I saw this yesterday in our local news and thought back to when the "rumor" first came to my attention (read about it here).

The rumor started two years ago and connects the Girl Scouts to Planned Parenthood.

The CEO of the Silver Sage Girl Scouts Council, Shelli Rambo Roberson says the rumor has been fueled by social media sites and blogs, and for some reason, it's gaining traction this year.

Roberson says the rumor started at a global forum in Europe about the status of women in the world.

“Out of that came a rumor that there was some training given to girls from Planned Parenthood, and there is absolutely no merit to that,” said Roberson.

The rumor claims sexually explicit information was given to the Girl Scouts by members of Planned Parenthood.

“There's no partnership or interaction between Girl Scouts and Planned Parenthood,” said Roberson.

Really? Hmm...

Pelosi: Girl Scouts' Relationship With Planned Parenthood ‘Very Valuable’

In Their Own Words: Girl Scouts Partner With Planned Parenthood Across the Nation

Yikes! I can't tell if they haven't been taught well, or if they just don't care. Either way, it's scary.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHtDF-z77wk&feature=player_embedded)

HT: The Daily Sheeple

Good grief, crazier and crazier. WND:

“‘Gender liberation’ will likely be the new vogue term used to describe the tidal wave that is fast approaching the shores of the California public school system,” writes Robert Tyler, founder of Advocates for Faith & Freedom, a non-profit law firm dedicated to protecting religious liberty. “And you can be sure that it won’t stop there. It will spread throughout the nation and have disastrous consequences on the innocent.

“In other words,” Tyler explains of what “gender liberation” means, “male-female distinctions must be eliminated in order to ‘liberate’ children from unnecessary ‘stereotypes.’ This is not a movement seeking ‘equal rights,’ but a movement seeking to obliterate our God-given distinctions between male and female.”

So how would this be put into pracice?

Tyler reports in the Christian Examiner that his group received literature distributed to public school teachers at the conference, including the following instructions on proper “gender etiquette” in schools:

Economics Professor Jack Chambless at Valencia College talks about how the students of "Generation Gimme" view the American dream. It is certainly not the same dream of those who founded the country.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VxHfYNTrnic)

Granted, some people at the Occupy [fill in the location here] movement are there for reasons that don't involve an excuse to use public places for less than upstanding activities. Bill Whittle shares his theory on why the rest are there.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAOrT0OcHh0&feature=player_embedded)

Not sure how Oregon beat Idaho to the punch where it comes to allowing legal carry on campuses, but it has happened.

Today the Oregon University System (OUS) received the opinion from the Oregon Court of Appeals that it did not prevail in the defense of its administrative rule to keep guns off of public university campuses across the state. The Court concluded that the OUS’ administrative rule, OAR 580-022-0045(3) which prohibits firearms and other weapons from campuses, is invalid.

OUS chancellor George Pernsteiner said, “We are disappointed in the ruling of the Court in this case and will consider our options. Our greatest concern is for the safety of our students and the entire campus community. Whether accidental or intentional, firearms violence continues to hurt or kill thousands of Americans each year in this country. We will continue to review the opinion in order to consider future options to protect the safety of our students, faculty, staff, and visitors.

“The OUS campuses have worked over the past few years at a high level of diligence to put in place alert systems that will notify students and all campus members of any potential threat to safety. These systems and actions will continue to be in place and we will review if there are additional actions we should take to ensure that we are protecting students and their learning environment.”

This just in from the department of common sense: kids need to be kids.

I'm sure growing up you played on things, whether they were on a playground or not, that may be called unsafe for children these days. It's possible that you even got hurt some of the time.

I remember playing a game of slaugher the pig with others from the neighborhood, climing up trees as far as I dared, jumping of of swingsets at the peak of the arc, and even jumping off the roof of my house once or twice. When I look back on that now, I can see some of it may have been stupid, but most was just good fun. It was part of growing up, right?

When seesaws and tall slides and other perils were disappearing from New York’s playgrounds, Henry Stern drew a line in the sandbox. As the city’s parks commissioner in the 1990s, he issued an edict concerning the 10-foot-high jungle gym near his childhood home in northern Manhattan.That may be exactly right, according to this. Taking risks, getting hurt, making mistakes, and other "childish" behavior serves to teach kids how to deal with things better later in life. Too much coddling and you could be doing your kid a big disservice.

If something is to be banned from a playground, don't make it the jungle gyms, long slides, or see-saws, make it the lawsuits.