tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post1624761039488301569..comments2023-10-09T04:11:47.358-07:00Comments on Not A Potted Plant: Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1620Burt Likkohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16060980744675990412noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-1364107975145328232009-12-01T17:36:13.450-08:002009-12-01T17:36:13.450-08:00I really don't understand that second comment ...I really don't understand that second comment at all although it seems to be critical in tone.<br /><br />While I appreciate the readership, you have a habit of making these sorts of elliptical remarks without actually coming out and actually saying what you really mean, particularly when it seems that you disagree with me. I find this to be annoying but usually I let it go. Today, though, I briefly considered deleting this second comment because it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the subject matter of the post of the exchange of comments on the post.<br /><br />But I reconsidered. Perhaps you're trying to get at something useful, and perhaps I'm not subtle enough to understand what it is. So instead of deleting what looks like a <i>non sequitur</i>, I will ask you to please clarify your comment, and to use simple, direct language when you do it.Burt Likkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16060980744675990412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-7766904982519089272009-12-01T16:40:03.085-08:002009-12-01T16:40:03.085-08:00P.S. "My Wife" looks fat in that dress,...P.S. "My Wife" looks fat in that dress, yet on occasions she looks perfectly lovely.zzihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933063994246150989noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-70072253839635366302009-12-01T14:14:42.590-08:002009-12-01T14:14:42.590-08:00Please read my post again. I agree with you that t...Please read my post again. I <i>agree</i> with you that the Pilgrems were quite likely ignorant of what they were doing by giving those blankets to the native peoples, and that the Pilgrims were for the most part good people doing a brave and extraordinary thing in colonizing what is today Massachusetts.Burt Likkohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16060980744675990412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13589532.post-88624661970484912682009-12-01T12:43:00.328-08:002009-12-01T12:43:00.328-08:00I didn't have Howard Zinn's" A People...I didn't have Howard Zinn's" A People's History of the United States." in high school so I'm not as negative towards America as students who did.<br /><br />Also I don't think the pilgrims possessed no real understanding of germ theory… until <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur" rel="nofollow">Louis Pasteur.</a>zzihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09933063994246150989noreply@blogger.com