Spam this Martha...
11:28 am and the phone rings. I look at caller ID and it lists an 800 number, but no name. I answer. The caller on the other line hangs up. I immediately called back the 800 number and got a recording, saying, "Thank you for calling the Message Center." After listening to the menu prompts, there was no option to speak with someone, or to find out who the company really was. At Jenn's encouragement, I Googled the number 866-849-3243 and found a message board where others have complained about similar phone calls. It turns out the number belongs to Xpedite, a telemarketing company. I wasted no time in going to DoNotCall.gov to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, as my phone number is registered with the National Do Not Call list. I have filed a complaint there twice before against offenders, and it's an easy site to use. For those not registered, I encourage you to do so. I rarely get phone calls from telemarketers anymore, and very grateful for that. We usually got between 2 and 5 calls a day before the national DNC list was created.
I am loosely following the Martha Stewart trial in New York, and have come up with some conclusions of my own. First of all, why would Martha, worth hundreds of millions, maybe even billions of dollars, risk her entire empire on a $55,000 stock trade? Second of all, if she really received this phone call telling her to sell her stock, why wouldn't she? It's not her fault someone called her and gave her illegal information, and you sure as hell can't expect her to sit there with the information and do nothing with it. As far as I am concerned, whoever gave her the inside stock information is the one who broke the law. It can also be reasonably guaranteed had she been a man, there would be no trial.
Website update: Over the last month I have added three new recipes to the recipe page, most recently a recipe for the Envy Martini, one of the martinis representing the seven deadly sins at Crimson Resteraunt in Austin, TX. Also recently added was a recipe I made for tortilla soup, and previously added was a recipe for a butternut squash, goat cheese and walnut spread.
11:28 am and the phone rings. I look at caller ID and it lists an 800 number, but no name. I answer. The caller on the other line hangs up. I immediately called back the 800 number and got a recording, saying, "Thank you for calling the Message Center." After listening to the menu prompts, there was no option to speak with someone, or to find out who the company really was. At Jenn's encouragement, I Googled the number 866-849-3243 and found a message board where others have complained about similar phone calls. It turns out the number belongs to Xpedite, a telemarketing company. I wasted no time in going to DoNotCall.gov to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, as my phone number is registered with the National Do Not Call list. I have filed a complaint there twice before against offenders, and it's an easy site to use. For those not registered, I encourage you to do so. I rarely get phone calls from telemarketers anymore, and very grateful for that. We usually got between 2 and 5 calls a day before the national DNC list was created.
I am loosely following the Martha Stewart trial in New York, and have come up with some conclusions of my own. First of all, why would Martha, worth hundreds of millions, maybe even billions of dollars, risk her entire empire on a $55,000 stock trade? Second of all, if she really received this phone call telling her to sell her stock, why wouldn't she? It's not her fault someone called her and gave her illegal information, and you sure as hell can't expect her to sit there with the information and do nothing with it. As far as I am concerned, whoever gave her the inside stock information is the one who broke the law. It can also be reasonably guaranteed had she been a man, there would be no trial.
Website update: Over the last month I have added three new recipes to the recipe page, most recently a recipe for the Envy Martini, one of the martinis representing the seven deadly sins at Crimson Resteraunt in Austin, TX. Also recently added was a recipe I made for tortilla soup, and previously added was a recipe for a butternut squash, goat cheese and walnut spread.
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