Monday Afternoon Links of MOAR STEVE SMITH!

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223 Comments

  1. Yusef drives a Kia

    That bee things freaks me right the Fuck Out!
    /Car Wash yeah,

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Nothing to see here, move along citizen.

      • Rebel Scum

        But be sure to get yourself teested.

    • Penguin

      She didn’t need a kickback – only a broker and the ticker symbol PFE.

    • rhywun

      Is it just me or has that article been run back and forth through Google translate a few times.

      • slumbrew

        Produced by a bot, I reckon.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Yep.

  2. kinnath

    Bathroom mead for the win!

    • Count Potato

      Is that more like bathtub gin or toilet wine?

      • kinnath

        yup. typed too fast. should have been bathtub mead.

      • R.J.

        Heck yes. That would be pounds of honey.

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s sink mead. totally different.

      • Fourscore

        Brood honey for the babies but still dark and tasty

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Did you name it Golden Showers?

    • DEG

      🙂

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      More evidence in favor of boosters!

    • invisible finger

      Future documentary:

      Fauci: From AIDS to ADEs

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Nice

      • Sean

        *golf clap*

    • invisible finger

      Let me guess: none of them are being treated for anything. It’s like the NIH is run by Christian Scientists.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        You don’t want people taking veterinary medicine do you?

      • invisible finger

        You mean like mRNA vaccines?

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Time to shut down DC?

      • slumbrew

        Nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.

      • slumbrew

        (Attn: Preet – not an actual threat)

      • Bobarian LMD

        Just a prayer, in case anyone is listening.

      • Rat on a train

        Saving your nukes for something else?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Are you saying you don’t have an orbital bombardment capability?

        Looks like your official glib status may be in jeopardy.

      • Rat on a train

        Custom RV.

    • Sean

      the Imperial City might have a bad case of ADE.

      Don’t tease me like that.

  3. Rebel Scum

    DISTRACT WITH WHEEL RACLETTE ROLL DOWN HALLWAY.

    You can always canton this distraction.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Careful, lest you feel the Bern of a narrowed gaze.

    • Gender Traitor

      I know Swissy hates these puns, but we just can’t alp ourselves.

    • Shpip

      Swiss can have his cheese and give us links.

      It’s not an Eiger-or situation.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Swissy might get so angry that he’ll have wipe Zermatt with the lot of you, Baar none.

      • Tonio

        Swissy has his revenge planned, I assure you. It will be forever known as the day of the nutpunch/ovarytap.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Or he will just disappear and leave us Toblerone.

    • pistoffnick

      WHAT’S THE MATTERHORN WITH “YOU PEOPLE”?!?!

      You had better Swatch for a narrowed graze.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      Y’all are playing fast & Lucerne with the puns

      • ron73440

        These puns are full of holes.

  4. Rebel Scum

    A Florida bee removal expert sent entomophobes’ skin crawling after she discovered a bee-hemoth 7-foot-tall hive behind a client’s bathroom while responding to a call. Footage of the freaky find currently boasts 3.3 million views on TikTok.

    Pass.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      • slumbrew

    • Penguin

      Had to be linked.

      • Penguin

        See? Scruffy agrees.

  5. Ghostpatzer

    Seven-foot bees? Yikes!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Fukushima

    • Bobarian LMD

      Well, they’ll get over it pretty fast then.

      Also, I’m absolutely certain they’re testing every one of those cases for the specific variant type, and not just lumping every sneeze and winter bug under that umbrella.

    • The Other Kevin

      I’m hoping this opens the eyes of a lot of people. The media and governments are going insane over this, but as of now. only one person in the world has died from this variant.

      • hayeksplosives

        And even that was “with” the variant, not of it.

      • Chafed

        I have the same hope. We are nearly two years into this nonsense. Once again Fauci et all want us to prepare for the worst. By all reports, Omicron is quite mild. Maybe the disconnect between the fear mongering and the actual results will open some eyes.

    • rhywun

      “This thing might or might not happen.”

    • Sensei

      Google says… 5.5m

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        So 18 days until everyone in Norway has it. And either dies or gets turned into zombies.

  6. Sean

    GF’s coworker tested poz for the “worst cold ever, the destroyer of worlds – COVID”.

    She doesn’t have to go back into the classroom until January now.

    Downside: she has do start doing zoom classes until xmas.

    Coworker status: Vaxxed.

    Honk Honk.

    • Count Potato

      Testing positive doesn’t even mean she’s sick.

