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It’s been a while since I was here I had some serious computer problems. My desktop was damaged in a move and became useless. I was forced into buying a new one which meant installing Linux mint 23.1. I had a terrible time I did something wrong and lost all my passwords and a lot of other stuff before I got it 98% done. I should be OK now but we shall see. Today is Super Bowl Sunday 100 million people in the US will watch it on TV others who ar either rich or crazy will pay 10,000 dollars to go to the game. I have seen everyone and actually had tickets to one, but I sold the tickets on the plain out there and spent the weekend in Vegas. That game was one with the Giants and was at the Orange Bowl in California. If you know the Orange Bowl, you have to go all the way down and find a restroom. So I was happy to get up from the card table and only walk a little. I have seen some great football and some boring football. I think the best game was the 49ers vs the Bengals, but it is only rated like no 5 overall. I have reached the age where the possibility that this will be my last one is quite real I hope for a great game it just might be the last one on free TV. This has been JEFF and LUCY saying CIAO from Medellin Colombia.

What will it take to shut him up? I don’t know he was just fined 83 million dollars. The problem facing the US and the world right now is if he wins he will create crisis after crisis to steal money. All his lawyers can forget about getting paid and anyone else he owes money to. Donald Trump is nothing more than a fat, orange-haired con man who is a Hitler wanna-be. He tries to scare us with the threat of civil war if he loses but you can almost guarantee one if he wins. That fat bastard wouldn’t be where he is now if it wasn’t for America and its Democracy and its constitution. You know the one he wants to rewrite so he can become king. Think about that and remember all the young men who died in all the wars protecting Democracy just so this fat turd could come along and tear it all down. I’m old so I won’t be around to suffer this asshole too long, but I would like to live long enough to see him either do a perp walk or be dragged through the streets to be stoned to death. I would really like someone to explain to me how a fat orange-haired man can have so much influence on a country that’s supposed to be full of smart people. The more I look at this the more I’m coming to believe that we won’t be able to avoid violence this time around. This is JEFF and his sad friend LUCY saying CIA from Medellin Colombia.

I had a birthday this week my 78^th to be exact and I wonder like Nicky Haley why would want two 80 year old’s running for President of the United States. This was the thing that they got right this week. If you watch the news the Republicans get more like Trump every day. Just look at the speaker of the house. He’s like a contestant on the Apprentice TV show, if he doesn’t agree with you, your fired. That’s what they’re trying to do now. They are pissed Jordan didn’t shut the government down so now they want him kicked out of office. First, the fact that they’re willing to shut the government down rather than sit down and try to come to some sort of compromise shows they aren’t working for us, like they’re supposed to, but rather for their own selfish interests. This shows that 80-year-olds are too old to be president when they let their minions control the part that they are supposed to be leading. I remember learning that the Congress and the Senate were places where our representatives could meet and discuss our needs and ideas, not a place where whats for lunch and how much I make if we passed this bill. The fact that the country is upset with this gives an Idiot like Trump a chance to do away with the Democracy that so many Americans have died for in just my lifetime. People think he will make America great again when in reality by the time they realize they are wrong they won’t have the right to complain. This has been the opinion of JEFF and LUCY now saying CIAO from Medellin Colombia.

So you think what the hell is he talking about? Well, sports were the playoff games yesterday. The second game in particular. First, they made you pay to watch it, you had to have internet then you had to pay the streaming company if you want to see the game, and since it was the Chiefs vs Dolphins you know people would want to see it. Well as you know I live in Colombia where the game was free on ESPN. So OK where does weather come into it? Well, it was minus 7 during the game, and that made the ball feel like a rock. The ground was in some areas was icy and very slippery, but despite that, the game was well played and close right to the end. Now, where does voting come into this the temperatures in Iowa are supposed to be as bad if not worse when they hold their primary so they think people won’t go out to vote. As I see it if a bunch of young people can put on short sleeve shirts and run around hitting each other then people in fur cats and hats can go out and vote and voting is free so if the fans at the game who paid to stand around and freeze just so they can watch to see if Taylor showed up then I think the rest of us can but a coat and go vote. We don’t want Trump to win just because we’re afraid of a little wind and cold, do we? You can bet he won’t show he is afraid to lose. If he does lose you can bet he’ll be screaming fraud and blame the crooked Democrats for it. He could never lose because people just thought he was a liar and a crook or simply didn’t like or believe what came out of his mouth. This is JEFF and LUCY saying CIAO from Medellin, Colombia.

