Queue Jumper Killer

There's this horrible news story out recently I read on the BBC. It's about this woman in the UK who queue-jumped at a Sainsbury's and then when someone got angry at her she got her boyfriend to punch him but he punched the wrong guy and the poor dude died.

Like. WTF?

So some dumb shit got caught out about doing something wrong and reacted like an animal and now some poor dude who had nothing to do with it died and left behind a family.

What a completely pointless death!

I don't get it...

[via BBC...]

Racism...?

One in 10 are racist study says:

September 29, 2008

FORTY per cent of Australians believe some ethnic groups do not belong in the country, with one in 10 having outwardly racist views, a study shows.

Professor Dunn said people revealed who they singled out the most. "The most often-mentioned groups were Muslims or people from the Middle East."

[Full article @ smh.com]

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Great.

Makes me sad because I know it's oh so true.

Sigh!

US Financial Crisis.

Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch is bought by the Bank of America for $50 billion dollars. Who would have thought that within 6 months there would only be two of the Big 5 investment banks left. If something as big as Lehman Brothers can fail, who is safe? The gigantic farce of financial derivatives is slowly being unravelled! They always seemed slightly dodgy anyway. I would be quite scared if I was living in America. Nonetheless, exciting times for finance students!