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The oil tanker spill in the Delaware River, caused by a Venezuelan-chartered single hull (cheap and old) tanker is worse than previously thought. First reported (in gallons - to make it seem bigger) at just over 700 barrels of oil, it is now suspected that as much as 11,000 barrels or more could be spilled. This may loom as a huge PR problem for the Castroite Chavez regime. The MSM will avoid referring to Venezuela's role as long as possible, but that's why the internet still has a role, even after Rather's resignation. Chavez: slayer of duckies and birdies.

Wanted: One fugitive rubber ducky, slightly battered by ocean currents and Arctic ice, made of hard plastic faded from yellow to white. Written across its chest: "The First Years." Reward: $100. A container filled with 29,000 plastic bath toys tumbled off a ship in early 1992 during a stormy voyage from China to the United States, and fell into the world's biggest bathtub. Some of the toys headed toward Southeast Asia, others toward the Arctic. By 2000, some of them should have arrived in the Atlantic, but the wayward toys have yet to be documented landing on East Coast beaches....