Letting go of Summer

On the lighter side I just want to point out the obvious - summer is fading fast for those of us who don't live in the tropics. This has kind of been one of my best summers in a long time. The theme for my summer has been new sights as I went on a test run to Bowron Lake and Desolation Sound. The last couple of summers went by way too fast. I didn't want to let them go because I worked all summer. This summer I'm OK because when I let it go, I know it's going to come back and next summer is going to be even better.

The Canadian flag consists of a red maple leaf. Symbolic of fall's transformation and anticipation. Summer yields to fall, fall yields to winter, winter yields to spring and spring ushers in the majesty of summer. This spring was an awakening for me. My perspective on many things completely changed. The theme for the spring was new scents and sounds while the theme for the summer was new sights. I went to some new places I hadn't been before. The allegory was going through Hells Gate and leaving Finians Inferno behind us so we could visit some new peaks in Finian's paradise. Heaven is different things to different people. My journey was to break out of the 15 minute city and focus on things you can't see when you're stuck in hell's mindset.

SNC Lavalin owns Trans Mountain pipeline

Rebel News posted a story about how the Trans Mountain Pipeline was over budget and I thought where have we heard that before so I Googled Trans Mountain Pipeline and SNC Lavalin. Yup. They're f*cking up that too just like the Site C Dam. Awarding contracts to SNC Lavalin for anything is a criminal act. I've got a lot more to say on this but that's the elephant in the room right there. SNC-Lavalin buys Trans Mountain project from feds April 1st 2019 AYFKM?

Who got the contract for the Pattullo bridge? Fraser Crossing Partners: "Fraser Crossing Partners, is being led by SNC-Lavalin and Acciona Infrastructure Canada." F*ck you!!!! The BC NDP is just as dirty as the rest of them. SNC Lavalin consistently underbids and over charges government contracts. They get away with it because they give kickbacks to the political parties that award them the contract they balloon, over charge and milk until the cows come home. That is organized crime. They lied and said SNC Lavalin pulled out. They did not. God damn you.

SNC Lavalin was at the heart of the scandal involving Jody Wilson-Raybould.

SNC Lavalin was at the heart of the scandal involving Arthur Porter who received kickbacks for awarding the corrupt company the contract for a hospital in Quebec. Only he died in a Panama prison before the case could go to trial. SNC Lavalin was was awarded the contract for the Evergreen line expansion of Skytrain when they were banned from world projects because of fraud and bribes in Africa. They hid their ownership of the Site C Dam contract through shell companies. They are the reason the Site C Dam project is so far over budget.

The disastrous LRT in Ottawa that failed? That was SNC Lavalin. Toronto Eglinton LRT problems? That's SNC Lavalin as well. Here we clearly see the Fake News and the State run media is not holding elected officials accountable. This is the Octopus.

Danny Casolaro was an investigative journalist that was murdered by the CIA for exposing their ties to organized crime. He referred to what he discovered as the Octopus. It was an organized crime ring whose tencticles spread everywhere and penetrated all levels of government. You cut one arm off and another grows back in it's place. You expose the while thing and it disappears out of sight only to resurface when the light dims. The CIA is the driving force behind the Octopus.

Arthur Porter was tied to Iran contra. Earl W. Brian embezzled $50 million from Nesbitt Thompson’s clients for the CIA. CSIS is a watered down version of that same organized crime ring. The are not trying to keep anyone safe. They are trying to keep everyone misinformed.

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber's Kangaroo Court begins

HelpTamara.com - This is my May 16th interview with Tamara Lich

Kennedy Stewart and Elizabeth Aay arrested protest for defying court order

They knowingly and intentionally defied a court order. They were not held for 18 days without bail. They were given a fine and no jail time. Peacefully defying court orders banning protests is a very Vancouver thing to do. Tamara and Steve's trial should not be happening. There was no court order other than honking and Tamara wasn't honking. This Kangaroo court trial shows the world how Justin Trudeau has politicized the department of justice for his political gain.

