I have also heard it expressed in feet and not yards, but still impressive with a side-arm.
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Listen. ANYONE who is willing to engage a BG armed with a rifle, while he himself only has a pistol, is seriously brave. He’s a shooter. BUT afterwards he will wonder what made him do it. Still, he DID it - and my bet is if it came up again, he would do the same.
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I’m not meaning to diminish what this gentleman did. Engaging when outgunned is incredibly brave. I don’t doubt this guy would do what he did 10 out of 10 times because he has something inside him that compels him to engage danger in protection of others.
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Imagine if Hunter went to the Air Force instead of the Navy. Oh what could have been…
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Emirates airlines issued the following statement to London Heathrow Airport on competence and customer service on 2022-07-14:
Emirates statement on operations at London Heathrow
14 July 2022 - Emirates values our partnerships with airport stakeholders across our network with whom we engage continuously, and collaboratively, to secure our flight operations and ensure minimal customer disruption, particularly over the peak travel months.
It is therefore highly regrettable that LHR last evening gave us 36 hours to comply with capacity cuts, of a figure that appears to be plucked from thin air. Their communications not only dictated the specific flights on which we should throw out paying passengers, but also threatened legal action for non-compliance.
This is entirely unreasonable and unacceptable, and we reject these demands.
At London Heathrow airport (LHR), our ground handling and catering – run by dnata, part of the Emirates Group - are fully ready and capable of handling our flights. So the crux of the issue lies with the central services and systems which are the responsibility of the airport operator.
Emirates is a key and steadfast operator at LHR, having reinstated 6 daily A380 flights since October 2021. From our past 10 months of regularly high seat loads, our operational requirements cannot be a surprise to the airport.
Now, with blatant disregard for consumers, they wish to force Emirates to deny seats to tens of thousands of travellers who have paid for, and booked months ahead, their long-awaited package holidays or trips to see their loved ones. And this, during the super peak period with the upcoming UK holidays, and at a time when many people are desperate to travel after 2 years of pandemic restrictions.
Emirates believes in doing the right thing by our customers. However, re-booking the sheer numbers of potentially impacted passengers is impossible with all flights running full for the next weeks, including at other London airports and on other airlines. Adding to the complexity, 70% of our customers from LHR are headed beyond Dubai to see loved ones in far flung destinations, and it will be impossible to find them new onward connections at short notice.
Moving some of our passenger operations to other UK airports at such short notice is also not realistic. Ensuring ground readiness to handle and turnaround a widebody long-haul aircraft with 500 passengers onboard is not as simple as finding a parking spot at a mall.
The bottomline is, the LHR management team are cavalier about travellers and their airline customers. All the signals of a strong travel rebound were there, and for months, Emirates has been publicly vocal about the matter. We planned ahead to get to a state of readiness to serve customers and travel demand, including rehiring and training 1,000 A380 pilots in the past year.
LHR chose not to act, not to plan, not to invest. Now faced with an “airmageddon” situation due to their incompetence and non-action, they are pushing the entire burden – of costs and the scramble to sort the mess - to airlines and travellers.
The shareholders of London Heathrow should scrutinise the decisions of the LHR management team.
Given the tremendous value that the aviation community generates for the UK economy and communities, we welcome the action taken by the UK Department for Transport and Civil Aviation Authority to seek information from LHR on their response plans, systems resilience, and to explain the seemingly arbitrary cap of 100,000 daily passengers. Considering LHR handled 80.9 million passengers annually in 2019, or a daily average of 219,000, the cap represents greater than a 50% cut at a time when LHR claims to have 70% of ground handling resources in place.
Until further notice, Emirates plans to operate as scheduled to and from LHR.
Now, that’s a press release.
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They should offer to give HRH a refresher course on beheading underperforming bureaucrats.
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Oh, boho! Don’t know who wrote that but he should be promoted. AND perhaps Emirates should look to another airport for better service and leave the Brits to stew in their own soup. What a bunch of pompous asshats.
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Mr Bignell has also found a way to eliminate the use of peat completely - by burning sheep dung readily available on his farm.
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This is blasphemous! You can’t make Scotch without peat. Pansies! Just a generation of pansies! The Smokey flavor comes from the peat.
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Impressive gun control!
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Turns out it’s the only type of gun control that works.
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Sorry folks, I’m on a roll.
Someone should tell the Dems that the best type of gun control begins with steady breathing and squeezing the trigger as you exhale. Keep both eyes open even though only one can look through the scope and as your enemy marches up, aim slow and watch for the pink mist.
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What a coincidence. This afternoonI was just commenting on this because this morning my wife read the weather report and it was dangerous heat where I live and extreme danger in Texas. It was a normal summer day here and Austin was 93 around noon.
When I lived in Austin in the early 90s this was decent summer weather.
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I am originally from the Dallas area. I love the temperature map you can see on Drudge showing Texas “on fire”….with temps where they were when I still lived there 17 years ago. It’s basically a typical Texas summer. Nothing extreme.
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Thank you! I “enjoy” being “on fire” - it’s one of the reasons I moved there. I’m always cold up north.
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Will the security camera footage be released? Will the victims file a civil suit against the mall owner so that the footage will be produced in discovery (but not necessarily made public)? Did not work for the Aurora, Co victims:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-colorado-shooting-lawsuit/colorados-civil-litigation-over-movie-theater-massacre-ends-idUSKCN11K0B6
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The suspicion that something was more than a little wrong with the model that is getting almost all Alzheimer’s research funding ($1.6 billion in the last year alone) began with a fight over the drug Simufilam. The drug was being pushed into trials by its manufacturer, Cassava Sciences, but a group of scientists who reviewed the drug maker’s claims about Simufilam believed that it was exaggerating the potential. So they did what any reasonable person would do: They purchased short sell positions in Cassava Sciences stock, filed a letter with the FDA calling for a review before allowing the drug to go to trial, and hired an investigator to provide some support for this position.
As Science reports, it was that investigator, Vanderbilt University neuroscientist and junior professor Matthew Schrag, who tipped over the whole applecart to discover that it wasn’t just that Cassava’s drug was ineffective. There’s good evidence that for the last 16 years, almost everyone has had the wrong idea about the cause of Alzheimer’s. Because of a fraud.
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