Google no-show for Veterans Day

Search engine celebrates Persian New Year, but skips tribute to U.S. soldiers 8 years running

WASHINGTON – The dominant search engine in the world marks special occasions including Halloween, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's birthday, the Persian New Year, the birthday of Percival Lowell, the Lunar New Year, the 250th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Louis Braille's birthday – all celebrated already this year with special graphics and colors.

But for the 8th year in a row, Google has made no effort to commemorate any holiday honoring U.S. veterans or war dead – no tributes to Veterans Day or Memorial Day.

Google's holiday signature is a dressed-up corporate logo for major holidays and lesser-known occasions alike. Besides overlooking Veterans Day and Memorial Day since the company's inception in 1999, it has also ignored Christmas and Easter.

Google has been criticized for its one-sided political contributions and content policies:

Rejecting an ad for a book critical of Bill and Hillary Clinton while continuing to accept anti-Bush themes Rejecting ads critical of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., while continuing to run attack ads against besieged House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas. Allowing the communist Chinese government to have the search engine block "objectionable" search terms such as "democracy." In addition, the company came under fire for an editorial decision giving preferential placement to large, elite media outlets such as CNN and the BBC over independent news sources, such as WND, even if they are more recent, pertinent and exhaustive in their coverage.

As WND reported, 98 percent of all political donations by Google employees went to support Democrats, and as a matter of fact, Al Gore is now a senior adviser to Google.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave the maximum legal limit of donations to Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry and to primary candidate Howard Dean.

Some humor about this Google Conspiracy...

Note how this image leans to the LEFT!
December 21: Note how the doodle leans to the left - clearly a sign of the left-leaning tendencies of the search engine. Also notice how the mouse comes out of the blue "g". Blue is the color of the democrat party. (The same party of HILLARY CLINTON.)

December 22: The cat sticks it's head out of the red "e" to give a handout to the poor mouse. Since red is the color of the Republican party, the only logical meaning behind this doodle is that Googlebot plans to force corporations to give resources to the people who actually create the wealth. As every Republican knows, giving handouts to the poor is morally wrong, since they might waste the money on food, education and healthcare.

December 23: What's this? The plug and socket don't reach! Clearly, this sends the message that male and female elements are incompatible, and therefore homosexuality should be preferred above heterosexual relationships.

December 24: Here we see the worker mouse holding a hammer, one of the symbols of communism. In the meantime, the cat looks confused about it's sexuality as it stares longingly at the plug near its rear.

December 25: (Christmas Day): The cat and mouse rejoice that they are able to celebrate the holidays without mentioning Christmas. Note that the mouse is using a non-petroleum, renewable source of power... thus making a statement that oil-wars in Iraq are wrong. In other words: Googlebot hates the troops.

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