Well, they’ve done it again.

The ACLU and fellow traitors to America, getting no satisfaction from Congress in the way of sabotaging our country’s self defense capabilities against terrorism, have once again resorted to finding a sleazy leftist federal judge to employ as a pro-tem, one person legislature, a judge appointed by former President Jimmy Carter — I know, that’s pretty surprising, right? Not! — no less — to declare the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping operation — the very type of protective measure that only just saved thousands of people from being blown up on trans-Atlantic flights — illegal.

It’s truly amazing what kind of crud finds its way onto the federal bench, just look at the 9th Circus Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco — well, don’t look at it if you have a weak stomach, like viewing the judge in question, Anna Diggs Taylor, looking at it might inspire vomiting from any patriotic American. It’s interesting that the traitoress is in Detroit, one of our domestic enclaves of large Islamic population — Islam is, after all, the enemy she seeks to aid and abet.

We can at least be grateful that President Taylor’s judgment won’t be the last on the matter. The Justice Department immediately announced it will appeal and the injunction has been stayed for the moment. But her decision is all the more noteworthy for coming on the heels of the surveillance-driven roll up of the terrorist plot in Britain to blow up U.S.-bound airliners. In this environment, monitoring the communications of our enemies is neither a luxury nor some sinister plot to chill domestic dissent. It is a matter of life and death.

{Emphasis added mine}

I like the way the author of the Opinion Journal piece refers to the treasonous twit as “President Taylor” — it seems that a lot of liberal judges these days are electing themselves to high office, though usually promoting themselves only to the level of congressional majorities. The political left has been abusing the courts thus for some time now, using them to “legislate” dubious agendas they are unable to obtain from the people we elect to address the very same issues. What judges like Taylor need is to be hauled before Congress and slapped down on C-Span, put firmly in their places on national television, reminded that they are judges, not senators, representatives or the President.

Whatever happened to, “Hey, bitch, this is my corner!”?

Luckily, the self important Anna Diggs Taylor (it’s good that somebody digs her, no country loving American would) hardly has the final say in the matter — a higher court will undoubtedly give her ruling short shrift.

So let’s set aside the judge’s Star Chamber rhetoric and try to examine her argument, such as it is. Take the Fourth Amendment first. The “unreasonable search and seizure” and warrant requirements of that amendment have their roots in the 18th-century abuses of the British crown. Those abuses involved the search and arrest of the King’s political opponents under general and often secret warrants.

Judge Taylor sees an analogy here, but she manages to forget or overlook that no one is being denied his liberty and no evidence is being brought in criminal proceedings based on what the NSA might learn through listening to al Qaeda communications. The wiretapping program is an intelligence operation, not a law-enforcement proceeding. Congress was duly informed, and not a single specific domestic abuse of such a wiretap has yet been even alleged, much less found.

As for the First Amendment, Judge Taylor asserts that the plaintiffs–a group that includes the ACLU and assorted academics, lawyers and journalists who believe their conversations may have been tapped but almost surely weren’t–had their free-speech rights violated because al Qaeda types are now afraid to speak to them on the phone.

Heh heh.

Update: Old Soldier has a great post up on this also, with links to still other posts.

The last couple of days, I’ve been in some sort of sandwich mode.

Yesterday, I made a hot (shaved rather than “sliced”) roast beef, cheese and garlic mayo thing on Freedom bread (American made French bread, LOL). Unless you’ve tried it, you have no idea how great garlic mayo goes with things, and it’s easy to prepare (garlic powder, mayo).

Today, a hero (sub, to those of you who aren’t New Yawkers): Tuna salad (again, garlic mayo,) mixed with oregano, parsley, thyme, grated celery, shredded Romaine lettuce, and then overlayed with provolone and placed in the oven, so the cheese melts into the tuna and the sub is hot… MMMMMMMMMMMM!

Wanna cheat on a side dish? Try Ore-Ida Crispers, yum! A quarter hour in the oven to potato ecstasy, though they’re best with the product of the 2004 Prezelection’s loser’s wife’s most famous product. I hate to say it, but I’m set in my ways. Teresa’s Hind Heinz Ketchup and in the mayo department, Hellmann’s — Best Foods, west of the Rocky Mountains …. or is it the Mississippi?

