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kpete

(72,005 posts)
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 10:31 AM Feb 2012

Girl Scout Stunned By Neighbor Who Answered Door With: 'Girl Scouts Support Abortion & Kill Babies'

Here’s an example of the “family values” encouraged by the smear campaign that some religious conservatives are waging against the Girl Scouts:


A 10-year-old girl offering to sell cookies in Reston around midday on Jan. 14 was stunned and upset when an adult neighbor responded by denouncing abortion.

“When the woman answered the door, she looked at my daughter and said, ‘We don’t support Girl Scouts because they support abortion, which kills babies,’ ” recalled Kim Douglas, who’s been a troop leader as well as a Scout parent for four years.

“It left my daughter very shocked, confused,” Douglas said. “She said, ‘Mommy, something creepy happened to me.’ ”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/girl-scouts-critics-too-extreme-to-succeed/2012/02/22/gIQAiFF9TR_story.html?tid=sm_twitter_washingtonpost

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Girl Scout Stunned By Neighbor Who Answered Door With: 'Girl Scouts Support Abortion & Kill Babies' (Original Post) kpete Feb 2012 OP
Time for the "You can't fix stupid" discussion, I guess. MADem Feb 2012 #1
You know I bet this stupid idea started on those Fundie radio family shows like Focus on the Family. Justice wanted Feb 2012 #2
No I think it started more in the Catholic Church then anywhere else. Initech Feb 2012 #20
dammit. magical thyme Feb 2012 #3
Include me in your plan KansDem Feb 2012 #6
now they're attack little girls? warrior1 Feb 2012 #4
Of course... KansDem Feb 2012 #8
anything with ovaries is fair game SemperEadem Feb 2012 #58
Maybe they'll even label that poor little girl as a 'stupid, spoiled brat', or something. AverageJoe90 Feb 2012 #104
EVERYTHING! n/t chervilant Feb 2012 #89
what the fuck has gone wrong in the gop world? AlbertCat Feb 2012 #91
That's what cowards do. Zoeisright Feb 2012 #128
You can call my President a Fascist. You can call my party Communists. You can call me anything... onehandle Feb 2012 #5
+1 LAGC Feb 2012 #110
What kind of asshole would say stuff like this to a child? LiberalEsto Feb 2012 #7
Someone who looks like this dork deutsey Feb 2012 #15
And Lou Dobbs Irishonly Feb 2012 #21
he's a lunatic noiretextatique Feb 2012 #29
Shouldn't there be a law against "just making ridiculous shit up" for the media? smirkymonkey Feb 2012 #52
We have an ActBlue account setup to fund his opponent. LiberalFighter Feb 2012 #67
He looks like a skin-headed white supremecist. Dont call me Shirley Feb 2012 #80
Wonder if he likes them french fried pertaters... Thor_MN Feb 2012 #90
^THAT^ hifiguy Feb 2012 #121
What A Dick - He Pulled His 3 Girls Out of GS and Here's His Lame Apology otohara Feb 2012 #135
the kind of person that cares more about a zygote Johonny Feb 2012 #18
Crazy true. nt SammyWinstonJack Feb 2012 #33
A Repukian. olegramps Feb 2012 #71
2 boxes kpete Feb 2012 #9
OMG.... AsahinaKimi Feb 2012 #30
Samoas TuxedoKat Feb 2012 #35
The one with the stripes and looks all "crinkly?" sakabatou Feb 2012 #51
that is a Samoa! blondie58 Feb 2012 #87
Around here they're "Caramel Delights" now. Formerly Samoas. DirkGently Feb 2012 #88
Thin mints rock! Uncle Joe Feb 2012 #36
oh yeah and those shortbread 'Trefoils' are also blondie58 Feb 2012 #136
Tools of the radical leftist, socialist, communists trying to redistribute your wealth. gtar100 Feb 2012 #50
MMMmmmm ok now I am on a mission Spock_is_Skeptical Feb 2012 #69
Mmmm... MustBeTheBooz Feb 2012 #107
Now that's how I like my socialism: liberalhistorian Feb 2012 #124
This message was self-deleted by its author Tesha Feb 2012 #10
No Samoas for that knucklehead lapislzi Feb 2012 #11
Shouldn't that be, "What a macaroon?" Fawke Em Feb 2012 #22
Oh I don't know.... whistler162 Feb 2012 #44
Perhaps The Rock, hifiguy Feb 2012 #123
When my son was in elementary school, liberalhistorian Feb 2012 #125
I feel like I'm living in a Twilight Zone episode. Sparkly Feb 2012 #12
It does feel like the Twilight Zone siligut Feb 2012 #32
feels more like Germany 1930 to me lunasun Feb 2012 #96
Due to the successful bifurcation of the United States' citizens, it was inevitable Bok_Tukalo Feb 2012 #13
They don't get CRK7376 Feb 2012 #26
Mine either d_r Feb 2012 #41
I don't even say it out loud to the adult Salvation Army workers! A polite "no thanks" riderinthestorm Feb 2012 #49
Republican mental illness The Wizard Feb 2012 #14
I am so old that politically correct used to mean polite. Loudmxr Feb 2012 #16
Little boys are very sweet too and they LOVE their mommy rainy Feb 2012 #43
I did not mean to entirely dis my gender it is just girls are more grateful.. so Loudmxr Feb 2012 #46
OH YEAH That song rockS and NO ONE but Maurice can sing it. Justice wanted Feb 2012 #57
god bless you loudmxr. Hugs. roguevalley Feb 2012 #65
The American Heritage Girls group has 18,000 members (probably a lie) and... rfranklin Feb 2012 #17
Probably an Opus Dei connected group. LiberalFighter Feb 2012 #68
If the increase is true (I'm not taking their word for it), could it be due... JHB Feb 2012 #72
They probably sell sour pickles LiberalEsto Feb 2012 #74
Or is it The American Heritage Foundation Girls? Dont call me Shirley Feb 2012 #81
