there's a new aire in this country. paranoia of power being lost. almost that scaredy cat thing happening. people who seem threatened are taking on a new tact. or a reinforcement of an old act, er tact rather. same thing. but with dean riding high, their paranoia is justified. they should feel threatened. by god, they've bullied their way into our lives to that point where you can almost hear cries of "enough is enough." i dunno. but it's not one of those feelings that just happened. over the past coupla weeks, i've felt it, and i've been offline a lot due to the heat.

US Republican Party outsources fund raising to India: "THE REPUBLICAN PARTY is using call centres in Gurgaon and Noida in India to raise funds for itself and for its chieftain, George W. Bush.
Young people at the call centres are helping robots to phone American citizens to enlist their support and money for the political party, with plans to extend the scheme if they whip up enough donations.
There's a high degree of automation involved in the process, according to Indian newspaper the Business Standard, which says that HCL Eserve is handling the business for the party.
India is the biggest democracy in the world, and has stayed that way since it threw off the yoke of the British Raj in 1947, courtesy of the Labour Party.
The magazine claims that 'human intervention' is limited because of an integrated voice recording technology which picks up on clues from people that pick up the phone.
We do hope and trust here at the INQUIRER that the irony of underpaid people in Harayana helping robots to call possibly out of work Americans because of a widespread policy of corporate outsourcing is not lost on our readers"