# SBIR 2012 Christmas Card

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sbir-2012-christmas-card/644520>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 19, 2012, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sbir-2012-christmas-card/644520 "2012-12-19T13:22:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sbir-2012-christmas-card/644520/1 "2012-12-19T13:22:41Z")

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Maybe I’m just hypersensitive, but this year’s Christmas card from SBIR (Santa Barbara Infrared) and IFC cameras seems particularly tasteless:

[http://www.sbir.com/card12.asp](http://www.sbir.com/card12.asp)

[spoiler] In a time when a lot of people are upset with our policy of drone strikes and the collateral civilian casualties, is it really funny to depict Americans running from a flock of drones? Even if they’re labeled with the names of the reindeer, and “Rudolph” has a Red Nose?

I appreciate military contractor humor, even when it has a dark side, but this one seems to be straying too far over the line. It looks like a political cartoon from an anti-drone group. [/spoiler]

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sbir-2012-christmas-card/644520/2 "2012-12-19T14:42:23Z")

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Bump  
for visibility.

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sbir-2012-christmas-card/644520/3 "2012-12-19T16:21:04Z")

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Moved Cafe Society --\> IMHO.

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**Author:** ![Disheavel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Disheavel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disheavel)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sbir-2012-christmas-card/644520/4 "2012-12-19T16:22:31Z")

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I’m sure the employees like to let off a little steam. Working in the field of GMOs myself, I would love to take the “adversaries’” complaints to the extreme to mock them and get a good chuckle from my own colleagues.

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**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sbir-2012-christmas-card/644520/5 "2012-12-19T21:07:38Z")

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That card is simply awesome.