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Another day another doctor appointment Jeff has a list of doctors to see an internist, which he doesn’t know why, an nutritionists who will tell him to go on a diet, an eye doctor which he wants to see, a dentist, and someone to tell I’m why his blood pressure is high. One thing he’s sure of they won’t give him any more pills to take, he has enough, I’m so glad even though I’m older than Jeff I aged better. He walk around blaming it on his misbegotten youth, he’s just a big lazy cry baby. What else is going on, not too much Hari was here earlier and as usual was a lot of fun, with my fat friend Jeff just sitting in his chair, Hari’s visits are the only exercise I get now that Larry the lizard isn’t around anymore. Speaking of Larry I recently found out he was a Colombian Gecko, I hope he’s alright he was a good companion at night and a lot of fun to chase. He also took care of the occasional pesky fly, now Jeff expects me to chase them, but there a little too fast and fly a little too high for me, so if your reading this Larry please come back fast. We just started to get the new versions of CSI, NCIS, CSINY, and Criminal minds down so that keeps fats (Jeff) in his chair at night. Well I’ve run out of things to talk about today So I’m going to leave fats to play his games on the computer and head on over to my sun spot for a little nappy poo. Ciao

Here’s Monday the game is over and, wait for it, THE GIANTS WIN!So it’s time to move on to other things Before the game yesterday Ruby and Jeff went to Exito and as they were walking down the road there was the usual juggler at the intersection. He had with a young retarded man and that got Jeff to thinking do you notice that these young people seem to look very much alike and I don’t mean that in a dispiriting way it’s just seems that the littlest thing make them happy not like us. Every time Jeff sees these people, and they are people, he’s always amazed to see that smile even when someone is making fun of them. Don’t get me wrong Jeff has seen them cry especially when they lose a completion like the Special Olympics. They just seem to get over it better than we do they understand there’s more to life then games they can get excited over seeing a flower or a bird sing in a nearby tree. These are people that society tells are different they’re called retards by children and adults When in reality all they want to do is be liked to have friends and they don’t mind if you laugh at them once in awhile (Jeff and I don’t). So the next time you see one of these people don’t look the other way or cross the street or tell your child don’t look he’s just different. Take a good look at that smile and ask yourself   this who’s better off you complaining about the traffic or your sports team that lost the other night or that young person on the side of the walk with the flower in his hand and a big smile on his face. We all know that we’re probably better off but you know it just doesn’t feel like it. I’m Flounder I’m a cat and I’m out of here.

AND THE GIANTS WIN it was a good game even if the camera coverage needed some help and the announcers, I think they were Mexican, were absolutely horrible. The 3 that did the pregame and halftime commentary looked like either they spent the week running from homeland security or we’re out chasing hookers all night. The biggest problem that they have is they have no understanding of the game even though they cover it all year. We didn’t get to see any of the commercials we got soccer adds and motorcycles that I’ve never seen advertised anywhere before. If you watched the game, at the end didn’t you think NE let the Giants score so they would have more time for a final drive? Guess what Belicheck it didn’t work AND THE GIANTS WON. See you tomorrow I’m going to kick back with a little catnip to celebrate Ciao

Super Sunday is here it’s a repeat of 2008 and we hope the outcome will be the same A GIANTS WIN. The only one who responded with a favorite team was Val (as usual) and she is a Giant fan. This is the most watched TV event in the world for one day, the world cup has more viewers but also more days to watch. You could pay off the national debt with the money from advertising or at least but a goods sized dent in it. Jeff has watched every one of the games and says only a few were really Super most or boring but this promises to a little interesting sense they have played before. To a lot of people the party is more important than the game, it’s the biggest day for pizzas sold n the US, I think they might have pizza during the game down here to, beer sales are up for the day two. It has become such a big party event that a lot of restaurants close for the day rather than have boisterous crowds at their dinner tables. Let’s see Hader’s coming that means Juan Pablo, John’s coming with Vanessa (I like her) and of course Hari, I think I’ll start looking for my hiding place now the closet sounds good if I can just get Jeff to close the door. Have a great time and GO GIANTS Ciao.

Saturday is here first just want to say there was another bombing and as far as I know no one hurt with this one and I want to thank Val for the compliment but it is a known fact that cats are brilliant. Now this is super bowl weekend in America and Jeff plans to watch the game even though he thinks it will be in Spanish. I for one don’t care if I see the game or not if there’s not a Lion or Panther or some other feline involved I could care less all I know is that it’s going to be noisy and people are going expect me to let them pet me and we all know that’s not going to happen. But today Ruby going to go and get some sort of permanent makeup done on her eyes so that means just me and Jeff all afternoon  a real bonding day not. I just want to rest up for Sunday and all the BS that goes with it. I heard that where my niece lives in Colorado there having a major snowstorm she love this stuff because she never had to drive the kids to school or go to work in the snow she lived in California. That’s one thing I don’t miss looking out the window and seeing nothing but white. Now I know we don’t see colors but the lack of black is noticeable in a snow storm plus I don’t miss ice forming on my window, that’s what good about down here yeah it rains a lot sometimes but it never goes below sixty or above eighty five. Well time start chilling for the game tomorrow let me know who your rooting for will talk about it before the game on Sunday Ciao.

