Dave Rutherford considering running against Nenshi

[PsYcNeT]

Some choice quotes from the Sun's comment section:

Obama and Satan both offer you free stuff if you bow down and worship.

Go easy on Barrackifer Hussatan Obominable.

WWF are major communists. Founded by a Racist.

Hmmm....maybe waterboarding Dalton would finally bring out the truth for once

the LYING LIEBORGERALS aren't in the business of listening to things that make sense!!!

The whole site is a goldmine.

[macker]

He gets my vote for most annoying QR77 personality followed closely by Rob Breakenridge and Bruce Kenyon but Angela Kokott is also in this conversation. The best news out of all of this is that Rutherford will be off the air and into the race kinda. He doesn't stand a chance.

[PsYcNeT]

Some more:

Today in the mall a hippie at a kiosk asked me to donate $20 to help save an endangered species. I told him because of the Liberals a $20 dollar bill is an endangered species....

Barry Hussein and Mooshell : Golfing and dancin' while their administration burns down the US.

So Obama is happy someone is gay. I am glad he is so easy to become happy. Barrack you have move the White House to San Francisco. Michelle has got his back. You can take someone out of Chicago, but you can't take the Chicago out of them

I agree.. its full of" limp" wrists. . "pack up your balls and put them in your purse".. sad what the next few Generation's are going to look like. If we had this attitude back in the 40 's we would all be speaking German today..do these social engineer's not get that?

[Ozy_Flame]

WWF are major communists. Founded by a Racist.

Hey c'mon, that's not fair. Vince MacMahon was more about gobbling up the regional territories than he was about holding down the black man as champion. Bobo Brazil was a perfectly good contender for taking down Bruno Sammartino for the WWWF championship belt. And the whole Nation of Domination thing? Ron Simmons wasn't really that angst-ridden, he was just working for his paycheque.

[Bertuzzied]

God damn. can you guys stop posting quotes from sun readers?

[Mazrim]

Originally Posted by fotze

You should start a twitter account posting those comments, funnier than that stats Canada account everyone re-tweets.

@suncommentsection is available! Someone brave enough to spend a large amount of time on the Sun websites should make this happen.

[PsYcNeT]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

God damn. can you guys stop posting quotes from sun readers?

No.

If Spendshi would shut up for a minute and listen, he might hear the low and middle income earners [who pay more than their fair share to all levels of government in taxes] saying that even with the $126 a year that it would make up for the increase in City taxes. Well, only about half. Then we still wouldn't have enough to go out and buy 2 Starbucks coffee. Too bad that Spendshi and his over spending people at city all set up polls at the various shopping malls. Like I'm going to spend by pension money on the overinflated gasoline [where the province and city also rob me of tax money] to go to the "UPPER" income bracket Chinook Mall to find the "poll". Or drive around to other malls and waste more money on gasoline. He should read the papers as all good politicians do, not just the Financial Times

Originally Posted by Mazrim

@suncommentsection is available! Someone brave enough to spend a large amount of time on the Sun websites should make this happen.

Someone registered it just as I was. Oh well.

[Bunk]

Originally Posted by fotze

Wasn't Rutherford an MLA a few years back?

That was Dave Taylor

[Bunk]

Originally Posted by Mazrim

@suncommentsection is available! Someone brave enough to spend a large amount of time on the Sun websites should make this happen.

That, I would follow.

[PsYcNeT]

@CommentsElSun

Since someone else registered the other one. Time to go forum spelunking!

[Matty81]

Calgary's redneck cred is starting to wane a bit.. about time a loudmouth yokel steps up and takes Nenshi down.

[crazy_eoj]

Originally Posted by Cscutch

http://www.calgary.ca/CA/fs/Pages/Pr...Tax-Rates.aspx

Shows historic property tax rates.

Chris

Thanks for those numbers.

City of Calgary property tax rates have increased 57% since 2008 or 21% since 2011?

