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Google Honors Veterans Day, Finally
theodp writes "It took nearly a decade, but Google has done a turnabout and is honoring Veterans Day with a special holiday design for its famous logo. Users who log onto Google's home page are greeted with three World War I-era helmets capping the letters 'o' and 'e' in Google's name. The decoration is a marked departure for the company, which has come under fire from veterans' groups for ignoring American holidays such as Veterans Day and Memorial Day since Google's inception in 1999."
Groups of Americans are attacking Google over something asinine to distract the attention from the real, severe problems of the USA, such as an absolute lack of and desdain for ecology, corporativism (DRM, patents, digital AIDS in general), massive external debt (on par with many third world countries), and the fact that they have the redneck village idiot in the white house.
I was about to say 13256278887989457651018865901401704640, but it appears this number is private property.
And what problem do you have with setting aside a day to say "Hey Grandpa, thanks for your sacrifice. While I may be a whining, sniveling, armchair foreign policy analyst, I haven't become SO retarded as to think that I'd be better off if, say, NAZI GERMANY had won..." ?
:) "Look at me! I went to (or am in) college, so I'm smart! WEEEEEE.....YAYYY...WOHOOOO..." :) So cute..
Besides, most Americans know that politicians are just a layer or two below pedophiles and will take ANY opportunity to get some limelight action... We know it's about the troops. I've never seen anyone walk up to a politician (unless he/she is a veteran) and say "Thanks for your service to our country." (people looking for favors notwithstanding).
You self important wieners are comical, actually.
2) Someone who advocates raping and murdering others because they don't like their pollitical opinions has no business calling someone else "insane" or "fascist". Hint: that would be you, Chuckles. Uhm. Pot kettle black?
You fight for your government.
Both things are not always on the same side, I am sorry to say.
WWII yeah, sure.
Bosnia, Yugoslavia, yeah, sure.
First Gulf War, yes.
Afghanistan: most likely yes.
WWI: mmmmhhh, maybe, not entirely sure.
Korea: no.
Vietnam: no.
Iraq: no.
Nevertheless I respect people that have the balls to become soldiers, at least in a democracy it is possible to somehow punish the asses that on occasions lead such lions like you buddy. You deserve better that the people leading you today, but don't be mistaken, in occasions these people ask you to make sacrifices that have nothing to do with anybody's rights.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
To the right wing nimrod (pardon the redundancy) who modded parent flamebait: it's the hard truth. Deal with it.
A company with a long history of bad behavior finally gives one ounce of respect to the troops, and a left-wing nut who's got editor controls tags it "whining, whiners, insane".
Meanwhile, it celebrates the Religion of Hate's "eid" festival at the end of ramalamadingdong, but won't so much as put up a christmas tree.
Google has some SERIOUS issues. And that's not even counting the number of times they've flagged anti-terrorism videos and film expose's of terrorists as "hate speech" and other bullshit stuff on their google video and youtube sites, while allowing pro-jihadist propaganda to stay around.
Hell, they allowed an islamic death threat against a UK politician to stay up for a week.
Well, I'm pretty sure you're not. The overwhelming evidence is that smarter people don't vote republican. As we can see, indeed, from Google's employee demographic: very smart people (some of the smartest in the country), mostly liberal.
Sorry to disappoint you, but the evidence isn't supporting your conclusion. Also you don't appear to understand the English language, based upon the rest of your comment, which doesn't have much to do with anything I wrote. Don't worry too much about that, Loundry - the GGP - is afflicted with a similar comprehension problem.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.