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Turkish court sentences notorious British ISIS member wanted by US, UK
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Man busted having oral sex in broad daylight in the middle of a McDonald's restaurant
[DailyMail] - Conrad Jablecki is charged with with indecent exposure and open lewdness
His cousin, Haywood Jablowme,was unavailable for comment.
- He was caught having oral sex in the middle of a Pennsylvania McDonald's
- Employees threw the couple out before calling the cops on the pair
- Police say they are still hunting for the woman who was engaging in the sex act
Do you want fries with that?
Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 || 05/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sounds odd - was he having oral sex by himself? The title of the article suggests as much.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 05/12/2017 0:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Police say they are still hunting for the woman who was engaging in the sex act

I'll bet!
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/12/2017 5:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Conrad Jablecki

Bill, Bill, Bill couldn't you come up with a better alias than that?
Posted by: AlanC || 05/12/2017 7:32 Comments || Top||

#4  "Honey, it's big enough. You want a Whopper, go to Burger King"
Posted by: Frank G || 05/12/2017 8:45 Comments || Top||

#5  There is an Anthony Weiner lurking in Conrad Jabiecki trying to get out. Public sex must be a turn-on for him and the lady as well. I imagine the lunch hour crowd was somewhat aghast although people are finding it harder and harder to get shocked. If I had to choose between oral sex in broad daylight and someone shooting up the place I'd with the oral sex. I'd prefer neither with my lunch!
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/12/2017 9:48 Comments || Top||

#6  Police say they are still hunting for the woman who was engaging in the sex act

I must admit to being relieved to read this sentence - for a moment there I thought he was engaging in oral sex by himself.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/12/2017 10:08 Comments || Top||

#7  Pair were caught having sex in a restaurant parking lot - and the woman pulled a DANDELION from her genitals after police busted them

Wearing a hat but fresh out of rabbits?
Posted by: Count Galeazzo Bucket6117 || 05/12/2017 10:39 Comments || Top||

#8  Police say they are still hunting for the woman who was engaging in the sex act

They drove off in a Hummer.
Posted by: gorb || 05/12/2017 11:01 Comments || Top||

#9  Newest Happy Meal?
Posted by: Airandee || 05/12/2017 13:23 Comments || Top||

#10  was he having oral sex by himself?

Ron Jeremy to the courtesy phone?
Posted by: Frozen Al || 05/12/2017 13:36 Comments || Top||

#11  That's not the 'secret sauce' you were looking for.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/12/2017 15:51 Comments || Top||

#12  "Sir, would like to super-size that order?"
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/12/2017 20:19 Comments || Top||

#13  "Can't I just eat my waffle?"
Posted by: SteveS || 05/12/2017 23:27 Comments || Top||


St. Olaf: Report of racist note on black student's windshield was 'fabricated'
[STARTRIBUNE] A racist threat against a St. Olaf student that touched off campuswide protests and forced the college to cancel classes earlier this month was a hoax, the school revealed Wednesday.

A student confessed to writing the note, St. Olaf President David R. Anderson wrote in a message to students. The threat -- an anonymous, typewritten note -- was "fabricated," he said, as an apparent "strategy to draw attention to concerns about the campus climate."

"This was not a genuine threat," Anderson wrote in the first of two messages Wednesday to students. "We’re confident that there is no ongoing threat from this incident to individuals or the community as a whole."

The note, tucked onto the windshield of a black student’s car on April 29, sparked outrage, fear and hurt on this close-knit private college campus, tucked into the hills of this river town about 45 miles south of the Twin Cities. The revelation that the note was fake was a shock of a different sort.

"I think it’s disturbing that it was written deliberately, just to stir up the campus," sophomore Ben Parsell said Wednesday.

But would the hoax make it harder for the victim of a genuine racist threat to get help next time? Parsell didn’t think so.

A student took a photograph of a banner that hung in Buntrock Commons at St. Olaf College. The college released at statement Wednesday that a racist note left on a black student's car last month was a hoax.

"I don’t think the campus would let that happen," he said.

