Google Celebrates Presidents' Day!!!

[Ed Mahmoud]

Just kidding. They don't celebrate holidays like Presidents' Day, Veterans Day or Memorial Day.

[HURAKAN]

Now why Google and FIU paired up for our new webmail system. They have in common not celebrating Presidents' Day.

[Ed Mahmoud]

Now why Google and FIU paired up for our new webmail system. They have in common not celebrating Presidents' Day.

They will alter the Google banner to celebrate events like the 50th Anniversary of Sputnik. Because that was a Soviet achievement.

[gtalum]

Who cares? They're entitled to do what they please.

FWIW, They do celebrate Independence Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, amongst many other holidays, with their silly modified logos.

[HURAKAN]

I don't care either but it looks funny when they alter their logo. I was expecting something for Presidents' Day.

[Ed Mahmoud]

Who cares? They're entitled to do what they please.

FWIW, They do celebrate Independence Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, amongst many other holidays, with their silly modified logos.

I care that they'll honor Soviet achievements but not, say, Memorial Day. You're right, it is a free country, they can do what they want, and I am also free to point out their, in my opinion, apparent lack of patriotism.

[Ed Mahmoud]

ask.com, BTW, has a tasteful Mount Rushmore image on their home page.

[gtalum]

What's unpatriotic about celebrating Independence Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, etc?

[Ed Mahmoud]

What's unpatriotic about celebrating Independence Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, etc?

Whats patriotic about celebrating Sputnik, less about the Soviet space program than a demonstration that the USSR could launch nuclear armed ballistic missiles against the US before the US had the same ability, and ignoring the contributions of our servicemen on Veterans Day and Memorial Day, and ignoring Presidents Day?

BTW, funny feeling, and I might be wrong, the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landings will not be noted by Google.

[gtalum]

So it's unpatriotic to acknowledge the anniversary of the first successful space launch, because the US didn't do it? That seems to be a rather unorthodox definition of patriotism.

Is it your contention that a pacifist cannot be a patriot?

[HURAKAN]

Lets cool the talk!!!

[Ed Mahmoud]

So it's unpatriotic to acknowledge the anniversary of the first successful space launch, because the US didn't do it? That seems to be a rather unorthodox definition of patriotism.

Is it your contention that a pacifist cannot be a patriot?

No, it would be fine to note Soviet space achievements if one also noted the service of America's servicemen. But Google picks and chooses, and has an apparent anti-US bias for a US based web page.


Pacifists can indeed be patriots. Many have served their country in non-combat roles in past wars as medics, as a matter of fact. Perhaps some find even that level of service as a conflict of interest.

Now, when Chrissy Hynde, back in 2003, as the Iraq war is about to begin, says she hopes tens of thousands of US servicemen die, to 'teach the US a lesson', than that isn't patriotic pacifism. I like some of the Pretenders old music, she writes some good songs, but yes, I question her patriotism.

I know 'don't question my patriotism' has become a common cry among a lot of people that oppose the war, and most of those people love their country, even if they think the war is wrong. But there are some (Google, or maybe I should say, ask.com names like Ward Churchill or Medea Benjamin) and tell me everyone in this country is a patriot.

[Coredesat]

What in blazes does that have to do with celebrating the first successful space launch by any country?

[gtalum]

What in blazes does that have to do with celebrating the first successful space launch by any country?

That's what I'm wondering...

Anyway, those who choose to are free to use any of the many vastly inferior search engines if they disagree with Google's holiday logo policy that strongly. It seems more than a little silly to me though.

[Chacor]

Remember that a Google co-founder is Russian. Maybe he's just more patriotic than his American counterpart.