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The Boy Scouts of America announced after 114 years that it will change its name and will become “Scouting America.” This is an apparent effort to run from bankruptcy, falling membership, masculinity, and restrictive morality. The new organization will welcome girls, homosexual leaders, and homosexual boys.
What will the new organization do with the Scout Law? Especially the requirement to model reverence before God? The organization was founded to be a preserve of training in manhood, virtue and male responsibility. That emphasis began to dissipate in the 1960s along with the demoralization of boys in the government school classroom.
The old Scout Law: "A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent."
Better a poor and wise youth Than an old and foolish king who will be admonished no more. Ecclesiastes 4:13
Question:
Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? Luke14:31
Answer:
A king who watches too much FOX TV, reads too many Marvel comics, pays attention to the New York Times, and watches too many Hollywood political thrillers.
The narrow strait is the most important chokepoint for the world's oil supply. Some 21 million barrels — or $1.2 billion worth of oil — pass through the strait every day.
Will a closed Strait hurt Iran? In terms of international oil sales, yes, but in terms of daily life, no. Iran pumps 3.5 million barrels of crude oil per day. The situation at this hour:
