tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post2752694334958898916..comments2024-03-28T21:41:52.558-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-72428385063837473382016-01-14T10:08:15.670-05:002016-01-14T10:08:15.670-05:00.
Had you read the link I put up you would have s....<br /><br />Had you read the link I put up you would have seen how SCOTUS views the constitution when it comes to these courts.<br /><br />Go volunteer as a Trumpette.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-12403694077700018222016-01-14T10:05:27.634-05:002016-01-14T10:05:27.634-05:00.
I see you avoid the questions.
Bluster on.
..<br /><br />I see you avoid the questions.<br /><br />Bluster on.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-56945507244724144762016-01-14T05:20:55.733-05:002016-01-14T05:20:55.733-05:00He described operations that would send Iraqi forc...He described operations that would send Iraqi forces from the south and Peshmerga forces from the north to encircle and cut off Mosul. But he warned that taking it back will not be quick or easy, and he offered no timelines.<br /><br />Carter announced in December that the U.S. would deploy about 200 special operations forces to Iraq to better capitalize on intelligence and put more pressure on the enemy.<br /><br />"The specialized expeditionary targeting force I announced in December is now in place and is preparing to work with the Iraqis to begin going after ISIL's fighters and commanders, killing or capturing them wherever we find them, along with other key targets," Carter said, using an acronym for Islamic State.<br />His speech offered an upbeat assessment of the anti-IS campaign, saying that coalition-backed forces, supported by the airstrikes, are taking back territory and going after the groups finances. This week airstrikes hit an Islamic State cash center in Mosul.<br /><br />Military leaders have said that the militants have lost 40 percent of the territory they once held in Iraq, and 20 percent of their territory in Syria. The effort has been aided by strong support from Kurdish troops in northern Iraq, as the U.S. worked to build up Iraqi Army forces.<br /><br />The Iraqi forces struggled for months to retake Ramadi, but backed by airstrikes and other logistical support they were finally able to drive IS from the city last month.<br /><br />His remarks came a day after President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech, expanding on the message that the U.S. must build and work with local forces in Iraq and Syria to have lasting success. He said the U.S. must not "Americanize" the conflicts because that would allow militants to accuse the West of occupying the country.<br /><br />The ongoing U.S. effort, however, has come under fire from members of Congress and critics who say it's a failed strategy that isn't aggressive enough and should involve a more robust military presence to both defeat IS, and protect fleeing refugees, particularly along the Turkey and Syria border.<br />About 500 troops from the 101st Airborne headquarters group will deploy at the end of February. About 1,300 members of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team will deploy to Iraq in late spring.<br />The brigade will be training Iraqi and Peshmerga forces.<br /><br />Carter's speech comes in the wake of recent attacks, including a suicide bombing at a shopping mall this week in Baghdad that killed 18 people.<br /><br />Abadi described the attack as a "desperate attempt" by militants after they lost control of the key western city of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province. Iraqi forces drove the extremists out of Ramadi last month, but Islamic State still controls much of northern and western Iraq.galopn2https://www.blogger.com/profile/10149969176825932175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-70243738937728993492016-01-14T05:18:13.734-05:002016-01-14T05:18:13.734-05:00Pentagon Outlines Plan To Take Back Key Territorie...<b>Pentagon Outlines Plan To Take Back Key Territories From ISIS</b><br /><br />Militants have lost 40 percent of the territory they once held in Iraq, and 20 percent of their territory in Syria.<br /><br />FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — Defense Secretary Ash Carter laid out broad plans Wednesday to defeat Islamic State militants and retake the group's key power centers in Iraq and Syria. And he announced that a special commando force has now arrived in Iraq.<br /><br />Speaking to troops from the 101st Airborne Division who will soon deploy to Iraq, Carter also said he would meet in Paris next week with his defense counterparts, mainly from Europe, and will challenge them to bring more capabilities to the fight.<br /><br />He said he will be meeting with defense leaders from France, Australia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, and "will not hesitate to engage and challenge" them to get them to do more.<br /><br />"Each of these nations has a significant stake in completing the destruction of this evil organization, and we must include all of the capabilities they can bring to the field," he said.<br />Some contributions the U.S. has requested already are special operations forces, fighter jet and reconnaissance aircraft, weapons and munitions, training and other combat support.<br /><br />Carter's broader message signaled the completion of a military plan to help Iraqi and Kurdish Peshmerga forces retake Mosul in northern Iraq and to assist the Syrian moderate forces oust Islamic State militants from their headquarters in Raqqa.galopn2https://www.blogger.com/profile/10149969176825932175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-18225824514816483282016-01-14T05:18:02.989-05:002016-01-14T05:18:02.989-05:00Further, urban brain death, your blessed Sharia Co...Further, urban brain death, your blessed Sharia Courts are an obvious attempt to establish a religion in these fair states, something our Constitution does not allow our government to do.Laggardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-25473125867416680092016-01-14T01:51:46.550-05:002016-01-14T01:51:46.550-05:00.
Did you read the link I put up above from Pew R....<br /><br />Did you read the link I put up above from Pew Research outlining the status of ecclesiastical courts in the US or did you have to send it over to Jihad Watch to have it translated into bigoted vitriol so that you could understand it?<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-70832052663143565252016-01-14T01:48:43.068-05:002016-01-14T01:48:43.068-05:00.
Read my post at
QuirkThu Jan 14, 01:27:00 AM ....<br /><br />Read my post at <br /><br /><i>QuirkThu Jan 14, 01:27:00 AM EST</i><br /><br />and then answer my question from <br /><br /><i>QuirkThu Jan 14, 01:13:00 AM EST</i><br /><br /><br /><i>I also have to ask if you are so upset by Sharia courts, why aren't you politicking against Jewish Battei Din courts that handle the same type of issues?</i><br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-71072844166664997342016-01-14T01:42:33.012-05:002016-01-14T01:42:33.012-05:00Oh well...
Think of it this way Quirk-O....
Thin...Oh well...<br /><br />Think of it this way Quirk-O....<br /><br />Think of a Jew opting to be tried in a Nazi court in 1943.....<br /><br />Even you, with your anti-Semitic tinge, would feel something not right here.....<br /><br />Now consider a woman in Sharia = 1/2 of a man.....<br /><br />If you can't figure this all out, well, fuck you just the same.Laggardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-71379374417269343282016-01-14T01:39:48.272-05:002016-01-14T01:39:48.272-05:00.
You just continue to provide example after exam....<br /><br />You just continue to provide example after example showing how stolid and benighted you are. Some of them are so laughable and poorly thought out as to be laughable. Your argument for not allowing Muslims into the country is, for example, one that provides plenty of yuks.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-92039762557887024952016-01-14T01:31:51.111-05:002016-01-14T01:31:51.111-05:00oops...
forgot the....
you urban dickheadoops...<br /><br />forgot the....<br /><br />you urban dickheadLaggardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-31503384668288477712016-01-14T01:28:01.367-05:002016-01-14T01:28:01.367-05:00Court is closed, Quirk-O.
res judicata
Case clo...Court is closed, Quirk-O.<br /><br />res judicata<br /><br /><br />Case closed.<br /><br /><br />Go drink it off.<br /><br />All lawyers win some, lose some.<br /><br />You lost.<br /><br />Laggardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-39430758998570414252016-01-14T01:27:46.353-05:002016-01-14T01:27:46.353-05:00.
This from the link I provided in my initial res....<br /><br />This from the link I provided in my initial response to your vapidity above.<br /><br /><br /><i>Religious Divorce<br /><br />Nevertheless, granting Jewish divorces is an important task for most battei din, including Perlman’s. When both the husband and wife agree on the terms, obtaining a Jewish divorce, known as a get, is largely routine. On other occasions, however, rabbinical authorities can help adjudicate issues such as child custody and the division of property, which also must be ratified by a secular court to have the force of law.<br /><br /><b>In Orthodox Judaism, a woman cannot obtain a divorce – and therefore cannot remarry – without her husband’s consent. Sometimes, in order to obtain money or attempt to stop a divorce, a husband will refuse to grant his wife a get, no matter how broken the marriage may be. In such cases, a beit din cannot divorce the couple.</b> But both Perlman and Weissmann say that to sway an obstinate husband, rabbis may issue rulings calling on the community to exert social pressure on the man by, for example, barring him from the synagogue or protesting outside his home or workplace until he relents.</i><br /><br />If a Jewish woman's husband refuses to grant her a get, she can't get a divorce. However, what that means is she can't get a Jewish divorce. She may not be able to remarry in the Jewish religion but the decision does nothing to diminish her civil rights. She can still get a civil divorce. She can still claim her custody and property rights. She still has the protection of the law if her husband threatens her.<br /><br />The same applies to Sharia law or Catholic canon law. The Mormons learned that certain practices their religion allows are unacceptable under US law.<br /><br />. Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-35805374439245510922016-01-14T01:13:02.859-05:002016-01-14T01:13:02.859-05:00.
I repeat for your study tonight:
(((((( Moreov....<br /><br /><i>I repeat for your study tonight:<br /><br />(((((( Moreover, women are often pressured by their families to go to the sharia courts or councils. And women may be abused because of the nature of the closed communities in which they live. The evidence is strong that sharia councils operate in a discriminatory and unacceptable fashion. )))))</i><br /><br /><br />And, I repeat because of your problems with short term memory loss,<br /><br />1. Don't waste my time with any more garbage printed in the <i>American Thinker.</i><br /><br />2. And don't offer me anymore sentences sentences starting with chickenshit CYA phrases like 'and women <b>may be</b>...<br /><br />3. Or, shit like... <br /><br /><i>The evidence is strong that sharia councils operate in a discriminatory and unacceptable fashion. )))))</i><br /><br />- A statement with no evidence provided.<br /><br />- Unacceptable? Unacceptable to who? Michael Curtis? Some bigot from Idaho?<br /><br />- And as I said before, don't bother me with shit from the UK or EU. We've seen how they seem to screw up everything including their immigration policies and failure to integrate immigrant populations.<br /><br /><br />I also have to ask if you are so upset by Sharia courts, why aren't you politicking against Jewish Battei Din courts that handle the same type of issues?<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-76745293957341961992016-01-14T00:45:00.410-05:002016-01-14T00:45:00.410-05:00.
Disappointed?
Aw, gee. now I will be losing sl....<br /><br />Disappointed?<br /><br />Aw, gee. now I will be losing sleep because of the guilt trip.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-83953598067567926332016-01-14T00:42:08.709-05:002016-01-14T00:42:08.709-05:00.
Any woman in the Western world who would choose....<br /><br /><i>Any woman in the Western world who would choose to have her affairs adjudicated in a Sharia Court is mentally incompetent and should be put under the protection of the Court with a Western lawyer appointed to see to her affairs and well being.</i><br /><br />Right. And they should also be kept barefoot and pregnant. <br /><br />Who the hell do you think you are you pompous, sexist hick? What gives you the right to determine what these women should be doing given their own free will? You are as bad as any Sharia court you can dream up.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-27386256208402226822016-01-13T22:07:49.815-05:002016-01-13T22:07:49.815-05:00Since anyone can see Quirk is making no sense he n...Since anyone can see Quirk is making no sense he needs to be placed under the Protection of the Court, with a Court appointed Council as well.<br /><br />Maybe someone like Judge Jeanine Pirro.<br /><br />Back to Fox News....Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-79183264764431223862016-01-13T21:39:46.425-05:002016-01-13T21:39:46.425-05:00Any woman in the Western world who would choose to...Any woman in the Western world who would choose to have her affairs adjudicated in a Sharia Court is mentally incompetent and should be put under the protection of the Court with a Western lawyer appointed to see to her affairs and well being.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-84842968444428151172016-01-13T21:15:32.524-05:002016-01-13T21:15:32.524-05:00If the term 'eating one's own' applies...If the term 'eating one's own' applies to anything it must apply here.Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-65027072222334122502016-01-13T21:14:07.654-05:002016-01-13T21:14:07.654-05:00I am so disappointed in you Quirk.
