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Old 10-20-2010, 04:51 PM   #81
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I find it incredibly hard to believe that Nenshi could be openly gay without Craig Chandler telling us about it.
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Old 10-20-2010, 04:58 PM   #82
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Naheed is absolutely not gay. He is absolutely a brilliant, geeky nerd, and an unmarried one, so there's that. Gays and nerds are closely-related species.
Does Mr. Nenshi listen to Tegan and Sara?
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Old 10-20-2010, 05:03 PM   #83
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Does Mr. Nenshi listen to Tegan and Sara?
*shudder*
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Old 10-20-2010, 05:41 PM   #84
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Peter Mansbridge was at the Business Hall of Fame dinner in Calgary tonight and had some great things to say about Nenshi (who even made an appearance).

Said we are lucky to have him as our mayor, and wished the City all the best.
The guy reads the news for a living. What would he know about what it takes to make a good mayor??
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Old 10-20-2010, 05:51 PM   #85
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*shudder*

Yeah, who listens to that stuff always.
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Old 10-20-2010, 05:58 PM   #86
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Nenshi- maybe he is left leaning but the thing that drew me to him is that he seems like a thinker rather than a policy hack. So if something comes up, seems like he will investigate before making a decision based on his blanket ideas.

I care less about left-right in civic politics than D Sutter cares what Calgarypuck thinks about how to run a hockey team.

At this level, it's all about ideas and how to solve problems.
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Old 10-20-2010, 06:23 PM   #88
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The guy reads the news for a living. What would he know about what it takes to make a good mayor??
What do you do for a living that makes you qualified to say if he knows about being a good mayor?

Seriously, if you think he isn't qualified to give him opinion, why should you or anyone else who voted be qualified to make that choice? Maybe we should just have the mayor appointed by a committee of people who have the specific knowledge of what it takes to be a good mayor and leave the stupid public out of these important decisions.

Oh wait, that reminds me of something...
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Gays and nerds are closely-related species..
You take that back!
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Old 10-20-2010, 06:35 PM   #90
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What do you do for a living that makes you qualified to say if he knows about being a good mayor?

Seriously, if you think he isn't qualified to give him opinion, why should you or anyone else who voted be qualified to make that choice? Maybe we should just have the mayor appointed by a committee of people who have the specific knowledge of what it takes to be a good mayor and leave the stupid public out of these important decisions.

Oh wait, that reminds me of something...
Oh come on, now. You didn't see the parallel to Barb? I'm just mimicking the Nenshi-ites on here.

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Old 10-20-2010, 06:39 PM   #91
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Seriously, if you think he isn't qualified to give him opinion, why should you or anyone else who voted be qualified to make that choice?
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Oh come on, now. You didn't see the parallel to Barb? I'm just mimicking the Nenes on here.
I believe the correct term is Nenjas.

Anyways, he's qualified to give an opinion, he's just not qualified for the job. Just like Barb!
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Old 10-20-2010, 06:41 PM   #92
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The only public service job that old newscasters are qualified for is Governor General.
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It does a dis-service to this calgary to say that a Muslim was elected and how pro-gressive we are. It misses the whole point that it was never even discussed.
I could not agree more. Calgary was not progressive, we just voted for the best candidate.
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I could not agree more. Calgary was not progressive, we just voted for the best candidate.
Maybe that is what makes us progressive...

We don't get all wound up with special interests, minority quotas, etc. We just vote for the what we think is best.
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this could be taken as racist but I don't intend it to be that way, just a comment, and if the mods feel they need to erase it well do what you gotta do...

first obama, now nenshi

if the USA can elect a black president, "redneck calgary" can have a brown mayor...simple as that, doesn't matter what he is, it matters who he is and what he represents and will stand for/do

kinda crazy though Klein to Nenshi....times have changed


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A lot of Ismaili muslims went to Tanzania and other African countries like Uganda from India. Set up businesses there, I believe a bunch came to Canada when Africa went goofy in the 70's. The Aga Khan was good friends with Trudeau and a bunch lost their worth in Africa and came to Canada to start over.

That's pretty much exactly what happened to my sister-in-law's folks. I only remember that after reading your post.
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Old 10-20-2010, 11:24 PM   #97
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Old 10-20-2010, 11:30 PM   #98
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What are you trying to say? You still think we're a redneck town, don't you? Is it that blasphemous stampede? What with all those people dressing up and having their damn fun for a couple of weeks.

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Is he gay? Who cares, can he do the job? We'll see

Please tell me that's not Brett Farve, as I don't want to see the next picture...
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So all the bigoted old whities in this town managed to get over the fact that he's brown, and the fact that he's muslim, but the gay thing would have been too much? I don't buy it.
Based on my informal poll of my friends who voted Nenshi...it would have mattered. It's probably a good thing he didn't come out before the election. It wouldn't have stopped me from voting for him but I definitely know of a few votes that would have gone somewhere else if he had come out/was outed as a gay man beforehand.
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