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I just thought I’d give you a little info into why Jeff and I write this blog, considering that about 4 people read it on a daily basis. When we started this it was going to be about my daily life in a new country, well that got boring fast so we tried to keep up with family and local events and that too soon got boring. It might not have been boring for you but it was for us and were the one writing the stupid thing. So now with the world becoming a little more screwed up every day and people becoming more complacent we decided to stir the pot a little. What you see in our blog now are our opinions based upon what we read and then interpret. We don’t say this or that will definitely happen or when we think it will we just take the information that is out there and express it in a quick blurb and try to get people thinking about hat particular issue. We don’t have any idea if it works but one can hope. We don’t always agree either but we respect the others viewpoint as we hope you do. Well that’s all I wanted to say this is Flounder saying CIAO from Colombia.

I have an interesting question for all of you. What would the world look like in 20 years if we solved all its problems in the next year? Let’s say we cure cancer, stop global warming, reduce infantile deaths, stop heart disease from being such a killer, stop all wars and plaques. What do think will happen? Well I have an opinion and it’s this we would be in worse shape than we are now. The birth rate in the US is expected to around 18.2% over the next twenty years or a growth rate of 22%. The death rate will be about 8.39% that’s if all the disease and famine stays as it is now but if we cure the above diseases people might feel comfortable in having more kids and you know in the underdeveloped nations there would be more kids being born. Now we’re going to have all these people around and they will be getting older my question now becomes where we get the fresh water for them where do we get the food for them where are they going to live. Here’s the truth we need all those bad things and then we would still need to control population growth in some way, probably not something we would like, just to survive. This might sound pessimistic and Jeff and I have been called that before but if you get on the net and start searching and do the math I’m afraid you’ll find that I’m pretty dam close to being right. When you do this remember if we fix everything the growth rate will increase but the death rate will decrease. This is a truly bummed out Flounder saying CIAO from Colombia

The US government remains in shut down and everybody is blaming everybody else. The Republicans are now saying it the fault of the American worker and they want to take away thing the average person has spent his or hers entire life paying for. You know what? Maybe there right let’s look at it and see if we can tell. First we’ve let ourselves become slaves to the rich. How you say? By not be able to do without all that technology you know the new car, the new phone ,TV, internet, and “smart phones.” We keep buying them because they made us believe we can’t live without them so that means we have to make money and how do we do this by working for the same people who are selling us this stuff. That makes us slaves to our own desires. Second how do you think these politicians got to where they are today? We elected them and we keep electing the same ass holes. Because hey we’re getting our stuff so they must be doing something right. If that were true then we might not be where we are today but the truth is they want stuff too but they want better and more stuff then we have and they think they’re entitled to it because by electing them we’ve said they are. Here’s a novel solution lets elect different people, people that are not Republican or Democrats but people that want to make sure that the US stays around for awhile. Now I know I’ve reached the point in this blog where people who are actually reading this are beginning to fall asleep so I’ll stop for now and as things get worse I’ll be back with more. This is Flounder saying CIAO from Medellin.

This is the end of George Carlin week he’ll be back when I get bored writing about things like the end of the world.
“What’s all this stuff about motivation I say, if you need motivation, you probably need more than motivation. You probably need chemical intervention or brain surgery. Actually, if you ask me, this country could do with a little les motivation. The people who are causing all the trouble seem highly motivated to me. Serial Killers, stock swindlers, drug dealers, Christian Republicans. I’m not sure motivation is always a good thing. You show me a lazy prick who’s lying in bed all day, watching TV, only occasionally getting up to piss, and I’ll show you a guy who’s not causing any trouble.” Well that brings Carlin week to a end were back to the normal bitching and moaning starting tomorrow this is Flounder saying CIAO form Medellin.

