I hope he wasn't eating freedom fries...

So the head of the Washington State Potato Commision (They have one of those?  Seriously, no wonder this country is broke.  Get a real job man.  How many states have a potato commision?  Is there a federal version that oversees the states?  Shit.) decided to go on an all potato diet for 60 days to protest the vilification in food programs of the much maligned vegetable.  The results?  He dropped 21lbs and 67 cholesterol points.  Ya that's right, all on potatoes.  Mmmmm, mashed, Au Graten, twice baked, fried, baked with a little oil, salt, pepper and Tapatio mixture............................

Anyway, potatoes are rad and despite the fact this guy is head of some sort of state agency I've never even heard of...  Maybe it's actually a front for a shadow government and he flies around in a black helicop... ya, right.  Back on subject, potatoes are rad and it's 9:15am, I'm starving and the only thing I've had in the last 14 hours is a bowl of Lucky Charms.  Should've made it a bowl of potatoes I guess, coulda filled up and lost weight.  Rabble-B

Here is the full story

So what makes it cider?

So I learned something recently...  Don't ever go into a coffee shop, big or small it does not matter, and order an apple cider.  It's total bullshit.  All they're gonna do is pull out a big bottle of Treetop Apple Juice, pour it in a cup and heat it up with the steamer.  Seriously, fuck that.  If I wanted hot apple juice I could make it at home and get a whole, giant fucking bottle of Treetop and stick it in the microwave for the $3 you charged me to heat up 12oz of it.  And,  at home I'll put bourbon in it so I can foget about the shitty one I ordered at the coffee shop.  For fuck's sake coffee people, at least pour some cinnamon or nutmeg on top to give the illusion you give a shit.  Or, how about I'll never make the mistake of ordering a sissy ass drink like apple cider again.  I'll just stick to beer.  Rabble-B

Thanksgiving Day +1

I am still full from yesterday, I hope you are too.  Awesome.  Unrabble-B

Hahaahahaaahhhaa

Former House majority leader Tom Delay(R) was convicted today of money laundering.  He could face life in prison.  See, this is what you get for fucking the American people in the ass.  Current members of congress, pay attention...

For the full AP story click here

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(S)no(w) Rules

Dear average moron driver,

Ok, look it's snow.  It happens every year and every year you freak out and smash your cars up and try to drive up steep hills that you know better not to go up.  Maybe, macho man, you think because you have 4-wheel drive you are invincible.  Or maybe you're that lady who's so petrified of getting stuck or crashing that you stop on the hill, there by bringing your fears to fruition.  You're an idiot.  There are an unspoken set of snow rules for driving and it's high time they become spoken so we all have the same understanding of our rights and responsibilities on a snow day.

1. Don't stop, unless you really, really have to (like if you're going to slide into another car, which if this is the case it's probably because you already slammed on your brakes and spun around a couple times and you're an idiot) because it's usually hard to start moving the direction you want to again, especially on a hill, up or down.  Just keep cruising slowly and you'll be fine.
2. Stop signs are void.  This just goes back to don't stop.  Unless someone is already in the intersection and you're going to hit them just roll on through.
3. Stop lights are just a suggestion.  Again, unless there is a bunch of cross traffic, don't stop just slow down and cruise on through.
4. The other side of the street, i.e. the oncoming lane, is totally fair game.  You have to get around those three jack-knifed buses somehow because you're certainly not going to stop behind them (see rule #1).
5. Pedestrians no longer have the right of way.  Ya, that's right hipster dipshit in skinny jeans, pointy boots and a tank top with a feather in your hair, you can stop easily on the curb carrying your PBR half rack, I can't.  I am going to continue to slowly roll on by to my destination and you can suck it.
6. Leave the sportscar at home and don't think your 4-wheel drive vehicle is a snowmobile and gives you license to fly around all over the place at 60mph.  Just do everyone a favor and stay home and beat your dog.  
7. If the city closes a road it applies to you too.  Even if you have the aforementioned 4-wheel drive vehicle you don't get to drive on a closed road and crash into a parked car.  More than likely drunk teenagers are sledding down the closed street anyway and you'll feel really bad if you run one over.  
8. If you're not confident in your snow driving abilities or to follow the snow day rules stay home and for the sake of everyone else in the community, DON'T WATCH OR READ THE NEWS! it will only make it worse.  Same goes if you're the overconfident "Please, I got this." guy.  Stay home, order pizza.

