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The Anti-Girl Scout Jihad

Yesterday I caught this article over at Huffington Post.

Now a little bit of back history. A few months ago, there was a young child in Colorado. Biologically male, however self-identifies as female. Said child wanted to participate in Girl Scouts. At first the local council said no, and later reversed this decision.

This caused some backlash, with a couple troops at religious-based schools dissolving their troops and going with an off-shoot group called "American Heritage Girls", described as:

"…a group organized in 1995 in protest to the Girl Scouts' decision to allow scouts to replace the word "God" in scout teachings with a word representing a personal image of God, such as a "higher being," "Allah" or "Buddha.

The newer group proclaims Jesus Christ as Lord, limits membership to girls and works to disciple girls as Christians."

American Heritage Girls (which claimed 13,000 members as of August of 2011), isn't the only religious offshoot of the Girl Scouts. For those who think AHG are too wishy-washy namby-pamby secular, there's also "Little Keepers at Home" Not to mention the "Pioneers Clubs", and GEMS, or "Girls Everywhere Meeting the Savior"

Dispatches from Birtherstan - 5 January 2011

And in today's dispatches, not a lot really. The floaters at Dr. Kate's cesspool o' treason are grumpy at me for some odd reason. Meanwhile, Dr. Kate continues to surpass the bounds of mere insanity into true cookoo for cocoa puffs land. OC Weekly gets Dr. Orly's favourite restaurants, but breakfast foods seem to be missing. And the Pest and eFail whines about the Tea Party types not boarding the crazy train into birtherstan,

4 Janurary - Wow, looks like "Quantum Leap" over at Dr. Kate's cesspool got a little annoyed at my pointing out certain details about Dr. Kate's background and likely reasons why she was told her services were no longer required.

"Quantum Leap
January 4, 2011 at 5:36 pm
Get rid of dumbobama and you’ll get another soros minion like the Bush’s"

Ah yes. Grade school name calling.

"...unless it’s a Tea Partier. soros/shwartz (a jew who worked with the Nazi’s in the 2nd world war) FEARS TEA PARTY. Now you know why. He can’t control Tea Partiers. The clock is ticking for him and his time here one earth."

Racist much?

"Watch ‘badfiction’ quote us all on their blog… LOL lame brained and a waste of time."

Bit of a nerve struck? And notice that "Quantum Leap" would rather whine and use ad hominem attacks in the echo chamber than actually debate these claims in an open forum.

"Jarrett is the president. She is a bona fide Marxist/Maoist/Lenonist. The dumbobamas are in it only for the perks."

There's a Lame Cherry grade of nutty here.

I Feel Sick.....

Something happened this morning that both sickened me and filled me with rage.

Every Halloween, as part of my beliefs, I make a donation of a local food bank. This is my way of honoring my ancestors and giving back some to my community.

This year, my eight-year old daughter came with me to purchase food on Halloween. We got a mix of canned fruits, veggies, meats, grains, and baking mix.

This morning we got to the food bank to drop off our donation. 19 pounds of food.

The woman there was thrilled to get it, as she has to use cash donations to buy things in bulk and the canned goods and baking mix is just what they can always use (that and diapers).

But while talking to my daughter. she mentioned about a little boy that came in who's mother was in tears about getting food from them.

A little boy who's tummy hurt.

A little boy who had been eating peanut butter on newspaper to try and keep his tummy feeling full. Which is why his tummy hurt.

Let me repeat that

Peanut butter on newspaper.

In a country that has the resources that the United States has. A country that produces large amounts of food, in which food is routinely thrown away. A country that claims obesity is a major epidemic, this mother and child had so little that the child was eating newspaper and peanut butter to keep his tummy full

That's an obscenity.

Thank goodness that food bank was able to help them. And I hope and pray that child never has to feel that level of hunger again.

But at the same time, I'm deeply ashamed that something like that would happen in My America, in a country that I love so much.

I'm want to say "we can do better than that". But in this case, we MUST do better than that.

Because there's no excuse for a child in this country to be that hungry.

Recipe of the Day - White House Chef Edition

Now I happen to like to cook. I also have a perverse fondness for finding particularly odd recipies. Thanks to the wonderful LJ community "Trashy-Eats", I found this recipe, as provided by former White House Chef Walter Scheib, Executive Chef at the White House from 1994 to 2005.

The story goes that he created this recipe under orders that create a special inaugural menu in 2005 to honor the brand names represented by more than a dozen top GOP and Bush campaign donors. Scheib was reportedly vocal about his unhappiness over having to create dishes that featured such ingredients as Coca-Cola, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts and Pilgrim's Pride Whole Butter Basted Turkeys. He was also upset when he was asked to stop using French recipes and cooking techniques after France refused to support the US-led invasion of Iraq. He was fired soon after this by Laura Bush, due to "inflexibility" in his menu planning.

It's not often I get to combine cooking and political commentary, but this shows a lot about the control freak aspects of the Bush White House - where corporate and political interests must be made happy, even down to controlling what the chef can and can't make - and create. The recipes are behind the cut.

"Coca-Cola brined Pilgrim's Pride turkey with Dunkin Donuts old-fashioned cake doughnut sweet and savory stuffing*