Ready and Steady Til He Comes!
By Calling Out Community, posted January 20, 2016. Updated February 10, 2016 “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke Alberta, I love you and I was one of you for nearly 20 years. I have a relatively good idea how you used to think and feel – but what
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By Calling Out Community, Posted January 12, 2016. Al –Jarida, a Kuwaiti newspaper published in Arabic, reported on Friday, January 8 that US President Barack Obama has set his sights on becoming the next Secretary General of the United Nations, when he leaves the Oval Office in one year. However, not everyone is so excited to give Obama a promotion to
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The WordPress.com stats staff have prepared a 2015 annual report for our Calling Out Community blog – and we are thrilled to have had visitors in 2015 from 37 countries and on every continent: Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,900 times in 2015. If it were a cable
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By Calling Out Community, Posted December 3, 2015. Updated December 8, 2015 According to the Washington Post, Wednesday’s horrific mass shooting in the Inland Regional Center for the developmentally disabled in San Bernardino, California has been deemed the worst terrorist attack on American soil since September 11, 2011. The 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was more horrific, killing 20 children
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by Calling Out Community, Posted October 18, 2015. Updated January 2, 2016, Take heart, Conservative voters! In this final weekend before Election Day, the conclusion of the longest election campaign in Canadian history, the pollsters are once again coronating the selfie-loving clown Justin Trudeau as our next Prime Minister. But the pollsters are not always right – in fact, sometimes they
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by Calling Out Community, Posted October 6, 2015 Amazing news out of Atlanta, Georgia: leadership representing 12 nations on 4 continents,including the government of Canada under the leadership of Prime Minister Harper, has concluded negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, the largest free trade agreement in world history. This agreement will give Canadian businesses tariff-free access to 800 million new
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North Korea seems to be hell bent on war. Surely they know they can’t win – or do they?
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by Calling Out Community, Posted August 13, 2015 What do police in the city of Portland, Oregon do when Christians, who believe in the rights of the unborn and the freedom to protest peacefully, are assaulted on its streets? Absolutely nothing. That’s what Christians learned in that city last Wednesday, August 12 when a small group of them, all strongly
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by Calling Out Community, Posted August 10, 2015 For the week of August 2-8, 2015 Last Sunday, August 2, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper called what some have calculated will be the longest election campaign in Canadian history, running 11 weeks (78 days) and culminating in the Monday, October 19 federal election. At 316 km2, my home city of Surrey is
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by Calling Out Community, Posted August 6, 2015 When I first launched the Calling Out Community on July 28, 2014, I just wanted to have a place to write out my frustrations with the endless stupidities abounding in our society. I really wasn’t expecting anyone to read it, comment on it or… …follow it, re-post it, like it, pin it, Google 1+ it,
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by Calling Out Community, Posted August 1, 2015 Wim Distelmans, an oncologist and professor of palliative medicine at the Free University in Brussels, Belgium, is responsible for the deaths of hundreds, if not thousands of people. His assisted dying center near Brussels is just one of the places in that small Western European country where people can come to find
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by Calling Out Community, Posted July 24, 2015 “If a tree were to fall on an island where there were no human beings would there be any sound?” – published in The Chautauquan, June 1883 The famous question above, now told in a hundred different ways since, has morphed over the decades from it’s original intent into some weird philosophical “thought experiment” that raised
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by Calling Out Community, Posted July 4, 2015 On this July 4, I wanted for a moment to take America back to a July 4th celebration of yesteryear, to remind people again of how great America was – in a powerful speech from President Ronald Reagan in 1986, as he rededicated the renovated Statue of Liberty, he spoke of an America
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Canada is more than a location, a huge land mass, a country, a set of borders, a group of people with a common language, government and currency. Canada is an idea: the founding of a collection of souls from around the world into one fold, with a common set of values, a common bond of pride in who we are,
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by Calling Out Community, Posted June 28, 2015 Queen Elizabeth II has become accustomed to countless milestones during her decades on the throne: In December 2007, she became the longest living British monarch, overtaking Victoria who died when she was 81 (the Queen recently turned 89 on April 21!) On May 12, 2011, she became the second-longest reigning monarch in
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