" -- Washington DC -- This has the makings to be the greatest ongoing concert series ever to be seen on this Earth just to entertain one man - all paid for by the American taxpayer."Just another little story you're never gonna see on CBC.
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RELATED: Did you hear the one...
...about the "Hope & Change" oil fairy?
U.S. ships are being outfitted this week with four pairs of the skimming booms airlifted from the Netherlands and should be deployed within days. Each pair can process 5 million gallons of water a day, removing 20,000 tons of oil and sludge.Oh yeah... here's the not-so-funny punchline...
At that rate, how much more oil could have been removed from the Gulf during the past month?
Three days after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, the Dutch government offered to help.Oh... my... gawd.
It was willing to provide ships outfitted with oil-skimming booms, and it proposed a plan for building sand barriers to protect sensitive marshlands.
The response from the Obama administration and BP, which are coordinating the cleanup: “The embassy got a nice letter from the administration that said, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,'”