Doomed

The stock markets all around the world had one of the worst Black Wednesdays on 9 November, 2011, as the Italian government bond yields soared. Global stock markets freaked out and the US dollar value skyrocketed. 

The Italy crisis illuminates the entire gloomy EU economy in ways that exacerbates American jobs depending on stability and growth in the euro zone. Not surprisingly, one country's economic problem no longer tends to become a tempest in a teapot. If the Italian turmoil spread like a disease, at least one billions in the world would be infected inescapably.

The global economy is more intertwined than ever, and college students are the most fragile group either being blessed or cursed by the era of globalization. 

Now that the global economy is just awful, they are on the verge of having a nervous breakdown.

No future for me and for them. But as an old saying goes, when god gives you lemons you make lemonade. 

So how? There must be a way out from the current disappointing environment as the wise saying says.

Is there? It appears none. Darn it.  This may be the reality.  Everyday will be a black day for college students, although they want to think  that " I am an exception."

Yes, there are some promising college majors that guarantee students a job:

If they study:

1. Actuarial Science—0 percent unemployment rate

2. Astronomy and Astrophysics—0 percent

3. Educational Administration and Supervision—0 percent

4. Geological and Geophysical Engineering—0 percent

5. Pharmacology—0 percent

6. School Student Counseling—0 percent

7. Agricultural Economics—1.3 percent

8. Medical Technologies Technicians—1.4 percent

9.Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology—1.6 percent

10. Environmental Engineering, Nursing, and Nuclear Industrial Radiology and Biological Technologies—2.2 percent

However, they don't study above majors, it's too soon to be devastated since Walmart has good deals for Black Friday:

Starting at 10 p.m. on Nov. 23, Wal-Mart is offering doorbuster deals: 

1. $5 Barbies marked down from $19

2.  jeans for less than $10

3. children's pajamas sets for $4.47 and a Black &   

    Decker Coffeemaker for $9.44

4. A Samsung 51-inch plasma TV for $498 down from $649

5. A Kodak 14 megapixel camera for $49 

 a Magellan GPS for $69, marked down from $89

6. Goodyear tires starting at $59

7. a Vizio 42-inch 3D LED Wi-Fi HDTV for $598 


Bravo !

Objective Journalism

An American couple who recently became Hawaii residents from California was arrested at a Safeway store, being accused of stealing two sandwiches that cost $2.5 each. 

The couple with their 2-year-old daughter went shopping and ate the sandwiche while putting other groceries in a cart. They of course saved the wrapper to get scanned for ringing up later. They must have been too hungry to shop. 

But they forgot to pay for the sandwiches, and that short amnesia resulted in a traumatic catastrophe for the daughter as well as the couple. 


Safeway security guards detained the family until the arrival of police officers who booked the couple on charge of shoplifting. More surprisingly, a Child Welfare Service worker took the baby girl away. The girl had never been separated from her parents before, who cried her heart out in a state of separation phobia. Worse, the wife was carrying a 30-week-fetus. 


Such procedure to get Child Welfare Services involved in is normal if a child is present when both parents are arrested, according to the police. 


After the story broke out, a countless number of news agencies covered the incident, siding with the underdog couple and reporting such as:


1. American society has lost all common sense.
2. Safeway has no heart and no sympathy for human beings.
3. Corporations are evil.

No doubt that the case has newsworthiness, armed with tearful, sympathetic, heartbroken, poignant, and touching elements.


Not even single report, however, shed spotlight on some shoppers' lawless shopping behavior: eating stuff at grocery stores before buying it, and then they say when they get caught, "I forgot."


There no longer exists such as objective journalism.