For some students, a fake threat doesn’t change the reality of racism, or the positive changes they’ve seen on campus since the protests -- including a task force the university pledged to set up to address minority student concerns.

"It’s started something good," said Daniel Katuka. The St. Olaf senior, who is black, said he hasn’t encountered the sort of racism on campus that he’s experienced in the outside world. But he appreciated the St. Olaf community coming together "in a positive way" in the face of an apparent threat.
Posted by: Fred || 05/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Wolf, wolf, wolf!"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/12/2017 10:09 Comments || Top||

#2  All style manuals should require that the phrase "hate crime" be automatically followed by the word "hoax".
Posted by: charger || 05/12/2017 16:15 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Randy gator suffers Kayak rejection near the Alabama coast
[UPI] A visitor to the Gulf Coast in Alabama captured video of a kayaker paddling for his life while being chased through the water by an alligator.

Shannon Collins posted a series of videos to Facebook showing the unknown man furiously paddling his kayak toward the dock Sunday in Spanish Fort while a large alligator swims toward him.

"When you really really really don't want to tip over your kayak..." Collins wrote in the video's description.

Collins said in a comment that the kayaker successfully escaped.

"That gator followed him until he docked, then stayed there by him until he loaded his kayak in his truck and left. He got a little too close to her babies we think and she wasn't letting him out of her sight. That gator was serious," she wrote.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/12/2017 09:07 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  FOX: Mating season [through June]
means active alligators in Florida
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/12/2017 9:36 Comments || Top||


Chomsky Says GOP Is More Dangerous Than ISIS, Kim Jong Un
[DAILYCALLER]
Posted by: Fred || 05/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What do you expect of the Left which allies itself with any anti-Western Civ elements in the world?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/12/2017 7:36 Comments || Top||

#2  But is it more dangerous than man-made global climate change, Noam?
Posted by: Bobby || 05/12/2017 7:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Chomsky is a political gadfly who is a bit like Comey in that he inserts himself into political hot-button issues by taking ridiculous positions.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/12/2017 9:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Did you know that "Noam" means "pleasant" in Hebrew?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/12/2017 10:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Apparently, his parents majored in sarcasm
Posted by: Frank G || 05/12/2017 10:16 Comments || Top||

#6  Noam means pleasant. A misnomer grom?
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/12/2017 10:21 Comments || Top||

#7  If he's still teaching at MIT, I should go by and trash his office.
Posted by: Raj || 05/12/2017 10:38 Comments || Top||

#8  If only that were true.
Posted by: Iblis || 05/12/2017 10:46 Comments || Top||

#9  One of the most frequent Israeli names - there are like 3 Noams in my son's 6th grade class.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/12/2017 11:01 Comments || Top||

#10  He would only be pleasant at the bottom of a grave.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/12/2017 11:22 Comments || Top||

#11  Desperate for attention after a failed linguistics career
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 05/12/2017 11:33 Comments || Top||

#12  Since when is this person relevant to any discussion other than linguistics?
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 05/12/2017 14:18 Comments || Top||

#13  #12 Since when is this person relevant to any discussion other than linguistics?

He's not even relevant in that field anymore.
Posted by: charger || 05/12/2017 16:13 Comments || Top||

#14  He's relevant as long as the MSM says he is, so there.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/12/2017 18:16 Comments || Top||

#15  I look forward to his passing.
Posted by: Crusader || 05/12/2017 22:24 Comments || Top||


Boston doctors murder: Suspect worked as concierge at condo complex
More on this story from a few days ago. The key points we care about at Rantburg: Bampumim “JJ” Teixeira had worked as a concierge/guard in the building, he immigrated legally at age 20, was born in the West African country of Guinea-Bissau (45% Muslim) and grew up on the Cape Verde islands (95% Christian) off the coast of West Africa.
[FoxNews] The man accused of murdering two engaged doctors in a Boston penthouse condominium on Friday worked as a concierge in the building complex, the district attorney confirmed Monday.

