Oh Canada!
mikethemadbiologist | September 1, 2011The old saw that 'we hang together or we get hung separately' is a perfect description of how the left has disintegrated into irrelevance. Too often, groups will focus on modest gains for their own narrow constituency, while selling out other allies. Over the long term, each component of the coalition is so weakened, making it impossible to have any influence. Case in point: union support for the Keystone XL pipeline (which will ship oil extracted from tar sands in Canada). John Aravosis explains:
But I'd like to highlight the environment vs. "jobs" controversy, and the union's role in…
mikethemadbiologist | May 8, 2010(from here)
Occasionally, The Boston Globe isn't worthless and actually increases stuff the Mad Biologist knows. Take this piece about Newfoundland:
As recently as the 1940s, Newfoundland was a self-governing British dominion completely independent of Canada. When it became clear that Newfoundland would be better off joining a larger nation, most Newfoundlanders began looking south. They wanted to attach themselves to the United States, not Canada.
Hunh. But those damn crafty Canucks! Bastards:
Polls taken in 1947 report that 80 percent of Newfoundland's population wanted to become…