Vile. Vile and disgusting.

Feh.

They are sending a subtle message.

Well, knock me over with a straw.

Mine still just shows iGoogle. It's a conspiracy I tells ya.

Holy crap! I never knew that about Roald Dahl.

I suppose I should thank you, Charles, for enlightening me. On the other hand, this info just blew away a minor chunk of my childhood reading idyll.

Welp, I guess one more blame-item I'll heap on my parents!...

The barking moonbat (total BDS antizionist) whose basement I used to live in was a fan of that jerk.

This morning at our Rosh Hashonah service, the Rabbi asked that we remember the three IDF members currently being held captive by some of the true evildoers in this world. No doubt, Mr Dahl has no problems with THEM.

Happy New Year to the Lizards who celebrate today. And to those who do not: may you all have joy in your lives.

Google spends most of it's time attacking Microsoft for the way it does business, but it WANTS to be Microsoft SO BAD its funny.

fu*k road dahl and his birthday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to General John Joseph "Black Jack" Pershing

did they pull it down? it was there earlier now it's gone

re: #5 ShumBaayaMyLord

Holy crap! I never knew that about Roald Dahl.

I suppose I should thank you, Charles, for enlightening me. On the other hand, this info just blew away a minor chunk of my childhood reading idyll.

Welp, I guess one more blame-item I'll heap on my parents!...

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was read to us by our fourth grade teacher back in 1970.

Hitler: a stinker, a grouch, and a rotten doody.

Re: "they’ve got a special logo in celebration of Roald Dahl’s birthday."

Does Google actually say somewhere that they are celebrating Dahl's birthday? At first glance, I took it for a decoration.

I'm not seeing it when I click the link.

IE thing?

re: #13 Le_Patriot

if you clicked on it, it explained the birthday

Remember my successful Google Memorial Day Logo Design Contest?

Maybe I should do one for 9/11.

On second thought -- too much work!

But the same point applies. Google is fully moonbat.

I didn't know this about Dahl.

Too bad, I always liked Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

I don't see any special google graphics. Perhaps a screen shot?
Just like yesterday I heard that Dogpile had a special 9-11 graphic, but I saw nothing special when I checked out Dogpile. I wonder what's wrong with my browser.

Don't be Evil...or Stupid

I corrected Google's informal corporate motto for them.

re: #10 bulwrk

did they pull it down? it was there earlier now it's gone

I never thought about screencapping it.

re: #7 _RememberTonyC

Happy New Year to you too.

Ron Dahl, Ron Paul, either way... I give em both my Zionist Jewtian ass.

Later Lizards

NEVER SUBMIT!

Another of many reasons to dislike google (yahoo as well). There are many great search engines out there. Google is not one of them.

The Hamster squeeks :-=

Jeez, and I loved "James and the Giant Peach" growing up.

There’s a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity . . . I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.

Hitler was a stinker? Pretty mild rebuke for the murdering psychopath that started the 2nd World War, and engineered murder on an industrial production scale. That alone tells you where this pus bag is coming from.

Fuck Google and Dahl.

If there's a special logo at google, I don't see it.

/already yanked?

For all those complaining that Google did not put up a special commemoration for 9/11, all I can say is "Be careful what you wish for." Given that Google is overwhelmingly looney-leftist, and looney-leftists are getting more and more trooftarded, 9/11/2008 might see a Google logo showing Bush and Cheney rigging explosives in the WTC...

They pulled it.

re: #10 bulwrk

did they pull it down? it was there earlier now it's gone

It was there 5 minutes ago, and you're correct. It seems to be gone now.

re: #13 Le_Patriot

Re: "they’ve got a special logo in celebration of Roald Dahl’s birthday."

Does Google actually say somewhere that they are celebrating Dahl's birthday? At first glance, I took it for a decoration.

Park your pointer over the logo.

My favorite two Google logos are "Persian New Year" and "Louis Braille's birthday."

Significant!

Now that is interesting. I saw the Roald Dahl logo earlier (and noted it in an earlier thread as an odd inclusion considering the plain vanilla for 9/11). Now it's gone. I wonder . . . user protests?

Google sold out years ago, and is no more innovative then a pet rock anymore. They're more worried about being 'stars' now then anything else.
[Link: www.iht.com...]

Did anyone grab a screenshot?

I don't see anything but the usual Google header.

Did they take it down?

re: #17 Ringo the Gringo

I didn't know this about Dahl.

Too bad, I always liked Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

When I read it as a child, I found it grotesque and demented. Guess it matches the author's personality.

re: #15 Shug

re: #13 Le_Patriot

if you clicked on it, it explained the birthday

It didn't, when I first clicked on it...now, I clicked again, and the whole thing is gone...maybe they saw LGF commentary.

re: #13 Le_Patriot

Scroll over the logo and you'll see what its for.

I loaded up google's page this morning hoping to see a graphic for Rosh Hashanah. Shana Tova!

/sarc

Google owe their success to the Jews. Guess who helped invented the internet, and guess how many big internet equipment manufacturer were started by Jews? Ingrates.

[Link: www.google.com...]

re: #40 squarepeg

Should be clearer: Here is the logo.

#21 Babba Zee ... Thanks for the kind wishes ...

re: #40 squarepeg

[Link: www.google.com...]

Thanks for the screen grab.

I always wondered what sort of drugs he was doing when he wrote James and the Giant Peach.

The part about this that I don't understand is: I don't see any change in Google's logo today.

What am I missing?

Speaking of anti-Semitic tools, old LGF favorite Jan Egeland is back, and now he's suggesting we talk to Al Qaeda.

Seriously.

re: #10 bulwrk

Maybe someone in Corporate was doing a little lurking?

Maybe Charles should put Google on the hit counter like he did Roto-Reuters (for easier flushing). Maybe Charles (and some of us Lizards) have no idea how much influence we actually have...

re: #36 Le_Patriot

I did it earlier today ( right clicked on it ) when people first posted the story in the first thread and I saw the little icon that said roald dahl's birthday. then when I clicked on the logo it opened up a new window.

the ONLY time I ever visit google is when stuff like this happens. I don't like to give my business to douchebags like the google environmentalists and their personal 767

They changed it back to the default, apparently.

The oompahs always struck me as weird.

re: #8 Sponge

Google spends most of it's time attacking Microsoft for the way it does business, but it WANTS to be Microsoft SO BAD its funny.

yeah but microsoft donates 1000 xbox's to the troops and builds them gaming centers

OT
Leftists at 9/11 memorial

Re: Miami shooter "may" be an Arab per FOX

that logo lasted about as long as Augustus Gloop

It's not there now.
Odd..

pick on them for no reason.

Yes the reason is they are jews. What a putz.

re: #16 zombie

Google is worse . Your garden variety moonbat doesn't willingly cooperate with the CHICOM's nefarious dissident purges.

re: #50 MandyManners

The oompahs always struck me as weird.

They freaked me out when I was a kid. Now the word Pedophile comes to mind.

I did not know that about Roald Dahl.

Jew-hate is the sign of the truly ignorant everywhere. A person's opinion of Jewry is a pretty good indicator of their intelligence, IMO. It's the difference between somebody who just believes whatever BS is floating around, and somebody who investigates and determines the reality.

I once read an article by a secular Arab scholar (his name escapes me) who said that his personal yardstick for whether or not a Middle Easterner could be fruitfully engaged in political dialogue was their opinion of Jews. If they started out with "De Joos, they control de media in your country", well, forget it... I've since applied this man's technique to people I know and it works out pretty well. I do have to cut my dad some slack though, because he was raised out in the country during the Depression/WW2 timeframe and he's still got some "old school" opinions of Jews. No animosity, but he does pull out the old "they control the ___" canard once in a while.

re: #39 Milk Toast Intolerant

Al Gore's jewish? Who knew?

re: #44 zombie

zombie, see my #41. It's out in the sphere, but no longer on their page.

Intriguing. I did see it earlier, and posted about it here.

I saw it earlier, it's gone now however. Just plain old Google now.

This is from the Miami Herald...

Police were looking for a suspect named Kevin Wehner, 30, a black male, O'Brien said. There was no other description immediately available.

re: #50 MandyManners

Oompahphobe.

