¡Martes por la tarde! ¡Enlaces mexicanos!

by | Dec 7, 2021 | Daily Links | 213 comments


“Do we have an update to this audit? I just got back from PTO, and I must have missed the meeting on this.”

”The regulator has not communicated with me at all on this audit.  I will ask, however I have discussed several other audits currently underway, and they have not mentioned this one yet.”

”Do you have time to meet to discuss?”

*adds ‘claims department’ to the list*

 

Enough about work, its time for some links!

Trump’s Biden’s remain in Mexico program triggers the autism of immigration activists.  An issue growing to the point a Haitian consulate just opened in Mexico.  An explanation on the policy written by people majoring in English is available here.

I vote to impeach over that hat.

If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal.

The looming threat, of deaths looms from the looming threat of the Nomicrons, looming in Argentina, Chile, and Brazil.  But not Colombia, they still have to deal with FARC.

Ha!  He called Schiff a boomer. This guy is beginning to bump Bolsonaro for the title of “the most entertaining dictator only in the mind of the corporate media”.

Bolsonaro responds.

During the livestream on 24 October, Mr Bolsonaro claimed that reports “suggest that people who are fully vaccinated against Covid-19 are developing Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Aids) much faster than expected”. The assertion has been strongly rejected by scientists and medical experts.

I assume he was quoted out of context, and then mistranslated.

 

¡Fire frei!

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213 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    Early Mexican links?

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      They were due last week.

      • rhywun

        *so sleepy*

  2. Count Potato

    Honestly, I’ve seen way worse hats.

  3. UnCivilServant

    Afternoon, Sharpshooter

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Morning.

  4. JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

    The imposition of Latinx is just the White Man’s, er, the Woke Man’s, er, the Woke Folx Burden. It’s for your own good.

      • Ted S.

        Pronounced Latíííííííííííííííííííííííííííííííííííííííííííííííííííííííííííííííínx, with an extremely strong Speedy Gonzalez accent.

      • Count Potato

        I say Latin equis, you know, like Malcolm Equis.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Squirrel finds blind nut. News at 11.

      • Rebel Scum

        Nothing in Spanish is gender neutral.

      • Rat on a train

        No lo creo.

      • TARDis

        So this means most Latinos are ignoring stupid white lefties? I sure hope so.

    • Count Potato

      “Amazon grinds to a halt – and takes huge swathes of the internet with it! Alexa, Ring, Disney+, Tinder, Venmo, DoorDash and Prime Video all crash in Cloud server outage: Xmas Amazon deliveries are now expected to take even LONGER

      Amazon and all of its services have crashed across the globe, leaving delivery trucks sitting idle with drivers unable to access their routes and knocking out popular websites and banking apps that rely on the company’s cloud servers and affecting thousands of customers.”

      https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10284771/Amazon-thousands-worldwide-purchase-holiday-gifts.html

      Only thousands?

      • Rat on a train

        us-east-1 is rebelling

      • Count Potato

        Woops! Gilmored.

        In my defense, I jerked off with a Nigerian bodybuilder.

      • Sean

        lol

      • Rebel Scum

        The first time an American scammed a Nigerian…

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Yet another reason why I’m going to be moving as much as I can to my local network in the coming years. At least with the control, I can fix it on my own terms when it crashes.

      • Swiss Servator

        Tinder knocked out by Amazon failing?!

      • Nephilium

        Lots of companies rely on AWS.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        My ERP provider uses AWS, which I’m not particularly happy about since they are hosting my database.

      • Swiss Servator

        Ah, I didn’t RTFA, so I assumed it was the Amazon website crapping out.

        Ugh, we use AWS too…

      • Nephilium

        I didn’t RTFA, but the the excerpt mentioned all services.

      • Swiss Servator

        I only got as far as “Amazon grinds to a halt – and takes huge swathes of the internet with it! Alexa, Ring, Disney+, Tinder, Venmo, DoorDash and Prime Video all crash”

      • Count Potato

        That Disney and Tinder use the same cloud just seems wrong.

      • MikeS

        …or right.

        /adjusts tinfoil hat

      • Dr Mossy Lawn

        My sub-servers seem to be up..(I think they are in us-east-2) but I can’t get into the AWS consoles.

        I have resources in a different VM provider, and if impacted can spin up more compute there.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Yep, Just another example of cultural colonization and the erasure of brown people’s language by whites.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Latinx is some white girl NPR bullshit.

