Friday Funnies: Looking Forward to the IRS Enforcing Obamacare?

Chip Bok | 5.17.2013 7:00 AM

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Fist of Etiquette 12 years ago

So on top of everything else, IRS agents were hosting lemon parties? Impeach Obama NOW.
UnCivilServant 12 years ago

"Why the glove? I only misplaced my shoulders? What! NOOOOO!!!!"
1. RightNut 12 years ago
  
  lol
2. John Galt 12 years ago
  
  Behold, the winning caption.
Longtorso, Johnny 12 years ago

Sorry to miss yesterday's threads - the Bea Authur pic had me distracted.
1. WTF 12 years ago
  
  Johnny was in his bunk.
  1. Lord Humungus 12 years ago
    
    rubbing his elephant trunk
    1. LTC(ret) John 12 years ago
      
      And he said with a grin,
      If you try to get in,
      You'll find there's no room, punk!
    2. EDG reppin' LBC 12 years ago
      
      Something something spunk.
2. db 12 years ago
  
  Artist's fantasy
  Hypnotist's watch, pendulous
  Bea Arthur Naked
db 12 years ago

Last night someone posted a link about the "Fastest spaceship in all of science fiction." The answer was Heart of Gold from the"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." How can it be faster than Gay Deceiver? IIRC, HoG still took time to get from place to place.
1. some guy 12 years ago
  
  Any ship that can travel in both time and space would be equally "fast" in that they can all go anywhere with any delta-t they choose.
  
  Also, the usual concept of "speed" doesn't even make sense when you start talking about FTL travel.
  1. robc 12 years ago
    
    This. Neither is fast, they dont have velocity per se.
    
    Or, they work like the ships in the Mote universe, they have a velocity and they retain it even thru the jumps. Which can be awesome/awful depending on how fast it is and how fast the humans/computers recover on the other end of the jump.
    1. db 12 years ago
      
      Well, you could say they have no velocity because their "movement" represents a discontinuity and so the derivative of position cannot be calculated.
      
      On the other hand, Gay Deceiver could simulate continuous flight by moving randomly to simulate jumps of less than the Planck length. At that point her velocity would be only likited by the speed of her processors and "continua device" manipulators.
Fatty Bolger 12 years ago

Ramirez
1. Drake 12 years ago
  
  Is always better.
2. deified 12 years ago
  
  Srsly, reason hire this man.
  
  We demand satisfaction.
invisible furry hand 12 years ago

I bet you're the kind of agent that would search a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around.
1. some guy 12 years ago
  
  Maybe you can get your Congresscritter to introduce a bill requiring reach-arounds?
  1. db 12 years ago
    
    Only preferred constituencies get reach-arounds. It says it right there in the secret Bill of Rights where it says freedom of speech is just for licensed journalists abd the right to keep and bear arms is limited to the armed forces.
Fatty Bolger 12 years ago

IRS Official in Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office

The Internal Revenue Service official in charge of the tax-exempt organizations at the time when the unit targeted tea party groups now runs the IRS office responsible for the health care legislation.

Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations between 2009 and 2012. But Ingram has since left that part of the IRS and is now the director of the IRS' Affordable Care Act office, the IRS confirmed to ABC News today.
1. Fatty Bolger 12 years ago
  
  More: IRS tax exemption/Obamacare exec got $103,390 in bonuses
  
  Sarah Hall Ingram, the IRS executive in charge of the tax exempt division in 2010 when it began targeting conservative Tea Party, evangelical and pro-Israel groups for harrassment, got more than $100,000 in bonuses between 2009 and 2012.
  1. Almanian! 12 years ago
    
    "...doin' a heckuva job, Sarah."
  2. Suthenboy 12 years ago
    
    I was unaware that government cogs got bonuses. WTF is this?
    1. Lord Humungus 12 years ago
      
      same here - WTF? I mean we get bonuses at my job, but they're a (very small) percentage of profit. No profit = no bonus.
    2. Bardas Phocas 12 years ago
      
      It looks like the Thug Life pays.
    3. UnCivilServant 12 years ago
      
      As a government Cog, I can assure you, we don't. We get paid the same regardless of level of service or the government's financial state.
      
