Why Is Google Ignoring Memorial Day?

[wrdekle]

Originally Posted by Raider

What does your rant have to do with Google observing Memorial Day?

You can call it a rant, that's fair as I wrote it while I was drunk.

But all I am suggesting above is forget about Google, Bush should really honor Memorial Day by calling for his own blood to serve in this war. Failing to do this publicly is an insult to everyone over there. It's one thing I just don't understand about this country is why we let our politicians sacrifice our brothers, sisters and friends while they give nothing.

[Raider]

Originally Posted by wrdekle

Bush should really honor Memorial Day by calling for his own blood to serve in this war. Failing to do this publicly is an insult to everyone over there. It's one thing I just don't understand about this country is why we let our politicians sacrifice our brothers, sisters and friends while they give nothing.

Tell me, Did your Japanese leaders give there blood and serve in there wars? or were they too busy raping and looting innocent civilians? I think you need a history lesson on what your Japanese leaders did, the war crimes and atrocities they committed.

Asian Pacific wars / World war II
Nanjing Massacre
Russo-Japanese War
Japan Russia War

[Sarcle]

Originally Posted by wrdekle

But all I am suggesting above is forget about Google, Bush should really honor Memorial Day by calling for his own blood to serve in this war. Failing to do this publicly is an insult to everyone over there. It's one thing I just don't understand about this country is why we let our politicians sacrifice our brothers, sisters and friends while they give nothing.

Nah, we are supposed to pray for Bush. How f-ing funny is that? Did you know when we first went to war there was a pamphlet that soldiers had to pledge a prayer in honor of Bush?

Notice how the troops are last. www.presidentialprayerteam.org

Pray for President Bush today as he travels to Brunswick, GA for a briefing on the wildfires still raging in Georgia and Florida. He will also tour the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, GA and will speak there on immigration reform...

Pray for President Bush as he returns to Washington to meet with Vietnamese democracy and human rights activists at the White House...
Pray for an effective response to new sanctions President Bush ordered today against the Sudanese government, seeking to bring an end to the genocide in Darfur...

Pray for Secretary of State Rice today as she travels to Berlin for advance talks related to the upcoming G8 Summit...

Pray for members of Congress in recess this week, asking God to guide and protect each one into meaningful activity...

Give thanks for many meaningful Memorial Day tributes, and for the privilege of honoring those who have sacrificed their lives to win freedom...

Pray for troops searching for the adbucted soldiers south of Baghdad, Iraq, and pray for their families as they pray and hope...

Memorial Day isn't about the troops anymore. It's another whored out national holiday and if you don't agree, then you aren't reading the same newspapers I am. As I pick up the paper the Home Depot, Wal-Mart, J.C. Penny, Memorial Day sale ads fall on the floor. Memorial Day isn't about the "fallen" it's about getting the best deal on a hammer at Lowe's.

Here's a nice little song that goes along with his war machine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh-bpRgup44

Even God supposedly sacrificed his own child.

[Banned: domain newbie]

Originally Posted by companyone

Why is Google ignoring Memorial Day?

i dono

[Raider]

The comments about Memorial day made in this thread, remind me of little children at Christmas time, ask a 2 or 3 year old what the meaning of Christmas is and some will say "its when Santa brings us toys", I think many of you are completely missing what Memorial day represents, its the one day a year to honor the sacrifices of fallen American troops and most of you are turning this into something much different.

coz memorial day and veteran day is sucks

The most idiotic comment yet, anybody care to top this one?

[companyone]

Hi,

Big "surprise"...
John Edwards was a Google Headquaters today... I bet they back him. He is the Howard Dean ~ John Kerry of this election.

Always love his story how he came from such poor "humble beginnings"...after all just ask him and he will say "I am the son of a just a plain old "Mill worker"

But what he always leaves out is the fact... that were he grew up, his family was considered "middle class+" and the big FACT he always leaves out is... his Dad was in MANAGEMENT for the Mill company...and not just some plain old Mill worker.

Peace,
Dan

[typist]

Why is Google ignoring Memorial Day?

Most of the world is happily ignorant about "memorial day", and probably prefers to remain so.

Peddling politically laden U.S. holidays would be a serious mistake for a worldwide business (and last time I checked, they were a business, not some political propaganda organization).

What's next - Bin Laden's birthday?

Originally Posted by domain newbie

why shall we honouring killers?

