how to rescue it. and by the way, it is packed with 150,000 gallons of diesel fuel and drilling oil. say hello to your new disgusting neighbor. late last week as shell was trying to tow that drilling rig back to the arctic, that was a real surprise in december, all 18 workers on board the rig had to be evacuated to safety. and then the mission to tow the rig itself to safety turned into a disaster. first, the vessel trying to tow the rig lost the connection to the rig in the high winds and choppy seas. then that towing vessel saw four of its engines fail. then they failed the first, second, third, fourth, try. then a second vessel was brought in to help. it was forced to cut its connection to the rig because its own crew was put in danger. and as a result of all that, the shell rig was left floating alone in the ocean, and it slammed into sitkalidak island, where it now sits damaged, holding on to the toxic damage.
let s fight fat with alli. . okay, map time. this right here is the united states mainland, the lower 48 as it is sometimes known. about a thousand miles off the west coast sits a small island here off the coast of alaska. it is called sitkalidak island, which is not inhabited. the area is home to 200 people, and home to an endangered sea otter species, home to one of the most important sites in alaska. now, it is also home to this. a $300 million shell oil drilling rig that has just crashed onto its shore. today is wednesday, the rig
okay, map time. this right here is the united states mainland, the lower 48 as it is sometimes known. about a thousand miles off the west coast sits a small island here off the coast of alaska. it is called sitkalidak island, which is not inhabited. the area is home to 200 people, and home to an endangered sea otter species, home to one of the most important sites in alaska. now, it is also home to this. a $300 million shell oil drilling rig that has just crashed onto its shore. today is wednesday, the rig crash-landed onto this island on monday. nobody seems to have any idea
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0 he was house majority leader for the republican party for eight years. that means he was the number one republican in the house. that should have put him in line to be speaker of the house if anything happened to the guy above him. but when something did happen to the guy above him, dick armey never got the job. it was newt gingrich who had been the number one in the house. he had been the speaker while dick armey was the number two republican in the house. and newt gingrich did get thrown out by his own house republicans in 1998. dick armey was next in line for the speaker s job when newt gingrich was thrown out. but they threw dick armey over as well. mr. armey never got the top job. he then left and took a very sweet and highly paid job as a lobbyist, which led to his even sweeter job with freedomworks, which has now led to the sweetest job of all, which is getting paid $8 million to please not come to work anymore. what happened to dick armey and what happened to newt gingrich ha