      • Count Potato

        I heard it watching football.

      • UnCivilServant

        I haven’t heard it anywhere. I’ve seen that gibberish mess of unpronouncable characters in the word salad being spewed from anti-human activists.

  5. Yusef the Unclean

    Hola! to Messy and all you miscreants out in Glibtopia!
    Freeze Bitches!

    • Bobarian LMD

      Miscreanx?

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Boo!

  6. DEG

    The patient involved, who was fully vaccinated, had given a negative PCR test prior to travelling and another negative antigen test upon arrival in Buenos Aires, the ministry said.

    Hmm….

    The foreigner, who had two Pfizer vaccines,

    Hmm….

    Rio de Janeiro on Saturday canceled its New Year’s Eve party due to renewed COVID-19 fears.

    Go fuck yourself. Have the fucking party.

  7. Yusef the Unclean

    i got an offer to interview for a car wash Manager/Employee position, meaning me running the whole show solo, Hello Walter White!

    • DEG

      Excellent! Best wishes!

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Congratulations, as long as you are not wearing a bikini.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        So judgey

      • Bobarian LMD

        Running a car wash in Michigan in December?

        How can that go wrong?

      • The Gunslinger

        You wouldn’t believe the line of cars at a car wash on a 40 degree December Saturday in Michigan.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        I mean, its cold in MI.

    • EvilSheldon

      Automatic car washes are pretty cool, just from an automation standpoint.

    • Tundra

      Sweet!

      Ted’S beat me to the greatest car wash song ever, but I hope this works for you.

      Good luck!

    • MikeS

      Fuckin’ a! Go impress the shit out of them.

  8. UnCivilServant

    *headdesk*

    We, the project team, are more than willing to expend part of our project budget to get power to our hardware sitting on the loading dock, but the project manager is arguing the datacenter should fund it.

    We should not be arguing with our own project manager who is holding up the project as if he’s being asking to pay out of pocket.

    It’s all taxpayer dollars from the same agency in the end.

    • Ghostpatzer

      It’s all taxpayer dollars from the same agency in the end.

      Well OK, then. Gridlock is good, no matter who is responsible for it.

      • UnCivilServant

        We already stole it. It’s too late to save the taxpayers or the rotting carcass of this state. I just want to get my job done.

        I could understand if the datacenter was saying the project should fund it and the project was pushing for the datacenter to fund it that we’d gridlock.

      • UnCivilServant

        Come to think of it, it might even be work to be done by a staff electrician using parts on hand. So we’ve not only already stolen the money but spent it on the required components. Bickering over accounting is keeping the work itself from getting done.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Maybe you could tap into that pile of allocated but unused cash? Might as well get in on the grift.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Never mind, electrician beat you to it. Buy a lotto ticket.

      • UnCivilServant

        Well, they are paying me $100k/year to sit in meetings where we’re arguing with our own project manager…

    • Not an Economist

      It’s all about keeping his budget down. If he can make some other program spend the money then he can argue he kept his budget down and he looks good,

      I’ve seen this before and it always annoys me.

  9. Swiss Servator

    Good to see NOT Adam Schiff screwing up relations with a Central American nation….RACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!

    *corrected*

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Um.. this was Peter Schiff.

      • Swiss Servator

        Shit…wrong Schiff – that is the futurist guy, right?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        That’s the gold bug Schiff.

      • Swiss Servator

        Imma just quit while I am behind.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        You’re just too deep in Schiff’s.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Either way its a total Schiff show.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        They’re all kind of schiffty

      • Swiss Servator

        *grimaces, takes pun beating*

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Austrian economic gold bug whose father died in prison while serving time for tax evasion.

  10. whiz

    Speaking of COVID (so not OT), my alma mater published an online article that said “Research has shown that the immunity that is generated by a natural infection may not last as long as active immunity from vaccination. ”

    Forgetting the weasel words “may be,” the Israeli study would seem to be in direct contradiction to this. Is there any context in which their statement could be correct? I’m not aware of any.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      active immunity from vaccination

      There’s your weasel word.

    • PutridMeat

      “active immunity from vaccination”

      Well see, it’s not active after a couple of months. If you get a booster, your vaccine immunity is active again.

      Even then, I don’t think the statement is true.

    • whiz

      I don’t think they mean the immunity lasts longer because of the boosters, but who knows these days.

      • Bobarian LMD

        I think they mean “Shut up peasant, and listen to your betters!”