      • Sean

        SHES GOT A RUNNY NOSE!!!!11!!1

  7. DEG

    “Our position is that [the companies] are failing to pay certain departments the correct amount,” Eshaia told The Oregonian/OregonLive Sunday. “They’re not giving us the information to prove it, which they are required to do.”

    Hmm…. I am suspicious of the union’s claims. But, if there is evidence I will change my view.

    A Florida bee removal expert sent entomophobes’ skin crawling after she discovered a bee-hemoth 7-foot-tall hive behind a client’s bathroom while responding to a call. Footage of the freaky find currently boasts 3.3 million views on TikTok.

    Pass.

    On Monday, the Geneva prosecutor’s office formally ended its three-year probe by stating that there is insufficient evidence to lay charges of aggravated money laundering.

    I’d like to think this is evidence of a vestige of Swiss bank secrecy remaining, but I think I shouldn’t get my hopes up.

    RE: The deadthread’s bit about folks meeting me: I didn’t give anyone Covid on my way back from FreedomFest. Yeah, I left Ron waiting. That was entirely my fuckup and I paid for his food to make up for it. I would have guns with me when I met Sean but I was a little worried about smuggling guns through some very gun-unfriendly states. I’ve done it before, and I’ve even done it in these crazy times, but on that trip I wasn’t willing to.

    On the note of guns and meet-ups: The Oaks, PA gun show is this weekend. I posted in the forums about it in an attempt to set-up a meet-up.

    • PutridMeat

      I didn’t give anyone Covid on my way back from FreedomFest

      Wouldn’t be so sure about that… Or maybe contagion was the other direction. We probably shouldn’t have made out at the bar that one time.

      • DEG

        Shit, maybe that would explain everything.

  8. The Other Kevin

    COVID has struck again. My middle kid has it now. Fortunately she has been living at my SIL’s house, and we haven’t been around her for over a week. She has a fever, cold symptoms, and loss of smell, but they sent her home from urgent care with instructions to take Tylenol for fever and that’s it. My MIL and niece are upset because they have been around her, and they have to quarantine so they’re missing holiday stuff this week.

    My kid works part time at Meijer, and hats off to them for giving her paid time off until Dec. 26 after she showed them a positive test. I thought that was pretty upstanding of them.

    • Count Potato

      “sent her home from urgent care with instructions to take Tylenol for fever and that’s it”

      Outpatient care for covid sucks.

      • The Other Kevin

        She just went in yesterday, and today she’s already feeling better. But she’s 21 and in decent health, so this is exactly what I’d expect.

      • Lackadaisical

        Good to hear, hopefully it stays that way.

    • DEG

      I hope she gets well soon.

      • Count Potato

        +1

      • Ghostpatzer

        Seconded.

    • rhywun

      Stop. It. This is not international news, TMITE.

    • Sensei

      And once again all the focus will be on race.

      • Chafed

        Absolutely. Because why address the actual problem?

  9. Rebel Scum

    You Chicagoans have failed dear leader.

    Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot says that if you run a business in Chicago, you should be doing more to protect it and she’s disappointed with retailers. It’s your fault if your store gets looted.

    The looting would end if you could ventilate them on the spot.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      And the taxes the businesses are paying are going for what exactly?

      • Sean

        Corruption ain’t cheap.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        I know. I know.

        Forget it Doc, It’s Chi-town.

    • Tonio

      CWAA

    • Ghostpatzer

      Chicago needs to take a page from NY, which will be fining businesses $1K for each masking/vaxxing violation. This is the perfect incentive for law enforcement to curb looting, you cannot collect from shuttered businesses.

    • whiz

      That’s just evil.

      • whiz

        The mayor, not the ventilation 🙂

  10. Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

    DISTRACT WITH WHEEL RACLETTE ROLL DOWN HALLWAY

    Give Swiss a break — TBF, I’d be distracted by wheels of delicious cheeses being rolled anywhere in my line of sight, too.

    • Sean

      The running scenes will need walkers.

    • slumbrew

      Never too old for an easy payday

    • Rebel Scum

      Cox really fucked up her face.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Er, phrasing?

      • hayeksplosives

        Sadly, she realized she’d taken the surgery too far but it is too late.

        “I grew up thinking that appearance was the most important thing. That’s kind of sad because it got me in trouble. I was trying so hard to keep up, and I actually made things worse,” she said.

        Cox also spoke about the way doctors could encourage her to go one step further each time she visited.

