If you don't like the results, you could always get all the freepers together and use the "Report Offensive Image" button that is at the bottom of every Google image page...
African-Americans have voted in a much larger percentage for the Democratic party since the civil rights era. That whole time they were voting for white politicians.
Frankly, your entire premise here is ignorant bullshit. Going by your logic every white person is a racist, if they've only voted for white politicians like John Sidney McCain.
If you really want to look at pictures of Michelle Obama as a monkey, you still can. They haven't stopped any speech at all. All they've done, most likely, is act to remove an image like that from being the number 1 image that comes up when you google her regular name. Why would they do that?
It probably has something to do with a lot of people clicking on thier "Report Offensive Image" button they put at the bottom of every Google image search...
If enough of their users click on the "Report Offensive Image" button, they're going to act on it sooner or later. That's why they put it there, and it's on the bottom of every Google image page.
When I run that exact search. The top Bush image comes up, but the rest of the results, are of either of the Obamas, with the 3rd pick on page 1, being the image this whole story was about.
Lots of people were offended that it was the top picture that came up when you looked up her name, and submitted it with Google's "Report Offensive Image" button on the bottom of every Google image search page.
It still comes up if you Google her name and monkey, but that narrows the result to only people wanting to find pictures of her photoshopped to look like one...
The image, and site that hosts it, are still in Google search, you just have to actively search for "Michelle Obama Monkey" for it to come up now, and not just a basic search of her name.
Don't let that stop playtime in fantasy land, though.
They have not censored this image, or blocked it from their search. They just removed it from the top pick when you do an image search of her name. One of their suggested searches points you directly to the image. If you google Michelle Obama Monkey it comes up.
Hey we agree on something. One party rule sucks. If the Democrats get their asses handed to them in 2010, they'll have only themselves to blame. The shame is that their opposition are more fucked up than they are.
Nice strawman. There is a lot of things Obama is getting wrong. Mostly he's not doing enough to reverse a lot of stupid shit that Bush put in place. I just get sick of ignorant people calling the man a socialist, when it's obvious they don't even know what the word means. Half of these dolts use the terms socialism and communism as if they meant the same thing.
I never called you un-American, I just gave you an example of the countries that actually have a flat tax. In the market place of countries, you have options.
As for my 'day of reckoning', is that the day that all of you libertarian hacks are going to abandon all supposed principles and vote for a bunch of Republicans yet again? Or maybe you'll support some 3rd party candidates like Doug Hoffman. Good luck.
So some forms of tax are good, but the ones you don't agree with are socialist? Is that how it works?
I'll tell you what, if you like the flat tax so much, move to Iraq, or a former Soviet block country. I'm sure the standard of living there will be great!
Her own interviews with Charles Gibson and Katie Couric were enough for most people. She was her own worst enemy. If you can't even stand toe-to-toe with lightweights like Gibson and Couric, then you have no business on the world stage as the leader of the U.S.
"My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody. If you’ve got a plumbing business, you’re gonna be better off if you’re gonna be better off if you’ve got a whole bunch of customers who can afford to hire you, and right now everybody’s so pinched that business is bad for everybody and I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody."
Read the whole thing for yourself, or watch the footage. It was all about the Bush tax cuts for the rich. Nothing he said there was even remotely in support of socialism.
You can make things sound like all kinds of things when you take them out of context. I didn't realize that revoking the Bush tax cuts on the rich, and bringing them back to the levels they were at during the Clinton years was socialism. That's what he was talking about when he said those words. You act like it was his campaign slogan.
Hey smart guy. The Iraq war alone has cost 935 Billion dollars so far. Your math seems pretty faulty. In the case that you meant 2 Trillion dollars, that is because for the first time in 7 years the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were put on the federal budget, and not kept as an off-budget total.
Don't believe me though, check it out for yourself. The Iraq and Afghanistan war were never included in a Bush budget.
Afghanistan was not under control before the Obama administration. That's just plain old revisionism. We didn't win any war during Bush's term, and it's incredibly ignorant to try to claim that we did.
Actually, if you look in to the issue of cheating, you'll see that cheating on Xbox Live is in the form of modded 'rapid fire' controllers. Currently MS can not detect those, and no one gets banned for using them. That's why I'll stick with my comment about a modded 360 is for piracy.
A modded controller is for cheating, but they don't seem too concerned about that. This is about money. They really don't seem to give a shit if you have rapid fire, when you're not supposed to.
There is no reason to mod an Xbox360 unless you are pirating games. Anyone who says otherwise is a disingenuous tool. I could understand if it was the Xbox 1, because the mods for that allowed you to run Linux, Xbox Media Center, and a host of classic game emulators (which are also in a legal grey area). However, the only mods for 360 are about letting the DVD drive run pirated games. That being said, I have a modded Xbox 1, just for XBMC, but I'm not dumb enough to try to get on the Live network with it.
You agree to not mod your console when you sign up for Xbox Live.
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If you don't like the results, you could always get all the freepers together and use the "Report Offensive Image" button that is at the bottom of every Google image page...
African-Americans have voted in a much larger percentage for the Democratic party since the civil rights era. That whole time they were voting for white politicians.
Frankly, your entire premise here is ignorant bullshit. Going by your logic every white person is a racist, if they've only voted for white politicians like John Sidney McCain.
