Another Shooting in Surrey

While Linda Hepner was out to lunch the Surrey Now is reporting that yet another shooting occurred this morning in the 11700-block of 96th Avenue. Linda Hepner said not to worry it's just low level crime. She's a low level criminal for not arresting the drug dealers that are shooting each other over the profits to be made from unfettered public drug dealing.

Linda Hepner is out to lunch

I haven't trashed Linda Heprner since her election because that's like shooting fish in a barrel. We all knew she was an airhead before she was elected and guess what? She was elected. Who's the bigger fool? The fool or the fool that votes for the fool. Dianne Watts, she had us fooled but Linda Hepner, we should have known better. Dianne Watts promised us the world with regards to crime prevention and delivered nothing.

Residents repeatedly complained about an illegal booze can behind Green timbers pub and city hall did nothing. Residents said are you going to wait until someone gets shot? That they did. Their inaction resulted in yet another shooting just like their refusal to arrest drug dealers in Newton despite residents and businesses ongoing complaints. A big shout out to the Surrey Fire Fighters for that nice pamphlet endorsing Surrey's Worst pretending they would be good on crime. Liars.

When the 11th and 12th shooting in 30 days occurred in Surrey Linda Hepner was out of town on another tax paid junket. When she finally came back from her junket the airhead said I'm not the sheriff. Just like Dianne Watts when a teenage girl wrote her complaining about drug dealers in her trailer park. Dianne Watts said gee that's too bad. The landlords should rent to drug dealers. Maybe the police should arrest the drug dealers when residents file complaints? Wouldn't that be novel? Instead of arresting drug dealers Linda Hepner is too busy taking down vote no signs on the Translink tax and spend referendum. That is illegal. No Translink Tax Website

Vancouver oil spill

CBC is reporting that Vancouver's beaches have been made no-go areas after toxic fuel leaked into the waters of English Bay on Wednesday afternoon. It appears to be fuel from a grain ship.



The political posturing around this disaster is disgusting. The Mayor of Vancouver is blaming the Federal and Provincial government and Christy airhead is blaming the coast guard. The coast guard? Really? They are in charge of oil spills now? We better tell them and equip them whith all this increased tanker traffic in such a small inlet. Why did Stephen Harper just close down a Vancouver coast Guard station in Vancouver? Fire him.

Vatican hit with two scandals

Two bizarre scandals involving the Vatican have hit the media in Europe. The Independent is reporting that a north Italian priest has been removed from office after allegations emerged that he had been surfing the internet to find gay lovers and had been involved in gay orgies.

"In these online interactions, the priest admitted to sexual relationships with other religious figures – as well as members of the Vatican’s elite Swiss Guard – using the internet to find new partners and engage in sexual encounters online. Following the involvement of Archbishop of Taranto Filippo Santoro, the individual involved was immediately removed from office, once the “reliability of the facts” had been established." The Independent also reported that four were arrested after the police busted a gay prostitution ring in the Vatican back in 2010. There were similar allegations in 2013. A former commander of the Swiss Guard made similar allegations in 2014. No offense but I did always wonder about those outfits.

Meanwhile, "Father Gratien Alabi, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, is under investigation for murder following the discovery of female bones under the flagstones of an ancient mountain chapel. The bones are anticipated to belong to Guerrina Piscaglia, 50, who disappeared from nearby Arezzo in Tuscany last year, The Times reported. The case has generated intense media interest, with some papers claiming that Father Alabi had engaged in an affair with the woman, a parishioner of his and another priest’s church, and fathered a child with her. Pretty bizarre allegations. There's something about pictures of nude nuns as well. That's pretty sacrilegious.



Locally Metro News is reporting that A former Saskatchewan hockey coach has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting young boys. Ryan Chamberlin, who is 39, pleaded guilty Monday to three counts of sexual assault and one count of child luring. Chamberlin was a hockey coach in several southwest Saskatchewan communities. He had also helped coach a volleyball team at Centennial Elementary School in Swift Current in fall of 2014.

Here's my point. Just because a hockey coach sexually molests young boys, that doesn't mean that hockey is bad, just that particular coach. Likewise within the church. Although the amount of religious hypocrisy is rampant in the church and is one of the reasons I believe in God but am not dogmatic, it doesn't mean God is bad. If someone who makes a promise to serve God breaks that promise, that's not God's fault. Mother Teresa was an amazing person who walked the walk. No amount of religious hypocrisy will ever change that.

Kamloops woman burned to death in Wiccan ritual

The Vancouver Province is reporting that a Kamloops woman was discovered on fire by emergency responders just after 2 a.m. on Tuesday. Firefighters extinguished the blaze but the 40-year-old died in hospital a few hours later. Police initially suspected suicide, but BC Coroners Service investigators believe the death was accidental. According to posts on Facebook, Carr’s death was the result of a pagan ritual gone wrong.

The National post is reporting that a Heather Carr suffered a fiery death in a supposed pagan ritual “gone horrifically wrong.” They claim she was active among Wiccan groups on social media, operating a Facebook group called Being Pagan Out of the Broom Closet. A post on that page said Carr died as a result of “severe burns suffered in a ritual gone horrifically wrong.”