Bampumim Teixeira, who was arraigned Monday afternoon for the murders of Dr. Lina Bolanos, 38, and Dr. Richard Field, 49, was employed by Palladion Services, a security and concierge company. The condo complex where the couple died, used the company's services until February, according to People Magazine who first obtained an email the building's managment sent to residents.

It's unclear exactly when or how long Teixeira, 30, worked as a concierge in the condo complex, which consists of two separate structures.
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Posted by: trailing wife || 05/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  employed by Palladion Services, a security and concierge company

Careful what you outsource.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/12/2017 5:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Officials are still looking for a possible motive in the murder.

1) A bag of Bolanos' jewelry was later found at the scene.
2) Teixeira was recently released from prison after serving a nine-month sentence for robbing two banks -- one in 2014 and the other in 2016

Gee, Clouseau...
Posted by: Frank G || 05/12/2017 8:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Just a sec: after being released from prison he was hired as a security guard?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/12/2017 10:12 Comments || Top||

#4  How does the revenge note written in blood on the wall fit into this? Did the doctors expose him?
Posted by: gorb || 05/12/2017 11:03 Comments || Top||

#5  Didn't pay their Home Health coke bill.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/12/2017 17:16 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
Police Force Ditches Traditional Helmets for Gender-Neutral Caps to Attract Transgender Officers
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/12/2017 11:10 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


-Land of the Free
Travelers Warned to Stay Away From Texas After Sanctuary Cities Ban
[Yahoo] The ACLU makes its opinion known.
Posted by: Chavith Phaviter7124 || 05/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If the ACLU ever does show up, heres a few Texas sights I would like to show them:

Texas Rattle Snake


Chupacabra


Texas Brown Tarantula


Mexican Bat


And that's just a good start with a few more introductions for the ACLU type.
Posted by: Squinty Mussolini7574 || 05/12/2017 1:40 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/12/2017 5:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Does "Travelers" include illegal invaders? If so, part of the so-called immigration problem might be addressed. Cut off the EBT benefits and walla the hoards might decline more. Pay bonuses to the Border Patrol for rounding up illegals and things might improve even more.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/12/2017 9:29 Comments || Top||

#4  I actually have no problem with this. Let the ACLU's 'travelers' go someplace else.
Or stay home. Don't care.
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/12/2017 9:38 Comments || Top||

#5  Yes, travelers who cross the border illegally are encouraged to stay away from Texas.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/12/2017 11:12 Comments || Top||

#6  I only wish California had a governor like that.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/12/2017 11:13 Comments || Top||

#7  Gov. Abbott is disabled. Moonbeam is crippled
Posted by: Frank G || 05/12/2017 11:57 Comments || Top||

#8  (TX) Gov Abbott is physically challenged, moonbeam is absent of mind & MUCH more.
Posted by: Andy123 Threque8621 || 05/12/2017 12:41 Comments || Top||

#9  With criminal illegals being given no quarter, Texas is about the safest place to travel to now.
Posted by: Nero White 3083 || 05/12/2017 16:12 Comments || Top||

#10  Anyone that needs to listen to the ACLU for travel information doesn't need to get out of the house much less visit God's country.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 05/12/2017 20:01 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Sisi attends inauguration of production of Egypt's West Delta gas fields
[AlAhram] The project is expected to cover one quarter of Egypt's gas needs.
Less dependence on the charity of Saudi Arabia, et al will be a very good thing for all involved, though it will lessen the Saudis' influence.

British oil investments to make Egypt new energy superpower, says UK envoy
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Does this mean America can stop supporting Egypt to the tune of $2 billion/year.
Posted by: Elmineter Gravitch3625 || 05/12/2017 12:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Just that the hole they're in won't be quite as deep, and they won't have to kowtow to the Saudis quite as much, Elmineter Gravitch3625.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/12/2017 23:57 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Ebola: Three people killed in DR Congo as new epidemic declared by WHO
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/12/2017 10:26 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hopefully trump will put an end to bringing any of the cases here.
Posted by: chris || 05/12/2017 11:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Hopefully trump will put an end to bringing any of the cases here.

