On Friday, the Prince and his Royal entourage left the confines of their Royal palace on the Potomac and traveled on two separate winged steed (one to carry the Royal canine) to the far-off place of Bar Harbor, Maine.  Upon  their arrival Friday afternoon, the Royal family “took the air” and amused themselves by biking, hiking and boating their way around Mount Desert Island, the third-largest island on the Eastern Seaboard and home to the 47,000-acre Acadia National Park.

After they disembarked from their winged steeds  on Friday, the Royal family exuberantly participated in  90-minute bike ride on the verdant wooded trails surrounding Witch Hole Pond at the northern end of the island.   Then they proceeded to enjoy a leisurely stroll on Cadillac Mountain, at 1,530 feet the highest peak on the East Coast.  This was followed by a stop for ice cream  in downtown Bar Harbor, where the Prince graciously took a momentary break from his coconut ice cream cone to be photographed with the local gentry.

Their first day of their Royal vacation ended with a National Park Service boat ride on Frenchman Bay and a waterfront dinner at Stewman’s Lobster Pound.    Deciding to sup outdoors,  The Royal family, who arrived at the restaurant via boat, sat at a table on a pier overlooking the bay.  The Prince and Princess dined on lobster, while their daughters shared a shrimp basket, according to restaurant manager Jeff Buffington, who also noted that the Prince “shook hands with everybody” and was “very friendly” to the surprised diners on the pier. 

 How lovely for them.

On Saturday, the Royal Family kept up their pursuit of the outdoor life with a morning of tennis at the Bar Harbor Club, an elegant compound constructed by J.P. Morgan in 1929.  In the afternoon, they sojourned to Southwest Harbor, where they grabbed a spot of lunch at the waterfront Claremont Hotel before inspecting the Bass Harbor Head lighthouse, which sits atop a rocky precipice on the southern tip of the island.

The Royal canine, Bo, joined in at the next stop, an afternoon stroll along the rocky Ship Harbor trail. The Royal family sauntered for about an hour, taking breaks to skip rocks along the water, play with Bo and chat with the families of the local gentry, according to Katie McCormick-Lelyveld, her Majesty’s press secretary.

This Royal Holiday Tour follows one the Royal family took last summer to Yellowstone National Park and Grand Canyon National Park, where whitewater rafting and peach-picking were among the activities they engaged in to show their connection with the common people.

The Royal family’s other recent holiday travels included Martha’s Vineyard, Hawaii and a brief Memorial Day trip to Chicago.  In all, the Royal Family has gone on holiday 7 times since that tawdry affair in the Gulf of Mexico began in April.

Meanwhile, humble fishermen in the fiefdom of  Mississippi are upset that under the terms of BP’s $20 billion oil spill fund, money they earn doing the mundane chore of clean-up will be subtracted from their claim against British Petroleum.

These common fishermen reacted in such a manner after Lord Kenneth Feinberg, His Majesty’s official in charge of administering the compensation fund, announced the decision at a town hall meeting with the serfs in Biloxi on Friday.

Some of the common people walked out of the meeting, protesting that it was pointless to work under the Vessels of Opportunity program, established by BP to help clean up the damage from the tawdry affair in the Gulf of Mexico.  Oil stopped flowing from the leak on Thursday.

Tuget Nguyen, who works with family members as a fisherman in the royal hamlet of Pass Christian, Mississippi proclaimed:

I am furious about this.  If he takes away the money we are making from BP when we get our claims, then nobody is going to work for BP to clean up this oil and we will not rent our boats to BP either. It is not fair.

Thousands of the common people who toil as fishermen in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, are out of work because His Majesty’s minions have closed much of the Gulf to fishing.  instead, these serfs are working for the Vessels of Opportunity program, skimming oil from the water and protecting coastlines.

Lord Feinberg told the meeting of the rabble:

Vessels of Opportunity workers can file a claim, but we will subtract the amount they are paid from BP from their claim. That is how it has to work …. Of course you can file a claim. You must file a claim, but you cannot get paid twice.

Fishermen garner between $1,000 and $3,000 a day renting their boats under the program and individuals can earn upward of $1,400 a day. Charter boat captains can make even more.

The figures represent less than what could be earned at the peak of a shrimping season, curtailed because of the spill, but more than fishermen who have claimed against BP for economic losses have been paid.

Because of this, the program has created division in some communities between those serfs lucky enough to be working in the program and others still without a job.  Fishermen from this hamlet also complain that outsiders have profited from the program at the expense of those who have lost their livelihood.

Larry Dossett, a commoner from the hamlet of Biloxi said.

This (Lord Feinberg’s ruling) means I am actually losing money because I have to pay my crew out of the money BP is paying me to clean up this oil.  If he only pays me the difference, I am in the hole. We are financially dead already.

Have no fear, lowly serf.  His Lordship, Barack Hussein Obama, (Peace be unto him)  may graciously visit your hamlet soon.  Perhaps while there, he will squat his royal personage down to humbly pick up and play with tar balls.  And you will profit by him simply being near as those in Maine have this weekend.  Won’t that be simply lovely?

Sources:  drudgereport.com, washingtonpost.com, yahoo.com