Oh Hail Midwest Airlines
My flight this weekend was with Midwest Airlines bought through Expedia. When I got to the airport, they told me that they would have to rebook me with another airline because I would miss my connecting flight because the first plane was running late. It turned out to be a non-stop flight on American Airlines! I was surprised they made this happen because tickets bought through Expedia have ridiculous restrictions.
On my return flight yesterday, no such luck. I was issued my ticket & had to connect through Milwaukee. I was expecting an old raggedy plane but was pleasantly surprised. Plane looked very nice & clean & had leather chairs & served freshly baked chocolate chip cookies. Even the connecting flight was very nice and plane fairly big which was surprising because for a 50 minute flight, you usually get the smaller planes that rock light boats at any breeze that wafts their way. Would definitely fly with them more often if I didn't have to connect through Milwaukee which has very suspect weather.
A girl was raped & robbed over the weekend right around the block from the Moritz building which is the southern most part of the school. Turns out the police have issued 5 crime alerts in the past week for the same area. That's why as soon as classes are done at 3pm, I'm outta there while it's still nice & bright outside. Too much craziness going on.
About Don Imus & him calling the Rutgers womens basketball team "nappy-headed hos": I think he should be fired from his job. I'm all about free speech & saying whatever you want to say. However, we all know that any other radio jock would've been given the boot as soon as those words were uttered but because it's him & MSNBC doesn't know who would occupy his time slot from 5:30am-9:00am, they won't fire him. His viewership won't suffer but the personalities he gets on his show will probably lessen in quality because they will be afraid that if they appear it may seem that they agree with Imus' views. I think that's a crock but that's how the media works. Moral of the story: double standards are very annoying. At the very least he should relegated to therapy!
Update 1: Imus will be suspended for 2 weeks starting this Monday.
Update 2: MSNBC TV will no longer simulcast the Imus radio show.
Update 3: FIRED!!
John McCain needs to hang it up. I don't even think he's officially stated he's going to be running for Presidency in 2008 & he should keep it that way. Did you see him yesterday on 60 minutes? He looked old & haggard after the whole ,"There are neighborhoods in Baghdad where you and I could walk through those neighborhoods today." Then we see him walking around in a Baghdad market flanked by soldiers & apache helicopters above. Who you think you're fooling John? America doesn't want a President who's out of touch with reality. Shades of W. when he says, "We're winning the war in Iraq." Want a cold dose of reality? Vote Clinton/Obama 2008.
