It must be election time...

...because I'm actually getting some phone calls. Of course, they're not from humans - they're calls from robots telling me to vote for John Kerry. Jokes on them, because my phone service gives me a copy of my voice message as a wav file. Listen for yourself:



I, like everyone else, hate unsolicited phone calls from telemarketers, especially when they are recordings. The politicians, being the clever devils they are, exempted themselves from the "do not call list" legislation and the federal Telemarketer Sales Rule regulations. New Jersey recently passed a law requiring these messages to contain a message stating who paid and approved of the message... It's unfortunate that you are forced to listen to (and possibly pay for) the message to find out who paid for it at the end. If they're going to be allowed to voice spam us, we should be able to not listen - or at least know who's spamming us.


They should also not be able to block or spoof the caller ID. The call came from 617 231-2006 - "wireless caller." Uh huh... this was a mobile voice spam robot? Right?


This is Ryan P. Kennedy, and I approved this message.