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Well we’ve been doing new from the US and we think it’s time to do some about Colombia. The big story the one they spend most of the New Cast on is about negotiations between the Government and the rebel’s forces known as the Farc. It’s our opinion that this isn’t a good idea. In recent weeks the Farc has been very active in the Cauca (not sure if I spelt that right) attacking power lines rural police stations and civilian targets in most cases innocent lives are the most affected. They have only once attacked a military target and that was when they ambushed a patrol and killed twelve soldiers most of what they do is related to protecting the narco traffickers. The United States has declared the Farc to be a terrorist group, so you know they won’t be part of the negotiations. I don’t believe there’s a leader that can speak for the rebel’s that are acting as criminals and these criminals have relieved the same training and weapons as the rebels, making them the equal of the army and police. It would also appear that these weapons and training are coming from Venezuela and Cuba. It would also appear that Venezuela is offering safe haven for both. President Santos when he was the minister of defense dealt sever blows to the rebel forces on a military level I don’t know what has happened to change the situation in such a way as to make him want to negotiate instead. I will keep my friends up north apprised of the happening s down here as well as my usual sarcastic look at American news Flounder has left the building CIAO.

Like they used to say on Saturday Night live “all the news that’s fit to print and some that’s not” Ok here we go Clinton whips up crowd at DNC ( bet you that’s not the only thing he whipped) , California bank robbed bomb strapped to manager ( I think there will be a few job vacancies at the managerial level in the banking Business),US to look like Greece in 2021(first we have to build a coliseum then age it and then have a lot of naked women running around are senate, wait a minute we already have that one), Tearful Roddick says goodbye (nothing funny  here he will be missed), and my final story of the day Man swallows 14k diamond ( now that’s going to hurt hope he doesn’t have Hemorrhoids. You my first story about Bill Clinton made me start to think about how much people miss him, they don’t miss Bush Jr, they don’t miss Nixon, they don’t even remember Carter, but they miss good old Bill. He wasn’t a bad Pres he got a lot done he just couldn’t keep it in his pants, but as you look at Hillary can you blame him , he at least made his term interesting especially for those secret service guys who had to stand around and watch. Well that’s news and commentary for today CIAO.

Wed. and more headlines Mormons not voting for Romney, Hurricane Isaac sweeps thousands of dead rats onto Mississippi beaches (who cares there dead). The great Chestnut trees of Europe are dying (no more chestnuts roasting by the fire) US national debt hits 16 Trillion (they owe me $250) Bill Clinton prepares to nominate Obama (and this is good for Obama) Turkmenistan holds naval drills on Caspian (these people have a Navy!) now here are the one people really  don’t care about Mans skill at Carnival games, Snookie debuts new born son(Give me a break) Now I find this one to be important 400 trees to be cut down so the shuttle Endeavor can be taken threw South LA to Lax  and the California space museum (maybe it’ll get car jacked) Well sense I’ve got nothing else to talk about this morning CIAO.

You know the thing about Blogging is there doesn’t seem to be an end to it; it just goes on and on and on with no end in sight well maybe that’s a good time will tell. Today is news day let’s see Heir to Red Bull arrested for hit and run (probably drank too much of his own product), Obama says Americans are better off than they were 4 years ago (somebody is always better off every 4 years), New Jersey man arrested for murder of sleeping kids ( why bother arresting him just hang him), Giant nude sculpture ( somehow this doesn’t strike me as news) and the final one for today Scientology auditions actress to be Tom Cruise’s girl friend (This religion makes Satanism seem normal) that’s the news for today. So listen a good friend of Jeff’s keeps complaining about the hic-cups says he’s tried everything with no result if anybody has a new cure let me know and I’ll forward it to Darren. The birds didn’t come around this morning or I got up to late so I’m going to go sulk on the bed CIAO.

Yesterday was a chill day after being out late to watch the soccer Nacional won 3-0 in a badly played game, thank god Barcelona was on espn in the afternoon so Jeff got to watch some good soccer. The only good thing about Saturday was being able to hang out with the family Hader was there with Catalina and the kids, Nacho, Olga and Camilo were there and John, Vanessa and Hari, and of Jeff’s favorite El Jefe, so that part was fun. Watching the game was tedious, boring and masochistic and then Medellin actually quit with time still on the clock Jeff say at that point they probably couldn’t have won but they could have at least tried to score a goal. No professional team should ever lay down and quit while there is still time on the clock to Jeff it’s an act of betrayal to the fans who paid money to see them play 90 min. In America the crowd would have booed and maybe gotten rowdy but watching it on TV it looked d like they were as resigned to be losers as much as the players were. Jeff is going to pick up his new glasses tonight maybe there won’t be so many mistakes to correct in these posts after he does. I think that covers it foe now it’s early and maybe something will happen and I’ll be back till then CIAO.

I’M SORRY BUT I REALLY LIKE THIS PICTURE

Football Saturday and my Nephew Bill played his first football game last night don’t have results yet but if you look at him (he’s no 71) and then look at those around him it just doesn’t look fair. The other picture up there is of his grandfather and my brother Bill a lot of Bills in the family My nephew, his father, and his grandfather. His grandfather was 6` 4 ¾ inches tall and weighed 215 pounds and believe me he would break down his height to the hundredth of an inch if they would let him. My nephew is around 6` 5“ and looks to be bigger than his grandfather he bigger than his father, must be all that mountain air. Anyhow we’re trying to find a place to watch what they call the classic down here Medellin vs Nacional that always fun to watch the brothers root against each other. Well as soon as my niece wakes up and puts some pictures and the score up on Facebook I’ll be back for now CIAO.

