Sunday, September 10, 2017

Sunday funnies

Ace of Spades hilariously "Republicanizes" a news article on Democratic Senator Bob Menendez, under indictment on corruption charges. He had me laughing from the first sentence:
An MSNBC host has declared that the case against Bob Menendez, Republican and sculptor of a controversial Civil War statue of Jefferson Davis setting fire to a homeless man, is not only not at all "close," but in fact overwhelming.

Also via Ace: an Irish family attempts to capture a bat that has gotten loose in their kitchen. The sheer "Irishness" of the episode is priceless:



Urban cover-ups in Russia.

A couple of items from Powerline's "The Week in Pictures":

Inspired by the "distracted boyfriend" meme...



Yeah, we better check this guy Jeff out (click to enlarge)...



It's all about priorities: "Texas National Guard halts hurricane recovery efforts to catch up on diversity training".

Scientific evidence that we have more summer in store (H/T: Mrs. Paco).


4 comments:

RebeccaH said...

The funniest thing about a lobster predicting the weather is the name of the river it came out of: Passagassawakeag River

Anonymous said...

The turtles have been Photoshopped out!

rinardman said...

I think Jeff is a prepper down in Alabama. He didn't have room for the 100k rounds of ammo, so just went with one big round.

JeffS said...

Well, it ain't me, r-man. Do you Realize how much it costs to maintain a nuke in working order? Oy vey! I can be at the range all da, every day, for that kind of money.

Along those lines, Paco, here's a great story of a gun and the World Trade Center:

https://www.nrablog.com/articles/2017/9/a-kimber-recovered-from-the-world-trade-center/