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  3. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/05/20/the-gulf-oil-slick-from-space/#comment-394322
    “Near where I live is the largest oil spill in the world. It is estimated at around 2 TRILLION barrels. It’s all soaked into the ground, and both flora and fauna don’t grow properly in that area. If you fly over, you can CLEARLY see the oil sheens in lakes and rivers.”
    “We are doing our level best to clean up this massive spill. Every day, hundreds of huge loaders pile the contaminated soil and sand into trucks, and it gets a steam bath to liberate the petroleum. Cleaned sand and soil is returned and the completed areas are a boon to local wildlife. It’s a huge job that will likely take over a century to complete. Luckily, the extracted petroleum can be sold to offset the cost of cleanup.”
    “Unfortunately, the same people who are wetting their panties about the spill in the Gulf are doing their best to stop us from cleaning up this mess. For some strange reason, they feel that we have to live with this massive spill in the middle of our region, stinking it up, polluting groundwater, rivers and streams, and stunting forest growth.”
    “Please, write your elected representatives and ask, no Demand, if necessary, BEG them to support our cleanup efforts at Athabasca. Don’t just do it for Alberta, do it for the CHILDREN. Your children. So they too can know the joy of filling a car with pure, clean, natural Gasoline, while simultaneously providing plant fertilizer for our crops.”

  4. I’d say that entire album is in my favorites Vίtruvius…
    “Yesterday the Chavez government stole 120 tons of food stuff from Polar (in English here). Today it stole 173,000 liters of cooking oil from Cargill. Both robberies were perpetrated by the same Nazional Guard General, Bohorquez, who lamely says that the seized items will be sold in Barquisimeto through the recently nationalized EXITO hypermarkets, and of course the Mercal/PDVAL system. That these unjustified seizures will benefit the Barquisimeto people while bringing food shortages to those living around who depend on the Barquisimeto warehouses for their supply does not seem to perturb Bohorquez.”
    “In Venezuela today, when you ship a truckload of food you must report it through the web to the government through the SICA page. And when the recipient receives it then it should also be reported. Let’s not enter into the details on how much and how big you must be to report, suffice to say that Polar and Cargill must report even the lint they carry in the trucks.”
    “People outside of Venezuela have no idea how difficult it has become for the private sector to work, though statistics groups are now consistently ranking Venezuela in the lowest echelons of productivity, competitiveness and other commercial indicators associated with poor and dysfunctional countries.”
    There are now 273 food items which are on this controlled list, the list of food items that are constantly monitored by the Chavez gov’t… simply, to control.
    http://daniel-venezuela.blogspot.com/2010/05/sada-sica-and-more-ways-to-rob-hard.html#more

  7. Not quite a juxtapose; more a reversal of fortune. What’s funnier is the timeline of events.
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/22/AR2010052201503.html
    http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/05/19/14009121.html
    [ Reader Tips, eljay, should include a description of the tip and/or the links provided, per the Principles  & Guidelines (5), such as (in this case) letting us know that this tip is about the cancellation of the plan to use hair to help soak up the Gulf oil spill. Thanks ~Vitruvius ]

  10. For years, liberals have referred to Mark Steyn in condescending terms, usually along the lines of “that moron Mark Steyn” or, as one lady wrote without any supporting evidence whatsoever, “the incredibly stupid Mark Steyn”. Well, below is a link to an article appearing on the web site of the New York Times no less. The piece could have been written by the great imbecile himself. Although it lacks his slashing wit, its content confirms what Steyn has been saying about Europe all along.
    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/world/europe/23europe.html?hp

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