He'll try but some judge will rule that his efforts are unconstitutional.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/12/2017 11:15 Comments || Top||

#3  I wonder if this is same old, same old Ebola, genetically speaking, or a fresh-brewed strain.
Posted by: SteveS || 05/12/2017 12:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Nice!
A sample population of native vectors!
Very nice SS.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/12/2017 17:11 Comments || Top||

#5  The case was confirmed from tests on nine people who came down with a hemorrhagic fever in Bas-Uele province in the northeast of the country on or after April 22, the statement said.

A cluster of 9 and only one +ve for ebola. Something is wrong.
Posted by: phil_b || 05/12/2017 20:20 Comments || Top||

#6  The CDC under Obama became enamored with global warming, consumption of salt, and firearms INSTEAD of focusing on their mission.

I hope Trump has re-focused that agency, but I haven't (yet) heard anything to that effect.
Posted by: Crusader || 05/12/2017 22:22 Comments || Top||


The Grand Turk
Turkey denounces German move to accept asylum requests
[AlAhram] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
on Thursday condemned Germany for granting political asylum to numerous military personnel and their families with alleged links to last year's failed coup, saying the move risked harming relations.

Germany gave positive responses to the asylum petitions of the Turkish nationals holding diplomatic passports, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily and public broadcasters WDR and NDR reported. The reports were not officially confirmed by authorities.

Since the unsuccessful coup attempt in July last year, dozens of diplomats, judges, and high-ranking Turkish officials have sought asylum in Germany as Ankara presses ahead with a vast crackdown on alleged supporters of Fethullah Gulen
... a Turkish preacher living in Pennsylvania whom the current govt of Turkey considers responsible for all the ills afflicting Turkey and possibly the entire world...
, the US-based preacher who Ankara blames for the coup.

German media reported that 414 military personnel, diplomats, judges and other high-ranking Turkish officials have sought political asylum in Germany. That number also includes family members.

"We regret that Germany is accepting asylum requests of some former military personnel" linked with Gulen, the Turkish foreign ministry said in a statement. Gulen, who has been in exile in the United States since 1999, has denied the charges.

"The German decision is a step that is not in line with the spirit of alliance and multi-faced relations between our countries," the statement added.

The ministry said allowing the asylum requests would mean "tolerating and embracing a pro-coup mentality," urging Berlin to review its decision.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte


Home Front: Politix
Lawyer for man dragged from United flight isn't laughing at viral New Yorker cover
[Market Watch] The New Yorker published a teaser cover of its issue due out May 22, and so far the illustration -- depicting Attorney General Jeff Sessions as a police office forcibly removing former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey down an airplane aisle -- has gone viral, scoring rave reviews on social media.

But there is at least one person who isn’t laughing.

The cover art draws a clear parallel between Comey’s stunning firing by Trump earlier this week and Dr. David Dao, who garnered world-wide attention after scenes of him being dragged from a United Airlines flight -- captured on cellphone cameras last month -- drew swift rebuke from the public and compelled the airline carrier’s parent United Continental Holdings Inc. UAL, -1.51% to reach a settlement with Dao for an undisclosed sum.

Dao’s attorney, Thomas Demetrio, partner at Chicago law firm Corboy & Demetrio, told MarketWatch that the cover art, although "very clever" minimizes his client’s pain and suffering. Dao lost his teeth and suffered a concussion related to his removal from the United flight, according to his attorney.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/12/2017 02:16 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  First Class, Business Class, Premium Economy, Economy Class, and now Fight Class for those wanting a lively flight.

https://cached-assets.patriotpost.us/images/2017-04-13-29c4d211_fixed.jpg

Posted by: JohnQC || 05/12/2017 9:14 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Boy tortured at school dies
[DAWN] VEHARI: A class eight student of the Government Elementary School, 190/EB, who was allegedly tortured by his two teachers in school on Monday died at the Vehari District Headquarters (DHQ) Hospital on Wednesday.

The Vehari Sadar police said teachers Munaza Dilshad and Nabeel punished severely beat Abrar Ahmed for not doing his homework on Monday. Abrar received serious injuries and was admitted to the Vehari DHQ Hospital for treatment.

