Things People Google to Get to ethecofem, pt. 4

Now THAT is some serious talent. 

As always, these are verbatim, and, for the most part, I really have no idea what the connection is between some of these searches and this blog (although some are posted just because I thought they were funny, even if the connection is clear). Oh, the things people Google!

drill sergeant metaphorical extention
large assholes
hipsters in minneapolis
grape flavored menthol pencils
capitalist privilege
i like dumb boys
bank regulation d +"bullshit"
12 15 yo preteen forum
mixed emotions osama
"al gore"
holy fuckin fuckin fuckin fuckin fuckin fuckin fuckin fuckin s
i met a girl from east la wearing floral shorts
big butt model
worst minnesotans
facebook message outing girlfriend
april lukes streich smoking ban
koolaid drinker slur
how to choose style and groom the perfect moustache
cattle truck army
cro-magnon eating fruits
lesbian thriller movies

Names that fnc readers call Obama. [Updated for salaciousness.]

I've been reading a lot of Thought Catalog lately, a site filled with snark and vapid observations which always follow some ancient template, but still fun to read. In the spirit of TC, I thought I'd provide you with a list of nicknames that have been fermented in the vast pit of stupidity known as fnc.

(1) Dumbama -> My personal favorite

(2) Owebama -> integrating clever wordplay with the noble cause of deficit reduction

(3) Communist/Stalin - I see the similarity. Stalin was Georgian. Obama is black, like people from Georgia. Stalin killed 20 million people. Obama wants universal healthcare, to insure 20 million. Insurance is death. Georgia is Georgia.

(4) Negro/Darkie - Always prefaced by "I'm not a racist but Obama is a ~"

(5) Obamao - Clever as fuck. Liberal = mass murderer. Liberal = communist. Valid legislation = vi

(6) Obozo -He does seem eager to down a beer, amirite?

(7) BlowBama - I should congratulate them for not going for the crack stereotype. Or maybe he's like a secret homosexual [that would be awesome, maybe not for his picture-perfect family].

(8) Oh Boy Another Marxist Appointee - Same explication as #3

(9) Odumbo/Odumba - I couldn't in good nature make a distinction between these two beautiful fusions of disrespectful acknowledgement.

(10) Barry Soetoro - I guess this is supposed to be an insult, "nanny nanny boo-boo" to the fact that he's the proud owner of an authentic Hawai'ian birth certificate and certificate of live birth. Good signal for birth-spotters.

(11) Liar and Thief - As opposed to commander in chief. Also seen as "Libtard in Chief"

(12) Barack Hussein Osama - I'm just making this one up. But, the situation is identical to the Shakespearean monkeys. Give the neo-con orangutans [I feel dirty shame saying this] enough time and it will happen.

(13) Comrade Obama - Hail to the motherfuckin' chief.

(14) Piece of Shit -> Fucking Dunce -> Motherfucker - You get the picture. I ran out of anything witty to say by #2.

(15) Bonus -> Obummer, King Obama, Obamturd [not making this up], Odildo [I swear, I'm not], Oprama [Okay, I made that one up], Bamster, Obammy, Obanus [is that supposed to be anus and Obama fused together?], and finally, Oblabla.

Some more about bin Laden

"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that" -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Firstly, the entirety of that quote shouldn't be attributed to Martin Luther King Jr., so you shouldn't post it on your Facebook page like I did.

Amanda Marcotte on #OBL:

One reason the war on terror has dragged on and on with no end in sight is that Americans have been deprived of a victory, and politicians both Republican and Democrat are afraid of being seen as losers who backed out of a fight without obtaining that victory.  Well, now we have it.  And if you doubt that, we have the crowds of celebrants in the street to back it up.  That is, after all, what victory looks like in the American imagination.  We think of the end of WWII and we don't think about the bomb or Hitler in a bunker.  We immediately think of a sailor kissing a strange woman on the street.  We think of joy.  Joy provides emotional closure, which we never got after 9/11 and the distraction in Iraq.  Maybe this joy at Osama Bin Laden's death can provide that for us.  And maybe then we can finally have politicians say that we won, and so we can finally shut down the illegal prisons, the ongoing war, and maybe even the ridiculous security theater at airports.  But if we scold and silence the joy away, we'll never get a chance to find out.

 David Sirota of Salon:

For decades, we have held in contempt those who actively celebrate death. When we’ve seen video footage of foreigners cheering terrorist attacks against America, we have ignored their insistence that they are celebrating merely because we have occupied their nations and killed their people. Instead, we have been rightly disgusted -- not only because they are lauding the death of our innocents, but because, more fundamentally, they are celebrating death itself. That latter part had been anathema to a nation built on the presumption that life is an "unalienable right."

But in the years since 9/11, we have begun vaguely mimicking those we say we despise, sometimes celebrating bloodshed against those we see as Bad Guys just as vigorously as our enemies celebrate bloodshed against innocent Americans they (wrongly) deem as Bad Guys. Indeed, an America that once carefully refrained from flaunting gruesome pictures of our victims for fear of engaging in ugly death euphoria now ogles pictures of Uday and Qusay’s corpses, rejoices over images of Saddam Hussein’s hanging and throws a party at news that bin Laden was shot in the head.

I guess Limbaugh also... *yaaaaaaawn* ...sorry, what were we talking about?

Matthew Newton from Thought Cloud on how celebratory many Americans were:

Perhaps we all just want to have some reason to be happy (and share that happiness with a large crowd), and if a death party is all we get, well, let’s make the most of it. Given the heartache wrought by bin Laden and company, witnessing such a weirdly joyous public reaction to death may be, after all, not all that weird.

Apparently, it was a kill mission, not just death by firefight.  This matters to a lot of people, who called for a capture and trial rather than planned execution.

Jill of Feministe also offers her take.

9/11 first responders weigh in.

Oh, check out this video for some really, uh, over the top enthusiasm about the announcement, which easily crosses the line into, well, gross.