Posted on 12/05/2004 8:08:28 AM PST by Dog Gone
Thank you for that insightful comment. The leftie press is just like the energizer bunny and keeps on tickin'and spewing out the saaame old rubbbish.
Geez, thin skinned liberal. As a native New Yorker, I lived in the People's Republic of Massachusetts. The residents (called "Massholes" by residents of every bordering state) have a very similar "sleeping with the elephant" issue with New York. It's a shame the way they focus on every way in which they come up short when compared to NYers. Did they celebrate the Patriots' superiority to the Giants, or the Celtics' superiority to the Knicks? No, they focussed on the Red Sox, who were then plainly inferior to the Yankees. I will admit I am glad I wasn't there ths fall. But even now that they are champions, they focus on A-Rod, not their own victory.
They proclaim themselves the "Hub of the Atlantic," a name which seems better fit to New York. Or London. Or Paris. Or Lisbon. Or Lagos, Nigeria. It's a very pretty town. But it's simply a small town compared to New York. Big deal. They even named a three-story wharf, "The World Trade Center." SO rather than focus on "We're pretty," or "you can walk on our streets," or "a taste of Europe in America," or "Hey, we KEPT some of our historical buildings," they compare themselves to New York in the only way they will certainly objectively lose: size. NAd instead turned all their local boosterism and civic pride into hating New York.
But you know what? I lived with it. I even enjoyed it, taking it as a compliment. Massachusetts and New York will always be politically aligned (unfortunately, for ill). They will always visit each others cities. They will always be two states as close to each other as North Dakota and South Dakota. And when the World Trade Center (the real one) came down, many Bostonians actually sincerely routed for the Yankees to win the World Series.
Of course, the Yankees haven't won since. But maybe that's what it took for the curse to be broken: Boston lost its inferiority complex.
However, those that are the avowed socialist seem to never change - much like the left in the USA - seems to be sickness they can't overcome.
what makes you think america wants you to return or maintain your citizenship?
>> They describe Canada as "sleeping with an elephant." <<
The funny thing (and it's funny because I never even thought of "Democrats" or "Republicans") is that my mental image was that of an ass sleeping next to a Republican.
>> They describe Canada as "sleeping with an elephant." <<
The funny thing (and it's funny because I never even thought of "Democrats" or "Republicans") is that my mental image was that of an ass sleeping next to an elephant.
NOW I make the Freudian slip.
there is a good article at the top of this thread that describes the widespread anti-americanism in cantada. you may want to read it.
"beer and doughnuts"
MMMMMMMMMM, truly a much better combo than one might think!
And, what was Bali's foreign policy that had the terrorists blow up one of their hotels & murder 100+ people?
Canada has been hiding behind the security skirt of America for years.
Europe has tried repeatedly to ban imports of American beef because of such scares that America "has mad cows".
good for you, LOC1!
...and some Canadians kill good guys as well...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1294816/posts
...pithy, and they have no b#lls.
Maybe one day we'll see an article in the Comical detailing that "anti-Zionism" really is "anti-Semitism".
The attack on Bali targeted Australian tourists because Australia was partnering with the United States in the war in Iraq.
Sort of makes it clear that the terrorists see it as "You are with us or against us" too.
Just ask Spain. Their voters panicked and switched sides.
Quit trying to analyze it. The Canadian /American relationship has nothing to do with envy or power. It is all about trying to figure out who and what we are. Over the past 30 years, our strong inherited cultural ties to Great Britain were severed in order to appease Quebecers. The Liberals tried to create a new Canadian identity based on tolerance, multi-culturalism, inclusion and extensive cradle to grave social programs managed by an ever expanding Federal bureaucracy. This exercise if failing miserably. Many of the misguided see America and Americans marching to a different drumbeat and must somehow rationalize why. The weakkneed and faint of heart "Blame America" while the inverse is true south of the border. It must make Bin-Laden and his followers tickled pink to see the rifts his actions have created amongst traditional allies as they try to figure out "what the hell happened"?. The sooner we all become one nation the better for all of us. If we are not Americans then what the hell are we, cultural orphans?
Because if they don't misovercomplicatate it, they can't claim that there is no way you can understand (so they have to explain it to you).
It is just another symptom of the disease.
Yes, thank you. My question was rhetorical.
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