Boston and beyond.....

The crescendo of last weeks national emotions have fallen as quickly as they rose. With some magnificent help from the FBI the brothers Tsarnaev have been neutralized after managing to burn their initials into the flesh of Boston. The remainder of Americans join Bostonians in awesome praise of the coordination and cooperation exemplified by the various levels of police from national to municipal.

 

There was some speculation that the surviving Chechnyan may be tried by a military tribunal. That ended abruptly when the lad was read his Miranda Rights. He will certainly lawyer up and will probably tell all in return for not being executed.

 

In the meantime, the broken lives and limbs are healing with boatloads of spunk shown by some of the invalided victims.

 

In his own curing move, O is off to West, Texas for a memorial service for the victims of the fertilizer plant meltdown. West is but a few hours from where we live. It is a suburb of Waco which, after having visited the city, is on my drive by list. I cannot imagine West would have had much to offer the visitor. From what I understand, it is pretty much gone. Sad.

 

Given the rate at which we have been shooting each other and blowing things up here in the USA, it should not be long before another incident occurs. The Canadians just caught a group of would-be terrorists plotting to blow up some Canadian trains. I cannot understand why as Canada as a nations still retains it virginity.