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For the Record on Flag Day

Today is both Flag Day and the birthday of the United States Army.

For the record…

Here’s what Google’s home page looks like today:

And here’s what Bing’s home page looks like today:

That’s just one of many reasons why I use Bing, and not Google.

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8 Responses to “For the Record on Flag Day”

  1. itooktheredpill Says:
    June 14, 2011 at 5:58 pm

    Happy Flag Day!

    I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,
    and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands,
    one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

    The United States of America is a REPUBLIC, not a “Democracy”.

    The only part of our government that is a representative “Democracy” is the House of Representatives. And that part is only one part of the larger Republic.

    I pledge allegiance to the flag and to the Republic for which it stands.

  2. itooktheredpill Says:
    June 14, 2011 at 6:00 pm

    Thank you, General Washington, and everyone who has ever served in the U.S. Army!

    Happy Birthday, Army!

  3. itooktheredpill Says:
    June 14, 2011 at 6:00 pm

    Do take note of the year in which our Army was birthed:

    June 14, 1775

    We already had an Army when the following order was issued by the Continental Congress…

    In CONGRESS,
    SATURDAY, March 16, 1776.

    IN times of impending calamity and distress; when the Liberties of America are imminently endangered by the secret machinations and open assaults of an insidious and vindictive Administration, it becomes the indispensible duty of these hitherto free and happy Colonies, with true penitence of heart, and the most reverent devotion, publickly to acknowledge the over ruling providence of God; to confess and deplore our offences against him; and to supplicate his interposition for averting the threatened danger, and prospering our strenuous efforts in the cause of Freedom, Virtue and Posterity.

    The Congress therefore, considering the warlike preparations of the British Ministry to subvert our invaluable rights and privileges, and to reduce us by fire and sword, by the savages of the wilderness and our own domestics, to the most abject and ignominious bondage: Desirous, at the same time, to have people of all ranks and degrees, duly impressed with a solemn sense of God’s superintending providence, and of their duty devoutly to rely in all their lawful enterprizes of his aid and direction–do earnestly recommend, that FRIDAY, the seventeenth day of May next, be observed by the said Colonies as a day of HUMILIATION, FASTING, and PRAYER; that we may with united hearts confess and bewail our manifold sins and transgressions, and by a sincere, repentance and amendment of life, appease his righteous displeasure and through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, obtain his pardon and forgiveness; humbly imploring his assistance to frustrate the cruel purposes of our unnatural enemies; and by inclining their hearts to justice and benevolence, prevent the further effusion of kindred blood. But if continuing deaf to the voice of reason and humanity, and inflexibly bent on desolation and war, they constrain us to repel their hostile invasions by open resistance, that it may please the Lord of Hosts, the God of Armies, to animate our Officers and Soldiers with invincible fortitude to guard and protect them in the day of battle, and to crown the Continental arms by sea and land with victory and success: Earnestly beseeching him to bless our civil Rulers and the Representatives of the People in their several Assemblies and Conventions; to preserve and strengthen their Union, to inspire them with an ardent disinterested love of their Country; to give wisdom and stability to their Councils; and direct them to the most efficacious measures for establishing the Rights of America on the most honorable and permanent basis–that he would be graciously pleased to bless all his People in these Colonies with Health and Plenty, and grant that a spirit of incorruptible Patriotism and of pure undefiled Religion may universally prevail; and this Continent be speedily restored to the blessings of Peace and Liberty, and enabled to transmit them inviolate to the latest Posterity. And it is recommended to Christians of all denominations to assemble for Public Worship, and abstain from servile Labour on the said Day.

    By Order of Congress,
    JOHN HANCOCK, President

    Attest………..CHARLES THOMPSON, Secretary.

    Colony of the
    Massachusetts-Bay.

    In COUNCIL, April 3, 1776.

    READ and accepted, and Ordered, That a suitable Number be printed, in order that each of the religious Assemblies, in this Colony, may be furnished with a Copy of the same.

    Sent down for Concurrence………..PEREZ MORTON, Dep. Sec’ry.

    In the House of REPRESENTATIVES, April 4, 1776.

    Read and concurr’d………..SAMUEL FREEMAN, Speaker, pro Tem.

    Consented to,

    JAMES OTIS,
    BENJAMIN GREENLEAF,
    CALEB CUSHING,
    JOHN WINTHROP,
    JOHN WHETCOMB,
    ELDAD TAYLOR,
    MICHAEL FARLEY,
    JOSEPH PALMER,
    SAMUEL HOLTEN,
    MOSES GILL,
    JOSEPH GERRISH,
    BENJAMIN LINCOLN,
    CHARLES CHAUNCY,
    JOHN TAYLOR,
    BENJAMIN WHITE.

    GOD SAVE THE PEOPLE.

    Think that national day of unified “HUMILIATION, FASTING, and PRAYER” on May 17, 1776 had anything to do with the signing of the Declaration of Independence 48 days later, and with the answered prayer to
    “crown the Continental arms by sea and land with victory and success”?

    I do.

  4. Google Man Says:
    June 16, 2011 at 12:24 am

    Hey man, if you’re willing to settle for an inferior product for your convictions, more power to you.

    Although…

    http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses-google-search.html

  5. Aaron Says:
    June 17, 2011 at 2:03 am

    They’ll commemorate “Earth Day” and the anniversary of some random World’s Fair event, but not the US Army’s birthday?

  6. itooktheredpill Says:
    June 17, 2011 at 7:20 am

    Google also did not commemorate D-day, but Bing did… with a picture of the American cemetery in Normandy, and several linked stories.

  7. Aaron Says:
    June 18, 2011 at 12:25 am

    I don’t remember Google commemorating V-E Day for that matter. Let’s see if they’ll commemorate V-J Day coming up on August 15th.

    Must be a PC thing.

  8. Aaron Says:
    June 18, 2011 at 12:28 am

    Well, 2 September for the US.

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