Friday Funnies: Boots on the Ground

Chip Bok | 8.22.2014 7:00 AM

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Fist of Etiquette 11 years ago

We're also putting boots on the ground in Iraq.
1. WTF 11 years ago
  
  Less than division strength doesn't count.
  1. Bardas Phocas 11 years ago
    
    Not kinetic-y enough?
    1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
      
      Can't be spotted by WTF's low-rent spy sattelites.
      1. WTF 11 years ago
        
        They're DRONZ!!11!!
  2. Freddy B 11 years ago
    
    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.
    1. mad.casual 11 years ago
      
      "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 11 years ago

NEEDZ. MOAR. LABELZ.
GotOutOfCali 11 years ago

So wait, is one of those people 'sposed to be Obama? HOW CAN I POSSIBLY TELL??!!
1. Pathogen 11 years ago
  
  Obama almost always wears suits..
  1. BigT 11 years ago
    
    That must be what is keeping him from breaking par!
  2. Libertarian 11 years ago
    
    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.
    1. Libertarian 11 years ago
      
      WOULDN'T
      
      Dammit. Where's my coffee!!!!!?!?!?!??
      1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
        
        That's not Ferguson. He's in Martha's Vinyard.
  3. Ted S. 11 years ago
    
    Except when he's on the golf course.
2. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
  
  He's the one that isn't Dukakis.
  1. Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 11 years ago
    
    +1 tank video
invisible furry hand 11 years ago

Bok published this on his own website last week, so it's aged like a fine wine. Or an old cheese. Votes please.
1. BigT 11 years ago
  
  One vote for dead fish.
2. WTF 11 years ago
  
  Milk. It's aged like milk. Very old milk.
  1. Suthenboy 11 years ago
    
    Isn't that called cheese?
    1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
      
      No, there's no rennet... but other things have made their home in it.
      1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
        
        *yes I know rennet is an enzyme and not a living thing in of itself, the statement was poorly worded.
        
        WTF 11 years ago
        
        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 11 years ago
        
        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 11 years ago
        
        He was just being facetious. I know how cheese is actually made, and so did he.
        
        UnCivilServant 11 years ago
        
        Thou shalt not mock cheese! Cheesiness is next to Godliness!
        
        WTF 11 years ago
        
        Hey, I love cheese. I even like Blue cheese, which actually has active mold living in it.
        
        Pro Libertate 11 years ago
        
        Blessed are the cheesemakers.
        
        WTF 11 years ago
        
        +1 Brian
      2. Another David 11 years ago
        
        What are you, some kind of rennet-seeker?
        
        UnCivilServant 11 years ago
        
        Well, I am trying to live off of royalties instead of working for a living, and I do like cheese...
BigT 11 years ago

Why not? We already have boots on the ground in more than 150 other countries. What's so special about Iraq?
1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
  
  In most of those places - no one is shooting at us.
  1. Almanian! 11 years ago
    
    Well, come on down to Ferguson! We can get SOMEONE to shoot at you if that's what yer lookin' fer!
2. Anon E. Mouse 11 years ago
  
  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 11 years ago

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.
1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
  
  Those aren't ears. He's part chipmonk and is storing food for the winter.
  1. Drave Robber 11 years ago
    
    I think he's been attacked by flying zombie skulls.
    1. Rhywun 11 years ago
      
      Or giant referee whistles.
2. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
  
  Also, these aren't police, they're Po-LICE, a distant relative of the body louse.
  1. Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 11 years ago
    
    If they work hard, save and keep their spending discipline, someday they can be Rich-LICE!
    1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
      
      MAny, however, will not even make it to being MiddleClass-LICE.
Libertarian 11 years ago

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.
1. WTF 11 years ago
  
  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.
  1. Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 11 years ago
    
    Navistar is drooling at the thought.
    1. Pro Libertate 11 years ago
      
      I AM NAViSTAR.
      1. Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 11 years ago
        
        +1 Sinibomb
2. db 11 years ago
  
  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.
  1. BigT 11 years ago
    
    Hire a Vet. They are the only ones who know how to fix this stuff.
3. Freddy B 11 years ago
  
  Ohhh, Ohhh, can I answer? The same people who pay in settled cases of police brutality! The taxpayer.
  
  I want my trophy.
Spoonman. 11 years ago

Nation-building at home!
Bardas Phocas 11 years ago

Message: Obama Cares.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08.....mbers.html
1. Almanian! 11 years ago
  
  "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! 11 years ago

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
1. WTF 11 years ago
  
  *SLAP!*
  1. invisible furry hand 11 years ago
    
    *slap!*
    1. Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 11 years ago
      
      *SLAPP*
      
      /lawyer
      1. Almanian! 11 years ago
        
        *SLAP*
        
        /not a lawyer
        
        Redmanfms 11 years ago
        
        I don't get it.
        
        WTF 11 years ago
        
        SLAPP suit.
        
        Rich 11 years ago
        
        *slap!*
        
        Loki 11 years ago
        
        *slap*
        
        /Just wanted to be a part of something
Almanian! 11 years ago

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!
1. Ted S. 11 years ago
  
  I was wondering whether anybody else would make the connection.
Tim 11 years ago

We can't go back into Iraq...we gave away all our desert war toys to Podunk PDs.
1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
  
  I've got it - send the Podunk PDs to Iraq!
  1. Loki 11 years ago
    
    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.
    1. Michael Price 11 years ago
      
      So what? When they break them send them to Levenworth for 20 years. Problem solved.
userve32 11 years ago

Pretty scary stuff man.

http://www.AnonCrypt.tk
UnCivilServant 11 years ago

Am I suppoed to recognize who was cast as satan?
Brian D 11 years ago

I like how Satan is holding his pitchfork with his pinky extended. You can be evil and still exercise proper etiquette.
Almanian! 11 years ago

Looks like Lord Cromwell's legs are on backwards...
db 11 years ago

The Monarch?
Almanian! 11 years ago

"Take The President's cock out of your mouth, put it down, and take three steps back, shriek.."
Redmanfms 11 years ago

humility

Jesus. One of the most narcissistic men to hold public office in the US and this fuckwit believes he exhibits humility????

no doubt qualities shaped in large part by a challenging upbringing.

Challenging? Challenging? WTF is challenging about an upper-middle class upbringing and private school education?

If Obama was a Republican this very same idiot would be labeling him a man of privilege, because that's exactly what he is!!! (and there is nothing wrong with a privileged upbringing).
Swiss Servator, spare a franc? 11 years ago

Pitchfork of Etiquette?
UnCivilServant 11 years ago

(and there is nothing wrong with a privileged upbringing).

There is a distinct correlation between privileged upbringings and socialistic tendencies, so there has to be something wrong with it.
Heroic Mulatto 11 years ago

Certain software packages have cut down the suicide rate of researchers in corpus linguistics, but not by much.
UnCivilServant 11 years ago

While others have working links.
Heroic Mulatto 11 years ago

here
BigT 11 years ago

There is a distinct correlation between privileged upbringings and socialistic tendencies

So that's why the Russians, Chinese, Cubans, etc became socialists. They were too privileged!!
UnCivilServant 11 years ago

Who led them down that path?

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