And God Bless Google.
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scav
aaaahhhhhhh, yes.
TOP123
Ha! My first thought on seeing that on Google was to come here, and I was not disappointed! Would love to have seen the meeting where that was decided.
SiubhanDuinne
The minute I saw that Google doodle this morning, I just knew the wingnuts were going to lose their shit over it. They’re incapable of recognizing that not everyone in the world thinks and believes what they think and believe, or that more than one thing can be commemorated on the same date, or that they’re not the majority of people in the world.
Corner Stone
In this Holiday spirit of love, rebirth and resurrection you choose to stomp all over mistermix’s thread?!
Godless commie-heathen-o-fascist.
MikeBoyScout
Bravo to Google!
And the funniest thing about the wingnut tantrum it will bring, is like all its doodles (and most everything Google does), it was market tested as a winner prior to its posting.
Corner Stone
Speaking of resurrection, I had some kind of food poisoning yesterday and I found myself resurrecting the absolute hell out of some stuff. Some possible rebirth in there too, also.
Yutsano
How is it the fault of Chavez that his birthday is also a religious holiday this year?
My take: if I don’t get the day off for it, it don’t count.
ruemara
Yeah, I knew the freakout would be epic the minute I saw this.
scav
@Corner Stone: Like a poorly cooked 3-minute egg sporting artificial dyes. If that thread can’t rise from the dead after three days, what’s it doing hanging around a farm laborer’s birthday?
Baud
The Chavez doodle kind of looks like an Easter egg, so there’s that.
Corner Stone
@scav:
Farm laborer? I was waiting for the doodle to start punching people in the face.
MattF
Google rings quite a few bells with this one– Chavez being an organizer of mostly Hispanic farmworkers. There was the great grape boycott back in the day. I was writing for my college newspaper, and I followed a food-services bureaucrat around all day trying to get him to answer questions about whether grapes would be banned from the University cafeterias:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delano_grape_strike
And we DFHs, back when we really were DFHs, were right, as usual.
scav
@Corner Stone: If you’re wearing GoogleSpecs, maybe it does? (now, there’s an easter egg for geeks)
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I think I’m not the only What The Fucker who posts here?
@scav: I gather I missed an epic “this is why I hate this blog” thread?
Corner Stone
Ok, so baseball Opening Day! Who wants to wager on how many losses my Astros will have this season in the AL?
I’m going with 120.
jeffreyw
Git offa my lawn you damn dirty deer!
NotMax
Question of the day is how many of the nutters will get their hackles up and post what they are sure are scathing condemnations of Google, complaining because they mistakenly think it is that other Chavez?
Offhand, I’d say somewhere around 27%.
dmsilev
Maybe the wingnuts thought Google was honoring Hugo Chavez instead?
MikeBoyScout
OBTW, it ain’t Easter today for all Christians.
Don’t tell the wingnuts, else SCHISM!
Gex
@Yutsano: Especially since this date is always his birthday. It isn’t always Easter.
Corner Stone
My first thought was the honchos at teh Goog told the doodlers to do one on Jesus but they all thought it was Jesus.
R-Jud
I’ve just finished a Skype conversation with my youngest sister. “Did you know I’ve been channeling angels all my life?” she said.
I laughed. But she was serious, and went on to explain some of the messages she has had. Does anyone know someone in the NYC area who’d be willing to throw a net over a tall redhead and force her to take a logic class or some medication or something?
Ben Franklin
Sorry to pee on our Easter hero, but does Google really care about activists?
I suspect the PR dept sold honoring Chavez as having no downside.
https://www.eff.org/cases/doj_google
Corner Stone
@R-Jud: I’d love to but,..umm..kinda still on a little bit of a thing about that other thing that one time. It was all just a big misunderstanding.
So maybe next time.
trollhattan
Ha! Has Stalkin’ Malkin posted a new cheer, yet?
Tomorrow I get a paid holiday on accounta Mr. Chavez, so double-commie sin right there.
To be fair, it was not all roses and kittens with the UFW–I worked with someone who grew up on a small farm in the southern San Joaquin, and her family received death threats from activists. It was a tumultuous period for the folks actually in the midst of it. Me, I knew about the picketers at a few of the Seattle Safeways. It all seemed rather remote and exotic at the time.