If you really want to look at pictures of Michelle Obama as a monkey, you still can. They haven't stopped any speech at all. All they've done, most likely, is act to remove an image like that from being the number 1 image that comes up when you google her regular name. Why would they do that?
It probably has something to do with a lot of people clicking on thier "Report Offensive Image" button they put at the bottom of every Google image search...
If enough of their users click on the "Report Offensive Image" button, they're going to act on it sooner or later. That's why they put it there, and it's on the bottom of every Google image page.
When I run that exact search. The top Bush image comes up, but the rest of the results, are of either of the Obamas, with the 3rd pick on page 1, being the image this whole story was about.
Lots of people were offended that it was the top picture that came up when you looked up her name, and submitted it with Google's "Report Offensive Image" button on the bottom of every Google image search page.
It still comes up if you Google her name and monkey, but that narrows the result to only people wanting to find pictures of her photoshopped to look like one...
The image, and site that hosts it, are still in Google search, you just have to actively search for "Michelle Obama Monkey" for it to come up now, and not just a basic search of her name.
Don't let that stop playtime in fantasy land, though.
They have not censored this image, or blocked it from their search. They just removed it from the top pick when you do an image search of her name. One of their suggested searches points you directly to the image. If you google Michelle Obama Monkey it comes up.
Hey we agree on something. One party rule sucks. If the Democrats get their asses handed to them in 2010, they'll have only themselves to blame. The shame is that their opposition are more fucked up than they are.
Nice strawman. There is a lot of things Obama is getting wrong. Mostly he's not doing enough to reverse a lot of stupid shit that Bush put in place. I just get sick of ignorant people calling the man a socialist, when it's obvious they don't even know what the word means. Half of these dolts use the terms socialism and communism as if they meant the same thing.
I never called you un-American, I just gave you an example of the countries that actually have a flat tax. In the market place of countries, you have options.
As for my 'day of reckoning', is that the day that all of you libertarian hacks are going to abandon all supposed principles and vote for a bunch of Republicans yet again? Or maybe you'll support some 3rd party candidates like Doug Hoffman. Good luck.
So some forms of tax are good, but the ones you don't agree with are socialist? Is that how it works?
I'll tell you what, if you like the flat tax so much, move to Iraq, or a former Soviet block country. I'm sure the standard of living there will be great!
Her own interviews with Charles Gibson and Katie Couric were enough for most people. She was her own worst enemy. If you can't even stand toe-to-toe with lightweights like Gibson and Couric, then you have no business on the world stage as the leader of the U.S.
"My attitude is that if the economy’s good for folks from the bottom up, it’s gonna be good for everybody. If you’ve got a plumbing business, you’re gonna be better off if you’re gonna be better off if you’ve got a whole bunch of customers who can afford to hire you, and right now everybody’s so pinched that business is bad for everybody and I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody."
Read the whole thing for yourself, or watch the footage. It was all about the Bush tax cuts for the rich. Nothing he said there was even remotely in support of socialism.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/spread-the-weal.html
You can make things sound like all kinds of things when you take them out of context. I didn't realize that revoking the Bush tax cuts on the rich, and bringing them back to the levels they were at during the Clinton years was socialism. That's what he was talking about when he said those words. You act like it was his campaign slogan.
Hey smart guy. The Iraq war alone has cost 935 Billion dollars so far. Your math seems pretty faulty. In the case that you meant 2 Trillion dollars, that is because for the first time in 7 years the Iraq and Afghanistan wars were put on the federal budget, and not kept as an off-budget total.
Don't believe me though, check it out for yourself. The Iraq and Afghanistan war were never included in a Bush budget.
So if you think those wars were a justification under Bush, but not Obama, then that just makes you a big 'ole hypocrite.
Afghanistan was not under control before the Obama administration. That's just plain old revisionism. We didn't win any war during Bush's term, and it's incredibly ignorant to try to claim that we did.
He's also a fictional character.
Oh give it a rest. If you think Obama's platform was one of a socialist, all you do is prove that you have no idea what the word means...
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Actually, if you look in to the issue of cheating, you'll see that cheating on Xbox Live is in the form of modded 'rapid fire' controllers. Currently MS can not detect those, and no one gets banned for using them. That's why I'll stick with my comment about a modded 360 is for piracy.
A modded controller is for cheating, but they don't seem too concerned about that. This is about money. They really don't seem to give a shit if you have rapid fire, when you're not supposed to.
Except that if you get banned from Xbox Live, your console has not been 'bricked'. At least get the facts before arguing about it.
So don't mod your console and you can get on xbox live. Problem solved.
Actually there is nothing to see here, because in this case, MS is right. They don't need to use a Chewbacca defense, or hire a dead lawyer.
There is no reason to mod an Xbox360 unless you are pirating games. Anyone who says otherwise is a disingenuous tool. I could understand if it was the Xbox 1, because the mods for that allowed you to run Linux, Xbox Media Center, and a host of classic game emulators (which are also in a legal grey area). However, the only mods for 360 are about letting the DVD drive run pirated games. That being said, I have a modded Xbox 1, just for XBMC, but I'm not dumb enough to try to get on the Live network with it.
You agree to not mod your console when you sign up for Xbox Live.