In this case, I don't blame the late Mr. Dahl - he was certainly (and I think he admitted it before he passed away) anti-Semitic. He was on the record for sure as anti-Israel. He also was a great writer (edgy, but great).

No. I blame Google for NOT celebrating national holidays. I do not buy their "we are world-wide" excuse at all. IMHO, that is just an excuse.

re: #51 pegcity

re: #8 Sponge

Google spends most of it's time attacking Microsoft for the way it does business, but it WANTS to be Microsoft SO BAD its funny.

yeah but microsoft donates 1000 xbox's to the troops and builds them gaming centers

That's awesome. Now, if they could only develop an operating system that didn't suck...

There's a trait in leftist, commie loving writers that makes me loathe them.
Happy New Year, you piece of debris.

This shunning of good and praising/honoring the bad is everywhere.

I used to belong to the History Book Club. They're asking me to "come back" now, but I might be able to get past that they carry Al Gore's Assault on Reason and Inconveinent Truth (These are history books?) if they didn't pander to Islamists.

Thye present Tariq Ramadan's book as a good introduction for westerns wanting to understand Islam. And they describe him only as

a leading secular Muslim philosopher and historian of religion in Europe

Oh, they mention that he was denied entry into the US twice, but golly gee, they don't even mention why, just how unfair it all was.

Daniel Pipes has much on why Tariq isn't such a nice guy.

He has praised the brutal Islamist policies of the Sudanese politician Hassan Al-Turabi. Mr. Turabi in turn called Mr. Ramadan the "future of Islam."
...
Along with nearly all Islamists, Mr. Ramadan has denied that there is "any certain proof" that Bin Laden was behind 9/11.

He publicly refers to the Islamist atrocities of 9/11, Bali, and Madrid as "interventions," minimizing them to the point of near-endorsement.

VIDEOS
Patriots vs. Moonbats
Ground Zero, NYC
9/11/07
&
Troofer Nutjobs Ground Zero

re: #59 Endangered in MASS

re: #39 Milk Toast Intolerant

Al Gore's jewish? Who knew?

The Goracle doesn't know the first thing about coding the Internet but don't tell him that.

There’s a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity . . . I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.

Obviously the ramblings of a failed human being.

#39 Milk Toast Intolerant

The Jewish connection is closer to the heart of Google's founding than you may have been aware.

Page & Brin rented/borrowed the garage of my (undergrad) classmate Susan Wojicki to do their initial work. Susan, who went on to be a senior product manager at Google, is Jewish although I have no idea what her views are on Judaism or Zionism.

I don't know if Sergey Brin is himself Jewish or not, but the surname Brin is quite often a Jewish one.

The real issue, though, is what the hell is wrong with CEO Eric Schmidt -- don't think he's Jewish but that's hardly the core of the problem anyway.

I think they lurk. That was to damn fast.

re: #57 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

re: #50 MandyManners

The oompahs always struck me as weird.

They freaked me out when I was a kid. Now the word Pedophile comes to mind.

They remind me of Morlocks.

Report: Turkey provided Israel with intelligence on Syria
Kuwaiti newspaper claims coordination to allow IAF to use Turkish airspace during 'foray' was carried out without Erdogan's knowledge

[Link: www.jpost.com...]

re: #71 ShumBaayaMyLord

#39 Milk Toast Intolerant

The Jewish connection is closer to the heart of Google's founding than you may have been aware.

Page & Brin rented/borrowed the garage of my (undergrad) classmate Susan Wojicki to do their initial work. Susan, who went on to be a senior product manager at Google, is Jewish although I have no idea what her views are on Judaism or Zionism.

I don't know if Sergey Brin is himself Jewish or not, but the surname Brin is quite often a Jewish one.

The real issue, though, is what the hell is wrong with CEO Eric Schmidt -- don't think he's Jewish but that's hardly the core of the problem anyway.

Im sure like all leftard jews they hate judiasm and zionism

A New Strain of Anti-Semitism is Spreading

Who recently said: "These Jews started 19 Crusades. The 19th was World War (1). Why? Only to build Israel."

Some holdover Nazi?

Hardly. It was former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan of Turkey, a NATO ally. He went on to claim that the Jews -- whom he refers to as "bacteria" -- controlled China, India and Japan, and ran the United States.

Who alleged: "The Arabs who were involved in 9/11 cooperated with the Zionists, actually. It was a cooperation. They gave them the perfect excuse to denounce all Arabs."

re: #63 Endangered in MASS

re: #50 MandyManners

Oompahphobe.

Guilty. They could be just harmless chocolate workers but they make me think of canibals.

re: #67 Silhouette

Just had to add that Daniel Pipes is THE REASON Tariq did not get his Visa.

He made sure it didn't happen.

Can't stay...see ya later...

Turkish intelligence assisted IDF in attack on Syria – report

Kuwaiti newspaper says Turkish intelligence provided Israel with information on targets Air Force allegedly attacked last week without Turkish government's authorization

Roee Nahmias Published: 09.13.07, 16:11 / Israel News

Turkish intelligence provided Israel with information on the Syrian targets allegedly attacked by the Air Force last week without the Turkish government's authorization, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jareeda reported Thursday.

[Link: www.ynetnews.com...]

re: #65 Sponge

Actually a reply to #8, but just so it gets followed - Microsoft is doing nothing more than improving their business. They're counting on our soldiers wanting to carry on with the xbox where they left off.

Economics, Dr. Watson. Cheap advertising.

re: #52 yahNaw, they just had a pic up and the guy is black, with a beard, and some kind of headband. Pray for the four policemen he shot. Two were plainclothes.

Rage factor +10

Dhimmis: We Should Consider Talking to Al-Qaeda...

re: #76 rab3

So, if they can't get the blame to stick to the President, then they're going to blame the Jews?

Idiots.

But today, they’ve got a special logo in celebration of Roald Dahl’s birthday.

Oh boy. The author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory's birthday is truly an epoch making moment in human history.

Illicit trafficking, theft and loss of nuclear and other radioactive materials remain "a persistent problem," according to the United Nations agency entrusted with pre-empting nuclear and radiological terrorism and preventing proliferation, the United Nations Information Center said in a press release on Thursday.

More than 250 incidents involving unauthorized possession and related criminal activities, theft or loss of nuclear or other radioactive materials, and other activities such as unauthorized disposal of radioactive materials were reported to the UN Energy Agency Illicit Trafficking Database (ITDB) last year, of which 150 occurred in 2006 and the rest mainly in 2005.

[Link: www2.irna.com...]

re: #62 tfc3rid

This is from the Miami Herald...

Police were looking for a suspect named Kevin Wehner, 30, a black male, O'Brien said. There was no other description immediately available.

Pic on TV shows a black man with a beard waring some kind of turban.
SJS

re: #83 The Pulchritudinous Patriot

re: #76 rab3

So, if they can't get the blame to stick to the President, then they're going to blame the Jews?

Idiots.

Blame the Jews is always the fall back position.

Gotta work now. BBL

re: #69 Milk Toast Intolerant

There are liars and there are delusional liars who believe their own lies.

re: #86 Jimash

sinbad?

re: #74 storagemanager

re: #79 storagemanager

That made my day.

re: #80 Cap'n DOC

re: #65 Sponge

Actually a reply to #8, but just so it gets followed - Microsoft is doing nothing more than improving their business. They're counting on our soldiers wanting to carry on with the xbox where they left off.

Economics, Dr. Watson. Cheap advertising.

They've got to do something to recoup all the losses from the warranty issues on both xbox's.

re: #76 rab3

A New Strain of Anti-Semitism is Spreading

Who recently said: "These Jews started 19 Crusades. The 19th was World War (1). Why? Only to build Israel."

Some holdover Nazi?

Hardly. It was former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan of Turkey, a NATO ally. He went on to claim that the Jews -- whom he refers to as "bacteria" -- controlled China, India and Japan, and ran the United States.

Who alleged: "The Arabs who were involved in 9/11 cooperated with the Zionists, actually. It was a cooperation. They gave them the perfect excuse to denounce all Arabs."