      What in the world they shovelled into her bank account, I have no idea.
    4. some guy 12 years ago
      
      Different federal agencies have different specs for giving out bonuses. Usually it's tied to some measure of performance. Anybody know what the measure of performance is in the IRS? Probably something about the number of audits performed with given resources or something...
Zakalwe 12 years ago

Why is Mickey Kaus being probed in a cartoon that's not about immigration?
1. LTC(ret) John 12 years ago
  
  +1 Kausfiles
Almanian! 12 years ago

1) "Medical Ranking Political Records"....wha'...huh?
2) Why is the "Laugh In" harpie calling an "agent" a person - it appears - who should be a "doctor"?
3) IS that little box behind the doctor/agent supposed to be a computer? If so, is that the "massive database" the IRS is supposed to be housing? How does THAT make any sense? There'd have to be a whole building full of servers or something.
4) What does the line about "massive database" have to do at all with the cartoon?

You know why this is all so unclear?

Needs WAY moar labelz. Horridly unclear and confusig.
1. Almanian! 12 years ago
  
  On the other hand, what difference, at this point, does it make?
  1. invisible furry hand 12 years ago
    
    what indeed?
2. Ted S. 12 years ago
  
  2) Why is the "Laugh In" harpie calling an "agent" a person - it appears - who should be a "doctor"?
  
  Ahem. Goldie Hawn is not a harpie.
3. UnCivilServant 12 years ago
  
  Answer to 1 - That's 'Medical Banking Political Records'
  
  Answer to 3 - The database doesn't have to be housed at each 'audit' station, they remotely connect.
  1. UnCivilServant 12 years ago
    
    CRAP! Close Bold failed! Curse you Squirrels!
4. Loki 12 years ago
  
  3) IS that little box behind the doctor/agent supposed to be a computer? If so, is that the "massive database" the IRS is supposed to be housing? How does THAT make any sense? There'd have to be a whole building full of servers or something.
  
  The 3 Terabyte external hard drive on my desk at home says otherwise.
Zakalwe 12 years ago

The butterfly bandage on his mouth is to warn you of WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF YOU TALK.
Rich 12 years ago

Nice gams.
1. Almanian! 12 years ago
  
  So you like the cankles. Sick...
  1. Ted S. 12 years ago
    
    There are some odd fetishes out there.
2. some guy 12 years ago
  
  Great, now I noticed that her shins are bigger than her thighs. Thanks for that.
  1. UnCivilServant 12 years ago
    
    Those aren't just oddly shaped pants?
  2. Ted S. 12 years ago
    
    She's got bell-bottom legs!
    1. invisible furry hand 12 years ago
      
      she knows how to use them
      1. LTC(ret) John 12 years ago
        
        Somewhere ZZ Top just felt a great disturbance in the Force...
    2. John Galt 12 years ago
      
      And nasty looking purple skin blotches all over her torso.
sticks 12 years ago

But Friday funnies are not funny. ....
1. BakedPenguin 12 years ago
  
  This one wasn't bad. It made sense, and was relatively pithy.
Tim 12 years ago

Here's your audit from 20/20:

Your deductions are suspect.
Your reported income is too low.
Your cholesterol is 220.
According to our charts, at 5'8 and 170 pounds you are morbidly obese.
John Galt 12 years ago

Ahhhh hahaha. He's going to have his cavities searched for wearing the forbidden t-shirt.
sulphurbottom 12 years ago

Chuckle-worthy, but Chip went a label too far.
1. LTC(ret) John 12 years ago
  
  Unpossible - it always NEEDZ MOAR LABELZ!
bostonaod 12 years ago

dude should probably stuff that weed back into his pocket

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