It is quite apparent to me that Chauvin showed absolutely no remorse during and after the verdict was read. He seemed to simply not care, nor does he understand the seriousness of what he did. I think he looked shocked when the guilty verdict was read. His eyes were darting around uncontrollably. I...
Jump to postIt's actually so outrageously embarrassing that media conservatives and some on here even have the audacity to publicly look and sound defeated because someone who the entire world watched commit a murder was convicted of... murder. No surprise we’re seeing a big overlap with those saying “Chauvin ...
Jump to postSome great ideas from one league I follow: 1) Have a salary cap, with minimum and maximum spending levels for all teams 2) Share national TV revenue equally across all clubs, so even smaller clubs can fund their team payrolls 3) Have a system where the weaker clubs have first choice of young talent...
Jump to postThe Appeal should be interesting.... DERSHOWITZ: The trial should have been moved out of urban Minneapolis to a rural area and the jury should have been sequestered from day one https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1384640532937428994?s=20 DERSHOWITZ: What Maxine Waters did, coupled with the jud...
Jump to postThe fact that the jury handed down a verdict so quickly, didn't ask any questions, didn't pass on any notes or anything else plays right into the hand of the defense as far as an appeal goes. The jury needed to prove that Chauvin committed a felony that resulted in the death of Floyd to find him gu...
Jump to postFootball is no longer about the fans 30-40,000 spectators sitting in a stadium don’t bring in anywhere near the revenue 5 billion TV viewers will. Super League matches will be played all over the world and attract 80-100,000 spectators per match in foreign cities, and millions more TV viewers in tho...
Jump to postChauvin isn't guilty of 2nd degree murder. The only way he gets convicted of this charge is if the jury succumbs to BLM and the riots. To be found guilty of Second Degree Murder you need to have committed a felony which caused the death of someone: Prosecutors must prove Chauvin caused George Floyd...
Jump to postThe Defense made a motion for a mistrial on the grounds of prejudicial news and other media, that it has put the jury in a position that if failed to convict Chauvin, will mean riots. The Judge in the case noted comments of controversial, Black, Female US House Member Maxine Waters (D-CA, LA area),...
Jump to postIt took the previous administration three years and a pandemic to realize that China isn't a partner worth making agreement is as their government isn't one that can keep promise As the US between 2017 and 2021 had a government which pulled out of and broke promises to uphold international agreemen...
Jump to postEase of access to guns is the problem. One side honestly believes that one day, the "good guy with a gun" will actually happen and they can parade that around as proof we need unfettered access to all guns all the time. I’ve always thought that to be very unrealistic. A mass shooter walks...
Jump to postBut any international analysis shows that access to guns is not the only issue. Other developed countries with similar gun ownership rates still have far lower gun homicide rates. Restricting access would be a start, but the US clearly has deeper issues. That was addressed in Michael Moore’s “Bowli...
Jump to postSo you’re saying all white people who have lived in South Africa are racist? That a pretty big leap. It would be like saying all GOP supporters are looney far right Christian KKK members I’m not saying that. But someone who grew and had the views formed at the time of apartheid, who co-incidentally...
Jump to postIn the cockpit I want the best people for the job, I don't want diversity hires to fill quotas, if they're not good enough to get the job based on natural ability they have no place being responsible for the lives behind them. How do you define "best person for the job"? The attributes of...
Jump to postOfficer Potter, the one who shot Wright, is being charged with second-degree manslaughter. https://www.startribune.com/officer-faces-second-degree-manslaughter-charge-in-killing-of-daunte-wright/600045829/ Think this was just a "rookie" mistake? The officer was a 26 year veteran and a Pol...
Jump to postDefense set to take turn in ex-cop’s trial in Floyd death https://apnews.com/article/police-trials-minneapolis-racial-injustice-death-of-george-floyd-14901d347ed2a6353e2c1db7bec1f9d8 The jury must decide which "expert" testimony to give more weight to. One of the defence's "experts&q...
Jump to postHow is 1,000-1,200 out of 339,000,000 alarming regularity? https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/ US cops kill at a rate of 35 per 10mil per year. This is higher than nations like Mexico and Colombia. Comparable developed nations have a kill rate of 0.5-4.0, meaning US cops kill at a rate 8-70 times mo...
