Absolutely. My admiration of John is sincere.

There’s nothing wrong with developing those “women eating out of your hand” skills. Nothing wrong with a few gentle nibbles here and there, ya know?

John, I admire the way you got them women eating out of your hand.

John,

You don’t have to go THAT far.

I enjoy arguing too much to require apologies.

You’ve got a keen sense of humor….so at least you’re not worthless.

ROTFLM-tits-O !!!

In your listing of the supposed “extreme positions” of Sarah Palin you charged her with “making women in Alaska pay for their own rape kits”.

We should all have learned by now that treating every charge hurled against Sarah Palin as real is not conducive to ones credibility. A few facts for you to ponder…

1) Alaska had laws that hospitals and emergency rooms could choose to bill assault victims or their insurance companies for rape kits. Those law were changed in 2000, six years before Sarah Palin became Governor. And no, she hasn’t tried to change that law since.

2) Palin was Mayor of Walissa during the late 1990’s when the old laws were still in effect. However, city and police records show that no victim was ever billed for a rape kit while Palin was Mayor.

3) While police departments or medical services could technically have charged the victim prior to 2000, the State of Alaska Violent Crimes Compensation Board formed in 1971 for the express purpose of paying for rape kits and other medical expenses associated with assault cases, guaranteed 100% reimbursement for any such services.

4) During the Alaskan legislature’s debate in 2000 over changing the law, neither State law enforcement officials or sexual assault victim advocates were aware of anyone in the State who had ever actually been billed but felt the law was needed to eliminate the possibility of a victim even seeing it on an insurance statement. As committee minute’s show, the victim advocates were worried about hospitals billing; not police departments and CERTAINLY NOT Sarah Palin.

Sheila, I don’t know if your a North Carolinian but the link below takes you to a story from the August 14, 2008 News & Observer about the NC legislature approving a program to revamp its process so “hospitals will settle directly with the state, sparing victims of sexual assault the aggravation and trauma of receiving a bill”. Only eight years behind those hick extremists in Alaska, I guess.

http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/story/1177105.html

By the way, Barack Obama’s home state of Illinois has a law on the books ((410 ILCS 70/7) that allows hospitals or ambulance services to charge victims not covered by insurance or Public Aid for a variety of services including “sexual assault survivor” kits. Obama, in his role as a State Legislator, may have even been a co-sponsor of the particular law that provides for this billing option.

Sheila, I think you may be a bit extreme and very uniformed with your charges.

I apologize for the tone of my original email on this thread’s sub-topic of choice.

Both of you pointed out that I was sarcastic and insulting and that I need to cool it.

You’re both correct and I will.