Trial of Tamara Lich and Chris Barber shows an endangered democracy

Day 4 of the Chris Barber/Tamara Lich trial is underway; expecting an Ottawa Police Service officer who operated in an intelligence capacity with respect to surveiling the Freedom Convoy to be called as a witness for the prosecution.https://t.co/TWDiMnjMOA

— Robert Kraychik (@rkraychik) September 8, 2023

Dr Peter McCullough on Grey Matter

Eritrean violence in Calgary, Edmonton and Toronto

CTV is reporting that "A violent clash between two groups shut down traffic in a northeast Calgary neighbourhood Saturday evening. The confrontation, between two Eritrean groups, closed Falconridge Boulevard in both directions between Castleridge Blvd. and McKnight Blvd. N.E. Some wore white shirts printed with the Eritrean flag, while others donned blue T-shirts or and carried blue flags with the former Eritrean flag." Sh*t be cray yo. Don't bring that here.

If immigrants engage in criminal activity, they can be deported.

Gays Against Groomers NYC

GAG truck in NYC Pride 🗽

The NY Chapter is getting louder.

What a great day it was! Although we hated seeing all the almost-naked disgusting ppl and so many children…

But many people LOVED seeing the truck and we raffled A LOT of feathers.#gaysagainstgroomers #GAG_NewYork pic.twitter.com/1N8SL91wGV

— Gays Against Groomers New York (@GAG_NewYork) June 25, 2023

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The light is dimming and the dream is too.

Anyone who has followed my blog for any length of time knows I like to quote songs. Some people like to quote scriptures. I quote a few but I find the scriptures are so often misquoted and misrepresented I prefer to quote other sources. Any inspired verse can lift us whether that be a song, a poem or a scripture.

Different songs move me at different times in my life. At one time the song Carry on My Wayward son spoke to me. Last week a few Neil Young songs spoke to me. Today two other songs come to mind. The first one is from Andrew Lloyd Webber about Joseph's Dream. Joseph has this wonderful dream then every kept falling apart. It went from bad to worse.

First he gets sold as a slave to Egypt. Then he finds favor with Pharaoh and rises in Pharaoh's court. Until Pharaoh's wife tries to seduce him. Joseph was like yo girl, you're Pharaoh's wife. I 'ain't touchin that. So she sets him up and he goes to jail for a crime he did not commit.

As he's sitting in prison he sings "May I return to the beginning? The light is dimming and the dream is too." He's referring to this wonderful dream he had before everything fell apart. Then the cast sing "Go, Go, Go Joseph fight till you drop. We've read the book and you come out on top."

The other song that comes to mind is Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen. "Well, maybe there's a God above As for me all I've ever learned from love Is how to shoot somebody who outdrew you But it's not a cry that you hear tonight It's not some pilgrim who claims to have seen the Light No, it's a cold and it's a very broken Hallelujah." I 'ain't a member of the PTL club but I am a member of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah chorus. I'ain't some pilgrim who claims to have seen the Light.

Pentatonix did a really nice version of that song. Recently a coworker died suddenly and it wasn't from the vaccine. Although we weren't told the cause of death we have reason to believe it was self inflicted which is always such a heart wrenching tragedy.

He was going through a divorce and he was struggling with the math. He told one coworker how can I afford rent on my own and pay child support? We've all been through that but today it's even worse. The cost of housing and rent makes living on your own and paying child support mathematically challenging. He couldn't do the math so he gave up.

I'm not recommending that course of action for anyone because it always brings regret but I can certainly understand his concerns. I keep saying I'm writing a book. I keep starting and restarting because things in the world keep changing so fast. As soon as you write something it quickly becomes outdated because there are new crazy things we have to deal with.

I don't claim to have all the answers. I don't claim to be an authority on anything. Do I know how to process loss? Yes I do. Do I know how to process discouragement? Yes I do. That is what I'm going to write about. Behind the dark clouds, the sun is still shining. Stars shine in the darkness. When the light dims, stars shine. We can't see the stars in the night sky unless it gets dark.

I've gone places and seen things and done things in the past but they don't mean sh*t. What I am is more important than what I was and what I do is more important than what I did. The future is a blank page for all of us. What we put on that page is our choice. The painting we create and the legacy we leave behind is our choice. We need to own that.

