Wake up!

   Let me just take a snip-it from the Canadian Centre for Bio-ethical Reforms statement of how they view the beginnings of human life that I believe "that it is self-evident that human beings, by virtue of their humanity, are objectively valuable; that value makes them equal in worth to one another." I also "acknowledge In human reproduction, a new, living human being comes into existence at fertilization (when a sperm fertilizes an egg)."  And yet there are many in this country that will not acknowledge this, although they know it to be true, all because they want to keep the abortion option open, but why?  Because of choice? Who's choice, certainly not the child's choice,  they take any hopes of that away when they cut it apart and tear it from the safety of its mothers womb. So they do it for their choice. No human has the right to purposefully take the life of an innocent child especially in the name of choice! Its time we have a law, its time we as a nation afford the most basic right we as people of this great nation enjoy and that is the right to life, to the children growing in the womb. Organizations like weneedalaw.ca are fighting for exactly that, a law to protect the preborn humans from the abortionists instruments of death.  But they have people standing in the way saying that they should have the choice. Ah but that leads to another question should they even have that option as a choice? I say NO! As should society. We as a civilized society already place limits on people. We make laws saying that we can not take what is not ours. We have laws that say how fast we can travel. We also have laws that say that we can not inflict harm on others or do anything that causes another's death. But yet over 100,000 times a year in Canada harm is being done to innocent children growing in what should be the safest place on the planet to start their journey in this life, their mothers womb. Are you asking if this really happens? We have no laws? Yes its true we have no laws protecting the preborn children who grow in their mothers wombs a place that was designed to do just that, grow the child till it is strong enough and big enough to be exposed to the harsh environment outside the womb. We have no laws here in Canada since 1988 when the Supreme Court struck down our abortion laws and no governing official lately has the moral fibre or strength of conviction to stand up to the selfish attitude of the populous and say that its not right! As a matter of fact there are enough of them that don't even want to talk about it!  Stephen Woodworth a MP from Ontario has purposed a motion to parliament to study if our current laws that are based on a 400 year old definition of when human life starts is up to the current data that we have with our modern medical knowledge.  And our PM and others in his government and the entire opposition party not only disagree with him they don't even want to debate it!  How sad is that, that we as a modern civilized country do not want to debate something!  Debate is what democracy is all about!  It is how this country was built and is paramount to keeping the truth in the forefront and oppression at bay!  And now our governing officials want to suppress the fundamental principle of democracy... debate!!! 

    It makes you wonder, why do they not want to talk about it?  My theory is that they deep down know that the truth is that it is self-evident that human beings, by virtue of their humanity, are objectively valuable; that value makes them equal in worth to one another. And in human reproduction, a new, living human being comes into existence at fertilization (when a sperm fertilizes an egg). And if it is true than they have sat by on the sidelines of one of the worst cases of human slaughter that our world has know. We as society have been duped by the self centred interests of our society and have, by dehumanizing the child growing within, bought a lie that is a clump of cells and not a human. Time to wake up Canada! If the mother is a human and the father is a human, what else can their offspring be?  And if it is self-evident that human beings, by virtue of their humanity, are objectively valuable; that value makes them equal in worth to one another than what are we doing allowing the slaughter of 100,000 innocent children when we won't even kill a serial murderer for his crimes?  Like I said wake up people!  Will you remain silent? 

