Hanford’s Dirty Secrets

We recently talked about the Nuclear reactor in Washington State that is leaking radioactive waste into the Columbia River. As if the coal pollution in the Columbia River wasn’t bad enough. Turns out King 5 news is diving deeper into the problem and claims Hanford executives has been covering up the seriousness of the leak and that the problem is getting worse. Imagine that. Another private company hiding the truth from the public.

They also talk about how they had no plan in place in the event of a radioactive leak. If the United States can’t figure out what to do with nuclear waste, why are we selling Canadian reactors to India and China? Do we really think they will know what to do with the radioactive waste?

Of course the advertizing campaign is still going well. You can even water ski at night since the radiation will make everything glow in the dark. Hanford’s Dirty Secrets - King 5 news.

Little Ryan is still living small

Another Surrey girl makes it on the dirty. They better be careful. A gust of wind comes along and they'll get blown away. 85 pounds soaking wet. The life of a chipmunk.

Kingpin Crew reported stolen motorcycle

Crimestoppers is reporting a stolen custom motorcycle from the 800 block of Westview Way, West Kelowna. Why that’s where Josh Armstrong and Reza Rahiman from the defunct Kingpin crew live. You can even see the Kingpin Crew logo in the corner of the picture. It is a nice bike. Looks like one of Goldammer’s creations. Sure isn't worth $160,000 though.

The resident reported that his custom built motorcycle had been taken from his driveway while he was out of town. That’s strange. He doesn’t park his bike in the driveway overnight let alone when he goes out of town. They even have a surveillance video of the alleged theft. Sure sounds like a scam to me. Paying that claim would,be a crime. Remember Skeletor's First Stolen Motorcycle.

The Kingpin crew were implicated in a stolen car ring tied to Johnny Newcome and the Hells Angels. This just sounds like more of the same old BS. In that case, the police are alleging the President of the Kelowna Hells Angels reported two vehicles as stolen, and the vehicles were later processed at Newcome's garage. Police also recovered three stolen vehicles that were allegedly in the possession of the Calgary Hells Angels chapter. Only rats would steal a motorcycle. Scamming ICBC effects all our insurance rates. Freakin parasites. Get a real job.



Speaking of Kelowna, Blaze the woman beater’s second cousin, the son of Tony the Tramp, got nine months for videotaping his friend pour after shave on a guy passed out at a party and set him on fire. Kelowna trash. Not much different that Surrey trash. What a shame.

Rare Whale sighting on northern BC coast

A rare sighting of a Right whale off Haida Gwaii in the northern BC coastal waters. All the more reason to protect our waters from coal contamination, oil spills and petroleum coke.

Surrey Shirts takes aim at Rob Ford’s crack video

You know you’re hating is when even Surrey starts making fun of you. Don from Surrey Shirts has added a Rob Ford tribute to his Surrey Shirts collection. It says Toronto’s #1 Authorized Ford Dealer with a picture of a meth pipe. Referring to Rob Ford’s drug dealer not the Ford automobile manufacturer. Well done. You can buy one from SurreyShirts.com

Montreal's interim Mayor arrested on fraud charges

When I first saw the headline about Montreal’s interim Mayor resigning amid corruption allegations, I have to admit I resorted to the rollie eyes and thought not again. The guy replaced the last mayor who resigned amid corruptions allegations. I didn’t realize he was actually arrested. He faces 14 charges, including fraud, conspiracy, breach of trust and corruption in municipal affairs.

CTV is reporting that the charges are related to two real-estate projects that took place between 2006 and 2011, before Applebaum became mayor. The anti corruption commissioner said "these were bribes that influenced a decision, approvals or permit distribution." Police said the transactions being investigated were worth "several hundreds of thousands of dollars." Seemingly this all happened over a decade ago.

Two other Montreal-area public figures were also arrested Monday: Jean Yves Bisson, a former director of permits who worked in Applebaum's west end borough, and Saulie Zajdel, who worked in a ministerial office for the federal Conservatives on ethnic outreach. Zajdel was charged with breach of trust, fraud and corruption.

