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	<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[How dare Juno make a choice]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[By Craig Bosley
 
My wife and I recently saw a movie that was both delightful and comforting, with a surprisingly politically incorrect choice.  Juno, a high school girl, gets pregnant and immediately wants a “quickie abortion.”  Approaching the abortion clinic, she interacts with a girl picketing the clinic, who informs Juno that her unborn child already has fingernails.  Juno then goes into the clinic but changes her mind and leaves, determined to have the baby and put him/her up for adoption.

She continues to reject abortion even after her stepmother advocates that she “take care of the pregnancy” so she can have a “real” baby when the time is right.  Juno remains adamant, unwavering.  What is a “real” baby?  When does a fetus become “real?”  The suggestion is a “real” baby is the one you decide not to abort; the aborted baby is not “real.”  

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      <link>http://www.pocatelloshops.com/blogs/Journal_Opinion.php?id=4157</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:19:02 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>General</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Olympia Brown: Leading suffragette and female minister]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[By Nick Gier

March is Women's History Month and I would like to pay tribute to Olympia Brown (1835-1926), a leading suffragette and America's first ordained woman minister. In 1863 Brown was ordained in the Universalist Church, the 9th largest Christian denomination at the time.
In 1961 most Universalists joined the Unitarians, the former abolishing Hell and the latter rejecting the Trinity, and became the Unitarian Universalist Association. Some Universalists, however, have recently sought to reassert their Christian identity in forming the Christian Universalism Association. ]]></description>
      <link>http://www.pocatelloshops.com/blogs/Journal_Opinion.php?id=4153</link>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:06:23 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>General</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Do us men ever grow up? ]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[By Craig Bosley

I have been a doctor for more than three decades. I am not sure I can count the number of patients I have seen, the number of patient histories I have taken.  Some histories are really quite fascinating, adding information to my life knowledge I never needed to know.  The one constant I have noticed throughout these years is that men and women are staggeringly different.  More importantly, those differences never diminish or go away.
One example of confusion (to us men) is why women believe they can finish the job our mothers failed to finish? Do they honestly believe our mothers did not do their very best, trying to raise us to adulthood? Nonetheless, women marry us with the premeditated intent of spending the entire marriage helping us to grow and mature. And, for reasons that must be genetic, they never give up, despite all evidence to the contrary that they should. They never accept the reality that the peak of our maturity, the one time for which we muster all the maturity we will ever have, however slight that might be, is our wedding day!]]></description>
      <link>http://www.pocatelloshops.com/blogs/Journal_Opinion.php?id=4147</link>
      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>General</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[No reason for Pocatellans to smear town]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Idaho State Journal Editorial

	You won’t find many people in Sun Valley complaining there’s nothing to do. Missoula residents would argue no city compares with the place they call home. And you’d be hard pressed to find a Jackson, Wyo., resident anxious to leave for greener pastures. 
	Those places are all widely regarded as havens for outdoor recreation, particularly by their own residents. And those cities all placed behind Pocatello in Outdoor Life magazine’s ranking of the nation’s top community for outdoorsmen.
	Pocatello appears fifth in the list, which will be published in the magazine on Thursday. The only other Idaho city to finish ahead of us is Lewiston at No. 2. ]]></description>
      <link>http://www.pocatelloshops.com/blogs/Journal_Opinion.php?id=4137</link>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>General</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Advanced Energy Center boon for Southeast Idaho]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[By Randy Jensen

	In a recent editorial, the Idaho State Journal urged those of us in Power County to examine the details of the proposed Advanced Energy Center before embracing it.
	That is exactly what I, my friends and other community leaders have already done.  As a result, I have concluded that the center will create a substantial net benefit for county residents and Southeast Idaho as well.
	The benefits of the project are obvious and attractive: A major investment in our community, a significant contribution to our tax base, a product that will be used locally and the creation of good-paying jobs.  With the center built, many of our young people will be able to work here and raise their families.  There currently are few opportunities for our students who leave American Falls, earn degrees and try to come back.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.pocatelloshops.com/blogs/Journal_Opinion.php?id=4129</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 10:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>General</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Due diligence needed on Advanced Energy Center]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Idaho State Journal Editorial

        There’s no question that the estimated 1,000 construction jobs and 150 full-time positions that would be created by the proposed Power County Advanced Energy Center would give the local economy a shot in the arm. 
	But as those who attended a series of recent public meetings on the proposed facility have learned, the jobs would come at a cost. Though the businessmen with Southeast Idaho Energy have gone to great lengths to make their proposed operation as clean as possible, emissions would still be considerable.
	The $2 billion plant planned for American Falls near Lamb Weston would gasify up to 4,000 tons of coal per day and transform it into as much as 3,500 tons of fertilizer. It’s an important product for an agricultural region such as Southeast Idaho. ]]></description>
      <link>http://www.pocatelloshops.com/blogs/Journal_Opinion.php?id=4118</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>General</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Human beings all]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[By Craig Bosley
 
Last week I wrote an article on homosexuality.  To suggest this is a volatile subject is a gross understatement.  	The number of responses, the intensity of those responses, and the speed of those responses was overwhelming.  This could mean the topic should be off limits, it could mean dissenting opinions should not be printed, or it could mean this topic is so important, so volatile, so emotionally charged that more discussion is needed rather than less.  
	I would suggest that making any topic off-limits is inappropriate.  I would further suggest deciding which opinions can and cannot be advanced is equally inappropriate. ]]></description>
      <link>http://www.pocatelloshops.com/blogs/Journal_Opinion.php?id=4115</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 19:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>General</category>
      <comments>http://www.pocatelloshops.com/blogs/Journal_Opinion.php?id=4115#cmt</comments>
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      <title><![CDATA[The truth about Tasers]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[By George W. Katsilometes
For The Journal

	Yes, ladies even you can now own a pretty pink Taser which will deliver a minimum of 50,000 volts of energy at a distance of up to 15 feet for at least 30 seconds.  
	Just think of it, you can own the same “less lethal” weapon being marketed to the military, city governments and police departments around the world. Orders are currently being taken at Taser parties being conducted by enterprising women around America. 
	Multiple articles in the Idaho State Journal referencing the use of Tasers by local law enforcement departments led me to question why the police would choose to use such a device to take a young man into custody who was holding a knife to his own throat?  ]]></description>
      <link>http://www.pocatelloshops.com/blogs/Journal_Opinion.php?id=4104</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>General</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Let’s talk Cuba, legal holidays]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[By Perry Swisher

	Two experts on Cuba — meaning two Cubans — were being interviewed about the likelihood of changes in the island nation now that Fidel Castro has at last quit. Both were reluctant to predict any imminent major change.
	I beg to differ not from knowing very much about Cuba but because I have seen so many news pictures showing how old all the automobiles are in Havana: There are limits in this new century to how long you can keep the younger generations docile 90 miles from an unlimited supply of car parts and even new cars.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.pocatelloshops.com/blogs/Journal_Opinion.php?id=4097</link>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>General</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bigger planes just a start to help service]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Idaho State Journal Editorial

	Delta Air Lines is considering a change in future service to Pocatello, scheduling three flights to Salt Lake City with 50-seat jets rather than the five turboflight flights now offered by subsidiary SkyWest Airlines which accommodate 30 passengers each.
	Whether that would be an improvement in service is problematical. People who fly probably prefer the jets, but a choice in flights would be reduced from five to three.]]></description>
      <link>http://www.pocatelloshops.com/blogs/Journal_Opinion.php?id=4078</link>
      <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
      <category>General</category>
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