That Hayward Yacht Race? Sponsored by J.P. Morgan. here's a pic.

[dixiegrrrrl]

The sun rises before the 5am start during the JP Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race, with The yacht "Bob" owned by BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward, left, Saturday June 19, 2010, near Cowes, Isle of Wight, off the south coast of England.

[RB TexLa]

1. Looks like a fun time

[Greenpeach]

2. Gee,

the water looks so nice and clear.

[leeroysphitz]

3. Looks like Tony finally has his life back...

[niyad]

13. that was what a reporter on aljazeera said last night--loved it.

[JNelson6563]

17. Hilarious sig-line pic ya got there.

In a black humor sort of way, of course. :toast:

[time_has_come]

4. Saw a guy on CBC today from the Financial Times, and he made a point that the guy deserves a bit of

time off.

That you can't expect him to work 60+ days straight without a break.
I know....the Gulf isn't getting a break...the people losing their lives don't get a break from that. I hear those voices. I hear voices? oh no.
I'm undecided on it. It was terrible PR though.
And I think this dude will have his own paparazzi for a while

[niyad]

14. yes, doing photo ops is sooooo tiring. can't see that he was actually WORKING--he sure as hell

wasn't out there cleaning up that damned oil, or doing anything useful. by his own admission, he doesn't know anything, can't do anything. so from what, exactly, does he need a break?

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. Yeah, I guess he does need time off.

After all, he is only paid 6 million a year.
Working 60 straight days deserves a lot more money than that.

And since he admitted at the hearings he had nothing to do with the oil spill,
and was apparently kept in the dark about all problems on the rig,
and was not a part of any "decision making process", there is no point in his hanging around
our destroyed ecosystem.

I am sure that the folks on the gulf who cannot sail or shrimp or fish in our once pristine Gulf won't mind Tony breezing around in his own yacht, chumming with the other rich kids.

[valerief]

5. The big boat on the left is named Tarball. nt

[Oilwellian]

6. I was wondering how he was maintaining such a nice tan

I thought perhaps he played golf. Maybe we can convince JP Morgan to hold this race in the Gulf next year.

[Beacool]

7. This is as silly as those who are berating Obama for going golfing.

Does anyone really expect either man to be working 24 hrs. a day?

BTW, beautiful pic

:eyes:

[Hannah Bell]

8. If I ran a company that had just spilled oil all over my town, I wouldn't be seen racing

sailboats, that's for sure.

I'd make damn sure everyone knew I was working on it except for when I was sleeping & eating.

BP's done way more damage than that.

"You can't expect..."

Wrong. I *do* expect.

[Beacool]

10. What BP did is egregious, but I don't expect the CEO to hide in a cave on his day off.

Ditto goes for Obama and even Bush (who stopped golfing for a couple of years due to the criticism).

:shrug:

[Hannah Bell]

12. I must be old school. I think after one has just despoiled the gulf of mexico & ruined the

livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people, also killed some, it's poor taste (to say the least) to engage in conspicuous displays of wealth on one's "day off". or even to take a "day off" in public.

[nc4bo]

9. Gee, they get to play in un-oiled waters. Even dogs like these don't shit where they eat. nt

[eowyn_of_rohan]

22. + + +

[leftstreet]

11. (the suckage aside, that's a BEAUTIFUL photograph)

Why can't Skinner give away a yacht during fund drives? Screw iPads.

[cwydro]

16. I think Heyward is a psychopath.

I really do.

No one could be this tone deaf.

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. Remember Leona Helmsly?

"Only little people pay taxes".

I think there is a class of people who are indeed tone deaf. Perhaps also sociopathic,
and a few other labels.
They move in circles that allow in very little of the "small people" world.

Remember how shocked people were about Barbara Bush's comment re: the people in the Kingdome?
The sick thing is SHE had no idea what was wrong with what she said.

We may be under-estimating the number of truly tone deaf people there are.

[cwydro]

19. Yeah,

Sadly, you are absolutely right about that...

[FailureToCommunicate]

20. Well, Tony no longer needs to fret about his mansion in Kent: He paid off the mortgage with

sale of -some - of his BP stock several weeks before the platform disaster. Must be nice...

[TexasObserver]

21. JP Morgan is BP's largest stockholder.