HAVE YOU NOTICED
April 11, 2014
Have you noticed that there has been a major earthquake almost every day for the last few weeks? The latest was Friday in New Guinea, a seven point something, and Thursday there was one in Nicaragua. I’m beginning to think the planet is trying to tell us something only we’re too stupid to listen. Could this pertain to the end of the world as we know it or is this just an old planet flexing its joints? I’m hoping for the latter but with Mother Nature you can never be sure of her mood. I don’t think anything man has done such as global warming can cause earthquakes but I’m not really sure. I do believe, especially being a cat, the nature tries to communicate with us from time to time to let us know she’s not happy. There are so many thing we do wrong based on past beliefs that we’ll always have enough of everything and if not we’ll find something else. The early people of this planet such as the Indians of the Americas understood the bond that exists between man and nature. They took only what they needed and made sure to replenish not strip the planet. It was he white man and his inherent greed that has but the Americas at the head of raping the planet. Now the other countries want what we have and they strip forests without replanting dig huge strip mines the abandon them. One destroys a source of Oxygen the other destroys Sources of fresh water. Jeff and I are both old and will hopefully not be around to see the end results if people don’t stop and listen to Mother Nature’s complaints. So it will be up to the youth to either change the way we live or to suffer the consequences of their parent’s actions and teachings. This is Flounder saying CIAO from Medellin Colombia.
STUMPED
April 10, 2014
Jeff has started a new book or should I say he’s trying to start a new book. He had a title Children Gone but now he rethinking it which means he’s playing a lot of spider solitaire on the computer and chatting on Facebook in other words nothing getting done. He knows the cover although he has yet to go and take the photos for it. He has sold six paperback copies of his last book the cover of which you can see above. His main Character suffered a major loss in High School got his revenge went on to graduate then went into the Army where they made him a ranger then a Long range reconnaissance patrol (LRRP) he was also a world class sniper. He found that he enjoyed killing to the extent that he called himself a serial killer, and he was. He enjoyed watching so called untouchable people die slow and painfully. But now he’s out of the service tried police work that didn’t help. Went to college where he discovered an aptitude for writing computer programs as well as hacking systems. He graduates with masters in two subjects Computer science and Criminology. He decides to open a private eye/cyber security agency. He survives attacks from CIA drug dealer’s meets new and old friends and now we don’t know. I’ve seen Jeff like this before and once he gets the title done he’ll become a writing fiend but till then I’ve got to put up with the electronic sounds of cards being dealt as a new game of Spider Solitaire begins. This is Flounder saying CIAO from Medellin, Colombia.
REVIEW NO 6
April 9, 2014
Today we’ll review the Tarzan aeries by Edgar Rice Burroughs. I grew up with Tarzan in the movies played by Johnny Weissmuller and I read the comic books and some of the novels I preferred is western series to Tarzan but that’s for another review. My big problem with the series as a whole is it’s repetitive and boring. I mean once you’ve gone through the first few stories you began to wonder if he just started writing for the big bucks or his publisher kept demanding more because I mean it the books start to look like they were written by a lazy person who just changed a name or two and handed it back in. You see this is why I don’t think people should write reviews a simple liked it or didn’t like it would do. But because people want reviews I feel compelled to write one and thus critique one of the most famous authors of all time. He wrote westerns, sci-fi, and many others but I guess he’s best known for Tarzan and maybe that’s why he got lazy it was a cash cow for him. Well I’ve probably pissed off the whole literary public now so I’ll say this is Flounder saying CIAO from Medellin
WORLD CUP AND THE POOR
April 8, 2014
The world cup is coming in May and those of you in America are probably going whites the big deal but to the rest of the world it’s the biggest sporting event in the world. The host country is Brazil and it looks like they may be actually ready. There is a lot of corruption in Latin American politics and Brazil I right near the top. If you look at the two pictures I posted on the right is what they hope you see and remember. The left on represents what they hope you don’t see. First the slums are not safe second there not safe. The country has been sending in troops to the larger ones trying to clean them out and if that doesn’t work they have accidental fires that burn half of it to the ground. As beautiful as the country is and as successful as it economy might be it has one of the largest population s of poor in the world. Many had hoped the world cup would help improve thing but the Elite that run this country don’t give a shit about the poor they just wish they would go away. So when if you watch the spectacle of the World Cup try to remember all the poor people who won’t have the opportunity to see it even though some of them helped build the stadiums. This is Flounder saying CIAO from Medellin another city that turn a blind eye to the plight of it’s poor.
