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Posted on entry How to Save America ::: March 10, 2009, 07:04 PM:
- teach and nurture a child

I appreciate the suggestion to buy local even if it means spending a little more. The trouble here (Anchorage) is that so many of the mom-n-pop places are going out of business that it's either the box stores or the internet, and I find myself choosing the internet a lot more due to the prices. Just today I found out that a quaint little "Shaver Shop" is now out of business. This guy would take my shaver once or twice a year, replace the heads, and clean it out for me, all in a matter of about a minute. I always felt like I was treated like a real customer. And you could buy all sorts of hard to find after-shave lotions, soaps, grooming kits, etc.
Posted on entry Palin and the Rape Kits of Wasilla ::: March 02, 2009, 09:56 PM:
@20, 23, 33, I am no troll and I take exception to the claim or any hint otherwise. I've been reading the blog for a few years now and I felt strongly about something and I reacted, uninvited and without any "ticket," though. My apologies.

In the minority I am, but the whole thing struck me as not nice (sure, from TexDoc's rudeness, too, and the best reason, of course, to dish it right back in earnest!), Jim's "coherent barrage of facts" using a "rhetorical tactic." Ouch.
Posted on entry Palin and the Rape Kits of Wasilla ::: March 02, 2009, 05:47 PM:
Wait a minute, here, folks. I'm afraid you haven't proved anything against TexDoc. Mr. Macdonald pulled out a rape kit that centered around evidence gathering, but so what? Did anyone ever stop to think that it was possible that "rape kits" could be of more than one type and have different areas of focus? Is there only one kind of rape kit in this country, or could there be, maybe, a couple different types used in the legal and medical fields? Is it that unlikely that another rape kit could possibly center more around health care and disease prevention than the apparently legal one Mr. Macdonald had to describe in such a detailed way? And... I really found Mr. Macdonald's response to TexDoc to be rude, hollier-than-though, snarky, and over the top (e.g., "What does that have to do with health care, Doctor?" continuously.)

The argument should go a tad deeper than whether or not Palin is simply charging victims for evidence collection.

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