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Worse than the NAFTA superhighway and U.S. capitulation
This is about Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, from Frommer's Guide:
Bald eagles have become so plentiful around the lake that they are exported to the United States to restock natural habitats.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on September 4, 2009 at 12:10 PM in Science | Permalink
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Southeast Alaska has so many bald eagles that the novelty of seeing them starts to wear off after a while. Fortunately for the eagles, most tourists aren't there long enough for this to happen.
Posted by: Sean P. at Sep 4, 2009 12:31:18 PM
I knew it had to be there.
http://vodpod.com/watch/1694846-bald-eagle-toupes
Posted by: Andrew at Sep 4, 2009 1:16:30 PM
I'm sorry, maybe I'm a bit slow today, but I don't get the "NAFTA superhighway and U.S. capitulation" reference. Can someone enlighten me?
Posted by: Z. at Sep 4, 2009 1:26:23 PM
Z: he's referring to the supposed conspiracy to turn NAFTA into a political union. In this case, he's implying that supplying a US cultural symbol from Cape Breton to the US is some sort of assimilation. US = 11th province or something similar.
Posted by: MattM at Sep 4, 2009 1:38:21 PM
Obviously we need to invade and claim this vital natural resource. What's America without bald eagles? Should have gone with Franklin's damn turkey.
Plus, we're 0-1 with Canada on wars, gotta even up the series.
Posted by: Brian Moore at Sep 4, 2009 2:32:01 PM
Isn't it more like 0-3? Arnold failed to take Quebec, War of 1812, and Polk claimed "54 40 or fight" and then gave up without Canada having to fire a shot.
Posted by: 8 at Sep 4, 2009 2:59:18 PM
I think it was more like "54 40 or..., ahhh, F**k it"
Posted by: jimi at Sep 4, 2009 3:26:34 PM
"without Canada having to fire a shot."
You mean Great Britain, which surrendered territory not too much smaller than France and the UK combined without the Americans having to fire a shot.
Posted by: BKarn at Sep 4, 2009 3:38:46 PM
BKarn is correct, we are 0 and 2 with Canada.
Posted by: Doc Merlin at Sep 4, 2009 6:57:26 PM
I don't think that there are many Canadians who would spend much time as far north as 54'40, so you can hardly blame the U.S. for reconsidering that one.
Posted by: Geoff NoNick at Sep 4, 2009 9:49:26 PM
See, the Canadians beat us so badly that upstanding Americans like me can't even count properly any more! And they've stolen our eagles.
I think they beat us in the South Park movie too.
Posted by: Brian Moore at Sep 5, 2009 12:03:41 PM