CBC is reporting that Heather was trapped in a rock structure which was on fire in Riverside Park in the early morning hours of March 31.

Easter Shootings in North Delta

The Surrey Leader is reporting that there were two shootings in North Delta last night.

Furious 7

Fast and Furious 7 is out. They've shortened the tittle to Furious 7 perhaps so it won't be confused with the ATF Black Op that sold guns to the Mexican cartel and brought back tons of cocaine into the US as payment. This episode rocks. Jumping out of an airplane in cars is pretty creative. It ends with a nice tribute to Paul Walker. Life does not end at death. Ride hard, Die free. Even Vin Diesel says never threaten a man's family. See you on the other side.

Easter Snow

Well this was a pleasant surprise. We finally got some sunshine today so I went to Cypress and hiked up sky chair. I was rather shocked to see snow on the side of the road since this season has been a complete failure on the west coast and the local ski hills have been bare since January. The east coast is getting nailed with snow which usually happens when we get an el nino but our ski season this year just didn't happen.



Today there was two inches of fresh snow at the base and the higher you climbed the more fresh snow - four inches, six, then eight at the top. I know it doesn't seem like much but it was a nice surprise since the hills have been completely bare for so long. There is nothing that symbolizes a fresh start more than a fresh snowfall. It was as U2 described, a beautiful day.



I had an old friend send me an e-mail saying he was sitting in church thinking about me and asked if I went to church for Easter this year. Nope I said. I'm heading up to the mountains. That's my church now. It helps me keep things in perspective. Thanks for asking I said and reminded him he's not supposed to be on his phone at church. Today's pilgrimage was very peaceful.







Just for the record, I never said my kids were minors. I always say they are all grown up now and they most certainly don't contribute to the blog. Up until recently they had no idea I did the blog. My daughter doesn't want me doing it and my son is petrified of it. He doesn't understand it because he has absolutely no desire to have anything to do with that lifestyle at all and cannot comprehend those who do. All his friends make fun of Surrey Jacks like everyone else does. What I did say is that only a piece of sh*t threatens to harm someone's daughter and that is true. History has recorded that. It is what it is and we are what we are. Circumstances don't make the man they reveal him to himself and the world. Peace.

Reflections on Easter

Easter means different things to different people. For some it's chocolate and the Easter bunny. For others it's the resurrection of Christ. I was driving up Oak Street towards highway 99 yesterday past the Jewish area and saw a billboard that said Come home to seder this Passover.

When I was young I worked on a non religious Kibbutz in Israel near Petach Tikva outside Tel Aviv. During passover they didn't have any bread made with yeast symbolic of their historical flight from Egypt. The meal had various symbolic features. I can't remember what the eggs represented but the horse radish represented their historical hardships. Jesus was Jewish.

In Catholic Cathedrals they have various representations of the stations of the cross remembering the suffering of Christ before his crucifixion. Years ago I worked with a Muslim friend from Fiji. He made reference to Mel Gibson's movie the Passion of Christ and encouraged me to watch it. I was somewhat surprised hearing a Muslim tell me that. He said to me it's hard to understand why God would let one of his prophets suffer like that.

Some people think bad things don't happen to good people. Yet Paul taught if we don't endure trials we aren't children of God we are children of someone else. Christ said if they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household.

Many years ago an Indo Canadian asked me, if Jesus died on the Friday, why do Christians call it good Friday? It kind of caught me off guard and my fist reaction was it's kind of hard to explain. Christians believe he suffered for us but was resurrected making it possible for everyone to one day be resurrected and judged. Christians use the Easter lily to represent the resurrection since it blooms at Easter. In Ireland, republicans who support a free republic use the Easter lily as a reminder of the Easter rising and the Irish Proclamation which put their dream on paper.

They also use the Easter lily as a symbol for the Easter rising because it is green, white and orange just like the tricolor flag of the Irish Republic. Green represents Catholics, Orange represents Protestants and White represents peace between the two. A noble dream indeed.

You don't have to be Jewish to have traditions. Traditions are a good thing. In the Ukraine they make magnificent bees wax decorated eggs. Whatever your traditions are at Easter, enjoy them. There's more to life than what can be found in a crack pipe. Peace.

"He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed." Isaiah 53:3-5

"But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me. Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee. Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me." Isaiah 49:14-16 He came in the name of love so he did - U2.

Whitehorse drug bust tied to Langley

The Langley Times is reporting that a March 16 raid that targeted several locations in the Yukon has a strong connection to Langley. Police seized guns, a small amount of cocaine and claim that the bust is directly tied to Langley and the 856 in Aldergrove.

Years ago Hells Angels associate Len Pelltier boldly declared there is no more 856 after they shot at him picking up his son from school. Then all of a sudden we hear the 856 rose again under new leadership. Local sources claim his son started his own drug trafficking organization by the same name. Now we hear police claim this Whitehorse drug bust is tied to Langley and the 856.

Local sources claim that the drug trade in Whitehorse is run by the Hells Angels just like Prince George. In 2012 there was a drug bust in Yellowknife tied to the Hells Angels. After that bust, in 2013 the Hells Angels started to use the 856 in Yellowknife instead. This is a picture of Gage McPake from Surrey who was arrested in that bust.