Peabody

Hubby, daddy, golfer, geek and much much more...I think...

[Peabody @peabodyfmdev]

Today's golf adventure - so awesome!

Got the chance to meet a friend from here, delightful fellow. He's sneaky good!

Played like pfft, but it didn't bother me in the least. Reminded me to enjoy the moment...spending time with real people who make it worthy of the moment.

[Peabody @peabodyfmdev]

So, I'm CPR / First Aid certified again...been entirely too long without being current.

1/2 a day training every 2 years can save a life. I encourage all my friends here to take the class!

[Peabody @peabodyfmdev]

A little bit tardy, but got recertification done today. CPR+First Aid skills are important!

Right @American_Heart?

[Peabody @peabodyfmdev]

CPR recertification class today ✅

Do it peeps!

[Peabody @peabodyfmdev]

Just in case someone wants to refute

[Peabody @peabodyfmdev]

Huh. Where's the Joneses, Smiths and Browns?

I thought they were the most prevalent surnames...🤔

[Katie Daviscourt 📸 @KatieDaviscourt]

I'm not trying to speculate but I took a look at the Yakima County Jail bookings and noticed a trend:

[Peabody @peabodyfmdev]

Booking a prepay tee time for Sunday in Portland be like 🥸

[Peabody @peabodyfmdev]

@TinaKotek

[Peabody @peabodyfmdev]

@Cant_Stay_Left 😢🙏

[Peabody @peabodyfmdev]

👇👇 Bad Kitty is not a wrong cat. Furballs unite! Go @SteveHiltonx!

[Bad Kitty Unleashed 🦁 💪🏻 @pepesgrandma]

@ChadBianco This level of ignorance is disqualifying. And quite frankly is insulting to republicans.

I’d highly suggest no one ever support you for anything again. Pity, I liked you but not anymore.

[Peabody @peabodyfmdev]

This is how many people like this post. Pretty much ZERO.

[Governor Tina Kotek @GovTinaKotek]

More Oregon students are earning their diplomas. The statewide graduation rate reached 83% in 2024–25, surpassing pre-pandemic levels and reflecting the hard work of students, educators, families, and communities across our state. Let's keep going!

[Peabody @peabodyfmdev]

Oh. That's cute. 🙄

[Unrig LA @UnrigLA]

@moseskagan Do you not think the right has lurched pretty damn far right? Let’s be real.

[Peabody @peabodyfmdev]

@commoneermusic Who should we drag in next? I know we've got plenty of local golf nerd mutuals. Lessssgo!

[Peabody @peabodyfmdev]

Today's golf adventure - so awesome!

Got the chance to meet a friend from here, delightful fellow. He's sneaky good!

Played like pfft, but it didn't bother me in the least. Reminded me to enjoy the moment...spending time with real people who make it worthy of the moment.

[Peabody @peabodyfmdev]

@The3CypressClub @commoneermusic 👆👆 Look! The OG bag! 🤣

[Peabody @peabodyfmdev]

@The3CypressClub Still have mine. Pic taken just now. It's out of service but I'll never let it go. 🫶🫶

[Peabody @peabodyfmdev]

@LegacyClothier @The3CypressClub @PingTour @jertybird And then we cut the strap and put an Izzo on it. Good times... 🤣

[Peabody @peabodyfmdev]

Super easy to pad your stats @GovTinaKotek when any and all benchmarks to define success are wholly erased.

So much gaslighting... 🙄

[Governor Tina Kotek @GovTinaKotek]

More Oregon students are earning their diplomas. The statewide graduation rate reached 83% in 2024–25, surpassing pre-pandemic levels and reflecting the hard work of students, educators, families, and communities across our state. Let's keep going!

[Peabody @peabodyfmdev]

"Oh...I crapped. Guess it wasn't the kid. Oops."

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson posted this

Look at the people in the background

[Peabody @peabodyfmdev]

@PNW_working_mom @Hideaway97355 @whileursilent Eew. Fermented mental midget. Hard pass.

[Peabody @peabodyfmdev]

👇👇

[Mike Crispi @MikeCrispi]

A few things I observed today while going toe-to-toe with Antifa at Delaney Hall:

1. 99% of license plates that parked and walked in were from out of state vehicles

2. Woman with clipboard acting as the “HR Department”

3. Antifa people literally foam at the mouth when yelling, like they are on hard drugs

4. If you try to smile and engage as humans, they yell and scream. There is nothing going on behind their eyes. It’s a dead, dark stare

5. The fat tranny looking ones man the “supply tent”

6. Everyone smells, and litters EVERYWHERE (so much for the environment right)

My conclusion, these people are quite literally sub-human anarchists.

