Conservative Texas Town Boycotts Girl Scout Cookies
 

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...cookie_boycott

OK, so I'm an old fashioned girl, but I don't really agree with the above. Oh well, different strokes for different folks.

So you think that boycotting Girl Scout Cookies is far worse than having your parents throw you in an arranged marriage?

My parents are going to do no such thing. I'm the one who has suggested one, to their dismay. They've told me over and over that they're not going to do it.

This makes me want to go eat more cookies. God forbid them, rewarding a successful woman for making an impact in her community. What next, anarchy?

The whole thing is freaking ridiculous. And who suffers? The little girls.

The Girl Guide (i.e. Canadian) cookies are now made by Dare, but they were formerly made by Nabisco, who, if you trace the "lineage" through, is part of good ole' RJ Reynolds (yes, the tobacco company). So, yes, in theory, the Girl Guides were in bed with the devil, but no one really seemed to care. I have no idea why they switched to Dare but it was NOT because of the RJ Reynolds thing. If someone wants to look around www.girlguides.ca, I am sure you can find out more.

Sigh......

I told my parents that we have to go buy more Girl Scout Cookies. I hope the local Brownie troop is still selling them outside one of the local supermarkets. I already bought three boxes several days before this article came out!

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Boycott the Wackos & Buy Thin Mints
 

do you think they'd be able to sell cookies to a young woman in boston? because i'd gladly buy a few boxes to support the two left in the troop!

I wanna eat some Girl Scout cookies. I've never tried the American kind! Who will send me some?

That would be awesome if we could buy cookies from their troop. I'd pay for the shipping just to make a stand against the Bible Belt.

LOL One time these kids were selling candy bars in front of one of the college building for their HS basketball team. Nobody was buying and I felt so bad since they looked so sad. I asked if I could just buy the entire box. SOB, I swear I didn't realize they'd be that frigging expensive but I couldn't back out - and after eating so many peanut m&m's I HATE THEM!

-Rudey
--My story has NOTHING to do with girl scout cookies

same here.

great story. thanks for sharing.

sharing is caring.

No problem.

So hey what's so great about having sex with an 8 year old girl in the shower? Pull her hair back in the shower and she looks like an 8 year old boy

-Rudey
--FREEAAK!

Okay, I went onto the Girl Scouts website and using the Council Finder, found this:

Girl Scouts-Bluebonnet Council, Inc
Waco, Texas 76710-5347
(254) 756-4497
(800) 460-4497 - Local Toll Free Phone
Web Site: http://www.bluebonnetgsc.org



Maybe through them, you can find out how to get in touch with "Troop 7527" (that's the one that is left with 2 members)

Good luck and tell me if you find out anything! :D

I don't know anyone who's involved in Guiding anymore so I haven't had a chance to taste the new cookies. Do they taste at all similar? I used to be totally addicted to the vanilla ones!

Girl scout ccookies are not cheap anymore either!

Those little mercenaries got me for like 3 boxes and I don't even eat cookies so had to give them away.

If we can't buy the cookies we should donate some money to the troop.

It's a shame really. Do the parents think these girls are going to be living in some pure virgin bubble for the rest of there lives? They're going to get information about sex whether the parents like it or not (and it'll probably be from their friends and it'll the worst possible information/advice ever since these girls are all from the same place).
The girls should be able to go to their parents for information on sex (but apparently these parents conceived their children through immaculate conception), but if the can't go to their parents, Planned Parenthood is the next best thing.

I would like to help the troop out. Scouts (or Girl Guides as it's known here) is a good thing. I was one. It'll be a shame if their troop folds.

Not really related but oh well.
 

When I was a Girl Scout we'd always set up shop at the shopping center right between the Bank ATM and the entrance of Safeway. We'd see people going to the ATM because they were going into the store, and we'd get them to buy boxes. Most usually did because they felt guilty and we KNEW they had cash on them!

Years later, those Girl Scout brats are still doing the same thing and they got me giving into them. It's okay though. I got boxes of Thin Mints in my freezer so when I get a craving for them in July/August, I'm all good.

I think I'm going to give them a call tomorrow. mu_agd and I will discuss and report our findings.

-GP, who was also a Girl Scout back in the day - a Girl Scout Legacy, even. :p

So, that's how you got in. :p

Yeah plus my mom was troop leader so they had to let me in. ;)

Girl, you know I can hook you up! What flavors do you want!

Those folx need to get a life and get a grip. I will buy more cookies too!

Yes I am also a PP supporter! And I was a Girl Scout!

My mother was our troop leader, too. We never sold cookies. I don't know why.

Yes, they taste quite similar. Just the logo/design on them is different.

Yes, please do. You go, Girl!