Since all this drama is tied to corruption in the construction industry in Montreal we can’t forget the allegations against Gilles Varin and QMI Agency’s prediction that the RCMP is close to laying criminal charges against a former Conservative aide to a Quebec senator in connection with the Hells Angels contract to renovate Parliament in Ottawa. What a freaking mess.

I guess they haven’t figured out yet like they have here as long as the bribes are in the form of campaign contributions. They're even tax deductible. Just ask Gateway casinos. Some blog readers think surrey is more corrupt than Montreal because everything is hidden behind the Surrey Development corporation which isn't publicly accountable. Meanwhile, it looks like Harper is going to have his own Big House Crew.

Kelowna Hells Angel sentenced to 26 months for assault

Uncle Joe gets 26 months for assault. I wonder what he’ll get for speeding through Salmon Arm with a car load of weapons and a cell phone jammer. Talk about garbage, this guy fits the bill. No remorse whatsoever for his life of crime.

Surrey Trailer Park full of crack and no one cares

I’m going to tie two stories into one. A story on the front page of today’s Vancouver Province and a story on the front page of today’s Surrey Now. Both exemplify the same old Surrey trash mentality that we are trying to address without simply pretending it doesn’t exist.

The Vancouver Province reported on a story about a 16 year old girl who wrote to the mayor about the horrible crack problem where she lives in Surrey. She was excited to get a response that said the police would be in touch with her but that excitement was short lived. Nothing has changed and no police showed up.

Godzilla seized the media opportunity and said the landlords shouldn’t rent to people who sell crack or are involved in the sex trade. No kidding. Maybe she’ll give herself another award for such a ridiculous statement. The girl is reporting crime. You’d think they’d do a little more than tell her to move to another neighborhood. It really makes you wonder who is profiting from all this money laundering.

It’s like the dead zone where Janice Shore was murdered. No one really cares about the drug related crime there. They just want to pretend it doesn’t exist and threaten to sue you for claiming it does. Years ago it was Doug McCallum who put pressure on the crack houses in Surrey. The City would evict them onto the street. I saw it. Godzilla just rode his coat tails. After him, it’s just been a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing.

There is a serious drug problem in that trainer park that needs to be addressed. Having Laura Balance send out a few press releases to distract everyone will not change that fact. Something needs to be done and right now nothing is other than rage, denial and the suppression of crime statistics.

Also in today’s Vancouver Province and on the front page of today’s Surrey Now is a story about several woman assaulting another woman at a kids sports day in Surrey. This is what we mean when we refer to Surrey trash. These pieces of garbage should be ashamed of themselves. Ganging up on a woman is one thing but doing it at a kid’s sports day is another. It boldly declares they are what they are – Surrey trash. Not everyone is Surrey is like this but there is a big enough of a problem for it to be addressed not lied about.



Update: Of course since the problem made the paper, Godzilla stepped out of her ivory tower long enough for a photo shoot to misinterpret the concerns and spin in into something it isn’t. In today’s Vancouver Province it reports that: “The 16-year-old Surrey girl is being lauded as a local hero after she emailed Mayor Dianne Watts to plead for an intervention at her crime-riddled trailer park, which she said has been taken over by drug dealers and prostitutes.” The concern is crystal clear.

Yet Godzilla spins it into something it isn’t. "You can clearly see that there are areas kept up well, but there was a fire at one of the units and it's clearly not cleaned up," said Watts, who spent about a half-hour walking around the trailer park.” That’s just spin and rationalization of her bullsh*t image.

"The residents' general concern was that the landlord had not been taking care of the premises that he's renting to unsavory individuals," she said, adding that bylaw officers handed the landlord a number of tickets.” No, you’re not listening. The problem is the criminal activity surrounding the drug trade. That is a policing problem. She even has the audacity to claim it’s a tenancy issue that falls under provincial jurisdiction.

How can anyone with a conscience spin that? The paper got it right. The problem is the drug related crime. Something that Laura Balance and Godzilla don’t like to admit exists in Surrey. Something they most certainly don’t want to solve. If Dianne Watts and Bill Fordy won’t deal with drug related crime, then it’s time we elected someone who did.

