#renaming our trip savings to immigration savings

[goddessonahalfshell]

I love how my life partner and I had spent the last week making plans for this winter and how much we want to improve our over all health and actually go out to enjoy our lives and now it's just us planning on how to move out of the country and worrying if getting married will end up harming us rather then making sure we don't get separated.

Super cool. Love it here.

[asweethistory]

S’mores Scouts

Peach Pit Ice Cream with Chocolate Covered Graham Crackers and Roasted Marshmallows

Wanting to create an organization that taught young girls that they could accomplish anything, Juliette “Daisy” Gordon Low, held the first Girl Scout meeting on March 12, 1912 in Savannah, Georgia. 

As an accident-prone and sickly child growing up in Savannah, Chicago, and New York, Juliette spent most of her energy on art and poetry. With the help of her cousins, she formed the Helpful Hands Club, which made clothing for Italian immigrant children. Her nickname was often altered to “Crazy Daisy” due to her spontaneity and eccentricity. In her early 20s, Juliette traveled to Europe and learnt how to write shorthand, ride bareback, and hunt birds. In 1886, Juliette married William Low, but because of long bouts of separation, his gambling, and Juliette’s inability to have children, the relationship was rocky. While she was home alone, Juliette continued her passion for painting and took up wood- and metalworking.  She also focused on charity work, which William did not support. By the turn of the century, after the revelation of William’s adultery, the couple proceeded with a divorce, although William died before it was finalized, leaving everything to his mistress. Juliette contested the will and ultimately received their Savannah home.

Looking for a new purpose, Juliette met the founder of the Boy Scouts in 1911. After getting involved in the female offshoot of the Boy Scouts, the Girl Guides, Juliette started her own organization. Although she originally wanted it to be the sister organization of the Boy Scouts, there was other competition, most notably from the Camp Fire Girls, ran by the chief executive of the Boy Scouts, James West, who promoted strict gender roles. Juliette moved forward with renaming her group the Girl Scouts, a decision that West opposed because he believed that boys wouldn’t be comfortable sharing the name with girls. 

Juliette went on to develop a national headquarters and spread Girl Scouting across the country. She wanted girls to learn self-sufficiency and to understand that life existed outside of traditional womanly duties. On camping trips, the girls learned first aid, astronomy, sports, and math. With the U.S. entering WWI, the Girl Scouts grew and supported the war effort by farming and canning their own food. They also collected and donated peach pits to the Army, since it had been recently discovered that stone fruit pits could be turned into charcoal, which helped to absorb deadly gas. The Girl Scouts were second to the Red Cross in accumulating peach pits, using signs with messages like “You save peach seeds, you will save soldier’s lives.”

In 1920, Juliette pivoted from leading the national organization to traveling and advancing its reach abroad. At the time, the organization had 70,000 members, a number that more than doubled by 1930. Juliette died of breast cancer and lead poisoning at age 66. She was buried in her Girl Scout uniform, the pocket of which contained a note that read, "You are not only the first Girl Scout, but the best Girl Scout of them all."

Today, we know the Girl Scouts foremost for their cookies, which they begin selling in 1917, but there is another sweet treat that is attributed to the scouts. Ten years after they sold their first cookies, a recipe for “Some More” was published in a 1927 Girl Scout guide called “Tramping and Trailing with the Girl Scouts.” The name of the chocolate, marshmallow, graham cracker sandwich wasn’t shortened to s’more until after 1971. Of course, these treats had been tasted before they were promoted by the Scouts, but it was the Girl Scouts who popularized and named our favorite campfire dessert. Interestingly, the history of marshmallows and graham crackers themselves makes an ironic contrast when then are mushed together: In the late 19th century, marshmallow roasts were known to be great places for sensual flirting, while early in the century, minister Sylvester Graham invented the graham cracker to kill libido.

Never affiliating with the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts always swayed more progressive and preached inclusivity. Juliette,  who had gone deaf at age 17, wanted no disabled girl to feel unwelcomed. Starting in the 1930s, their resources were published in Braille. This attitude was maintained throughout the Girls Scouts history. In 2011, despite haters, a Colorado troop became the first to admit a trans girl. That being said, though, the Girl Scouts were segregated until the 1950s. Yet, Martin Luther King Jr. called them “a force of desegregation” in 1956. The Boy Scouts did not desegregate until the 1970s.

[theroadbuildinggeek]

Why not Trudeau for PM again? Ask Trudeau about these things

Your minister of finance engaged in insider trading – should be a 10 year sentence.

You blew the Asia Pacific deal.

You blew the helicopter deal with the Philippines.

You blew the pipeline deal (he's now trying to save himself from it).

You blew the deal with China.

You blew the deal with Europe.

You invited "irregular" immigration and the taxpayer foots the enormous bill for it.

You alienated the United States – our largest trading partner.

