Maybe now they’ll crack down on the telemarketers. After all that’s the hotline, the hotline for the Department of Homeland Security. Gotta secure the homeland from the Space Invaders and the Centipedes. Not a moment to waste for time-share condominiums.

So this is where all that emergency money got appropriated to:

“[Delaware Gov. Ruth Ann] Minner’s office says the Department of Homeland Security has placed the hot line numbers on the federal government’s Do Not Call Registry, in an attempt to thwart the telemarketers.”

Let us know how that works out.

“Telemarketers Tie Up Emergency Phones” [WTOP]

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