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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>
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<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>
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