[Vision2020] Sometimes, Good Things Happen

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Tom,

Great Job!  Something we agree on!

Dick S
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
To: "Joan Opyr" <joanopyr at moscow.com>; "'Moscow Vision 2020'"
<vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 8:50 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] Sometimes, Good Things Happen


> >From Bob Schieffer's commentary on today's (July 2, 2006) Face the
Nation -
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> Sometimes, Good Things Happen
> By Bob Schieffer
>
> Someone asked me the other day if it bothered me to announce bad news.
>
> The flip answer would be "I guess not or I would have found another job a
> long time ago."
>
> Because the truth is, most of what we report is bad news.
>
> When there's a fire down the street from your house that isn't welcome
news,
> but you sure want to know about it and we see it as our job to tell you.
>
> Still, there is so much bad news that I sometimes think we ought to start
> our newscast by saying, "I hate to be the one to tell you this but."
>
> Not so last week, when Warren Buffett said he would turn over $31 billion
to
> Bill Gates' foundation and let Gates decide how to give it away.
>
> It made me feel good just to announce it. What an example to all of us.
>
> So many channel their charitable giving to reflect maximum credit on
> themselves, but Buffett followed the rule he has followed in business: get
> good people to run your operation and then stay out of their way.
>
> On charity, the Bible speaks of doing it so secretly that even the left
hand
> won't know what the right hand is doing. Buffett went one better, keeping
> both hands off and letting Gates do it. "He'll have a clearer head six
feet
> above ground than I will six feet under," he said.
>
> I hope there'll be more news like that but the world being what it is, it
> will probably be awhile.
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> Seeya round town, Moscow, Idaho
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "Uh, how about a 1-strike law. Death doesn't seem too extreme for a
Level-3
> sex offender."
>
> - Dale "Comb-Over" Courtney (August 3, 2005)
>
>
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