America has scientists for one reason: to get out there with their instruments, their common sense, and to follow the scientific method, which does not allow for politics to intrude, to document, to verify and to report their observations.

Well, scientists went out there, took their instruments with them, and their common sense, and returned, and yesterday, Thursday, these scientists reported the obvious: There ain't no such a thing as Mary Poppins magic, you can't sprinkle a little sugar and hope for the bitterness to go away.

BP, that bunch of truth challenged individuals, and the government, (and we know what politics does to truth speaking), told Mr and Mrs America, and all the little boys and girls that the BP nasty old oil spill was gone, and that we, Americans, have nothing to be concerned about, for the Gulf is safe, the sea food is safe, and everything is just peaches with ice cream.

Scientists have charted a 22-mile oil plume in the Gulf.

Reports the Associated Press -- "A 22-mile-long invisible mist of oil is meandering far below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, where it will probably loiter for months, scientists reported Thursday in the first conclusive evidence of an underwater plume from the BP spill." See the video.