Hey, this is a trick question. You already know the answer: to make it easier to recruit more of them. Give them a medal or a memorial day, and they'll keep signing up with uncle sam. Or maybe it's really only to sell more cheap trinkets? Flowers, just like for "Mother's day"? Keep the cash registers ringing?

[Doc Com]

Originally Posted by domain newbie

yea, i no u suck aswell

Vos es exspectata , vos parum meretricis , pro licentia ut vos have sumo is sursum vestri anus quod combibo dick vacuus persecution ex vestri hostilis. Is est ingratus insignificant insects amo vos ut planto sulum occumbo of cruor spilled nequam. Vos es non dignitas sudo ex meus balls erant vos posco vobis permaneo spiritus parumper imbibo of unda.

Originally Posted by domain newbie

who cares about these brainwashed ships, that goes to kill and dies, why shall we honouring killers?

Vos operor , vos meretricis. Vos insisto lemma ut seposita brevis quod take suum viaticus quod voro suum sperma quod permissum vestri somes exsisto pensus pro. Vos have haud mens. Vos have miles militis vestri animus quod licentia sibimet nequam morbus vos emanio. Quare did vos non subsisto in vestri paternus terra? Vestri own populus did non volo vos. Vos es nequam. Vos es meretricis mancipium of unus ut no vos solvo

[MobileDesigner]

Originally Posted by Doc Com

Vos es exspectata , vos parum meretricis , pro licentia ut vos have sumo is sursum vestri anus quod combibo dick vacuus persecution ex vestri hostilis. Is est ingratus insignificant insects amo vos ut planto sulum occumbo of cruor spilled nequam. Vos es non dignitas sudo ex meus balls erant vos posco vobis permaneo spiritus parumper imbibo of unda.

hahahahah! and from me too in a different version.
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[Raider]

Originally Posted by typist

Peddling politically laden U.S. holidays would be a serious mistake for a worldwide business

First off, for any US holiday, the observance would be targeted in the USA., not worldwide. Second, what do you say when Google cancel ads from one political party but promotes the other? wouldn't this be considered peddling in politics?, not to mention that 98 percent of Google employees money went to Democrats in the last election.

[typist]

Originally Posted by Raider

First off, for any US holiday, the observance would be targeted in the USA., not worldwide.

I agree, that could work.

Second, what do you say when Google cancel ads from one political party but promotes the other? wouldn't this be considered peddling in politics?

HP used to sprinkle donations to republicans and democrats equally. I always thought that made sense, as a safe bet, from a business perspective, assuming money is buying access and influence.

You're asking a hypothetical question. I really have no idea whether they're meddling in politics, other than to further the cause of business. I'd expect Google to act rationally, from a shareholder value perspective.

I can't make any other educated guesses about exactly how they're involved in politics, but judging the numbers, they're doing well. Consequently, as a shareholder, I, personally, would trust their judgement.

Then again, I really don't know too much about this.

Originally Posted by Doc Com

Vos es ... vos solvo

Doctor, nescio quid dicas. Nonne de urbe novo eboraco venis?

[Doc Com]

Originally Posted by typist

Doctor, nescio quid dicas. Nonne de urbe novo eboraco venis?

So funny. Just a wild guess...were you raised Catholic or attend Catholic school growing up? Curious to know. This was such a long time ago for me.

[typist]

Originally Posted by Doc Com

So funny. Just a wild guess...were you raised Catholic or attend Catholic school growing up? Curious to know. This was such a long time ago for me.

I was raised in Switzerland...in a generally conservative environment. The school wasn't catholic, but I attended catholic religious education classes as well

Latin was the first foreign language we were taught at school, in parallel to French.

My older brother still learnt Classical Greek as well, just like my great-grandfather. By the time I was at school, Greek was voluntary.

Anyway, I don't think I learnt much, but I never regretted that

Back on topic: maybe Google could do a "Latin Day"?

[Doc Com]

Originally Posted by typist

Back on topic: maybe Google could do a "Latin Day"?

I guess it would be a safe play for google to honor the romance languages or the lost arts.

The odd part is, we are talking about a US founded and based company that refused to turn documents over at the request of the US courts regarding a pornography and potential child pornography implications of its users but at nearly the exact same time Google complied wholeheartedly with the Chinese governments' requests and demands of censorship before allowing Google to operate in China.

I seriously do understand their resistance to turn over documents that essentially is private data. But I sincerely don't go along with their assertion of protecting their rights here at home while violating the rights of those abroad by limiting the search capabilities by a regime. THAT is what Google had to agree to.

