Warren Buffet, at 83, says that “free news” is “unsustainable.”

Imagine that.

I’m used to “free.” You’re used to “free.”

But with all the myriad and sundry news sources you access, how can you — me — possibly AFFORD to provide the thousands of links we encounter in our daily blog lives?

By subscribing to EACH and EVERY blog site with CASH?

And no, this isn’t a mis-print or something out of Snopes. It is a true story out of New York. From the NewYorkPost.com:

An upper Manhattan public elementary school will be the first in the city to require that students study Arabic, officials said yesterday.

Beginning next semester, all 200 second- through fifth-graders at PS 368 in Hamilton Heights will be taught the language twice a week for 45 minutes — putting it on equal footing with science and music courses.

Mr Obama’s very own Congressional Budget Office (CBO) indicates a double-digit recession is in store for early 2013 if the “Bush Tax Cuts” are allowed to expire. From the WashingtonTimes.com:

Reducing or eliminating the fiscal restraint would boost economic growth in 2013, but that adopting such a policy without imposing comparable restraint in future years would have substantial economic costs over the longer run,” CBO said in its analysis.

Further:

Republicans remain adamant that the lower income- and investment-tax rates passed in 2001 and 2003 under President Bush, and extended in 2010 under President Obama, must be extended again.

“No economy can sustain such a hit without being hurled into recession,” said Sen Orrin G. Hatch, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, which oversees tax policy.

One thing both sides say they agree on, however, is the need to act now.

Last week, House Speaker John A. Boehner kicked off the conversation, drawing a line in the sand in saying that he won’t allow another increase in the federal government’s debt ceiling unless it’s matched dollar-for-dollar with future spending cuts — just as the 2011 debt deal was.

In truth, however, this may all be nothing but “whistling past the graveyard” because my own personal eye is on two countries: Greece and Spain.

If Greece kicks out the Euro and goes back to the drachma, and if Spain does likewise (back to the peseta), I suspect there will be even greater runs on Greek and Spanish banks. That will yield a major crisis for those two countries –Greece first.

And I, of course, always try to do what I call the “logical extension.”

Might not panic in Europe translate to a “run” on American banks as well?

I can’t help but wonder.

And still, the American public gushes over American Idol and the newest brain-dead entries on Twitter and Facebook.

Also, the Fornicalia legislature and Supreme Court anguished over how to micromanage lunches for employees.

Lunches. Really. I’m not kidding. Lunches.

BZ

Who thought Facebook was invented in Fornicalia.

Uh. No.

Dude. So you never watch or rent movies? Failed to see “The Social Network“?

From the WashingtonPost.com:

In an appearance Friday on “CBS This Morning,” the California governor said his state is still the land of innovation and where Facebook was invented.

He added: “Not in Texas, not in Arizona, not in Manhattan and certainly not, you know, under the White House or the Congress.”

But interviewer Charlie Rose pointed out that CEO Mark Zuckerberg and others developed the precursor to the iconic social network at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.

First thoughts: props to Charlie Rose for having the guts to point out the obvious to another fellow Leftist. So FEW other “journalistas” could create that sack-up.

That said, Fornicalia is completely underwater in terms of its budget. Whereas before it was believed that my state’s deficit was $9 billion dollars in January? Oh no. It’s almost TWICE that: $16 BILLION dollars.

And, “somehow,” you failed to see that coming?

In response, does my governor make the clear and obvious cuts?

Social programs? Useless state bullshit? Oh no.

He threatens EDUCATION and EMERGENCY SERVICES. Cops and teachers.

Because, due to HIS mistake, he wants taxpayers to HURT. He favors the parasites over the hosts.

Please let me announce: strike three and you’re OUT.

And you wonder why Barrett won’t sell or service their .50 cal rifles in Fornicalia? Though they’re MANUFACTURED in Fornicalia?

People: what starts here will infiltrate your state.

My governor is a MORON. Worse: a LEFTIST Moron. Worse still: an AGING Leftist Moron.

Dude. I’d pay your airfare back to Woodstock. Personally.

BZ

P.S.
Read, again, what my Congressman Tom McClintock wrote about Fornicalia here.

And, sorry, my fellow Fornicalians already supped at the cup of Stoopid.

Don’t think that I’m not sending the link to this post to Mr McClintock. Because though he can’t laugh at this stupid shit in public, perhaps I can provide a chuckle or two to him privately, vicariously.

But because a WHITE woman was the victim, and the suspects were BLACK, this story will get buried nationally and covered-in-passing locally. From WTSP.com:

DENVER, Colorado (KUSA) – Police are investigating a vicious beating at a McDonald’s drive-thru in Denver.

Shannon, who asked us not to use her last name, was the victim of an attack on May 9 just before noon.

The attack happened in the middle of the busy lunch hour at the McDonald’s on 3300 Colorado Boulevard near Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

“I witnessed this young lady throwing trash out of her car and all I said was that it wasn’t cool,” Shannon said.

“She was right in my window just punching me in my face, pulling my hair,” Shannon said. “She started biting on my hands so severely. I thought she was gonna bite ’em off, actually.”

Then a man jumped out of the car and threw a soda through her window.

“He said, ‘This is for you, you white bitch. This is a grape soda.’ And then they took off,” Shannon said.

The description of the suspects – two black women and one black man – is vague. The best clue police have to go on right now is they were driving a light-blue Cadillac with temporary tags.

Let’s see: white woman, injured, her face punched, hair pulled, hands bitten, attacked by two black females and one black male who called her a “white bitch” — sounds racially motivated.

But, of course, blacks can’t be racist because they’re black. They’re to be considered Victims Now And Forever. Blacks simply cannot be racist. Period. Ever. No matter their conduct.

So the story gets buried nationally and fizzles locally. Sorry Shannon, no equivalent of Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson for you. You don’t rate. You’re just a “white bitch.” Live with it.

Excuse me, bartender, could I have an order of “Hypocrisy” all around, please?

BZ