Unemployment Rate For Youths At A Record High

Really?  I haven’t noticed.  I have been too busy all summer looking for jobs.  Oh, wait… it all makes sense now.  According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 51.1% of American youths aged from 16-24 are unemployed.  Makes me feel real good about my huge life changing decision by leaving my crummy insurance agency job to seek greener pastures in the marketing/advertising field!  Just incase you are wondering, this is the lowest number reported since 1948.  And it just so happens the year the government started collecting this data was 1948, AKA this is the highest percentage ever.  Good thing I turn 24 next year, so my chances of getting a job percentage-wise has to increase, right?

Guy Goes For One Year Without Spending a Dollar

This is a pretty awesome story.  In the world we live in where greed and money make the world go round, this guy spends a year without spending a dollar.  Mark Boyle, a former economics graduate and businessman, decided to become “The Moneyless Man” to get away from the corporate world.  He has a book coming out called The Moneyless Man: A Year Of Freeconomic Living.

What Are They Drinking in Germany?

While I was on my lunch break at work yesterday, I was listening to the radio (since my job of course thinks surfing the internet will cause me to be a lazy degenerate) and I heard this story on some AM news station.  To make a long story short, a guy was partying in Germany on New Year’s Eve and felt something hit his head, had horrible migraines for 5 years, finally went and saw a doctor about it and they told him he had a bullet lodged in his head.  Really guy??  I mean what in the world do they serve at the bars in Germany?  On the radio they said it was a stray bullet as if that makes the situation completely conceivable.  Basic common knowledge tells me there needs to be a point of entrance where you would bleed from, not to mention if I heard a gun shot and I felt something hit my head I might put two and two together.  Idk, I am calling bullshit on this story, but I guess that’s the beauty of the internet (when it doesn’t turn you into a lazy, worthless degenerate employee of course!).

Just Another Day in China..

So there is a 63 MILE TRAFFIC JAM in Beijing, China. I thought my commute to work was brutal but the worst day in Boston isn’t even 1/100th of this. The traffic jam started on August 14th, so in other words, it has been 9 days!! How is this even possible? Where is everyone trying to go? I have so many questions/confused about this. Of course you know the hustlers in China are capitalizing off this, supposedly they’re selling rations of food and water at inflated prices. Experts say hope for an immediate relief from the gridlock is unlikely. For some reason, during the 5th day of the traffic jam, a construction project began on the highway that isn’t expected to finish until mid-September. SMH @ Chinese government for not delaying the construction project in order to take care of this.

Decriminalization of Drugs in Portugal a Success

In lieu of our previous article (Clipse manager gets busted in $10 million drug bust) I saw this article and wanted to share it with our readers. Portugal decriminalized drugs back in 2001 and this article from The Times reviews the agenda on whether it was a success, and if it could possibly work in the United States. The Portuguese decided to focus their drug problem on helping addicts with rehab instead of throwing them in jail, like we do here in the U.S. The numbers speak for themselves. Read the article, its not too long and very informative.

Deal Struck On Rockefeller Drug Laws

The controversially strict Rockefeller Drug Laws has been repealed after a deal was stuck earlier today in Manhattan.

Feds Take a Snow Day

So while the Northeast was pounded by a snowstorm this past Sunday into Monday, plenty of people (including myself) had to truck it into work. While here in Boston we got 10 inches, New York City got a good 7 inches. The FBI headquarters in New York, the first line of defense preventing another terrorist attack, were overwhelmed by the threat of snow and called a “snow day”. Nearly 2,000 agents and support staff were told not to bother showing up for work at 26 Federal Plaza. The downtown field office, one of the FBI’s largest, houses 1,100 agents and 800 support staff, and is home for many of the nation’s top counterterrorism experts.

-Good to know that the FBI is doing everything they can to keep this country safe…..

13 Year old Kid is World’s Youngest Father

4 feet tall, Alfie Patten just became the Worlds youngest father by having a kid with his 15 year old girlfriend. Baby-faced Alfie, who is 13 but looks more like eight, became a father four days ago when his girlfriend Chantelle Steadman gave birth to 7lb 3oz Maisie Roxanne. Both are from the U.K. They decided against an abortion, saying he wanted to be a dad. By the way, his allowance is 10 pounds a week… good luck buddy.

46 of 50 States Could File Bankruptcy In 2009-2010

There is a high chance a majority of the States within the United States of America could file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy. There is currently 46 states with high budget deficits, Arizona being one of them.

In fact, Jan Brewer, the newly appointed Governor of Arizona has a major crisis on her hands, one that Arizona and national media isn