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<DIV><SPAN class=470483319-09012007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><FONT
color=#000000>LOL Nick, remember that</FONT> <FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000 size=3>"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.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=470483319-09012007>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.</SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=470483319-09012007>This nation was founded with the concept of
personal responsibilty, accountabilty and self-determination in mind, that
concept is slowly being lost.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com]<B>On
Behalf Of </B>Nick Gier<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, January 09, 2007 11:10
AM<BR><B>To:</B> vision2020@moscow.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] No Hate
Even in Sports<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>Greetings:<BR><BR>I'm still willing to
debate health care, but want to return to a previous topic. <BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>BSU ranked
#5?!! That's an insult to all Idahoans not just Boiseans.<BR><BR>Go
Vandals,<BR><BR>Nick Gier<BR><BR><X-SIGSEP>
<P></X-SIGSEP><FONT size=2>"Truth is the summit of being; justice is the
application of it to human affairs."<BR>--Ralph Waldo Emerson<BR><BR>"Abstract
truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by
proving their readiness to die for it."<BR> --Mohandas
Gandhi<BR><BR>"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." --Ma</FONT><FONT
size=1>x Planck<BR><BR></FONT>Nicholas F. Gier<BR>Professor Emeritus,
Department of Philosophy, University of Idaho<BR>1037 Colt Rd., Moscow, ID
83843<BR><A href="http://users.adelphia.net/~nickgier/home.htm"
eudora="autourl">http://users.adelphia.net/~nickgier/home.htm</A><BR>208-882-9212/FAX
885-8950<BR>President, Idaho Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO<BR><A
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