"We had to get up in the morning at at 10 o'clock at night, half an hour before we went to bed, kill raccoons and o'possum for the morning stew, swim across piranha-infested rivers for exercise, hold targets for the other boys' rifle practice, twenty-six hours a day, week in, week out -- and when we got back our scoutmaster would kill us and dance on our graves singing hallelujah."And you try to tell the young Scouts today that, and they don't believe you.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Are you tougher than a Boy Scout?
The praises of Hannah and Mary
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The Left is insisting that crime rates of immigrants is just wonderful, such as, " The ‘Criminal Immigrant’ Canard " by by Mona Ch...
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In 1964, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) was Leonid Brezhnev. He promised that year that the USSR wo...
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Let me emphasize at the outset that my assessment of the looming Israeli invasion of Gaza is intended to be descriptive , not prescriptive....