Some more from my hero Mr. Carlin during Carlin week.
I’ve begun worshiping the sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike other gods I could mention, I can see the sun. It’s there for me every day. And the things it brings me are quite apparent all the time: heat, light, food, a lovely day. There’s no mystery, no now asks for money, I don’t have to dress up, and there’s no boring pageantry. And interesting enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun and the prayers I formerly offered to “god” are all answered at about the same 50-percent rate. That’s it for today this is Sun worshiping Flounder saying CIAO from sunny Medellin.

George Carlin week continues.
“There are certain clues that tell you how much a restaurant will cost. If the word cuisine appears in the advertising, it will be expensive. If they use the word food, it will be moderately priced. However, if the sign says eats, even though you’ll save some money on food, your medical bills may be quite high. I don’t like trendy food. When I hear, ‘sautéed boneless panda groin,’ I know I’m in the wrong place. There’s such a thing as pretentious food, Puree of woodchuck, marinated bat nipples, weasel chops, porcupine cacciatore. Or fried eagle. A guy said to me recently, ‘C’mon, we’ll go to Baxter’s, they have fried eagle.’ I’m thinkin’ to myself ‘Do I really wanna know this guy?’ However if you are going to dine with pretentious people, here are some items you can order that are sure to empress: deep-dish moose balls, diced yak, badger gumbo, gorilla fondue, filet of hyena, jackal tartar, rack of prairie dog free range mole en brochette, wolf noodle soup, loin of chipmunk, curried woodpecker, stir fried weasel, penguin scaloppini, sweet and sour loon heads, whale chowder, toasted snail penises, kola flambé, wombat souvlaki, grenadine of mule, and candied goat anus.
Then at the other end of the spectrum, there is the decidedly nontrendy restaurant, where the special sometimes is simply ‘meat.’ Big sign in the window ‘Today’s special: Meat.’ ‘I’ll have the meat’
‘Would you like sauce with that?’ That’s it for today this is Flounder (Laughing like crazy) saying CIAO from Medellin.

I am going to give you a little humor the rest of the week with quotes from my favorite comedian George Carlin, hers the first.
“Don’t you get tired of celebrities who explain their charity work by saying they feel they have to ‘give something back.’ I don’t feel that way, I didn’t take nothin’. You can search my house; I didn’t take a thing. Everything I got, I worked for, and it was given to me freely. I also paid taxes on it. Late! I paid late. But I paid. You celebrity people wanna give something back? How about giving half the money back? Or a couple of those houses? And you dickwads who collect cars? How about giving back 50 or 60 of them? Or maybe, if you people really want to give something back, you could let go a little of that arrogance” Well there you have it this is Flounder saying CIAO from Colombia.

Well it’s time to get back to normal for a little while let’s start by talking about the word rejection. What do you think it means well the dictionary says to throw back if you’re a budding writer or artist or even musician you know what it is to be rejected many times. Some of the rejection we get in life we don’t even recognize such as your internet won’t let you get on line for a minute we get upset but deep down inside we know we will eventually succeed. If you’re like Jeff and are trying to become an author and your books don’t sell there might be doubt that you ever will. But in today’s world with YouTube and Kindle publishing you don’t have to spend a fortune to try and in the case of Kindle publishing you will actually get published your rejection now will come in the form of low sales or no sales. Some people can handle rejection better than others either they have something else to fall back on or have enough self esteem to with stand the rejection others can’t handle even the littlest form of rejection. I won’t go into all the psychology of what makes a person get crazy when someone says no. in Jeff’s case he doesn’t get real upset when somebody says no unless they refuse to give a reason at that point he’ll get angry but it doesn’t last because he knows the reason will reveal itself in time. I believe the people that can’t handle rejection either don’t know how to experience success or can’t recognize it when it happens. There are a lot of ways to measure success and just as many to gage rejection. But if you can’t recognize the little thing in life that you succeed at the result is usually a person that’s unable to function in the real world. Well I’m a success and I think Jeff is too we have retired something not to many people in his family have been able to do I get to write this dumb blog and talk about whatever I want and Jeff gets to see his books for sale on Amazon .com. plus we both get to wake up every morning. This is a content with himself Flounder saying CIAO from Medellin.