As you are aware I did not publish a blog for the last two weeks I did do plenty of videos. I just need a little time away from all this writing stuff. I’ve been getting migraines lately so making videos was a little easier. Now. Let’s get on with it. Those of us who see Trump as a major threat to Democracy are forgetting the rest of the idiots out there. I just found a think tank that is writing what they refer to as a platform or outline for the Republicans. After I read it and felt sick this is more like a Hitler-style manifesto. If they are allowed to put this into play, you can kiss Democracy goodbye. They want women to be nothing more than vessels for reproduction. They want the rest of us to basically be slaves to their way of thinking. I’ve been around a long time and have never seen our way of life being threatened like this and the people basically not caring. I must really be naive to think that people don’t want free speech and the rest of the stuff that goes along with democracy, but would rather have a totalitarian form of government. The question remains are there that many white supremacists and bigots out there that they would give up everything that are young men and women have died for in the last 200+ years just so they can think they are superior to the rest of humanity. This is JEFF and LUCY saying CIAO from Medellin, Colombia.

It’s the holiday season and you would think there might be a little goodwill and holiday cheer, but then you look around and it’s all BAH – HUMBUG. I don’t want to take away from all of you out there that are trying to celebrate the season but unless we get real and start exercising our rights we won’t have any next year. Yes, our system could use some tweaking but it’s still better than the options we are being given. Remember I don’t claim to have all the answers but I do know when we’re looking at ones that will make things much worse for all us regular folk. The solutions that are being offered will do nothing to improve our lot in life but, will give the power-hungry assholes that don’t care about anything but themselves exactly what they want, and the hell with us. There will always be people unhappy with the way things are but they need to stop looking for easy answers because they’re aren’t any. Like I’ve said I don’t have the answers and right now I don’t know who does. I just went to my latest grandchild’s christening and I stood there hoping that he had a good future and a world that would be there for him to celebrate his own son’s christening. I’m pretty much done with my life so I don’t write this blog or make videos to improve my life I truly want there to be a good life in front of me and all the other grandchildren out there. The year is coming to an end and I wish I could say the future looked bright. Lucy and I will be back next week to bring a more traditional Holiday post. This is FATS and LUCY saying CIAO from Medellin Colombia.

The lack of integrity in sports is not a new thought. Everybody who has lost a bet on sports thinks it was fixed. Well, now they might be right. Way back when I remember all the sports commissioners saying they would never play in Vegas, Basketball, Football, and just about every other major or minor sport is either building or already playing in Vegas. I will stick with football and basketball because I know the most about them. Basketball has had a couple of scandals, especially at the college level. Mostly involving point shaving. Point shaving can affect the game’s winner and the over under bet. This year in Pro football the officiating has been questionable, to say the least. Now, you have internet books sponsoring pro teams using athletes to promote betting online. Willie Mays was banned for a while because he went to work for a Casino after his playing days were through. Mark Cuban is selling his majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks to a Casino family. The Mafia has gone from beating and shooting to straight-up paying the athletes. Pretty soon all pro sports are going to look like wrestling and yes you can bet on pro wrestling. None of this surprises me it just disappoints me. But when you look at how politicians go around breaking the law without consequences we shouldn’t be surprised by the lack of integrity in sports. This is an unfortunate FATS and a confused LUCY saying CIAO from Medellin, Colombia.