Stories like that one always make me think of Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She said that as a young girl, she was taught that everything was the fault of the Jews. Consequently, when she got her period, she blamed the Jews.

re: #92 Sponge

Losses? Microsoft? LOL. Who knew?

re: #68 NoSubmission

VIDEOS
Patriots vs. Moonbats
Ground Zero, NYC
9/11/07
&
Troofer Nutjobs Ground Zero

So much material! You've got videos on top of videos.

it's good stuff, but the problem is, the sheer numerosity of them makes it overwhelming!

If I were in your shoes, the next time around, I'd try to edit together a "best of" reel from all the mini-clips, and feature that one up front.

I know, I know, editing video is hellish (at least for me it is). But one great video is much more effective than the combined impact 27 different good ones!

I wonder if CAIR will condemn this.
Pakistan: Buddha images survive blasts

Mingora, 12 Sept. (AKI/DAWN) - In a grim reminder of the destruction of world famous Bamiyan Buddha statues in Afghanistan by the Taliban six years ago, militants tried on Tuesday to blow up a seventh-century Buddhist rock carving in Pakistan's Swat valley, northwest of the capital, Islamabad.

The the image of the sitting Buddha is carved into a 40-metre high rock in the mountains 20 kilometres north of Mingora, a town in the Swat valley.

The Gandhara civilisation site was not damaged by the blasts which were caused by two explosive devices that were detonated in the early hours of Tuesday.

re: #96 Just_A_Grunt

I wonder if CAIR will condemn this.

no

Rush just mentioned the Breck Girl has bought time on PMSNBC to "rebut" Bush tonight.

I imagine he got a discount.

Says he should buy time on Fox if he wants to reach an audience.

re: #94 Cap'n DOC

I know it...shocking, huh.

One police officer just died..fox tv

re: #86 Jimash

re: #62 tfc3rid

This is from the Miami Herald...

Police were looking for a suspect named Kevin Wehner, 30, a black male, O'Brien said. There was no other description immediately available.

Pic on TV shows a black man with a beard waring some kind of turban.
SJS

One officer is now reported dead.

re: #77 MandyManners

Who are we to pass judgement on what a moonbat and a dozen consenting dwarfs of color do in their "chocolate factory".

re: #93 Cattt

re: #76 rab3

A New Strain of Anti-Semitism is Spreading

Who recently said: "These Jews started 19 Crusades. The 19th was World War (1). Why? Only to build Israel."Some holdover Nazi?

Hardly. It was former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan of Turkey, a NATO ally. He went on to claim that the Jews -- whom he refers to as "bacteria" -- controlled China, India and Japan, and ran the United States.

Who alleged: "The Arabs who were involved in 9/11 cooperated with the Zionists, actually. It was a cooperation. They gave them the perfect excuse to denounce all Arabs."

Stories like that one always make me think of Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She said that as a young girl, she was taught that everything was the fault of the Jews. Consequently, when she got her period, she blamed the Jews.

I blame my hemorrhoids on Harry Ried.

re: #98 JammieWearingFool

I heard the guy subing for Levin yesterday talking about the $100,000 discount moveon.org got from the times for that nice little add about our fine General.

Who's behind the oodles of doodles Google doodles for you? [Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

Dahl was an anti-semite? I never liked Charlie and The Chocolate Factory anyway, now I'm glad. My wife, who is Jewish, liked it, I guess now I have to give her the bad news. Bummer.

By the way, as a proud new LGF hatchling I want to extend my greetings to the Lizard Nation. Finally, I was able to catch the registration open and be a part of it!

Land Shark

"...even a stinker like Hitler.."

Stinker? The English language has over 100,000 words to choose from, and he chose stinker?

He must be a regular Hemmingway with that impressive display of lingual gymnastics.

re: #89 Endangered in MASS

All those walkoff HR's are getting on my nerves. :D

Should be a fun weekend. You going to any of the games?

re: #103 rab3

LOL.

I blame my hemorrhoids on Harry Ried.

I suggest Prep-H for you both. Orally for him.

re: #106 Land Shark

I LOVED those sketches you did on SNL back in the day...

Who is it?

Pizza guy...

Who?

Pizza guy...

I'm not a shark...

Pure gold.

re: #106 Land Shark

Welcome.

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Edwards Campaign Buys MSNBC Air Time To Respond To President's Speech

A message from the John Edwards campaign reads "John Edwards will speak directly to the American people in a nationwide address on MSNBC. Our campaign has bought airtime on MSNBC immediately following the President's address at 9pm, and John Edwards will challenge the President's remarks with a strong call to the nation to end the war now."

The campaign even writes, "President Bush will be on every network for free tonight. Our campaign will have to pay for the time on MSNBC."

Who watches MSNBC again?

Google spends most of it's time attacking Microsoft for the way it does business, but it WANTS to be Microsoft SO BAD its funny.

And they are well on their way to getting there.

re: #104 Sponge

re: #98 JammieWearingFool

I heard the guy subing for Levin yesterday talking about the $100,000 discount moveon.org got from the times for that nice little add about our fine General.

Hot Air has an update on their thread about this. Moveamericaforward, a pro military group, purchased an ad to run the same day and while they won't talk exact numbers they say they didn't get such a sweetheart deal or very good placement.
How many knew a pro military ad was run on the same day? In that regard moveon succeeded.

there was a line in the BFG where the dad tells one of the chidren that as when the uncivilized people of the world "and jews" get money society should come to respect them a little bit more, but not too much.

I remember being a child reading that and thinking the guy was racist asshole.

Pick on them? That's a defense? I did not know this about Roald Dahl. Now I do. And shame on Google.

re: #113 jaybird

Sad, but true.

re: #67 Silhouette

I belong to the History Book Club & have noticed the same trend. However, The Military Book Club (owned by the same company), sells many conservative political books in their catalogues. I guess they know who their target audience is.

re: #106 Land Shark

Welcome. Have you gotten all the advice yet?

From the wiki bio

According to biographer Jeremy Treglown, Dahl had originally written "when we all started hating Jews" - but editor Gillian Greenwood of the Literary Review changed Dahl's terms from "Jews" and "Jewish" to "Israel" and "Israeli".[citation needed]

How nice of the editor to cover up his racism (somewhat) for him. Apologists and bigot enablers then and now.

Somebody should ask what they do for Shel Silverstein's birthday.
At least as important as Roald Dahl.
[Link: www.shelsilverstein.com...]
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

re: #109 Cap'n DOC

re: #103 rab3

LOL.

I blame my hemorrhoids on Harry Ried.

I suggest Prep-H for you both. Orally for him.

Orally

Harry need to get Hillary's wiener out of his mouth. She has one you know. She just loans it out to Bill when he has an "Intern" meeting.

I wonder how Roald Dahl felt when [Link: www.nndb.com...]

Gene Wilder

received the lead in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (also a movie based on Mr. Dalh's book). Gene's Jewish.

Note: I'm new and praying the quote comes out good.

Crap, no more Willy Wonka for this household. Bummer, I kinda liked that movie. Oh well. Wouldn't be the first movie/show/person I've disregarded from my life. One more to the list.

re: #101 Just_A_Grunt

Ugh...

re: #96 Just_A_Grunt

If you try to blowup a statue of Buddha because it's an affront to allah and nothing happens does that mean Buddha just kicked allahs ass.?

re: #86 Jimash

re: #62 tfc3rid

This is from the Miami Herald...

Police were looking for a suspect named Kevin Wehner, 30, a black male, O'Brien said. There was no other description immediately available.

Pic on TV shows a black man with a beard waring some kind of turban.
SJS

I saw that, too. White topped with black?

re: #30 zombie

My favorite two Google logos are "Persian New Year" and "Louis Braille's birthday."

Significant!

W.A. Mozart's birthday - good one!

Hitler a 'stinker'? That's like calling Armageddon 'unpleasant'.

A suicide attacker detonated a bomb at an army canteen in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 10 soldiers and wounding others, officials said.

The attack happened at the canteen in Ghazi Tarbela, an army facility about 100 kilometers (60 miles) south of the capital, Islamabad, according to two security officials, who sought anonymity because of the sensitive nature of their job.

If this keeps up...the army will turn on the President...I thinks the point. [Link: www.ynetnews.com...]