REVIEW NO 5
April 7, 2014
Well this is late today and I don’t care I had a lot of personal stuff to take care of this morning. I’m going to review a classic called Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie. Now this author has been around forever it seems and I don’t pretend to be such a person as to criticize a great author who only ranks behind The Bible and Shakespeare as most published. But I will say that I loved the book because it makes you think. You don’t know who did it at the beginning you have a list of suspects but you like our hero Hercule Poirot must figured out who done it.IN today’s world of mystery writers very few write like this they all like you to know who did and then watch the hero blunder his way to the solution. I guess you can tell I wish for the old days of writing to return but alas I don’t think there’s enough imagination left. This is a melancholy Flounder saying CIAO from Colombia.
RELATIONSHIPS
April 4, 2014
Today I want to talk about relationships, now before you think this is going to a Dr Phil post forget it I don’t pretend to be an expert; after all I’m a cat. I’m going to let Jeff take over for awhile but I’ll be back before we go. I no expert either but I have had my share of broken heart relationships. When I broke somebody else heart I never felt like I did something bad I just knew that I couldn’t give this person what they were looking for so I left. Maybe I could have done some of it differently or nicer and I tried but sometimes the only way to close the relationship was to mean. I never felt good about that and it would bother me my friends would get mad but they weren’t answering the phone a 2am. When I would get my heart broken, or thought it was broken, I would go into deep depression asking God why me. After awhile I would realize it was over and there was nothing I could do. After awhile the depression wasn’t going away and I noticed that I kept making the same mistakes in picking a partner over and over again. Well I talked to my friends most of whom were smarter than me and I entered therapy. That didn’t work out to well it was group and I noticed everybody had been there for years and was still talking about the same problem. I was looking for help and it wasn’t going to come here so I left. I was fine for a few years dealing mostly n one night stands and not letting myself get involved. Then I met my first wife and if you want to talk about making mistakes. At one point before I married her we broke up and I was so screwed up I wanted to kill myself. I went so far as to seal all the windows and doors and was ready to turn on the gas when the cat I had at the time Keith jumped up on my lap and stared cry and for some reason I could do it. I called a friend to come sit with me and he came right over. I thought the depression was gone but I was wrong even though I had quit drinking, thinking that would solve the problem, of course I was wrong. I asked around and was given some phone numbers to call and found a therapist that I could afford and it was the best phone call I ever made. I didn’t feel different but everybody who knew me said there was a big change. I wasn’t done making mistakes, I married that women and that could of ended worse but it turned out OK. I was Ok I got on with my life had a couple of small setbacks but I was able to handle them without the depression and eventually met Ruby and couldn’t be happier. I guess what I’m trying to say is that don’t be proud look around find some help it might not work the first time but it will. You might feel like your life is over now but trust me it’s not maybe you’ll find out your not the marring kind or you need to get away from some people whatever you’ll be OK with a little help from a PRO. I said PRO because friends have a tendency to take your side and that’s not always a good thing. OK Jeff I think you have gone on long enough hope what you said will help somebody but human relations are the most complicated thing in the world. This is Flounder and I’m happy and proud to be friends with Jeff so now it’s time to say CIAO from Medellin.