It’s Friday and the world is still a mess let’s look at the headlines Earthquake in the Philippines, gunman shoots two and kills self in New Jersey, 125 students found cheating at Harvard University and on the same page TV show Jersey shore cancelled ( No more Snookie). Then you have Clint Eastwood talking like a crazy person at the Republican convention, when will it all end? Well for the sake of funny bone not to soon I hope. I wish all the news could be laughed at and there weren’t crazy people running around doing crazy shit, but that like rooting for a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. So what’s up for the weekend? College football starts in the US, baseball races heat up, World cup eliminations continue, the republican convention ends and we can get ready to laugh at the Democrats. I guess that  covers everything today we’ll see what tomorrow brings CIAO.

Jeff’s a little sad today his niece Janet left for Tokyo Japan today and will be gone for two whole years. He says he hopes she makes enough money to retire when she gets back, but he figures between taxes and work load she probably won’t. Jeff feels lucky to be retired, as he feels his other niece Kim feels the same way. People always told him he wouldn’t be able to do it, because he go crazy with nothing to do. Well when you have a two year old grand child who spends weekdays calling your name to come play with him you really can’t say you have nothing have to do. Still Jeff insists that if that wasn’t the case it wouldn’t bother him, he’s quite content to watch the shy change and take the occasional walk. He say it’s because most of his working life was spent in 60 or 70  hour work week and that being able to sit back and smell the Roses is fine with him, of course he loves the fact that I’m around to make him laugh and that Ruby is here and she doesn’t have to work every day. Jeff did write a book (Yet to be edited or published) but did that because he wanted to and it helped keep his imagination active. Both of his nieces are quite brilliant and he thinks they should write books to it would be fun to see which one wrote what. You know their father always wanted to sit down and write a book I don’t know about what but knowing him it would have been to intellectual for me maybe one could write a book for kids and the other could write about a hero cat and with that remark I bid you CIAO.

Congratulations to Hader his girlfriend is home for good, now he’ll begin to understand what the rest of us married folk have been going thru. There will be a big fiesta Saturday night which means I get the house to myself for most of the night and Ruby gets drunk it’s a win win for everybody but Jeff who has to put up with it all. Any how it’s great for Hader it’s something he has wanted for awhile and I for one sincerely hope it all works out the way he wants. Hey I just heard you don’t have to worry about the world ending in Dec. of this year the Swift- Tuttle comet is going to destroy the planet on Aug 14, 2126, so it’s going to be somebody else’s problem not mine. I glad I don’t have to worry about that anymore now I can just plan on partying my ass of this holiday season. There’s another hurricane going to hit New Orleans today on the anniversary of hurricane Katrina  I think sooner or later there going to have to either move the city or build a very high strong wall around it, regardless here’s hoping  nothing bad happens this time around. The president of Colombia says he wants to talk peace with the Farc but how do you talk peace with if there activities aren’t political but criminal, we’ll keep are eye on that and see how it pans out. I think it’s time for me to do a little bird watching so until tomorrow CIAO.

Well don’t say I didn’t warn you here’s Jeff with a rant. You want to know what gets me mad is when I hear some young person try to explain why they are Republican or Democrat and most of the time the answer seems to be I’m such and such because my family is or I’m not because my father is. I like to call myself an independent but disenchanted would make more sense. It seems that every presidential election has two candidates that are equally easy to dislike, now I know the members of each party will start screaming that’s not true, but it is. The President of the US doesn’t really have much to say about policy it’s the people with the money like Goldman Sachs or IBM or some other big company. Now again I know that there are a lot of people who will argue that with me and that’s OK maybe we’ll all learn something from it. Every time we elect a new president the country is filled with optimism and it take about eighteen months for the novelty to wear off and we start looking for someone to blame and it’s usually the President if he’s not a member of your political party. I think before we can get a President who can or will try to influence major change we have to get rid of some of the old party hacks in the Senate and Congress some of these people have been there longer than dirt. It would also be a good idea if the American voter actually had an idea of what really goes on in Washington. Take a look at some bill that everybody seems to want and it looks like it’s good for the country and then look at the riders (Riders are compromises that are added to the bill to get it passed and trust somebody is getting screwed by them) that are attached to them most of them you never heard about until after they’re passed and they will have an adverse effect on somebody usually what used to be called the middle class ( now referred to as broke and out of work). If you don’t think this is true look at the last census figures and see that the United States has the largest disparage between rich and poor than any other country in the world and before you say that it’s due to all the immigrants we have on welfare or something similar, look at it this way it means that we have the smallest percentage of people controlling the majority of the money than anywhere else in the world. If this was somewhere else there would have been a revolution by now. This countries citizen’s are too concerned with what on TV or keeping up with the Jones to understand that soon it won’t make any difference because we’ll all be working to stay alive. So when you think about voting forget the party and look at the candidates do they really care what happens to the country or are they just concerned with their own ambitions CIAO.