deathray

Hm...summarizing a life...Investment banker, sailor, unintentional gourmet cook. Ex US Naval officer, also Foreign Service. Split my time between NYC and Miami Beach. Travel...a lot. Single, no kids. Used to do Improv comedy in lieu of therapy. Prefer a good laugh, but will fight when necessary.

The newest news is that I have received my organ transplants, and am feeling better than ever! After a week in the hospital, I'm out and about, and all the pieces parts are working great!

Quicksilver0602 is the girl I've always dreamed of, when I want to wake up in a cold sweat.

"The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man, or one party, or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Palin's Katie Couric Myths »

• ok, 'jabba the rush'...that's a keeper.

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IMAO»Blog Archive»Slogans for Dick Cheney in 2012 »

• apparently, so do i.

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• actually, of those listed, this is mine:
  
  “It’s not a smirk. You’re just not worth the attention of my whole face.”

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• "Cheney, because victory is for the devious."

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• "Vote for me and the terrorists will win. no, wait..."

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• "The entire country will be blurred out on google earth, because i might be around somewhere."

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• I could do this all day...

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• "You don't know what i'm doing, but it's going to keep you safe."

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• "Vote for me, or go f-ck yourself."

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• "White House tours are a breach of national security - Cheney 2012."

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• "When i'm president, they'll all be undisclosed locations."

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• "Vote for me, or i'll shoot you in the face, and make you apologize for getting in the way of my birdshot later."

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• "Feel the power of the dark side - vote Cheney 2012."

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• "Cheney, because then we'll know who was really in charge."

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CMPA Analysis Finds FOX News Was the Most Fair and Balanced »

• because we don't care, and, one analysis does not a consensus make...
  
  it's not whining, btw.
  
  given zippy's revelation above, how can you ...

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Audit Faults New York Fed in A.I.G. Bailout »

• not necessarily.
  
  there are many ways to use the leverage the bailout should have afforded.

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• tim geithner, to the best of my knowledge, has never been an employee or associated in any transactional activity with gs.
  
  if you read ...

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• here's the full text of sigtarp barofsky's report and testimony to congress.
  
  http://www.scribd.com/doc/17578334/Barofsky-Testim...
  
  there's a lot to go through here, ...

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Congress Demands Answers Over H1N1 Vaccine Shortage »

• easy there, d. not everyone rapes the middle class.

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Strokes voted album of the decade »

• interestingly enough, i have most of the top ten albums.

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Report: More Americans going hungry - washingtonpost.com »

• no question that cooking is a lost art in this country, with notable exceptions.
  
  i was referring to processed goods and drinks that are ...

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• or what you can afford...

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• yes, but that's a function of the food products that are generally made available.

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• there is much to be said for capitalism, in my opinion, but that should be tempered by both compassion and empathy, sentiments not usually embraced ...

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• spam spam spam.

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• donald -
  
  i'm really hoping, as i said, that we'd avoid partisanship, and deal with the whole thing as americans, and human beings. yes, ...

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• i dont mind people being rich, but i mourn the fact that people here, of all places, go hungry.

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• no question, and kudos to you for setting an excellent example.

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• itdepends on whether you require a systemic fix, hyperbola.
  
  in the long term, i'd agree that a systemic fix is required, but as they ...

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• mrc -
  
  i agree that many policy decisions have contributed to this sad state of affairs.
  
  i was hoping that this would not ...

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• that's just a travesty.

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Americans see China as economic threat »

• k -
  
  i'm afraid you have it backwards. we made the american worker a commodity, to be exploited, and the unions were essentially neutralized ...

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• we're in a delicate dance with china. and in many respect, they're leading.
  
  our own policy of expediency has led to this imbalance, but ...

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CNN Poll: Palin Not Qualified To Serve As President »

• is palin supposed to be a red herring?
  
  i wonder whether or not she's being used to allow real prospective candidates to avoid scrutiny; ...

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Holding 9/11 Trial in NYC Shows Obama Doesn't Get War on Terror, Giuliani Says »

• well, legally, anyone with a conviction can appeal all the way to the scotus, but other than that, your comment is utterly specious.

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• radiofreeeuropa, even, but it's not a condemnation on my part, just an acknowledgment. if people use this site to drive traffic to theirs, i find ...

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• newsguy2005, perhaps?
  
  i don't like using self written blogs as submissions, but i guess it was propeller's intent to allow people to raise the ...

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• what makes you think we should have a multi-tiered justice system, fnb?
  
  that's unamerican.

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• one thing i know about gama: liberal yes, self loathing no.

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• here, giuliani agrees with you on the trial of the 1993 world trade center bombers:
  
  CBS’s DAVID CULHANE: And for their own safety, the ...

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The Point: Obama's Bow Enrages Critics -- Sphere News, Opinion and Analysis »

• from the same blog entry:
  
  A September 2, 1959 Associated Press photo shows President Dwight Eisenhower bowing his head while meeting French President Charles ...

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• let's try that again:
  
  nixon bows to hirohito, 1971:
  
  "At their 1971 meeting in Alaska, the first visit of a Japanese Emperor to ...

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Anti-immigration Tea Party activists attempt to distance themselves from neo-Nazis »

• must be a schizophrenic decision for them to make.

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450 more lies from the climate change Deniers »

• so, public opinion stands up as a refutation of climatological models?
  
  how scientific of you.
  
  galileo was tortured because he believed what his ...

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In an unstable Pakistan, can nuclear warheads be kept safe? Sy Hersh - The New Yorker »

• that's correct.
  
  by "eat it," i mean the physical act of cionsumption, for the sake of sustenance.
  
  of course, if some in dividual ...

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• i recently heard a nuclear security expert comment on NPR that any nuclear weapon acquired by the taliban or al qaeda from pakistan couldn't do ...

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Dems jam GOP with Al Franken vote - Manu Raju - POLITICO.com »

• you can only surmise what i desire; i don't live in mn.
  
  the circumstance is as i related it.
  
  did coleman win in ...

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• i blame bush for his activities related to post 9/11, not for the event itself. that was a national security failure. i don't recall blaming ...

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• me, personally?
  
  i don't think so. i had many many problems with policies, and i beleve he was disingenuous at the very least, but ...

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• every state court in mn ruled. coleman lost those cases.
  
  coleman conceded.
  
  franken was seated.
  
  end of story.

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• the fbi is not a military entity. it's part of the DoJ.
  
  he's cic, but he cannot control things that he is not aware ...

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• spare me the sanctimony, b.
  
  1. low route...and no condemnation for slate saying that obama is personally responsible for what happened at fort hood? ...

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• what's factual. that obama was personally aware of maj. hassan? i'm not going to let you get away with that red herring.
  
  what was ...

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• i'm not going any route, slate. it's an article on politico.com, by manu raju.
  
  was obama aware of maj. hassan's problems himself, or was ...

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• it's politically astute, given the growing demographic of women voters 18-49.

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