A good week - FOR DEATH!

[tzikeh]

Death of Lester Maddox. Death of Strom Thurmond. Death of Sodomy laws.

And now?

Death of telemarketers calling me. Today is the first day you can register with DO NOT CALL, a service which telemarketers are legally bound to check and obey. If your name and number are on that list, they cannot call you ($11,000 fine if they do).

There are certain limits - companies can call you if you have purchased from them in the past 18 months, etc. - but this is a HUGE step in the right direction.

Comments

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I find this frustrating: I'd love to register, but it's a national thing, and not my nation. We might have gay marriage, but we don't have a list like this.

Soon, maybe. I hope.

On the whole, I wouldn't trade. But I am heartily sick of telemarketers.

I called a friend of mine a few days ago on the phone. The phone was answered with silence. Just as I was wondering whether to say "hello, hello, hello?" she said something - and then apologized, saying it was her tactic against telemarketers.

There are so many of them.

Of course, it's what I have an answering machine for. But it's as bad as pop-up ads on websites.

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

Maybe someday there will be DO NOT SPAM? We can only hope.

-J

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

Oh, true, I should have pointed out that it's U.S.

But you know, I think I'd rather have marriage rights for everyone and deal with the telemarketers, if we're talking even trade. :)

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

I live in hope for that, yes.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Too bad we can't have both freedoms in both countries! Maybe someday?

[movies-michelle.livejournal.com]

I hope Death gets time-and-a-half. And, really, I can only hope that Fred Phelps is the third.

And just out of curiosity, I went to the Westboro Baptist Church Website (godhatesfags.com) just to see how much they were stroking out. I hate these people with every fiber of my being and couldn't find them more antithetical to everything I was raised to believe was Christian--but, at the same time, I find them more pathetically funny than anything a lot of the time. They have a great headline up there right now, too: "WBC to picket the monstrous sodomite whorehouse masquerading as a nation -- CANADA -- and burn the filthy Maple Leaf flag." So, watch out, Canada!

[arallara.livejournal.com]

Oh, thank you so much for posting the link to that! I vaguely remember hearing about that a while back, but I never would have remembered on my own. And now I am registered! No more 8:00 am calls to sell me vacation packages, or they're going down! *g*