"Mommy, something creepy happened to me" Hugabear Feb 2012 #19
Even kids think you're downright CREEPY. AlbertCat Feb 2012 #92
OK - I'm going to admit that i have some issues with the Boy Scouts Kber Feb 2012 #23
That is not so much Boy Scouts but Boy Scouts of America Gore1FL Feb 2012 #66
I'm thinking flaming paper bag full of dog shit here. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #24
Or maybe a complementary box of cookies laced with Ex-Lax. n/t Ganja Ninja Feb 2012 #34
Oh, now that's just evil. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #53
It may be evil, NoQuarter Feb 2012 #75
Okay. Good point. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #113
i'm heading out to clean the yard now....where should they be sent? irisblue Feb 2012 #85
His front porch. Light it, ring the doorbell, and run. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #114
God Damn Fox and all the others for feeding the weak minded w/ the brain poison Botany Feb 2012 #25
Brilliant!! smirkymonkey Feb 2012 #54
Remember the Halloween right before the '08 election? PlanetBev Feb 2012 #27
Some people are just assholes, and love any excuse to act like one in public. Ikonoklast Feb 2012 #38
Sick. northoftheborder Feb 2012 #39
It was in Michigan: demmiblue Feb 2012 #56
wow...per the 4 yo girl: "mom, she's mean" noiretextatique Feb 2012 #116
I'm joyfully eating some thin mints right now! Bake Feb 2012 #28
How about a new flavor for Girl Scout cookies? bayareaboy Feb 2012 #31
What a sick, despicable, cruel thing to do to an innocent child doing a good work. northoftheborder Feb 2012 #37
WTF is wrong with some people? Initech Feb 2012 #40
It's sickening how fast RW lies spread. Odin2005 Feb 2012 #42
Thats the power of Hate radio workinclasszero Feb 2012 #61
Full out assault on women coming from the reich wing - TBF Feb 2012 #45
You nailed it! /nt workinclasszero Feb 2012 #62
Not someTHING creepy happened to her. SomeONE creepy happened to her DFW Feb 2012 #47
If that were my kid, I'd go and have a talk with this witch NICO9000 Feb 2012 #48
An innocent 10-year-old girl. pacalo Feb 2012 #55
What kind of dirty animal would scar an innocent child like that? workinclasszero Feb 2012 #59
How did this weird crap even get off the ground?? renie408 Feb 2012 #60
This teabag idiot for one... workinclasszero Feb 2012 #63
It was Glenn Beck who started it, last spring... countryjake Feb 2012 #84
Abortion kills babies? That's new. Fantastic Anarchist Feb 2012 #64
Do all these little fascists have aspergers or something? Fuzz Feb 2012 #70
No, they wouldn't be that stupid. More like what Asch described in 1951... saras Feb 2012 #117
Where to buy Girl Scout cookies near you! LiberalEsto Feb 2012 #73
and even if u do not like cookies they have an option this yr to donate boxes to military lunasun Feb 2012 #97
Thanks for the link! BattyDem Feb 2012 #109
Geez! Danascot Feb 2012 #76
Another Fox watching, fundamentalist undiplomat! I'm so sorry the young girl was forced Dont call me Shirley Feb 2012 #77
It started in Colorado... read here: annabanana Feb 2012 #78
And Northern Virginia used to be the sane zone MountainLaurel Feb 2012 #79
Rethuglicans would rather let them live for eighteen years. lpbk2713 Feb 2012 #82
George Carlin on Abortion: SomethingFishy Feb 2012 #122
And this neighbor probably was offended by the quick middle finger on super bowl halftime alp227 Feb 2012 #83
Kid's right. She met someone "creepy." jerseyjack Feb 2012 #86
First they came for the teachers but I was not a teacher. aquart Feb 2012 #93
Sounds like what happened to me when I went door-to-door for my (Democratic) congressman... :( Rhiannon12866 Feb 2012 #94
guess the woman hadn't got to the part of the Bible catrose Feb 2012 #100
Creepy indeed. blackspade Feb 2012 #95
Something creepy has happened to *America.* Beartracks Feb 2012 #98
"Mommy, something creepy is happening to my country." WHEN CRABS ROAR Feb 2012 #99
I knew it was in the state of Virginia before I even read the link just1voice Feb 2012 #101
great topic! jessicasiny Feb 2012 #102
I think it should be official that some of these right wingers just hate the female gender. n/t JNathanK Feb 2012 #103
Brainwashing is effective. There we have it. glinda Feb 2012 #105
good lord shanti Feb 2012 #106
My doctor did not approve of last month's a1c results at all eridani Feb 2012 #108
kpete Diclotican Feb 2012 #111
That's just sick. I'm going to make a point of buying some cookies this year. Vinca Feb 2012 #112
RESTON?! abelenkpe Feb 2012 #115
Yeah, but they get merit badges for that, don't they? JaneQPublic Feb 2012 #118
After payday, I'm getting GS Cookies MrScorpio Feb 2012 #119
Destroying America one female at a time. SpankMe Feb 2012 #120
The vulgarity of how we treat those at our doorsteps is not surprising to me at all anymore. LanternWaste Feb 2012 #126
Are you saying this is DU's fault? lunatica Feb 2012 #133
"Maybe next time you'll just buy the fucking cookies" Underwear bummer Feb 2012 #127
'Girl Scouts Support Abortion & Kill Babies' ZombieHorde Feb 2012 #129
This kind of shit just really pisses me off fujiyama Feb 2012 #130
How very sad that an adult would behave that way toward a spicegal Feb 2012 #131
Some ex-NON-girlfriend was probably a Girl Scout when she was a girl lunatica Feb 2012 #132
This all started in Indiana, the B Calm Feb 2012 #134

