Friday Funnies: Boots on the Ground

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[Fist of Etiquette]

We’re also putting boots on the ground in Iraq.

[WTF]

Less than division strength doesn’t count.

[Bardas Phocas]

Not kinetic-y enough?

[UnCivilServant]

Can’t be spotted by WTF’s low-rent spy sattelites.

[WTF]

They’re DRONZ!!11!!

[Freddy B]

Also helps in the “not counting” if they are special forces or called advisers. Amazing how Statist arithmetic works – they add or count whatever they want because FYTW.

[mad.casual]

“Shock-and-awe” didn’t work so we’re trying the opposite.

They’d tell us that but “predictable-and-disappointing” doesn’t have the same ring.

[WTF]

NEEDZ. MOAR. LABELZ.

[GotOutOfCali]

So wait, is one of those people ‘sposed to be Obama? HOW CAN I POSSIBLY TELL??!!

[Pathogen]

Obama almost always wears suits..

[BigT]

That must be what is keeping him from breaking par!

[Libertarian]

Suit or no suit, if I was a black guy I would be standing around the rear end of an MRAP like that. Not in Ferguson.

[Libertarian]

WOULDN’T

Dammit. Where’s my coffee!!!!!?!?!?!??

[UnCivilServant]

That’s not Ferguson. He’s in Martha’s Vinyard.

[Ted S.]

Except when he’s on the golf course.

[UnCivilServant]

He’s the one that isn’t Dukakis.

[Swiss Servator, spare a franc?]

+1 tank video

[invisible furry hand]

Bok published this on his own website last week, so it’s aged like a fine wine. Or an old cheese. Votes please.

[BigT]

One vote for dead fish.

[WTF]

Milk. It’s aged like milk. Very old milk.

[Suthenboy]

Isn’t that called cheese?

[UnCivilServant]

No, there’s no rennet… but other things have made their home in it.

[UnCivilServant]

*yes I know rennet is an enzyme and not a living thing in of itself, the statement was poorly worded.

[WTF]

I had a microbiology professor in college who didn’t eat cheese because he said cheese was just a contest between you and the bacteria over who would get most of the milk.

[UnCivilServant]

Then he’s a fool, because by the time you get to the cheese, the bacteria is done. They’re used mainly to acidify the milk with bacteria piss so that the calf-stomach liner can properly coagulate it.

[WTF]

He was just being facetious. I know how cheese is actually made, and so did he.

[UnCivilServant]

Thou shalt not mock cheese! Cheesiness is next to Godliness!

[WTF]

Hey, I love cheese. I even like Blue cheese, which actually has active mold living in it.

[Pro Libertate]

Blessed are the cheesemakers.

[WTF]

+1 Brian

[Another David]

What are you, some kind of rennet-seeker?

[UnCivilServant]

Well, I am trying to live off of royalties instead of working for a living, and I do like cheese…

[BigT]

Why not? We already have boots on the ground in more than 150 other countries. What’s so special about Iraq?

[UnCivilServant]

In most of those places – no one is shooting at us.

[Almanian!]

Well, come on down to Ferguson! We can get SOMEONE to shoot at you if that’s what yer lookin’ fer!

[Anon E. Mouse]

A few guys working as military liaisons in an Embassy hardly qualifies as “boots on the ground”. If it ain’t in the triple-digits, and it’s public knowledge, it’s “dress shoes and cocktails” on the ground.

[Will4Freedom]

If Bok would have moved the “P” just a little further left, he would have had room for the same size “O” as the other letters.

And if Obama’s ears drop any lower, they’re going to be on his shoulders.

[UnCivilServant]

Those aren’t ears. He’s part chipmonk and is storing food for the winter.

[Drave Robber]

I think he’s been attacked by flying zombie skulls.

[Rhywun]

Or giant referee whistles.

[UnCivilServant]

Also, these aren’t police, they’re Po-LICE, a distant relative of the body louse.

[Swiss Servator, spare a franc?]

If they work hard, save and keep their spending discipline, someday they can be Rich-LICE!

[UnCivilServant]

MAny, however, will not even make it to being MiddleClass-LICE.

[Libertarian]

All this “free” military equipment. Who’s going to fix it when it breaks? And how much will it cost? I can see it now, in about a year police chiefs all over he country are going to be saying they need more funding or else they’re going to have to lay off patrolmen.

[WTF]

Yeah, I’m sure they have no clue as to what maintenance is involved for APCs, MRAPs, etc. and will be shocked when they find out Charlie’s Garage down the street can’t do it.

[Swiss Servator, spare a franc?]

Navistar is drooling at the thought.

[Pro Libertate]

I AM NAViSTAR.

[Swiss Servator, spare a franc?]

+1 Sinibomb

[db]

Dude, that’s all part of the plan. Maintenance contractors will make loads off of local police departments, and will hire all those specialists who know how to do the maintenance who will be discharged. It’s a corporate welfare/jobs program.

[BigT]

Hire a Vet. They are the only ones who know how to fix this stuff.

[Freddy B]

Ohhh, Ohhh, can I answer? The same people who pay in settled cases of police brutality! The taxpayer.

I want my trophy.

[Spoonman.]

Nation-building at home!

[Bardas Phocas]

Message: Obama Cares.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08…..mbers.html

[Almanian!]

“By looking at what percentage of the budget presidents propose to spend to fight poverty, we can compare their degree of commitment.”

Yes, yes we can. Because – INTENTIONS!

Good lord, that was dangerous treading over there and reading that. My brain hurts! I shut my head in the cupboard…!

[Almanian!]

So –

1) Why does the older Rodney Allen Rippy have shoe-shaped earrings dangling from his lobes? Is he angling for a spot on “The Independents” panel?

Wait – or are those cheek piercings? NEEDZ MOAR LABELZ.

2) Who thinks an Ewok dressed up like a Storm Trooper on an MRAP is funny? THIS GUY! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Ewoks! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

So, in summary – terrible. Awful. Therefore – perfect.

Happy fucking Friday, Reasonoids! I hope you all get hit by a truck and taste your own blood before you die!

/Kinison

[WTF]

*SLAP!*

[invisible furry hand]

*slap!*

[Swiss Servator, spare a franc?]

*SLAPP*

/lawyer

[Almanian!]

*SLAP*

/not a lawyer

[Redmanfms]

I don’t get it.

[WTF]

SLAPP suit.

[Rich]

*slap!*

[Loki]

*slap*

/Just wanted to be a part of something

[Almanian!]

Also, this seems an appropriate time for one of my Golden Oldies:

“Boots on the Ground”

Boots on the ground
Boots on the ground!
Lookin’ like a fool
With your
Boots on the ground
With your helmet on sideways
Lookin’ like Dukakis
Lookin’ like a fool
Whitcha
Boots on the ground!

[Ted S.]

I was wondering whether anybody else would make the connection.

[Tim]

We can’t go back into Iraq…we gave away all our desert war toys to Podunk PDs.

[UnCivilServant]

I’ve got it – send the Podunk PDs to Iraq!

[Loki]

That’s not a bad idea. Except most of those fuckers wouldn’t be able to hack it in the real military. Rules of engagement are too restrictive.

[Michael Price]

So what? When they break them send them to Levenworth for 20 years. Problem solved.

[userve32]

Pretty scary stuff man.

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