      • PutridMeat

        I think that’s all they can mean. It’s essentially tautological – if the efficacy is not as good as natural immunity, that simply means your vaccine immunity is no longer “active”. By definition, in their construct, ‘active immunity from vaccination’ may be stronger. I don’t think there is any period of time where that is true in the real world, but as long as they modify vaccine immunity with ‘active’, it can be weaseled into a tautology. Until the time of active vaccine immunity becomes shorter than the Planck time.

      • UnCivilServant

        “Look, you’re probably better off with us injecting you with saline, but we can’t upcharge that.”

      • Tonio

        Good news for certain Glibs, I hope.

      • Necron 99

        Yep, good news indeed. I got Covid in October and received the monoclonal antibodies treatment the same day. Covid itself was nothing for me, headache, sniffles, and a low grade fever that went away the day after the mAb treatment. Two days later the mandate comes down from the head office due to us being federal contractors, but I cannot get a vax for 90 days, Jan 15 or so. So I am hoping this mandate crap goes away and stays away and I can avoid it all together. If I have to jab for my job I will, but not happily.

  11. rhywun

    *looks at media folder*

    LOL.

    • UnCivilServant

      This site is strange.

      I almost feel at home.

    • Swiss Servator

      For tonight’s article….heh heh heh.

    • db

      Seriously. And what’s the deal with the pic of Straff playing the drums?

  12. Rebel Scum

    IOW you do not, in fact, have the votes.

    Sen. Chris Murphy: “We have the votes in the House and the Senate for universal background checks bill. […] It’s the rules of the Senate that prevent us from passing it. […] If we don’t change the rules of the Senate, then we’re ultimately gonna need 60 votes.”

    The “will of the people” can lick my balls.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      Since when do you get to vote on our rights?

      I crack myself up sometimes.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Who’s we, Kemosabe?

    • Rat on a train

      I have the votes to be elected Pope if not for the rules for how popes are elected.

      • UnCivilServant

        Good for you.

        /heir to the Immortal God-Emperor.

  13. trshmnstr the terrible

    OT: sounds like there are some squirrels who took up residence in the attic. I just found the holes they chewed in the trim to get in, and I woke up last night to sounds of critters scurrying overhead. Thankfully, it’s a rental, so I snapped a couple pictures and filed a maintenance ticket. Based on previous experience, they’ll come out to fix the issue right before our lease ends in May. ?

    • UnCivilServant

      “Why is the rent going up?”

      “We have brand new trim!”

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        That’s one of many excuses they’ll be using. Besides being good, quiet, paying tenants, there’s no reason for them to want to keep us on. If they get us out, they can probably charge $500 more per month for this place and have 10 prospective tenants beating down their door on the first day.

      • Fourscore

        There’s a good chance it’s flying squirrels, they love getting warm inside. Easy to trap with a rat size trap, peanut butter on the pan. Until the hole is closed they’ll keep on coming in, there’s lots more in line.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        These ones are regular old tree rats. We have some live oaks that hang over the roof and I see/hear the squirrels using the roof as a playground on a daily basis. I’m half tempted to take the pellet gun up into the attic and bag me a few of the bastards.

      • Fourscore

        Nail a rat trap to a board so they can’t haul it away. Bait with p-butter, take a club with you to knock them over the head.
        My son in Austin, TX thought he had squirrels ’til one night he saw raccoons coming out of a roof vent. He closed the hole after the ‘coons were out for the evening and solved the problem.

    • Rebel Scum

      I have 0.22 solutions to the problem.

      • UnCivilServant

        I would have gone with 0.17 of them to avoid annoying the neighbors.

      • EvilSheldon

        Hey, did you hear that Form 4s are being rolled out on the E-File system?

        If you want a silencer (and trust me, you do) then now might be a good time…

      • UnCivilServant

        Except all NFA items are still explicitly illegal in New York.

    • SDF-7

      I had chipmunks in the GA house. The little ultrasonic emitters like https://www.homedepot.com/p/Victor-Pestchaser-Mini-3-Pack-M753K/309338797 worked well enough when put in the attic. Being a rental, you may not need to care — but they’re cheap and beats finding out a squirrel chewed some wiring and started a fire.

      Best squirrel wiring story I have is that my Dad had a pickup truck when I was growing up — he left it parked on the driveway which had a bit of a slope, think it was in gear but parking brake for some reason or something (hey — I was young…). Danged squirrel crawled into the engine bay and hot wired it with their little squirrel bodies — it drove itself down the hill and into the woods across the road, catching fire. He had to replace the cab and rebuild the engine. Hence — I’d chase them out if it were me.