“Harvest of Shame” is an example of broadcast journalism actually doing something positive in educating the public. Hard to envision anything similar occurring today.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@MikeBoyScout: I saw a list of the Sunday show guests, Timmeh Dolan is on two, and the DC Beanie is on a third. No (professional) Protestants that I saw. Maybe sticking to my (former) tribe is a way of avoiding awkward questions about the lack of women asked to help create a state religion. Of course, we were spared free media attention for Franklin Graham’s awful progeny, so there’s that.
Professor
Why don’t THEY boycott Google? That will teach Google NOT to fk with Christianista activists (wingnuts)!
MikeBoyScout
Oh, it is all just TOO good.
Some nutjob blog identifying itself as Red Alert Politics has a blogger, Kelsey Osterman, who concludes her rant and conspiracy theory with
“After all, it’s not like Christianity is the biggest religion in the world or anything.“
Xecky Gilchrist
@Ben Franklin: does Google really care about activists?
This is the first time I’ve seen that sentiment expressed in any context on this thread.
TOP123
@R-Jud: I’m assuming from your tone that you are thinking less ‘troubled’ and more ‘acting flaky’ in which case I can suggest that you take comfort from the fact that we have lots, lots, lots of distractions here that might take her in a different direction! New to the city, or…?
raven
Damn, just triple washed an chopped 10lbs of collards and mustards!
Yutsano
@raven: Light supper? :)
@Xecky Gilchrist: Trolls gotta troll after all.
trollhattan
Speaking of religious observances, the High Church of Gun Fondlers held a pre-sunrise service in the Seattle suburbs this morning. Feel the Freedom!
http://blogs.seattletimes.com/today/2013/03/three-dead-in-auburn-tavern-shootout/
Jim, Foolish Literalist
No you’re not. It’s what you do. We’d all be disappointed if you gave up the whole Progressiver-than-thou thing. Well, I wouldn’t, but others might.
MikeBoyScout
And Jesus said to them, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” And they were amazed at Him. and also at Google.
Yutsano
@trollhattan:
If you’re going to Harborview you’re about one step away from death. And Auburn isn’t exactly the nicest side of town IYKWIMAITYD.
Old Dan and Little Ann
Love thy neighbor, unless it’s Google. Then fuck them b/c they don’t affirm 100% of my beliefs.
Mandalay
Ahh, bless google. Ain’t they sweet? It’s almost like they’re one of us. Alternatively, maybe google is playing you like a cheap violin. Do you also want to bless google for this?….
These stinking pigfuckers are trying to control language FFS. Stop sucking their cock.
scav
BF What a sad little life always waiting for the great perfect pumpkin that is without stain. This is just enjoying watching a deftly weilded big stick getting a bunch of easily offended to hop on cue, in an unexpected and yet undoubtedly calculated manner.
Oh, and speaking of flying and synchronized bunnies, Richard Vranch!
raven
@Yutsano: Eastore party down the street. I’ll have to fit it in between games or rely on the dvr for the first half of the Ville and Duke. I’m going to do a turkey for us later.
Ben Franklin
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
. We’d all be disappointed if you gave up the whole Progressiver-than-thou thing
Oh, that’s what’s bothering you. I thought the badge of progressivism was limited to harping about how right-wingers are so far to the right.
raven
Fuckers best no pre-empt the hoop for this damn tennis!
Corner Stone
@raven:
So about 13oz after cooking?
Corner Stone
@raven: You’re going to miss the best team in this tourny putting a beat down on the insufferable Dookies?!
I’m not really a Pitino fan but Lville is with no doubt the best team in the country.
oldster
Assuming this is an open thread:
Krugman has generally resisted the temptation to attack his fellow-op-ed’ers like Rove’s minion Brooks and Cheney’s minion Friedman. I’m sure it’s a condition of his employment.
But today he does something that is going to get him a rebuke from Bill Keller–he lays into a moronic editorial by David Stockman, even though it’s on the NYT’s editorial page.
And he *really* lays into it. It’s a thing of beauty, and entirely justified.
Roger Moore
@MikeBoyScout:
Where would you like your internets delivered?
Anoniminous
@Yutsano:
Huh.
Auburn was a nice little town when I knew it. The downtown and the area around downtown was a 1900-era architectural gem.
trollhattan
@Yutsano:
When I lived there [pause to oil squeaky rocker] Auburn was a sleepy town you drove through farmland to reach, from Seattle. Come to think of it, when still a kid I was, so was Belleview (not so sleepy, but there were berry farms south of town).
Shooting sprees, not so much.