        “[W]hat would end up happening is that you go to a doctor who would say, ‘You look great, but what would help is a little injection here or filler there.’ So you walk out and you don’t look so bad and you think, no one noticed—it’s good. Then somebody tells you about another doctor: ‘This person’s amazing. They do this person who looks so natural.’ You meet them and they say, ‘You should just do this.’

        The next thing you know, you’re layered and layered and layered. You have no idea because it’s gradual until you go, ‘Oh shit, this doesn’t look right.’ And it’s worse in pictures than in real life,” she said.

        https://i.stuff.co.nz/life-style/beauty/93980073/courteney-cox-regrets-plastic-surgery-i-was-trying-so-hard-to-keep-up

      • rhywun

        Hollywood made her do it according to the lecture article I just read.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Pays better than Metamucil commercials?

  11. Rebel Scum

    Jake Tapper is assho.

    This clip is such a great example of what’s wrong with cable news. Tapper is sitting 1 foot from Klobuchar without a mask insisting she attack Ted Cruz for talking to her without a mask at Dole’s funeral.

    All three individuals are vaccinated.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      And her mask was below her nose. At least she didn’t really take the bait.

  12. wdalasio

    TOS just had their fundraiser. Coincidence? You decide.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Stand in front of it. /Joking Preet and any other agencies. Not an actual threat.

    • Tonio

      You have to believe very hard in fairies.

  13. Shpip

    As Venn diagrams go, this one’s a real doozy.

    It’s like some sophomore Basic College Girl took the three worstest things in life, mashed them together somehow, and came up with mecha-Hitler.

    Or as Winston Churchill might’ve put it, “It’s a non sequitur inside a strawman wrapped in utter nonsense.”

    • juris imprudent

      Remind me again of the black woman entertainer that expressed vax skepticism?

    • Count Potato

      OFFS!!

    • whiz

      But it’s so pretty!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Everything I don’t like is *insert two minutes of hate here*

  14. Rebel Scum

    You’d think the Jews Armenians would know better.

    Armenia’s parliament approved a law Friday that would allow employers to fire workers who refuse to provide proof of vaccination against COVID-19 or a negative test result. …

    “If the employee is not providing a vaccination certificate, or a negative COVID-19 test, the employer is given the right to turn the employee away from the workplace, suspend their pay and fire the employee, if they are off for 10 working days because of that,” Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Ruben Sargsyan said Friday.

    The new vaccination requirement will not apply to the country’s president, prime minister, members of parliament or the National Assembly, the ombudsman, judges of the Constitutional Court and a number of other officials, Sargsyan said.

    “This exception was established for the reason that these positions are either (institutional), as in the case of parliamentary deputies, or their holders are appointed in accordance with the Constitution,” he said.

    “We’re all in this together.”

  15. Sensei

    Alaska Permanent Fund board removes executive director Angela Rodell

    OK – what’s up?

    In six years as executive director, Rodell grew the fund at a record-breaking pace, seeing its assets expand from $51 billion to more than $83 billion.

    “I’m stunned. I can’t wait to see the Board of Trustees’ reasoning for terminating her. To me, it’s the equivalent of trading Michael Jordan after you’ve won five NBA championships,” said Sen. Click Bishop, R-Fairbanks and a member of the Senate Finance Committee.

    • Ozymandias

      That article just screams that there’s something going on behind the scenes that we don’t know.
      Now I’m curious where I never would have cared before.

      • Sensei

        Absolutely. That’s the way it works in this world.

        If she didn’t do something illegal she’ll get picked up right quick. If there is some big ethical issue it will eventually come out and she will be toxic after that.

      • Sensei

        The only other thing I can come up with is not enough lip service and investment in ESG.

      • Ghostpatzer

        not enough lip service

        She will never be vice-president.

      • hayeksplosives

        Nice.

      • creech

        But can she see Roosia from her house?

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        I wouldn’t think that Alaska would be that concerned about ESG, especially given that they are investing oil money.

    • rhywun

      Gotta be something woke.

      • Sensei

        Beat me to it!

    • The Gunslinger

      A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a list of Dow and Nasdaq stocks could have grown the assets at a record breaking pace the last six years.

    • Ozymandias

      And by “outbreak” they man, “healthy athletes at zero risk from Covid tested positive using a completely bullshit, unapproved test for a quickly mutating virus that was sequenced originally using computer models.”
      But yes, an “outbreak.”

    • slumbrew

      Bruins just played them on Saturday, so I’m sure there will be much pants-shitting.

