Open letter to my office neighbors:

I am sorry. So sorry for how much I am coughing today. I had no way of knowing that cough syrup was so pointless, since I know it can get you high.

On the other hand, you all deserve to close your doors maybe once in a while so I don't have to hear "That's HYSTERICAL! THAT'S HYSTERICAL!" and/or your fantasy NBA draft picks and/or your overuse of the speakerphone.

I hope my lesson in non-stop hacking teaches you all how to use your doors. TIA!

Me

bon bon has coughing cancer?

Oh bon - I love your tag. Where's it from?

I'm trying hard not to be too hopeful about any results. This has lead to me being a sobbing crushed soul the morning after previous elections. It's only 2/4/6 years until I get to try and throw da bums out again.

It pains me to vote for Republicans since so many of them have done me wrong, but I can't vote for the clearly deficient candidate either. I just wasn't raised that way.

I did giggle a bit when I saw Mark Foley on my electronic screen. I wonder how that race will go. The Negron (his replacement) ads have been really nasty. The Democratic challenger to Foley didn't have a shot before the scandal. Now poor Mahoney is being crucified to try and keep the district Republican. I've not heard any recent polls so I don't have any expectations. (see above trying not to get hopes up)

ION, Britney Spears has filed for divorce.

I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked.

Aw man, I thought those kids were gonna make it.

And the String Cheese Incident is also breaking up.

Consider my world rocked.

Now here's something slimy and illegal that it never occured to me that the Republicans would do:

In an apparent violation of FCC rules, conservative talk radio station KFBK 1530 AM in Sacramento transmitted a paid political advertisement to an unknown number of other stations in the area, using the Federal Emergency Alert System (EAS), thus automatically forcing the ad onto the stations' airwaves. This is according to a press release issued today by KDVS-FM, a non-commercial community station in Davis that received and inadvertently aired the transmission.

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This morning Monday, Nov. 6th at 10:02 am my radio station recieved an Emergency Alert System (EAS) test that came through with a radio advertisement for republican senate cantidate Dick Mountjoy coming on after the familiar "this concludes this test..." message.

EAS is a system where two or three stations per county are Local Primary (or LP) stations that iniciate system tests or actual warning messages in times of an emergeny such as a natural disaster. The alert is broadcast over their normal signal in the form of data tones followed by a voice or video message pertaining to the alert (or a voice saying "this has been a test.. etc). Radio stations are required to have an EAS unit that listens to these LP stations, and when an EAS broadcast comes through it interrupts the normal air feed to rebroadcast whatever is coming from the LP signal.

Upon further investigation we discovered that the message originated from local Clear Channel owned conservative talk radio station KFBK in Sacramento. We gave them a call inquiring about the incident and they admitted to broadcasting the message as a result of a "training snafu".

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Oh, noes! Their love was so cracker!

I was gonna edit that last for clarity, then I realized it was a good comment for Brit & K Fed, or something named String Cheese Incident.