May I suggest that Lizards en masse use Dogpile as their search engine of choice? Their mascot, Arfie, always remembers holidays and significant events, including 9-11.

There’s a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity . . . I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.

Oh yeah.. that Hitler, he was such a stinker Yeah, that's the ticket! Those Jews, they were so aggravating that Hitler, well...
/ Giant Sarc

What the hell? Thanks Piltdown Man for bringing the Google
F@#$up to Charles attention. Thanks Charles for putting up the thread.

Google.. we're watchin you

re: #102 Endangered in MASS

re: #77 MandyManners

Who are we to pass judgement on what a moonbat and a dozen consenting dwarfs of color do in their "chocolate factory".

Now, that's kinky.

Very OT, but I just had to share this video found at Dhimmi Watch. Not quite sure what to make of it, but this is darn funny. We infidels have no idea how much fun they really have at those Friday night prayer meetings.
[Link: www.glumbert.com...]

Hey, maybe it's just a complicated doo-rag.
But that beard looks suspicious to me.
/

Uh oh. Someone needs to update wiki

On the 13th of September 2007, Google honoured his birthday by a reworking of their famous logo on their main search page, replacing some of the letters with items and characters from books. Avid reader Matilda (from the novel Matilda) could be seen sitting on the "G" surrounded by a pile of books. The second "o" was replaced by a peach floating on water with a tiny figure aboard it, from James and the Giant Peach. Finally, the "l" was replaced with a partially-unwraped chocolate bar with a Golden Ticket inside (from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).

And then mysteriously, it was taken down around mid-afternoon EST, after evil neo-con blogs started a smear campaign. I'm 90% sure it was Zionist mischief.

re: #112 rab3

OT

Edwards Campaign Buys MSNBC Air Time To Respond To President's Speech

A message from the John Edwards campaign reads "John Edwards will speak directly to the American people in a nationwide address on MSNBC. Our campaign has bought airtime on MSNBC immediately following the President's address at 9pm, and John Edwards will challenge the President's remarks with a strong call to the nation to end the war now."

The campaign even writes, "President Bush will be on every network for free tonight. Our campaign will have to pay for the time on MSNBC."

Who watches MSNBC again?

What's MSNBC?

re: #108 JammieWearingFool

I sold the tickets to Sundays game. Too late. I'm waiting for the playoffs. I should have the tickets shortly.

At this point I don't know how far the Red Sox can go. Fortunately all the teams are flawed. The Sox have a really good bullpen.That helps. The Sox offense is to easily silenced and their manager doesn't have the ability to recognise or the desire to play small ball in close games

The logo appears to have been changed back to the default Google logo now.

Sneaky bastards.

They had side-by-side bombs last week -- did anyone see that? I was going to blog on it, but then just got too busy.

He's still my favorite children's author. I don't recall any antisemitism in his books.

re: #95 zombie

re: #68 NoSubmission

VIDEOS
Patriots vs. Moonbats
Ground Zero, NYC
9/11/07
&
Troofer Nutjobs Ground Zero

So much material! You've got videos on top of videos.

it's good stuff, but the problem is, the sheer numerosity of them makes it overwhelming!

If I were in your shoes, the next time around, I'd try to edit together a "best of" reel from all the mini-clips, and feature that one up front.

I know, I know, editing video is hellish (at least for me it is). But one great video is much more effective than the combined impact 27 different good ones!

Hi Zombie,
I didn't take these. A friend did. I'm just passing them along. I will eventually get it together with my own videos soon.

Google doesn’t change their logo in any way to mark Memorial Day, or September 11.

I expect nothing less from China appeasing traitors

Hmmm...The Dahl page at Wiki is being modified by someone right now.

re: #50 MandyManners

The oompahs always struck me as weird.

Did they have an "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign over the workers' entrance to the factory? Kinda creepy.

re: #112 rab3

OT

Edwards Campaign Buys MSNBC Air Time To Respond To President's Speech

A message from the John Edwards campaign reads "John Edwards will speak directly to the American people in a nationwide address on MSNBC. Our campaign has bought airtime on MSNBC immediately following the President's address at 9pm, and John Edwards will challenge the President's remarks with a strong call to the nation to end the war now."

The campaign even writes, "President Bush will be on every network for free tonight. Our campaign will have to pay for the time on MSNBC."

Who watches MSNBC again?

What'd he pay, like fifty bucks? I mean, nobody watches it.

/and fuck you olbermann

re: #127 bulwrk

re: #96 Just_A_Grunt

If you try to blowup a statue of Buddha because it's an affront to allah and nothing happens does that mean Buddha just kicked allahs ass.?

A false god doesn't have an ass to kick.

TO:: Charles Johnson, et al.
RE: Yeah

"There's always a trait...even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason." -- Roald Dahl

He's RIGHT, you know.

But it's not for a flaw in THEIR character. Rather, he's a classic example of 'projection'.

The flaw is in himself and the likes of Hitler. And, from a Christian perspective, it has to do with being aligned with some character known as Satan. Something to do with being a 'sore loser' at Calvary some 2000 years ago.

Regards,

Chuck(le)
[Jesus astonishes and overpowers sensual people. They cannot unite him to history, or reconcile him with themselves. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson]

re: #7 _RememberTonyC

He's dead, Fred.

And someone at Google must read LGF to have it gone like that. Take a look at their list from a search for Roald Dahl Jew hater...

P.S. Isn't chocolate 'sensuous'?

re: #141 bosforus

He's still my favorite children's author. I don't recall any antisemitism in his books.

You mean the title James and the Giant Jew wasn't a clue?

/

OT

Moonbats galore on 9/15/07:

[Link: www.cnsnews.com...]

Organized by everyone's favorate marxist group: ANSWER, with such dignitaries like Cindy Sheehan, etc.

:-(

re: #147 The Other Les

True, good point

re: #112 rab3

A message from the John Edwards campaign reads "John Edwards will speak directly to the American people in a nationwide address on MSNBC. ... President Bush will be on every network for free tonight. Our campaign will have to pay for the time on MSNBC."

re: #150 Chuck Pelto

I thought cucumbers were supposed to be.

The next time I use google, anyone within hitting distance has my permission to knock me up side the head. The only way to get even for their subtle slam against the Jewish New Year is to deprive them of hits to their website.

Sadly, one of the officers has died in Dade Cty..they are revising the AK-47 to a "high powered rifle" per Banderas on Fox. Dang she is irritating.

The first Wonka movie, with Gene Wilder (uh-oh, a Jooo!) was okay, but that new one with Johnny "Screw America" Depp? It creeps me out.

re: #141 bosforus

He's still my favorite children's author. I don't recall any antisemitism in his books.

I read - and enjoyed - 4 or 5 books by the Norweigen author Knut Hamsun before I found out that he had supported the Nazis during WWII.

I never found any antisemitism in his books either, although Hamsum later claimed that he only supported Hitler because he hated the British.

re: #151 Ward Cleaver

ha ha, how could i be so dense? Charlie and the gas factory, charlie and the great glass holocaust not to mention BFG, Big Friendly Germans

Hitler was a stinker? Not the word most of us would use, but hey, none of us are world-famous writers.

re: #133 MandyManners

oompah loompah doompity doo...

re: #153 bulwrk

re: #147 The Other Les

True, good point

Which may help explain the Islamic aversion to idolatry.

re: #106 Land Shark

Welcome, and since I'm only a few weeks old, all us newbies can learn to walk together.

re: #158 Ringo the Gringo

I'd probably feel differently if I hadn't read so many of Dahl's book as a child. Reading up on his personal life at this very moment reveals he was apparently quite unapologetic about his antisemitism. Who'd have guessed?

re: #157 Ward Cleaver

Depp comes off as a cross between Dana Carvey doing GW Bush and Michael Jackson.

Google?

What's Google?

I'm surprised they didn't have a Ramadan logo *rolls eyes at the little punks*

I hope the guy in Florida gets one between the eyes.

Probably a sick comment, but I really don't feel like knowing this fucker will get our tax dollars to feed, house, provide his medical care, and prepare his defense if he is caught alive.