    • Translucent Chum

      You are correct. There is only 1 unvaxxed player in the NHL – Tyler Bertuzzi. Weird how the wings haven’t had any games cancelled while other teams have been. You’d be totally wrong to thing the vaccines don’t work.

    • grrizzly

      The Flames could have infected the Bruins on Saturday.

      • prairieboy

        They would have had to come within six feet of a Bruins’ player/angry Calgary fan.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      I’m assuming there’s a lot of bogus vaccine cards floating around the various sports leagues.

  16. Rebel Scum

    Never. Again.

    Clinton said, “If I were a betting person right now, I’d say Trump is going to run again. He seems to be setting himself up to do that, and if he’s not held accountable, then he gets to do it again. I think that could be the end of our democracy. Not to be too pointed about it, but I want people to understand that this is a make-or-break point. If he or someone of his ilk were once again to be elected president, and if especially if he had a Congress that would do his bidding, you will not recognize our country.”

    She added, “I tried to warn people. I tried to make the case that this was really dangerous — the people he was allied with, what they were saying, what he might do. I do think, but for Jim Comey and the stunt he pulled 10 days before the election, I would have won. I feel terrible about not stopping him and the people around him, but I feel like now everybody can see for themselves what kind of leader he is.

    Half-way competent? Not interested in sabotaging his country? Capable of speaking?

    • Translucent Chum

      She should run again. With Joe’s numbers in the shitter, it would be her duty to save the USA.

    • Count Potato

      Nothing is ever her fault.

    • creech

      She’s probably right about the Comey thing. It certainly wasn’t “Roosian interference.” I’m surprised she is still alive five years after the election – lots of folks on TOS were convinced she was literally dying on the campaign trail.

    • Zwak, All dressed up in his ridiculous seersucker suit

      How? How would Trump winning be the “end of our democracy?”

      Lay it out, show us the mechanism where a person who is lawfully elected is the end of democracy. Russian piss hookers are going to be overrunning the white house? Trump supporters will be illegally detained by the FBI?

      Give me a fucking break.

    • MikeS

      The Most Important Election of Our Lifetime™

    • Spartacus

      Didn’t some other world leader begin a major campaign against corruption fairly recently? Seems to be going well for him.

    • slumbrew

      “We must crack down on ne’er-do-well children of high-ranking government officials using their family connections for profit and money-laundering through transparent schemes like “art” sales!”

  17. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    I’m shit at matchmaking for myself, so I might as well try it on other people. We’ll see tomorrow.

  18. limey

    I like bees.

    • Tundra

      Meh, you’re just part of the hive-mind.

      • limey

        Resistance is futile.

    • Rebel Scum

      I don’t see what all the buzz is about.

      • limey

        I’ll admit it’s not like a lot of glibs are swarming around the idea.

    • Animal

      Yeah, but you’re just one person. We need more pollen data.

  19. Rebel Scum

    Drumpfler’s Brown Shirts are on the move.

    Anchor Chuck Todd said, “I want to read what Bart Gellman wrote in the cover story for The Atlantic. Some might say it is hyperbolic, but John Heilemann, I’m curious if you think it is? The headline is Trump’s Next Coup Has Already Begun. ‘Trump and his party convinced a dauntingly large number of Americans, that the essential workings of democracy are corrupt, that the made-up claims of fraud are true, that only cheating can thwart their victory at their polls, that tyranny usurped their government and that violence is a legitimate response.’ Hyperbolic or fact?”

    Heilemann said, “Fact, I think. The strength of that Gellman piece is it lays out this extraordinary reality that there is this research that shows something like 8% and maybe as many as 12% that say Joe Biden was illegitimate and violence is an appropriate tool to removing him and restoring Donald Trump. That’s between 20 and 30 million people. That’s a mass movement in America in favor of political violence, which is a new thing. We’ve been political violence before, lynching many things over the course of time that African-Americans have suffered, but this is 30 million people right now who are ready to take up arms.”

    He added, “You put that together with what the president, the former president, and his allies are doing in the political realm, statehouses, state legislatures and the party apparatus to be able to engineer a situation where they are in a stronger position to pull off a coup in 2024 than they were 2020. That’s not hyperbolic at all. Those are all facts.

    So sayeth Zeig Heilemann, so sayeth we all.

    • rhywun

      Never mind that the hive-mind flat-out bragged in that Time piece that they stole the election.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      They are so desparate for war, any war. He’s right there are at least 30 million people right now who are ready to take up arms, as it should be,
      FOS!

