A BLOODHOUND, A BLOODHOUND: MY KINGDOM FOR A BLOODHOUND !!

In all of the post-manhunt celebration for the Boston marathon bombers capture--dead or alive (one of each), there have been few complaints heard about a card the authorities probably had in hand but for some reason, or due to some logistical circumstance--they didn’t play it.




I’m talking about a BLOODHOUND !!! Why didn’t the FBI, the Boston police, or somebody--anybody bring one of these dogs to the scene of suspect #2’s disappearance near where he abandoned his stolen car. Let the dog sniff around at the fresh blood there and watch him take you without fail to where the suspect was hiding.



I’m no expert, but it seems like a no-brainer. Use dog, and suspect is virtually a guaranteed capture in less than an hour. Or don’t use dog , and see what you got--an entire metropolitan area shut down all day Friday and into the night.



So why hasn’t the mainstream media even touched on this subject? Conspiracy theorists might say it was for the tv ratings. People around the nation, maybe even the world, were glued to their tv sets (if not on the Internet) for hours at a time while the manhunt was active. It was as mesmerizing as O.J. Simpson’s Bronco chase !!



Nobody wanted a little old sniffling dog to come in and steal the limelight. That’s old-fashioned homeland security, not the kind of high tech equipment that’s going to make the big bucks for the 21st century military industrial complex



For an idea of just how effective these dogs are check out this website: MythBusters Episode 148: Hair of the Dog. Link to: mythbustersresults.com/hair-of-the-day..



Even if you decide to send a dog out there with a couple of fully-armored handlers, and a dozen or so of your best shooters wearing night vision goggles, you can still do a neighborhood check at more or less the same time. There was no shortage of law enforcement personnel at the sight. And, like with walking and chewing gum, one activity need not interfere with the other.

Lost in the Gulf of Mexico

Odd Things: Paradise(s) Lost
Has anybody else noticed the strange similarity between fact and fiction in the news. It's a real "synchronicity"!

5/23/10: in TV's most awaited show in recent memory--Last Episode of Lost (TV's top drama--filmed in Hawaii)--the focal point was a large stone plug in the Earth that was pulled out by the character Desmond--releasing a large amount of radiant energy--and subsequently put back in by the show's lead character (Jack). The plug site was deep in a cave, accessed by a running brook including a waterfall estimated at 50-100feet.

This aired about 5 weeks after the tragic Gulf of Mexico Oil Rig Disaster that is the leading news story of the year in US. Most nights the networks lead with it in their evening news and the situation only worsens. The oil company has been unable to plug up the oil-spewing hole on the gulf floor--about 500 feet below sea level--or effectively clean up the mess. Nothing they've tried (steel condom, drinking straw, toxic dispersant, blame game, mud pies) has worked very well--as of 5/30.

In the finale of Lost, the heroic plugging/unplugging is seen as pivotal to the islanders as they eagerly ask one another "did it work?" or state "it worked" or "it didn't work." There was another important hole in the ground in an earlier episode this season. One or more of the characters fell/jumped down into it in order to pull some sort of lever that had something to do with blowing the island up (The show was notoriously hard to pin down).

Of course, the final episode of Lost was surely written and probably filmed prior to the oil eruption. You'd almost think--wishfully--that the oil blowout was part of another plot twist. But, alas, the show is over, while the reality of the Big Spill gets more horrible every day.