Saturday evening, Spud links!

by | May 20, 2023 | Daily Links | 113 comments

And now for summer in the mountains.

So I’m back from a sojourn to the beautiful Pacific Ocean, just in time for a knee replacement on Wednesday. Good times!

 

Links!

 

Spank material for geriatric Glibs.

 

Spiking each others mommy juice…

 

Having raised three boys, this isn’t really necessary for toddlers.

 

West Idaho residents will NOT be happy if they lose access to Oregon weed.

 

I mean, does this surprise anybody?

 

Okay, this is the only day I have to open the cabin. I’m outta here.

 

About The Author

Spudalicious

Spudalicious

Survey says I’m a Paleolibertarian bitches. That means I eat “L”ibertarians for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Soave tastes a little fruity. Wait a minute, that doesn’t sound quite right…

113 Comments

  1. Plinker762

    The Oregon way, you mean giving the progressives what they want? I guess that is the Washington way too.

    • Tres Cool

      There’s always the Brooklyn Way.

      Im going to bed. Some of us work all night ya know.

    • Q Continuum

      something something Republican politician’s greatest ambition something beautiful concession speech something

  2. Bob Boberson

    I miss the good old days when manginas would have elicited Buffalo Bill quotes.

  3. Q Continuum

    “Tucking” enough to be convincing seems impossible and/or way painful.

    • R C Dean

      +1 duct tape

    • rhywun

      Make it work!

  4. The Late P Brooks

    In from bushwacking some more of my out of control grass with the weedeater. I can just about run a tank of fuel through it before my hands get too numb to hang on to it. I would have to find some sort of rough country all terrain lawnmower to get over this bumpy uneven mess. oh well, landscaping is not at the top of my priority list.

    It is a beautiful day. I kind of want to sit outside and drink a beer.

  5. Brochettaward

    Naomi Lopez, one of the people gathered by Neighbors for Education, called that “ridiculous.” Lopez is a speech pathologist who works in a District 11 school. She’s also the mom of a trans kid.

    The people being labeled a hate group in this story, the one whose claims the writer feels compelled to attach qualifiers to, hold what would have been mainstream beliefs even on the left all of a decade ago and not even questioned by CNN. yet here they are unquestioningly accepting the notion that this is the mother of a trans kid.

    • Brochettaward

      “That’s not happening,” she said of Schoening’s scenario. “We’re not going around saying, ‘OK, you know, I want you to think about it, what gender are you?’” When teachers meet new students, they ask how they want to be addressed, she said – a kid named Josiah might want to go by Joe. A kid could say they wanted to use a particular pronoun, and the teacher would respect that.

      Somehow, human beings haven’t had to do this in the entirety of their history, but it’s just plain common sense that now the entire paradigm with which we treat children and their gender identities needs to be upended. This bitch says the scenario presented of teachers implanting the idea into kids’ heads doesn’t happen, yet she can’t answer where it comes from. She’d probably try to claim the child of 7 probably already knows.

      Kids at 7 don’t sit there and have deep thoughts about their gender identity. They don’t question these things unless someone puts the idea in their head.

      • Pat

        When I was in kindergarten there was another boy with the same name as me. So on the first day of class the teacher asked if she could call us by nicknames to differentiate. Weirdly, that discussion didn’t introduce any ambiguity about the fact that we were both boys, or necessitate an explainer about our genitalia, or asking if we’d rather be called Patricia, and since we hadn’t learned what a fucking pronoun was yet, we just went with the accepted English language defaults from the previous 10 centuries.

      • Ted S.

        One of the nice things about being a Ted is that it’s not terribly common, but easy to pronounce and not just for English speakers.

      • R C Dean

        The “S” is silent, though, right?

      • rhywun

        a kid named Josiah might want to go by Joe

        Too bad.

        WTF is this even? The teacher is not your pal. He or she is entitled to call you by your legal name.

      • creech

        It started with Miss Canfield calling Theodore “Beaver.”

  6. Pat

    SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon has long been seen as a quirky state whose main city was satirized in a TV comedy, where rugged country folk and urban hipsters could get along and political differences could be settled over a pint or two of craft beer.

