Snow and Another Update

Greeting and welcome back to the Un-Zone, the official site for all things Un, as if that was a major surprise to anyone who regularly reads this blog.

I have a Commercial Law final today. I get the odd feeling that no matter what I write down in the essay section, I am going to get points taken off. That includes the possibility I put down the correct answer based upon the facts and the current law. To prepare for this final, I did some studying and I went outside to enjoy the snow. That was fun...snow.

Some words of advice for the weather people. Don't include in predictions on how much snow there will be. It's much simpler if you just say "It's going to snow." I think I saw the predictions on snowfall amount change once every time the news came on.
Some advice for the news channels out there. Your weather updates are pretty stupid, not to mention useless. Those updates...holy crap...IT'S STILL SNOWING! Didn't the weather person say it was going to snow ALL DAY, like thirty seconds ago? And that's the "breaking news update"? I never would have guessed that. Nor would I have guessed that "the roads are slick" and that "there was an accident due to weather conditions." Of course there are going to be accidents when it snows or sleets or whatever. That update is not worth the time to interrupt regularly scheduled programming. We need the news to tell us that it's still snowing. I could have just looked out the window to figure that out. Excuse me for that rant...

Cue up the dramatic movie and the apocalyptic movies like Deep Impact, Space Cowboys, and Armageddon because according to scientists and the fear-mongering thing we call the media, there's a slight chance that a giant asteroid will hit the Earth in 2037. Maybe. Wake me up in 30 years...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/space/article/0,14493,1660485,00.html

This story lends credibility to the notion that in college athletics, you can get away with a whole bunch of stuff and still keep your job as long as you win. This also applies to professional sports also. The coach of Colorado football finally was fired, not because of the worst recruiting scandals or because of his statements involving a female kicker alleging sexual harassment (including rape), but because he lost too many games. Go figure. Yeah, let the flaming begin.
http://www.denverpost.com/sports/ci_3285822

Add another corporation to the long list of corporate scandals. The major airlines are going bankrupt. They can't pay for many things. What is an airline to do? If you're Delta, you illegally raid a trust fund and claim it is solvent. When you get caught, you have your spokesperson give a bunch of canned BS. To quote from the article:

Yesterday, the Official Committee of Delta Retirees filed a motion in the Delta bankruptcy case to end Delta Air Lines' improper use of funds from a separate Disability and Survivors Trust. Delta had spent over $30 million of the Trust funds in the last three years for employee severance benefits, even though the Trust documents prohibited those payments since March 2002.
In a filing during the first week of the bankruptcy, Delta had claimed the Trust was "fully funded," but financials provided since show the Trust has an asset shortfall of more than $212 million. The Committee also raised questions in its motion about Delta's separate amendment of its benefit plans, two days before the bankruptcy, to retroactively authorize $22 million in 2004 payments out of the Trust for active workers' sick pay.
The Committee is seeking relief under a bankruptcy statute that protects disability and death benefits of retired workers. "The Trust was set up to pay specific benefits for widows, orphans, and the disabled," said the Committee's lawyer Dean Gloster of Farella Braun + Martel. "Not as a fund for Delta operating expenses."

A quote from the Delta spokesperson:

"Delta is a world-class organization that has, for almost all of its history, tried to do the right thing for the people who worked so hard as part of the Delta family, and to do the right thing for their families. In this instance, Delta made a mistake, and Delta did something wrong. We have brought
that mistake to their attention and to the attention of the Court. We fully expect that Delta will now do the right thing and correct this wrong."

Say what? Delta brought the "mistake" to the attention of the Court? Wait a minute...Delta told the judge they were illegally taking funds? It just took "only" three years and after financial documents were provided and accounting done and...Maybe Delta should change their motto to "We love to lie and it shows."
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=conewsstory&refer=conews&tkr=DAL:US&sid=apXkt0mG0cyI

Finally...some more obvious news. A survey said that a majority of Americans hate their job. Wow. Isn't that an amazing result?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10372274/from/RS.3/

That's all for now.