Why does the rate change so much?

[corporatejay]

Originally Posted by crazy_eoj

Thanks for those numbers.

City of Calgary property tax rates have increased 57% since 2008 or 21% since 2011?

Why does the rate change so much?

Millrates are worthless since they are only half of the equation.

You take the budget (x) = Total Property Value in the city based on the city's assessment (y) * Mill Rate (z).

Z goes up and down based on whatever Y is. The real number to look at is what the budget for the city is

[mariners_fever]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

The minute I saw a link to the Calgary Sun written by Rick Bell, I knew I would be getting a refreshing, neutral, unbiased opinion piece that speaks to all Calgarians. Color me surprised I wasn't allowed to use this quality media outlet as a source in my university papers.

Actually, you can use it as a source in university papers if it's cited properly. No different than the Herald. I let my students do it all the time, so long as they're using newspapers as the types of sources they're supposed to (non-academic sources).

[Ozy_Flame]

I guess there was no hard and fast rule, but the minute you start lumping rags like that in with the New York Times or the Washington Post in university-level papers, it really thins the credibility of your argument unless, like you said, there is a really specific reason for using it as a source. For example, a paper on Calgary municipal politics. It was not even a consideration for topics such as international relations, political theory or foreign affairs (political science major obviously!)

In eight years of university, I also never once saw a professor favour the use of any Calgary newspapers, ever - Herald or the Sun. That's just my experience though.

[mariners_fever]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

I guess there was no hard and fast rule, but the minute you start lumping rags like that in with the New York Times or the Washington Post in university-level papers, it really thins the credibility of your argument unless, like you said, there is a really specific reason for using it as a source. For example, a paper on Calgary municipal politics. It was not even a consideration for topics such as international relations, political theory or foreign affairs (political science major obviously!)

In eight years of university, I also never once saw a professor favour the use of any Calgary newspapers, ever - Herald or the Sun. That's just my experience though.

Yeah, it depends on the context. If they were to use an editorial (say Rick Bell) and cite it as fact, then no. If they use it to cite an example of an opinion, okay. So long as it's cited properly.

If they use a regular news article to state facts of events, then okay.

It just depends on the type of article and context in the paper.

Also, they should only be used to support the peer-reviewed academic sources they already have used for research.

[llama64]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

I guess there was no hard and fast rule, but the minute you start lumping rags like that in with the New York Times or the Washington Post in university-level papers, it really thins the credibility of your argument unless, like you said, there is a really specific reason for using it as a source. For example, a paper on Calgary municipal politics. It was not even a consideration for topics such as international relations, political theory or foreign affairs (political science major obviously!)

In eight years of university, I also never once saw a professor favour the use of any Calgary newspapers, ever - Herald or the Sun. That's just my experience though.

Only time I've ever seen a green light for newspapers (of any breed) used in an undergrad paper is if they are treated as a primary source. Or for entertainment. Basically in the same camp as a wikipedia article.

I presume things get murkier in masters/Ph.D levels depending on the purpose of the paper.

[Coys1882]

Originally Posted by The Goon

Right now he's burning all his crack-smoking videos before officially declaring.

At least, that's what he should be doing.

I sat beside him at the theatre for Austin Powers Goldmember - he loved the bit with "smoke and a pancake"

I don't listen to Rutherford anymore - is he neutral on Nenshi so far?

[Northendzone]

As a complete aside, I hope I look that young when I am in my sixties......

[Cube Inmate]

My Rutherford tolerance waxes and wanes, depending on the particular controversy he's covering at the time. Anyone who can p*ss off Alison Redford enough that she would completely boycott his show is ok in my books. But regardless of the topic, I have concluded that he is a relatively unintelligent guy, pretty ignorant in a lot of ways, and (probably) has terrible political instincts. That, combined with the way that the social-media-campaign would tear him to pieces, makes me hope he doesn't run and that we get a *real* challenger to Nenshi instead.