Well, here we are a full 60 days into the "Mess in the Gulf". I just made up that catch phrase, on the fly...like it? I did that the same way that BP is directing the recovery effort. On the fly. Seat of their pants.

It is impossible for me to believe that the United States government is allowing BP to continue to oversee the mess that BP itself created. The fox in charge of the hen house. All of the information I have access to seems to indicate that BP is criminally liable for the disaster and subsequent damage. They should be placed into receivership forthwith and the handling of the recovery effort should be placed in more capable hands. Namely Exxon/Mobil, Sunoco, Shell or any of a number of other oil and gas exploration companies. These companies have no vested interest in the matter and won't be engaged in a constant process of ass covering with every single decision that they make.

Tony Hayward is a joke. He is a mealy mouthed fool who never should be allowed to run a gas station no less a major oil and gas company. His performance yesterday in front of the House Energy and Commerce Committee helped to destroy any remaining credibility. To deny knowledge of operations and decision making process's surrounding the largest and most technologically challenging well ever drilled is unbelievable. I suspect that a case can be made for a charge of lying to Congress.

I don't expect for a CEO to have hands on control of low level day to day functions but I do expect him  to appoint qualified people to oversee the process. People with the ability to tell right from wrong. People who can step back and see the big picture. It is obvious that Mr. Hayward has seen fit to leave the same corner cutting cretins in place and has done nothing to excise the culture of corruption in that rotten organization.

Todays special numbers are 60, 1,000,000 and 760. 60 for the number of days that this gusher has spewed its poison and death into the gulf. 1 million for the the maximum number of gallons of oil RECOVERED per day thus far by BP. The rest is on the shores, in the waters and on in the decaying bodies of all of the dead sea life in the Gulf of Mexico. And 760 for the number of flagrant violations for which BP has been fined for in the past 3 years of service. All while it's piers have been charged with less than 30....collectively.

Definition of the word Flagrant

• S: (adj) crying, egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank (conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible) "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" http://wordnet.princeton.edu/

I like "rank treachery".

It seems to fit.

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/06/bp-violations-and-spills/

http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2010/06/17/HP/R/34337/BP+CEO+Spill+in+the+Gulf+of+Mexico+never+should+have+happened+and+I+am+deeply+sorry.aspx