MADem

(135,425 posts)
1. Time for the "You can't fix stupid" discussion, I guess.
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 10:34 AM
Feb 2012

A shame that the child was abused in that fashion.

What a despicable woman--how nice that she has to live with herself; she deserves to have to keep that kind of company. Sick fuck!

 

magical thyme

(14,881 posts)
3. dammit.
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 10:36 AM
Feb 2012

for years I've managed to keep a grip on my wallet and not indulge in boxes of girl scout chocolate mint cookies.

Now I'm going to have to buy double to help make up for the assholes of the world.

SemperEadem

(8,053 posts)
58. anything with ovaries is fair game
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 03:35 PM
Feb 2012

no matter what her age is--of course those in utero are exempt until they take that first breath of air.

All that woman needed to do was not answer her door. Period. The rest of her performance was a pointless, vulgar, offensive attack against a child.

but hey, the right wingers will say that the child deserved it adn that the woman was justified in verbally attacking her.

 

AverageJoe90

(10,745 posts)
104. Maybe they'll even label that poor little girl as a 'stupid, spoiled brat', or something.
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 12:31 AM
Feb 2012

After all, assuming that every kid who isn't a perfect obedient little robot is a supposed 'brat' has been a very popular far-right meme for a very long time.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
5. You can call my President a Fascist. You can call my party Communists. You can call me anything...
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 10:38 AM
Feb 2012

But you don't attack the Girl Scouts to satisfy your personal bias.

This is Really pissing me, and my wife the former Girl Scout Leader, off.

grrrr.......

LAGC

(5,330 posts)
110. +1
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 04:24 AM
Feb 2012

I'm buying extra Girl Scout cookies next time they come by.

I've had enough of this crap, first they attack women, then they escalate it by taking it out on little girls.

Despicable behavior.

 

LiberalEsto

(22,845 posts)
7. What kind of asshole would say stuff like this to a child?
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 10:40 AM
Feb 2012

I hope parents don't let their daughters go out selling cookies without an adult accompanying them, especially in times like these.