Riddle his body with bullets.

re: #159 bosforus

re: #151 Ward Cleaver

ha ha, how could i be so dense? Charlie and the gas factory, charlie and the great glass holocaust not to mention BFG, Big Friendly Germans

ROTFLMAO!

re: #142 NoSubmission

I didn't take these. A friend did. I'm just passing them along. I will eventually get it together with my own videos soon.

Ah! Well OK, then. Pass my recommendation along to your friend!

I look forward to your videos!

People always say that living in the SF Bay Area gives me a gold mine of opportunities for "citizen journalism," but to be frank I'm jealous of you folks in New York!

re: #52 yah

OT
Leftists at 9/11 memorial

[Link: www.youtube.com...]

Re: Miami shooter "may" be an Arab per FOX

What a bunch of leftard idiots. So nice to do all this B.S. on 9/11. If they hate America and our flag so much, why don't they just move to Iran or wherever?

I just finished watching some 'live' videos of 9/11 on YouTube and it really brought back the horror we all felt on that day. I WILL NEVER FORGET!

re: #167 TS

Probably were afraid of the "whimsy" they profess they use not being respectful enough of their overlords, and getting a fatwa on their butts.

7:13 PM GMT, I have the Roald Dahl Google Log appearing.

When saw Google's typical indifference on 9/11, I went to Dogpile and saw their typical reverence:

Dogpile's 9/11 search page.

Courtesy of DanzFamily.com.

Aw, my link to How to Make the Google Logo in Photoshop has been "suspended". Though I do have a nice sample modification at that page...

Here's another that hasn't been "suspended": How to Make Google's Logo in Photoshop.

The 2 self-hating Jews who own Google...

Google founders park private 'superjet' with Nasa - but the locals aren't impressed

Albore will be sooo jealous!

re: #170 zombie

re: #142 NoSubmission

I didn't take these. A friend did. I'm just passing them along. I will eventually get it together with my own videos soon.

Ah! Well OK, then. Pass my recommendation along to your friend!
I look forward to your videos!
People always say that living in the SF Bay Area gives me a gold mine of opportunities for "citizen journalism," but to be frank I'm jealous of you folks in New York!

I think I'm going to experiment with Motionbox, since youtube sucks.

I think you should move here, zombie. We could make quite a team! All those in favor, say 'Aye!'

re: #172 Silhouette

True that ;) Eh, makes me want to puke. I envision them as little creepy, whipped men, bowing to their nutjob wife/gf's leftist BS trying to please her. Like, it all started, (their political philosophy), when they went to some anti-war protest to pick up chicks, lol, and ended up like they are now. Sad really.
(I'm a woman btw just to clarify)

It boggles my small gourd to think folks like Dahl can be such idiots. Look at the contributions to the world made by Jews--in science, medicine, religion, philosophy, art, music, architecture, entertainment and on and on. As opposed to the many contributions made by the ROP, for example.

Jews continued prosperity alone is a miracle, and as a Christian, I thank God for them.

I mentioned this on the 9/11 (that there was no reference). I spent the next 30 minutes trying to find an email address to send my dissatisfaction. I could not find one in the contacts.
so... i will no longer use that search engine. any recommendations? what do right-minded people use?

obtw... my extreme-lefty nephew... (who spends much of his time saving the world in other countries) is on his third interview with said company.
sounds like a good fit. (though I'm sure he won't see the hypocrisy once he starts getting his capitalist checks!)

granite-

Re: Charles

"The logo appears to have been changed back to the default Google logo now."

Not on the UK page.

re: #168 formercorpsman

Time was when being a cop killer was a death sentence because the other cops wouldn't take him alive. Actually, more correctly, that was the general expectation (I have no knowledge if reality reflected that - but it doesn't matter because the criminals expected it as well).

And that expectation may make men who wouldn't hesitate to shoot civilians think twice before shooting a cop (because they believe they're as good as dead if they do). This makes catching them easier, makes our police

More bad guys caught, more fear/respect of the police = safer world for all of us.

Disclaimer: I may be biased since I have so many police in my family, both sides for me, and in-laws too.

I don't necessarily buy all of those who say Microsoft is evil or an evil company. However, I do associate Google with that sentiment.

From a personal viewpoint, only Sony, with their non-disclosed use of rootkits in their software, is more reprehensible and insidious with their software and tools.

What's next, a special logo for L. Ron Hubbard? or Ron Paul?

re: #176 NY Nana

The 2 self-hating Jews who own Google...

Google founders park private 'superjet' with Nasa - but the locals aren't impressed

Albore will be sooo jealous!

Hey Brit editor...it's "NASA". An acronym. Us all caps.

OldLineTexan

"Use all caps."

PIMF

OldLineTexan

re: #146 Ward Cleaver

A message from the John Edwards campaign reads "John Edwards will speak directly to the American people in a nationwide address on MSNBC. Our campaign has bought airtime on MSNBC immediately following the President's address at 9pm, and John Edwards will challenge the President's remarks with a strong call to the nation to end the war now."The campaign even writes, "President Bush will be on every network for free tonight. Our campaign will have to pay for the time on MSNBC."

Given the amount of free coverage the Dems in general and Edwards in particular has received, and the fact that Bush isn't even running, this statement is grotesquely ironic.

re: #181 nev.

nice find, i did a screen shot just in case...
[Link: s217.photobucket.com...]

John Edwards will speak directly to the American people that subset of Americas who watch MSNBC in a nationwide address on MSNBC

For those who missed the logo, I found it on google's web site.

[Link: www.google.com...]

And from Wikipedia, which was already updated with news about the logo:

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

Under the Death and Legacy heading, half way down

On the 13th of September 2007, Google honoured his birthday by a reworking of their famous logo on their main search page, replacing some of the letters with items and characters from books. Avid reader Matilda (from the novel Matilda) could be seen sitting on the "G" surrounded by a pile of books. The second "o" was replaced by a peach floating on water with a tiny figure aboard it, from James and the Giant Peach. Finally, the "l" was replaced with a partially-unwraped chocolate bar with a Golden Ticket inside (from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).

re: #181 nev.

So I see.

re: #33 Sharmuta

Did anyone grab a screenshot?

Sure, here you go.

re: #189 scannit

how much you wanna bet google did the wiki edit?

re: #109 Cap'n DOC

re: #103 rab3

LOL.

I blame my hemorrhoids on Harry Ried.

I suggest Prep-H for you both. Orally for him.

Not much of a difference in his case.

I NEVER anymore use Google. Haven't for at least a year now.

re: #106 Land Shark
Welcome

re: #41 squarepeg

re: #40 squarepeg

Should be clearer: Here is the logo.

It looks like someone is -ve rating all your comments.

re: #181 nev.

Google Canada does not have it, either.

Anyone get a screen shot of the original logo. By the time i saw this it had been changed.

re: #134 peck

Very OT, but I just had to share this video found at Dhimmi Watch. Not quite sure what to make of it, but this is darn funny. We infidels have no idea how much fun they really have at those Friday night prayer meetings.
[Link: www.glumbert.com...]

Caption: Pentecostal Muslims

re: #71 ShumBaayaMyLord

#39 Milk Toast Intolerant

The Jewish connection is closer to the heart of Google's founding than you may have been aware.

Page & Brin rented/borrowed the garage of my (undergrad) classmate Susan Wojicki to do their initial work. Susan, who went on to be a senior product manager at Google, is Jewish although I have no idea what her views are on Judaism or Zionism.

I don't know if Sergey Brin is himself Jewish or not, but the surname Brin is quite often a Jewish one.

The real issue, though, is what the hell is wrong with CEO Eric Schmidt -- don't think he's Jewish but that's hardly the core of the problem anyway.

So is the Israeli connection.

Google.com shows the normal google logo, google.co.uk is still showing the Roald Dahl one.

re: #38 MeatRocket

I loaded up google's page this morning hoping to see a graphic for Rosh Hashanah. Shana Tova!

/sarc

We should all live so long!

Shana tova!

re: #179 snowman

It boggles my small gourd to think folks like Dahl can be such idiots. Look at the contributions to the world made by Jews--in science, medicine, religion, philosophy, art, music, architecture, entertainment and on and on. As opposed to the many contributions made by the ROP, for example.

