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Have you guys been reading the news lately I mean really reading it? it would seem it’s full of stories about Controversial topics like; Should priest be allowed to marry? Well you also have to let them date but I see no reason not to let them marry maybe then less of them would be molesting little boys. Then we have the one about Gay Marriage, again this something I don’t see the harm in gays have been around since before Christ and there have been haters around just as long. If you think Gay Marriage will lead to more children growing up Gay how about all the victims of pedophilia who end becoming abusers and serial killers and such. I think children brought up in a loving household will grow up to be Gay and I do know that the likely hood of them growing up to be pedophiles or abusive is just about nil. The last controversy I’ll talk about today is the legalization of drugs specifically Marijuana. I think the legalization of Marijuana is fine it would allow the government to control what goes into the product in other words you would probably see a decrease in PCP or Cocaine or even Heroin laced joints on the street and I think that’s a good one. I don’t know if the people involved in the growing and sale of legal pot can make the same profits. It would definitely reduce the amount of money the various law enforcement agencies spend on putting people in jail and they would have more room in jail for the more serious offenders. I wanted to thank everybody for the concern about my health I’m back my old form being a pain in Jeff’s ass so this me Flounder saying CIAO from Colombia. Hey bro let me have a hit of that would you.

Almost forgot to post today nothing much going on Barcelona got stomped Bayern in the championship league. It seems this particular group of officials allows a little more contact then most. The play Mueller from Bayern gets away with a lot and so does the rest of his team I don’t think it would have made much difference in the game maybe Barcelona lose by one or two goals less but they would still lose. I think I mentioned that Nacional plays Medellin this weekend I should tell this is Jeff writing today Flounder is a little under the weather he going to be thirteen next month and I think he starting to feel old. I think he has a few good years left in him I keep an eye on him and let you know how he’s doing. So that’s about it this Jeff saying CIAO for his buddy Flounder from Colombia

OK it’s a new week let’s hope it’s better than last week we’ll start off with a little soccer Medellin tied Nacional won. Now I have to listen to john all week the good thing is the two teams play this Sunday and we can only hope Medellin will prevail. In other news today is the birthday of one of Ruby’s aunts, she’s a Jeff fave, all of Rubies relatives are Jeff faves and mine too. Ruby has to go and get an ex-ray on her hand today it’s bothered her since before we came down here. They had dinner at Nachos last night Nacho now serves Roasted Chicken and Jeff says it’s great. He also thinks it’s one of Nacho’s best ideas and hopes it keeps going. Then they all came back here and everything was nice till the bug invasion, they look like termites, but I’ve never heard of termites swarming at night or flying so high. Anyhow whatever they were they were annoying they kept flying into the light and then falling down on the floor and dying. When I looked out on the balcony this morning all I saw was a few dead bugs and lots and lots of wings. I hope we don’t go thru this again tonight. The sun is shining this morning which is a good sign we’ve had cloudy and rainy weather for about a week now so maybe this means this rainy season is over but down here you can never be sure about the weather. Well I really don’t have anything else right now so this is Flounder and his buddy Jeff saying CIAO from Medellin

First sorry there was no post yesterday but Jeff and Ruby went shopping and I just chilled. Today I had planned on doing one of looks at humorous headlines but there aren’t any all you see is shootings, bombings, earthquakes, floods and dire predictions for the future of the world. They make it real hard to want o gat out of bed in the morning and do something. I hope this week is better for the world like maybe nobody blows up a building or shoots his wife and kids or nature decides to get even. Maybe if we ask real nice whoever is running the show will give us a break and we can catch our breath and patch our wounds and our kids can have some time without fear or death surrounding them. I know it’s a lot to ask but I think we all deserve a break write now, this is Flounder saying CIAO and PEACE OUT from Colombia.

You ever get tired of watching something like what’s going on in Boston and hearing the suspect’s neighbors as well as people who went to school with him saying he was just a normal kid or he was so nice I can’t believe he would do this. Wouldn’t it be nice if people told the truth, that they had no idea he actually live next door. Why would that be the truth because in America we no longer pay attention to our neighbors and in most cases have no idea who lives next door nor do we care. You’ve seen the TV programs where someone gets killed and no saw or heard anything until the TV crews arrive and they Oh yeah I knew nice guy. Jeff used to Ruby about when he first moved into the apartment in Parsippany and how everybody knew everybody and watched their kids and if you went on vacation they would water your plants or take care of your pet. Today it would cost you almost as much as your trip to get someone to do the same thing. You know I hear people talking to kids and how much better they have now and find it hard to believe. I mean both parents work the kids get to do whatever they want, which Jeff said they could when he was a child. The difference was the were police walking the streets of the neighborhood and at least one parent home in every house, you always knew someone was there for you. Jeff says that people knew these guys weren’t right but don’t want to admit it now and face question about why they never told anyone. It’s the old SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL, and SPEAK NO EVIL. In other word don’t get involved you might have to give up some of your precious time to testify or otherwise help catch the person. This is just one reason I’m glad I a cat this is Flounder saying CIAO from Colombia.

