From KWTX News:
About 300 scouts were treated for problems caused by high heat Wednesday night during the opening ceremony for the quadrennial National Boy Scout Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill, Va.
The scouts were among thousands awaiting the arrival of President Bush, who was scheduled to speak during the ceremony, but whose visit was canceled because of the threat of severe thunderstorms and high winds.
Karl Rove, widely thought to be the brains behind the severe weather front that caused the cancellation, could not be reached for comment—though some unnamed intelligence sources are whispering that by making Jamboree attendees wait in the heat, the Bush White House was sending a thinly-veiled message to its social conservative base, who the Administration feels has gotten “a bit too uppity of late.”
This is turning out to be the worst Jamboree ever.
CHRISTAPHOBE!
That’s me…fillintheblankaphobe.
Everybody know that Fort A.P. Hill was built by Halliburton….you can just take it from there…plus, isn’t Rummy a former Boy Scout??!!!!
–Senator Dick Durbin condemned the Scouts treatment and compared it to treatment suffered under evil regimes, saying:
“If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was a news report describing how the President had abandoned these Scouts in their hour of need, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regimeâ€â€Pol Pot or othersâ€â€that had no concern for human beings.”
Has anybody else wondered how four adult scout leaders could be wrangling a long aluminium tent pole right under some high-power lines? Just asking.
Be Prepared.
Craig said “scout leaders … wrangling … pole” hehe.