You’d drool over the ingredients of the burgers I make, especially when I’m barbecuing. Mmmmm….

Got about eight minutes to spare to watch a great video made by an awesome young woman whose acquaintance I only today made on-line? Nelly, a wonderful German blogger whom I’d move heaven and earth to see given dual U.S. citizenship and a commission in the U.S. Army produced this video. Friends and relatives of Airborne Rangers and those of “America’s best” with “silver wings upon your chests”, take notice!

When she sent me the link, she modestly mentioned that she was a beginner, but this video looks like the work of a pro to me — Nelly, you are gifted, your natural talent shines through. Thank you for sharing this!

This is proof enough that even a judge can be a fucking moron.

Bob Tyrrell makes a good point or two as to why we’ll be retaining our Republican majority on the Hill come election-time and why Americans in general prefer Republican doctrine in the war on terror to that of Democrats.

The first reason for this is that the president’s insight that it is best to fight terrorists in foreign lands rather than to wait for them to arrive here is more appealing to Americans than the Democrats’ “Come Home, America” strategy. Most Americans also understand that to thwart another 9/11, the government is going to have to surveil bank transactions, communications and travel. Frankly, I think most Americans would also approve of profiling, and in fact I suspect our government will be profiling rather soon. The only outrage I have heard of in response to news reports of government surveillance has come from journalists, the ACLU and the Democratic leadership, which is to say the Democratic leadership and its agents.

This brings us to the second reason that the Republicans will maintain both houses this fall. The Democrats have no appealing alternative to the Republicans. This is true on a whole range of matters from national security to the war on terror to the economy. The Democrats have been shrieking about the economy for six years, six years that have mainly been years of economic growth. Their alternative is to raise taxes, which surely is an alternative to growth. Yet my guess is that most Americans prefer growth.

Read on….

By now, at least a few readers know that I’m a major fan of a blogger known as The Dissident Frogman, and that he’s one of the few Frenchmen for whom I possess respect.

Like all of his posts, this one is infinitely more than worth the read.

So the bulk of our members of Congress, on both sides of the aisle, would love nothing better than to sneak an amnesty around us for millions of criminal aliens. Many are members of violent gangs that traffic in narcotics. Many more would love nothing better than to be in a position to avail themselves of tax financed entitlement programs. Most of those who work illegally here send the bulk of their earnings home, effectively taking combined millions out of our economy. In short, such an amnesty would be worse than bad, worse than terrible, worse than horrible, even, for the United States.

But that’s what our political ruling class desires.

Why, then, is this guy having such a hard time getting a green card!!!?

Have we reached a point where someone who would be an asset to this country in every way need not apply, but a giant parasitic influx of the fruits of Mexico’s economic failure is more than welcome?

Go figure….

This beautiful tribute to our brave United States Marines came to me in an email a few hours ago.

Grateful H/T BJS.

If you only have time to read one blog post today,

Old Soldier’s got a must-read post up, asking Whose Problem Is Islam, Anyway?

Wesley Pruden has a great idea for securing our airplanes from terrorism.

Why not, for example, an all-pork, all-the-time airline, with its Boeings emblazoned with a ferocious razorback on the tail assembly? Each cabin would be equipped with a small, elegantly designed pig pen somewhere among the first-class seats, accommodating an endearing baby porker. This would play to the Islamist terror of dying in a crash and arriving in paradise festooned with juicy pig entrails. Would a jihadist warrior expect to greet a virgin with tasty infidel barbecue on his breath?

Even a more modest employment of the noble pig could make a lot of expensive, infuriating airport security unnecessary. The airlines could replace inedible airline food with offering a choice of ham or bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches — or matzoh ball soup for Jewish passengers who would get the joke but nevertheless wish to keep kosher in the friendly skies. This would send devout jihadists fleeing to alternative transportation on their way to assignations with violent death.

Works for me!