[Historix]

Lol, the lefties will be screaming bloody murder on DU and Kos.

[Mikey_1962]

What do you think tastes better whale or dolphin?

[AuntB]

In today’s ruling to lift the injunction while the case continues, Judge Andrew Kleinfeld said Cooper had failed to consider the national interest in military preparedness. “We are currently engaged in war, in two countries,” said Kleinfeld, joined by Judge Consuelo Callahan. “There are no guarantees extending from 2007 to 2009 or at any other time against other countries deciding to engage us, or our determining that it is necessary to engage other countries. “The safety of the whales must be weighed, and so must the safety of our warriors. And of our country.”

This came out of the ninth circus??? Wow. Perhaps hell has frozen over.

[wastedyears]

Our security should trump the whales every time.

[denydenydeny]

“The safety of the whales must be weighed, and so must the safety of our warriors. And of our country.”

The...the...Ninth Circuit said this? *stunned*

[CE2949BB]

[Free Vulcan]

pigs...there are pigs flying past my window.

[stevem]

Of course, the lefties are idiots, but what else is new? I was a sonar tech in my navy days, back shortly after asdic was invented. Nevertheless, we had the 23 sonar which allowed us to experiment with LORAN, and the 26 was in its infancy.

The thing of it is is, we had some right powerful equipment. Now, I was on a destroyer of the Forest Sherman class that was frammed. Our sonar was active from the announcement, "Under weigh!" until we heard those immortal words, "Now secure the sea and anchor detail!"

It says right here that dolphins, and dolphin fish, and whales of every shape, size and persuasion used to follow our ship hither and yon as long as our captain allowed us to sail at speeds they could accommodate. There isn't any way for me to believe those creatures would have followed us about if our sonar was hurting them.

Now, I can't speak for the whales, but maybe they liked it just a bit, and if they unloosed our lads with the sonar, maybe just maybe the oceans and seas with teem with whales the likes of which mankind has never seen up to now.

[hsalaw]

“The safety of the whales must be weighed, and so must the safety of our warriors. And of our country.”

Wow. Someone on the 9th Circus referred to our military as "our warriers"? And used the phrase "our country"? He's going to be hounded out of the 9th Circus lunchroom for this.

[gcruse]

Why isn’t a court issuing orders to the military a violation of separation of powers?