Not only do the girls need to be protected from possible sex offenders, but now they need to be protected from insane people.

deutsey

(20,166 posts)
15. Someone who looks like this dork
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 10:55 AM
Feb 2012

Sticking to his guns: Bob Morris, an Indiana state representative, still believes the Girl Scouts to be a radical social group encouraging homosexuality and abortion


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2105119/Lawmaker-defends-rant-Girl-Scouts--Republican-leader-mocks-HIM.html#ixzz1nDW23Fx6

Irishonly

(3,344 posts)
21. And Lou Dobbs
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 11:46 AM
Feb 2012

He went on a tirade on Faux Business Channel. I saw it on Olbermann and Young Turks. He got the liberal mainstream media and Girl Scouts in one run on sentence.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
52. Shouldn't there be a law against "just making ridiculous shit up" for the media?
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 02:43 PM
Feb 2012

I mean, how is it that these people are allowed to walk freely amongst us, spreading lies and hatred and not get thrown into a mental institution for public endangerment?

People like Bob Morris are not right in the head and have no business being state representative or even ditch digger as far as I'm concerned.

 

otohara

(24,135 posts)
135. What A Dick - He Pulled His 3 Girls Out of GS and Here's His Lame Apology
Sat Feb 25, 2012, 10:57 AM
Feb 2012
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/24/bob-morris-indiana-lawmak_n_1299236.html

Call me crazy, but if I were in public office, I wouldn't go around saying bat-shit-crazy stuff like this, knowing
I would have to apologize for being bat-shit-crazy in the first place.

olegramps

(8,200 posts)
71. A Repukian.
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 04:57 PM
Feb 2012

I never thought that I would see the day that this country would be as so damn screwed up as it is now. In my humble opinion it all started with the TV and radio evangelistic fanatics who soon join by the extreme right Wing lunatics spewing their political propaganda. I realize that there have been extremes in the past, but I don't believe that the nation was as polarized as it is today. Even at its worst there were voices of moderation that dampened the rhetoric of the demigods.

AsahinaKimi

(20,776 posts)
30. OMG....
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 12:34 PM
Feb 2012

Drools... WHATS the one in the upper left hand corner called? I used to sell all those as a Girl Scout..I always bought extra of those.. the coconut ones are wonderful!


I hope the day comes when Conservatives boycott these cookies, more for me and my friends!!!

TuxedoKat

(3,818 posts)
35. Samoas
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 12:58 PM
Feb 2012

I saw a recipe for those on Pinterest. Haven't tried it yet though. Those are my favorites too.

blondie58

(2,570 posts)
87. that is a Samoa!
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 07:51 PM
Feb 2012

Ah, fond memories.
I was the cookie mom for my oldest and we had to keep the order in our house due to mice in garage.
My youngest opened up so many boxes that we had to buy!

Uncle Joe

(58,386 posts)
36. Thin mints rock!
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 01:01 PM
Feb 2012

They're best if you put them in the fridge, letting them chill out for a while and then combining with a cold glass of dark chocalate flavored almond milk.

gtar100

(4,192 posts)
50. Tools of the radical leftist, socialist, communists trying to redistribute your wealth.
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 02:25 PM
Feb 2012

Beware! Beware!!

Spock_is_Skeptical

(1,491 posts)
69. MMMmmmm ok now I am on a mission
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 04:46 PM
Feb 2012

found some near me and I'm gonna get some boxes ASAP

Samoas, thin mints, heck I will try them ALL (well except that choco chip. it looks BUSTED.)

What is wrong with some people, to tell that to a little kid selling cookies?! WTF!

http://cookielocator.littlebrownie.com/council_sales/search

liberalhistorian

(20,819 posts)
124. Now that's how I like my socialism:
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 04:51 PM
Feb 2012

peanut butter stuffed, lol! People can have their thin mints, I'll take about a million boxes of the Tagalongs! Mmmmmm.......

Response to kpete (Original post)

lapislzi

(5,762 posts)
11. No Samoas for that knucklehead
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 10:46 AM
Feb 2012

If that happened to my kid, you can bet your Doh-See-Doh that I'd be over there giving that neighbor a slice of my thin mint.

What a maroon!

liberalhistorian

(20,819 posts)
125. When my son was in elementary school,
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 04:56 PM
Feb 2012

they had a candy-selling fundraiser each year and I'd accompany him through the neighborhood. Most people were pretty polite, even those who politely turned him down (and it was a good lesson for him on how to handle rejection, which kids need to know), but once in awhile he'd get a grouch who couldn't just turn him down or not answer the door in the first place, but had to actually be rude about it. To a kid. I finally got pissed one time it happened (which fortunately wasn't often) and let the guy have it. I told him that he by no means was obligated to even listen to my son, let alone buy anything, but he could be at least somewhat pleasant about it, that it wouldn't give him a heart attack to do so.