    But with a Republican walkout in the Democrat-controlled Oregon Senate in its third week, Oregonians these days are wistfully recalling “The Oregon Way,” when politicians of different stripes forged agreements for the common good.

    “What ever happened to the good old days when Republicans simply acquiesced to whatever the Democratic majority wanted without question?”

    • Gustave Lytton

      Fucking revisionism. The quirky was at best 25 years old. Hardly historic. Before that it was a state mocked for being rural and forgotten.

      As for politics, it’s been 35+ of mostly Democrat control and 20 years of complete control. The fuckers are finally done pretending to work across the aisle and are promoting baby murder, child mutilation, and gun grabbing as their core planks with ever increasing taxes and more (mostly wasteful) spending.

      The lying leftist voters keep saying they would consider a Republican if they were sensible, and by that they mean far left. But even that would not be good enough. I remember when the mainstream Republicans were left of center (or in the case of groping Bob “I’m staying in DC to make bank, fuck those hicks” Packwood) a complete leftist. Still wasn’t enough and we’re still demonized.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Also ignored history: Democrats walked out to deny quorum in 1971, 1995, and 2001. But that doesn’t count.

      • Gustave Lytton

        And the cheerleading for getting rid of Shemale Fagan due to corruption is a laugh. The real corruption is still in place. Gov Dyke was just axing a potential rival as she continues her long march thru state government and replaces everyone with her loyalists. Like the last one, she isn’t even an Oregonian. Another carpetbagger that should be deported.

      • Pat

        I’m not too familiar with Oregon politics specifically, but it’s the same worn out trope all the way up to the national level. It’s how George W. Bush the Nazi baby killer warmonger racist cowboy and Mittens Romney the crazy McCarthyist theocratic dog abusing racist serial rapist with binders full of women got to become serious and measured elder statesmen when Trump the literal Nazi racist white supremacist pussy grabber and election denier got the nomination, and how Trump – yes, even Trump – will become an acceptable, “wrong within normal parameters” Republican the day that anyone not named Trump gets the Republican nomination. But what it lacks in originality it more than makes up for in effectiveness. Might as well keep at it until it stops working.

      • juris imprudent

        I’m not sure Churchill would still say that democracy is better than all the other forms of govt. I could see him looking at the state of affairs here, slamming back his scotch, turning around, walking away and muttering to himself.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I wistfully remember when anarchists (yesteryear’s antifa) shut down traffic and got their heads thumped by blue collar joes with tire irons in their trucks.

    • Brochettaward

      I First for you all. I may not. I may get drunk and wistfully share pictures of my dick.

      Maybe we can do some sort of choose your own adventure game tonight.

    • Nephilium

      Thanks for passing it along KK. I’m off to torment some koroks for a while, but will probably join later.

    • Animal

      Well, c’mon, everyone, CPRM and I are holding down the fort. Get in the Zoom!

  7. Sean

    “It has turned me into a horrible person who now actually roots against the diabetes dancers and for elevated A1C levels, whatever those are.”

    FR.

  8. Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

    Really, western Idahoan’s just want to fallow the Oregon tail.

  9. Homple

    “Retail giant Target rolled out an “LGBT Pride” collection that includes so-called “tuck-friendly” wear and rainbow-colored onesies for infants and children — stoking conservative outrage that echoes the Bud Light fiasco.”

    I do not care how people have their peepee friction fun, and if they are proud of it, they can keep it to themselves.

  10. The Bearded Hobbit

    Good luck with the knee, Spud. I had one of mine done in Dec 2016. It took months for the healing to kick in. And, here, 6.5 years later, that same knee is hurting. Well, both knees are hurting but the fake one isn’t supposed to.

    • Bob Boberson

      *grift well

      /Grumble grumble

      • Ted S.

        I think you also meant dry up.

    • Brochettaward

      and of educating herself by reading Ta-Nehisi Coates, James Baldwin and Frederick Douglass.

      Don’t you dare put Frederick Douglas’s name in your mouth, ho.

    • Pat

      “This is what happens when white women insert themselves into what should be Black-led organizations,” Saahene, who is Black and 36, said recently. “White supremacy and emotional abuse get masked under kindness.”