Johnny Coelacanth
Hey, could someone do me a favor and tell me if this article in The Atlantic says what I think it says? Because I get a real “it might be time to forego restraint and bomb North Korea” vibe from it.
trollhattan
Note to self: reconsider hatred of all things Jim Carrey.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/30/jim-carrey-fires-back-fox-news-a-media-colostomy-bag-that-has-begun-to-burst-at-the-seams/
Ben Franklin
Information warfare is the 21st Century equivalent of class warfare, with people like Aaron Swartz (threatened with decades of imprisonment, then bullied by prosecutors into taking his own life), Barrett Brown (imprisoned, awaiting trial and threatened with life imprisonment), Jeremy Hammond (same), Julian Assange (under investigation by Grand Jury) and Bradley Manning (facing life sentence in upcoming trial) as its most notable victims whom the US Government has decided to make an example of so as to deter others from following suit. Some have described leakers, whistleblowers, hackers and those that publish the information subsequently released by them as modern-day Robin Hoods, engaged in liberating information from the oligarchs of politicians, banker barons and their ilk. Today we focus on what is happening with Barrett Brown (and, in doing so, expand upon some of his investigations).
http://darkernet.in/hammond-brown-swartz-assange-manning-information-warriors-of-the-digital-wasteland/
MikeBoyScout
@45 Roger Moore:
OMG! I winned teh internets today?
SatanicPanic
@trollhattan: Sometimes things happen exactly the way we predicted they would.
sharl
Some of the creepiest Easter Bunnies ever captured in photos.
As someone said in Weigel’s Twitter feed (where I saw this), they must be kicking themselves at BuzzFeed for missing this angle.
Roger Moore
@oldster:
Yeah, I would rather not be lectured on fiscal rectitude by Ronald MF Reagan’s budget director. It’s like a lecture on chastity by Don Juan.
trollhattan
@trollhattan:
Uh, “Bellevue.” (Stoopid brain.)
Yutsano
@Anoniminous: @trollhattan: It’s kind of run down in the last few years or so. Especially as you get closer to the Kent area. I’m not really sure what all happened.
Irish Steel
@Corner Stone: Welcome to the AL!
God, how I wish you were in my division, the AL central. It is going to be a brutal year or two for y’all.
Ben Franklin
Adding insult to injury; Barrett Browns mother has had to plead guilty to hiding her son’s laptop from FBI.
She faces $100k fine and up to a year in jail.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/132408951/Karen-McCutchin-Plea-Agreement
raven
@Corner Stone: Should be interesting. I hate disliked K for years but I’m really starting to like him.
MattF
@oldster: Well, if the NYT editors expected Krugman to pass on a prominently featured “It’s been all downhill since we left the gold standard” opinion piece, then they haven’t been paying attention. The real mystery is why they bothered to publish Stockman’s rant.
Mark S.
@Johnny Coelacanth:
I don’t get that vibe from the article at all.
PeakVT
@Johnny Coelacanth: There’s definitely an odor of contrarianism to the piece.
Buck
I think RW Christians should be thanking Google for giving them this gift. They didn’t have to look far for a reason for self-righteous “persecution” today, just turn on their browser. The fact that a bunch of them don’t know the difference between Hugo Chavez and Cesar Chavez is just a bonus for us onlookers.
oldster
@Roger Moore:
As Dick Cheney said, “Deficits don’t matter. David Stockman proved that.”
sharl
@Ben Franklin: If it’s any consolation, Andrew Auernheimer (aka Weev) is tweeting from prison. From @rabite:
Good thing he’s a resilient asshole. Of course, they may kill him yet:
Wish Swartz had been able to receive a resilience transplant from this smart and creative jerk, who received waaay too large a prison sentence, his personality notwithstanding (if being an asshole deserves a long prison sentence, we’re gonna have to build a LOT more prisons).
Oh, well…
AliceBlue
@sharl:
I think “Hopalong Junkpouch” wins the day over there.
Cassidy
Emo-progs gotta emo apparently.
Corner Stone
@Irish Steel: More like 5 if you listen to the skinflint owner SOB.
“Want a better roster? Fans can write me a check.”
I’m a baseball fan, love our stadium, and want to support young talent breaking through, but goodness. This AA roster thing, combined with the assholishness of the owner, just is not doing it for me.
Woodrowfan
so recognizing a man who helped the poor is disrespecting Jesus but posting bunny rabbits and little chicks honors Him?!?!?!
