[Vision2020] No Hate Even in Sports

[Nick Gier]

Greetings:

I'm still willing to debate health care, but want to return to a previous 
topic.

Kai can spout and fume all that he wants about those "gol dang guviment" 
programs, and some of them have indeed been failures, but Medicare uses 2 
percent of its funds for administration while our free market and free 
wheeling insurance companies take 13 percent.  Just as important is the 
fact that our seniors like socialized medicine as much as the Europeans do.

But back to the topic of this post.  I believe it was former Gov. John 
Evans who put up the signs "Idaho is Too Great for Hate," and I would 
suggest that goes for athletics as well as religion.  Yes, sports rivalries 
are great and I wear my Vandal hat and sweatshirt with pride, but we should 
not hate anyone, even if "State" makes it an easy rhyme.

Tom is now calling me "Mr. Gier," but I think we should now make up.  I 
just proposed that when the BSU/OK video comes in that we see the game 
together. I also offered to supply the Danish beer that my daughter brought 
down from Canada.

BSU ranked #5?!! That's an insult to all Idahoans not just Boiseans.

Go Vandals,

Nick Gier


"Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to human 
affairs."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who 
represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it."
  --Mohandas Gandhi

"Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be 
discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each part 
by itself. . . .We must keep our attention fixed on the whole and on the 
interconnection between the parts. The same is true of our intellectual 
life. It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and 
art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts." 
--Max Planck

Nicholas F. Gier
Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, University of Idaho
1037 Colt Rd., Moscow, ID 83843
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