Comments on: Well, That’s Settled

By: Justthisguy

Justthisguy — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:07:59 +0000

I imagine that your average nerdy sonarman kinda likes whales, as fellow nautical noisemakers, and wouldn’t lift a finger to hurt their ears.

Must check Jackalgirl’s blog for her opinion of this.

By: Navig8r

Navig8r — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 02:25:28 +0000

P.S. Lex, you are still serving in your new career, so it’s OK to say “we.”

Shoot, I still say “we” when referring to Navy Football, so scr&w ‘em if they can’t take a joke!

By: SCOTTtheBADGER

SCOTTtheBADGER — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 05:31:06 +0000

This whole episode is a mystery to me. I remember listening to a scientist from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute saying, on Public Radio, mind you, that naval search sonar works on a frequency that whales can’t hear.

So the USN has been forced to waste all this time, effort, funding, and ASW training , to protect whales from something that they can’t hear, and would not be effected by.

When did, ” I belive that this is an ill advised policy, and here are the reputable, peer reviewed studies I should like to present in support of my position that it should be stopped “, become totally replaced with ” Stop, because I say so! I am more morally pure than you, and that makes me right, no matter what the actual experts say “? My personal belief is that this is one of the longest lasting horrors visited on us by the ’60′s generation, perhaps the most self centered, hypocritical bunch that ever lived.

If it weren’t so sad, one would have to conclude that the NRDC has taken the Marx Brothers crowns as Kings of Camp away from them.

By: JKB

JKB — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:43:19 +0000

NRDC got what they wanted…full employment for whale huggers, I mean, whale song researchers.

The Navy’s problem is that their sonarmen are not granola swilling, vegan acolytes who just love the whales to death, literally all to often. Not their fault since keeping America safe kind of eats up your whole day leaving little time for whale mugging.

Really, when you see them chase down a whale to take a skin biopsy with a crossbow, you wonder does anybody read Moby Dick anymore. Fortunately, the whales don’t take them seriously.

By: AW1 Tim

AW1 Tim — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:43:17 +0000

Mongo,

It’s the same modus operandi that has served them well in the past. They use the “lawyered-to-death” approach to eliminate anything they can’t get through legal means and ballot initiatives. It was used to make nuclear power so expensive that no new plants have been built in decades.

Just keep filing suits until the other side runs out of money or gives up.

By: Tom G.

Tom G. — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:58:34 +0000

Dang, you sailors are heartless! Reminds me of one of my buds when we served together in NC and there was a great hue & cry regarding the Yellow-Cockaded Woodpecker habitat in old-growth forests (read most mil ranges on the mid-atlantic coast)- he “mounted” a dead “RCW” behind his desk – ok, once the smell died out, it was fine. A few years later one of my NCOs caught a Gaia acolyte intentionally marking/assigning phony RCW nesting sites in another training area and escorted the fella out of the AO. When those folks “get religion” it can get intense.