At the G7 you pledged $400 million to Education around the world along with another $180 million to the Global Partnership for Education in Europe. None of it is going to fix our messed up school systems here at home. Meanwhile education costs are skyrocketing for our youth making university a mountain too high for many to climb.

You pledged $241 million to Family Planning around the world including a $20 million donation to the Bill and Hillary Clinton Foundation (because they have integrity!). This all happened while you told vets that they were asking too much.

You pledged $2.65 billion to climate change at the Commonwealth Leaders Summit and now you’re trying to bully the provinces into new taxes to pay for this pledge.

You pledged $300 million to the Rohingya Refugee crisis while we have a refugee crisis of our own flooding into Quebec that you won't address.

You pledged $125 million to Caribbean Reconstruction while our own infrastructure in cities is falling apart.

You pledged $650 million to Sexual and Reproductive health in Haiti and around the globe wanting safer abortions for woman while many women in our own country are left without a family doctor.

You pledged $50 million to Palestine for flood relief when NB had some of the worst flooding in decades this past spring.

You pledged $840 million to Syria for Humanitarian Assistance when half the native reserves in our country don't have clean drinking water.

You gave $10.5 million to a convicted...CONVICTED terrorist in a backroom deal that has lead to another $30.8 million paid out for three others who say they were wrongfully detained.

You spent $4.5 billion on a 65 year old pipeline, and now the courts have ruled it shut down. Now it's back on (at a delay cost of $250 million) - good investment for Canada you said? (And KM uses that money to build a pipeline in Texas)

You pressured Jody Wilson Raybould repeatedly & INAPPROPRIATELY with several different high ranking officials to offer SNC Lavalin a DPA instead of prosecution for repeated & sustained corruption AFTER the former AG had determined they were ineligible for such a deal. You lied about the above having ever taken place.

You replaced Canada’s old F-18s with Australia’s old F-18s.

Your bizarre love of all things Castro.

You imposed tough regulations and taxes on oil from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Newfoundland but not oil from Saudi Arabia.

Every new project has to undergo strict environmental assessments...except cement plants in Quebec.

You said that a proposed pipeline must consider “the intersection of sex and gender with other identity factors” (what does that even mean???)

You think older Canadians should be replaced. How is that moral?

You chase foreign companies (and their investment capital) out of the country like they have the plague.

You chased our WW1 soldiers out of our national anthem... lest we forget.

You continuously use identity politics...then complain about identity politics.

You forgot Alberta was a province.

You called small business owners “tax cheats”.

People voice concern over money spent on illegal immigration and you call them intolerant racists.

We have an equalization program, but you give half of it to one province.

You spent $8 million on a skating rink (vanity project) when Canada's largest skating rink is 500 meters away.

You added tens of billions added to the national debt while lying to Canada's face about it.

You groped a woman and when caught - laughed about it (MacLean's interview) and said she experienced it differently.

You elbowed a female MP while dragging another MP by the arm in a petulant huff.

You renamed Fishermen to "Fisher-folk"

Peoplekind? (international embarrassment)

You got India to invest $250 million in Canada but we have to invest $750 million in India first.

You compared returning ISIS terrorists to Italian immigrants and said they will be an extraordinary powerful voice for Canada.

You let terrorists keep their Canadian citizenship.

You spent $212,234 on artwork for the cover of the 2017 budget report.

You think Canada is 100 years old instead of 150.

You spent upwards to $348,000 on food and alcohol in five flights on our government’s plane. On your G20 trip to Argentina, you spent $103,000 on food and alcohol alone. How is that even possible?

You gave Canadian taxpayers' money to Hamas.

You voice outrage over fake racist attacks and say nothing about real terrorist attacks.

You took 10 vacations in a single year. Who does this??

You spent a little over $1.5 million on the trip to India that did nothing but worsen ties. Plus paid over $17,000 to bring an Indian chef to India to cook Indian cuisine. And to top it off, invited a convicted attempted assassin to diner and posed for pics with him.

And you’re the only PM convicted of ethics violations. (multiple times in fact)

You allegedly destroyed the career of one of Canada’s honest military leaders to cover up possible massive corruption in ship building contracts.

You invited Joshua Boyle, an alleged perpetrator of sexual assault and unlawful confinement for a photoshoot in the Office of The Prime Minister.

You threaten to sue the leader of the opposition then chicken out when you realized that your alleged crimes will be exposed in court.

You offer over $600 million dollars in subsidies to failing mainstream media outlets if they can prove to be trustworthy. You put a union who vows to destroy your opposition in charge of selecting these new “trusted” sources to receive funding. You could school the Russians in election interference.

You pay off your friends to engage in election ads for you and get Elections Canada to pay for it.

$200 million to Loblaws for new refrigerators.

You made public statements of deep admiration for Chinese communism.

You wore preposterous costumes during a state visit to India.

What moral, functioning Canadian human could possible justify voting for you?