Yesterday I wrote some more about history and we dealt with some of the violence Colombia has experienced; well it just got some more over the last few days. It seems the FARC decided to bomb a couple of police stations one on the coast where 9people died and 76 were injured mostly civilians and then again near Cali where 6 died (only one was a policeman) and some forty were injured. I read a comment from someone on Yahoo that said they had learned well from their teachers the IRA. I don’t know that they were actually taught by The IRA but their tactics seem to be the same profess sympathy for the people and then go out and kill them. All that I’ve read or seen in the last few years says that whatever good intentions these rebel groups started out with they are nothing more than bandits and terrorist now. They go around and rob banks not so they can help the poor but so they can buy more guns to kill innocents. I have no delusions that there’s still a political agenda that these groups are following if there is it’s that of dictatorship. I also realize that the government needs to do much more for it poor and they need to supply shelter for the homeless a lot of whom are victims of the Cocaine wars that have plagued this country in the last few years. I’m sorry if I sound like I’m preaching or lecturing but I’ve been alive long enough to see that the only people that get hurt in so called revolutions are the ones that can least afford it . Colombia has a chance to be the gem of the Americas something Chavez would love to accomplish in his country but is unlikely to sense he’s leaning to dictatorship. Colombia is growing economically maybe not as fast as everyone would like but still growing if they don’t make stupid mistakes and forget here poor they will soon find themselves perched to make history on the world stage. Ciao

Let’s try some more history 1930-1974 Soon after; Colombia achieved a relative degree of political stability, which was interrupted by a bloody conflict that took place between the late 1940s and the early 1950s, a period known as La Violencia de Los Putos (“the Violence of the bastards”). Its cause was mainly mounting tensions between the two leading political parties, which subsequently ignited after the assignation of Liberal presidential candidate Jorge Eliecer Gaitan on 9 April 1948. This ensuing riots in Bogota, known as El Bogotazo, spread throughout the country and claimed the lives of at least 180,000 Colombians. From 1953 to 1964 the violence between the two political parties decreased first when Gustavo Rojas deposed the President of Colombia in a coup d’état and negotiated with the Guerrillas, and then under the military junta of General Gabriel Paris Gordillo. After Rojas deposition the Colombian Conservative Party and Colombian Liberal Party agreed to create the “National Front”, a coalition which would jointly govern the country. Under the deal, the presidency would alternate between conservative and liberals every four years for 16 years; the two parties would have parity in all elective offices. The National Front ended “La Violencia”, and National Front administrations attempted to institute far-reaching social a n economic reforms in cooperation with the alliance for progress. In the end, the contradictions between each successive Liberal and Conservative administration made the results decidedly mixed. Despite the progress in certain sectors, many social and political problems continued, and guerrilla groups were formally created such as the FARC, ELN, and M-19 to fight the government and political apparatus. Emerging in the 1970s, powerful and violent drug cartels further developed during the 1980s and 1990s. The Medellin Cartel under Pablo Escobar and the Cali Cartel, in particular, exerted political, economic and social influence in Colombia during this period. These cartels also financed and influenced different illegal armed groups throughout the political spectrum. Some enemies of these allied with the guerillas and created or influenced paramilitary groups. Hope you learned something to day I have to get out of here Jeff has been playing Disco music while we have been doing this and I’m ready to go out and kill somebody, so before I pull all mt hair out Ciao.

Well it seems that the only person who actually read this stuff is Val sense she’s the only one who comments and she does that on an almost daily basis, which can mean one of two things either she’s really interested in this stuff or she needs to get a life. Thanks Val Jeff and I really are appreciative of your remarks .Today I think we might do a little more history of Colombia. Let’s talk about Post independence and republicanism (1824 to 1930). Colombia was the first constitutional government in South America, and the Liberal and Conservative parties, founded in 1848 and 1849 respectively, are two of the oldest surviving political parties in the Americas. Internal political and territorial divisions led to the secessions of Venezuela and Quito (today’s Ecuador) in 1830. The so-called “Department of Cundinamarca” adopted the name “Nueva Granada”, which it kept until 1856 when it became the ‘Confederacion Granadina”. After a two-year civil war in 1863,”The United States of Colombia “was created, lasting until 1886, when the country finally became known as the Republic of Colombia. Internal divisions remained between the bipartisan political forces, occasionally igniting very bloody civil wars, the most significant being the Thousand Days War (1899-1902). This, together with the United States of America’s intentions to influence the area (especially the Panama Canal construction and control) led to the separation of the Department of Panama in 1903 and the establishment of it as a nation. The United States paid Colombia $25,000,000 in 1921; seven years after the completion of the canal, for redress of President Roosevelt’s role in the creation of Panama, and Colombia recognized Panama under terms of the Thompson-Urrutia Treaty. Colombia was engulfed in the Year-Long War with Peru over a territorial dispute involving the Amazonas Department and its capital Leticia. Ok that’s enough for today thank again to Wikipedia for the info We’ll continue this tomorrow Ciao.