      • UnCivilServant

        The downside of the ultrasonics is that vermin become acclimated to the noise and return. You can use them to drive the critters out, but then have to seal up the entry points immediately.

        If you don’t, they’ll be back.

  14. Tundra

    He called Schiff a boomer.

    That was funny. I’m a little baffled by what’s happening right now. Statists are freaking about crypto and rich guys are amassing shit tons of cash.

    Most peculiar.

    • Swiss Servator

      I am sure it will all work to the benefit of the little guy….

      We’re screwed, aren’t we?

      • mexican sharpshooter

        *Checks historical records*

        Yeah. Probably.

  15. Rebel Scum

    I, for one, am shocked.

    McBride is representing several January 6th prisoners. He went on to discuss the video footage he saw from inside the US Capitol “tunnel” on the afternoon of January 6th. McBride also is looking for several federal operatives who were observed that day.

    Joseph McBride: Let me just call one of these people out. Someone who was tagged on the internet by “Sedition Hunters” as Red-Faced 45. This is someone who is dressed in Trump gear, in MAGA gear. He’s covered in gear from head to toe. His face is painted MAGA red. He has a Trump hat on a Make America Great Again hat. Yet, he is clearly a law enforcement officer. He interacts with uniformed personnel. He interacts with agents in the crowd. He passes out weapons, sledgehammers, poles, mace. Some of those things come in contact with some of the other protesters who have subsequently been charged with possessing dangerous weapons and are using dangerous weapons at the Capitol. That is clearly entrapment. That is clearly the government creating conditions of dangerousness and entrapping members of the crowd to possess weapons and possibly use them for reasons that we cannot comprehend.

    • Tonio

      At the end of the video, McBride mentions a charity that purports to support the families of those charged for J6 activities.

  16. hoof_in_mouth

    My oldest daughter (21) was sworn into the Air Force today. Her oath of service was given by her grandfather (retired F-4/F-16 pilot), which I thought was pretty cool. I don’t think she really “gets” the significance of Dec 7 at all. She’s been struggling a little up to this point, I hope her time in service fills in her motivation/execution gaps.

    • UnCivilServant

      I didn’t know you got to fly retired planes.

    • Tundra

      Congrats to all three of you. What a cool thing for Gramps!

      …I hope her time in service fills in her motivation/execution gaps.

      Seems like that is a common outcome. Best of luck to her!

    • Bobarian LMD

      I don’t think she really “gets” the significance of Dec 7 at all.

      To be fair, the Air Force wasn’t there for that. They don’t get it either.

      • SDF-7

        Yeah, I had the same snarky thought at first… but be fair — the Army Air Force had their own share of losses that day (the incoming B-17 flight, Hickam and other fields, etc.).

        I know, tromping on the joke and all…

    • Rat on a train

      I enlisted in the Army 35 years ago today. The Army helped me with focus and discipline.

      • Fourscore

        The army retired me 45 years ago, November 1st. Enjoyed the ride but was happy to move on.

    • slumbrew

      Jacinda Ardern comes across like a Rand villain. The authoritarianism just rolls off of her in waves.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        Kinda more like a cross between an authoritarian and a Muppet (Guy Smiley in drag), to my mind.

        Which, to be clear, isn’t an improvement.

      • juris imprudent

        Nurse Ratched, without the crisp whites.

  17. Rebel Scum

    If voting worked they wouldn’t let you do it.

    Less than a month after mailing 400,000 postcards to Fairfax County residents requesting their thoughts on renaming prominent roads Lee Highway and Lee-Jackson Memorial Highway, the county’s “Confederate Names Task Force” on 30 November met to vote on the prospective name change. The outcome was perhaps predictable for a predominantly lefty suburb of Washington, D.C.: the task force overwhelmingly voted in favor of changing both road names. …

    Of the 40,870 responses, 23,500, or about 57.5 percent of respondents, expressed their desire for the road names to remain the same. Another 16,265, or 40 percent of respondents, said they wanted the road names changed (about 2.5 percent of respondents had no opinion or their opinion was unclear). Even if we isolate only the mail responses (96.3 percent of responses), the vote is still strongly in favor of preserving the names: 57.3 percent pro-names, 40.6 percent anti-names.

