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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Domino's Pizza Delivery Man in Covina, California, Stabs Customer
[NBCNEWS] A Domino's Pizza delivery man stabbed a customer after arguing over a late order, according to police.
Hmmm... That's unusual. I ordered from Domino's the other day and except for a few bruises everything was fine.
Michael Charles Parker, 31, of Glendora, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, was tossed in the slammer
I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece!
for allegedly stabbing the 20-year-old victim after what police described as "an altercation ... over the extended delay of a pizza delivery."

The victim received non-life-threatening injuries to his wrist and neck during the incident in Covina, California, at around 11:30 p.m. Saturday (2:30 a.m. ET Sunday). He was transported to a local trauma center, according to a statement from the Covina Police Department.

Officers contacted Parker at the pizza shop where he worked.

He was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, booked, and released after he posted bail of $30,000. He is set to be arraigned on March 21.

Tim McIntyre, vice president of communication and public relations at Domino's, said in an email to NBC News that Parker was an employee of an independent franchise owner.
Posted by: Fred || 01/05/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Man bites dog.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/05/2016 8:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Don't criticize until you've actually tried to make a living delivering pizzas.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/05/2016 8:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Don't criticize until you've actually tried to make a living delivering pizzas.

...and never bring a pizza to a knife fight. Thank you, I will show myself out.
Posted by: regular joe || 01/05/2016 11:54 Comments || Top||

#4  Domino's will no longer deliver to my house.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 01/05/2016 12:11 Comments || Top||

#5  He just did what a great many of us only fantasize about. Do not criticize until you have done some delivery
Posted by: Nguard || 01/05/2016 17:22 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
EUA-ESA consider bugging out of International Space Station (ISS)

This after the Ariane Prez had a sour grape speech about SpaceX. (this link)

France, Germany Admit to Second Thoughts about Sticking with ISS

Europe's two biggest backers of the International Space Station are suggesting it's possible Europe may end its space station role in 2020 despite the fact that its major partners -- the United States, Russia, Japan and Canada -- have all said they will continue using the orbital complex until at least 2024.

In separate statements Jan. 4 and Jan. 5, the heads of the French and German space agencies said a detailed study is under way to assess the future operating cost of the station, and whether the cost can be justified given the pressure on near-term budgets.

Pascale Ehrenfreund, chairman of the board of the German Aerospace Center, DLR, which is Germany's space agency, said DLR would make no promises until after a full review of ISS's value.



"In view of the high cost involved and the resulting implications on budgets of [European Space Agency] member states, we have to evaluate very carefully costs and benefits of a continued participation in the ISS," Ehrenfreund said in a Jan. 5 statement in response to SpaceNews inquiries. "It's only based on this evaluation that we will be able to take a definite position."

Germany has been Europe's ISS champion -- its biggest paymaster and most vocal booster -- for more than 20 years and at times has had to strong-arm France into boosting its support under threat of reduced German backing of Europe's Ariane rocket program, a French priority.

In December 2014 France agreed to return its space station support to its mid-1990s commitment levels as part of a broad agreement that included a large German role in the future Ariane 6 rocket.

Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of the French space agency, CNES, said Jan. 4 that France would not announce a position for or against post-2020 ISS support until it had worked out a common position with Germany.

Le Gall invoked the pressure on German public spending caused by the massive influx of refugees onto German territory in 2015, and said no common position would be clear until the eve of the next meeting of European Space Agency ministers, set for December in Lucerne, Switzerland.

ESA governments, led by France and Germany, regularly play a kind of liar's poker with each other, feigning budgetary strength or weakness to win overall ESA support for a given program, or to encourage other nations to increase their contributions with the implied threat of program cancellation.

Whether that is what is happening now is difficult to discern. At the last ESA ministerial meeting, in December 2014 in Luxembourg, Germany and other governments committed to a 10-year program of support for current and future launch vehicles valued at more than 8 billion euros ($8.8 billion).

The commitment makes it more difficult to engage in the space-station-versus-launch-vehicles negotiations.

Le Gall said further pressure on Europe's space station involvement beyond 2020 is the possibly short duration of a barter arrangement with NASA. Up to now, Europe has provided space station cargo supplies to offset its 8.3 percent share of the station's common operating costs, which without the barter would be due to NASA in cash.

