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Event - The Title of Liberty Walk, June 27
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LIBERTY WALK 2009 AND THE TITLE OF LIBERTY FLAG DISPLAY Date: Walk & Program: Saturday, June 27, 2009. The Title of Liberty Flag Display is [...]
School is out and the kids are bored… what now?
It seems that we need some ideas on ways to keep our kids busy this summer. We all know that busy kids get in less trouble. Let’s post some ideas here. Anyone who has raised kids has probably got some inventive ideas.
Both of my kids were working summers with locally owned restaurants when they were [...]
The Experience of a Lifetime
When people find out that I work in hospice I usually get the same responses:
“Oh, bless your heart, you must be a special type of person to do that.”
or “That must be really hard. I could never do that.”
or “That must be a really depressing kind of work.”
While receiving these comments is run-of-the-mill for me, [...]
Idaho Falls, Today – Jonathan Folk, a three-time convicted pedophile, received a LIFE sentence with no chance for parole.
I will try to keep this one short.
In January, a Bonneville County jury found Jonathan Folk guilty of lewd and lascivious conduct with a minor, making this his third conviction. Folk’s most recent (known) offense took place on Christmas Day of 2007, against a five-year-old boy, while visiting distant relatives here in Idaho Falls. In [...]
Mother sues clinic after botching her abortion and throwing her live newborn out with the trash…
While not directly connected with the Idaho Falls area, I did feel this story would give charge to a very interesting debate amongst the local readers and contributors. Regardless of your politics or moral compass, this should not happen here in the United States, nor any country for that matter.
A recent UK article tells of an 18-year-old Florida woman’s, Sycloria Williams, visit to an abortion clinic, located just outside of Miami, in order to terminate her 23-week pregnancy.
Now, the young woman is suing the Florida clinic for “botching” her abortion by allowing her child to be born alive, and then placing the baby into a plastic bag and throwing the newborn out with the trash.
Allegedly, the doctor (Dr Renelique) did not arrive in time and Ms. Williams went into premature labor, delivering a live baby girl. Then, one of the clinic’s (un-licensed) owners cut the infant’s umbilical cord, placed the newborn into a red plastic biohazard bag and threw it out.
Police, one week later, recovered the decomposing remains of the infant child, found in a cardboard box, only after receiving anonymous tips. An autopsy revealed air in the baby girl’s lungs - proving that she was born alive and breathing.
A very sad - yet true story! Furthermore, let us not forget that Obama and Congress now want to re-implement the funding of overseas entities that assist in family planning - aka abortions.
(I encourage you to read the background and story concerning this post – notes and links provided below. Note that the youngest premature baby to ever survive, Amillia Taylor, was born at just 21 weeks and six days.)
Teacher’s Union President, Peggy Christensen, Wants District 93 to Stop Rewarding Teachers.
District 93 has finally started to recognize the great hard work that many teachers are doing. The district has recently given special recognition to dozens of teachers who have done outstanding at their job.
Forty one teachers were honored and received cash rewards from $500.00 to $4,000.00 for going above and beyond and [...]
California Court Criminalizes Homeschooling
If you homeschool your children or are even thinking about it read this story and weep. Without even citing the statutes or constitutional principal on which this opinion is supposedly based, Justice H. Walter Croskey wrote in a February 28th opinion for the California 2nd District Court of Appeals, “Parents do not have a constitutional [...]
What kind of sex scandals merit leadership changes?
Today news broke of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer being investigated in connection with an international prostitution ring. Rumors are circulating if Governor Spitzer will or should resign his office. Do you think Spitzer should resign his office? Do you think he should be forced out of office? Does anyone know if New York or [...]
Stay-At-Home Parenting
A high school student wrote a column in the Post Register in January, about the virtues of feminism. One of her issues was around the choices of career by her peers. In an informal poll, she asked the “what do you want to be when you grow up?” question, and one response surprised [...]
Idaho should be praised and modeled for low teen smoking rate
Our local KIDK News 3 affiliate recently carried an Associated Press story that Idaho was criticized by a Washington anti-smoking group because they do not think we spend enough money on teen anti-smoking efforts.
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids says Idaho spends too little of tobacco taxes and our 1998 tobacco settlement proceeds on discouraging [...]
The Idaho Falls Grinch Who Stole Christmas Power
Kudos to the Post Register’s Marty Trillhaase who wrote an opinion piece yesterday pointing out how Idaho Falls city power is shutting off peoples’ power for being late on their bills, despite this being the coldest winter months and despite children, disabled, and elderly folks being in some of those homes.
How do they get away [...]
Idaho Falls is Hostile to Pedestrians
I was encouraged to see the Community Pathways group recently featured in the Post Register, however our city needs much more help and involvement than one volunteer group. We need civic leaders, citizens, business owners, and developers to get on board with the pedestrian-friendly environment that Idaho Falls is lacking. Some problems are city-wide design [...]
whew, slow day, time to all start commenting again!
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