20 April 2013 (11:03 UTC-07 Tango)/09 Jumada t-Tania 1434/31 Farvardin 1391/11 Bing-Chen (3rd month) 4711

While almost all the people of the U.S. had their attention focused on the Boston Bombing drama on Friday, President Barack  Obama quietly declared Texas to be under federal State of Emergency!

I find that odd.  Obama says it’s to do with the fertilizer factory explosion in West. But that’s over with isn’t it?  It’s just a matter of searching for missing people and investigating why it happened.  Why do you need to declare a State of Emergency for that?   Or is there something we haven’t been told?

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) says the declaration will help them assist in disaster relief (yeah, we know their track record for that).  Do they really need a federal declaration of State of Emergency for that?