[Vision2020] No Hate Even in Sports

[Kai Eiselein, editor]

LOL Nick, remember that "gol dang guviment"  legislated sexual behaviour
between consenting adults and hunted down "unAmerican citizens" as well. The
less "gol dang guviment" we have involved in our personal lives and choices,
the better off we are.
As we hand more and more of our choices and responsibilites over to that
"gol dang guviment", we give up a measure of freedom each and every time. We
start treading the slippery slope of falling into a nation governed not by
law, but by force and coercion.
This nation was founded with the concept of personal responsibilty,
accountabilty and self-determination in mind, that concept is slowly being
lost.
  -----Original Message-----
  From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]On Behalf Of Nick Gier
  Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 11:10 AM
  To: vision2020 at moscow.com
  Subject: [Vision2020] No Hate Even in Sports


  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
  http://users.adelphia.net/~nickgier/home.htm
  208-882-9212/FAX 885-8950
  President, Idaho Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO
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