ESA retired its Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo vehicle after five flights. NASA and ESA, after lengthy negotiations, agreed to extend the barter to include Europe's service module contribution to NASA's Orion crew exploration vehicle -- whose mission is not centered on the international space station but destinations beyond low Earth orbit.

Europe is now providing one service module copy, and a set of spare parts for a second flight.

ESA has already reduced its ISS operating costs -- not including the common operating charges -- by more than 30 percent in recent years, in part by outsourcing much of the work to Airbus Defence and Space and in part by consolidating ground operations.

If France and Germany are contemplating a dip in station commitment, Britain is moving in the other direction on the strength of the appeal of ESA astronaut Tim Peake, a British national who is now part of the space station crew. But Britain remains a minor contributor to ESA's overall space station budget.

France may regain its space station enthusiasm in November with the launch of Thomas Pesquet, a French national in the ESA astronaut scheduled for launch to the station then. French President Francois Hollande in December celebrated Pesquet's mission at a public ceremony.

ESA budgeted human spaceflight, which is mainly the space station, at 371 million euros in 2015, or 8.4 percent of its total budget.
Posted by: 3dc || 01/05/2016 16:24 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I neglected to suggest that the EPA's 90 billion dollar fine against VW's pollution cheating might actually play into this.
Posted by: 3dc || 01/05/2016 16:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Note Japan, Russia & Canada are doing their part.
Posted by: 3dc || 01/05/2016 16:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Le Gall invoked the pressure on German public spending caused by the massive influx of refugees onto German territory in 2015, and said no common position would be clear until the eve of the next meeting of European Space Agency ministers, set for December in Lucerne, Switzerland.

And here everyone laughed about Islam's influence in space exploration.

Lucerne, huh. Very nice, very nice, take a couple of weeks at least. Send me a postcard of the Lowendenkmal.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/05/2016 18:31 Comments || Top||

#4  I for one am deeply disappointed that this ideal microgravity lab has yet to find a cancer cure. Perhaps they could raise some bean stalks and see what they do in this tremendous asset for science. Or see how flames travel in this unique multi-national game changer.

Wolfies, Wally Schirra, John Young and Gus Grissom did more science with A corned beef sandwich in 3 hours than the IsS does in a month.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/05/2016 20:56 Comments || Top||

#5  As long as the ISIS/ISIL is allowed to exist, + it + Caliphate directly or indirectly allowed by the US_West to go Nukulaar, OUR FUTURE OWG-NWO = SPACE GOVT-ORDER THAT NO AMERICAN = AMERIKAN HAS YET BEEN ASKED TO VOTE ON, NOR EVER WILL BE IFF GLOBALIST POLTICOS + ALIGNED GET THEIR WAY, CAN FORGET ABOUT EXPLORING AND COLONIZING DEEP SPACE TO PREEMPT OR ESCAPE SOLAR-LED GWCC.

They will be too busy fighting agz the NUKE-ARMED ISLAMIST-JIHADIST GLOBAL MOHAMEDDAN CONQUEST of EARTH to worry about going into Deep Space or escaping the Sun.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 01/05/2016 23:00 Comments || Top||


Dubai Buildings "Infernos Waiting To Happen"
Posted by: Grunter || 01/05/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Great informative article, Gruner. Good work. Polyurethane clad with Aluminium---one torch. The Telegraph carries the details that the MSM are too lazy to research and compile.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 01/05/2016 0:48 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: Skidmark || 01/05/2016 9:01 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Background checks for gun sales at record high in 2015
[Wash Times] A record number of firearms background checks were conducted by the FBI in 2015 -- equating roughly to 44 checks every minute.

The FBI reported Monday that the agency conducted a total of 23,141,970 checks last year, eclipsing the previous record of nearly 21.1 million checks set in 2013. News of the record-setting year comes as President Obama is expected to announce executive orders expanding background check requirements.

The background checks are conducted through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System for gun purchases from federal firearms licensees and for permits to carry guns. While the checks serve as an indicator of gun sale trends in the U.S., each check does not always equate to a sale.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/05/2016 08:41 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  each check does not always equate to a sale

Hmmmm...
Posted by: Pappy || 01/05/2016 8:56 Comments || Top||

#2  each check does not always equate to a sale

There are only three categories of ATF-4473 results: 1. Approved for Sale. 2. Delay of Sale (up to 8 days). 3. Denial of Sale.