Jews continued prosperity alone is a miracle, and as a Christian, I thank God for them.

Amen! G-d bless the Jews and Israel!
(I'm a Christian too.)

re: #107 red satellite

"...even a stinker like Hitler.."

Stinker? The English language has over 100,000 words to choose from, and he chose stinker?

He must be a regular Hemmingway with that impressive display of lingual gymnastics.

I hereby nominate "an impressive display of lingual gymnastics" to be added to the rotating title of LGF!

#171:

These leftards really make me want to puke. If SFSU (and the People's Republic of Bekeley) really think the US Military is the enemy, perhaps they should pass a referendum to secede from the US, have all the good folks that believe in our country leave the Bay area, and let these marxists and utopianists have the Bay area to hold as their sanctuary, to include the La Raza folks as well.

Less tax dollars spent.

Should I use Yahoo?

re: #200 nev.

Brin and Page are both Jews.

Charles,
Here's a link to the logo.

[Link: www.google.com...]

#151 ward cleaver

Honesty compels me to admit---Dahl was always one of my least favorite childrens book writers.

I always thought "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" should have been called, "Willie Wonka, the demented serial killer."

re: #209 TalkinKamel
Thank you for summing up and connecting the dots on the serial killer angle. Good one.

#210 oh2be21

Hey, that's what the kamel's here for! To tell you these things.

I am thinking it would look good up on LGFs header.

With one of the O's as an Islamic Crescent and the other as the red star and sickle.

Forkum?
You out there good buddy?

/hint hint hint

re: #93 Cattt

re: #76 rab3

A New Strain of Anti-Semitism is Spreading

Who recently said: "These Jews started 19 Crusades. The 19th was World War (1). Why? Only to build Israel."Some holdover Nazi?

Hardly. It was former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan of Turkey, a NATO ally. He went on to claim that the Jews -- whom he refers to as "bacteria" -- controlled China, India and Japan, and ran the United States.

Who alleged: "The Arabs who were involved in 9/11 cooperated with the Zionists, actually. It was a cooperation. They gave them the perfect excuse to denounce all Arabs."

Stories like that one always make me think of Ayaan Hirsi Ali. She said that as a young girl, she was taught that everything was the fault of the Jews. Consequently, when she got her period, she blamed the Jews.

And this hate filled bile is an election campaign speech designed to win mass public support.

DON'T GET ME STARTED ON RAUL DAHL THAT DESPICABLE CREEP!
His sneaky little vile books are on ALL the SCHOOL READING LISTS. Kids in public and private schools CANNOT ESCAPE being EXPOSED to that man's perverted mind.

Danny, Champion of the World - Danny lives with his father in a gypsy trailer. Mom's dead, they just have each other. Danny's Dad has a secret - he steals from his rich neigjhbor's property. Danny comes up with a more elaborate plan to steal better. PURE CLASS ENVY - rich guy's abum so it's okay to steal from him. Thus, the name for the title of the book. CHampion means CHAMPION THIEF.

Danny and the Giant Peach - Dead parents, evil relatives - Danny ends up with insects. "Great" story - they are reading it to the 1st graders as we speak. Fill the little youngun' minds with death, distrust of relatives ... and so forth.

DId I get those right? Two Danny's?

THE BGF - THe Big Friendly Giant : THIS is the book that clued us into Raul Dalh. Sounds good? Big FRIEndly... right?
Dalh's gimmick was that he figured parents will read the first half of a book - if they like what they see, they'll quit there. He does his dirty mind-twisting tricks on kid's minds in the second half.
THE BFG gave our kid such nightmares - read aloud every day by the helpful and idiotic teacher to 2nd graders. A boy is confronted by a giant - who needs his help. SO far so good. The giant reassures him he's a good guy, but he needs the kid's help to defeat the FLESH-EATING GIANTS WHO PROWL AROUND AT NIGHT TO EAT CHILDREN AFTER THEY FALL ASLEEP.
Try putting YOUR youngster to bed after THAT story. GOOD LUCK - for the next three years.

Raul Dalh's own daughter wrote that he was a creep. WHY are HIS books DE RIGOR READING in SCHOOLS?

Roald Dahl, vicious anti Semite though he was, actually was a talented writer. He was married to the actress Patricia Neal. I recall his anti Semitism back in teh early 1980s when he made several anti Israel swipes.

Ugh.
JAMES and the Giant Peach
Don't make it any better to read in any way.

Now Fox is reporting the killer in Dade Cty may have shaved his beard and may have been wearing a bullet proof vest when he tangled with the officers. Some discussion he may have purchased as many as 3 AK-47's, several handguns, back in May or thereabouts. How can you do that legally and how do the police know it so fast?

A lot of mays and maybe's in their reporting...

re: #215 Joel

My kids loved his stuff, and I am embarrased to say that I didn't have a clue re his Jew hate...until today.

I have sent them the info to be sure that my grandkids, one of whom is an advanced reader at age 7, will not read any of his stuff.

Shana tova!

re: #19 experiencedtraveller

"Don't be evil ... like the Joooz" ?

re: #70 NoSubmission

There’s a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity . . . I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.

Obviously the ramblings of a failed human being.

Unfortunately many British writers fall into Dahl's world view - A.N. Wilson, Harold Pinter, Max Hastings, John le Carre - even J.K. Rowling is an admitted leftist.

Roald Dahl sure made a lot of sense. Hey, I have some bad qualities too - I should hate myself. Oh, and my family. And my wife. I should just hate all people, after all, humans have plenty bad qualities.

Moral relativism is stupidity.

I have to say that I've known he was an anti-semite, but i didn't find that out until I had bought every children's book he has written.

He was a GREAT children's writer, and his books were the staple of my childhood- it started with Witches in third grade (my mom got a call for the book report i did...Christian school apparently didn't approve)...

I think criticizing his children's books as "despicable" and "vile" is awfully silly... Have you ever read the Brothers' Grimm fairy tales? Ever read Lord of the Rings?

Again, unfortunate that he's an anti-semite- but a lot of great authors were terrible human beings and their literature SHOULD still be enjoyed.

Let's not get too crazy about these things folks- I'd much rather my future children be read James and the Giant Peach than Sally has two Mommies. At least one involves great writing and imagination.

P.S. This does not take away from the fact that Google is ridiculous in it's logo choices.

re: other search engines
Yahoo has Goodsearch, which will donate a penny per search to any charity you select from their list when you set it up.

since Project Linus (the one i contribute blankets to) got on their list, i've set it up as my default (was normally using Yahoo / Alta Vista before).

Have to say i've never used Google, even before i hatched as a Lizard...

? Roald Dahl ? When I saw Google's logo earlier, it looked like "back-to-school": kids' desks, an apple for the teacher... although now, you're right, it's just plain old Google, no fancy add-ins.

My apologies if your attention has already been drawn to this, but you may be interested to know how the oh-so-impartial BBC teaches children about 9-11. This article was complained about, removed on 9-11, and the day after returned to the site:

[Link: news.bbc.co.uk...]

Check out [Link: www.biased-bbc.blogspot.com...] for more.

re: #220 Joel

Pinter is Jewish...

Aha! I found it!

google: "google logo roald dahl"

and you get
[Link: blogoscoped.com...]

with the logo I saw earlier.

I knew about Dahl's despicable attitudes years ago.

I have a copy of a book - "What Did They Think of the Jews?" by Allan Gould - that quotes dozens of well-known figures through the ages. Dahl is included, and there was no doubt about his hatred of Jews.

It is interesting to browse through that book, and sample the vile attitudes of the Jew-haters ("Saint" John Chrysostom, Voltaire, Richard Wagner, Henry Ford, Ezra Pound, ad nauseum). It is also uplifting to see the magnanimous and great-hearted opinions of the "non-Jew-haters" like George Washington.

Well at least at LGF we can say it: Shana Tova!

re: #197 NY Nana

re: #181 nev.

Google Canada does not have it, either.

Google Canada did have it up earlier. It disappeared after Charles put up this thread.

The Lizard Master strikes again!

There’s a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity . . .

Yeah, it's called 'success'.

"Happy New Year to the Lizards who celebrate today. And to those who do not: may you all have joy in your lives."

