So Obama's dead?

Somebody certainly is trying to put in some extra effort right before the upcoming election. Barack is just Johnny President right now. What's next? Is he gonna find the culprit behind JFK's death? Watergate? All I know is that last night when I heard the news my first reaction was: 1. He wasn't already dead? Then, 2. USA! USA! USA! And finally, 3. What did we just do? If this is indeed true and Bin Laden is dead, how pissed are his followers? Real life followers I mean, not just fans of his Facebook page. Now I'm still not 100% believing he's dead. It just all seems too quick and convenient. But if he is dead, whose to say he hasn't been dead for quite a while and Baracky's just been sitting on this news waiting to release it until the day before he is set to appear on Oprah just to raise her ratings? That Oprah is a powerful lady. I bet she had the CIA deliver Bin Laden to her house and then she killed him herself with her bare hardworking hands because that's how Oprah does things, hardworking and in the name of the great black Lord.

One can only wonder if the 15 virgins were waiting for Osama as he was promised. If they were I hope they were a bunch of nasty looking old lady virgins. But I like to picture Osama's entrance into hell similar to how Hitler's was portrayed on Little Nicky, if you've seen this movie you know what I'm talking about with the pineapple routine and maid's costume.

Besides the excitement of the death announcement, I was also quite thrilled with the Facebook action surrounding it. It had been a good while since FB had blown up with the same topic from everyone, what with Husker season on hold and Charlie Sheen out of the lime light. As soon as the news broke, Chris said "I'm gonna put this on Facebook." And I tried my best to smile sweetly and say, "you do that. I'm sure no one else will..." And then one after another the statuses poured in. Which made me wonder, did the CIA catch Osama, or was it Zuckerberg behind it all knowing the affect it would have on FB? I wouldn't put it past that crafty ol SOB Zucky. He knows who I should reconnect with on Facebook, I bet he knew Bin Laden's whereabouts as well, permitting Osama continued to "check in."

So what is it that makes us all want to take a piece of information and be the first to repost it (and creatively no doubt.) I was driving home from Junction City, Kansas the other day, great town by the way, and I saw a billboard that read "Wannabe Marxist Dictator" with a picture of Obama's face. My first instinct was, "oh this is status worthy for sure. I gotta share this with millions of people I don't know." But I withheld and asked myself, why? Why do I feel it necessary to repost something that I had never seen before, never will again, and really doesn't have an affect on my life in the least bit. So I just texted it to Chris instead. What did people do before they could share absolutely useless information the second they see it? Dinner table talk perhaps? Or did we just simply forget it? I just don't know. And like last night, obviously everyone around the world knew about the "death," so why the need to put it up on Facebook as fast as possible? Do we just need the satisfaction of knowing our input has been added? I think we all just want to be the first person to deliver the news. I know I'm guilty of it, anyone who posted today about Osama I was an uber Fb snob and thought "oh please you're just posting that today? That is like so 30 posts ago." It's kinda like getting to be the first to know your friend's engaged and then feeling superior because you're the first to redeliver to others.

But really, I think it's great. At last we have all found our voice. When something happens we're all just thinking what we're gonna comment about it and how fast we can get it done. Naturally, I could talk about Facebook for hours and the way it intrigues me. But I've got better things to do right now, like creep on albums and get to the bottom of a recent "I got the job!" post I need to get a little more info on. Like what job, where is it, and do I think I probably would have been more qualified for it. Just standard stuff.