I wonder why Google ignored Memorial Day?

[Servonaut]

A very interesting thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3341867

Wcross  (1000+ posts)      Mon May-26-08 10:11 AM
Original message
I wonder why Google ignored Memorial Day?
They usually have a special Google logo for holidays but today it is just the plain google logo. Heck, they had a special Halloween one last year so why do they ignore a holiday such as Memorial day?

But.... (212 posts)       Mon May-26-08 10:14 AM
Response to Original message
1. No one working today?

Turn CO Blue (1000+ posts)      Mon May-26-08 10:31 AM
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2. Probably some artist scrambling to finalize it right now...
 saying, "oh ****! I'm gonna get fired!"

Ferd Berfle (25 posts)      Mon May-26-08 10:41 AM
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3. YES! I noticed that too and wrote them a nastygram about it
 Either Google is now part of the Bush Crime family and hates our soldiers as much as republicans

or

They are so full of H1-B's and outsourced to other countries that they are so Transnational that they no longer recognize THEMSELVES as Americans

RC  (1000+ posts)      Mon May-26-08 10:43 AM
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5. How does one honor all those hundreds of millions that have died
 in vain for the lies of someones ego?

We have to stop glorifying the killing of people in other places just because they live in a place that has something someone else wants.

What is the difference between our government sending a kid barely out of high school to kill people on someone else's turf and a ruthless gang trying to take over someone else's turf? I don't see much difference. 

Ferd Berfle (25 posts)      Mon May-26-08 10:47 AM
Response to Reply #5
7. By Never Forgetting THEIR sacrifice

Smith_3 (603 posts)     Mon May-26-08 10:50 AM
Response to Reply #7
8. Would you celebrate a holiday in memory of the German troops of WWII?
 Edited on Mon May-26-08 10:51 AM by Smith_3
And one that was reserved solely for them, and explicitly excludes soldiers of other countries?

Ferd Berfle (25 posts)      Mon May-26-08 10:54 AM
Response to Reply #8
10. No - I'm not German - I'm an American. You?
 

Wcross  (1000+ posts)      Mon May-26-08 10:58 AM
Response to Reply #8
11. WTF are you talking about?
 Memorial day is an AMERICAN holiday to honor AMERICAN servicemen & women who gave their lives in EVERY war. I don't expect other countries to celebrate it. I don't understand how you came up with the Nazi Germany angle.   

 

RC  (1000+ posts)      Mon May-26-08 11:24 AM
Response to Reply #7
15. Sacrifice for what?
 You are glorifying killing people as something good. You are part of the problem. Have you even been in the military?

We need to stop glorifying war. The men and women in the battle zones in any war are just canon fodder, a number, an entry on a piece of paper or now, a computer data base.

There are much better ways to settle our differences that to keep attacking others, which in reality doing the same thing over and over and over again. 

[Chris_]

Well, some of them ave the right idea.

Maybe there is a possible bridge.

I have been thinking deeply about how to bridge the divide between us and them.  Maybe we need to find some common ground and go from there.

I am serious -- I think not all DUmmies are dummies, but we can't find them.

Just a thought (the "hundreds of millions" comment is one we certainly can't bridge).

[franksolich]

Well, some of them ave the right idea.

Maybe there is a possible bridge.

I have been thinking deeply about how to bridge the divide between us and them.  Maybe we need to find some common ground and go from there.

I am serious -- I think not all DUmmies are dummies, but we can't find them.

Just a thought (the "hundreds of millions" comment is one we certainly can't bridge).

Sir, you are losing your mind.

[Chris_]

Well, some of them ave the right idea.

Maybe there is a possible bridge.

I have been thinking deeply about how to bridge the divide between us and them.  Maybe we need to find some common ground and go from there.

I am serious -- I think not all DUmmies are dummies, but we can't find them.

Just a thought (the "hundreds of millions" comment is one we certainly can't bridge).

Sir, you are losing your mind.

Perhaps.  But at least it is going in a good direction.

Think Sybock without the need for God to hijack a starship ;)

[Carl]

RC  (1000+ posts)      Mon May-26-08 10:43 AM
Response to Original message
5. How does one honor all those hundreds of millions that have died
 in vain for the lies of someones ego?

We have to stop glorifying the killing of people in other places just because they live in a place that has something someone else wants.

What is the difference between our government sending a kid barely out of high school to kill people on someone else's turf and a ruthless gang trying to take over someone else's turf? I don't see much difference.

To be blunt about it...you don`t see the difference because you are willfully idiotic.

Our troops are not fighting and dying for anyones personal gain no matter how much you wish to believe it.
That is your motivation in life so you ascribe it to everyone else but it is not so.

They are fighting to stop the advancement of a belief system that would kill all of you in a heartbeat...militant islam has no room for atheists or humanists despite you thinking that if it conquers western capitalism it is a good thing.

Our soldiers are the finest humanity has to offer and you piss on them,may your miserable soul rot for eternity in the hell you delude yourself into thinking doesn`t exist.