On Wednesday evening, he died at the hospital. Deputy Commissioner Ali Akbar Bhatti suspended both teachers and ordered an inquiry into the incident.

Sadar police investigation officer Jawed said that a first information report would be registered after the autopsy report.

Both teachers had left their houses after the death of the student, police claimed.

Posted by: Fred || 05/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  severely beat Abrar Ahmed for not doing his homework

I'm of two minds about this.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/12/2017 10:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Couldn't they only chopped off his hands?
Posted by: Elmineter Gravitch3625 || 05/12/2017 12:40 Comments || Top||


‘Illegally-detained’ woman, two sons recovered in raid on police station
[DAWN] KARACHI: A magistrate on Wednesday raided the SITE Superhighway Industrial Area cop shoppe and recovered a woman and her two children apparently kept there in wrongful detention.

Judicial Magistrate Asif Raza Mir got the detainee, Mariyam, and her two sons, aged four and six years, released on a personal bond since the police were unable to justify her detention.

He also directed the station house officer and station investigation officer (SIO), Inspector Shakoor, to appear before the district and sessions court (Malir) on Thursday (today).

The magistrate along with applicant Manzoor Ahmed and his lawyer raided the cop shoppe and found the women in the room of the SIO.

Court officials said the police failed to produce any FIR against the woman or an entry in the daily dairy regarding her arrest.

However,
a lie repeated often enough remains a lie...
Inspector Shakoor claimed that the woman was brought to the cop shoppe for questioning in a murder case a little before the magistrate’s raid. But, the daily dairy was silent about this.

The applicant, through his lawyer, moved a habeas corpus application under Section 491 of the Criminal Procedure Code submitting that the police raided his house in Ahsanabad and picked up his wife along with his minor sons a couple of days ago.

He maintained that the police kept them in wrongful confinement and demanded a bribe against their release. The applicant asked the court for their recovery.

After a preliminary hearing, the district and sessions judge (Malir) appointed the magistrate as the raid commissioner directing him to carry out a raid on the information to be provided by the applicant and recover the detainees if found in wrongful confinement.
Posted by: Fred || 05/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas burns drug stash in Gaza, sentences dealers to death
[Ynet] Gazoo's bad boy Islamic Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood, rulers have burned a large stash of seized narcotics and sentenced two dealers to death as part of their campaign against drugs.

Hamas' Interior Ministry says some 1,130 bars of hashish and 467,000 pills seized since the beginning of the year were destroyed.
It sounds like a lot -- puzzling how they brought it in, given the blockade.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/12/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  About time for Trump government to set the liberal's hair on fire by declaring the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization.

I don't know but I doubt that many Americans would tolerate death penalties for drug dealers.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/12/2017 9:41 Comments || Top||

#2  "Hey, don't stand downwind. I'll cut off you're head!"
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/12/2017 17:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Call me cynical but I think it's more like Hamas got pissed at the dealers not kicking money upstairs to them.
Posted by: Raj || 05/12/2017 17:57 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Supersonic passenger jet coming by 2020
Been, gone, come back...
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/12/2017 11:25 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gotta make it fuel efficient, which has been impossible in the past. Maybe with the new super cruise technology they can make it work.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/12/2017 16:16 Comments || Top||

#2  No laptops allowed!
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/12/2017 17:10 Comments || Top||

#3  The last one couldn't make the routes pay from fare prices and landing restrictions (sonic booms).
We'll see how this one goes. Hopefully better than the Airbus 380.
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/12/2017 18:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Can't fly cross country though, right?
Posted by: charger || 05/12/2017 19:22 Comments || Top||

#5  These days we don't care a fig about the technical achievement or improvements in human life. We only want to know how many minority woman owned businesses got contracts to build the loo.
Posted by: Iblis || 05/12/2017 19:24 Comments || Top||


Army Wizes Up, Terminates XM25 Contract; Airburst Weapon's Future Uncertain
[Kit Up] I found out on late Friday afternoon that the U.S. Army cancelled its XM25 25mm airburst weapon contract with Orbital ATK Inc.

