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August 7, 2007
Moonbat Judge Interferes With Navy Training Exercises
Once again, US District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper has placed her moonbattery ahead of our national security by forbidding the Navy from using high-powered sonar in upcoming training exercises off the Left Coast.
Cooper issued a preliminary injunction after militant environmental extremists in the Natural Resources Defense Council sued the Navy, claiming that sonar annoys whales. Only the wacky Ninth Circus Court of Appeals can reverse it.
The Navy points out that even a temporary ban will compromise crucial training for sailors soon to be sent overseas. As Navy Captain Neil May puts it:
It's akin to sending a hunter into the woods after one of the most lethal preys known, but sending him in partly deaf and blind.
The Pacific is full of ultra-quiet diesel-electric submarines, many of them owned by hostile countries like Iran and North Korea. They can't be tracked effectively without active sonar.
But what are the lives of our sailors worth compared to lovable huggable whales?
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Our Navy got the better of the Nazis and Imperial Japanese, but now it's up against Florence-Marie Cooper. |
On a tip from Adrian.
Posted by Van Helsing at August 7, 2007 10:59 AM
Comments
Heres an editorial from a paper in Pittsburgh that manages to work global warming and Iraq into a story about the Russians claiming large parts of the Arctic Ocean. That paper went full moonbat ages ago.
http://www.pittsburghpostgazette.com/pg/07219/807435-192.stm
"One outgrowth of global warming is increased international interest in previously inaccessible areas of the Arctic Ocean, including the North Pole and the Northwest Passage.
So far, Russia and Canada have been the early birds poising themselves to grab the economic worm presented by these two targets."
"The United States comes out looking somewhat short on adventurousness and enterprise as Canada and Russia seize the day in seeking to plant their flags in the Arctic. This is not the United States that went to the moon. Is its leadership getting soft, or is it too engrossed in Iraq? "
And if the US had done the same thing the Russians did with the flag, they would have been accused of being Imperalists trying to steal Russian territory.
Posted by: Anonymous at August 7, 2007 11:27 AM
All stinking liberals must die.
Posted by: Conan at August 7, 2007 12:32 PM
>>It's akin to sending a hunter into the woods after one of the most lethal preys known, but sending him in partly deaf and blind.
That's a bad analogy; guess who the whale-huggers would be rooting for?
Posted by: KHarn at August 7, 2007 12:34 PM
does the judical branch have the authority to run the county?
Posted by: billfry at August 7, 2007 1:07 PM
How about a compromise? We use the high-powered sonar, then drop a few drums of aspirin in the water?
I know. It's a gift.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at August 7, 2007 3:30 PM
Moonbat screed causes annoys me. I move for Judge Depends to ban them ASAP.
Posted by: davec at August 8, 2007 1:17 AM