    Yet the task force’s vote was even more lopsided in favor of changing the names: 20 out of 26 CNTF members (77 percent) voted to change Lee Highway and 19 out of 26 with one abstention (73 percent) voted to change Lee-Jackson Memorial Highway. Thus the CNTF ignored the opinions of a clear majority of queried Fairfax County residents who responded to the survey.

    • Rat on a train

      I hear Jefferson Davis is available soon.

  18. Rebel Scum

    The Ivermectin of boner pills.

    The Cleveland Clinic released a statement today announcing some unexpected but exciting news: Viagra may be an effective preventative for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD).

    A new Cleveland Clinic-led study has identified sildenafil – an FDA-approved therapy for erectile dysfunction (Viagra) and pulmonary hypertension (Ravatio) – as a promising drug candidate to help prevent and treat Alzheimer’s disease

    “The research team, led by Feixiong Cheng, Ph.D., of Cleveland Clinic’s Genomic Medicine Institute, made the discovery as part of a data-mining study. They performed a large-scale computational analysis of medical insurance data from over 7 million patients, evaluating medicines already FDA-approved and in use as possible candidates for repurposing as therapeutics for the devastating disease.”

    Sildenafil came out on top, associated with a 69% (snicker) reduction in the incidence of AD in patients who took the drug.

    • Count Potato

      What happens if you can’t remember you have an erection?

      • juris imprudent

        Bumping into things will remind you.

      • SDF-7

        You bang into walls?

    • Gender Traitor

      ::ponders family history:: So… what would happen if a chick took the little blue pill? Asking for…I forget who.

      • slumbrew

        ISTR there was some research that showed it helped with attaining orgasm. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      • Count Potato

        Ever see that painting of Washington crossing the Delaware?

      • Count Potato

        In Chicago, they would probably arrest the clerk.

    • UnCivilServant

      I’m sure armed security leaving a few of them dead at each raid might make them start to rethink if the robberies are worth it.

      Yes, I realize this is Chicago; And San Fransisco; And Los Angeles, not anywhere that can take reasonable precautions against pillaging gangs.

      • Bobarian LMD

        I guess you could install the bulletproof airlock, ala Rust, to catch them coming or going.

      • UnCivilServant

        A few dangling corpses of raiders would be a cheaper deterrant.

        What do you mean we’re not in a postapocalyptic dystopia?

      • EvilSheldon

        Too heavy. Just stick their heads on pikes.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Because the retailers wouldn’t be severely punished for doing something about it.

      Christ, she’s a vile piece of shit.

    • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

      Gee, that doesn’t sound unpleasant at all. /sarcasm off

    • rhywun

      Mass hysteria.

      • UnCivilServant

        I thought Mass Hysteria was when a landwhale freaked out.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        +1 Trigglypuff (remember her?).

      • TARDis

        Isn’t she a mayor of a leftist (redundant) fucked up town in Oregon or some such place by now?

      • EvilSheldon

        Predictable, though. It reminds me unpleasantly of the Jews settling into the Warsaw ghetto in the ’30s – “Maybe this won’t be so bad…”

        Myself, I doubt I’d make it as week.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    I’m sure armed security leaving a few of them dead at each raid might make them start to rethink if the robberies are worth it.

    Beanbag rounds.

    To the nuts.

  20. slumbrew

    In too-local news:

    https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2021/12/06/employees-at-three-somerville-coffee-shops-move-to-unionize

    This will be hilarious. The price increases will be totally unexpected, I’m sure.

    I’ve already dropped this particular mini-chain as they inexplicably stopped serving food at the local place and their espresso worse than my Nespresso. A shame, as I really liked their sandwiches and bagels in the before time. Dropping ham as an option for their egg-sandwich bagels was, in retrospect, the beginning of the end (ham > bacon for egg sandwiches – bacon takes over).

    Also, it’s a coffee shop – it’s not supposed to be a career.

    • UnCivilServant

      “We’ve voted to unionize.”

      “Okay” *files for bankruptsy*

      • slumbrew

        I look forward to the super-woke lesbian couple who own the shops to come out with their “unions are great but given our size…” statement.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Who doesn’t like a ten dollar latte?

      • Sean

        “I like money.”

      • slumbrew

        “I can’t believe you like money too, we should hang out”

    • Rat on a train

      The woke will gladly pay the increased prices.

    • rhywun

      it’s not supposed to be a career

      I’ll never forget the lifers at the unionized hotel I worked at in SF. Always stabbing each other in the back to rise in the pecking order for best shifts and stuff.

