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 This country would not survive a global conflict, it's people are hardy but a prolonged power-water outage would bring it to it's knees, there is no discernible infrastructure plan. The roads are a joke and the electrical/water supply is hanging on by tender-hooks. We have a power outage every 3-5 days right now, an attack would all but guarantee mass genocide, drought, starvation. Maybe the Chinese would help, but this would be conditional based on reciprocity. But my view of the beach is beautiful and calming or Tranquil-lo. Haitians would cross the border en mass and our country would become a Detroit of the Caribbean. You don't dare go for a walk if you're under the influence in an unknown area. There is a 100% chance you will break your ankle and wind up face down in a pit of broken glass. If you're one of the brave souls who rides a motoconcho you will need to survey the area thoroughly before trying to ride your bike on the side roads. There is no inspi...

Here we are, it's frosh week in the Biden admin, and they are all bellying up to the trough to plunge their faces in the tax goodies, the repubs and dems are both equally culpable for this crime so the game continues.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYMN6VCOr3o The wanton criminality of this regime is stupefying.  But is my day to day life affected? No, I get my fox news Feed and blithely continue forward like some half soused booze hound. As time slips, so does my concern with that which I exert no direct control. Politicians will stay as crooked as a dog's hind leg, all of them. To think otherwise is delusional and sad. It's time for a drink, it's 5 O'clock somewhere.

I want a happy life, to be on good terms with most people but not to the point where my needs aren't being met. To this end I am working on creating a daily routine that enhances my life where each sub task builds towards the larger goal, where no time is wasted and all activities in one way or another build towards these goals. The first step is to identify the time wasters and eliminate them, TV/movie watching being one of the most problematic. Video games coming a close second. To become the best version of myself that I can be. Easy to say but the journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.

Here I am living the Canadian Dream, living in a tropical paradise while my country freezes it's ass off. The weather here is quite agreeable, and this is mid winter in the Dominican! Steps away from the beach,which usually has some sort of party going on. The people here really know how to enjoy life. It's a simple existence, but an instructive one, don't sweat the small stuff. This is the philosophy I have had to internalize for the past 3 months and not to concern myself with things beyond my control. Will Putin invade Ukraine? Will the belligerent US react galvanically and likely set off World War 3? At that point, should we ever come to it, the Russian military will be able to deploy most of its wonder weapons, most of which are under wraps, such as hypersonic nuclear powered missiles, super cavitation torpedoes, EMPs that can disable any equipment within a radius of 300 km and burn the microcircuits of any equipment and weapons by means of radiation and a laser shot. ...