GREAT MOMENTS IN MANLINESS – AT 10:46 A.M. ET:  Sadly, this is one of those signs of the times that points to America as an increasingly wussified nation.   From CBS: 

DETROIT (CBS Detroit) A summer rite of passage in the dog days of summer won’t be available to Boy Scouts at their camps or other activities because the group recently announced a ban on the use of water guns for anything other than target practice and a limit on water balloons.

“Water guns and rubber band guns must only be used to shoot at targets, and eye protection must be worn,” reads page 99 of the 2015 Boy Scout handbook.

The new rule for water balloons dictates their size and origin — no more puffed up balls of latex for traditional water balloon fights.

“For water balloons, use small, biodegradable balloons, and fill them no larger than a ping pong ball,” page 100 of the handbook adds.

The news was revealed in a blog post in Scouting Magazine, written by Bryan Wendell, an Eagle Scout, who is is senior editor of “Boys’ Life,” “Scouting” and “Eagles’ Call” magazines.

“Why the rule?” Wendell added. “A Scouter once told me this explanation I liked quite a bit: “A Scout is kind. What part of pointing a firearm [simulated or otherwise] at someone is kind?”

The position was not received well by commentators on the blog.

“What a load of politically correct crap. What’s the point of super-soakers if you don’t shoot them at others to get wet and cool off on a hot day?” wrote a guy who identified himself as Dave. “And water balloons no bigger than a ping-pong ball? Have you ever been hit by a water balloon that isn’t big enough to explode? It hurts more than one that is properly filled. This is such a load of BSA garbage!!!!”

COMMENT:  Is nothing sacred?  May we not have a water fight?  Is it Islamophobic? 

In World War II, Adolf Hitler ridiculed the United States military, saying American soldiers fought like Boy Scouts.  Well, those Boy Scouts did an awfully fine job.  I wonder what the case would be today if scouting is destroyed by political correctness.  It's going in that direction.

We must ask why.  And we go back to the old adage that evil triumphs when good men do nothing.  The left is militant, devoted, and on the march.  It believes it is righteous.  It believes it has the right, if not the duty, to destroy anyone in its path.  And our side has too often responded with vague speeches, hang-wringing, and business as usual.  The Republican Party, which should be bearing the battle, is too often consumed by me-tooism and a devotion to tax law.  It is the culture that is eroding.  Tax laws can be handled.

May 20, 2015