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I’m sure you’ve heard how upset the world is with the US about spying on everyone well this has been going on forever. Every country spies on every other country this nothing new it’s just the fact that it became public that’s upsetting everyone. In America we spied on the British, French Spanish, and Native American during the revolution and they all spied on us. Now days Israel spies on us we spy on them. Even the Catholic Church has an intelligence agency and it’s very effective, but you won’t see that in the papers or on line. All countries handle the issue of spies as quietly as possible by simply removing them from the country and sending them home without publicity. Even corporations spy on each other with regularity, so I don’t know why everybody’s upset with the US unless their jealous of the technology used. It does make for good reading on the internet everybody loves a good spy story and it gives more plots to the Fiction writers. I’m sure we’ll see a boat load or books involving the NSA and it’s spying in the next year. it also keeps commentators and politicians something to talk about instead of the real issues. Well this is Flounder, and its Sunday my day of rest while Jeff and Ruby go off to El Jefe’s house for lunch, so CIAO from Medellin.

One thing that really disturbs me about humans is their ability to do harm to children. I mean how a parent can beat a child sexually attack them or any of the horrible things that are done to them. Humans are supposed to be more developed than animals with a sense of caring for their fellows. But some of the things I read about or see on TV make me believe humans have some serious flaws. They use kids as weapons or bargaining chips in divorces why? There is a multibillion dollar business going on in the traffic of children and it seems that most of the world doesn’t give a shit. There ought to be more severe punishment for crimes against children and I think torturing child molester should be legal as well as vigilante justice. Now before you say that would make us as bad as the criminals let me say this there is no cure for their addiction they will continue to inflect pain and suffering as long as their aloud to live. Let’s see how willing you are if a child you care about is abused by someone you knew and trusted. I know if someone did harm to Hari Jeff wouldn’t let the justice system punish him, even jail wouldn’t keep Jeff from getting to him. he doesn’t believe in forgiveness when it comes to someone doing harm to a child. I know he would kill anybody that hurt anyone in his family including me. This is a secure Flounder saying CIAO from Colombia.

I just finished reading an article about a young African American lady that was fired from the restaurant chain Hooters for having blond highlights in her hair and is now suing Hooters. Now this may or may not be a legitimate claim but it reminded Jeff of all the crap he had to put up with as a restaurant manager as well as owner of a small business. In the restaurant he managed the stall had the labor department on speed dial so it was managing while working on egg shells. If an employee did something wrong you had to document it in triplicate warn them twice about their behavior and then talk to the company lawyer to make sure you did everything right before you could fire that person. While you were doing that said employee was going around saying he was being picked on and trying to create unrest in the rest of the staff. Now if you ever worked in the business you know that people work different days and time so it’s possible that some of the staff would be unaware of said employee’s behavior and would take his side. This would require a staff meeting after the dismissal to explain yourself, and reaffirm the policies that had got the person fired in the first place. That is why Jeff hated management because even when they more than disserved to be fired you had to jump thru hoops to get rid of them. This is a glad I never had to work Flounder saying CIAO from Colombia.

I get tired of reading about violence involving kids and then hearing it’s the fault of TV and electronic games. That’s not the fault youth violence has been around forever and the biggest cause, other than actual some kind of brain damage, has been parental neglect. We don’t mean parents abandoning their kids although that does happen far too often. We mean with the cost of having a family so high now both parents have to work and the kids spend their youth being brought up by nannies or schools rather than their mother and father. When parents get home from work now, they but the kids in front of the TV and use it as a baby sitter while there on the phone or taking a nap. When something bad happens involving there kid they look everywhere for an excuse rather than saying I guess I just never gave him enough time. When Jeff was growing up his mother didn’t work she was there every day when he got home from school she new every kid he ever made friends with they had to come to the house and meet her to get her stamp of approval. Some of them who didn’t have the best home life spent more time at his house than they did at theirs. The point of this story is stop blaming the TV and the Play Station and start taking responsibility for your kids. If you don’t you might be seeing them on TV and not the way you want. This the confirmed Bachelor Flounder saying CIAO from Medellin.

First I apologize for not posting the last few days but Rubies cousin Christian passed away Saturday and we were involved with that. He was only thirty three he had lung Cancer and had a lung transplant last year. Everybody thought he was doing better but Wed. or Thur. of last week he got sick it was an infection in the other lung and he went quickly. I won’t go into details of the funeral it was very beautiful and well over a hundred people showed up. As we get older we see people we know and love die but no one expects someone so young to die. Parents are never supposed to bury their children. While Jeff sat thru this with his wife Ruby, who was sadder than he had ever seen her, he decided he didn’t want any of this when he died. He knows his nieces will want to be there and family will put pressure on Ruby to have funeral but he doesn’t want people, some of whom he won’t even know, standing around saying stuff about him. he would rather they Cremate him right away then the family can gather to scatter his ashes someplace quiet and peaceful. Then they should go and party not sit around and cry. Jeff is nonreligious and doesn’t want to be hypocritical after he’s gone. He wants people to take his wife and party she doesn’t need to feel sad and morn my death she should celebrate life. Jeff hopes people will abide by his wishes, but he dies he’s not going to know one way or the other. I don’t want to talk about this anymore this is Flounder saying CIAO from Colombia.