      “This is what it looks like to be canceled,” said DePino, who is white and 55. “I’m not really sure what I did wrong.”

      A more perfect encapsulation of left wing politics may not exist. I wish I could say the schadenfreude of seeing the AWFLs first up against the wall was in any way satisfying, but we’re at least a decade too late for it to matter.

    • Brochettaward

      So, it was about money, and the African immigrant feeling as though the white woman wasn’t deferential enough to her.

    • rhywun

      Taps out from the headline.

      Maybe the white woman got tired of the capitalization game that’s meant to knock her down a peg.

      • Brochettaward

        Doubtful. She isn’t the sort of white women who objects to the notion of blacks being put on a pedestal. She just wants to be up there with them as one of the good ones:

        The experience forced her to reassess her place in the world as a white woman who still wants to fight inequality. She often pages through “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” pondering the phrase “white devil.”

        She pores over old essays by white abolitionists. “Those are the revolutionary white people throughout history that did not drop that ball,” DePino said recently. “But people didn’t always like them, either.”

        She also divorced her long term husband and hooked up with a black guy. She went all in on her new identity. Too far to ever backtrack.

      • rhywun

        She often pages through “The Autobiography of Malcolm X,” pondering the phrase “white devil.”

        OFFS. Yeah, a lost cause.

    • Grumbletarian

      Then there was the question of how to divide the profits from their business. The two women had always split them evenly, but in 2019 Saahene had suggested that she deserved a greater share. It seemed clear that the venture would have gotten little traction without a Black woman on board, and in her view, speaking about racism required more “emotional labor” on her part. She said DePino disagreed, contending that she did more background work: nonprofit filings, managing money and posting to social media accounts.

      Dividing the proceeds between two people equally? White supremacy!

    • Grumbletarian

      In late November 2021, she texted DePino: “I’m exploiting my trauma. … Someone said this to me yesterday, ‘No one asks a sexual assault survivor to retell their story, so why are Black people expected to tell theirs?'”

      I want to be able to fight racism without talking about racism. And I want to be paid big money for it.

      • Brochettaward

        I just loath that a name like Frederick Douglas’s was mentioned by either one of these grifters. The level of narcissism masquerading as victimhood embedded in statements like that is nauseating.

      • rhywun

        Not to mention ignorance.

      • Bob Boberson

        “I want to claim that I’m the victim of racism and oppression and if you ask me to site a single example you are a racist. And yes, fuck you pay me.”

      • Brochettaward

        She mentions the one time the mother of a white boyfriend called her the n word. Otherwise, they only cite how as an African immigrant black Americans really didn’t feel as if she was one of them.

        Hunch – she’s suffered from far more mistreatment from black Americans than anything from whites.

      • rhywun

        African immigrants tend to not like being lumped into the AA pigeonhole. Not many of them have been sucked into the racial grievance vortex like this woman apparently has.

      • Ted S.

        Saahene is more than welcome to shut the hell up.

    • R.J.

      It has been slow. I got one new person added as a commenter. Not new comment posted yet. I am out of steam tonight. Not even energy for a Zoom, and bro said he’d come.

  11. The Bearded Hobbit

    Newsflash!

    The governor of New Mexico is an idiot!

    New Mexico used to be a laid-back outpost that no one noticed. For a very long time the state elected a senator from each party to ensure that it had representation regardless of who was ruining the country at the time. Lately the trend has been to emulate Commiefornia.

    The only reason that I haven’t bailed on the state is that Susanna Martinez was running things just 8 years ago. Like AZ, I doubt that we’ll ever see sanity in control again.

    • Pat

      Like AZ, I doubt that we’ll ever see sanity in control again.

      The ratchet only clicks one way.

    • Brochettaward

      I thought you were dead.

      Guess not.

      • Pat

        I thought you were dead.

        I was!

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      Like NM chiles are better than those of CO, there are many better LZ songs.

      Like this one.

      • westernsloper

        Wrong on both points Hobbit.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        Heh, heh. I’m going to invade you one of these days for a visit. I’ll bring you some good chile.

  12. Brochettaward

    I have seen multiple stories online that Disney planned to make Mila Kunis a female version of The Thing for their Fantastic Four reboot of a reboot.