This is my second picture post in as many days  See below.  Rabble-B

Don't end up like these folks outside my house at midnight in the place where buses go to die.  You'll never make it out.  This is one of probably 10 buses stuck on my street and none of the other four cars are moving either.

Really Seattle Times?  You couldn't come up with a cheesier yet more fear inspiring headline?  If this is only the first punch we should all head for Mexico I guess.  The editors should be fired for this one.  Can't wait for, "La Nina (Spanish for "The Nina" (feminine)) Delivers the Haymaker, City Cries Uncle" in January...

Grande Ronde, Grand Camyon & trolls

CAM-10 has been travelling a fair bit lately.  his travels have taken him to a new state and two desert canyons.  Oh yeah, he visited a meteor crater and an ancient castle too, no big. 

Floating down the Grande Ronde deep in the canyon for 3 days, he had some mean BO by the end of the trip but we caught some fish and survived a monsoon.  This trip only prepared him for a bigger canyon a month later.

CAM strolled around the south rim of the Grand Canyon for a while last week.  He was pretty impressed.  This photo was snapped moments before he did a backflip off the rock into the canyon.  He is so buff you can't see the parachute on his back.  He landed safely at the bottom and then got really pissed off when he was told he had to hike his own ass back up to the top.

CAM was really excited to hit the 50,000 year old meteor crater.  Obviously, from the photo it met his expectations.  Except for the dumbass on the tour who asked what the meteor was made of and if it was heavy, only 15 minutes after the ranger said it was made of iron and told the group the carry on suitcase sized (and I'm talking about a real carry on bag, not the jumbo, overstuffed bags that people drag onto the plane and try to jam into the overhead) chunk in the museum was 1400lbs.  CAM thought that guy was a douche but he had fun and met some fellow travellers below...

CAM met a couple of troll/garden gnomes at the crater too.  They didn't say much but CAM was happy to meet other in animate travellers like himself that are subjected to being carried around in all manner of stuffy pockets and bags and have to travel in the cold ass luggage compartment instead of getting their own first class seat like they think they deserve.

Montezuma's Castle was cool.  He thought the Native Americans were pretty ingenious building a cool ass castle in a cave on the side of a cliff.  He wanted to go up inside but was physically removed from the premises by the rangers as he was climbing up the cliff.  He was charged with a misdemeanor and released to my custody. 

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I don't mind taxes,

but in Arizona the taxes make up 58% of the fees of rental cars.  That is bullshit.  I'm not using your stupid stadium, I'm going to see the Grand Fucking Canyon, I shouldn't have to pay a stadium fee tax.  Who goes to Arizona and rents a car just to watch the Cardinals suck it up?  Come on!  I'll gladly pay a highway maintenance tax because I'm driving on your roads, but sure as shit shouldn't have to pay a 5% facility fee when the rental car facility isn't even at the fucking airport.  I have to take a ten minute shuttle ride to the giant, rental car facility, then wait in line for half an hour to have my wallet sucked dry, lucky me.  No thanks, next time I'm in Arizona I'll rent a helicopter and pilot, it'll be cheaper and cooler.  Maybe it'll even have guns on it so I can blast my way to the Grand Canyon and then I won't have to hike down to the bottom or back out.  Just set 'er down on a flat spot hop out and rabble around.  Rabble-B

PS-CAM-10 made it to the Grand Canyon too as well as the Grande Ronde so there will be a double Grand(e) CAM-10 adventure posted soon.  As well as a picture of CAM with his new friends he met abroad at the meteor crater. 

Four Eyes

You know what really makes me rabble?  Everything, I know.  But seriously, a-holes who wear glasses when they don't actually need them to see.  What is wrong with you people?  Do you think you look cooler with glasses on?  Because you don't, you look stupid.  Why would you want to wear them anyway if you don't have to?  Glasses are a pain in the ass.  They can fall off your face and then you're fucked because YOU CAN'T SEE, they can break and then you're fucked because YOU CAN'T SEE, they get smudged and dirty, you can't play many sports with them on, they get rained on, can't wear sunglasses.  I mean come on, I've worn glasses/contacts since I was like 10 and it sucks.  Bad vision isn't hip, it's lame.  If we lived in the stone age all us blind folks would be weeded out something quick.  Survival of the fittest and all.  So don't act like your vision is bad if it's not because hopefully someday your vision will get shitty and then you'll have to get glasses and you'll realize how much of an asshole you were when you wore glasses when you didn't actually need them.  Rabble-B

Hey, state of Washington FUCK YOU!