I will need to look at the website and see what kind of flavors there are! What do you Americans recommend? I've never tried an American Girl Scout cookie!
I was never a Girl Guide, but I was a Girl Guide leader for my niece's Sparks troop. So fun! How much money will you need per box? How much do they cost? Will you get them when you are over at Fred Meyer?

Actually, if you were a leader for your niece's Sparks then you're a Guide yourself (unless you were never formally enrolled). I remember a couple of mothers who were enrolled as adults when I was enrolled as a Brownie. It's kind of like being an AI! :)

NOTE: "Enrollement" in Canadian Guiding is when one receives her pin.

Sigrid,
Those rugrats are outside of every grocery store during cookie time!

They have these:

* Thin Mints

*Peanut Butter Patties

*Peanut Butter Sandwich

Piñatas

Reduced Fat Lemon Pastry Cremes

Classic Shortbread

*Caramel deLites

Animal Treasures


I have tried the asterik ones and I love these. If you like shortbread, you will love those.

Pinatas and Animal Treasures are new

While I agree with your suggestion to buy the cookies, I don't really think the problem is with the Bible Belt in this instance -- or even a location specifically -- it is more with people who are just fanatical. EVERY group has its fanatics that screw up the image for the rest ;)

WARNING....AXO Alum's lefty side is going to emerge momentarily... I am so in agreement with you on this point about the parents. Pretending that this isn't a fact of life, does NOT make it go away. My parents completely sheltered me and I was extremely naive about things related to sex. Even after the big class in 6th grade, I was still like "Huh?" -- because my parents refused to talk to me about it. They were embarrassed about it, and so I took my cue about sex and love from great role models...like Doc on the Love Boat (who was always getting some!) Thank goodness nothing bad ever happened to me -- and the worst part is, that I found out later in life that my mom and dad were pregnant in high school (my dad got drafted and went to Japan so my mom went and had my sister very "quietly"). Now wouldn't one think that if they "got into trouble" (using the old phrase for it) that they would be the first ones in line to talk to their own kids about it?!

So pull out your score cards folks, and chalk one up for the lefty :D

At least some sanity has prevailed:

"But cookie sales have skyrocketed this year as many people bought cases just to show their support for the Girl Scouts, said Becky Parker, a troop leader who is the cookie distributor for Waco-area troops.

"People thought the boycott was ridiculous and was one man's extremist views," Parker said.

It's sad that "grownups" screw up little kids to support their own agenda.

I couldn't agree with you more!!! My mother relates that in 1959 when my parents married, her new mother-in-law sat her down and informed her that should they have daughters, my mother better be "damned sure to tell her the complete facts of life OR she [my grandmother] would EARLY ON" My mother was floored at this directive. Apparently, in 1925 my grandmother knew nothing, she was 19, pregnant, not really sure HOW she got pregnant and had no idea how babies were born. Her mother-in-law had to tell her AFTER she and my grandfather were married. My grandmother said she sat at the kitchen table saying 'omigod, no, no". My grandmother swore THAT would never happen to any female she loved. She became a BIG supporter of sex education, planned parenthood and speaking out about issues of human sexuality.

Not to knock anyone but how in the hell do you not know where babies come from?!? When I was in elementary school, everyone knew.

-Rudey

Grow up in a conservative town and go to a parochial school. I got in trouble for telling other kids in my class.

OK I dated quite a few parochial and private school girls and they were, by far, the wildest.

-Rudey

Yeah, by the time we were old enough to date, we were sick of the sexual repression. I told the kids in my elementary school in fourth grade and it caused quite a big uproar. Why do you think it took me so long to come back to a Catholic school? ;)

LOL - thinking about you telling other kids the birds & the bees.

Anyone remember that movie "Bushwacked" with Daniel Stern -- where he takes the kids camping, and uses Barbie and Ken to demonstrate. Afterward he says "and then Ken smokes a cigarette and goes to sleep" and all the kids were wide-eyed and open mouthed. Too funny!

No, Rudey, I seriously did not know where babies came from. Yes, I understood the semantics of it a little better AFTER the class in 6th grade (which was elementary school for us), but I missed out on all the other important stuff that my parents should have been responsible enough to tell me.

Rudey,

I didn't KNOW how EXACTLY one got pregnant until I was like 11 years old. I knew how babies were made biologically, but I didn't really understand sex. Back then, I got really uncomfortable even watching kissing scenes on TV.

naive young girl in 1925...living in a city (not rural), her father died young so no new babies coming into the family.

It happened.

I don't think it should come from the parents. Honestly kids talk. Stuff like this spreads like none other. And at some point, being a boy you have to find porn so you see it actually happen.

-Rudey
--That parent talk is so damn uncomfortable

The Place for Sex Education
 

Sex education simply does not belong in the classroom. That's not the way that God intended it to be. There is only one proper, and decent place for sex education, and that's in the playground, and from your classmates.