    It is astounding how little Disney is learning from their constant string of failures. But when no one is losing their job at the top, I guess it aint that surprising. It’s clown world and no consequences for anyone who makes decisions.

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      It’s clown world

      No, it’s mouse world and you are correct. I suspect that, outside of our little world, no one cares.

      First Tuesday. Do it. Embrace the First.

      Only a Seconder wouldn’t.

      • Brochettaward

        Why would I want to box myself in by containing celebrations of my Firsting to just one day of the week? Every day my Firsts spread a jubilant cornucopia of pleasure.

    • Pat

      It is astounding how little Disney is learning from their constant string of failures.

      This is the huge blind spot of free marketism and libertarianism, perhaps even western chauvinism more generally. Not everyone sees the world the same way you do. Religious terrorists are not a pair of Chinese slave labor Nikes and a Big Mac away from embracing secular globalism. They’re not ignorant about western values and lifestyles, they just reject them because their ideology runs deeper than materialism. It’s the same way with “woke” corporate America. I guess that seems so unintuitive to free marketeers that they can’t get their ahead around it. But the people running these companies literally do not give one single fuck about making money anymore. They positioned themselves to helm these institutions for the sake of power, not wealth. This is their jihad. Even if they weren’t inextricably entwined with the government such that they can rely on being bailed out at taxpayer expense in the unlikely even they should ever burn through their trillion dollar war chests, they simply do not care if they bankrupt themselves pursuing their ideological mission. It isn’t that they are misjudging the market and failing to learn from it, they see themselves as keepers of the culture. They are re-making the market in their image. And they will succeed.

      • Pat

        This, by the way, is why I gave up on capitalism and free markets after being Mr. Young Republican corporate cocksucker for 30 years. I’m done defending the managerial class. Period. If and when they get what they ostensibly want and find themselves hanging from a lamp post by their own intestines, it won’t be over any objection from me any longer. They’re not responding to government pressure, or activist pressure. They’re not the fucking victims here. Stop simping for people who would love absolutely nothing more than to see your life extinguished.

      • Grumbletarian

        But the people running these companies literally do not give one single fuck about making money anymore. They positioned themselves to helm these institutions for the sake of power, not wealth. This is their jihad.

        Agreed, but fortunately even they eventually run headfirst into the reality that they can’t spew their lunacy forever without money. See: Bud Light, that commie fuck and his one-year cafe, etc.

      • Pat

        they eventually run headfirst into the reality that they can’t spew their lunacy forever without money

        That’s where those cozy relationships with government come into play. And not even just between the companies themselves and government, but more importantly, between their financiers and government. Disney could lose a billion dollars a quarter for the next 3 years and just barely exhaust its cash and cash equivalents, let alone the rest of its assets, and even if they somehow managed to do that, their ideological teammates in the banking industry will float them capital until the dollar collapses.

      • Sensei

        Pat gets it.

      • Grumbletarian

        And that still only delays the inevitable. True, Disney seems to be having a grand time shitting over every property it can, but all it does is lose money and alienate future customers.

  13. hayeksplosives

    I’m not a fan of paparazzi, but this company had the correct legal response to Mr & Mrs Markle’s demands.

    ‘Perhaps you should sit down with your client and advise them that his English rules of royal prerogative to demand that the citizenry hand over their property to the Crown were rejected by this country long ago.’

    Backgrid added: ‘We stand by our founding fathers.’

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12104465/American-firm-dismisses-demand-Prince-Harry-Meghan-Markle-hand-pictures.html?ico=related-replace

    • rhywun

      Ugh, those two. Awful, awful people. Can we send them back to England?

      • juris imprudent

        That’s too close, how about NZ? NZ really needs their brand.

      • R C Dean

        Let’s split the difference, and send them halfway to NZ.

      • hayeksplosives

        😊😊

    • Brochettaward

      I love how I’m supposed to feel bad that these two clowns were being photographed by aggressive paparazzi. Did the paparazzi really cause any near catastrophe, or was it the security team of the attention seeking clowns overreacting to a bunch of photographers likely at the behest of their employers?