How about instead of cutting WDFW public services and jobs just stop wasting all the money we already give you.  Give all license and conservation money paid by the public to enjoy the resources they already own to WDFW.  And while you're at it declare Tim Eyman persona non grata in the state.  Maybe we could continue to fish a little bit.  Rabble-B

State proposes hunting, fishing license increase

By ALLEN THOMAS, The Vancouver Columbian

State wildlife officials have drafted a blueprint for the first across-the-board increase in hunting and fishing license fees in 14 years.
A resident freshwater fishing license would jump from $26 to $29.50 and a combination freshwater-saltwater-shellfish resident license from $48.20 to $54.25. An elk license would increase from $45.20 to $57, while a deer license would decrease from $45.20 to $44.90.
While most licenses would cost more, fees for youth, seniors and disabled veterans would decrease.
Increases in commercial fishing fees also are proposed.
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is facing a $10 million to $20 million shortfall in state General Fund money plus about a $10 million reduction in the state Wildlife Account, which mostly comes from license revenue, in the 2011-13 budget cycle.
Phil Anderson, department director, said cuts might include 20 wildlife enforcement jobs, closure of seven to 11 fish hatcheries, elimination of steelhead fishing in Puget Sound tributaries and closure of some of the agency's 700 public access areas.
Anderson is making appearances around the state explaining the potential license increases and seeking reaction. New license fees require action by the state Legislature.
"We've got to have relatively broad-base support or the Legislature isn't going to buy it and we're going to be faced with a whole bunch of cuts,'' Anderson told the Columbia River recreational and commercial advisory groups in Vancouver recently.
The department is looking at a variety of ways to increase revenue to maintain its programs status quo, he said.
Other revenue measures, besides a license fee increase, are:
* Switching the money from saltwater fishing, shellfish and razor clam licenses from the General Fund (where it can be used for any purpose) to the state Wildlife Account. That would help to the tune of $3 million a biennium.
* Switching commercial license fees from the General Fund to the department. That would add about $2 million.
* Adding a commercial fishing license "administrative fee'' of either $70 or $105 per license.
* Charging a fee for Hydraulics Permit Approvals, the environmental review required to work in state waterways. The fee would provide $3.3 million.
* Creating an "Explore Washington Pass'' with the state Department of Natural Resources.
The pass would be required to use the 5 million acres of lands managed by the departments of Fish and Wildlife and Natural Resources.
Anderson said the pass would cost $5 for hunting or fishing license buyers and $40 for others age 18 and older.
One- and three-day passes would be available.
State lawmakers early this year approved a 10 percent surcharge on hunting and fishing license fees, but that ends on June 30, 2011.
An $8.75 annual Columbia River salmon-steelhead endorsement was initiated in 2010.
That would continue, but drop to $7.10 for youth under this proposal.
Anderson said the last general fee increase was in 1996.
The proposed fee increases got a mixed reaction from the advisory groups.

Happy Birthday

to Slice and the Porters, yesterday!  A day late but not a dollar short.  I remember last night, do you guys?  Unrabble-B

Just sayin'...

that Glenn Beck can suck it because his xenophobic, redneck, festy, fucking paranoia rally drew about 87,000 people and Comedy Central's Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, a fucking comedic parody rally mocking Genn Beck and every other political whiner, retard out there, drew 215,000 people give or take.  So what does that tell you?  Most people don't give a shit about garbage politics it's the silent majority gets drowned out by the morons screaming at the top of their lungs about nothing.

So yeah, how about everyone crying about republican this and democrat that and crying about the wrong direction and the right one just shut up.  Maybe even just for say, a week.  Just shut the fuck up and let the rest of us live in peace for one glorious week.. Maybe it'll be sunny that week too and we can go play outside.  Rabble-B

Novembeard

Ok, gentlemen.  It's officially Novembeard, yesterday in fact.  Put down the razors and grow some facial hair like you've never grown before.  We'll compare at the end of the month.  The best part of Novembeard is shaving your beard into a sweet mustache later.  Oh, just think of the possibilities, Fu Manchu, Handlebar, Hitler, the creepy one where you shave just the upper half, goatee (only for frat assholes and douchey 40 something dads), The Dali, A La Souvarov, Walrus, or mustaches wild!  Email me a photo a the end of the month and maybe I'll post it if you have a rad beard.  Make me proud boys.  Unrabble (unless you've shaved in the last two days, then you're a bitch and you should stop reading this blog because most of the posts are probably about you.  In that case, rabble.)!-B