[SmithL]

It will do a fantastic job of tracking less intense enemies.

[Hegemony Cricket]

Ahhhh - that's so sweet!

[ClearCase_guy]

Who you calling less intense?!

[SmithL]

Cooper, Florence-Marie

Born 1940 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Federal Judicial Service:
U. S. District Court, Central District of California
Nominated by William J. Clinton on July 14, 1999, to a seat vacated by Linda H. McLaughlin; Confirmed by the Senate on November 10, 1999, and received commission on November 15, 1999.

Education:
City College of San Francisco, 1971

Whittier College School fo Law, J.D., 1975

Professional Career:
Law clerk, Hon. Arthur Alarcon, appellate department, Los Angeles Superior Court, 1975-1977
Deputy city attorney, Los Angeles, CA, 1977
Senior research attorney, Hon. Arthur Alarcon, Second Appellate District, California Court of Appeal, 1978-1980
Senior research attorney, Hon. Woods, Second Appellate District, California Court of Appeal, 1980-1983
Adjunct professor, San Fernando Valley College School of Law, 1980-1985
Court commissioner, Los Angeles Superior Court, CA, 1983-1990
Judge, Los Angeles Municipal Court, CA, 1990-1991
Judge, Los Angeles Superior Court, CA, 1991-1999

Race or Ethnicity: White

Gender: Female

[Gay State Conservative]

U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper's order came after the Defense Department granted the Navy a six-month exemption from the federal Marine Mammal Protection Act to allow use of the "mid-frequency active sonar."

And this dame was appointed by.........

[Volunteer]

I dearly hope this is just a joke that some Admiral's staff dreamed up to play on the press corp.

Attention environmentalist wackos - I don't give a rip about sea creatures when the Navy is training to kill bad guys. I am sure you have not noticed, because the Greenpeace website does an amazingly bad job reporting on the real world, but we are at war. It got much worse over the weekend because the tiny little crazy in North Korea tested some missiles. His pal, the crazy in Iran is watching.

For the love of God, are these people just stupid or so screwed up that they don't get it?

[Severa]

Sonar PING

[RexBeach]

This is pure BS.

What's next? "Less intense" warships?

Is there any proof - at all - to suggest that sonar really does harm fish or marine mammals?

Sounds like the judge is a little pink.

[PeteB570]

I would rather the US Navy use as strong a SONAR as needed to help it find the new class of diesel electric/fuel cell subs.

Joke as some might but I don't want a Chinese or Iranian sub purchased from Germany or Russia coming within 250 miles of our coast. I'd like to see them have an "Accident".

[river rat]

Well now -- the environozis succeeded in killing a number of Astronauts by their insistence on "Green" products --- now they want to try their hand at killing on a much larger scale by putting blinders on our Silent Service.

Envirowackos should required to live where there is NO technology to threaten "nature" --- and leave the rest of us alone..

F'em....they've gone too far and cost too dearly...

Semper Fi

[taxed2death]

"Sonar-Lite".... for those times when you almost have to find the enemy. Lubricant included.

[xp38]

this thread isn't intense enough for me to ping anyone

[Doohickey]

Kinder, gentler sonar ping to the Steely-Eyed Killers of the Deep

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[Dog Gone]

Tell the damn whales to get out of the way, or we'll consider going back to the primary source of non-wood fuel we used in the 1800s.