It's unbelievable. Next up, people who don't have those goofy "I support the troops" ribbons on their cars are really lefty terrorist sympathizers!
"WHO refuses to wear the ribbon?"
Posted on 10/09/2007 7:27:54 AM PDT by kellynla
WASHINGTON -- Should the world's most-used search engine be more of a Yankee Google Dandy?
Google Inc. occasionally features light-hearted doodles on its colorful home-page logo to commemorate special occasions. But now they are drawing criticism from conservatives for not being more patriotic.
The Mountain View, Calif., company bathes its logo in stars and stripes every Independence Day, but last week's decision to honor the 50th anniversary of the Sputnik launch -- the second "g" in Google was replaced with a drawing of the Soviet satellite -- is being blasted by some conservatives.
Not only did Google honor an achievement by a totalitarian regime that was our Cold War enemy, they griped, but it did so without having ever altered its logo to commemorate U.S. military personnel on Memorial Day or Veterans Day.
"It's a kick to your belly," said conservative blogger Giovanni Gallucci, 39, a social media consultant from Dallas. "I understand these guys are scientists and engineers and they have their quirks and want to make sure people are recognized who might not normally be recognized . . . but why not celebrate the struggles that we've come through as a people?"
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I’m not trying to get the last word, I’m trying to figure out what the hell you want. I acknowledged you were right and I was wrong, counting this post 3 times, and yet you keep poking for something. Then you include a question while complaining I’m supposedly trying for the last word, just trying to figure out what you’re aiming for.
Lighten up, take a chill pill.
and just exactly what more “human achievment” can anyone obtain than to lay down their life for freedom, God & country...again, something you wouldn’t have a clue about.
But, coming from someone who didn’t serve in combat, I am not surprised.
Take your inane comments over to the DU...you’ll be right at home with the rest of the anti-military yellow-belly Leftists!
It’s absurd, to sit around and ask whether people saw combat. Or whether there is a Memorial Day logo on freaking Google search engine. Might seem fair to put it up, but I don’t find the presence or absence of a Memorial Day logo diminishes the achievement of Sputnik.
Because the real problem here is that you’re acting like a complete lune. Sputnik DESERVES to be acknowledged, it has NOTHING to do with ANY other thing Google does or doesn’t commemorate with their logos. The 50th anniversary of the first man made object to orbit the planet was celebrated by a lot more people than just Google, heck we had multiple threads about it right here on FR. You need to linchpin your argument on firmer ground, the “evils” of Sputnik just doesn’t cut it, it was a momentous anniversary.
Are there things Google should acknowledge but doesn’t? Sure. Are there things they probably shouldn’t acknowledge but do? Yep. Is the 50th anniversary of the first man made object orbiting the earth one of them? Not even close, Sputnik is definitely on the list of things that SHOULD be celebrated. Remember what Armstrong said, “giant leap for mankind” the space race was huge for everybody, well outside the context of the Cold War that spawned it, there was a long series of amazing achievements, some by the USSR some by the USA all by humans, all worth celebrating.
If you can glean a deep political meaning from the child-like ways that Google alters its logo on certain days, then all the more power to you---you might have a future career as a soothsayer, if you aren't one already. However, most of us just type a few words into the text box, click search, and go on about our day . . . completely oblivious to the fact that we are the unwitting dupes of our great Communist overlords. Oh great, great horror. Looks like the commies can chalk up another victory over their capitalist foe. Good one, commies.And if you can read through this entire thread of 100+ posts and not hear the hyperbolic, hysterical nature of some of the posters, you're tone-deaf. And yes, those posters are behaving exactly like the thin-skinned, perpetually offended people most people ridicule regularly. All you need to complete the square is your own version of "Reverend" Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson.
And if the “if you don’t like it, ignore it” rule applies to us and Google, how come it doesn’t apply to you (and the other indifferents) and this thread?
It's a free country; you can hyperventilate about this all you want. I'll be here to poke fun at you if you do, because it's amusing to do so.
It's unbelievable. Next up, people who don't have those goofy "I support the troops" ribbons on their cars are really lefty terrorist sympathizers!
"WHO refuses to wear the ribbon?"
That’s sacrifice not achievement, different scale entirely. While the space race was spawned by the Cold War in the end it was about achievement not sacrifice, amazing things were accomplished.
And frankly your whole “I was in combat” thing is a bunch of obnoxious crap. Nothing about being shot at grants a person infallibility, it’s a dodge I see you use on FR all the time, every time somebody disagrees with you about anything you run to “I was in combat”. While I respect that and thank you for it that doesn’t mean you’re right. And about this you’re just plain WRONG, and I will not run to DU because an obnoxious person doesn’t like hearing that his is wrong. That demonstration of unwillingness to hear other people’s opinions, unwillingness to respect others, THAT’S that BS that belongs at DU.
They help the Communist Chinese crack down on dissent by reporting dissenters to the government (”crack down” being a polite euphemism for “kill”), they direct traffic to propaganda sites like Thinkprogress, Moveon and Mediamatters by classifying them as news sites, they have Al Gore as a Senior Advisor... they’re on the far left fringes. I know.
These guys act like honoring Sputnik was the first and only thing Google’s ever done. Maybe they just don’t know. Or maybe they don’t want anyone else to know. Probably a combination of the two.
No actually we’re acting that THAT is what the discussion is about, because it is. All that other stuff is red herring BS. The ultimate question here isn’t does Google do some annoying stuff, the question is: is the 50th anniversary of Sputnik deserving of recognition? And the answer is yes. There’s nothing wrong with acknowledging this major anniversary, not by Google, not by Scientific American, not by all the various science fiction rags, not by anybody. Google wasn’t alone is recognizing the day, why aren’t you going after everybody that did.
Most people I know who served in combat don't wear it on their sleeve, and they most certainly don't use it as a trump card. Using your service in this manner doesn't speak very highly of you, friend.
Class dismissed.
We all know you're a combat veteran, John Kerry. How could we not? You never let us forget.
"The sky is red. I know, because I'm a combat veteran."
"Cookies are good. Only a combat veteran would know that."
"Two plus two is four. How do I know that? I'm a combat veteran."
You're like an old man mumbling into his bowl of cold tomato soup.
Class dismissed.
Class is something you most definitely lack, that's for sure.
Well unlike you & John Kerry, I received a PH legitimately. LMAO
Clownynla believes if you haven’t seen dead marines your opinion doesn’t matter.
Ignore him. He’s like the race pimps who scream “Racist!” cuz they don’t have the brains or balls to debate.
Hey “conservatives”! Ever hear of choosing your battles? Geez for petty.
"LMAO?" Are you a teenaged girl texting with her best girlfriend?
No the subject matter is NOT Veteran’s Day & Memorial Day. The subject matter is Sputnik, that’s part of your problem. On Nov 11th if you want to complain about Google not acknowledging veterans I’ll support you, because they should and historically they don’t. But near October 5th, especially this year, acknowledging Sputnik is not something to complain about, it is a valid anniversary of a major event that seriously changed human history for the better as it turns out. The PC you’re using to lodge these complaints probably wouldn’t exist, or at least would be a few decades behind in the technology, if not for Sputnik.
But it's oh so fun.
Okay, Kelly, where did you serve, and when? Are you Chesty Puller's ghost, or Pappy Boyington's?
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