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  • WEDNESDAY MARCH 15 2006 10:40 PM

Get Away From it All in the Domillionaire's Republic

Submitted by Rahodeb

Edited by Rahodeb

What do Moby, Charlie Rose, and Fareed Zakaria all have in common? A millionaire's timeshare in the Dominican Republic--or what will soon come to be known as the Domillionaire's Republic. Apparently the three high rollers have gone in on Manhattan investor and money manager Boykin Curry's 2,200 acre island retreat--an intended utopia for jet-setting creative types.

It's tragically ironic that our nation's richest citizens are, despite all of their money, still trying to achieve the creation of utopia. Somehow, neither Curry's elitist island Eden or Tom Monaghan's Roman Catholic pizza heaven sound like paradise to me. But maybe if they had unicorns...

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s5

s5

San Francisco, CA
OLD SKOOL

MAR 15, 2006 10:49 PM

I'm more into The World myself.

theseeman

theseeman

Asheville, NC
December 2002

MAR 15, 2006 11:36 PM

Whatever Charlie Rose does is fine with me. I mean comeon

"Charlie Rose was born in Henderson, North Carolina and graduated from Duke University with an AB in history and a JD from the school of Law. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has received honorary doctorates of law from C.W. Post College and the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. He is the recipient of the George Peabody Broadcasting Award, the Emmy Award and The CableACE Award."

jonasgrumby

jonasgrumby

Alexandria, VA
April 2004

MAR 15, 2006 11:42 PM

Haven't you heard? Utopia is just an ocean platform away...

Unskeptic

Unskeptic

Columbus, OH
November 2005

MAR 15, 2006 11:43 PM

Hmmm, I'm three blocks from a polynesian beach here in Maui. They aint got nothing on me........

MrStitches

MrStitches

Brooklyn, NY
November 2003

MAR 15, 2006 11:44 PM

I've always wanted my own island.
But not somewhere tropical. I don't do well in the sun and heat.

JoshXXX

JoshXXX

Northborough, MA
March 2004

MAR 16, 2006 12:26 AM

Wait... there's a Pizza heaven? Why haven't I been told about this before?

FrankMask

FrankMask

Saint Paul, MN
June 2003

MAR 16, 2006 03:29 AM

s5 said:
I'm more into The World myself.



Never was such a jewel held up before a hungry pirate's eye.

James_

James_

United Kingdom
March 2003

MAR 16, 2006 03:36 AM

Gee, what a productive use of all that money when there's people in the world starving to death and dying of AIDS. These people are fucking cunts.

malmuud

malmuud

Newark, DE
July 2003

MAR 16, 2006 04:49 AM

MrStitches said:
I've always wanted my own island.



Marlon Brando had his own island. The dream is attainable!

figmentation

figmentation

I'm lost
December 2003

MAR 16, 2006 06:30 AM

Frank said:

s5 said:
I'm more into The World myself.



Never was such a jewel held up before a hungry pirate's eye.



no kidding

Stirfry

Stirfry

Cleveland, OH
September 2002

MAR 16, 2006 10:37 AM

FigmentofaPearl said:

Frank said:

s5 said:
I'm more into The World myself.



Never was such a jewel held up before a hungry pirate's eye.



no kidding



Thw World seems kind of freaky...

surreal

MrStitches

MrStitches

Brooklyn, NY
November 2003

MAR 16, 2006 12:48 PM

malmuud said:

MrStitches said:
I've always wanted my own island.



Marlon Brando had his own island. The dream is attainable!



Are you trying to tell me I resemble a late life Marlon Brando?! I've been told that by better men than you. .

slayn001

slayn001

United Kingdom
February 2005

MAR 16, 2006 10:12 PM

DrunkIrishPrick said:

James_ said:
Gee, what a productive use of all that money when there's people in the world starving to death and dying of AIDS. These people are fucking cunts.



agreed

I wouldn't be able to live with myself.



so because they have money they have to be a slave to all the sick and underpriviliged ? how absolutely horrible that people think that way.

James_

James_

United Kingdom
March 2003

MAR 17, 2006 06:10 AM

slayn001 said:

DrunkIrishPrick said:

James_ said:
Gee, what a productive use of all that money when there's people in the world starving to death and dying of AIDS. These people are fucking cunts.



agreed

I wouldn't be able to live with myself.



so because they have money they have to be a slave to all the sick and underpriviliged ? how absolutely horrible that people think that way.



Well, personally I find it horrible that people would squander money on themselves when they could use it to elevate their fellow man. How anyone can live in luxury when the world is full of the disenfranchised and the derelict is beyond me. Maybe if these people opened their hearts, and their wallets and used their money for good they wouldn't feel so unhappy that they need an island escape from the daily reminders that they prosper while others suffer through no fault of their own.

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