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.

I'm curious how Md's two big races will turn out, but I'm not overly tied up in them. I have a preference, but ....well, my reaction will either be mild smugness (hey I actually voted for someone who won!) or "that sucks." I think I'm still riding the high of not having Schaefer on the ticket.

I just got socked with an evil headache. No idea where it came from. Having both eyes open hurts. But I will vote!

bon bon has coughing cancer?

I know...please, please, pray for me and my phlegm. Cuz there's a lot of it.

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

From the 30 Rock episode a few weeks ago.

ION, Britney Spears has filed for divorce.

My faith in humanity, shattered! SHATTERED!

ION, Britney Spears has filed for divorce.

Oh, look, it's breaking news on CNN. I guess it's not like there's anything else going on today.

ION, Britney Spears has filed for divorce.

I just loaded CNN to poke at their election coverage, and Britney is their BREAKING NEWS.

Argh.

It's the November Unsurprise.