Archive for the ‘Humor’ Category
Private security firm hired to guard Michigan’s National Guard bases and facilities
The state has hired a West Michigan-based private security firm to protect six of its National Guard and Air National Guard bases and facilities.
In a 5-year, $15 million contract, DK Security will provide armed security services at six military installations around the state.
The facilities include Camp Grayling, Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Battle Creek Air National Guard Base, Ft. Custer Training Center, Joint Forces Headquarters and Grand Ledge Army National Guard Base.
Reminds Murdoc of
A Thanksgiving tradition here at MO:
This never stops being funny.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
UPDATE: Even Glenn Reynolds put the clip up this year. Everybody loves this.
So ever since Murdoc was a little kid, he’s made a point to tell a particular joke on November 11th. I think I got out of a joke book in the class library in 2nd grade, but I can’t remember for sure.
This guy goes up to his buddy and asks how he did at the race track.
“Oh, man!” says the buddy. “I had the hottest tip ever! A horse named ‘Elevener’ was running in the eleventh race at 11:00 am on November 11th. He was number eleven and he had won 11 races. The odds were 11:1. So I put $11,011 on him.”
“Wow!” says the guy. “That’s crazy! Did he win?”
“No,” replied the buddy. “He finished eleventh.”
Homemade Bulldozer Battleship Joins Libya Fight
Land Battleship: An anti-Gaddafi fighter flashes victory signs on an armored bulldozer during violent clashes with pro-Gaddafi forces at the frontline in center Sirte.
Onto a battlefield littered with bizarre homemade weaponry, Libya’s ruling militia fighters have rolled out their weirdest contraption yet: a concrete and steel behemoth that’s a cross between a bulldozer and a battleship.
The towering monster, which appeared Wednesday in Sirte to help capture Muammar Qaddafi’s home town, has a battleship’s pointed prow and portholes along its sides with steel covers that can be pulled down…
The vehicle is also manned by four gunners who have five heavy machine guns to fire and a tank gun mounted on top.
The driver cannot see out. There had been a video camera set up to provide a view, but it was shot away.
The Libyan navy finally has a ship that no one can sink.
Why Corporate Elites Should Be Petrified of Occupy Wall Street
The occupation of Wall Street has formed an alternative community that defies the profit-driven hierarchical structures of corporate capitalism.
I’ll bet corporate America is shaking it its boots right now over this.
Yeah, AlterNet. But still funny.
A few days back MO pointed out that Tennessee legislator Joe ‘Crybaby’ Armstrong whined about the Disappoint-Mints poking fun at Barack Obama. Now the whiner has his own:
Joe Armstrong Strong Arm Censored Mints
Good stuff.
Disappoint Mints:
President Barack Obama Disappoint Mints
Murdoc would have said this was a cheap political gimmick. Until they were pulled after Joe Armstrong (D-Knoxville) complained. Armstrong, who apparently is as thin-skinned as they come, whined and simpered that the mints were not “viewpoint neutral.”
The bookstore owner said that he had carried mints poking fun at George W. Bush during the previous administration. Joe ‘Crybaby’ Johnson didn’t seem to get his poor little feelings hurt by that version though.
Via Glenn Reynolds, who wrote:
They told me if I voted for John McCain, we’d see creepy censorship of political humor. And they were right!
UPDATE: The company that makes the mints fought back by producing Joe Armstrong Strong Arm Censored Mints.
“Make no mistake, Pakistan stands shoulder to shoulder with our American allies in hunting down those who threaten our national security,” said Pasha, circling the exact location of the safe house on a large satellite photo of the town. “And we will show no mercy in targeting them, whether it be on the battlefield or, perhaps, in a bunker where the walls are thicker and offer better protection from Predator drone attacks.”
“These are highly dangerous men,” he continued, “who will be taken out at 5:23 a.m. I repeat: The strike begins at 5:23 a.m.”
It’s in The Onion, so it’s humor, right? Right?
