Why did GOOGLE minimize Memorial Day?

Google ^ | 05/30/2011 | Vanity

[plangent]

Google, today, put up it's standard logo with no adornment. Just a small U.S. flag at the bottom of the page with a yellow ribbon. Compare this minimalist observance with the highly decorated GOOGLE logo commemorating all sorts of people and occasions -- usually avoiding anything that is considered patriotic.

[rawhide]

Google is anti-Christian and anti-American. Same as the ACLU.

[rawhide]

I wish Bing would get their search engine working as well as google.

[stuartcr]

Probably to draw attention and get more people to go to their website, to check it out.

[grobdriver]

Screw Google.

Bing!

[houeto]

Why is the public high school next door to me in session? No respect for country.

Years ago the Deer Park, Texas school district dropped Memorial Day. I had three kids in school at that time. They each had perfect attendance records for that year. I sat them down and explained why they would not be allowed to go to school that day. They said they understood.

More than 40% of the parents in that school district did the same thing. I was pleasantly surprised. The Memorial Day holiday was returned the next year and has been observed ever since.

[jospehm20]

Dogpile has a nice Memorial Day theme on their site.

[SaraJohnson]

I have a lot of questions about Google.

I imagine they do not respect our soldiers for the same reason they decided to help Soros, Hillary and Obama organize and fund the Egyptian “democracy protests” thereby abetting the Muslim Brotherhood’s coup in Egypt.

Google likes our money; America and Americans, not so much.

[FreedomGuru]

Freepers with Android phones need to call Google and complain.

[UnwashedPeasant]

"Google is an international search engine"

Google serves different logo images to different regions, often country-specific. The specialty logos are listed by date here: http://www.google.com/logos/

The 3 most recent logos:
May 27, 2011 -- Birthday of Ibn Khaldun - (Middle Eastern Countries)
May 25, 2011 -- Africa Day - (African Countries)
May 25, 2011 -- Jordan Independence Day - (Jordan)

They are deliberately anti-American and anti-Christian. Here is their "Happy Holidays" from Christmas Day 2010:

Easter 2011:

Easter 2010:

Christmas Day 2009:

[af_vet_rr]

We have to stop being scared of everyone who utters anything that is not exactly the way we think. Strong people will not be brainwashed.

We also have to understand their motivations. They care about money. That's it. Everything Google does is to bring in money now or bring in money in the future.

If having a big Memorial Day splash page would make them more money, they would do it in a heartbeat, which I actually would find offensive.

[af_vet_rr]

Why is the public high school next door to me in session? No respect for country.

Schools in Central Texas are in session to make up for a snow day. Parents knew about Memorial Day being an alternative day last year and back in February when schools were closed for snow, and didn't raise a fuss, but some did last week. Morons.

They even had one on TV who said she didn't pay attention last year to what the alternate days would be. She's one of those types, probably a liberal, who needs everything spoon-fed to her.

[Mr. Silverback]

Coincidentally, I was looking through the archives of aircraftresourcecenter.com this morning and came across almost the exact same shot posted as a Memorial Day tribute in ‘05 and ‘06.

[OldPossum]

The search engine dogpile.com has three dogs (their usual “spokesmen”) standing in reverent attention today. That’s OK with me.

I despise the bastards at google.

[lentulusgracchus]

That was a truly great riff on Bill Clinton that you reposted from Onecosmos ...... thanks much! "Lower whorizontal man", no kidding!

[Cronos]

that "international" bit doesn't cut it -- Google interprets where you are logging in from and directs you to that country's google page with its own version of the front page

So, this was not minimized because it is an international search engine. I don't know why it was minized in the first place.

[Cronos]

I’m pretty sure, but can’t remember, that the google Poland and UK sites had images for Christmas and Easter that were Christ centric (I’m not terribly sure, memory you know... ;-P)

[rabidralph]

Why do you continue to be surprised? You may as well post vanities about bears and woods.

[betty boop]

For just as wholeness, the One, is associated with the peace that passes understanding, the exile from this real human world into the bizarre and fragmented world of the secular left brings not so much the passion that passes understanding, but the passion that cannot comprehend itself because it has no vector or direction beyond the self. In fact, nothing can be understood in the absence of that which it is converging upon, which reveals its meaning. To systematically deny the vertical is to obliterate the possibility of meaning and truth, which is obvious; however, it is also to destroy the hero and that transcendent reality for which he is willing to sacrifice his life.

Thank you so very much, dear Matchett-PI, for posting this brilliant essay by the clinical psychologist Dr. Robert Godwin (a/k/a "Gagdad Bob").

Sorry not to have replied sooner — your ping was dated May 30th, Memorial Day. That day, I accompanied my 93-year-old mother, a veteran of World War II, to our hometown's Memorial Day parade and ceremonials. Mom served as a U.S. Navy nurse in the South Pacific, on Guam, Saipan, and Kwajelain; and has stayed active with various veterans' organizations all her life. I love Memorial Day — I can't seem to stop myself from breaking down in tears at least once during its celebration. Mom and I had a glorious day!

Anyhoot, back to Gagdad Bob's main point, the vertical direction that points beyond the world of immanent experience (the "horizontal line") to the transcendent source beyond it. Without the "vertical line," questions of truth and meaning are unintelligible, indeed impossible. All the horizontal line can give is direct observations, serially, linearly, over a "flattened" time. I note the scientific method confines itself to the horizontal line. Thus it cannot provide any criterion by which questions of meaning and truth can be asked.

I think Gagdad Bob is following an insight — re: the vertical direction that can be sensed by the human psyche, as invoked by a transcendent "beyond" — that goes back to Plato, who may well have been the greatest psychologist of all time (though AFAIK that word did not exist in any language at the time of his activity). By that I mean Plato was a master analyst of the human psyche and its structure.

Of course, the atheist denies this vertical line on principle: It points to the contextual spiritual realm in which unfolds all physical existents in the real world.

I loved what Gagdad Bob had to say about atheists:

Rational they are not. Or, at the very least, the more sober among them prove the adage that there is a form of madness that consists of losing everything with the exception of one’s reason.

Well, just some thoughts regarding Bob's penetrating analysis, FWIW. I so admire this guy!

Thanks again, dear Matchett-PI, for your outstanding essay/post!

[metmom]

Thanks for the ping. That is a very interesting observation you made about science and reality.

[Alamo-Girl]

Indeed! Thank you so much for sharing your insights, dearest sister in Christ, and please tell your mom for me: "Thank you for your service!"