacks to be a concerted effort by the channel to destroy Egypt's image in the region."^[26]""

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Iraq

During the Iraq War, Al Jazeera and other news-gathering organizations experienced reporting and movement restrictions. Reporter Tayseer Allouni was expelled from the country and Diyar Al-Omari, another reporter, was stripped of his journalistic credentials by the US. On 2 April 2003, the organization announced that it would "temporarily freeze all coverage" of Iraq in protest of what Al Jazeera called unreasonable interference by Iraqi officials.^[44] Contrary to allegations, including those by Donald Rumsfeld on 4 June 2005, Al Jazeera has never shown beheadings; beheadings have appeared on a number of other websites, and have sometimes been misattributed to the organization.^[45] When the allegations were reported in other media, Al Jazeera pressed for retractions; The Guardian later corrected its report that the organization "had shown videos of masked terrorists beheading western hostages".^[46] The allegation was repeated on Fox News, however, when Al Jazeera's English service was launched on 15 November 2006.^[47]

The Iraqi Allawi government closed Al Jazeera's Iraq office on 7 August 2004, calling the network responsible for a negative image of Iraq and charging it with fueling anti-Coalition hostilities. Al Jazeera spokesman Jihad Ballout said, "It's regrettable and we believe it's not justifiable. This latest decision runs contrary to all the promises made by Iraqi authorities concerning freedom of expression and freedom of the press,"^[48] and Al Jazeera vowed to continue reporting from inside Iraq.^[49] Photographs showed United States and Iraqi military personnel closing the office. The initial one-month shutdown was extended indefinitely in September 2004 and the offices were sealed,^[50] drawing condemnation from international journalists.^[51]

In September 2008, Al Jazeera broadcast live the killing of a U.S. soldier by an Iraqi sniper in Baghdad.^[52]

In April 2013, Iraq banned Al Jazeera and nine other TV channels for "sectarian bias".^[53] In a statement, the Iraqi Communication and Media Commission said that the satellite channels had "exaggerated things, given misinformation and called for breaking the law and attacking Iraqi security forces". The commission noted a "sectarian tone" in the TV coverage and "undisciplined media messages exceeded all reasonable limits", threatening to "jeopardize the democratic process".^[54][55]

Israel

Al Jazeera TV covered welcome-home festivities for Samir Kuntar, a Lebanese terrorist imprisoned in Israel for killing several people in a Palestine Liberation Front raid from Lebanon into that country, when Kuntar was released from prison on 19 July 2008. On the program, Al Jazeera Beirut office head Ghassan bin Jiddo called Kuntar a "pan-Arab hero" and organized a birthday party for him.^[56][57][58] Israel's Government Press Office (GPO) announced a boycott of the channel, including a refusal by Israeli officials to be interviewed and a ban of its correspondents entering government offices in Jerusalem.^[59][60] Several days later, Al Jazeera director-general Wadah Khanfar issued a letter admitting that the program violated the channel's code of ethics and saying that he ordered its programming director to take steps to ensure that such an incident would not recur.^[61][62]

The channel was also criticized for allegedly-biased coverage of events in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, including the 2002 Bat Mitzvah massacre where the network omitted the facts that the victims were attending a bat mitzvah at a crowded banquet hall.^[63] When Palestinian militant Raed Karmi was killed by the Israeli Army, Al Jazeera was criticized for failing to provide sufficient context in its story.^[63]

Israel again accused Al Jazeera of bias in 2008. Deputy Foreign Minister Majalli Wahabi accused the organization of focusing on Palestinian suffering and downplaying that of Israel, referring to Israeli residents of the western Negev who had been the target of rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip.^[64] "We have seen that Al-Jazeera has become part of Hamas ... taking sides and cooperating with people who are enemies of the state of Israel," said Wahabi, a Druze. "The moment a station like Al-Jazeera gives unreliable reports, represents only one side, and doesn't present the positions of the other side, why should we cooperate?"^[65] According to Israeli officials, Al Jazeera covered the Gaza incursion but not Palestinian rocket attacks on the Israeli city of Ashkelon. Wahabi said that the Israeli Foreign Ministry would send letters of complaint to the government of Qatar and Al Jazeera.^[65]

In February 2015, Al Jazeera posted an article on its online edition alleging that the Israeli government had opened dams in its southern region to intentionally flood parts of the Gaza Strip. The article was replaced on 25 February with a statement that there were no dams in southern Israel and the original article was false.^[66] During the June 2017 Jerusalem attack, Israeli media accused Al-Jazeera of not identifying it as a terrorist attack and ignoring an attack by three Palestinians on the Temple Mount in Old Jerusalem (focusing instead on the killing of a Palestinian by Israeli forces during Friday prayers).^{[67][dubious – discuss][unreliable source?]}

During the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, Al Jazeera Arabic has used the Hamas codename, "Al-Aqsa Flood" in its articles to refer to the conflict.^[68] On 1 April, 2024, Israel's parliament approved a law that would allow Israel to shut down Al Jazeera broadcasts from inside the country. Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamim Netanyahu, accused Al-Jazeera of "actively participating in the October 7 massacre and inciting against IDF soldiers". Israeli authorities also cited Al Jazeera's alleged links to Hamas.^[69]

On 5 May 2024, the Israeli government shut down Al Jazeera in Israel and authorized the seizure of its equipment.^[70]"

^"

Saudi Arabia

This section needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (April 2019)

Saudi Arabia banned Al-Jazeera and another Qatari website in early 2017 after Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said that he recognized Iran as an Islamic regional power and criticized Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's policy toward Iran. He praised the Lebanese organization Hezbollah and the Palestinian group Hamas. Qatar denied the allegations, saying that its QNA website had been hacked and it was investigating the incident.^[84][85]"

^"

Allegations of antisemitism and anti-Israel sentiment

Antisemitism

An article by Sherry Ricchiardi in the American Journalism Review (AJR) noted that critics of Al Jazeera have "assailed what they see as anti-Semitic, anti-American bias in the channel's news content."^[144] Ricchiardi had earlier criticized an Al Jazeera report that Jewish employees of 9/11 targets were informed of the attacks beforehand, a report which was also criticized in an October 2001 New York Times editorial. She cited the former Al Jazeera weekly show Sharia and Life, hosted by Yusuf Qaradawi (an Egyptian cleric who "argues clearly and consistently that hatred of Israel and Jews is Islamically sanctioned").^[145] The organization held a 2008 on-air birthday party for Samir Kuntar, a Lebanese terrorist convicted of killing four Israelis who was released in July of that year, later admitting that its coverage of Kuntar's release violated its code of ethics.^[146] The organization's Beirut bureau chief said, "Brother Samir, we wish to celebrate your birthday with you" and called him a "pan-Arab hero."^[120][147]""

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On May 30, 2017, Al Jazeera's English-language account retweeted an Anti-Semitic meme.^{[152][153] [unreliable source?]} The network tweeted an apology after the incident, calling it a "mistake".^{[154][unreliable source?]}

In May 2019, AJ+ produced a video denying and minimizing the Holocaust. Al Jazeera said it had "swiftly deleted" the video, stating that it had "violated the editorial standards of the network". The video stated that "[the] number [of Jews murdered in the Holocaust] had been exaggerated and 'adopted by the Zionist movement', and that Israel is the 'biggest winner' from the genocide."^[155]"