[Vision2020] An article from IdahoStatesman.com

[lfalen]

Very good Gary. I think you need a column in th DN or rather Moscow needs to have you write a column for the DN. I think I will suggest that to their Editorial Board.
Roger
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From: "g. crabtree" jampot at adelphia.net
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:05:25 -0700
To: "Dan Carscallen" areaman at moscow.com,  vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] An article from IdahoStatesman.com

> Either become a warm, kind, caring, evolved passenger on spaceship Moscow, sensitive to the health and emotional welfare of your fellow travelers or we'll destroy your reputation, confiscate your ability to feed your family and drive your unfeeling ass out of town.
> 
> Why do certain, contestably well intentioned, people feel the need to band together to bend others to their will? When the disabled fellow and his person felt that they weren't being made as welcome as they would have liked at one restaurant they opted to go to another. Good call! Why not have left it at that? Why the overwhelming need to be vindictive, organize a mob to punish the first establishments owner, force them, by God, to come around to their way of thinking, even though the disruption was almost certainly the result of a misunderstanding or a momentary lapse on the part of Mr. Johnson and/or the caregiver/aid/friend/whatever?
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> To a lesser extent, the same applies to Bucer's. They have a smoking room. You may not like it but you are not required to frequent the establishment. Choose one of the many other businesses that are more to your liking and leave Bucer's to cater to the clientele that appreciates the increasingly rare opportunity to enjoy a smoke with like minded patrons. Attempting to pass legislation to force a private property owner to comply with your desires under penalty of loss of livelihood is meddling in another's bailiwick writ large. Lets face it, the likelihood that Mr. Rigby or Mr. Carscallen are feeling seriously neglected or that their wellbeing is negatively impacted by not being able to down yet another high priced cup of joe is doubtful. Drink in Pullman if it's more to your liking, don't deprive others into having no place to gather, all to satisfy your personal whim.
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> Since when does the majority get to dictate their way of thinking on all others, in all matters? Is George Orwell and Aldous Huxley no longer read as part of a "public education?" I guess the idea that someone might want to go their own way has become unfathomable and group think the order of the day. Liberal Moscow is turning into the Massachusetts DMV.
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> g
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dan Carscallen" <areaman at moscow.com>
> To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 6:14 AM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] An article from IdahoStatesman.com
> 
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> > Tim posts a link to an article and says:
> > "Great job Idaho Legislature.  Now if Moscow could only get Bucer's
> > Coffee House to follow the rules, the world would be a better place."
> > 
> > Not sure what anything going on in Bucer's has to do with bowling alleys
> > and smoking . . .
> > 
> > BUT, I'm all for adopting the whole "no smoking" deal like Washington.
> > Having a beer in a Pullman pub is a much more pleasant experience.
> > 
> > DC
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