At my age, I'm glad to be able to say "Happy Morning", so I'll be pleased to join anybody's "Happy New Year".

I am guessing that nobody at Google knew. "Lest we forget" and "Never again" didn't last long.

There’s a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity

My dear wife of many years, God bless her ornery & stubborn self, is Jewish and definitely provokes animosity on a regular basis because of her aggressive Jewish attitude. But does that make me a Jew-hater? No, it just makes me a noisy old man. Someday my complaints will make sense to her.

re: #230 Stringart

Thanks for the heads up. I am glad that they took it down, and you are right, I think, re Charles' posting this thread causing them to take it off the USA and Canadian Google sites.

Charles out to have a Google count in the sidebar for daily visits.

Let me tell you something about google:
almost everyone (if not everyone) who works there is a flaming left-winger. And we all know the flaming left-winger characteristics.

Jew-hatred is near the top.

I grew up reading Roald Dahl - The Witches, The BFG, Matilda, Boy, and Going Solo all helped create a life long love of reading.

I've known since I was 12 Dahl was an anti-Semite, (he also made up stories for his autobiographies, Boy and Going Solo) yet that does not mean he is not worth reading. Indeed, The BFG is one of the great children's stories of all time. All children should at least be exposed to Dahl's writings - along with the information that this man held bigoted views.

I began reading Dahl almost as soon as I could read, and I turned out fine. Don't underestimate children.

By the way, if you ever get your hands on a first edition of Charlie and the Chocolate factory, you'll learn that the Ompa-Loompas were originally black and came from Africa.

OT but related:

A little while ago, I ran a search on Dogpile for:
US Constitution

Most of the top results were extremely relevant.

Number 7, however, was:

7. Meditation & Peace
Discover the purpose of life Beautiful Islam - Read Qur'an
Sponsored by: www. MuslimBridges. org/ [Found on Ads by Google]

[spaces added so as not to provide a live link. I don't want to increase their traffic that easily.]

I was surprised and angry, until I realized it was an ad on Google designed to come up on Google every time anyone searches for the US Constitution. Then I was just angry.

Very, very angry.

Jeez ... I've always counted My Uncle Oswald among my favorite books. Guess I'll have to change my mind. :-(

re: #222 noraono

I have to say that I've known he was an anti-semite, but i didn't find that out until I had bought every children's book he has written.
He was a GREAT children's writer, and his books were the staple of my childhood- it started with Witches in third grade (my mom got a call for the book report i did...Christian school apparently didn't approve)...
I think criticizing his children's books as "despicable" and "vile" is awfully silly... Have you ever read the Brothers' Grimm fairy tales? Ever read Lord of the Rings?

I maintain that Dalh's books are despicable. They are also pushed heavily by the Left as "what to read." Here's why:
Grimm's Fairy Tales are surprisingly straightforward: little kids are warned about taking candy from strangers, that witches are to be avoided, that selfish people will spoil the hopes of others (Cinderella). They are quite asute stories about human perfidities. The tales are
approve of good living and disapprove of rottenness. No nightmares there.
Lord of the Rings is classic literature that addresses the nature of evil and human nature. It's in sharp contrast to say, Harry Potter in this critical arena: evil cannot be controlled by humans. It simply consumes them. Power will corrupt. Harry Potter stories maintain that some "good people" can be trusted with power to be used against "bad people." Lord of the Rings demonstrated plainly that "good intentions" become corrupted - it's a delusion that flawed people can handle great power.
SO, back to Dalh - he teaches via the nice boy Danny and his poor but loving fathere that they are "good" and therefore justifies that they can steal from the grumpy rich guy, cause he obviously has too much and is an annoying person.
Pure class envy and class politics.
James and the G Peach - Creepy loss of the parents - a horrifying concept for young chidlren - and these stories are being read to young children. Thrown on the mercy of wicked relatives, sowing distrust and uncertainty in young minds, ugly becomes good. No thanks.
The piece de resistance: The BFG. Flesh-eating giants that roam around at dusk looking for young children to eat in their beds?
Read THAT to a small child? WHat kind of miserable man would even cook up such a story to be read to little kids? Maybe a guy who didn't think that Hitler was so bad after all?

Again, unfortunate that he's an anti-semite- but a lot of great authors were terrible human beings and their literature SHOULD still be enjoyed.

After becoming familiar with Dalh's books, not the LEAST bit surprised he harbored nasty little hate against Jews. He had a mean streak in him and it shows in his writing.

Let's not get too crazy about these things folks- I'd much rather my future children be read James and the Giant Peach than Sally has two Mommies. At least one involves great writing and imagination

.
Here's a suggestion, don't read either. There are a million other books out there that build character, not screw up little kid's minds. Dalh's imagination was dark and sneaky. He knew what he was doing - setting up innocent like scenarios, then twisting them around when a child least expected it.

P.S. This does not take away from the fact that Google is ridiculous in it's logo choices

Agreed.

you should have seen the logo they were going to use

I never knew that about Roald Dahl. Damn. Well I guess the kids and I can still love his books and despise him at the same time!

re: #222 wanumba

I think you've missed the entire point of Dahl's (not Dalh) writing. He was very sarcastic, and always the stories strayed away from the stereotypical "happy ending". He even rewrote some of the famous fairy tales in Revolting Rhymes for that very reason. Class envy? More like the typical story stealing from the rich to give to the poor. Creepy Death of parents? They were eaten by a rhino! It's a way to keep the story fanciful, but also address what a kid might feel like when he loses his parents. If your children have never heard of someone losing their parents, and that is enough to send them into fits of anxiety, I seriously fear for their well-being.

Pushed by the left? Mean Streak? Dark and Sneaky? I feel like you are taking some entertaining (These stories have been loved by kids FOREVER) stories and turning it into some man's conspiracy to terrorize children.

I had read the majority of his books by grade 3, and never once was i scared. I was much more frightened by my teachers instruction on Revelations than any story about flesh eating giants.

I would much rather you say "I don't like his stories" than decide that he had some master plan of terrorizing children- I maintain that that is most definitely silly.

We can agree that Lord of the Rings is a great moral story of good vs. evil, and great literature. But Shelob is MUCH scarier than giants.

Everyone's probably left this thread but I just had to reply.

So will they also be changing their logo for JK Rowling, Hans Christian Anderson, CS Lewis, JR Tolkien, and Dr. Seuss' birthdays?

This is so crappy. I loved reading Dahl's books when I was a kid.

Maybe there is still a way for me to still love the books while relegating the author to the "poopy" pile.

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re: #239 wanumba

Great post.

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re: #246 kellino

Now wonder they are looking for "sustainable transportation" when they are paying $1.3 million a year to park their 767 next door.

How big is your carbon footprint? Oh wait, they probably by those carbon offset thingys so it's really not so bad...

re: #239 wanumba

Here's a little "Grimm's Fairy Tale" bedtime reading for you - The Jew Among Thorns.

Which has, among other gems, this little statement:

Soon afterwards he met a Jew with a long goat's beard, who was standing listening to the song of a bird which was sitting up at the top of a tree. Good heavens, he was exclaiming, that such a small creature should have such a fearfully loud voice. If it were but mine.

As well as:

you [the Jew] have fleeced people often enough, now the thorn-bushes shall do the same to you.

Let's also not forget Hansel and Gretel - the wicked stepmother forces the father to abandon his two children in the woods. Frankly, I suspect you have never read the original Brothers Grimm tales.

The rest of your statement - and I say this with the greatest respect - is barely literate and not at all coherent.

Let's take your example of "James and the Giant Peach":

James and the G Peach - Creepy loss of the parents - a horrifying concept for young chidlren - and these stories are being read to young children.

As someone who did lose a parent as a child, I find your insinuation that children's stories that deal with death are somehow insidious incredibly insulting - are children too weak minded, fragile, and indeed stupid to deal with the subject of death? (Including those who dealt with it first hand?)

Your principal objection to Dahl-

Dalh's imagination was dark and sneaky. He knew what he was doing - setting up innocent like scenarios, then twisting them around when a child least expected it.

is precisely what made him a brilliant children's author. Children are neither stupid nor do they live in sterile world where nothing bad ever happens. Reading an author - Dahl - that both respected a child's intelligence and confronted real world wickedness made me a better thinker, person, and frankly, provided for a better childhood.