Jump to postI would rephrase it as, countries with a significant use of death penalty for drug crimes have very few drug issues. This is something China does right. Give them a fair trial to assess whether they sold drugs, then within a few weeks, solve the problem (charge the family for the bullet) and move o...
Jump to postActually if you look back at it the airline industry was probably ahead of the curve when it came to integration and affirmative action. I see nothing good coming from this some mods please lock it down NOW. In the country of Australia, which is a nation which is one of the first to grant female su...
Jump to postActually if you look back at it the airline industry was probably ahead of the curve when it came to integration and affirmative action. I see nothing good coming from this some mods please lock it down NOW. In the country of Australia, which is a nation which is one of the first to grant female su...
Jump to post48 (and have at least seen Antarctica from the air) South America (2): Argentina, Brazil Oceania (3): Australia, New Zealand, Fiji Europe (25): Austria, Belgium, Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Monaco, Monten...
Jump to postThe key Prosecution witness, Dr Martin Tobin, could be considered the world’s leading expert on breathing. He literally wrote the book on respiration. He tore the defence case apart today. Used actual footage of Floyd struggling to breath to determine his respiration rate, and concluded is was far t...
Jump to postYou didn't listen to Charles Barkley, did you? Yes, I put Manchin firmly in the camp of the those who use politics to “maintain a grasp on power and money” as Barkley said. It wouldn’t surprise me if types like Manchin were the ones Barkley was talking about. Manchin isn't blocking anything he is t...
Jump to postGood for Charles Barkley saying what we all know is true. Like I said I listen to Schumer, Pelosi, Murray I hear hatred and loathing but when I listen to Manchin I l hear leadership. If only the sane people in the Dem party could get power what a country it would be. You’re committing a middle grou...
Jump to postI guess pizzagaetz is real after all. You couldn’t make this up if you tried. So after declaring almost every Democrat and left winger of being involved in child trafficking and molestation, what do the Qanon crowd do when confronted with an actual case of an alleged pedophile under law enforcement...
Jump to postThe off-duty MFD firefighter who testified she wanted to render aid at the scene but was rebuffed by the cops was really damaging. Damning video evidence (it's a videocam from one of the officers, viewer discretion advised): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjKjaCvXdf4 At 18:05, after the EMT repeat...
Jump to postWhat IS happening is people are seeing mental health as a thing. Democrats know this. Progressives are pushing Democrats to do something about mental health. Like the mental health of people who feel the need to carry weapons of war to Starbucks or the people who feel the need to stockpile weapons ...
Jump to postI would think QF moving to a320/321NEO fleet, would stillhave some cost benefit to be shared with JQ. QF will use COVID as an excuse with the unions to justify, that need to refocus there business model to keep operating. The fact that QFLink has growing fleet of a320s, seems to suggest that QF is ...
Jump to postJust for the record, the A320s at QantasLink (Network Aviation) are bulk loaded. Clearly Qantas aren’t too concerned by any inherent risk, opting to not use ULDs when it is an option. Network Aviation primarily service remote mining airports, they usually don't have the infrastructure to handle ULDs.
Jump to postDeputy chairman John Sharp claimed load factors on Sydney-Melbourne flights were better than expected and sustainable for the airline. He accused rivals of embedding staff on these trips to identify the number of passengers. “We have noted many Qantas employees that are regular passengers on our fl...
Jump to postCraigAnderson wrote:Rex to launch Sydney-Canberra flights from April 19
https://www.executivetraveller.com/news ... ey-flights
It is not as if the 738's are on their last legs, they are all well maintained and can carry on for now. Most are owned outright too if I am correct, so QF have breathing room before they need to order a replacement. Quite right. The dispatch reliability for the 737NG is still very high, even for t...
Jump to postI think QF would've been interested but AFL have been pretty clear that they want an almost exclusive arrangement. QF couldn't have AFL as well as NRL and ARU. The AFL contract is worth a lot in PR but very little in income. For 24 weekends per year they move about 30-40 team personnel of 8 interst...
