tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19799165.post4807035635876208729..comments2023-09-05T11:15:00.803-04:00Comments on Terry's Travel and Thoughts: DubaiTerryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11158479700070688643noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19799165.post-70169720930962270872008-04-16T17:06:00.000-04:002008-04-16T17:06:00.000-04:00Gosh.....It must be fun being you........Gosh.....It must be fun being you........Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11158479700070688643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19799165.post-58391246128311051732008-04-16T16:23:00.000-04:002008-04-16T16:23:00.000-04:00Travel, that's my middle name. You think you've se...Travel, that's my middle name. <BR/><BR/>You think you've seen the world. I've seen a heck of a lot more and all from the comfort of my train seat.<BR/><BR/>I live in a tent. <BR/>I school the kids myself (Steiner)<BR/>I don't have bills because there's no electricity or gas in the tent (I heat things by rubbing stones together to make a fire)<BR/>I'm a raving Tory<BR/>I don't tell myself I want Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19799165.post-6718212906979320242008-04-15T17:27:00.000-04:002008-04-15T17:27:00.000-04:00Good lord are you some sort of blameless "earth mo...Good lord are you some sort of blameless "earth mother" ?<BR/>Look we all make compromises.<BR/>I hate to say it but maybe you're similar to the saudi "princess" I met in Dubai.....Its easy to be green when there are no sacrifices associated.<BR/>I'll bet that you:<BR/>Live in a house you own<BR/>Have a kid in private school,<BR/>Don't struggle to pay the bills every month:<BR/>are a left of Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11158479700070688643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19799165.post-31276943161913509042008-04-15T13:11:00.000-04:002008-04-15T13:11:00.000-04:00I don’t buy my kid toys – I make them from organic...I don’t buy my kid toys – I make them from organic cotton I grow in my greenhouse. I also sew carrier bags with this material which dispenses the need for plastic bags. I would never dream of buying food in recyclable cardboard boxes – I grow it on my allotment and carry the lot back in the organic cotton bag. <BR/><BR/>Purer than pure carries anonymous privileges.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19799165.post-63716913179562772552008-04-13T03:51:00.000-04:002008-04-13T03:51:00.000-04:00Well not reallyI don't have responsibility for the...Well not really<BR/>I don't have responsibility for the Middle Kingdom anymore, though when I did there were a number of issues I mulled over in my mind.<BR/>First off I sell educational "stuff" INTO china.<BR/>The business I do doesn't spawn sweat shops or help fund an miltary industrial complex. My Chinese employees, for the most part college educated, but not anywhere near the elite or party Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11158479700070688643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19799165.post-42662328635722964302008-04-12T16:33:00.000-04:002008-04-12T16:33:00.000-04:00are you conflicted doing business in China too?are you conflicted doing business in China too?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19799165.post-60594178560462042402008-04-10T08:47:00.000-04:002008-04-10T08:47:00.000-04:00I've commented a couple of times on the plight of ...I've commented a couple of times on the plight of the underclass of workers in Dubai and the wide gulf that exists here.<BR/>http://terrystravelandthoughts.blogspot.com/2008/02/back-in-dubai.html<BR/>and here<BR/>http://terrystravelandthoughts.blogspot.com/2007/12/dubai-again.html<BR/>The place is a pretty sad testimony to exploitation.<BR/>I am conflicted to a degree about reaping the benefits Terryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11158479700070688643noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19799165.post-34639464344788743282008-04-10T04:17:00.000-04:002008-04-10T04:17:00.000-04:00I think those fearless guys you mention are Pakist...I think those fearless guys you mention are Pakistani workers with no rights, milked by the Dubai money men. <BR/><BR/>These desperate people apparently keep throwing themselves off the buildings to escape their living hell.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com