Perhaps Roald was a creep because his parents told him the Jews had stolen the 'N' from his name, just like they 'stole the land from the Palestinians' and 'the lebensraum from the Germans' ?

re: #249 Maine's Michael

Roald Dahl was named after Roald Amundsen, a Norweigan polar explorer (Dahl's parents were Norweigan).

re: #138 Endangered in MASS

IT'S EARLY, but you can count on the Bo Flops to let you down (despite the 1 WS). Did you get a good price for them? Saw where some seats on the monster were going for big bucks.

re: #148 Chuck Pelto

...some character known as Satan. Something to do with being a 'sore loser' at Calvary some 2000 years ago.

LMAO!
FWIW, I'm starting to appreciate you more and more!
:)

re: #250 laxmatt1984

Yawn.

It was a joke.

I remember Google displaying a black ribbon after the London bombings in 2005... so they have shown respect and sympathy in the past for tragic events. Not displaying a black ribbon or sign of rememberence on the 11th really seems to trivialize the tragedy of that day. The 11th really should have been made into a national holiday.

You know what's ironic about it? Gene Wilder, who played Willy Wonka in the 1971 movie based on Dahl's book, is Jewish.

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

That movie, by the way, was not very close to the book, as opposed to the Johnny Depp travesty, which I didn't even want to watch.

I would personally give Dahl some slack. And not just because I loved his books.

Dahl fought in World War II. That is something for which we should all be grateful.

He probably did make stuff up about his accomplishments (for instance, his work in Africa seems fishy to me) but no-one denies that he was part of His Majesty's forces and that he then flew in the RAF. Even if his achievements were pretty much George Herbert Walker Bush league, getting shot down and all, that is still more courage than most men can muster.

#58 - hearing about your dad, I could see that the generation which was forced into WW2 might have thought, since Hitler blamed the war on the Jews, that the Jews were somewhat to blame. Especially if the men in this conflict felt that they had failed in their section of the war, as Dahl had failed (and a lot of that is just luck; perhaps Dahl just flew into the wrong patch of air where lesser pilots didn't).

Interesting, Rouad Dalh advocates. "Kids love them since forever."
Talk to the KIDS and the second they get the concept that they won't be penalized or put down, they'll say they HATE his books.
Mentioned ol' Raul to a young lady just this evening - her words, and I quote: "I had to read Matilda in English, then in French and then in English AGAIN and watch THE MOVIE and I HATED it every time!"

It's the TEACHERS who are pushing the books. Why else have a school day commemorating Dahl ? How'd HE make it on the Google marquee? Any chance to shove him in kids' faces - to smother the dread they have of him. These books are beloved of the LEFT for they murky right and wrong and insert very creepy situations.
Grimms is better. They treat evil as WRONG. They warn children against typical human perfidy. Very straight. They ARE tough, not the sweetened up varieties of today, for they weren't weenies back in the day, but the lessons are dished out straight, whether you like them or not. No bait and switch.
Dahl is classic The Emperor's New Clothes. Everyone says they LOVE Dalh because they think it's what progressive, but he was a CREEP.
Remember? FLESH EATING GIANTS WHO STEAL CHILDREN OUT OF THEIR BEDS AT NIGHT?
SARCASTIC? Never heard that explanation. It is NO JOKE to a 7 years old - and that's when that story is read to them. Nightmares - THANKYOU - A YEAR's WORTH OF BEING AFRAID TO GO TO BED AT NIGHT - directly attributable to THAT book. Doubt me? Read it to YOUR kids and see what happens. NO! Don't do that to a child. If I could erase it from that child's mind I would, but it's in there forever. It's reprehensible for an adult to cook up stories that frighten children.

Unbelieveable how many adults in America have NO concept of what's appropriate for young children's mental well-being. Of course, I couldn't BELIEVE that a parent would allow her child to buy and wear a thing at age 11 either, until I saw it, so it's quite true after all, that too many adults out there have failed in their responsibilities to shelter and guide their chidlren into normal, wel-adjusted adulthood, instead of EMO- self- slashing nervous nilistic creatures.

SO, I must have hit the nerve, for now I'm being called barely literate. The subject is switched away from Dalh to Grimms, which is another subject to be discussed separately, on their own merits, plus and minus. I simply attested that even with what we object to in Grimms., looking thru our eyes at another culture, they are LIGHTYEARS ahead of Dahl. I'm making a point about Dahl, the CREEP, and the collusion of the schools to push him on this generation. There is something very wrong going on.
AT least Hansel & Gretel's father, weak-willed dope that he was took them back in after the conniving step mother was gone. And they burned the witch up, which is what she deserved. Happened to work with quite a few kids dumped into the streets by just such a circumstance. Only instead of the reasonable mellow forest, the favorite dumping spot - the best place to lose someone small - was downtown Lagos, Nigeria.
Sorry to hear you lost a parent as child, but with all due respect, it's irrelevent to Roual Dahl's suitability as a children's author. The British educational system once determined that the French author Maupassant was harmful to the development of young minds - yet now his suicidally self-obsessive works are inserted into the standard literature fed to impressionable school teenagers. I say the same denouncement should be made of Dahl. The Left has made it Politically Correct to praise the man and his crock of work, there are PLENTY of chidlren out there who'd speak up if they didn't feel so intimidated to conform to faulty conventional wisdom.

Heh, ya gotta have priorities.

And, a leopard can't hide hide its spots.

re: #240 uptight

FUNNY!

Nope, went to both sites and just blank ... guess we caught them out!

I think it is ironic that they would celebrate the birthday of an anti-semite on Rosh Hashanna.

re: #248 laxmatt1984

Phew, I thought I was the only one here...

#214 Wanumba

Hear, hear, Wanumba! Yes, Dahl truly was a creep!

Mercifully, I never read the BFG (what a concept to thrust on kids---flesh-eating giants!) but I did read "Charlie and the psycho Kid-Killer"---er, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", wherein that lovable psycopath Willie Wonka murders kids before their parents' very eyes (teaching kids the lesson, by the way, that your parents are helpless to defend you against evil in the world), all for the terrible "crimes" of being fat, watching too much TV, being brats and other minor faults most of us don't think deserve the death penalty.

Most nauseating of all, little brown-noser Charlie Bucket is rewarded with riches for being a good little kiss-ass (teaching kids the lesson that the route to success is through sucking up to the rich and powerful. Yuck!) The truth is kids really don't get sarcasm (and when they get it, they don't really like it), and talking about the deaths of parents, evil relatives, is disturbing to them, and with Dahl, unlike the Grimms, C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, etc., there never comes a moment when the witch is triumphantly defeated, or the dragon slain. It's all creepy, icky, nasty, snarky, sadism. I'm not at all surprised schoolteachers love it, and push it on the poor kids. And, for the very same reasons they love Dahl, and Harry Potter and all the other fifth rate kids books out there, they hate OZ, the Hobbit, fairy tales where the heroine lives happily ever after, C.S. Lewis and even series stories like Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys. And of course, they consider science fiction beyond the pale for kids. Yes, the same folk who'll read kids stories about flesh eating giants have a deep, visceral dread of the "violence" in "Ozma of Oz", "Huck Finn", "Tom Sawyer", "Cinderella", etc. And don't even get them started on "Narnia", or anything remotely religious for kids; they consider that anathema.

The Grimms are certainly a subject all on their own, but I'll say this about them---they involve small people, children, defeating evil, and surviving, no matter how hostile the world around them is! If "Chocolate Factory" had been a proper, good Grimm's fairy tale, the children would have defeated the evil Mr. Wonka by pushing him into his own chocolate river (turning him into a giant chocolate bar) freed the Oompa-looompas and made off with all Wonka's money! Now that's my idea of a good kids story!

By the way, when I taught a Sunday school class last year, the kids---they were between 5 and 7---loved Old Testament stories about Joshua the warrior, prophets being swallowed by giant fish, kings and Biblica heroes and all that other stuff that they're supposedly too delicate to hear, and which might warp their minds. They adored all these stories, and begged for more.