Ten minutes in the new AmeriKa

[Nightjock]

My wife works on the block next to where that explosion happened in New York. She is fine, but for ten agonizing minutes I could not reach her to make sure she was ok. All I saw was videotape of asbestos flying through the air, people running out of their shoes and a no good media I did not trust.
Now let me make this very clear. I am not the type to panic. I am proud to say in times of stress/crisis, my friends and family tend to look to me.
But in george bush's Amerika yesterday, where up is down, right is wrong, the constitution has been reduced to toilet paper, and we have so many new enemies in the world I was SO worried.
AND IT WAS DOWNRIGHT FRIGHTENING THAT I COULD NOT TRUST MY GOVERNMENT.

In that small amount of time I could not reach her, SO many awful thoughts flew through my head that I never would have thought of before the hijacked election of 2000.

I wished there was a President Kerry, Gore, Clinton, Obama, Kucinich or any other dem that would get on tv and tell me the truth!
But I learned a personal lesson yesterday. No matter who gets the nomination for our party, I am going to do my absolute FUCKING best to help get them elected. Although I have big problems with some of our candidates, I am sick of this shit now more than ever!

[liberal N proud]

1. Good to hear you wife is OK

Those must have been horrifying minutes that seemed like hours

[Nightjock]

2. It sure did

and after I found out she was fine I scolded her that she must have her cell phone on every moment she is gone from the house.

[The_Commonist]

3. My wife works about 15 blocks south of there...

... and had left work right before the story hit. She went and did some shopping, and got home about 7:30. When she got home, I asked her if the subways were delayed, or if she had any problems. She had no idea what I was talking about, and hadn't heard anything about the steam pipe.

New York is pretty damn big. Until you bump into people that you know, which happens all the time. Then, it's a small town.