Mark Zuckerberg Gets Married (Breaking News)
In a surprise ceremony, Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg married his longtime girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, in a private wedding at his home in Palo Alto California on Saturday.
Zuckerberg, who just became a billionaire as a result of the Facebook IPO on Friday, reportedly placed a ring on his wife’s finger during the ceremony — the ring was described as featuring a “very simple ruby.”
According to the Associated Press, Zuckerberg’s marriage to Priscilla Chan took place in front of about 100 invited guests who thought they were celebrating Ms. Chan’s medical school graduation. It all happened in Zuckerberg’s backyard.
Take a look at Zuckerberg’s personal page on Facebook, and you’ll see the above picture, which Zuckerberg reportedly placed onto his own site as a change of his status after the ceremony.
The couple met while both were attending Harvard, and have been together for nine years.
Read more at Mashable
Lesbian Couple Charged With Staging Hate Crime (Lesbian Couple staged Hate Crime incidents,
A lesbian couple who claimed they were victims of a hate crime have been arrested after police determined they staged the incidents.
On Oct. 28, Aimee Whitchurch, 37, and Christel Conklin, 29, called police and reported the words “Kill the Gay” were scrawled in red spray paint on the garage door of their Parker, Colo., home.
The next day, the couple told deputies they found a noose hanging on the handle of their front door.
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Elizabeth Hasselbeck Slams Bristol Palin For Obama Gay Marriage Comments
Elisabeth Hasselbeck on “The View” slammed Bristol Palin for the comments the GOP Vice Presidential candidate’s daughter and unwed mother made last week criticizing President Obama’s support of same-sex marriage.
“I have a major problem with her saying this. Number one, as you mature as a mother you will also find out that the conversations you have with your kids do influence how you place your opinions on the table. Secondly, for someone who was the victim of being brought into an election as the child of someone on the ticket, how dare you then bring in Sasha and Malia to this situation. You need to mature because you are not.”
Today’s conversation began as the ladies of “The View” discussed Andrew Sullivan’s Newsweek/Daily Beast article and cover, Obama “The First Gay President,”
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewcivilrightsmovement.com
Bristol Palin: I’ve been receiving death threats after I wrote blog post
Bristol Palin “stirred up a hornet’s nest” when she penned a blog post lashing out against President Obama for consulting his daughters on gay marriage — and now she claims to have gotten death threats because of it.
The former Alaska governor’s daughter used a new post to share screenshots of some the comments written on her site, including ones that say “kill yourself,” “may death be upon you,” and “You all, including your son, deserve a slow, painful and miserable death.”
However, the 21-year-old isn’t backing down and argued the death threats only serve to undermine her critics who are attacking her.
“Around Hollywood, there’s lots of concern and great initiatives to try to encourage more kindness in this world,” she wrote. “Then why do I get so many messages telling me I should die?”
Palin claims in the post she is victim of “bullying.”
“Here’s a newsflash, guys. Your hate and bullying won’t work,” she wrote.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com
NAACP Endorses Same-Sex Marriage (NAACP Members Sold Their Soul To The Devil)
NAACP Endorses Same-Sex Marriage Peter Wallsten 05/19/2012
The NAACP’s board of directors voted Saturday to endorse same-sex marriage rights – adding the influential voice of the country’s leading black civil rights organization to a debate that has divided the African-American community.
The decision has political implications for President Obama, who needs an enthusiastic turnout from black voters to help him win reelection in November but angered some African-American church pastors with his announcement this month that he believes gays and lesbians should have the right to marry.
The NAACP now presents itself as a counterbalance to the influence of the traditionally socially conservative black church. It can also help establish closer ties between blacks and gays, two of Obama’s most loyal constituencies.
Some pro-Republican conservative evangelical activists have said Obama’s announcement gives them an unusual opportunity to deflate enthusiasm among black voters for reelecting the country’s first black president, who tends to win more than 90 percent support in that community.
“Civil marriage is a civil right and a matter of civil law,” NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous said in a statement released Saturday.
