Legalized Telemarketing

Today I got a phone call from my friendly neighborhood Marines recruiter. We spent a good 10 minutes talking, and because I have no backbone, I was unable to tell him to get off the line. I finally told him I'd think about it and call back. What really bugs me about this is not so much that the military is advertising itself, but that it's advertising itself in a way that is illegal for private businesses. My home phone number happens to be on the national Do Not Call registry, so normal telemarketers are forbidden from calling it. But military telemarketers? They're just fine. I even forbade Red Mountain from sharing my phone number with the military, and they still called me. If anything, the military should have MORE restrictions on its advertising. But they have an apparent free reign to call and harass youth to join the military.

Okay, rant's over. Though if Andrew remembers, he once predicted that I would end up in the Marines. That just gives me another reason to reject them.