Ready and Steady Til He Comes!
Last week, I received a link to a very interesting poll that had been created at We the People, the online petition center run by the White House. A private citizen had the gall to make a very bold demand, which tens of thousands of people agreed with – forcing the White House to show their true colors regarding the
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Black Americans are in a funk, a spiraling devolution into racial and cultural divisiveness, thuggery that runs rampant on American streets, nonsensical accusations in the media about “black genocide” that are never challenged or corrected, a general hatred of policemen regardless of their character or color, and a mistrust of all authority figures, with the exception of the seditious, race-baiting
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As I’ve mentioned in several previous postings, our national anthem isn’t just a song for the start of a hockey game or a morning ritual in an elementary school classroom. It’s the symbolic glue that unites us from coast to coast with a common story and belief about our shared life together. It unites strangers in a way nothing else
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On the evening of May 24, 2015, I shared with you a story about the Town Council of Richmond Hill, Ontario, who had just decided days before to ban the singing or playing of “O Canada” at the start of their Council meetings. You met the lone hero that exposed the story and took a stand in favor of the
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Every year, New York City hosts the largest Gay Pride event in the world, with their annual March today (Sunday, June 26) expected to attract 1.5 million people along it’s famed 5th Avenue route. But not everyone’s in the mood to celebrate the gay community. The sequins and feather boas are in every color. The nuns with beards and the leather freaks and
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Over the last year or so, Americans from coast to coast have been awakened late at night to the shocking sights and sounds of huge explosions, gunfire and waves of military helicopters flying maneuvers over their homes. Asking why this is happening, what on earth they are preparing for, and why it’s taking place so often and so late at
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The Federal Emergency Management Administration, America’s last best hope for assistance in times of major disaster, has been very busy lately on America’s East Coast – particularly in one small geographic area. In fact, one could even so they have been alarmingly busy… I am very rarely ever swayed by conspiracy theories. I find it’s becoming easier and easier to
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By Shawn J. ¦ Founding Editor, Calling Out Community Posted June 5, 2016 🐦 Twitter: Follow Us ¦ 👍 Facebook: Like Us ✉ Email us with comments! The horrific forest fires in Fort McMurray that started May 1 have brought a lot of sadness and aching hearts to those of us who know the region and love its people. I
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👤 By Shawn J. ¦ Founding Editor, Calling Out Community ✒ Posted May 21, 2016. Updated June 5, 2016. 🐦 Twitter: Follow Us ¦ 👍 Facebook: Like Us ✉ Email us with comments! Nearly a year after posting our original article, “The ‘Big One’: We’re NOT Ready” its clear the Government of British Columbia is playing chicken against the possibility of a massive
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👤 By Shawn J. ¦ Founding Editor, Calling Out Community ✒ Posted May 9, 2016. Updated June 6, 2016. 🐦 Twitter: Follow Us ¦ 👍 Facebook: Like Us ✉ Email us with comments! Update: June, 6, 2016: From Alberta Wildfire (Sunday, June 6, 2016): Wildfire (MWF009) has experienced minimal growth and is estimated to be 581,745 hectares in size (including SK).
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👤 By Shawn J. ¦ Founding Editor, Calling Out Community ✒ Posted May 5, 2016. Updated May 10, 2016 🐦 Twitter: Follow Us ¦ 👍 Facebook: Like Us ✉ Email us with comments! Last Thursday, May 5, the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, left me speechless – for the very first time. For on that Thursday, for the first time since
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👤 By Shawn J. ¦ Founding Editor, Calling Out Community ✒ Posted March 31, 2016 🐦 Twitter: Follow Us ¦ 👍 Facebook: Like Us ✉ Email us with comments and ideas! In April 2009, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) was created by the 26 richest nations on earth to monitor and make recommendations about the global financial system. Founding member institutions included the Bank
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By Calling Out Community, posted March 23, 2016 It all started innocently enough on Tuesday, March 22, when Microsoft introduced an AI Twitter account simulating a teenage millennial girl. The account (named “Tay”) was an experimental program launched to train AI in understanding conversations with its users. Tay tweeted publicly and engaged with users through private direct messages, and was supposed to
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By Calling Out Community, posted March 2, 2016. After years of ‘feeling the heat’, Yale University’s Climate & Energy Institute (YCEI) is finally facing ‘an inconvenient truth’: it was announced on March 2, 2016 that the program will close at the end of June, following three consecutive years of budget cuts for the program, which was established eight years ago to conduct climate
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By Calling Out Community, posted February 26, 2016. William John “Bill” Bennett is an American conservative pundit, politician, and political theorist who was actually a Democrat when President Ronald Reagan named him Secretary of Education in 1985. He formally changed from the Democratic Party to the Republicans in 1986, and continued as Secretary until 1988. By 1989, Mr. Bennett had garnered such bipartisan respect that, when President George H.W. Bush nominated him as the Director of
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