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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
Seriously pylon, that's your response?
I'd honestly love to see you address Bunk 's post before you take a sabbatical.
Also, what's with the whole not high brow enough for this website crap? No one is throwing their education in your face, no one. Are you honestly that sensitive about the subject that you take it that way?
When you say something like "fancy degrees" you're the one begging to be responded to in the way that table did to you.
The way you disrespected a man a lot of people here respect, what kind of reaction did you expect?
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I will respond to this, because you bring up a valid point.
As per Bunk's comments. If he is in fact caring for his elderly parents in his own home, I will retract my statements about him "living in his parents basement." Fair enough, that is an awesome thing for anyone to do and I would do the same for mine, event though they all but abandoned me when I was a messed up teenager. Blood, is always thicker than water. I have constantly heard the parents basement rumours, an assumed them to be true, as I have never seen a retraction or correction on it. As for him being a tax paying Calgarian, I take that back too. But so am I, and since he has been in office, I have seen my taxes on my primary residence, and my rental go up as well, which doesn't make me happy.
I simply do not like Nenshi as a leader. He doesn't represent my voice, or my views on how I want the city run. He could be the coolest guy to throw a pint back with, but I do not like him as the face of this city. And no, it has nothing to do with the colour of his skin before anyone is stupid enough to make that assumption. He could be North Korean for all I care, if he could do the job right and move Calgary forward on the global stage.
To me the straw that broke the camels back was the occupy protesters. I was starting to warm up to him until that. They should have been removed in days, not months. He allowed trespassers to defecate, and squat in a public park because of his pacifistic attitude and demeanour. I think I speak for most Calgarians when I say they should have removed them much sooner, regardless of if the City ended up with a legal bill or not. I would have been more than happy for my taxes to contribute to it. Sometimes the right choice, can be an expensive choice.
In my opinion, this City is on the cusp of being a true global power house. I do not believe a man fretting about the Wifi bill in his office, or the fuel economy of the Mayoral vehicle, will do anything to forward that cause. Great, they are fiscally responsible, and cute little statements to make, but they will not move this city forward, and shake the stigma of a backwater redneck town. We need someone trying to keep the momentum of building this place up, not micromanaging the minutia. He has people working for him to do that.
I like my leaders to be strong, stoic, educated individuals. He is only one of those three in my eyes. If I met the guy face to face, I would shake his hand and say "Hi." but it doesn't mean I agree for one second with what he is doing.
So that is my response to Bunk and MMF. But I will leave the disclaimer that the above post was made by a High School dropout, so anything in it should be disregarded completely, and be considered of little or no value.