I’m getting really tired of politicians getting away with threatening everybody on TV and nothing happens to them. They make threats against the president and you know if we did that we’d have SECRET SERVICE, FBI, CIA, and every other alphabet agency knocking on our door. In my humble opinion, Trump has done enough and said enough to be charged with treason. Now we have Santos going around making threats against the people who voted him out of public office. I believe in the Constitution of the United States but it has to be applied equally. That’s why I never want to be in the same room as Trump and some of these other morons. I don’t think I could resist running up to them and beating the shit out of them, especially Trump. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised when people buy into his bullshit lies because he’s said them so many times he’s starting to believe them himself. Hey, Trump you lost get over it it’s old news. Talk about now and how you’re going to fix things not how you’re going to get even with everybody and turn the US into a Fascist state. How do you plan on day one to destroy Social Security with no replacement in sight or how do you plan to get rid of OBAMACARE without any new plan or send troops into the cities to make sure nobody objects to you. I have a serious question for America. If Trump is found guilty in any of his trials before the election and he is allowed to be on the ballot and he wins can he be sworn in as President, could we end up with a convicted felon as President of the United States. This is FATS and LUCY saying CIAO from Medellin, Colombia.

What a hell of a week I had. Started out planning Thanksgiving dinner. Then Monday afternoon I got a call that my surgery has been scheduled for Tuesday at 2:30 pm. OK, now we are still planning for Thursday’s dinner. I go to have the surgery and I find out they’re going to do the removal of the malignancy followed by the plastic surgery on my ear. That meant over 4 hours on the table, there was a break between surgeries. When we got home I realized I was going to be in no mood to cook dinner on Thursday so we postponed it until Sunday. Now, I’m all set. They said they got all the cancer so I should be alright. The rest of the world I’m not too sure about. Trump is up to his old tricks threatening to dismantle democracy starting on the first day if he is elected. I still find it hard to believe that people would rather have a dictatorship rather than a democracy. Is it because they don’t think he really will turn this country into one. People he means it, he won’t just turn this country upside down he’ll sell us out to our enemies. If you don’t believe this or it’s something you want then good luck. I’m 77 years old which means I don’t have a lot of time left on this planet so I won’t have to feel the effect of his actions. If I was in my 20’s and this was taking place I would be planning on fighting a civil war and I would want him gone permanently as in hanged for treason. I think he has already done enough to be charged with treason but for reasons unknown to me people are afraid of this fat coward. He has lied about how much money he and his family have they are not smart they are bullies and if you stand up to a bully they will run away. This is FATS and Lucy saying CIAO from Medellin Colombia and where did I put the Advil?

No, my Holiday wish is not for Trump to choke on a Big Mac, although that isn’t such a bad idea. No, my wish is for one sane politician to emerge and I don’t care from which party they come from or what race or sex either. Now, I know that’s a big wish but, I think it may be our only shot of survival. Sounds pretty pessimistic doesn’t. Well, when you look around and see people saying and doing crazy shit and we elected them then don’t think it’s pessimistic I think it’s the unfortunate reality of our times. Somewhere along the way to this time, we must have passed through a wormhole that took us back in time before the Civil War. That’s the only way I can explain the dumb ass shit that our leaders are saying and doing. The Democrats keep saying Biden is the best we got and the Republicans keep saying Trump is the best they got. If this is true then you can understand my Holiday wish. There has to be a lot we don’t know if these two are our best choices. I’m not one of those people that says anyone but Trump. I don’t want Trump in any form but what I really want before I die is a truly good man in the office of President. He has to be honest, smart, strong, and have people respect him not fear him. The only people that should fear him are our enemies. People should have to worry if he will say or do something that will be catastrophic to us and the world. A long time ago my Mom said to me we can’t survive if everybody doesn’t understand that we need each other. She said this in a time of racial unrest but, I think it’s for right now as well. This is Fats and Lucy saying CIAO from Medellin Colombia.