Now here’s a good topic what do you want to know and what do they want you to know. After sixty some years of watching the news I’ve seen go from a truly informative non opinionated format to one that shows only that particular person on agenda. In other words all you see or read in the news today is slanted to someone, usually someone rich, personal point of view. If they do show you something of value they will drown you in interviews with a hundred different people who really don’t have a clue but want their fifteen minutes of fame. They also can delay telling you something so that you don’t react to it, for instance down here the other day the Farc blew up a railroad carrying coal to port for export. This story was a blurb on Yahoo so later in the day when the news came on down here Jeff and I were interested to see what they said. What they said was noting not even a mention on the banner at the bottom of the screen. It did show up briefly two days later when there were more current events happening. In the US they just tell the story but inject their opinions as editorial comment. Take a look at the various stations now and see the various reasons given for the government shutdown and who was to blame for almost causing the collapse of the economy. So the next time, you read or watch a news item do me a favor take it with a grain of salt and not as the gospel truth and make sure you really want to know the truth before you start looking for it. This is Flounder saying CIAO from Colombia.

Well today is the 2nd anniversary of this blog we didn’t get the average one a day that we had the first year because well the longer you do something like this the harder it becomes to find new stuff to write about. Jeff and Ruby have gotten into a routine so there isn’t a lot of new stuff there and I tend to sleep a lot now that we have a nice quiet home. The holidays are almost here and with them come family gatherings and a lot of noise so you’ll probably see more stories from here that doesn’t mean that Jeff will stop writing his opinions it just means there might just be some interesting stuff to read about. Well this is Flounder about to take an anniversary nap saying CIAO from Medellin.

Well looks like the debt crisis is over for the moment so I decided to see what else I could write about that would get people riled up and Jeff came up with a hum dinger. Let’s talk about Bruce Springsteen is he this generations poet laurite or is just a great entertainer. I think he’s just a great entertainer even though he thinks he’s the second coming of Bob Dylan. Now Jeff met Bruce maybe 44 years ago in a bar called Casablanca down the shore in Brielle. Jeff was there drunk as usual when the bartender said “Hey you got to meet this guy he plays in Asbury Park and he’s really good. Well nobody else seemed to know who this guy was but Jeff turned around and started talking to the young man who was very quiet speaking. As for what they talked about? Like I said Jeff was drunk, but he did go and see him the following weekend in Asbury. Now this was the time when all the bars had house bands they played up North in the winter and at the shore in the summer some were really good but most were just cover bands. Bruce was a cover band but he sneaked in some original stuff and it was pretty good what was really cool was that he got everybody excited with his music he was and still is one if not the best live band Jeff has ever seen. But, and here is where people are going to get pissed his music doesn’t have a lasting message like Dylan or Woody Guthrie or Pete Seeger. People will remember his music because it will bring back great memories but not because of any social message it contained. His music’s messages are too now and not something that you can listen to 20 years later and apply the words to the world now your own life maybe. His music will evoke found memories of wind and surf not fear of a war and the accompanying military Draft. Bruce will never be a Bob Dylan or any of the others I mentioned his music will not transcend several generations but it will make people Smile. Sorry Bruce this is Flounder saying CIAO from Medellin.

I know I’ve mentioned the world’s fresh water shortage before but I don’t think I ever offered my personal solutions so here goes. First make washing a car a crime with a huge fine and possible jail time. Second stop the sale and use of automatic sprinklers to commercial buildings, the grass doesn’t need to be watered during a rain storm. If the insist on having green in front of the building paint the cement green. Third home owners who want that great lawn can buy artificial turf. These are not final solutions your still going to need to get Global warming under control and do something about population growth but there a start and they make sense. This is Flounder saying CIAO from Medellin home of the best water I’ve ever tasted.

This post was very upsetting to write and will probably upset some of you. Actually I hope it pisses you all off and you tell everybody you know about this and maybe something can be done. When I originally stared to this one I was going to do it about Colombia but when I went in search of a photo I discovered this was a worldwide problem. The subject called Virgin auctions of young girls and boys who are Virgins. In Colombia the street gangs, which are nothing more than muscle for organized crime, go to the poor sections of Medellin and buy the daughters of peasants. Most don’t object because if they do they end up dead. The really sad part is the girls don’t object because they will get nice clothes and all the drugs they want plus money. Their willingness is part of the culture of prostitution that exists in a lot of countries outside the US. I also found photos relating to Australia and Germany as well as others. It goes on in America but instead of buying the young people they find the young disenfranchised ones and ply them with drugs and the promise of money. But like I said down here they inter the world of prostitution willingly. I have even heard stories of girls graduating college and rather than get a job turn to the sex trade for a career. Just so you understand if they’re 18 and are doing it without a pimp involved it‘s legal down here. It never ceases to amaze me how degenerate human being can be to one another just as I think maybe your making some progress stories like this happen. This is a thoroughly disgusted Flounder saying Ciao from Colombia.