‘Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy’.

Apropos to your Dear Leader's visit to mine, BP is the central issue, at least that's what the media claims. As you well know, the cap fits, but perhaps too well. Surface bubbles of methane are appearing within a two mile radius of the bore hole. Pessimists speculate that the methane gas is leaking lower down in the bore hole because the cap has acted to contain formation pressure that would ordinarily be expelled through the bore hole annulus. BP affirms, on the other hand, that the methane is unrelated to Deepwater Horizon issues. There is good reason for BP's stand. Namely, my Dear Leader insists that BP be penalized for its DH exploits based upon the volume of oil lost. This means that someone has to calculate what volumes have issued from the bore hole and to identify and calculate any related gas or oil losses around the formation. In short, the recovery effort has become politicized. I do hope our respective heads of state possess the wisdom to defuse the entire issue and put their minds to work at resolving issues of war and finance.

There is so much hype surrounding DH that I have given up efforts to identify the issues. There is no good reason for the UK and the US to begin eating each other's flesh as the media would have us believe. Such fabricated international acts of political cannibalism sell newspapers and air time. In addition, the press has managed to vilify otherwise decent people and institutions with reckless abandon. The American pubic has absolutely no idea what the main actors in this drama are other than through ingesting characterizations prepared and disseminated by the media.