Evolving Deep Southerner
@raven: God damn, Florida is getting beaten like people used to beat their children.
gnomedad
Bastards! Now millions of Christians will forget that it’s Easter.
Corner Stone
It could be just me, but when trying to sell pizza I am just not sure I would name the promotion, “The Hut Lover’s Deal”.
Evolving Deep Southerner
@raven: And this sideline guy for the game, Sager … I can’t tell which is worse, the purple Joker Jacket he’s wearing or that awful toop.
Corner Stone
I can’t decide if I want to buy myself some bright yellow kicks or some bright orange ones.
Villago Delenda Est
Here’s the thing:
Cesar Chavez was far closer in political philosophy and demeanor to the Jesus depicted in the Gospels than any of the Mammon worshiping maggots who are freaking out.
This really pisses them off because it’s so blatantly obvious to anyone with more than three working synapses.
RSR
Keep the East in Easter!
Villago Delenda Est
@sharl:
What is this guy in prison for? If it’s anything to do with banking from the bankster side, my sympathies for him are, to put it mildly, minuscule.
raven
@Evolving Deep Southerner: Let’s see how the runs go.
Baud
As much as I’d like to lionize Google here, I need some assurance that their next doodle won’t honor Richard Nixon.
Woodrowfan
Google could have worked their logo into the scene, making one of the big Os into the stone rolled away from the tomb! Click on the “O” and it rolls away freaking out Mary! That would have made the righties happy!
or, maybe not.
Citizen_X
@Johnny Coelacanth: Well, they did threaten to nuke Austin.
Austin!
Oh, and here’s why.
ETA: Or this.
dance around in your bones
@sharl: WereBear linked to that earlier in the Sunday Morning Open Thread: Rebirth.
I found it very funny, and shared some of the pics with my grandkids. Lots of kids have fear/anxiety with huge costumed characters ( I have a pic of my best friend’s kid totally freaking out and recoiling from a mall Santa) and another pic of my kid at Disneyland clinging to my neck as Goofy (or Pluto?) apparently was trying to molest her.
But some of those bunny costumes were seriously scary/weird.
Ben Franklin
@sharl:
if being an asshole deserves a long prison sentence,
They are working on the legislation, as we speak.
Steeplejack
@Evolving Deep Southerner:
Sleepin’ Hay-soos! Just flipped over to check the damage: 41-17. You weren’t exaggerating.
sharl
@Villago Delenda Est:
Auernheimer was convicted under terms of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). Orin Kerr – who has agreed to represent him pro bono in his appeal – has a pretty good summary of what went down in the second paragraph of this post.
The original aggrieved party wasn’t a bank – though I’m sure Auernheimer would have been happy to expose their security flaws as well, if the opportunity had presented itself – but rather AT&T.
Villago Delenda Est
@sharl:
Ah. He took on one of the most evil corporations on this planet, competing very hard with Monsanto and BP for that title.
My attitude has changed on him.
Corner Stone
@sharl: Ah, he went after the Death Star? But their target is only two meters wide!
quannlace
The Rabbit of Easter. He bring of the chocolate!
and
He nice, the Jesus!
Evolving Deep Southerner
@raven: Well, Florida’s playing like a team with the runs, for sure.
Ben Franklin
@sharl:
Did you read comments? This one sounds familiar……
raven
@Evolving Deep Southerner: WHAT A STUPID FOUL!!!!
greenergood
Sorry so late in the thread, but I’ve tried to see the Chavez Google from the UK but can’t come up with it – can anyone post a screengrab of it – would love to see it, but can’t figure out how to access it.
Corner Stone
There was a lot of guard forearm checking going on in the first half. I wonder if the refs are going to let that go in the second half, or start calling it when the clock starts winding down.
Hill Dweller
#TeabaggerGoogleConfusion
scav
@greenergood: Front page of the Guard, might be US version though Cesar Chavez Google doodle on Easter Sunday outrages conservatives online
Ben Franklin
In the annals of national security, the Obama administration will long be remembered for its unprecedented crackdown on whistleblowers. Since 2009, it has employed the World War I–era Espionage Act a record six times to prosecute government officials suspected of leaking classified information. The latest example is John Kiriakou, a former CIA officer serving a thirty-month term in federal prison for publicly identifying an intelligence operative involved in torture. It’s a pattern: the whistleblowers are punished, sometimes severely, while the perpetrators of the crimes they expose remain free.
http://www.thenation.com/article/173521/obamas-crackdown-whistleblowers#
dance around in your bones
@quannlace:
I love this bit:
Davis Sedaris
MikeBoyScout
The wingnut Washington Times (which is totally owned & operated by good ‘ole fashioned Christians) tells us:
because “mud” is a well known color and not because of anything else.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@MikeBoyScout: mud? Next they’ll say Google is part of ZOG.
