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Comments on: Around The Bend https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/06/29/around-the-bend/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:57:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/06/29/around-the-bend/comment-page-1/#comment-16465 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 17:57:59 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/06/29/around-the-bend/#comment-16465 Michael, he was specifically attacking the Gates Foundation gift. The thrust of the donation to Planned Parenthood by the Gates Foundation is in preventing the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, specifically AIDS.

I could understand an attack on Buffett’s wife’s foundation, but the bulk of the donation will go to the Gates Foundation, $30+ billion in stock, to finance research on diseases.

]]> By: Michael https://whynow.dumka.us/2006/06/29/around-the-bend/comment-page-1/#comment-16452 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:46:37 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2006/06/29/around-the-bend/#comment-16452 It probably wasn’t the Gates Foundation gift he was referring to. NPR did a story on the Buffett donation a couple of days back, and they mentioned that another large chunk (and in fact it may have been the bulk of Buffett’s $30 bn donation) was going to the foundation started by his late wife. That foundation has, over the years, very quietly but very explicitly supported abortion rights.

I still don’t agree with the characterization of Buffett as a Nazi, though. And I’m dismayed that a Catholic priest could so publicly forget the Golden Rule. Not to mention that, strictly speaking, he’s violated the commandment against bearing false witness. He should get himself to confession, post-haste.

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