So now Chick-fil-A has become politicized. If you “Eat Mor Chikin,” as the cows advise, you are homophobic and oppose gay marriage, like Chick-fil-A’s president and CEO Dan Cathy – which sounds like a hermaphrodite name. Naturally, Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee are rising to the defense of Chick-fil-A because, as everybody knows, the Christian …
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Oct 28
October 28: Bill Gates
Bill Gates (1955) It was on this date, October 28, 1955, that the entrepreneur who became chairman and CEO of Microsoft Corporation, the world’s largest software firm, Bill Gates, was born in Seattle, Washington. Born William Henry Gates III, Bill Gates was an exceptional student. After co-founding Microsoft with friend Paul Allen, Gates used quasi-legal …
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Aug 30
August 30: Warren Buffet
Warren Buffett (1930) It was on this date, August 30, 1930, that Warren Buffett, known as “the Oracle of Omaha,” was born in Omaha, Nebraska. As Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett became perhaps the greatest investor of all time – reportedly worth almost $43 billion – second in wealth only to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. …
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Jul 30
July 30: E. Haldeman-Julius
E. Haldeman-Julius (1889) It was on this date, July 30, 1889, that Emanuel Julius was born in a Philadelphia tenement – later to become known as the book publisher E. Haldeman-Julius. Emanuel left school at age 13 to seek his fortune as a writer in New York and got a job on a Socialist newspaper, …
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Dec 14
December 14: Pierre Samuel Dupont
As Dupont explained in his Philosophie de l’univers (1796), he was a Deist.
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Dec 10
December 10: The First Playboy, Hugh M. Hefner
If a man has a right to find God in his own way, he has a right to go to the devil in his own way also.
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Nov 25
November 25: Andrew Carnegie
“[O]nly in popular education can man erect the structure of an enduring civilization.”
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Nov 19
November 19: Ted Turner
Turner ridicules the idea of “hell,” believes “nature is god” and rejects the biblical concept of creation.
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