Jump to postThe Qantas Group already has approximately 100 a321NEO/320NEO’s on order. With the current global situation I would highly suspect some of this order will end up on QF mainline services to replace the 737. Going forward I would suspect that QLink will become an larger a320 operator. Which still sta...
Jump to posttullamarine wrote:Your argument seems to be that QF/VA should just surrender market share so there is space for ZL to move into.
I can see parallels with Impulse Air in 2000. Former regional turboprop airline that decided to buy jets and take on the big guys. Lasted 10 months before they surrendered to QF and became a wet lease operator for them. Further Australian “3rd Airline” failures: OzJet - lasted 4 months on major city...
Jump to postYou're taking that out of context though. AN certainly may have had only six profitable routes, but that is because AN had massively high costs thanks to their bloated structure, aging fleet and generous employment contracts. That they could not make a profit on the routes has no bearing on whether...
Jump to postAustralia isn’t really big enough for two full airline group players it seems. Ansett didn’t survive, and Virgin Blue/Australia have been in trouble several times in their 20 year existence, weren’t looking too rosy coming into 2002, and were almost immediately in trouble once Covid hit. Of course ...
Jump to postBut is Australia really big enough for more than two players? The last thirty years since deregulation would suggest not. Even in good times. Australia isn’t really big enough for two full airline group players it seems. Ansett didn’t survive, and Virgin Blue/Australia have been in trouble several ...
Jump to postI don’t know much about this conflict but I think most of this support was wound down by Trump. Look for the sales freeze to be renamed “boarder support” Too bad about the human catastrophe! Incorrect. Trump vetoed a US Congress resolution to end the Yemen war in 2019. Trump offered drone and speci...
Jump to postA possible casual factor that will rear it’s head not just in Sriwijaya or Indonesia but across the globe as the aviation market returns to normal: “The challenges that the pandemic brings impacts aviation safety,” said Chappy Hakim, an Indonesian aviation analyst and former air force official. “For...
Jump to postUsual nonsense about Indonesian carriers. Sriwijaya have never killed a passenger, in 2008 an overrun ran over a farmer and that’s it. What nonsense? Indonesia has one of the world’s poorest aviation safety records. And amongst that country it appears Sriwijaya have had multiple landing accidents, ...
Jump to postSriwijaya Air has a poor safety record, even for Indonesia. Plenty of incidents and a fatal accident within the last 12 years, especially with such a small number of aircraft. Recently they severed their relationship with Garuda and there were conflicts over payment for maintenance services and fear...
Jump to posthttp://avherald.com/h?article=4e18553c&opt=0
The Jakarta Airport METAR showed a Thunderstorm was over the airfield just prior to departure along with CB clouds to the West and North West, which was where the departure track of the aircraft was.
another example that comes to mind Here’s another one: Several years ago in Australia there was an ad campaign from Kentucky Fried Chicken during a season of Cricket. That year Australia was playing the West Indies, a team of players from Caribbean nations like Barbados and Jamaica. The ad depicted...
Jump to postI almost wish Gore had got the nod I often wonder how he would have handled 9/11. It’s Gore not McCain who should be the topic of the alternate history President for this thread. If it hadn’t been for the electoral college again over the popular vote, purging of black voters from Florida rolls, the...
Jump to postThis may be the most relevant video for the topic:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KYV7KWQ-fY4
I wonder what is in it for these people who file on behalf of MAGA to overturn the election? I had heard the Texas AG is wanting a pardon, but others? They know what their base believes. They know the GOP base hates Democrats so much they applaud the overturning of the result and Trump remaining in...
Jump to postBut I thought the Democrats specifically recognised that a Cuban immigrant in Florida likely had a far different perepective to "Latino" people in the SW? Apparently not, Although it seems Latino turnout in Arizona was a big factor in Biden winning that state. Along with a very high turno...
Jump to postIt also has a large Cuban population which has leaned Republican for historical reasons that are rooted in Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs. All Trump had to do was cry “Venezuela” and “Socialism” and “Democrats” in the same sentence and the Cubans lapped it up like water. I bet they still love their So...
Jump to postIt’s funny how both sides of the debate here are calling for both parties to listen to working people more and adopt policies that benefit the working class (it go more to the left).
I don’t see anyone calling for either party to run on more tax cuts and less government programs.