OMG!!! we should boycott them like everyone wanted to do to starbucks for supposedly not sending the troups coffee!!!!
















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...exactly why I called this a keen observation, and left it at that. Yahoo didn't honor service men and women either. Hell...even MLB and NBA play through the holidays. Are they anti military?




It seems to me that google chooses eclectic and interesting times to change their logo, based more on marketing and nerdy-type interest than on actual respect. It's a private company...requiring them (or even expecting them) to honor national holidays is...should I say it...socialist?

i personally feel like that huge companys like google that are american based could show our troops a little more respect considering if we didn't have our troops those company's like google wouldn't exist, 60 to 70 years ago we would have been overrun by the japanise commies and this would have been the communist states of ameripan!

my personal opinion is americans and myself owe my life to those who fought and died in ww1 and ww2!

but you know. i'm just a socialistic jackass american!!!

you freakin europeans should be a little more grateful to our troops as well since we kinda completly saved your a** from the ****'s

whoa hahaha...nice intro...


It all depends on where you 'draw the line' so to speak. Yes, europeans owe us for freedom from the *****. In the same way, they owe communist Russia for the same freedom. Americans, by the same logic, owe some European nations for their help in securing our freedom from the English. And we owe the English for their help against the Japanese and *****. And we owe the Japanese for our amazing cars that we all (obviously, since you're on i-club) love.

Then you bring in the idea of capitalism owing something to military persons; however the military is the only establishment in America that gets to circumvent our capitalist economy in order to secure materials and people...isn't that ironic...



And, just as a point of fact, Japan during WWII was IMPERIAL...not even close to communist...

did anyone else picture an american flag backdrop behind kyle_rs while reading that???

heres the thing, the 20th was for current service men and women....or so I believe?

ww1 and ww2 fall under memorial day maybe? or am I mixing this all up?

"did we stand down when the germans bombed pearl harbor? NO!"
"The germans?"
"shut up, hes on a roll"

Too hard to say. Then again, when has Yahoo! made a banner for every holiday under the sun except for these?

Dre just has a hard-on for the company he never got hired by...

Okay here's the deal... it's too hard to say if they are anti-military.

It's obvious that they have ignored or avoided Memorial Day, Armed Forces Day, and Veterans Day since 1999. Anyone care to enlighten me as to why?

:rotfl: must be a slow day in the blogging/real estate business.

An interesting observation though....

If everyone is feeling bad about google and how anti-american/military they are you can use this to search from now on.

http://www.google.com/unclesam

Does anyone else picture Salty wearing some American Flag pants?

"do you think anyone wants to take a roundhouse kick to the face wearing these bad boys?"

They did celebrate Bastille day in France before they put a Fourth of July logo up the next year? hmmmmm

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded
state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is
much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight,
nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable
creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the
exertions of better men than himself."
- John Stuart Mill

I don't know exactly why you decided to post that quote, but thank you. I hadn't heard of him and I like a lot of what (I think) he said.


"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant."_John Stuart Mill


..were you in the air force though? Or is that quote required for other branches...



Hahahaha...just found this one...

"Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative." _John Stuart Mill

I never had the honor of serving.

I think its funny how often liberals use that quote, considering when he lived 1806-1873 and where he was born (London). If you asked me its a terrible mis application of the quote. I doubt any that have used it know much about the man.

http://www.iep.utm.edu/m/milljs.htm

sorry my bad, haha it still was a dictatorship so the point still stands! but man i do love their cars!!! so i'm i two faced?

I see your point(liberal then is not what it is now...), but he was very liberal for his time and fairly liberal for ours as well. He was for women's liberation WAY before it happened. And this is a quote from that article you sited.


"In spite of his adherence to the maxim of laissez faire, Mill recognized the possibility of modifying the system, he displayed a leaning to the socialist ideal, which grew stronger as his life advanced." _Article about John Stuart Mills

He also came up with this:
"Rule Utilitarianism is a form of Utilitarianism, first suggested by John Stuart Mill, which states that when one considers what to do in a situation, one should consider which rule, rather than which act, that would maximize social utility. Furthermore, Rule Utilitarianism states when one is considering what to do in any given situation, he or she must make their decision based on a set of standards or morals in order to achieve the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amount of people." _Wikipedia

Greatest amount of happiness for the greatest amount of people...sounds like liberalism to me...
Also, his theory of 'harm' in relation to laws would fly in the face of American conservatives; in his ideal drugs would be legal, and laws could not be enacted that protected people from being offended (for example a ban on gay marriage or a ban flag burning, etc), laws could only be enacted that prevented physical harm to someone other than the perpetrator.


By the way, did you use google to find stuff about Mills like I did hahahaha