Sparkly

(24,149 posts)
12. I feel like I'm living in a Twilight Zone episode.
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 10:49 AM
Feb 2012

Imagine that scene in black & white, set in the 1950s. It's perfect.

siligut

(12,272 posts)
32. It does feel like the Twilight Zone
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 12:50 PM
Feb 2012

All these brain-washed right-wingers. We live in a crazy place now.

Bok_Tukalo

(4,323 posts)
13. Due to the successful bifurcation of the United States' citizens, it was inevitable
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 10:51 AM
Feb 2012

Democrats get the Girl Scouts and Republicans get the Boy Scouts.

Hurray for modern American political discourse.

d_r

(6,907 posts)
41. Mine either
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 01:21 PM
Feb 2012

The thing is, even the furthest left among us wouldn't tell a cub scout selling popcorn "I'm not buying it because BSA discriminates against homosexuals." I'd like to think that we would understand that the kid doesn't get those issues. We'd just say "sorry, no thanks."

But combine that right wing need to preach with their need to bully and this is the kind of crap we get.

 

riderinthestorm

(23,272 posts)
49. I don't even say it out loud to the adult Salvation Army workers! A polite "no thanks"
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 02:24 PM
Feb 2012

with a head shake.

I can't imagine laying all that on the kids....

The Wizard

(12,546 posts)
14. Republican mental illness
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 10:53 AM
Feb 2012

You can't unring a bell, and these crackpots are the core of Republican insanity. With every lunatic missive or outburst they somehow try to link their mental infirmity to President Obama.
Call it cognitive dissonance, thought disorders, loose associations........ There is no cure for radical right wing reactionary Republican rhetoric. Engaging them in any kind of rational discourse is like pissing into the wind.

Loudmxr

(1,405 posts)
16. I am so old that politically correct used to mean polite.
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 10:56 AM
Feb 2012

There are so many things...

1. You abuse a little girl in front of me you are going to get a fist sandwich.

2. GS are much better than BS because they don't care if you are atheist or agnostic.

3. I miss my godchild Chloe. Her mother and she disappeared. Manly because her mother felt hostility from my SO. Which is true. I don't know where they are because Mommy can't hold a job or find a place to stay. I still love them.

4. I love little girls. Anything you give them they love. Unlike boys.

Thank heaven for little girls.

Loudmxr

(1,405 posts)
46. I did not mean to entirely dis my gender it is just girls are more grateful.. so
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 01:59 PM
Feb 2012

Ladies and gentlemen... The Beatles

Boys

 

rfranklin

(13,200 posts)
17. The American Heritage Girls group has 18,000 members (probably a lie) and...
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 10:57 AM
Feb 2012

Girl Scouts has over 2 million girls and 880,000 adults involved in their program.

from the link--

Nationally, a self-described, “Christ-centered” alternative to Girl Scouts, called American Heritage Girls, says its membership has jumped from 13,000 in the summer to 18,000 today.

“Most of it is from people leaving the Girl Scouts,” said Patti Garibay, founder and national executive director of the 17-year-old group based in Cincinnati. “It does seem like Catholic membership is growing quickly.”

JHB

(37,161 posts)
72. If the increase is true (I'm not taking their word for it), could it be due...
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 05:10 PM
Feb 2012

...to a deliberate anti-GG campaign. GG hasn't knuckled under to various RW crusades, so is there a new wave of sermond actively pushing this group and attacking GS for all the looniness that has oozed out into public places recently?

Hugabear

(10,340 posts)
19. "Mommy, something creepy happened to me"
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 11:37 AM
Feb 2012

Hear that, you lurking teabagging idiots?

Even kids think you're downright CREEPY.

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
92. Even kids think you're downright CREEPY.
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 09:51 PM
Feb 2012

And they're right.

I know it was hard for her, but that girl learned a valuable lesson. If she "gets" it, she will grow up liberal, because she's experienced 1st hand what the world is like without liberals.

Kber

(5,043 posts)
23. OK - I'm going to admit that i have some issues with the Boy Scouts
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 11:49 AM
Feb 2012

especially thier attitude towards homosexuality.

However, when the nice boys down the street come around selling popcorn, it would never occur to me to be such a jerk.

I just politely smile, tun down the invitation to buy, and wish them luck. If I know them (and in my small town, I often do) I will sometimes offer bottled water or a cookie. And then I send them on their way.

Gore1FL

(21,146 posts)
66. That is not so much Boy Scouts but Boy Scouts of America
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 04:32 PM
Feb 2012

The Latter Day "Saints" have their claws into the U.S. variant of the world organization.

