Tag: freedom of information

Illinois: Making the Names of Gun Owners Public

~ Pharmer

Big Hollywood » Blog Archive » Why is the Associated Press Pushing to Make Names of Gun Owners Public?.

The AP has submitted a request for a list of all the gun owners in Illinois.    The State Police are not in favor of releasing the info, while it appears that the Attorney General is in favor.

Greg Gutfield, the author of the above linked article, notes the probably unintended consequence: causing more citizens of Illinois to buy guns for self protection, and so that their homes would not be targeted by burglars, etc.

Pharmer appended the following comment to his article:

Bingo, Greg Gutfield.   This is hilarious.   Picture rich leftist ideologues being parted from their most prized possessions.     One other wrinkle is that we could find out how many leftists are hypocrites, and are packing heat………… but only if the gun owner list is comprehensive.

 

Chief Climate Skeptic

~ Pharmer

Meet the Grand Poobah -David Holland, who’s Freedom of Information Requests to East Anglia University’s climatologists , were referenced among the escaped email files now residing in hard drives worldwide.  He has gained widespread recognition for his skepticism, and efforts to obtain the actual climate data which was said to support the Global Warming Religion.  The movement to prosecute the climatologists for violating Freedom of Information regs,  has caused the group to turn 180 degrees and promise full disclosure.

The only roadblock is that much of  raw climate data  has been thrown out long ago, so we have no chance of reviewing it.
In a statement on its website, the CRU said: “We do not hold the original raw data but only the value-added (quality controlled and homogenised) data.”
Apparently the emails were leaked to the press  well over a month ago,  (before they were hacked).   The BBC is reported to have dropped the ball, and this perhaps precipitated the hacking and dissemination of the files on the internet.

Not to be deterred, the UN shows no signs of changing policy of sacrificing the economic and technological progress of  nations on the altar of the Global Warming Religion.
There is “virtually no possibility” of a few scientists biasing the advice given to governments by the UN’s top global warming body, its chair said today.