When The Real World News Sounds Remarkably Like The Onion

[Elainemmbell at aol.com]

Okay, let's parse the absurdities here, Fellow Conspiracy-Theorists: sign up 
now for a government sponsored service to relieve you of calls to your home 
and give this service, in so doing, your home phone number AND your email!  So 
now you won't be bothered by $7.00 an hour "Miss Mitchells" wanting you to buy 
TV Guide, BUT the Federal Trade Commission (and whomever they sell the list 
to) will have your email and home phone number handy--in case of? What?  
National emergency?  Literary transgression?  Diversification into magazine sales?  
HOW WEIRD IS THIS?!

NY times excerpt from June 28, 2003

People eager to block telemarketing calls overwhelmed a government Web site 
that began accepting phone numbers yesterday for a national do-not-call 
registry. From 12:01 a.m. yesterday to 5 p.m., 735,000 numbers were registered 
through both a toll-free phone service and the Web site, according to the Federal 
Trade Commission, which operates the registry.     
    



Elaine M.M. Bell, Writer
(860) 523-9225



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