      • Brochettaward

        Yesterday an unnamed friend of Harry said he would use what happened in New York to strengthen his legal claim against the Home Office over using Metropolitan Police protection when in the UK.

        The friend told the i newspaper it was a ‘clear demonstration’ of why the duke and his family are in a ‘different category’ from other celebrity couples

        Just spoiled, narcissistic cunts.

    • Pat

      It’s a good thing he was in Manhattan instead of Paris…

      • hayeksplosives

        He has ensured that he has become too irrelevant to get bumped off.

    • R C Dean

      Wait, the way I heard it was it took the paparazzi two hours of crazy dangerous driving to shake off Harry and Megan.

    • Michael Malaise

      Ooooh, he’s getting the baldness too?

      • rhywun

        Heh that bad hair treatment was the first thing I noticed.

  14. Tundra

    Hiya Spud!

    Opening the cabin sounds like the perfect antidote to this ridiculous shit.

    • rhywun

      It certainly isn’t the most obnoxious thing you will hear all week if not year.

      Liar.

    • Pat

      Pffft, that’s not even the most obnoxious Awkwafina tune you’ll hear all week.

      Also, it’s comical how Sebastian the lobster from the ’89 animated Little Mermaid was deemed “problematic” because of his stereotypical Jamaican patois, despite being voiced by a black actor, but having an Asian affecting a stereotypical black rap patois is kosher. Even by their own retarded standards, I’m surprised this was canceled on arrival.

      • R.J.

        That’s a nice piece.

      • Sensei

        Highly influential manga artist, but try as I could never could get into his work.

  15. Tundra

    Wow. Panthers. Back to back OT wins on the road.

    I love playoff hockey.

  16. Brochettaward

    If I were to start a podcast, whatever would I call it?

    The Nonsecond Zone?
    The Firstcast?
    First In The Morning (or maybe Evening/Late Night?)
    From First To Less First
    All The Firsts Fit To First

  17. Brochettaward

    There are a shit ton of sports journalists chomping at the bit to see Brett Favre indicted for being part of a scheme to redirect welfare money to fund a girl’s college volleyball stadium.

    I only wish we’d see such righteous indignation when politicians steal money or use their positions of power to make money for themselves and their families. What a world where that would be.

    • Sean

      Look, just another 10-12 years and we can call it done. That money ain’t gonna launder itself.

  18. Fourscore

    Morning Sean and all the other early folks,

    Sunday and another work day. Seems like the days run together. Good luck on the new knee, Spud. I’m one cup in and a lot of work scheduled, in my mind at least. The performance never seems to match the expectations these days.

  19. robodruid

    Good Morning:
    In today’s news I want to talk to you about tractor safety or awareness.
    Wife caught a hose with brush hogger and then later snapped off a faucet/hose connection on the side of the house. Fortunately it did not break inside the house.
    $600 emergency plumber and all is well.

    Tractors have a front and back. Situational awareness please.
    It was an accident, and could have been much worse. No one was hurt.
    Have a safe Sunday.

    • Sensei

      This week is National Farm Safety and Health Week. The 2019 data for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics indicates that the agricultural sector is still the most dangerous in America with 573 fatalities, or an equivalent of 23.1 deaths per 100,000 workers.

      Commercial fishing is one of the most dangerous occupations in the United States (1). During 1992–2008, an annual average of 58 reported deaths occurred (128 deaths per 100,000 workers) (1), compared with an average of 5,894 deaths (four per 100,000 workers) among all U.S. workers

      Different time periods, but agriculture likes to hype absolute rates instead of rates per 100K. Still not the safest of occupations by a long shot.

      https://www.nifa.usda.gov/about-nifa/blogs/study-reveals-agriculture-related-injuries-more-numerous-previously-known
      https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5927a2.htm

    • Tres Cool

      Now is it BRUSH hog? Cause Ive always heard BUSH hog.

      Not to be confused with Ron Jeremy (Hedge) or Sorrell Booke (Boss).

  20. Tres Cool

    suh’ fam
    yo whats goody yo

    Its going to be an ideal and beee-yutiful SW Ohio day. I have a list of things to do out in the yard.
    But I think Ill drink beer, skip church, and lay on the couch.

    TALL SABBATH CANS!