[Vision2020] As a resident of the Palouse

[pkraut at moscow.com]

Probably, our airport is woefully inadequate. But what a bunch of babies!



> LOL - what a bunch of whiners!
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> Does anyone know why, if they could charter a jet to fly to into Spokane,
> they couldn't fly into Pullman?  Is their chartered jet bigger than the 
jets
> that are allowed to fly into Pullman or what?
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> Saundra
> Moscow, ID
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> The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do
> nothing.
> - Edmund Burke 
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> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-
bounces at moscow.com]
> On Behalf Of Carl Westberg
> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 10:58 AM
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] As a resident of the Palouse
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> I found this amusing:  
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> Cougars Notebook: Palouse trip portrayed as purgatory
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> Bruins, L.A. media complain about Pullman journey
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> By HOWIE STALWICK
> SPECIAL TO THE P-I
> 
> PULLMAN -- The UCLA Bruins were upset in Pullman in more ways than one 
last
> weekend.
> Los Angeles-area newspapers, aided and abetted by UCLA players, made the
> Bruins' trip to Washington State sound only slightly less challenging 
than
> the Bataan Death March. Interestingly, all this took place before UCLA's
> 27-7 loss.
> According to the Los Angeles Times, a trip to Pullman is a "long journey 
to
> the middle of a vast nothingness called the Palouse, where fans have a
> pitchforks-and-torches mentality."
> For the record, UCLA's trip consisted of a 2 1/2-hour flight to Spokane 
in a
> cushy charter jet, followed by a two-hour ride in cushy charter buses,
> followed by an overnight stay in a cushy hotel 15 minutes from the 
stadium. 
> "That two-hour drive is a beast," offensive guard Shannon Tevega told The
> Riverside Press-Enterprise. "I woke up about three times asking if we 
were
> there yet."
> Tailback Chris Markey told the Los Angeles Daily News that games at
> Washington State are "crazy. To me, it's one of the hardest places to 
play.
> The crowd is so into the game, and every time they get a first down, you
> hear, 'It's another Cougar first down.' That can get into a player's 
mind."
> Wow. That is tough. Almost as tough as a two-hour drive ... to go 10 
miles
> on an L.A. freeway.
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