Wednesday, October 1, 2003

Execs: Do-Not-Call! The home telephone numbers of 11 top executives of the Direct Marketing Association - which has waged a bitter court battle to kill a federal no-call list - are on the new registry, which would make them off-limits to those annoying sales calls. The Courant found the DMA employees, and top executives from two large telemarketing companies, among the 50 million numbers on the Federal Trade Commission's anti-telemarketing do-not-call list. The DMA executives, some of whom admit they signed up to protect their own privacy, did so even as their organization waged a legal campaign to prevent federal regulators from blocking telemarketers' calls to millions of other Americans....more [NewsDay] This is one of those stories that just hits you in the face -- no need to explain the stupidity in this one...mj 9:25:23 PM

He should have listened to Daddy "Trying to eliminate Saddam...would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible.... We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq.... there was no viable "exit strategy" we could see, violating another of our principles." A World Transformed, George Bush and Brent Scowcroft, 1998, p. 489 There are times when you should listen to your Father...mj 3:00:57 PM

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