Here is the good news. Most troops don't press the issue. I spent the last 7 years as a BSA adult leader. There are as many liberals as there are conservative leaders and scout families. The organization iteself teaches pretty liberal values when you really examine it. Most troops don't make an issue. (I know of several gay Eagle Scouts.)

The real problem is the National Office took a deal that made the male youth programs for the LDS the Scouting program. In doing so, they allowed the LDS a lot of power in setting policy.

In short, I was basically clarifying:

Boy Scouts = Good
Boy Scouts of America National = LDS
Boy Scout Troops (mostly) = Good.

 

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)
24. I'm thinking flaming paper bag full of dog shit here.
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 11:50 AM
Feb 2012

It would be appropriate - and not a sandwich bag - a full-sized grocery bag.

Botany

(70,551 posts)
25. God Damn Fox and all the others for feeding the weak minded w/ the brain poison
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 11:59 AM
Feb 2012

Last edited Thu Feb 23, 2012, 08:30 PM - Edit history (2)

.... that then runs around in the head of an idiot who then lashes out at a some
10 year old girl selling Girl Scout Cookies.

As a boy my neighbors had a Girl Scout troop meet @ their house
and they roasted marshmallows and sang songs it had nothing to do
w/ sex, abortions, witches, or planned parenthood.

Fox and the right have had their panties in a twist ever since the Girl
Scouts said that "Media Matters*," is a good source if you want to fact
check something.


* Media Matters where they have complete quotes w/times, context of
the statement, footnotes, and links to the audio and visual clip that is
in question.


PlanetBev

(4,104 posts)
27. Remember the Halloween right before the '08 election?
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 12:22 PM
Feb 2012

Some woman in upstate (I think) New York asked Trick or Treaters who their parents were voting for. If they said "Obama" she refused to give them candy. Some of the kids left her door in tears. She was a teacher, for Christ's sake!

When the media showed on her lawn, she doubled down, called Obama a liar and verbally attacking the kid's parents. No remorse.

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
38. Some people are just assholes, and love any excuse to act like one in public.
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 01:07 PM
Feb 2012

I see them as unstable personalities taking out their aggression on those who cannot defend themselves.

Bake

(21,977 posts)
28. I'm joyfully eating some thin mints right now!
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 12:29 PM
Feb 2012

The only thing I have against the Girl Scouts is this: those damn cookies are better than CRACK!! I can't stop!!



Bake

northoftheborder

(7,572 posts)
37. What a sick, despicable, cruel thing to do to an innocent child doing a good work.
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 01:06 PM
Feb 2012

I'm going out to seek Girl Scout cookies and buy as many as I have room for.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
61. Thats the power of Hate radio
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 03:58 PM
Feb 2012

Rush Limpdick and his flying monkey minions tell the very low info teabaggers what to think 24/7!

TBF

(32,083 posts)
45. Full out assault on women coming from the reich wing -
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 01:58 PM
Feb 2012

we shouldn't be surprised.

They can't talk about the economy, so they've decided to do this. Dumb fucks.

DFW

(54,426 posts)
47. Not someTHING creepy happened to her. SomeONE creepy happened to her
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 02:00 PM
Feb 2012

And that creepy someone is her very disagreeable, and very sick neighbor.

I hope her mom writes about it, naming names, in every paper in the area.

NICO9000

(970 posts)
48. If that were my kid, I'd go and have a talk with this witch
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 02:05 PM
Feb 2012

It would go in one ear and out the other, but tough. They want to attack children, they need to be told off in no uncertain terms that this is not acceptable behavior from an adult, even an idiot like this jerk.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
59. What kind of dirty animal would scar an innocent child like that?
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 03:37 PM
Feb 2012

We must stop these evil right wing teabag republicans! If these neanderthals ever get the white house and congress back into their control they will do everything they can to make The Handmaids Tale become reality!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Handmaid%27s_Tale

They will outlaw all forms of birth control, subject women to state sponsored rape with an ultrasound probe, get rid of child labor laws and force people on welfare and food stamps to send their kids to sweatshops and farms for backbreaking labor in dangerous conditions because OSHA and the EPA will be gone too!

These hypocrite bastards rail against sharia law but are foaming at the mouth to implement their own version of it on all Americans!

renie408

(9,854 posts)
60. How did this weird crap even get off the ground??
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 03:40 PM
Feb 2012

Where are they getting this stuff? The frigging GIRL SCOUTS?? Who decided the Girl Scouts are now the Mistresses of All That is Evil??

countryjake

(8,554 posts)
84. It was Glenn Beck who started it, last spring...
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 06:29 PM
Feb 2012

by claiming that a few girl scouts were attempting to inject environmental consciousness into the national organization. The deserved flak he received after that sent him on to even more wild accusations against any and all girl scouts, branding it an "activist" group, accusing them of radical liberal indoctrination of young girls in America.