The world is full of crazy. I'm certainly not going to dwell on the crazy or the negative. I'm going to look up at the stars not down at my feet. I'm going to move forward I'm not going to move backward. I'm going to do me and not what the world tells me. The key is keep moving forward.

Fatal shooting at Ottawa Wedding

The Globe and Mail is reporting that "A shooting at an Ottawa wedding on Saturday night left two men dead and six more injured, with guests describing how they hid in the kitchens of a convention centre to escape a young man with a gun. Ottawa police said they had not yet apprehended a suspect but sped to the scene near the airport after reports of shots fired at about 10:21 p.m. Saturday night. Paramedics said they rushed the injured – including two men with fatal bullet wounds – to hospital after several people were shot in the parking lot outside the wedding reception. On Sunday, Ottawa Police named the dead men as 26-year-old Said Mohamed Ali, and 29-year-old Abdishakur Abdi-Dahir, both from Toronto."

"The wedding reception, attended by members of the Somali community from Ottawa and beyond, took place at the Infinity Convention Centre, which offers wedding packages with open-concept ballrooms and private bridal suites. Ottawa police chief Eric Stubbs was among those at the scene on Sunday. He said in an interview on CTV news late Sunday that a connection with guns and gangs was being examined by police. He said police were reviewing video surveillance from nearby businesses." I think it's safe to say there is a connection to guns since a firearm was used. That like saying the homicide is deemed suspicious.

As for gangs, let's do the math. Damion Ryan was arrested in Ottawa while he was making sweetheart deals with the CFSEU and running the drugs in the DTES. Damion Ryan hired a Somalian to kill Anees Mohamed in the DTES then rolled on him as soon as the hit was completed. I ain't sayin he's a gold digger. I'm just sayin he's a piece of garbage.

More Background on Medical Cencorship

Ensign Ranch Washington State

Thursday after work my clutch cable was delivered so I took it to the shop and they were able to fix my motorcycle that night. Perfect timing because I had Friday off work and signed up for a conference at Ensign Ranch in Washington Sate. Taking the bike down saved a lot of money on gas. I stopped at a rest area on the way down and they had an ad for wolfhaven.org That looks pretty cool. It's just south of Olympia. They also had an ad for State parks at www.parks.wa.gov It's good to find out where the State Parks are.

Ensign Ranch is nice. They have a climbing wall and canoes on a lake. The lake is really cute but very small. It's run by the LDS church but anyone can camp there when conferences aren't on. It's kind of hard to find as it's not well marked. I blew past the turn off several times as Google was giving me conflicting directions.

If you're coming from Canada you take the I5 to Seattle then take the I90 towards Spokane. Ya go through the Snoqualmie Pass, past Easton and take the Golf Course Road exit. Turn left, then left at the sign beside the fire station. I guess you can get there from the Nelson exit as well. I must of had it flipped around. I'm not sure. If you get to Cle Elum you're gone too far.

There was a ton of people there I didn't know and I found it a bit overwhelming so I bailed and came home early. I wanted to beat the rain and the rush at the border from the long weekend. I've met a lot of really nice Americans this summer. It's nice to see families camping with their kids. That's normal, healthy and wholesome. It was a clear night and the moon was so bright it cast a shadow like when I was at Bowron Lake. This is the sun rise this morning at Ensign Ranch.

Speaking of surfing standing waves in a kayak, I found a brochure about a wave pool beside Lake Chelan in Washington State that lets you surf a standing wave called Lakeside Surf. That looks really cool. That looks like a great way to practice surfing in a safe environment.



I also found a brochure for boat tours in Seattle that take you through the locks to Lake Union. They have doughnut boats there like the barbeque boats outside Granville Island in Vancouver.

I understand that there's an Ensign Ranch in Utah that has a long distance gun range and course. I'd like to see that. I'm told the one in Washington has a gun range and a black powder range. When I inquired about it they said it wasn't going to be open for this conference and to leave your guns at home so I forgot to check out where it was on site. I'm told they use to have a zip line and horses on site but got rid of them over liability concerns which was sadly unfortunate.