Jeff had just finished a book called Blue Gold it was about a crazy woman who ran a mega corporation who wanted to control the worlds water. Now you going to say how can that happen? Well I don’t know about a lot of countries, I’ve told Jeff to do some research for a future Blog, but where we used to live in New Jersey most of the water was controlled by private companies Like American and United water companies. Another thing in the book was they wanted to control the Colorado River since it supplied water to most of the west coast. They felt that the river was being overused and with the drought that was happening if they controlled the water they could charge unbelievable amount of money for their water. Well if you read the news yesterday, that is of course if you went beyond the tragedy in Boston you would of learned that the Colorado river just made the top of the list of most endangered rivers in the US. Now look around the world and see all the droughts and the people starving because there’s no water to drink or irrigate their crops. People in the US don’t think this can happen they know if they get thirsty all they have to do is go to the kitchen and turn on the tap. They don’t remember the big drought of the twenties when everything out west turned to dust and New York City was affected by the dust. Take a look out west and you can see the same thing happening now. The biggest threat to the world today is twofold 1, over population and 2, the lack of enough fresh water to sustain life in the future. Now I don’t expect most of you to believe me it’s like telling you we’ll run out of oil in the next thirty to forty years you’ll just read this and go “Yeah Right”. This crisis is going to require something we don’t do a lot of and that’s look how what we do today effects the future. The rich don’t care it’s going to be up to the rest of us to protect our future and by the way cats need plenty of fresh water just like you. Well time to say this Flounder and his buddy Jeff saying CIAO from Medellin.

First that’s not me in the picture I just didn’t feel like being cute for a photo today. I’m having one of those days where I really don’t know what to write about and either does Jeff. Usually when this happens I just take the day off but I felt with all the shit going on in the world I should at least try to get something out, but alas I can’t. The stuff I come up with from the news is to depressing and no matter how I try I can’t seem to find any humor today I don’t even feel like picking on Colombian soccer. I can’t even get mad at dogs barking outside, I tell you if people don’t straighten out soon I may resort to I don’t know what I’ll resort to. If anybody out there has some happy news send it to me so I can cheer up and star writing happy posts again. I guess it’s time to say this is Flounder saying CIAO from Colombia.

By now everybody has heard or seen picture of the tragedy in Boston that took place at ht end of yesterday marathon race. So far no one has come forward and taken responsibility for it and I’m not sure they will. The list of possible origination’s that might have done this includes everyone from the IRA to someone who had a personal vendetta against the race or the sporting goods store where the bombs went off. Whoever did do this they accomplished what a terror attack is supposed to do make people change their way of life, walk with care, suspect everyone and trust no one. Sad isn’t it on a day set aside to celebrate life and the outdoors, to bring people together from all over the world for a friendly day of sport and then turn into a day of tragedy. The worst part of the thing is that a child died and no one knows why. Law enforcement is going to want to catch this person or persons alive and question them and put them on trial, I don’t agree I think they should be tortured to death and their bodies burned and I think it should be done on worldwide TV. I know people are saying that makes just as bad as them my answer SO WHAT lets show these people they can’t commit this type of crime and then sit in a comfortable jail cell for the next 30 years or so. This my opinion but what do I know I’m just a pissed off cat. This is Flounder saying CIAO from Medellin Colombia.

Venezuela held an election yesterday and it was closer than anybody suspected although the result wasn’t a surprise Maduro won. Now there are claims by the Capriles side of election fraud and their probably right. But now here’s the thing it was probably on both sides the question is who was the most effective. Voter fraud is everywhere in the US there are many cases of people voting ten years after they died it does tend to be almost a way of life in Latin America. The method of voting and the one used to count and verify the vote are just too easy to mess with in most countries they know there’s going to be fraud look at Florida when Bush got elected. They just sort of ignore it since in the US the presidential election is more about certain states and money. In Latin America it’s all about money and since most of the people don’t have a lot a few pesos here or there can win an election that and having a couple of mean cops or military types standing around giving you the evil eye if they think you’re not going to vote the right way. America just likes to make very difficult for poor people to vote they draw maps and put district voting machines far away and then they have their employers dock them for the time they use to go vote, of course this is all illegal but it still goes on. I think Capriles should be grateful he didn’t win his country is so messed up right now that I doubt he would be able to change anything before the military stepped in. Well that it for political speak this is Flounder and his buddy Jeff saying CIAO from Medellin Colombia

You know Scottish and Jewish people are always made fun of because they’re what some people call frugal or cheap. In reality they’re really not but I have a good example of a people being cheap, down here people don’t have a lot of money to waste on stupid stuff like Americans do, so some people might say there cheap, but the only time you really say that is when you talk about their cell phone minutes. Here’s an example a guy is walking down the street and sees an accident right in front of him and there’s somebody hurt. The injured person is telling him he needs help call an ambulance the passerby looks around and he’s the only one there he says I don’t have a cell phone the injured person looks at him and says he left his home. After this conversation they here a ring tones and they both smile sheepishly and reach for their cell phones. This might seem extreme but Jeff has seen some people do strange thing when it come to using minutes, I should explain that nobody buys a monthly plan they go to the corner and buy a fixed amount of minutes depending on their needs and the key word is their needs. A lot of people don’t even have cell phone they go to someone who will be sitting on a corner or in front of a store with three or four cell phones and charging so much per minute for their use. People won’t use their home phones to make calls to cell phones because it costs more per call. This is a reason people tend to live close to their families of course it’s not the only reason, but it’s the one I like best. It’s time for Flounder to say CIAO for Medellin.