Hyperbole for 1000, Alex

Do I have your attention?  I wish this was an exaggeration, but it’s not.  Unfortunately, Girl Scouts of America receives major sponsorship from Planned Parenthood.  This is from Washington Times.  Here’s what the Girls Scouts organization and Planned Parenthood are  feeding your girls:

Sharon Slater, a mother of seven, innocently walked into a panel sponsored by the Girl Scouts USA at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women a few weeks ago. Almost immediately she was asked to leave. All non-Scout adults were kicked out of the room, which was packed with adolescent girls.

Her curiosity piqued, Slater lingered by the door and when the panel ended she went immediately back inside to look around. What she found has shocked her and shocked Girl Scout moms around the country. Slater found a stack of brochures produced by Planned Parenthood called “Healthy, Happy and Hot” that among other things explained to the girls, “Some people have sex when they have been drinking or using drugs. That is your choice.”

But it gets worse. The sex guide explains, “[There] are lots of different ways to have sex and lots of different types of sex. Sex can include kissing, touching, licking, tickling, sucking and cuddling. Some people like to have aggressive sex, while others like to have soft sex and slow sex with their partners. There is no right or wrong way to have sex. Just have fun, explore and be yourself!” It tells girls to explore the prostate. Remember, this was distributed in a panel for adolescent girls.

Besides advice about the prostate, the brochure, subtitled “Rights, Sexuality and Living with HIV,” also gives incorrect and even dangerous information about rights and responsibilities. It tells the kids that, “sexual and reproductive rights are recognized around the world.” Sexual rights are hardly recognized around the world. They are not even recognized here in the sexual paradise of the United States. The brochure tells the kids that their rights are violated when governments require them to tell their HIV status to their sex partners.

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Will this be the issue that gets the Girl Scouts back on track?  Unlikely.  Girl Scout leadership is very dug in on this. But, there is revolt brewing in Girl Scout Land. A group of Mothers in St. Louis intend to ask the St. Louis region to break with the national organization. There likely will be more.

Girl Scout cookies remain awfully tasty, but it seems the moral price to purchase them is getting higher and higher.

Amen to that.  I am a strong proponent of leadership programs for young adults, both boys and girls.  My sons are in Boys Scouts and I actively support that program.  Is Girl Scouting salvageable?  I don’t want to have to tell my boys to stay away from those sleazy Girl Scouts.

So here’s what Obama said:

I have the great pleasure of having a really nice library at the White House.  And I was tooling through some of the writings of some previous Presidents and I came upon this quote by Abraham Lincoln:  “I am not bound to win, but I’m bound to be true.  I’m not bound to succeed, but I’m bound to live up to what light I have.”

The problem is, Lincoln never said it.

Here’s a more relevant quote by Abe:

“All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reaches us, it must spring up amongst us. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.”

Obama wants to destroy this once-great Republic?  Fine.  We voted him into office, so we get the consequences.  Oh, you don’t like the idea?  Do something about it!

(HT: Maggie’s Farm)  Read the entire Rebellion to Tyrants/Obedience to God post by Bruce to get the whole context -  and a very cool bit on the Great Seal.

US, British, French Troops to March in Red Square

(AP) – Mar 18, 2010

MOSCOW — The British Embassy says British, French and U.S. troops will march with Russian soldiers on Red Square to mark the 65th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany.

It said in a statement Thursday that the May 9 parade will include a Royal Air Force band and a detachment of Welsh Guards.

The statement said the parade may mark the first time British troops have marched in Red Square.

The U.S. Embassy confirmed that U.S. soldiers will take part in the parade.

Victory Day is Russia’s most important secular holiday. The Kremlin plans a larger parade than usual this year.

Obama must be so proud.

The geocaching trailer from last year’s Splinterheads.

Here's what I think of your puny little 'rights'...

(HT: Out of Order by way of American Digest)

Courtesy of An Englishman’s Castle:

How one man and his tractor saved a woman’s life – Scotsman.com News

A courageous farmer is to receive one of Britain’s top bravery awards for the dramatic rescue of a female motorist who was trapped in a raging torrent during the November floods.

After he learned of his award yesterday, unassuming Andrew Rennie insisted: “I don’t think I’m a hero – I just did what anyone else would have done. All I did was answer a call for assistance….

He was fast asleep in his farmhouse home at Gask Farm, near Turriff, when the phone rang. On the other end was a local fireman with a simple message: “There’s a woman trapped in her car. Can you take something big and heavy with you – preferably a tractor?”

Mr Rennie, 41, recalled: “When I reached the scene it was pitch black, but there was fast flowing water everywhere. You couldn’t see the car from where the fire engine was.  Mr Rennie, at the wheel of the massive tractor, then began to edge his way slowly along the flooded road, with a firefighter strapped, half in and half out, to each side of the cab.

He said: “I was trying to figure out where the edge of the road was because the water was so deep. I was worried the tractor would get swept away. You had to watch where you were driving because of the strong currents.

“The whole road was a river. The biggest fear was that the water had undermined the road and we could get stranded ourselves.”

Slowly but surely they reached Mrs Catto’s car which has been forced sideways on the carriageway by the force of the torrent and wedged against a bank.

The two firemen eventually managed to prise open one of the car doors and free her. Mr Rennie said:

“As soon as we got back to dry land she was taken away in the ambulance. I never saw Mrs Catto but her son came and thanked me personally later in the day.”

As the Englishman says, it’s amazing and wonderful what firemen can do when there isn’t a media officer laying down health and safety rules at the scene.

Great interview with former Monty Python Eric Idle in the UK’s MailOnline.  (Click the link for the whole bit.)  The BBC took note and excerpted a snippet for their Quote of the Day:

“Every man should possess a guitar, an army knife, a shelf full of books, a warm coat, a computer and a mistress” – Former Monty Python star Eric Idle lists the bare essentials.

Obviously, knives are bad. And infidelity. But you can’t argue with the rest of this list at least.

The BBC again proves its irrelevance.  Heavens forbid that a man should be able to defend himself.  Or cut a bit of string.  Crime skyrockets and yet shopkeepers and homeowners are sued for trying to protect themselves.  We certainly wouldn’t want anything in their hands to dissuade the yobs from getting cheeky.

It may not be July 4 1776 or 9-11-01, but the Dems and the president are going to regret 3/21/10.  And the Republican Party better get the message very clearly.

… that is forbidden to fly its own flag?  I’ll give you a clue – it’s in North America and its president’s initials are Barack Obama.

(HT: Weasel Zippers)

…that it takes the whole country down when it blows.

(HT: Michael Ramirez in IBD)