Fun and Games With Your NSA

[JPZenger]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/5/12/125457/453

The above is a funny bit (which I did not write) about having fun with the NSA's phone surveillance.

"The NSA is looking for "suspicious" patterns of phone calls that may indicate an extremely stupid terrorist network is plotting the destruction of the US over unsecured phone lines. So all you need to do is to create fun new suspicious linkages - such as between your local republican's election headquarters, and a prominent Islamic charity or a mosque.

So any time you are feeling bored, gather up your loose change, and head for the nearest pay phone. Place a call to the Dennis Hastert Re-election Committee, and spend a few minutes talking about how much you appreciate his years of fine service. Then call "Palestinian Revolutionary Charities", and spend a few minutes talking about the weather, and how you'd like to make a donation on behalf of Dennis Hastert. Then call Hastert's personal office, and spend a few minutes telling him how much you hate the Department of Education. Then call the Iranian Embassy.

And so on. In a few minutes, you have generated an amusing trail of international intrigue reaching to the highest levels of government. A few hundred payphones doing this from around the nation should keep black vans with strange antennae circling his re-election chairman for days.

And don't feel you have to limit yourself to politicians. The Heritage Foundation stands firmly behind this program - I'm sure they'd love to see it firsthand.

Be sure to suggest this activity at high school parties and frat parties, or wherever easily influenced drunks gather."

[JPZenger]

1. Worst GOP Attack Ad Ever: My opponent will die soon

http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2006/05/have_a_heart.html

The above link shows a campaign ad being distributed by a Republican running for the State legislature in California. He says don't vote for my opponent because he had a heart transplant 6 years ago and may die soon. Just think of how much it will cost to have another election to replace him, the ad says.