Yes, you could go with Carnival to their "private" beach and shopping town in Haiti. It's great - as long as the fences stay up.
Posted on 06/11/2019 7:07:02 AM PDT by C19fan
After at least six U.S. tourists died under mysterious circumstances there in the last 12 months, Americans with plans to visit the Dominican Republic are reconsidering their vacations. The deaths include a California man, Robert Wallace, whose family told Fox News he became critically ill in April at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino resort in Punta Cana. They decided to come forward after learning of others recently who died in similar circumstances while vacationing on the island.
Wallace's family says he was in the Dominican Republic for his stepson's wedding. He quickly became sick and died after drinking a scotch from the minibar at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. Nearly two months later, his family still doesn't have answers.
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I think a good campaign stance will be “Reduce foreign aid. Let them pay their own way.We need American tax money to help us here in America.”
As: “All that money to go to the moon and that space stuff—we need the money down here on earth.” A common saying years ago.
I have friends who have gone to the DR for years and have loved it. They canceled this year and are not going back.
They have decided to go somewhere in Florida; not sure where yet.
the Grand Canyon is beautiful and not as dangerous ..
Countries don't hate us; but some governments and their supporters hate us. In my travel experience, however, most people love to interact with Americans, particularly in the smaller cities, towns and villages. We have met wonderful people in Campania, Italy, West Ireland, the Scottish Highlands, Antigua, Aruba, and even Jamaica and Mexico, among other places. And when the locals find out we are from the USA, they want to talk about a place they have never seen, but have heard all about from friends and relatives who have visited here or perhaps even immigrated to America.
I recall a conversation in a local pub in West Galway with a few of the regulars. They asked about Obama and I spoke diplomatically knowing that the Irish government adored Obama, and I assumed that the Irish people felt the same. After failing to criticism him, one of the locals looked me in the eye and said, "We think he's a lying low-life jerk."
My point is don't shut yourself off from the world.
“I think a good campaign stance will be “Reduce foreign aid. Let them pay their own way.We need American tax money to help us here in America.””
Yes! There is something fundamentally wrong with our “leadership” since the end of WWII, thinking that somehow we had an “obligation” to “rescue” Germany. We are watching the deterioration of our infrastructure, while our tax dollars are going to $hit countries like France and Germany to improve theirs. And I am betting that absent Donald J. Trump, the status quo would have continued unabated.
Ever notice how advanced civilizations with tall buildings, industrial production, and modern sanitation, are usually found in cold climates
I know what you mean, but look at Australia and southeast Asia whose architecture is where we might be in fifty years.
The southern US is not a cold climate, either. With the advent of air conditioning, places like Dubai outstrip the Scandinavian countries.
The old paradigm has given way and a new one is needed.
new California Driver’s licenses don’t work to get us out of the USA
“leadership” since the end of WWII, thinking that somehow we had an “obligation” to “rescue” Germany.
1. France’s attempts to destroy post-WWI Germany via the Versailles Treaty paved the way for WWII. We learned a lesson from that.
2. We had another enemy to contend with, the USSR. A prostrate, divided Germany would have been no use in holding back Russia.
Graffiti’s
I think it was on Elmwood. I do not believe it is open anymore.
The other place out was the Evergreen restaurant in Colden on the way out to Kissing Bridge. The guy that owned the Evergreen was one of the owners of Mickey Rats city bar and the one out on the lake.
By the way, do they still sell cases of splits at The Brick Bar on Monday nights. OV splits and Rolling Rock splits by the case.
The Evergreen was a restaurant out on rt 240 in Colden that was the busiest in the winter during ski season at Kissing Bridge. In the summer when the college kids from the south towns were home everyone went out to the lake bars on the weekend.
During the week the place was dead. So, the free vodka drinks drew in the young kids on Tuesday night. It was a nice restaurant that did a lot of dinner business on Friday and Saturday night plus a huge Sunday brunch.
He was one of the junior partners in Mickey Rats. The one out on the lake they made big money at in the summer. The city bar made the money in the winter. I think they both were fronts to launder mob money.
I only went to Graffiti’s once. It was a dump.
I haven’t seen OV in forever and I still live in western NY. Molson Golden either.
I never like Rolling Rock (aka Bud Green).
I drank Labatt’s Blue and 50 ale when OV and Moslon were king.
Yes, they were mob laundries as was the place on S. Youngs Road between the runway and the Thruway.
Used to go to Shaddracks on Broadway...another mob money laundry.
I moved to NH in 1985.
My last summer I worked downtown rehabbing a building on Delaware. It had been a 3 story house they were turning into a high end men’s clothing store with an apartment on the third floor for the owner.
The owner was a Italian mob guy too. We did a lot of the work refinishing the interior doors at his warehouse down on Ohio street. The building was on the Buffalo river between an old empty grain elevator and the General Mills Cheerios plant. He had once owned a sanitation company that he sold and eventually became BFI/Waste Management. He also owned a landfill up in Niagara Falls.
Out in front of the place is where they used to have drag races at night. Also, the rats would come out at night and eat the burnt Cheerios. For lunch we would go to a bar down the street where Genny drafts were $.50 the regular price.
We were from Orchard Park so we were Labatt’s Blue and OV drinkers plus Vodka and ice tea(icepicks).
“There was no obligation, just common sense.”
I think the initial “obligation, or common sense” ran out long before we reached this 75 year “milestone.” If you think that somehow we “benefit” from pampering the Krauts and the “White Flag-waving Cheese Eaters,” and getting continually f*cked for our “help,” you need to seek counseling.
How did you jump from WWII reconstruction to now?
And if that weren’t enough, you load up with mindless
smears. I’d put you on my Bozo list, but damn it.
You’re already there.
Lime Lake so we had to travel across the county line to get the 4am dealio.
“How did you jump from WWII reconstruction to now?”
I guess because you can’t read, and more importantly, comprehend what you read.
“Post-WWII Reconstruction” has fundamentally ended. We have rebuilt Europe, then crafted “aid packages” and ignored the fact that the motherf*ckers have been able to sidestep their obligations to help fund their own military protection (NATO)for decades. If the smear fits, wear it in good health!
” In my travel experience, however, most people love to interact with Americans, particularly in the smaller cities, towns and villages. We have met wonderful people in Campania, Italy, West Ireland, the Scottish Highlands, Antigua, Aruba, and even Jamaica and Mexico, among other places. And when the locals find out we are from the USA, they want to talk about a place they have never seen, but have heard all about”
You’re the one causing all the trouble at the border! Stop traveling, or at least quit telling the rest of the world about what an exceptional place the US is. You are encouraging the world’s trash to come here! The “wonderful people” you have met, need to just stay where they are and try to emulate us, and not just show up here!
Yes, you could go with Carnival to their "private" beach and shopping town in Haiti. It's great - as long as the fences stay up.
Lime Lake was not too far from where my mother grew up on the farm in Sheldon. I still have cousins out in Strikersville or Varysburg area of NY. My mom still lives in Orchard Park.
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