Cookie break.
I got mugged by a couple of giggling Girl Scouts coming out of the grocery store. I got away six bucks lighter with a couple of boxes of Samoas perched precariously on top of my bag of groceries.
So I thought I’d point out, you know, that the American Family Association believes that “Girl Scouts seem to revel in their belief that all religious concepts are equal”; the International Organization of Heterosexual Rights is upset because “20 years ago, Girl Scouts learned about how to sew and cook, today they learn how to successfully hold a feminist rally”; the National Review cries that “the Girl Scouts is arguably one of the most politically correct organizations in the country”; and the American Heritage Girls are organizing as an alternative based on Judeo-Christian values (non-denominational)—all of them staunchly following in the 50-year-old footsteps of the American Legion its own bad self.
Makes you want to go buy a truckload, doesn’t it.
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In the P.C. sense, I see your point, but for sheer nostalgia, I prefer Tastykakes. ;)
Recipe:
Your favorite vanilla custard ice cream base;
1 box Samoas, chopped into quarters.
Churn freeze the ice cream as usual. When mostly frozen, add the cookies. Finish freezing. Pack into a couple half-quart plastic tubs. Give one to your friends if you really really love them.
Substitute thin mints if you only kind of love them.
The Boston Phoenix made sorta the contrapositive argument last year--that the Girl Scouts can afford to be relatively liberal 'cause they have the cookie funds. The Boy Scouts, it argued, are financially beholden to the RC Church and the LDS, and can't afford to piss them off. If I was a Good Blog Citizen, I'd see if I could find a link to the article. Too bad.
How long is Remember Info? supposed to last, anyway? Seems to kick off after 24 hours for me.
If only they exported them...
Though I've always wondered why the BSA is so wedded to dogma. Here in Britain, where Scouting originated, the Scouts and the Guides (our equivalent of the GSA) have both become much more liberal over the years. Of course, when you're founded by Baden-Powell, 'much more liberal' doesn't always mean that far to the left...
It's like Sebbo says. Boy Scouts is the official boys' program of the Mormon church. This whole recent gays-in-or-not thing was all about Mormon money. (And RC money too? I didn't know.)
Heh...I read the National Review article....what cookies do you like best, Amy? (I like the Do-si-dos best, but mostly because they're the PEANUT BUTTER ones.)
Seriously, PC Conservatives are in a very bad position....if you organize a boycott of Girl Scout Cookies, you risk major, major backlash (and hopefully, an ass-whoopin' by the Powerpuff Girls). It's the conservative version of burning a flag.
It's funny that you should be happy to see the GS in the Fred Meyer entryway. It makes me hopping mad. See..... community interest activities like, oh I don't know, signature gathering for ballot measures are BANNED even from FM parking lots. However FM sets up the goyle scouts so that you literally have to leap over them. Whenever I have to gingerly step by them I wish I had some big 'ol boots so I could crush their little community interest cookies. And I blame that entire emotion/mode of thought on Fred Meyer management.
Don't worry; this fit of good citizenship won't last long.
The Phoenix article
they are a good organization, but i've found the quality of the activities varies greatly from group to group. for example, my step-daughter's troup had a mary kay representative come and give them make up tips in elementary school.
sadly, the troop only get $.50/box.
Sebbo: I think it's an old MT bug that affects some builds; it only remembers your specific info for specific pages on which you've already commented. Or something. I dunno. If I were a good citizen of blogtopia, I'd not only link to a post about it, I'd've already upgraded to 2.62 and checked the MT forum and written Mena & co. about the hiccup. But I'm not. --So set your browser to fill the form in autmagically or something, I dunno.
Jake: Now, see, I deliberately left Fred Meyer's name out of it. And I'm just pleased to see any vestige of community in their grimy foyers. And I'm not about to blame the Girl Scouts for Kroger's shenanigans. And I don't think you heard me: I got two boxes of Samoas. I'm complacent and happy. So neener.
Nick: There's something about empowering girls that's inherently more progressive than empowering boys, which is all I'd add to Sebbo's excellent point re: financial autonomy, and a concomitant ability to tell authoritarian wingnuts where to get off. (A lesson the libertarian wing of the Republicans should consider.)
Amy: While I am not unsympathetic to your Tastykakes fetish, you cannot do with them things like the culinary orgy Vincent suggests.
On preview: Sebastian miladdo: Thanks for digging up the Phoenix article--your merit badge is in the mail; and kirsten: Thanks for the hard number.
Damn. I've been reading the links and that stuff's gonna give me an ulcer. "Can a girl be inspired to develop character and proper conduct apart from Jesus Christ?" indeed.
Any excuse to work the words "fetish" and "orgy" into the conversation, eh ?
Freak. Just see if I share my next case of Butterscotch Krimpets or Chocolate Cupcakes with YOU. :p