I listened today at noon Mountain time when the Emergency Alert System test was being done, and it was on most of the stations I switched to on AM and FM both, but there was a lag time between stations, and a few stations audio feed was weaker than others, and some were broken audio, with gaps and lags like a file download that is lagging and hanging or both. Maybe a takeover of all broadcasts by the Fedgov is not as easy as we fear. Lets hope so !
The Russians are going to try to upload software to Phobos-Grunt in hopes it will respond and make the two burns to get into an elliptical orbit around Earth first, then a Mars Injection burn. They have four days till the spacecraft dies for lack of a charge in the batteries, because the solar arrays are not deployed and unable to recharge the batteries from the initial charge they had at launch. I hope the flight controllers and support people are able to salvage this mission; I would like to see it touch down on Phobos and gather soil samples and return them to Earth.
The furor over what Herman Cain did or did not do rages on. It seems like at least one and maybe more women are coming forth with external prompting, bribes, ect, instead of in and of themselves. They could have done this years ago, but didn't- Gee, I wonder why ? It does seem to me that he is being set up for a fall, and there is more to what is happening to him than what he is supposed to have done or not done as far as inappropriate conduct with these women is concerned. Or not. I personally like the public persona of Herman Cain, and if he is being set up for a fall and the powers that be really don't want him to be a serious challenger to President Obama, this troubles me enormously. What it says about those people who influence our pre election political process is likewise troubling. I wonder if our systems, political, economic and otherwise, are so corrupted that the only way to fix them is to get rid of them and start over, but the Occupy (fill in the blank) groups claim they are already doing this. Vox Populi, Vox Humbug. Maybe.
