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Health & Fitness

The Day the Thin Mint Died

I look forward to January every year, because I find it hilarious that as the nation is embarking on New Years Resolutions the Girl Scouts of America sabotage every fitness goal that you may have by selling their ridiculously delicious Thin Mints (or whatever you favorite flavor may be) the 3rd week of January, right when people stop going to the gym or peter out on their resolutions.

I have always loved my Thin Mints.  But this year that love for the Thin Mints and respect for the Girl Scouts of America died.  I was a Girl Scout, and never once was there a political agenda pushed or endorsed by a CHILDREN's organization - exactly as it should be.  It was group of girls lead by women to empower women and their community.  I remember learning, doing, and participating in making us and the community a better place.  Not the epic crassness that is happening now.

Well Girl Scouts of America I need an explanation of how you can "tweet" the most "incredible woman of the Year" as Wendy Davis?  Seriously,  Wendy Davis?  You got nothing else?  No other amazing women in the country but someone that slapped in a catheter and put on some pink tennis shoes to filibuster a bill that wanted to LIMIT late term abortions?  The same women that lied on her biography.  That was not a single mom, she actually left her child with her husband so she could attend Harvard.  She lost her children to her ex-husband - who she filed for divorce from the day AFTER he made her final Harvard law school payment.  The children she lost custody of - one of the children wasn't even biologically his -  and this is the INCREDIBLE WOMAN OF THE YEAR?  She wasn't an incredible woman - she was an incredibly KEPT woman, but without a rich man supporting her, she might just have been a trade show booth bunny.

Perhaps I could give you a list of amazing women that you should celebrate, and not one of them is a cheerleader for late term abortion, and actually is incredible.  Women that are to be admired for actually overcoming adversity and doing amazing things with their lives.

Malala Yousafzai
Mia Love
Carly Fleishman
Temple Grandin
any special needs mother
any woman athlete
and woman soldier................. should I go on?????

So as the Washington Times Reported: 

Several years ago. a quarter of the Girl Scout councils nationwide admitted to partnering with Planned Parenthood, the nation’s abortion giant. When questioned about the affiliation on NBC’s “Today Show,” Girl Scout CEO Kathy Cloninger had no compunction in confirming it.

The Girl Scouts have been “pro-choice” for years, but now they’ve been caught supporting promiscuous sex for girls. The Planned Parenthood sex guide offered at that “girls only” U.N. meeting offered this advice on Page 11: “Some people have sex when they have been drinking alcohol or using drugs. This is your choice. … If you want to have sex and think you might get drunk or high, plan ahead by bringing condoms and lube or putting them close to where you usually have sex.”

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There really is now nothing appealing about the Girl Scouts of America.  The thought of supporting them by purchasing my beloved Thin Mints makes me nauseous.   It is actually very sad, that the only thing they promote as incredible about women are their ability to cheer lead for sex for young girls and abortion disguised as healthcare. 

I really thought, and know women are capable of so so so much more.  Don't you agree? 

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