Usually when y...I am so disappointed in you Quirk.<br /><br />Usually when you go down to defeat you do better than posting lame crap like that.<br /><br />I repeat for your study tonight:<br /><br /><b>(((((( Moreover, women are often pressured by their families to go to the sharia courts or councils. And women may be abused because of the nature of the closed communities in which they live. The evidence is strong that sharia councils operate in a discriminatory and unacceptable fashion. )))))</b><br /><br />This type of pressure is not restricted to one country. Why ? Because it is cultural, not country specific.<br /><br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-264526236376065212016-01-13T21:09:53.753-05:002016-01-13T21:09:53.753-05:00http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/01/12/isis-burns...http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/01/12/isis-burns-fighters-alive-for-letting-ramadi-fall.htmlCharltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-25528518835445451462016-01-13T21:09:07.790-05:002016-01-13T21:09:07.790-05:00“They come to the house and take the children and ...“They come to the house and take the children and accuse them of being spies,” said a stateside Iraqi with knowledge of the situation. “If the mom cries and gets upset at them, they accuse of her being a spy too and take her to the jail and later kill her.”<br /><br />The terrorist group is feeling the heat of a coming onslaught, said Pregent.<br /><br />“ISIS is fracturing, paranoid from within,” Pregent continued, noting that ISIS has two intelligence directorates – one for internal threats the other for external ones – and both are focused on unearthing “threats” to their existence within areas under their thumb. “They are using women and children executions to intimidate – the harsher the tactic the more desperate the leadership is.”<br /><br />Clint Watts, Fox fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, agreed.<br /><br />“They continue to lose territory, we’ve seen a growing number of defections and a rise in the number of alleged internal spies – many of whom they have killed mercilessly without demonstrating significant evidence of internal espionage,” he explained. “ISIS pattern of internal killings looks remarkably similar to al Shabaab’s decline in Somalia. As Shabaab lost ground and defectors increased, internal killings and harsher punishments were meted out across the terror group further accelerating the loss of local popular support.”<br /><br />Earlier this year, activist group Mosul Eye reported that ISIS committed mass executions of men and children at Alhud Village just south of Mosul, accusing the entire township of apostasy and affiliation to the local Iraqi police forces. In late December, several teenagers aged between 12 and 16 were reportedly caught trying to flee across the Tigris River toward the Kurdish region, and subsequently accused of being “spies” by ISIS and within minutes publicly executed in front of their families.<br /><br />As it stands, communications within the besieged city remain spotty, but many are able to get messages out via telephone or Internet – although at great risk.<br /><br />“The residents have little electricity or water, there is no salary for people working, there are no medicines to cure illnesses,” another insider based in Iraq observed. “Civilians are in a state of despair.<br /><br />“Everyone just lives their lives in complete fear,” he said. “They don’t know who will be next – man, woman or child.”Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-33764609099265358322016-01-13T21:08:24.077-05:002016-01-13T21:08:24.077-05:00ISIS burns fighters alive for letting Ramadi fall
...ISIS burns fighters alive for letting Ramadi fall<br /><br />By Hollie McKay<br />Published January 12, 2016<br />FoxNews.com<br />Facebook Twitter livefyre Email<br />Fox News terror analyst Walid Phares provides insight<br />Now Playing<br /><br />How reclaiming Ramadi changes the fight against ISIS<br /><br />ISIS fighters who fled to the terror group’s Iraqi stronghold of Mosul after being defeated in Ramadi were burned alive in the town square, sources told FoxNews.com, in an unmistakable message to fighters who may soon be defending the northern city from government forces.<br /><br />Several residents of Mosul recounted the grisly story for stateside relatives, describing the deadly reception black clad jihadists got when they made it to Mosul, some 250 miles north of the city retaken by Iraqi forces operating with cover from U.S. air power.<br /><br />ADVERTISEMENT<br /><br /> “ISIS is fracturing, paranoid from within.”