health insurance

[Carl Meyer]

Richard,  I considered apologizing to you privately but the list should hear
it too.  There may be others that were offended.

I'm embarrassed that I got so carried away.

The main point I want to make now is that my last post was not directed at
you.  After reviewing the thread I'll admit it might seem that way and you
were justified in taking it personally.  Your posts do not indicate to me
that you would be the type I was railing against.

My rant was against those socialists that destroy superpowers and detract
from the quality of life for everyone.   The "large number of world
citizens"  I was referring to in my first paragraph includes a lot of U. S.
and Californian citizens.  I was not singling you out, or even including
you.

My term "evangelistic fervor" doesn't apply to you either.  We have plenty
of them here in California.

I recognize my carelessness in failing to clarify  who and what I was
railing about.  For that, I hope you and the list will accept my apology.

I promise that my next post will be about pianos.

Regards to all,

Carl Meyer



----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Brekne" <rbrekne@broadpark.no>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 12:05 PM
Subject: Re: health insurance


>
>
> Carl Meyer wrote:
>
> > I'll quit beating this dead horse since it seems like a large number of
> > world citizens are uncomfortable and threatened by the idea of freedom
and
> > its related responsibility.  They choose to live in a nanny state and
trade
> > freedom for what they think is security.
>
> Now that will be just about enough. Your rant has been fun enough...but
you have
> moved beyond that to the degree of being insulting.
>
> > Now I'm more than happy to support
> > their right to make those decisions.  I just wish they could tone down
their
> > evangelistic fervor in trying to prevent  us from making the decision to
> > embrace what they have rejected.
>
> I might suggest you practice what you preach. The only evangelistic fervor
has
> come from your corner. I simply stated what things were like here in a
response
> a fair and simple querry. I also stated quite clearly that I thought there
were
> enough pros and cons for both types of solutions that all in all they
balanced
> out pretty evenly...albiet in different ways. I ended by saying that I
> personally like the particular end result here and that that said more
about me
> then it said about anything else..
>
> Now how you turn that into some kind of evangelistic fervor in some
attempt to
> prevent others from making up their own minds is beyond me. But please...
if you
> cant dissagree without haveing to resort to calling people and nations
(allied
> ones at that) nasty little names, putting words and meanings into their
mouths
> that they were not even close to saying... then... well just ditch it.
>
> > Yes, that's my final answer!
>
> fine. we all know where you stand Carl... you dont have to beat us over
the head
> with it...
>
> > Carl
>
> --
> Richard Brekne
> RPT, N.P.T.F.
> Bergen, Norway
> mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
>
>
>