Often, you can trace many of the really off-the-wall wacko campaigns back to Beck and his Blaze.

Fantastic Anarchist

(7,309 posts)
64. Abortion kills babies? That's new.
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 04:07 PM
Feb 2012

Never heard of that. So, the "baby" is born, and then they kill it? Is that how an abortion is performed?

 

saras

(6,670 posts)
117. No, they wouldn't be that stupid. More like what Asch described in 1951...
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 02:20 PM
Feb 2012

Your job: to tell which of three lines on a sheet of paper is longest. The differences are not small, the job is trivially simple. Everyone who is not blind can do it perfectly.

Now, everyone in the room but you insists, unanimously, that a different line than you chose is the longest. What happens?

About 25% say "so what? the line is as long as it is."
About a third waffle - they are troubled by the contradiction, and may go either way, but they are not not comfortable with either.
And then there's the group that conformed with the majority in 11 out of 12 instances. Some of them don't even REMEMBER afterwards that they disagreed at first.

This basic picture is supported by a bunch of new research into the difference between "conservative" and "liberal" brain function when thinking about politics, and the studies indicating that more data actually hardens people's resistance to adapting to the facts instead of supporting it. Their membership in that group is more important to them than their sense data.

No, aspies went in the right direction, but sometimes too far and sometimes off the trail completely. Sheeple are MUCH more threatening - you can't make a Nazi nation or a fundamentalist church out of aspies, it just won't work.

 

LiberalEsto

(22,845 posts)
73. Where to buy Girl Scout cookies near you!
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 05:33 PM
Feb 2012

Check this out:

http://www.girlscoutcookies.org/

Type in your zip code and they will show you a list of locations, dates and hours when Girl Scouts will be selling cookies outside supermarkets, etc.

Finally, a cause that I support, and can help by purchasing many, many boxes of Thin Mints




lunasun

(21,646 posts)
97. and even if u do not like cookies they have an option this yr to donate boxes to military
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 11:51 PM
Feb 2012

troops serving

BattyDem

(11,075 posts)
109. Thanks for the link!
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 03:18 AM
Feb 2012


They'll be in my area in a couple of weeks. I wasn't going to buy any this year because I'm trying to eat healthier, but a few cookies won't kill me. I don't have to eat them all - I can share them or give them away. Well ... maybe I'll keep one box of Samoas!

Dont call me Shirley

(10,998 posts)
77. Another Fox watching, fundamentalist undiplomat! I'm so sorry the young girl was forced
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 05:56 PM
Feb 2012

to experience that; the old bag didn't give her a chioce she just spewed her mental vomit.

annabanana

(52,791 posts)
78. It started in Colorado... read here:
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 05:58 PM
Feb 2012


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/26/bobby-montoya-girl-scouts_n_1033308.html

Bobby Montoya often dresses like a girl, plays with girl's toys, and most recently, wants to become a Girl Scout.

But when her mother, Felisha Archuleta, brought her to a local troop leader, the child's dreams were dashed. According to 9 News, the Girl Scouts worker said the child could not join, regardless of how the 7-year-old feels, because Bobby had "boy parts."

"I said, 'Well, what's the big deal?' She said 'It doesn't matter how he looks, he has boy parts, he can't be in Girl Scouts. Girl Scouts don't allow that [and] I don't want to be in trouble by parents or my supervisor,'" Archuleta told 9 News.

The Girl Scouts Of Colorado have since admitted a mistake was made. Apparently the worker who turned Montoya away was unfamiliar with the group's policies, and Bobby is now welcome to join the group. It's unclear as to whether or not she has decided to join in light of the reversal.


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MountainLaurel

(10,271 posts)
79. And Northern Virginia used to be the sane zone
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 05:58 PM
Feb 2012

In the state. Last progressive to leave the state, please turn off the lights since VA wants to go to the Dark Ages.

alp227

(32,044 posts)
83. And this neighbor probably was offended by the quick middle finger on super bowl halftime
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 06:18 PM
Feb 2012

this year. Plus, I wish the neighbor said that to Mike Malloy's daughter with Mike at a hearing distance. If you listen to Mike's show you probably know his 7 year old kid is a brownie and they were giving away free GS cookies to listeners who paid to sponsor an hour. Such an encounter would scare the fundie crazy neighbor into not listening to right wing radio (also saving many kittens' lives) ever again.