<br /><br /> - Michael Pregent, former to Gen. David Petraeus<br /><br />“They were grouped together and made to stand in a circle,” a former resident of northern Iraq now living in the U.S. but in touch with family back home told FoxNews.com. “And set on fire to die.”<br /><br />Several Iraqi-Americans and recent refugees with close relatives in Mosul told of ISIS fighters fresh off defeat in Ramadi being shunned – and executed – for not fighting to the death in Ramadi.<br /><br />Michael Pregent, a terrorism expert and former intelligence adviser to Gen. David Petraeus in Iraq, said such an act isn’t new for the callous terror group. A similar fate was meted out to fighters who lost Saddam’s hometown to Kurdish forces last year.<br /><br />“There is no surprise on executing ISIS fighters from Ramadi,” he said. “They did the same to fighters after Tikrit.”<br /><br />The retaking of Ramadi, the capital of the mainly Sunni-populated Anbar Province which ISIS took over last May, was a major setback for ISIS. Just 80 miles west of Baghdad, the city was overrun by ISIS in June, 2014. Iraqi forces, fighting with Sunni tribes and supported by coalition forces, recently took it back but the city remains in ruins. Booby-traps, landmines and a broken infrastructure have rendered it mostly uninhabitable for the time being.<br /><br />With government, Kurdish and coalition forces now mustering to recapture Mosul, which fell to ISIS approximately 18 months ago, an increasingly paranoid ISIS has stepped up its murders of women and children, according to people trapped in the city.<br /><br />Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02337923317977922025noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-15939706696119468972016-01-13T20:34:47.599-05:002016-01-13T20:34:47.599-05:00.
(((((( Moreover, women are often pressured by t....<br /><br /><i>(((((( Moreover, women are often pressured by their families to go to the sharia courts or councils. And women may be abused because of the nature of the closed communities in which they live. The evidence is strong that sharia councils operate in a discriminatory and unacceptable fashion. )))))</i><br /><br />I have little knowledge of what is going on with Sharia courts in the UK. It's fairly low on my radar screen since I am mostly concerned with things happening in this country. One thing I do know is that if I wanted to find out what was actually going on in the UK, I wouldn't waste my time looking it up in articles out of the <i>American Thinker</i>.<br /><br />As far as the US, we have a long history of ecclesiastical and canonical courts in this country, Catholic, Jewish, Mormon, Lutheran, Hindu, Buddhist, and others. Sharia Courts are late to the party.<br />Most of the issues of these courts center on issues of marriage and divorce, division of assets, custody, etc. Most also deal with disciplinary actions regarding clergy. In most cases, dealing with the congregation, these courts use persuasion and arbitration to reach their decisions. It’s quicker and cheaper that taking it to litigation. As long as the decisions align with existing civil and criminal law, SCOTUS has said they won’t interfere with them. And when I say civil law, I am talking all applicable law including those associated with issues of race, sex, sexual orientation, etc.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/08/applying-gods-law-religious-courts-and-mediation-in-the-us/" rel="nofollow">Applying God’s Law: Religious Courts and Mediation in the U.S.</a><br /><br /><b>The most important thing to remember about all of these courts is that they their decisions must be reconcilable with US local, state, and federal civil and criminal law and statutes. If they don’t they will be overturned in US courts.</b><br /><br />If you have a problem, restrict the discussion to the US experience not to the UK or EU or anyplace else.<br /><br />. <br /><br />.<br />Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-8956202760463291952016-01-13T19:27:08.721-05:002016-01-13T19:27:08.721-05:00The Good News ?
O'bozo has promised us all a ...The Good News ?<br /><br />O'bozo has promised us all a CURE FOR CANCER !!!<br /><br />(but probably not in our lifetimes)Laggardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-10828328421121735522016-01-13T19:22:52.753-05:002016-01-13T19:22:52.753-05:00We recall O'bozo wanted gas prices to rise, to...We recall O'bozo wanted gas prices to rise, to 'save the earth'.<br /><br />What is saving our ass is the private sector via fracking.<br /><br />Which, of course, O'bozo has done his very best to discourage.<br /><br />ONLY ONE MORE YEAR OF THE SHIT BIRD IN THE WHITE HOUSE !!!!!!!!!<br /><br />yippeeeeeeeLaggardnoreply@blogger.com