One country feeding the Google cash machine with Google standing up for their own rights while Google is bowing down to the feet of the Chinese regime in order to make a Yuan in China.

I do my best to be open minded about many things, but I found this double standard and unacceptable.

But, such is free enterprise, democracy, and the almighty dollar and yuan.

[wrdekle]

Originally Posted by Raider

Tell me, Did your Japanese leaders give there blood and serve in there wars? or were they too busy raping and looting innocent civilians? I think you need a history lesson on what your Japanese leaders did, the war crimes and atrocities they committed.

Asian Pacific wars / World war II
Nanjing Massacre
Russo-Japanese War
Japan Russia War

The Japanese did commit all those atrocities mentioned and more. Although I struggle to understand what it has to do with what I was communicating in this forum. I think you are making a typical ad hominem (in this case ad populim?) attack to deflect attention on my actual question which is why Bush doesn't call for his own relatives to partake in military service. Ad hominem's are an attack of last resort when people have no valid counterargument. So I take it from that you yourself understand that Bush has no defense here. He runs from his own military service. He sends other people's kids off to an unjustified war without even lifting a finger to encourage his own familiy to support the cause.

It's a pretty simple point and the best you can do is say, "The Japanese government waged a brutal campaign 60 years ago and now the Japanese people no longer have any moral authority to say anything to anybody about what happens in this world." Ha! What a lame argument.

[Raider]

Originally Posted by wrdekle

attack to deflect attention on my actual question which is why Bush doesn't call for his own relatives to partake in military service.

No, it is you who is deflecting, this is YOUR quote;

Bush should really honor Memorial Day by calling for his own blood to serve in this war

Any my response was, How many Japanese leaders gave there blood to serve in the wars they started?.....If your going to post LAME statements like these about our leaders, at least be prepared to answer for yours.

[Fearless]

Without reading all the posts, my 2 cents. Without much effort Google could have produced a tasteful graphic honoring the war dead. So what if their other special day graphics are humorous.

[Doc Com]

Originally Posted by Fearless

Without reading all the posts, my 2 cents. Without much effort Google could have produced a tasteful graphic honoring the war dead. So what if their other special day graphics are humorous.

Considering that google is US based and I presume most countries are privy to the google of their host (.de, .fr, .cn, etc) and would not be "exposed", I am not sure it would have offended anyone.

My Grandfather was a World War I vet, my dad was WWII and Korea. I think a great many in this world have in them a sense of gratitude somewhere to honor and be thankful for their freedoms of today from those that sacrificed decades ago. Whether we all agree about the politics of today, I think we all can agree that if things could have taken an entirely different path in life.

[wrdekle]

Originally Posted by Raider

No, it is you who is deflecting, this is YOUR quote;



Any my response was, How many Japanese leaders gave there blood to serve in the wars they started?.....If your going to post LAME statements like these about our leaders, at least be prepared to answer for yours.

My understanding is that no one was exempt from service during the war years in Japan including military leaders and government officials. No noble "saving private Ryan" moments either - you went out there and you pretty much died and didn't come back. American military service during the WWII was also much more broad due to the draft. Congress felt the pain of calling a war, the Executive branch felt that pain too. Consequently, the nation as a whole was reluctant to enter into war.

Which brings us back to the POINT, which is that it is quite easy for President Bush to wage this war in Iraq. The American people have yet to ask him to put some skin in this game.

You call my post LAME but you have no answer for your president. Your only retort is to point fingers and misdirect. Look, I see the flag of the Phillipines and I get that you might have some kind of chip on your shoulder against the Japanese. Hey, that's understandable, I don't blame you, the Japanese did some horrendous things in the name of empire. Like attack countries unprovoked, kill and displace massive amounts of civilians, and torture enemy prisoners. Hmm, sounds like another country I know....but I don't blame individual Americans for it because Americans, I believe, essentially long to do good, as most of us do.

The reason why I make a point of this question of why Bush refuses to put skin in the game is because I believe that answer will be revealing to Americans about Bush's own true feelings about this war. He doesn't believe in it as a cause worth dying for personally. He thinks that the lives of his own family are more important than the lives of ordinary Americans. Unless you have another explanation for him?

[MobileDesigner]

Military personel = government property - not self.

That was pretty much what was written in the document when i signed up for the Navy. So this means that you are not the property of your own family. You are property of the goverment. Military personel know this when they signed up.

As for the Japanese goverment, they edit many parts of history in the school books. The Japanese kinda have an idea what happened, but it was the military and not the people.

my 2 cents