Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Father Doesn’t Know Best - NYTimes.com - Maureen Dowd - And it’s about a church that is obsessed with sex in ways it shouldn’t be, and not obsessed with sex in ways it should be. The bishops and the Vatican care passionately about putting women in chastity belts. Yet they let unchaste priests run wild for decades, unconcerned about the generations of children who were violated and raped and passed around like communion wine. - The church leaders headed to court hope to undermine the president, but they may help him. Voters who think sex is only for procreation were not going to vote for Obama anyway. And the lawsuit reminds the rest that what the bishops portray as an attack on religion by the president is really an attack on women by the bishops.
Pastor condemns homosexuals in sermon saying gays and lesbians 'should be put in electrified pen to let them die off' | Mail Online --A North Carolina pastor preached hate in a recent sermon when he theorized that gay and lesbian people should be put behind an electric fence and left there to 'die out'. Pastor Charles Worley, 71, gave the incendiary sermon on Mother's Day in the Providence Road Baptist Church, and his homicidal plans were met with a receptive audience.
Were investors misled about how much Facebook was REALLY worth? Watchdog to investigate claims investors were not told about lower 'forecasts' | Mail Online
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Rivals Southwest, Delta strike plane deal | ajc.com - Kelly Yamanouchi - Southwest Airlines may be fighting Delta Air Lines for Atlanta passengers, but behind the scenes the two have struck a deal for Southwest to hand off 88 jets to its larger rival .
Secret Service Agents to Appeal - The Daily Beast - Four Secret Service members who were dismissed following the Colombia prostitute scandal are planning to fight the decision to strip them of their jobs. The agents are set to argue that the agency is making them scapegoats for behavior they say the Secret Service has long tolerated.
Zuckerberg Bombshell: Did Facebook Bankers Quietly Slash Forecasts Before IPO? - The Daily Beast - In the wake of a disastrous stock offering comes what looks like an enormous scandal for the social-media giant. It's time for us to finally wake up and see how awful Facebook truly is, says Dan Lyons.
Facebook CFO Increased IPO Shares - The Daily Beast - offering last week, and now we may know why. It appears that less than 72 hours before the company went public CFO David Ebersman decided to increase the number of shares that would be offered by 25 percent after officials at Morgan Stanley assured the company that there would be plenty of demand.
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