400lbsonacubseatspring wrote:
No, JB, not really. I've been trying to be a good boy lately and have been biting my tongue as much as conveniently possible.
No you haven’t! I’ve been reading what you have been writing. I’ve been out of our Country for the past couple of weeks and I translated some of your “posts†into the language of the country I was working in, to some of the people I was working with. It was funny of the laughs I got from some of the phrases such as, “The Glaciers aren't Just Retreatingâ€, They're Stampedingâ€, “Ruth was a dead-ringer for Mick Jaggerâ€, “and there will at times be panic, violence, theft, murder, and the like resulting from these very changesâ€, “we'll throw $50 or $100 once or twice a year to a charity for a disaster (I know my estimate is generous here), or maybe donate some bottled waterâ€.
My escort, who was a person that made sure I stayed out of trouble, gave explanations(to the people I was with) of what some of the phrases intended.
Some of the replies on; “and there will at times be panic, violence, theft, murder, and the like resulting from these very changes†The reply :“We see the USA always like thisâ€â€œwe'll throw $50 or $100†The reply: “The people of the USA are not very efficientâ€.
“Ruth was a dead-ringer for Mick Jagger†The reply: “This is not permittedâ€
“There we have it. 5 intelligent life forms right here under our very noses, and we're entirely too stupid to appreciate it. Furthermore, we continue to consider these other sentient beings "property" instead of "persons" and treat them as such. We sell them, kill them, torture them, use them for medical experiments, and so on.â€
“There are a number of groups punching out a constant stream of legislation to have various bodies of world government recognize the great apes as "persons" under the law. While I applaud these efforts, I feel it is not enough. I feel that we must, at this juncture, include elephants and dolphins to truly protect all of earth's "thinking" creatures from being treated as property.†The reply: “We know the USA thinks it’s the world government and we know elephants are intellectualâ€
Needless to say, even with my escort giving explanations there is still a language barrier.
A person in the group I was in, asked me a question; “why was a representative of your government writing such things� My reply was this was one citizen of the United States writing of their opinions.
Needless to say my escort suggested ending the conversation.
We’ll Tom, being a typical American; I’m blaming this all on you. You wrote the Blogs, in which I translated, but if you would not have written your comments I would not have shared them and been reprimanded.
I’m going to make a stop in Germany and France to visit friends and then back to the USA
