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FOIA Request For Pending Copyright Treaty Denied
Penguinisto writes "According to CNET, Knowledge Ecology International's FOIA request for information about ACTA was denied. ACTA is the pending copyright treaty believed to have been authored by lobbyists for the content cartels. Even stranger, the denial cited 'national security reasons (PDF). While it is not unusual for the White House of any administration to block FOIA requests for national security reasons, one would think that a treaty affecting civil interests alone wouldn't qualify for such secrecy. Not exactly sure what involvement the former RIAA mouthpiece Donald Verelli (a recent Obama pick for the DOJ) may have in this." KEI is not alone; the European Parliament wants to see the ACTA documents too.
Dear Hatta
Per your request under the Freedom of Information Act received on Friday March 13th 2009, please find enclosed the following documents:
Blueprints, crew list with rotations, building alarm codes, and launch codes for nuclear launch silo A14-LOL-WUT.
A copy of "Nukes and You - A Complete Guide for Fission-Impaired Presidents".
Oh, wait.....
Didn't Obama say he was all for transparency?
Which part of "He's lying!" did you not understand when the Right was shouting it all the way through his campaign?
I don't remember the right saying that at all. Are you sure that John Stuart covered that?
Q: How do you know when a politician is lying?
A: His lips are moving.
Obama is a politician, thus he is lying. You do not get to be president by being a nice honest guy. You get there by backroom dealing, manipulations of the facts, and old fashioned snake-oil salesmanship.
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
Has anyone mentioned yet that it was actually called the Equal Rights Amendment?
Sig withheld to protect the innocent.
Yeah, we need to let the market sort that out.
Literalism isn't a form of humor, it's you being irritating.
Grandparent is probably confusing America with the rest of humanity; it's a common mistake here. Nothing outside our boarders means a damn unless they threaten some drunk's dad ;)
When you have a wolf crying wolf, what's a farmer to do?
I see the glass as full with a FoS of 2.
Nope, no one.
You're the first.
I think the mods were meta-modding me funny by modding me insightful.
Surely I wouldn't get modded insightful just for parroting some BS that has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand.
Literalism isn't a form of humor, it's you being irritating.
Ah, thanks. Also found the following:
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/get-your-dander-up.html
Oh well. Never encountered it used that way before AFAIK. I still have a mental image of people angrily brushing their dogs at the government.
Oh yeah? Well HITLER could go on for a while without getting irrational too! I guess they are all just a bunch of sicko Nazi perverts, then! [sorry, couldn't resist]
Similar to the upcoming US election results