“The NAACP’s support for marriage equality is deeply rooted in the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and equal protection of all people. The well-funded right wing organizations who are attempting to split our communities are no friend to civil rights, and they will not succeed.”
The Human Rights Campaign, a leading gay rights group, issued a jubilant statement following the NAACP announcement. “We could not be more pleased with the NAACP’s history-making vote today – which is yet another example of the traction marriage equality continues to gain in every community,” said HRC president Joe Solmonese.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com
50+ Professors & Staff Resign From Christian University After Refusing to Sign Homosexuality Pledge
Last October, news broke that Shorter University, a Christian college in Rome, Georgia, had decided to ask its employees to sign a controversial pledge that affirms that they are not engaging in homosexuality, among other forbidden activities. Now, after scores of employees refused to sign the document, the college, which is affiliated with the Georgia Baptist Convention, has reportedly received a massive number of resignations
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com
OBAMA: BORN IN KENYA (Breaking News from Breitbart)
Breitbart News has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama’s then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as “born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.”
The booklet, which was distributed to “business colleagues” in the publishing industry, includes a brief biography of Obama among the biographies of eighty-nine other authors represented by Acton & Dystel.
It also promotes Obama’s anticipated first book, Journeys in Black and White–which Obama abandoned, later publishing Dreams from My Father instead.
Obama’s biography in the booklet is as follows (image and text below):
Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University and worked as a financial journalist and editor for Business International Corporation. He served as project coordinator in Harlem for the New York Public Interest Research Group, and was Executive Director of the Developing Communities Project in Chicago’s South Side. His commitment to social and racial issues will be evident in his first book, Journeys in Black and White.
Read the whole story from Breitbart
Detroit Pastor Carjacked and Robbed
DETROIT (WXYZ) - Pastor Marvin Winans was robbed and carjacked at a Detroit gas station Wednesday afternoon.
Winans was at the Citgo Gas Station at Linwood and the Davison when he was robbed. The carjackers robbed him and took his deep purple Infiniti QX56 SUV.
The license plate number on the vehicle is 0DRT73. Detroit Police are searching for the suspects.
He was not hurt in the incident, but was roughed up.
Pastor Winans told 7 Action News he felt something was wrong when he came out of the gas station’s convenience store.
Read the whole story at ABC News Detroit
Obama Cites His Christian Faith In Support Of Gay Marriage In ABC News Interview (What a….)
In a stark reversal of what he’s previously said about how his faith informs his views on same-sex marriage, President Barack Obama prominently cited his Christian background in a major ABC News interview on Wednesday where he came out forcefully in support of legalizing same-sex marriage.
Speaking for himself and First Lady Michelle Obama on Wednesday, the president said he has changed his views since last famously saying he was “evolving” on how he feels about same-sex marriage.
Read the whole story at HuffingtonPost
Autopsy results show Trayvon Martin had injuries to his knuckles
WFTV has confirmed that autopsy results show 17-year-old Trayvon Martin had injuries to his knuckles when he died.
The information could support George Zimmerman’s claim that Martin beat him up before Zimmerman shot and killed him.
The autopsy results come as Zimmerman’s attorney, Mark O’Mara continues to go over other evidence in the case.
O’Mara wouldn’t comment on the autopsy evidence, but WFTV legal analyst Bill Sheaffer said it’s better for the defense than it is for the prosecution.
(Excerpt) Read more at wftv.com
Russian/U.S. War Games to Begin Shortly in Colorado
Russia and the United States will begin their controversial first joint anti-terror military exercises on American soil shortly at Ft. Carson in Colorado. A special unit of Russian paratroopers departed for the United States over the weekend and will be working alongside American land forces as part of the war games.
The Russian and U.S. special units will engage in joint gun practice as well as
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The drills are scheduled to end on May 31
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com
Minnesota taxpayers paid for 58,000 abortions in 15 years
ST. PAUL, May 15, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - After 15 years of taxpayer-funded abortions, Minnesotans have funded more than 58,000 abortions at a cost of over $18 million, according to a just-released report from the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS). Nearly all of these abortions have been elective.
