Google logos offend conservatives

[jakefrep]

Apparently, wingnuts aren't happy that Google commemorated the Sputnik launch with an alteration of its logo:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-071009google-story,0,7971315.story?coll=chi_tab01_layout

[Connonym]

1. They sure whine a lot don't they?

I think we should just rewrite history and make every invention an American one. That'll show the world!

[jakefrep]

3. It's the reason the phrase "for fuck's sake" was coined.

[billyskank]

2. That is so pathetic.

[Aristus]

4. What a bunch of f*****g whiners, man.

I don't know about anyone else, but I wouldn't want a solemn occasion like Veterans Day commemorated with a cutesy logo on Google. But maybe that's just me...

And the criticism levelled at Google for censoring themselves in order to continue operations in China is just idiotic. When do conservatives ever complain that China is number 1 on the U.S.' Most-Favored-Nation trading list? Never, that's when.

F*****g hypocrites. :grr::mad:

[gmoney]

7. Yes, Veteran's Day and Memorial days should be properly commemorated...

...with mattress sales. :eyeroll:

[Aristus]

14. I'm not crazy about THOSE either...

:eyes:

[Richardo]

5. Allow me to respond with a few conservative talking points:

#1) If you don't like it, why don't you start your own search engine and let the market decide?
#2) Given the lack of significant popular outrage, there is apparently a limited market for your version of commemoration art, and Google cannot be faulted for failure to respond - and must be responsive primarily to its stockholders.
#3) Google, as a business entity, should be able to run its business as it sees fit, unfettered by Government regulation or political correctness.

[NewJeffCT]

6. That's not fair

Expecting conservatives to actually practice what they preach! Next thing, you'll expect morality out of them.

[idgiehkt]

17. It's not even the business, it's individual contribs by employees

and not even that much, 140k yearly.

I'd love to know if they own stock in yahoo or something. :eyes:

[bluethruandthru]

8. This must be the "war on Veteran's Day"

Where's Billo? Someone needs to expose this liberal, treasonous behavior. :rofl:

[Anarcho-Socialist]

9. So pathetic

I wouldn't be surprised if some of these conservatives have the Confederate Battle Flag on their bedroom wall.

[CGowen]

10. ".Not only did Google honor an achievement by a totalitarian regime that was our Cold War enemy,..."

Why was Apollo/Soyuz done in 1975 under Ford, a Republican?






http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_soyuz

[QueenOfCalifornia]

24. Ford was obviously

a pinko-commine-bastard.

You can not make sense out of the dumbasses over on the idiot side of the aisle. It just is not possible.

[DarkTirade]

11. There are very few times when I want to smack somebody and tell them to shut the hell up.

Unfortunately this is one of them.

Seriously... the cold war has been over for HOW LONG? Russia isn't some big nebulous scary monster under the bed anymore, in fact the Soviet Union doesn't even EXIST anymore. There's nothing wrong with celebrating a big achievement, like the first artificial satellite launched into space.

[idgiehkt]

16. oh c'mon, Everybody knows google are commies.

:eyes:

[northzax]

12. um, wasn't sputnik about the best thing that ever happened

to the US? let's see what we got from the spur that was Sputnik to our R&D program: the internet. the moon landing. velcro. tang. (TANG, people, we got TANG!). superconducters. did I mention TANG? sheesh.

[jakefrep]

19. But TANG's really good with Russian vodka

Damn Commie Bastards

[northzax]

20. but that is just proof (sorry) of the power of TANG!

TANG unites the world, it's good with everything!

[ceile]

13. Don't they have anything better to do?

Geez, get a life already.

[idgiehkt]

15. man they are scraping the bottom of the barrel for sources on this one

"It's a kick to your belly," said conservative blogger Giovanni Gallucci, 39, a social media consultant from Dallas...social media consultant? anyone? anyone?

"When they ignore Veterans Day and Memorial Day, I think they're telling us something about the way they view America," said Joseph Farah, editor of WorldNetDaily.com, a conservative website that has criticized Google's logo decisions.

WND?? enough said. :rofl:

They save the meat of the article for last:
What's more, the company's employees contribute overwhelmingly to Democratic candidates. While the company's new political action committee has given nearly half of its $22,100 in contributions this year to Republicans, 93% of the $141,000 donated by individual employees went to Democrats, according to Federal Election Commission data provided by CQ Moneyline.

So they are trying to sully a corporation by highlighting and criticizing what it's employees do on their own free time with their own damn money. That is spooky. But what pisses me off the most is that this article should have never been written. Those are not sources, they are shills. Has the LA Times completely jumped the shark; do people just slip them some dough to pay for whatever story they want written nowadays...

[QueenOfCalifornia]

18. Sputnik is a good reason to foam at the mouth

If you are a total horses ass....

What a bunch of total twits.

I hate them more every day.

Freepers... Please go and build a wall around some dumb red state and pull your curled up feet onto your side of the wall

[sarge43]

21. Hmmm. They didn't blame Bill Clinton. They're slipping. n/t

[Tyler Durden]

22. NeoConservatives offend ME by EXISTING.

As far as I'm concerned, the space program exists mainly to discover a way to shoot ALL of them into the sun.

[Taverner]

31. I'd love to see them all shot into the sun

tell em its the rapture!

[Reverend_Smitty]

23. is there *anything* that doesn't get their panties in a bunch?!?

[KitchenWitch]

25. And what on earth does NOT offend conservatives?

:shrug:

[ironflange]

26. I find a lot of this behavior very amusing

But other times it's just plain tiresome. This is one of those times. Can't these douchebags come up with more productive ways to kill innocent electrons?

[Skittles]

33. no, they cannot come up with more productive ways

that's what makes them stupid fucking assholes

[lightningandsnow]

27. Geez...

Don't they have bigger fish to fry?

[Deja Q]

28. Like a global economy, conservative Google is there.

:hide:

[Cabcere]

29. What DOESN'T offend conservatives these days?

:shrug: I mean, they talk about "liberal outrage" and "bleeding hearts," but honestly, this is just ridiculous. :eyes:

Oh, wait - I thought of something: war based on lies. That doesn't seem to bother them at all - wankers. :mad:

[Orsino]

30. Doesn't Google realize that the Soviet Union is our ENEMY? n/t

[Manifestor_of_Light]

32. they whine all the time and tell DU folks that they're happy and NOT whining.

hypocrites.

[CreekDog]

34. It's their beloved "capitalism", if they don't like it they can get their own company nt