    • limey

      According to dictionary.com bollocks is a “college level” word.

      ?

      • Spartacus

        That’s just rubbish.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Bugger off!

    • Trigger Hippie

      I’ve always been amused by how they say glacier.

      Glassier? Glassier than what?

      • pistoffnick

        Schedule = shedule

      • juris imprudent

        Learned that in shool – not.

      • hayeksplosives

        At least they spell it “aluminium” so their pronunciation makes sense.

        My husband hassles me for occasionally lapsing and saying “jewellery” (British) instead of “jewelry” which Americans pronounce “jewlry”, sounding almost like “Jewry”.

        I can’t help the fact that much of what I read as a kid/teen were British books (and British made TV on PBS).

      • rhywun

        I never detected a different pronunciation for that one.

        much of what I read as a kid/teen were British books (and British made TV on PBS).

        So much this.

      • Ted S.

        Jew-ellery, like Ellery Queen.

        My two favorites:

        1) A BBC report talking about the two careers. I had no idea what they were talking about until the report said, “north career and south career”.
        2) A report suggesting Italy produced great opera singers because the country has the “Son and pastor”. This made no sense, until I realized they were talking about “sun and pasta”.

      • hayeksplosives

        My Aussie (former) coworker pronounces the “L” in solder, and the “O” is longer than our “sawder” pronunciation.

        He says he just can’t say “sodder” with a straight face.

      • juris imprudent

        Well sodder does have an entirely different meaning.

      • Trigger Hippie

        At least that sounds classy.

        What fucks with me the most is the disconnect when you go all Brit and say glassier then saying glacial…Glassy-Al?

        That seems so awkward.

  20. DEG

    Lawsuit over NH’s CRT ban

    A lawsuit filed in federal court Monday by a major teachers union, several individual teachers and two parents charges New Hampshire’s new “divisive concepts” statute violates the U.S Constitution by “curtailing speech” and “limiting the free exchange of ideas in our classrooms.”

    The American Federation of Teachers-New Hampshire is the lead plaintiff on the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Concord.

    The provision was passed in June by the Republican majorities in the New Hampshire House and Senate – and signed into law by Gov. Chris Sununu.

    During a telephone news conference, AFT-NH president Deb Howes said the law has prompted “fear among teachers for not actually violating a law but feared they could be targeted by people with a political agenda.”

    Later in the article:

    But a Republican state Board of Education member, Ryan Terrell of Nashua, defended the law and joined Sununu and Bradley is saying the lawsuit does not accurately characterize the law it seeks to nullify but instead appears to be focused on the original bill, which was set aside.

    “I’m shocked by the nature of the claim,” Terrell said. “For me, it fundamentally looks past the actual legislation that was passed into law. That language expressly says not to teach that any race of people are inferior or superior to another group of people based off immutable characteristics like sex, gender, race … It shocks me that the language of the actual legislation isn’t mentioned.”

    Countdown until Terrell is called an “Uncle Tom” in…..

    • Spartacus

      What do they have against cathode ray tubes? Aren’t they still useful for some things?

      • hayeksplosives

        I still think “tubes” when I read that acronym.

        And yes, they are still useful!

    • rhywun

      Democrats arguing in bad faith?

      *falls out of chair*

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I don’t believe the first amendment has jack shit to do with government mandated curricula.

  21. Grummun

    7 foot beehive

    Whatever. It’s in a 2×4 stud wall, so of course they built up. On a square-footage surface area basis, it’s probably no more than the frames in a typical hive.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      FourScore to the White courtesy phone!

      • Fourscore

        Honey Harvest, Sep 18th, 2022. Make your plans now

    • rhywun

      JFC.

    • Sensei

      JFC.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      So is the Australian government going to stop before or after people start shouting politicians?

      • ron73440

        *runs outside*

        Shouts POLITICIANS!

        Not sure if it helped, but I tried.

      • R.J.

        Does that qualify as a bon mot?

      • Ted S.

        More like a mauvais mot.

      • juris imprudent

        Definitely not a bon scot.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        *sigh*

    • hayeksplosives

      That country is messed up.

      I’ve always wanted to visit Australia someday but that desire is completely extinguished now.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Yeah, same here.

        I no longer have any interest in visiting New Zealand, either.

      • Count Potato

        Hong Kong has 7.5M people and needs a new country. New Zealand only has 4.8M people, and isn’t using theirs. If we arm Hong Kong with enough ships and planes they could totally do it. They wouldn’t even have to leave the Pacific.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        New Zealanders appears to like authoritarianism.