Carl Nyberg
As long as the rubes are easy to fleece they will be pandered to.
God bless America.
sharl
@Ben Franklin: I’m trying to get into the habit of avoiding comments at places other than my favorite blogs. I started following a twitter account I found just last night, to help me maintain my resolve in this matter. Typical tweet from there:
Corner Stone
Looks like the refs want FL to get back into this game. Not calling any shoves to the lower back.
Thlayli
17 and 18: I’ve seen tweets to that effect.
WhyTF are they playing basketball in JerryWorld??
ETA: Hardaway Sr is STYLIN in his Michigan tuque.
maya
@Villago Delenda Est: I suspect that at least 27% of the wingers have Caesar Chavez mixed up with Hugo Chavez. The other 73% are off their meds.
batgirl
Go Blue!
That is all.
khead
@Corner Stone:
Under. I don’t even care which team it is – an MLB team should be able to win 40 games.
jon
@Yutsano: I get a day off this pay period. As a happy union worker in Pima County government, all I can say is “Thanks for the good fight, Cesar.”
? Martin
@jon: Yeah, I had friday off as well. Got swapped out for Columbus Day a while back.
Roger Moore
@khead:
Yeah, but those last 3 to keep their head above 120 losses might be pushing things.
Corner Stone
@khead: Bud Norris is our opening day starter.
That’s the only guy you’ve ever heard of.
Yutsano
@? Martin: I still get Columbus Day since Congress seems less than interested in changing the holiday structure. It reallybites around Thanksgiving since the day sfter isn’t considered a holiday. I’d gladly give up C Day for Black Friday.
sharl
@maya: Looks like lefties wise in the ways of wingnuts were scouting for this very Hugo-vs-Caesar confusion, and such an instance was found at the Rage Imp’s Twitchy site:
It was screen-captured before it could be deleted.
mai naem
@dmsilev: The wingnuts did think it was Hugo Chavez. There’s a couple of tweets from wingnuts saying that. Part of the Twitchy team. I realize that whackjobs think one Hispanic looks like another but Hugo Chavez just died and his photos were everywhere, and that Chavez doodle does not look anything like Hugo Chavez.
I just wish Google had run a doodle on Al Gore whose birthday is also today. The Twitter tubes would have collapsed under the weight of “wahhhhhhh, now Gore thinks he’s Jeezus and google thinks Gore is Jeezus too!!!”
Mike in NC
Per my local rag, since Christmas is over with, Bill O’Reilly must bemoan the new (?) War on Easter. Save the Christians!
Jebediah
@gnomedad:
Maybe a telethon is called for. “Do they know it’s Easter-time at all?”
Sly
I guess they’re due. Conservatives haven’t had an Easter-related political freakout since the Starr Report told them that Bill Clinton had his dick in a Jew’s mouth on Easter Sunday of 1996 (and OMG after he went to Church service!).
hamletta
The Lord is risen indeed!
I had a great Easter. Our service was amazing, even though an elderly gentleman passed out during the Hymn of the Day. We have many doctors and nurses in our congregation, so he was well-tended, and pastor signaled the choir to stand up and carry on with the offertory, “Worthy Is the Lamb” from Messiah. And we got through it! Not perfectly, but well.
We baptized two babies and one teenager, and welcomed a couple who’ve spent the last six weeks in Catechumenate instruction.
I’m so blissed out I can only laugh at the wingnuts: Do they not know that it’s not Easter for all Christians?
Are they not familiar with Cesar Chavez’s life work fighting for justice for the poor and disenfranchised?
Hahaha! I amuse myself sometimes.
David Koch
@Sly:
He was going kosher
NotMax
@Sly
Another diorama we’ll never see in a museum.
The kiddies will have to learn about it the old-fashioned way: oral tradition.
jon
Cesar, like Jesus, was a badass mofo. Respect.
Viperbuck
Don’t think of it as just another wingnut poutrage fest. It’s the first step of conservative’s new outreach to Hispanic voters.
Darkrose
@Yutsano: I agree–which is why I’m cool with it being Chavez. Viva la Huelga–let’s sleep in on Friday!
(as opposed to He is Risen–Play Ball!)