    • UnCivilServant

      *checks forecast*

      Clouds, rain and snow. Figures, happens every time.

    • Rebel Scum

      That link has gravity but don’t let it weigh you down.

      I only see one brighter than usual dot in that relation to the moon in my neck of the woods.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        That should be venus. If you look up and to the left, there will be another somewhat bright dot. That’s jupiter. Let your eyes adjust and look in between the two, eventually you’ll see a third, much dimmer, dot that is slightly closer to jupiter than venus… That’s saturn.

  21. Count Potato

    “Is it unfortunate that so many on the far-right are hostile to the idea that vaccines work? Yes. Yes it is.

    Is that going to stop me from taking action from keeping our communities safer? Not a chance.”

    https://twitter.com/BilldeBlasio/status/1468301736980975621

    All those far-right people in New York City?

    • Count Potato

      At least he’s getting roasted in the comments.

      • TARDis

        Perfect.

        Julius Pecker Jones
        @Jones96118749
        ·
        4h
        Replying to
        @BilldeBlasio
        You are a piece of shit

    • UnCivilServant

      Why are you lying Bolshevik Bill? You know full well people are opposed to mandates. People want to choose for themselves not be threatened by the likes of you.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        He’s lying because he’s an authoritarian sack of shit and that’s just what people like that. I thought they just elected a new mayor, why not just hold off and let him set policy?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        His policy won’t be any better. He’s pro Covid vac for kids

      • rhywun

        Large majorities here are in favor of it.

        Do you even mob rule, bruh?

    • Rebel Scum

      “Everyone that disagrees with me is a far-right extremist.”

      hostile to the idea that vaccines work

      They were not vaccines until the definition was changed recently and they demonstrably do not work*.

      *Of course that depends on how you define “work” here…

      • juris imprudent

        MOAR MASKSSSSS!!!

      • rhywun

        So fucking tiresome.

        Apparently my work had their Xmas party today, at the mothership in Ohio.

        I heard several of my co-workers expressing hesitation about attending because you-know-why.

      • EvilSheldon

        I know why.

        It’s because office Christmas parties are about as much fun as being sodomized with an entire Christmas tree.

      • DEG

        The start-up I used to work at had some good Christmas parties.

        It’s the only company where I’ve gone to a Christmas party.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    From Sean’s link:

    An Oklahoma judge found a school district’s policy of isolating healthy-yet-unvaccinated students is likely unconstitutional.

    Oklahoma County Judge Don Andrews issued an order on Tuesday temporarily blocking an Oklahoma City metro school district from carrying out its policy of placing unvaccinated students into quarantine.

    Starting in August, Edmond Public Schools, one of the largest districts Oklahoma, instituted a policy requiring unvaccinated students who had a “close contact” with a person who tested positive for COVID-19 to self-isolate at home.

    Even if a student had no signs or symptoms of COVID-19, the school said a quarantine was necessary to prevent the possible asymptomatic spread of COVID-19. Fully vaccinated children were not subject to quarantine policy. School administrators said they implemented the policy after conferring with local health officials.

    What a heaping helping of steaming hot bullshit.

    Of all the nonsensical drama queening surrounding this, the flagrant efforts to conflate “not vaccinated” with “actively contagious” deserves special mention in the annals of egregious gaslighting.

    • rhywun

      And “asymptomatic spread” is the special sauce that keeps the crazy going – forever.

  23. DEG

    PA and other mid-Atlantic Glibs: I started a thread in the forums to organizer a meet-up at the upcoming Oaks, PA gun show. Take a look if you are interested.

  24. Gustave Lytton

    Remain in Mexico policy is Trump’s. Remain Mexicx is Biden’s.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Shamelessly stolen

  25. DEG

    Rep. Pappas of NH breaks with NH delegation on vaccine mandates

    Friday morning, Pappas announced plans to seek a third term in Congress. WMUR asked him about the mandate issue, specifically the attempt by the Biden administration to use the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) to impose vaccine-or test requirements on workers at private businesses with at least 100 employees.

    “What I’ve been calling for is more testing capability, clearer guidelines, and more consideration given to businesses that are moving in the right direction,” Pappas said. “But I don’t think we’re there yet.

    “The issue is tied up in court and we have to see where it’s going to come out. But unless we have testing capacity and businesses know that they’re either going to have that capability on-site or know they can access it, it seems to me to be an unworkable proposal.”