        Maybe just a swap of the populations.

      • Sean

        They also (apparently) like orgies. What happens though when they’re all bottoms?

      • Count Potato

        OK, I was thinking giving one island back to the Maori. NZ has way more land than HK.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        The closest I’ll ever get to Australia is watching the doggy daycare Youtube channel. Fuck that place.

      • Gender Traitor

        Are the doggies really in “daycare” or are they quarantined?

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        HAR! Ironically, they had to close the daycare when they were locked down.

        (Tundra – they have a new set of rescue puppies!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOnJ4VliEHo)

    • Count Potato

      We should send in the Marines to liberate them.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        To the Halls of, Perth?

      • Count Potato

        Attacking from the West wouldn’t work. Capture Victoria and New South Wales and the rest of country will fall.

      • Raven Nation

        Actually, if you attached Victoria and NSW, Queensland might join you.

      • Raven Nation

        *attacked, not attached

      • hayeksplosives

        Ah, Queensland: the Alabama of Australia.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Why? Our marines would probably be instructed to enforce their rules

    • slumbrew

      F1 driver Daniel Riccardo mentioned that he’s going have to be quarantined through Christmas when he goes back to Perth. Not sick & he’s vaccinated but he’s been wandering around the scary outer world and must do penance before returning home.

      • grrizzly

        He’s lucky that he even has this option. Non-celebrity Australian citizens couldn’t just return home even if they were willing to quarantine throughout the lunacy. Perhaps this has changed recently. Or not.

  22. Gender Traitor

    Paging Ozy: Just came across this infuriating news on my local powerhouse news TV station’s site. ?

    • Ozymandias

      Yep. Now we can tell the judge that there is real irreparable harm ongoing. 27 discharged for refusing to take a shot that still hasn’t finished its clinical trial.
      I’m happy for those kids; the military and this govt doesn’t deserve their loyalty or their blood. Good for them.
      In related news: https://www.rt.com/usa/543001-pfizer-vaccine-side-effects/
      Pfizer’s first tranche of data shows >1200 deaths in the first few months. Steve Kirsch has been bitchslapping the CDC over this because they refuse to calculate the URF (under reporting factor) that is always associated with passive pharmacovigilance systems. If you use John Su’s own published method – he’s the head of the CDC’s vaccine safety task force for Covid – the URF is around 30-40. Which would put the death count over the hundred thousand mark.
      Nothing to see here.

      • whiz

        What is really important to know would be how many deaths would you have expected in that sample of people. Just as many people die “with COVID,” they can also die “having taken the shot.”

    • rhywun

      “We know people are tired and hungry for normalcy. Frankly, I am too,” Ghaly said. “That said, this is a critical time where we have a tool that we know has worked and can work.”

      “That said” is just another word for “but”. Only this time, everything that comes after it is a lie.

      • one true athena

        oh these liars piss me off. The infection curves for LA County and Orange County have been exactly the same though LA has kept its mask mandate and OC got rid of theirs ages ago.

      • hayeksplosives

        Perhaps they are under the illusion that if they change their tune now, people will be angry at the near 2 years of fucked up living under covidlaw.

        Frankly, I think if they just quietly didn’t renew any mandates and ended requirements for vax passports, people would happily just get on with their lives.

        But the elites think that we hang on their every word so they can’t imagine NOT having a big press conference in which they’re sure to have to answer questions.

    • Chafed

      The fun never ends when the Dems are your friends.

  23. rhywun

    Incentives?

    Microsoft tempts software pirates with 50 percent discount on Office

    The discount I get from work (should I choose to take advantage of it) is only 30 percent.

    • Ted S.

      Do they get a hard copy of it or is it just a subscription?

      [reads article]

      Just a subscription. Not that I was going to ditch LibreOffice anyway.

      • rhywun

        I pored over the details from my work offering looking for the hard-copy. Nope, subscription only.

        Granted, the discount is for life even after they fire me for being unclean but still. I don’t like subscriptions.

        I might have been tempted otherwise.

      • rhywun

        PS. In the old days I used to get through work free copies of anything MS made. A fresh batch of CD’s would arrive every month or so with new stuff.

    • Ghostpatzer

      For the first year of the Office 365 subscription service. Then youu get to pay full price for it year after year, forever. Kinda like COVID boosters, it never ends. Hard pass.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      ‘Murica!

    • Ghostpatzer

      Excellent.