The Storm

Well holidays this year were an adventure to say  the least! We had hot weather, a beautiful lake, an encounter with a bear and a storm that made me realize how quickly things can go bad. Ill just get it out of the way and tell you that it was an awesome trip and after we survived on of the worst nights of my life, the week calmed down (except for the bear, I'll get to that in a bit ) and we had a blast but it didn't start off that way.
  We got to the Shuswap and climbed on our house boat and set sail for a week of sunshine and laziness. The first night was uneventful and quite relaxing the second however was a different story.  After a hot day of playing on the lake and cruising around we found what we thought was a nice spot to park for the night. It had a bit of beach to park the boat and a rocky outcropping that looked like it might be a good place to fish, and it looked pretty. So we parked the boat, pounded the 3 foot metal steaks into the ground and tied the mooring lines to them for the night. Let me add that at this time the lake was a sheet of glass it was so calm. Off in the distance just over the mountains it did look like there was a storm brewing tough, and brew it did! It came up over the mountain and down on to the lake, still off in the distance it was beautiful producing some great lighting an  providing a great contrast from calm to storm. It was kinda neat seeing it move down the lake and we didn't care because we had our big boat nicely tied up on shore and if it started to pour we had all the luxuries of home on board, TV, DVD, stereo, fridge, food and a couch we would be fine. As the storm got closer we heard a call on the radio "ya, there's a storm moving down the lake, um you can expect 3-4 foot swells". No prob right. We had a large boat safely tied up with two 3 foot steel anchor pins pounded all the way in on shore we aren't going anywhere. With the CB radio that they gave us we stayed on channel 3 and that was all communication from base to all the Twin-Anchors boats and while we were listening we started to hear calls for help. Other boats farther down the lake were getting beat up bad. The party spots had the younger kids/adults tie up their boats side by side in order to have a floating party barge and if it would have stayed calm it would have been fine but the storm  started to slam their boats together and those were the calls for help that we were hearing. Looking out the back of our boat we realized we didn't have much time we ran out and tightened the lines and cleaned everything up quickly and then the waves hit. You wouldn't think that 4 foot swells is much but when your boat relies on having the front sitting on the beach and anchor lines coming from the back of the boat on an angle to the shore tied tight to steel pins so the boat can't go backwards back into the water those swells cause a huge problem. The boat was now not stuck on the beach but floating freely with the mooring lines still tied up and the waves pounded it. And pounding it! It took a matter of a few waves and the shear power of them ripped the mooring pins right out of the ground like they were nothing. In a flash the boat got turn sideways into the waves and started to rock back and forth. My buddy Steve was off the boat trying to tie his Sea-doo up better and saw all this happening and called out for us to get off the boat! This all happened so quick it was so hard to process,. Instantly the adults started to get the kids off the boat literally having to almost throw them down off the rocking boat down into the surf where another adult was there catching them to bring them to shore, and the lightning crashed and flashed right above us! Once everyone was safely on shore in the pounding rain and lightning storm we saw the power that the storm had. The boat was now just seconds after we got everyone off, getting pounded into the rocks! On many occasions we thought that the boat was going to be flipped up on its side because how far over it was being rocked. And as the lightning flashed and cracked right overhead as the boat continued to get pounded, and we sat on shore huddled together in the rain. Now there was another boat parked just down the beach with another young family on it for safety reasons they too got everyone off the boat and on shore although his boat was firmly tied up still. You see, he had been house boating many times and knew that you don't tie your boat up to the steel pins they give you but you tie them to big trees that they tell you not to just in case you damage the trees. Needless to say after that night we didn't use the steel pins. He also had his boat company give him instructions to throttle up and keep pushing his boat on to the shore every time the wave hit that way his boat would stay firmly anchored on shore. If we would have been told that we too would have been fine, lesson learned I guess. This family was great! We were so thankful that they were there. She brought out blankets so that we could wrap the kids up and try keep them warm. We got a fire going too which heated us up from the front while the rain cooled off our backs as it continued to pour down on us! For an hour and a half we sat huddled in the rain by a fire while the lightning cracked overhead and our boat continuously was smashed into the rocks. And although it was scary I had a calm inside of me, a voice almost, telling me that we were going to be fine. The little voices of my kids singing the song they learned at VBS played in my mind ...Trust in God.... and as my wife reminded them of the same thing as they sat huddled in the rain the two youngest rested their heads as they fell asleep on that beach, in the rain, with lightning filling the sky. Then as fast as it started it was finished.

  We were able to use the other families radio to call for help and just as the storm started to fizzle out the rescue boat showed up. These guys were awesome to say the least! They hooked lines up to the boat pulled it off the rocks and turned it toward shore again. Than with their huge engine they pushed it way up on the beach and tied the mooring lines up... to trees!!! The boat was safe again, not mobile but safe to sleep on. We had problems throughout the night with the generator going out, the bilge pump not working (which was important because all that smashing did put a hole in the boat). But after a sleepless night, the rescue guys making repeated trips we awoke to a beautiful day where they sent a tug boat out to tow us back to port and half way there they met us with a new boat! We moved all our stuff over to it and we were off again to enjoy our vacation!
 And now to the bear story. It really wasn't much of anything not compared to the storm but two days after the storm we were sitting by the fire on the beach at night, all the kids were in bed. As we sat talking and relaxing we heard a snap! Curious we turned on the flashlights and could see nothing so we continued to talk and sit there. Then we heard a snap again. Convinced that there was something in the bush right there we got up and went onto the boat. But we had a fire and wanted to sit by it! So I thought I would be brave and check it out. With flash light in hand I went back to the fire to see what was making the noise. And as I crept up to the fire area slowly I heard and saw nothing. ... Until another snap a little grunt and Steve yelling at me "GO RUSS GO!!!''  and like that I was bolting back to the boat!! As everyone was killing themselves laughing!!! worst part .... they got it on video. Needless to say we didn't sit by the fire.
 What can I say it was an adventure, the company that we rented the boat from was AWESOME!! They went above and beyond what they had to do and I wound recommend that if you want to go house boating on the Shuswap, I would recommend Twin-Anchors houseboats anytime!!