"Every time you listen to right wing radio, God kills a kitten." -Kathy Bay Malloy

aquart

(69,014 posts)
93. First they came for the teachers but I was not a teacher.
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 09:58 PM
Feb 2012

Then they came for the girl scouts.

Karl Rovism lives.

Rhiannon12866

(205,731 posts)
94. Sounds like what happened to me when I went door-to-door for my (Democratic) congressman... :(
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 11:01 PM
Feb 2012

But to say such a thing to children?!

catrose

(5,071 posts)
100. guess the woman hadn't got to the part of the Bible
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 12:02 AM
Feb 2012

where Jesus talks about children being of the kingdom of heaven...and what happens to people who hurt them.

After reading this thread, I sent an all call email at work saying I'd buy 10 boxes of cookies from any Girl Scout. Saw a GS in the pet store & bought 10 from her. Guess I should tell Fox now.

I'll give the cookies to the homeless.

Beartracks

(12,820 posts)
98. Something creepy has happened to *America.*
Thu Feb 23, 2012, 11:53 PM
Feb 2012

It's a combination of willful ignorance and blind faith, resulting in a quarter of the electorate being sheep living in an echo chamber that are easily manipulated, are weirdly focused on sex, and have no shame.

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just1voice

(1,362 posts)
101. I knew it was in the state of Virginia before I even read the link
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 12:03 AM
Feb 2012

Virginia repukes are 2nd to none in asinine beliefs and behaviors. Virginia repukes will argue for the most ignorant and ill-informed beliefs as if they are superior to everyone in every way possible and are further entitled to flap their stupid lips constantly while everyone else is supposed to listen to them as if they are the highest authority on earth.

I live in Virginia and see people like this almost daily. Rather than becoming infuriated, I've learned that these repukes are seriously suffering from mental illness that society lazily puts up with so it's best to just ignore them completely. They are hopeless. I'd tell the Girl Scout the truth, that the "conservative" is sick.

eridani

(51,907 posts)
108. My doctor did not approve of last month's a1c results at all
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 03:14 AM
Feb 2012

Nevertheless, I will be carrying more cash than usual and buying kids out of as much of their stock as I can afford. I can always bring them to potlucks or use them as raffle prizes.

Diclotican

(5,095 posts)
111. kpete
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 08:48 AM
Feb 2012

kpete

Why just dosen't open the door, or tell them, in polite terms that sorry I can't buy cokies at this time. And wish them well and stay safe?

To just going around the deep end with this is just stupid, and really not someone should do to a 10 year old child, that be girl scouts or boys..

Many things in the US looks from the outside to go really bad now. When even scouting is been part a mad political world....

Diclotican

abelenkpe

(9,933 posts)
115. RESTON?!
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 10:24 AM
Feb 2012

I hope it wasn't one of my far away fox news lovin' free republic loony relatives.

See why I stay away?

SpankMe

(2,963 posts)
120. Destroying America one female at a time.
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 04:01 PM
Feb 2012

And from the mainstream media - minimal coverage. This is a "page 3 story" with no editorial or analysis of how the country's trending loony.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
126. The vulgarity of how we treat those at our doorsteps is not surprising to me at all anymore.
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 04:58 PM
Feb 2012

The vulgarity of how we treat those at our doorsteps is not surprising to me at all anymore.

I admit that at one time, I most certainly would have reacted to this in horror, but after reading time and time again about the best ways to keep "them" from knocking on your door and bothering us, I'm simply surprised it took this long for it to happen to a small child.

ZombieHorde

(29,047 posts)
129. 'Girl Scouts Support Abortion & Kill Babies'
Sat Feb 25, 2012, 02:25 AM
Feb 2012

That is my answering machine message.




[font size=1]just kidding[/font]

fujiyama

(15,185 posts)
130. This kind of shit just really pisses me off
Sat Feb 25, 2012, 02:30 AM
Feb 2012

Why get kids involved in these fucking disputes. You have a problem with abortion? Fine, don't have one. Educate your own children however you want (though the best thing is teaching proper sex ed - which includes contraception and birth control), Bitch about it on the internet, write your congressperson. Whatever.

But don't involve kids in this - especially some kid selling cookies for a fundraiser. It's just so damn wrong. But these freaks have no class and never have. That's why they protest with shocking photos of dead fetuses and whatnot.

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
132. Some ex-NON-girlfriend was probably a Girl Scout when she was a girl
Sat Feb 25, 2012, 10:52 AM
Feb 2012

and he's mad about it to this day because she rejected his fucking ass.

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