Large and Firery Factory Explosion in St. Louis

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Friday June 24, 2005 · 2:07 PM PDT

2005/06/24 · 14:07

I was working away in my office when I heard the TV on out in our Operations area. It seems that a large plant/factory that makes Oxygen Tanks has caught fire and all the tanks started exploding sending them according to the CNN folks where I was watching coverage from coming in from a chopper.

Large and continuous balls of flame where leaping from this building with much the same coloration as the new color-scheme of Kos those morning. I promise I'm not being snarky as this has actually happened.

Here's the link from MSNBC....

Firey Blaze in St. Louis

When is it time to say Good bye Cruel/Bizzare/Insane USA?

Eckhart1234

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Saturday June 11, 2005 · 11:44 AM PDT

2005/06/11 · 11:44

I have been pondering something recently. I have an admission to a graudate program in Canada that's good for this year and I was going to but due to some debt I got into trying to fix the house up to sell it I had to get the school to give me a one year deferrment.

My pondering revolves around whether or not I should leave for school up there with some debt or stay here (in small town Tennessee) until August 06 when I would then leave debt free. Right now I'm working from the leave next year plan.

What scares me is the way we as a country are headed and how fast it seems we are headed there. Everyday I read here and other places how quickly we are descending. I'm just wondering when is it time to leave?

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HR 1268 with Real ID passes 100-0 in Senate!

Eckhart1234

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Tuesday May 10, 2005 · 3:27 PM PDT

2005/05/10 · 15:27

I was watching CSPAN 2 on the HR 1268 bill on the war appropriations bill in the Senate. I listened to several senators this afternoon railing on about how we needed good and reasonable debate about the Real ID rider to this bill was a down right travesty and shame. Harry Reid got up and gave a very nice speech just before Bill Frist got up and called for a vote on the bill which just finished by the way. It started at 5:50 PM EST and ended 30 minutes later just now at 6:20 PM EST.

The Final vote on Bill HR1268 with Real ID Rider is an unbelievable at least to me 100-0. THERE WAS NOT A SINGLE NAY IN THE CHAMBER. This to me is completely insane. All the democratic party names that we have come to hold as defenders of what is left of Truth, Justice, and the American Way all voted yes.

I sat there and listened with a completely sick feeling the more "Aye"'s that I heard. Clinton, Kerry, Boxer, Reid, Obama, Feingold all voted "Aye". Astounding, just Astounding. The question for me is What in the world do we do now?

Near Dictatorial Power for the DHS Secretary in Iraq Spending Bill

Eckhart1234

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Wednesday May 04, 2005 · 3:26 PM PDT

2005/05/04 · 15:26

Here's another little piece of the coming Fascist State.... Next week when the Senate comes back they will pass the Iraq/Afghanistan/Tsumnai appropriations bill with a terrible REAL ID rider. Can't you just hear it now from the Republicans how could you vote against the troops and disaster victims.

It sets up national standards for drivers licenses. Makes it harder for people to gain asylum in the US because they have to prove they are persecuted. And my personal favorite it gives the Sec of DHS the power to waive and all laws to help build border protections. These waivers can only be appealed directly to the Supreme Court in the case that the DHS Sec does something against the Constitution.

The Conference report on this bill (HR 1268) was just released yesterday night. It seems the 2 houses have to come to a deal with with devil on this awful rider to an essential piece of legislation. More after the jump. Read More

American Expats is your life any better since you moved?

Eckhart1234

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Sunday March 06, 2005 · 3:11 PM PST

2005/03/06 · 15:11

This is my first diary here on DailyKos since emerging from being a lurker. I'm sure this diary will slide away quickly but I wanted to see if I could get a few comments in the meantime. I've been curious about something as I see the US slide further and further downhill. Since I'm going to move to Vancouver for graduate school in September I have a question for other American Expats out there.

My question is has your life been better or worse sense you moved? Do you feel safer, more secure, more at home in your new country of residence?

The reason I'm curious is because as a liberal gay man in middle Tennessee I'm ever presently surrounded by people and a government that just doesn't fit for me. What I would really like is for what I feel on the inside to be matched by the government of the country I live in. I was able to do this with religion by becoming a Unitarian Universalist and leaving Roman Catholicism. I curious if you could do it by switching countries too. Thanks for your time and whatever comments if any appear.

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