[Chris_]

This gets brought up every year, and every year Google refuses to acknowledge Memorial Day.  Lenin's birthday?  They want to make that a week-long celebration!

[BlueStateSaint]

Don't the guys who started Google contribute to the Democrat Party only?

[DixieBelle]

Google sucks. Which is ironic since their catch phrase is (or was) "Don't be evil."

Check out all of the random holidays they WILL acknowledge -
http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html

[TheSarge]

Either Google is now part of the Bush Crime family and hates our soldiers as much as republicans

The two dweebs who founded Google are hard core Libtards like you.

And for the Record...it's the Democrat Party and people like you NOT the Republicans that hate soldiers DUmbass.

[Chris_]

Google sucks. Which is ironic since their catch phrase is (or was) "Don't be evil."

Check out all of the random holidays they WILL acknowledge -
http://www.google.com/holidaylogos.html

The Persian New Year??

[FlaGator]

Ferd Berfle (25 posts)      Mon May-26-08 10:41 AM
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3. YES! I noticed that too and wrote them a nastygram about it
 Either Google is now part of the Bush Crime family and hates our soldiers as much as republicans

or

They are so full of H1-B's and outsourced to other countries that they are so Transnational that they no longer recognize THEMSELVES as Americans

I see Planters has a new nut in the can.

[JohnnyReb]

[quote
There are much better ways to settle our differences that to keep attacking others, which in reality doing the same thing over and over and over again. 
[/quote]

There sure is, dude.......or rather , DUD.

We can submit to the will of Allah, become dhimmi's, live under sharia law and kiss muslim ass.

Listening to DUmmies and using their methods just causes more deaths.

[Chris_]

Well, some of them ave the right idea.

Maybe there is a possible bridge.

I have been thinking deeply about how to bridge the divide between us and them.  Maybe we need to find some common ground and go from there.

I am serious -- I think not all DUmmies are dummies, but we can't find them.

Just a thought (the "hundreds of millions" comment is one we certainly can't bridge).

You bumped your head yesterday, didn't you?

[franksolich]

Well, some of them ave the right idea.

Maybe there is a possible bridge.

I have been thinking deeply about how to bridge the divide between us and them.  Maybe we need to find some common ground and go from there.

I am serious -- I think not all DUmmies are dummies, but we can't find them.

Just a thought (the "hundreds of millions" comment is one we certainly can't bridge).

You bumped your head yesterday, didn't you?

I think freedumb2003 did exactly that.

I'm concerned.

I used to think there was a bridge somewhere, and I've been all the way up and down the river.

No bridge nowhere.

Sanity and insanity have nothing in common.

I surely hope our esteemed colleague freedumb2003 recovers from that nasty bump.

[FlaGator]

Well, some of them ave the right idea.

Maybe there is a possible bridge.

I have been thinking deeply about how to bridge the divide between us and them.  Maybe we need to find some common ground and go from there.

I am serious -- I think not all DUmmies are dummies, but we can't find them.

Just a thought (the "hundreds of millions" comment is one we certainly can't bridge).

You bumped your head yesterday, didn't you?

I think freedumb2003 did exactly that.

I'm concerned.

I used to think there was a bridge somewhere, and I've been all the way up and down the river.

No bridge nowhere.

Sanity and insanity have nothing in common.

I surely hope our esteemed colleague freedumb2003 recovers from that nasty bump.

DUers are totally unreachable. Those who are no longer on DU are either those who are too far to the left for even DU or those who actually have enough sanity to leave and never come back. This last group is probably the ones freedumb2003 is thinking about. Relative sanity and all that...

[Lord Undies]

I actually did get an answer a few years ago from Google about Memorial Day.  At that time they claimed that Memorial Day was a uniquely American holiday which would not mean anything to the rest of the world. 

Considering the absurdity of that statement, and the essay-length reply it would have taken to refute it, added to the fact I would be ignored anyway, I did not respond.

[DixieBelle]

^doesn't surprise me. Yet Google is an American company based in America. They don't have a problem with Persian or Chinese New Year and a host of other off-the-wall celebrations that mean nothing to most of the world.

[Chris_]

Well, some of them ave the right idea.

Maybe there is a possible bridge.

I have been thinking deeply about how to bridge the divide between us and them.  Maybe we need to find some common ground and go from there.

I am serious -- I think not all DUmmies are dummies, but we can't find them.

Just a thought (the "hundreds of millions" comment is one we certainly can't bridge).

You bumped your head yesterday, didn't you?

I think freedumb2003 did exactly that.

I'm concerned.

I used to think there was a bridge somewhere, and I've been all the way up and down the river.

No bridge nowhere.

Sanity and insanity have nothing in common.

I surely hope our esteemed colleague freedumb2003 recovers from that nasty bump.

Further evidence of a cranial injury.  Hope he heals up soon...

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,7904.0/topicseen.html