NEVER let the media convince you of anything else, ever.

[Dennis Kneale @denniskneale]

Grok says to get past X algorithms that intentionally muzzle the reach of my account, I should post longer messages and more original content. Putting aside that it is utterly ridiculous that X is restraining my posts, here is my latest column from @NEWSMAX on Ore-gone Crazy.

Oregon 'Canary in the Coal Mine' for Blue States, Dems

Oregon Voters Revolt, Spelling Trouble for Democrats in '26

Oregon's largest newspaper had some bad news to report recently, and it offers a cautionary signal to blue cities and states across the nation.

In the Portland area, one of the most liberal enclaves in the country, some voters are fed up with the homeless crisis, high taxes, soft-on-crime policies, and other ills that have arisen from years of liberal Democrat policies.

A new poll commissioned by The Oregonian shows that 40% of people in Portland are so fed up with high taxes, and other annoying factors, that they may move elsewhere in the next five years.

Of those who want to leave, half say they would exit Oregon altogether.

Additionally, the survey reveals that in the larger, tri-county Portland metro area, 36% of respondents may leave, almost 60% of them to a different state.

They listed high taxes as one of the two top reasons for making an exit, as did 55% of the Portland city dwellers who said they may leave the area.

High home prices and public safety also top the list of reasons to depart.

This follows another poll taken last fall by Public Opinion Strategies, which found that two-thirds of voters in Oregon say the state's economy is on the "seriously wrong track" and expect wages to stagnate or decline.

More than half said they would consider leaving the state.

Thus the title of my new book, "Oregoners: How One State Chased Away Businesses and People."

For more than 40 years I lived in one of the bluest of blue states: New York, more specifically, Brooklyn.

But New York (state pop. 20 million, 8.5 million in New York City) is so huge that it takes a longer time for the ill-effects to show up after years of misguided liberal policies.

Oregon, by contrast, is so much smaller, at 4.2 million with the Portland metro area posing 43% (1.8 million) of this total, that the damaging outcomes of wrongheaded policies show up in much sharper relief.

And they show up sooner.

This makes the state of Oregon, and its star city, a canary in the coal mine for blue states.

In recent years Oregon has lost thousands of jobs, high earners, and rich taxpayers from such state stalwarts as Intel, Nike, Dutch Bros Coffee, and Columbia Sportswear.

A central reason is high taxes, and Oregon just keeps piling them on.

In assessing Portland metro's troubles in the new Oregonian poll, some 19% of voters said poor leadership was the biggest drawback, and 11% cited high taxes.

Another 11% cited housing affordability. But the homelessness crisis was, by far, the #1 concern for the highest share of the 600 voters surveyed in the Portland metro area.

Some 33% of people named homelessness as the most important problem locally.

This, despite the metro area’s spending more than $700 million a year on roughly 20,000 "unhoused" people, to use the au courant politically correct term.

In 2025, an official one-night count by Portland State University cited a 67% increase in the ranks of homelessness in two years.

Meanwhile, the Portland City Council may shut down 24% of the city’s permanent

shelter beds as part of a 20% cut from its homeless budget, shrinking it to $65 million.

Oregon boasts a multitude of tax types, including a personal income tax at the state and city levels, a Preschool for All tax, an arts tax, a corporate activities tax, a Portland Clean Energy Fund climate change tax, a homeless services tax, and still more.

After Multnomah County (encompassing Portland and a few other cities) passed the preschool tax in 2020, in the next three years 310 of the 1,000 richest taxpayers in the county had moved to a new locale.

Meanwhile, a new $4.2 billion tax increase over 10 years for the state Department of

Transportation may turn out to be a bridge too far. Voter groups collected 250,000 signatures to get Measure 120, rescinding the tax package, on the November ballot; they needed only 78,000.

Gov. Tina Kotek, D-Ore., who is running for reelection, and her fellow Democrats bumped up the measure to the primary on May 19 to avoid getting thrown out of office with their new tax plan, which may go down in defeat.

Now, stunningly, the possibility arises that Gov. Kotek may be vulnerable in November. November. The Oregonian poll reveals that almost 60% of voters in Portland metro have a negative view of the governor, and only one-third have a positive view.

This, despite her representing north and northeast Portland in the state house for 15 years, including nine years as speaker.

The last time Oregon elected a Republican governor was in 1982. Oh my.

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Dennis Kneale, a former anchor at CNBC and Fox Business, is host of the "What’s Bugging Me" podcast on Ricochet and is author of "The Leadership Genius of Elon Musk," and "Oregoners: How One State Chased Away Businesses and People." Read more Dennis Kneale Insider articles — Click Here Now.