Nicknamed "the Punisher" and designed by Orbital ATK and Heckler & Koch, XM25 Counter-Defilade Target Engagement System has long been the Army’s attempt to field a "leap-ahead" weapon designed to give infantry units a decisive edge against enemies hiding behind cover.

I wrote a story about for Military.com, which ran on Saturday, that talks about how Army Weapons officials were reluctant to talk about XM25 when asked about it last week at the National Defense Industrial Association’s Armaments Systems Forum.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/12/2017 02:07 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Unable to find soldiers strong enough to hump the weapon, batteries, and basic load of ammo ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/12/2017 2:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Try funding it, producing it, and speeding it to the front with such expense and tech.

I AM never comfortable with a military that loses support every time a democrat gets in charge, and a military that is forced to take elaborate technical weapons systems.

Too much tech mucks up the actual field.
And you will lose the next time you get a piece of shit like obama again.

These contracts are political anyway.
Posted by: newc || 05/12/2017 3:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Concept was good. Will be back in a few years.
Posted by: phil_b || 05/12/2017 5:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Not 'front line' gender friendly, B.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/12/2017 5:30 Comments || Top||

#5  From what I understand, the troops loved it. Admittedly, all I know is what I have read, but, it was reported to work as intended.
Posted by: Spinesing Gray3122 || 05/12/2017 9:18 Comments || Top||

#6  Story says contract was terminated for failure to deliver agreed number(20) of weapons.
Posted by: Grunter || 05/12/2017 10:12 Comments || Top||

#7  The basic idea, applied to the grenade launchers commonly carried by the US troops, might have been better. It's a larger projectile with more volume, higher production volumes, etc...
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 05/12/2017 12:21 Comments || Top||

#8  Yeah, the Marines loved the thing and rapidly used up all the ammo for them. They didn't break down much (especially for prototypes), were reliable and did what they were supposed to do. I would like to see this or something like it deployed for our guys.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/12/2017 12:30 Comments || Top||

#9  As I understand it, The problem was:
the cost and complexity of the weapon;
the cost and complexity of the ammo;
the fact that there were not enough opportunities to use the weapon's features.

Simply stated, on a cost per kill basis the M320, m32, and Mk 19 can get the kills cheaper.

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al || 05/12/2017 13:30 Comments || Top||

#10  Yep, more vendors AL.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/12/2017 17:14 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
ABC Cancels Conservative Tim Allen Sitcom ‘Last Man Standing' Despite Strong Ratings
[Breitbart] ABC has cancelled its Tim Allen-starring sitcom Last Man Standing after six seasons, the network confirmed Wednesday.

ABC and production partner 20th Century Fox TV had reportedly usually negotiated over licensing fees for the comedy series before each season; this time, according to Deadline, there was no negotiation, and the network simply pulled the plug on the show.

The sitcom starred Allen as Mike Baxter, a marketing director for a sporting goods store who happened to be politically conservative, and his relationship with his wife Vanessa and his three teenage daughters. The show was one of the few (if not the only) broadcast network sitcom to appeal to conservative, blue-collar America, a true oddity since Allen has noted in interviews that the program was written by liberal writers.
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#1  Reason #4,543 that I am happy I cut the cable years ago.

Posted by: DarthVader || 05/12/2017 9:03 Comments || Top||

#2  Last Man Standing averaged 5m viewers in the most recent season. Parks and Recreation averaged 2.5m viewers before it was canceled. Brooklyn 99 averages 2m viewers and has been renewed.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 05/12/2017 16:12 Comments || Top||

#3  What does 'Blak-ish' get ZF?
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/12/2017 17:12 Comments || Top||

#4  About 5m, a million less than Last Man Standing.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 05/12/2017 17:34 Comments || Top||

#5  The last network program I watched regularly was "The Unit". It was cancelled after 4 great seasons, and replaced by some bullshit cop drama that was cartoonish in nature.
Posted by: Crusader || 05/12/2017 22:19 Comments || Top||



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