Since its successful 1995 challenge to Minnesota’s law that prohibited funding of most abortions, the state’s abortion industry has steadily increased its procedure numbers and revenue by marketing taxpayer-funded abortions to low-income women. Taxpayers now pay for 32.7 percent of all abortions performed in the state — the highest percentage ever.
Minnesota taxpayers have been required to fund elective abortions since the Minnesota Supreme Court’s 1995 Doe v. Gomez ruling. In that decision, the Court created a state “right” to abortion on demand and obligated all taxpayers to fund abortions.
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Report says 230,000 unemployed losing benefits over weekend
More than 230,000 unemployed workers will lose their jobless benefits this weekend as portions of federal programs expire across several states.
All told, 409,300 long-term unemployed Americans in 27 states will have lost upward of 20 weeks of federal unemployment benefits by this past Saturday, even as the many state jobless rates remain high, according to a new analysisby the National Employment Law Project (NELP).
Read the whole story atThe Hill
Newsweek cover: Obama ‘first gay president’
It won’t be nearly as controversial as Time magazine’s breastfeeding cover, but Newsweek’s May 21 issue declares Barack Obama the country’s “first gay president.”
The accompanying cover story was written by Andrew Sullivan, the popular–and openly gay–political blogger. The magazine even gives the commander-in-chief a rainbow halo.
Obama, Sullivan writes, “had to discover his black identity and then reconcile it with his white family, just as gays discover their homosexual identity and then have to reconcile it with their heterosexual family.”
Read the whole story at Yahoo News
Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Gives Up U.S. Citizenship Before IPO
Eduardo Saverin, the billionaire co- founder of Facebook Inc. (FB), renounced his U.S. citizenship before an initial public offering that values the social network at as much as $96 billion, a move that may reduce his tax bill.
Read the whole story at Bloomberg
Obama Supports Gay Marriage, ABC Breaks News Online
President Barack Obama has officially declared his support for same sex marriage in an interview with ABC News.
Journalists have been following the story throughout the day using both social media and more traditional online stories.
Right before the official broadcast of the news went live, ABC posted a video with a headline and URL — one that scooped its own coverage.
We’ve used Storify to chronicle the political and social coverage surrounding the announcement.
Lonely life of the techno-addict as thousands go up to 48 hours without speaking to another human
Technology-addicts regularly go 48 hours without speaking to anyone in person, a study has found. A significant three per cent of adults fall into a so-called ‘digitally dominant’ group which will mainly communicate via text, email or video calls. It suggests technology – from smartphones to iPads – is helping to kill off physical and social interaction among those obsessed with the devices.
Read the whole story at DailyMail
Romney Takes The Lead In Gallup Tracking Poll
Ah, poll season. Six days later, Romney is back in the lead again in the Gallup daily tracking poll. He’s made an 8-point swing in six days.
Read the whole story at Gallup
EPA Official: “Crucify polluters” (EPA Official: EPAs “philosophy” is to “crucify” and “make examples” of US energy producers)
A regional EPA chief quits after his controversial comments about fracking come to light.
REPORT: The Secret Service Agents Were Too Drunk To Get It On With The Colombian Prostitutes
More details are starting to emerge about the ‘wild night’ of partying in Cartagena, Colombia that has engulfed the Secret Service in a growing prostitution scandal.
The Washington Post reports today that some of the men involved are arguing that they did know the women that they brought back to their hotel were prostitutes. Moreover, some of the agents have reportedly said they did not have sex with the prostitutes because they “were so drunk that they fell asleep immediately after bringing the women to their rooms.”
Twelve agents were implicated in the scandal, although one has since been cleared of serious misconduct. Eight of the agents have been ousted from the Secret Service. Two agents face demotion, and another has been recommended for dismissal but can still work for federal agencies.
The Post reports that some of the agents who resigned are now reconsidering their decision, and have claimed that similar behavior was tolerated by agency supervisors on other official trips.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com