This Surrey First scam has been one big political con. It all started with a dramatic fanfare of a crime fighting coalition. She promised to highlight high crime areas on a web site – never happened. She even had someone speak about the New York model. Only it was never implemented. The only thing that happened was a suppression of crime statistics and a media spin. Nothing has changed since the public crime prevention meeting five years ago where Whalley residents in the “dead zone” complained about the police letting crack dealers sell crack in public. Nothing has changed.

The problem in this girl’s neighborhood is crack, crystal meth and drug related prostitution which brings a huge amount of public health and safety concerns. This is criminal activity that children should be protected from. They’re not doing it. What needs to happen is the police need to arrest the crack and meth dealers. I don’t give a rat’s a*s about grow ops. We need to prioritize arresting crack and meth dealers. Not the addicts, the dealers. That is the New York model. Quoting the New York model and not following it is what Macbeth described as a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing. God help is. Godzilla sure won’t.

Outlaws MC in Newfoundland

Remember when a couple of hecklers were all freaking out because Alex Caine said the Outlaws already had chapters in Eastern Canada? The rage and denial was indeed suspicious. Well here it is. The RCMP are reporting that the Outlaws arrived in Grand Falls-Windsor August 2012. Ironically enough, they moved into town shortly after Bacchus did.

Bacchus has been in that town since January 2011. 6 months later, the Black Pistons moved in. August 2012, the Black Pistons patched over to become Outlaws. The Hells Angels have already brought drugs and violence to Saint John's NL. Sounds like the Outlaws are going to have a gathering at Grand Falls-Windsor in July. Perhaps there will be a showdown at the OK coral after all. Is that why Bacchus went to Fort McMurray to get help? They’re gonna need a lot more help than that. They’re gonna need some serious time with Dr. Phil. I mean just look at that idiot with eyes tattooed on the back of his head. Flaming idiots alright.

In March there was a home invasion in Grand Falls-Windsor . Two guys in their 20’s broke into a home and assaulted a 63 year old man. Holy crack heads batman that is sleazy. Dwayne Hiscock and Corey Killam face numerous charges including assault with a weapon. Police believe they planned to steal prescription drugs.

Reflections on Fatherhood

Lots of snow at the top of Lion’s Chair and all the way up Sky Chair.



Nice to get a snow fix in June when it’s summer everywhere else.



My father used to like to take pictures of the Lions from Cleveland Park at the foot of Grouse Mountain. I like to take pictures of the Lions from the top of Sky chair on Cypress or Hollyburn Ridge. You have to work harder to get there but you see them eye to eye.



Yesterday I visited my father’s grave. Grateful for the life lessons he left me. I remember one time speaking about fatherhood and giving a tribute to my father. After the fact he gave me hell for not mentioning my mother. I thought that was a given. The talk was on fatherhood. He did have a good point though. You can’t respect the one without respecting the other.

It’s interesting how many people get religious all of a sudden at funerals. Most of the tombstones have some kind of reference to God and the after life. As Russell Crow said in the movie Gladiator, what we do in life echoes in eternity. When I was young I remember an old timer that rode a shovel head. He would always joke around and had a very tough image. Yet he would always turn to me in private, look me in the eye and say having kids was the best thing I ever did. I guess it helped instill in me a desire to have kids of my own.

Parenthood, the toughest job on the planet. The most rewarding as well. There’s nothing more gratifying than seeing your kids succeed. Nothing more heartbreaking than seeing them stumble. It is without question a roller coaster ride to remember. Sometimes it just makes you grateful to be back on dry land.

Elijah talked about turning the hearts of the fathers to the children and turning the hearts of the children to their fathers. Metallica quoted that in one of their songs. Banned by the light, I’m on the left. Come follow me, I'm the one or I’ll make you pay the curse of Malachi. Somewhat Satanic. I wonder who the light is that banned them they referred to. Kinda misquoted Malachi’s curse as well but I suppose that’s to be expected when one follows the father of all lies.

I guess there are good Dads, there are bad Dads and there is the freedom to choose what kind of Dad we will become. Even Skeletor is a Dad. I’m not saying he was a bad Dad. I’m just saying the lifestyle that made him rich was bad and set a bad example for his kids. Doesn’t matter how nice he was to them. They all profited from the proceeds of crime and the violent misery that profit came from. Thankfully, there are still some things that money can’t buy. Choose wisely.