    It’s weak, but surprising.

  26. Sean

    Masks are returning to commercials. ?

    Last night it was Target and tonight it was Lowes. ?

    • Rebel Scum

      Masks are sporadically returning to the office. I am just going to continue what I have been doing since this farce began. If someone asks about my lack of a shame muzzle, “I do not practice that particular religious observation.”

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Take note and avoid the maskers if possible. If they’re trying to dodge omicron they’re stupid and best avoided anyway.

    • EvilSheldon

      Why are you watching commercials?

      • Sean

        *shrug*

        A little tv before I wander off to save the commonwealth in about a half hour.

    • DEG

      Some municipalities in NH are talking about bringing back mask ordinances.

      Barf.

  27. grrizzly

    Saule Omarova, Biden’s Nominee to Oversee National Banks, Withdraws

    American banks lost their chance to be overseen by someone who had the Lenin Personal Academic Scholarship.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      We dodged a bullet there, unless the next nominee is just as bad or worse.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I hate rodentophiles.

    • Sean

      Give them tiny cigarettes and sunglasses, then they’ll be cooler too.

      • UnCivilServant

        Don’t forget the tiny leather jackets.

      • Sean

        ?

    • Rat on a train

      I eat yogurt regularly. Doesn’t appear to be working.

      • TARDis

        If you pooped today, stop complaining.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      I’ve been losing weight since I started eating Trader Joe’s yogurt (no euphemism). Now I’m too sexy.

  28. Q Continuum

    Do you think that men who use IVF look with particular fondness on the porn they used to blow the baby load?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I know that I would have used the Brandi Brandt 1987 Playboy spread for inspiration if I had had to go that route.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    Coming to get you

    White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci told reporters during a White House Covid briefing Tuesday that data from South Africa on new omicron infections “clearly argues towards a high degree of transmissibility.”

    Fauci said Tuesday it is too early to draw conclusions about whether omicron causes more severe disease, though he said over the weekend that early reports were encouraging.

    The South African Medical Research Council, in a report published Saturday, found that most patients admitted to a hospital in Pretoria who had Covid did not need supplemental oxygen, as was common in previous infection waves. Many patients in the Covid wards were actually hospitalized for other reasons, according to the report.

    It ain’t over ’til the experts say it’s over.

  30. rhywun

    Medicare enrollment ends today! ?

    Everyone call to check your ZIP code!

    • Trigger Hippie

      ‘Medicare enrollment ends today!’

      Thank God for that.

      At this point I want Joe Namath, Jimmy JJ Walker, George Foreman, and William Shatner to die in the most gruesome ways imaginable… I’m talking “make the Saw/Jigsaw guy” toss his cookies gruesome.

      • rhywun

        I’ve got Joe Namath on both the channels I’m flipping between now.

      • Trigger Hippie

        He’s been near the top of my “Celebrity Death List” bets for years yet his fatty liver keeps chugging on…he’s the Keith Richards of washed-up, hasn’t done anything worth a fuck since the early 70’s athletes.

      • The Hyperbole

        I’m going to assume that these people are shilling Medicare on TV commercials, I’ll ask the same question Evil Sheldon did above – “Why are you watching TV commercials?”

      • Trigger Hippie

        Poverty, drunkenness, the inability to locate the remote in less than two minutes?

      • MikeS

        The first two, fine. But the third excuse; get your shit together, man!

  31. hayeksplosives

    SUP, BITCHES?!

    I’m sitting in the Las Vegas aeropuerto awaiting boarding for Albuquerque. Delayed by an hour so far.

    I happened to receive an update from freedomtravelalliance.con while waiting. That’s a nascent privately owned and funded attempt to bring “corporate jet” level travel convenience to ordinary schmucks who couldn’t afford to own a jet or charter one.

    If you haven’t traveled “privately”, let me tell you. No TSA lines, no X-rays or shoes off or even checking IDs and such. You pull up to the tarmac (some schmuck takes your rental car and deals with it) pilot and copilot put your bags on board, they check the passenger manifest and correct if needed. And you take off.

    Awesome.

    If you want to get on their mailing list or help fund them, it’s Freedomtravelalliance.com

    Oh yeah: no masks.

    • UnCivilServant

      I drove through white sands when I was out that way. The most interesting thing I saw from the highway was the signage.

      I’m still annoyed that the visitor’s center at the VLA was closed.