Denials are somewhere in the 1 to 2 % bracket, and can be contested/appealed by the potential buyer to the Federal Gov't. I have a hunch the governmental office of appeals is very, very small and is not open on week ends.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/05/2016 9:05 Comments || Top||

#3  governmental office of appeals is very, very small and is not open on week ends....or any day ending in day.


FIFY
Posted by: AlanC || 01/05/2016 9:38 Comments || Top||

#4  It's not a partial repeal of the second amendment, it's an ATF jobs initiative.
Posted by: regular joe || 01/05/2016 11:51 Comments || Top||

#5  We're obviously more concerned about Americans getting guns than terrorists sneaking in among the refugee flood.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/05/2016 16:37 Comments || Top||


Europe
Malware Caused Ukraine Blackout
Posted by: Grunter || 01/05/2016 17:48 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


The Grand Turk
AK Party municipality grants Bilal Erdogan's partner tax favor
[TODAYSZAMAN] The Pendik Municipality, run by the Justice and Development Party (AK Party), exempted a company owned by Mehmet Gur, a partner of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him...
's son, Bilal, in another company, from paying a portion of the property tax on a parcel of land, creating TL 200 million in unearned income for the company, a daily reported on Monday.

According to a story in the Cumhuriyet daily on Monday, Gur's company, ÖZASR Yapi Anonim Sirketi, which was established in February 2015, bought a 32,000-square-meter plot of land near Istanbul's Sabiha Gökcen International Airport in March 2015. Based on a request from the company to change the master plans for construction on the site, the Pendik Municipality Directorate of Planning exempted the basement floor of the project, equal to 20,000 square meters of retail space, from property tax. The municipal council passed the motion in December 2015 with the support of AK Party members despite dissent from the opposition party members of the council.

Cumhuriyet also reported that Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Directorate of Green Areas and Facilities approved the change made by the Pendik Municipality. In addition, neither the company nor the Pendik Municipality submitted the plan to the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Directorate of Transportation, though the project will be very close to roads connecting traffic with the airport, the daily said.

Gur's name came up in a recorded phone conversation that was leaked to the Internet after a major graft scandal was revealed in December 2013 that implicated sons of three Turkish ministers, businessmen, the chief of the state bank and other people from the inner circles of the AK Party and then-Prime Minister and current President Erdogan, including his son, Bilal.

Erdogan and his son can allegedly be heard in a series of five wiretapped phone conversations discussing plans for how to hide huge sums of cash located in their house in the Üskudar district of Istanbul on a day when police raided a number of venues as part of the corruption investigation.

Posted by: Fred || 01/05/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
India awards contract to build 8 mile tunnel to J-K at 11K Ft Elevation
India has awarded its largest-ever road transport project worth Rs 10,050 crore to build the Zoji La tunnel in Jammu & Kashmir to Mumbai-headquartered IRB Infrastructure. The company will build the 14.08-km tunnel - the longest in South-East Asia - in seven years.

The tunnel will be built at an altitude of 3,528 metres and will be crucial for providing year-long connectivity between Srinagar and Leh as the National Highway that connects these two places remains shut for half the year due to snow

"We have received the letter of award for the project and hope to finish the preparatory work soon so that construction can start by October 2016. The project will take seven years to complete as we will have only six months a year to work," Virendra Mhaiskar, chairman and chief executive officer of IRB Infrastructure, told ET.

The highway connecting Srinagar and Ladakh is typically shut early for winters and opens late due to heavy snowfall, cutting off Ladakh from the rest of the world. making life difficult for locals in winter months.

The tunnel has been a long standing demand for people of the region and has been an election issue as well for the past few decades in the state

Posted by: Frank G || 01/05/2016 12:17 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Shhooot. And here methought the road from Cooke City to Red Lodge was high.
Posted by: JHH || 01/05/2016 14:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Nice trout fishing along the Red Lodge road.
Posted by: 3dc || 01/05/2016 18:58 Comments || Top||



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  44 ISIS Bad Guys die in battles near Fallujah
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  Fierce Fighting Erupts Between Afghan Forces, Taliban In Marjah
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  Syrian Rebels Mourn Loss of Leader, Name Replacement
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Fri 2015-12-25
  30 ISIS Bad Guys die in Fallujah
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