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Dan Savage has a wicked funny post ripping in to Garrison Keillor's horrible piece in Slate.

No, I'm not going to link to Slate, those fuckers can suck it for not publishing relevant info about Mr. Keillor.

Dan, you rock.

tonight I got a call with a spoofed caller ID inviting me to participate in Tom Campbell's telephone town hall meeting where they would talk about health care reform.

I've participated in telephone town hall meetings before, notably with Xavier Becerra, my representative.

Unlike previous meetings, this "town hall" didn't offer any options to leave a question with an operator or to pose a question to Mr. Campbell. Therefore, this wasn't a participatory event and was merely an infomercial for his campaign for governor of California.

Sorry Tom, but first you spoof caller ID. Then you claim you are having a town hall meeting but don't give anyone the chance to participate.

Two Strikes, Tom Campbell.

Go have a party with your libertarian friends.

The following 39 democrats have completely failed to help the American people and have caved in to heavy money from the health industry lobby.

Their vote is a matter of public record.

Harry Teague
John Tanner
Gene Taylor
Heath Shuler
Ike Skelton
Mike Ross
Collin C. Peterson
Glenn Nye
Scott Murphy
Betsy Markey
Eric Massa
Michael E. McMahon
Walt Minnick
Charlie Melancon
Jim Marshall
Jim Matheson
Mike McIntyre
Larry Kissell
Suzanne Kosmas
Frank Kratovil Jr.
Dennis J. Kucinich
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
Tim Holden
Parker Griffith
Bart Gordon
Chet Edwards
Artur Davis
Lincoln Davis
Travis Childers
Ben Chandler
John Boccieri
Bobby Bright
Dan Boren
John Barrow
Brian Baird
Rick Boucher
Allen Boyd
Jason Altmire
John Adler

Today I got a call from a telemarketer. Unfortunately for the telemarketer, they gave me their information.

They are the Synergy Hospitality Group, LLC, with a website of : stayorlandoresorts.com

Here is their schpiel: the recorded announcement tells you that you have won a free Bahamas vacation, with your confirmation number of 555. If you stay on the line or press 1 for more information, you are connected to an operator who tells you that 555 is one of their platinum prize winners (gee, really? I bet you say that to all the girls.) and they then go into a hard sell trying to get you to book a vacation in Orlando before your cruise. Every time I tried asking about the cruise, I was deflected, and asked questions about whether I was married, what my household income was, etc.

Once I got their website and found that they had their contact info online, I told them they were in direct violation of the FTC Do Not Call policy, informed them to never call me again, and hung up.

Did I mention I hate telemarketers?

If you get called by these folks, be sure to file a complaint with the national Do Not Call Registry at donotcall.gov

Here is their contact info:

Synergy Hospitality Group, LLC
1768 Park Center Dr Suite 340
Orlando, FL 32835
Phone: 407.996.2020
Fax: 407.996.2021
Toll-free: 1-888-782-9796

here is their WHOIS info:

Registrant:
The Synergy Hospitality Group, LLC
1768 Park Center Drive
Suite 340
Orlando, Florida 32835
United States


Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: STAYORLANDORESORTS.COM
Created on: 04-May-06
Expires on: 04-May-11
Last Updated on: 27-Apr-09


Administrative Contact:
Crouse, Raymond rcrouse@synergyhospitality.com
The Synergy Hospitality Group, LLC
1768 Park Center Drive
Suite 340
Orlando, Florida 32835
United States
4079962020 Fax -- 4079962021


Technical Contact:
Crouse, Raymond rcrouse@synergyhospitality.com
The Synergy Hospitality Group, LLC
1768 Park Center Drive
Suite 340
Orlando, Florida 32835
United States
4079962020 Fax -- 4079962021


Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.SECURE.NET
NS2.SECURE.NET


Faith at That is so Queer has put together a list of El Pollo Loco restaurants owned by Roland Spongberg - a man who donated $6000 to the yes on 8 campaign. This guy owns quite a few franchises under the name WKS Restaurant Group.

Personally, I'll be boycotting the one at Sunset Junction which was pretty much the only one I went to.

For a full list, please check out her list.