MORE GLOBAL WARMING
April 3, 2014
Here I go again ranting about the climate this time because Jeff and I just read an article where Wyoming decide not to approve new science standards to be taught in schools because the climate or Global warming was going to be discussed. So now you have a bunch of high school seniors who think everything is Ok in the world. According to most (90 +%) scientists it probably already too late to prevent the damage of Global warming. I guess once New York City and New Orleans and other low lying areas of the world go under water maybe one of these ass holes with his head up his ass will go gee maybe there is something to this global warming stuff. Of course by that time people will be killing each other over dry land and food. You know we should have learned from the American Indian and had a little more respect for the planet. I guess there sitting on their reservations going see whose getting screwed now. This is Flounder saying CIAO from Medellin.
GAYS LET THEM BE
April 2, 2014
I think I have a good subject for today one which will undoubtedly piss off a lot of people (which you know I enjoy). The subject is gay rights everybody has an opinion or just wants the subject o go away. News flash it’s not going away and you can go to the bible or the Koran or where ever and quote how marriage is between a man and a woman but here’s something way back when people were more concerned with people who wanted to marry live stock then same sex marriages. I have the opinion that sexuality is like hate you’re not born liking men or women but a sexual and as you grow older you body develops its likes and dislikes. This doesn’t mean you can teach someone to be gay or straight or bisexual and by the way I believe the future will see us all being bisexual once tis generations hate mongers dies out. In the mean time I think we should try to force people into living there lives the way we think, because unless you’re ready to hunt gay’s down and kill them, they are here and there’s nothing you can do about it. When I see a gay couple it reminds me of interracial relationship of the past where the couples were persecuted because of who they loved. Jeff is married to a Latino and there are still people in the country that will refer to him as spic lover just as there are Colombians who think she should have married a Colombian and not a Gringo. I know this issue isn’t going to be solved soon but it will be and people should just accept it because they’re not going away. This is Flounder saying CIAO from Medellin.
REVIEW NO 4
April 1, 2014
Here’s another review of some classics back in 2011 I read The Complete Collection: Of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I have always been a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes but only of the original stories the only exception I would make would be 1974’s Seven Percent Solution by Nicholas Meyer. The rest tend to diminish the true personality of the character. I think I would have very much liked to have had the opportunity to sit down and talk to Doyle I think I could have learned a lot. I ‘m really not going to try and review these stories they have passed the test of time. I will say that he has influenced every detective story since the first book, sort of how Ian Flemings, 007 has influenced action adventure and spy stories over the years. This collection doesn’t seem to be available on Amazon anymore but there are others there. I can only say if you’re a mystery fan and have only known Holmes from the movies that you take the time and read one of the original stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and while you’re at it check other books by him. This is your favorite cat reviewer Flounder saying CIAO from Medellin.
SO YOU WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH.
March 31, 2014
Colombia wants a truth commission after the peace talks with the Farc are concluded. The problem with that is like the quote from jack Nicolson’s character in a few good men “You can’t handle the truth”. Now you sit there and say what does he know that we don’t know? The answer is nothing absolutely nothing. Ok how can you say that we can’t handle the truth? By looking at the people who want the commission and they are politicians and the one thing you’ll never get from the politicians is the truth. First they’ll lie and say they are protecting hence the quote above. Then they’ll tell you a story with half truths and years later when it won’t make any difference they’ll let the truth out. But getting back to the quote if all the truth about the Farc’s revolution was to be told you’d would see the influence of organized crime not only on them but on the government as well. Now we know that even the peace talks are all about money and that the truth is none of the negotiators give a shit about the people most affected by the vilolence and that would be the poor people. If the Farc was to go into Bogota and attack the headquarters of a major corporation or bank do you think that they would still be around. No the government would have had to send a major force out to destroy them, but if they blow up a small police station in the country side then they can stand around on TV and say how outraged they are and in reality do nothing. If this was to come out in some truth commission hearing the results would probably topple the government. But what do I know I’m just a cat this is Flounder saying CIAO from Colombia.
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