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LEDC ‘Business’ Park Sees Yet Another Add-On Cost of $30,000 to $40,000.

Back on June 8th of last year, I predicted in a post that….

Guys like Pope Eckermann are not stupid. Once the big $2 million dollar project is well underway, the LEDC and City council will not even blink at a few “cost increases” of $60,000 here and $86,000 there. That’s how these things work. He knows that morons like Chuck Williamson and Total Joke Monroe will fall victim to the Sunk Cost Fallacy, because they have done so repeatedly in the past.

It already happened once (Aug 17th, 2021), as detailed HERE:

Another $53,700 Flushed

It appears to be happening again. According to the last LEDC meeting packet [see page 15 under “Business Park Phase 1”]:

No surprises here. Any Talbert-led group is guaranteed to OK cost increases over and over again. This won’t be the last….or the biggest.

Business Park Additions To Running Total Cost: $35,000 (new total $88,700)

New estimated project cost when debt is paid off in 2040: $6,388,700)

You Gotta Love Porkchop Logic

Something pretty hilarious happened at last night’s council meeting.

Early in the meeting, Finley got up there and told City council that, yes, the recycling program loses between $8,000 and $10,000 per year but that it “provides tremendous value” to the City. Not a single council member questioned this demonstrably false statement – especially not Cathy “Porkchop” Kuehne. She just sagely nodded her head as mayor pro-tem.

Less than an hour later, the City Finance Director delivered her report. In it was the news that a company who gave the City a $1,990 bid for a maintenance contract actually made a mistake and the NEW amount was going to be $9,964 – or a difference of about $8,000.

Kuehne, who has blithely okayed wasteful spending that has literally run into the MILLIONS (Hostess House, pavilion, recycling program, free money to developers, ‘business’ park, pre-fab bathroom at Campbell Park, etc) had the audacity to actually speak up and question this $8,000 expenditure! LOL.

She actually uttered the phrase “that’s a BIG chunk of change” [go to 42:55 mark]

So to recap: the City locking in an annual $10,000 loss on an idiotic recycling program forever is just fine. The City wasting $1.4 million to give the Hostess House a “face life” is just fine. The City giving Finley a $10,000 raise in the middle of a pandemic is just fine. The City spending $32,000 extra on an elevator for OCH remodel to “keep it local” is just fine. The City blowing over $6 million on a “goat pasture” that has zero tenants is just fine.

But an $8,000 one-time error by a company on a bid is “a HUGE chunk of change”

This woman seriously has a screw loose. She has no business sitting on City council. Somebody, for the love of God, please run against this nitwit for her council seat.

Council Meeting 1-24-22. Porkchop Pro-Tem.

The Goldfish swam last night. Well, a few of them did. Mayor TJ Monroe AND Mayor pro-tem Chuck “The Vampire” Williamson were BOTH missing last night. In my years of sitting through these things, I’ve never seen that.

It does, however, confirm what I’ve always said: that Williamson and Monroe share a brain and that Williamson is actually just a ventriloquist’s dummy operated by Monroe’s hand up his ass. He always sits right next to her and always votes with her no matter how wrong she is. They are like two testicles in a nut sack. And just as intelligent.

Maybe she took him in to the repair shop for a new pull-string yesterday. Who knows.

Then there was the issue of who would run the meeting. Votes were split along lines of “old school dummies” and “fresh blood”. Zac Morris nominated Herb Pearce and Randy “The Speedbump” Clark nominated Cathy “Porkchop” Kuehne.

Randy seems like a nice guy, but remember: he was a City employee for several centuries. He is firmly in the camp of “thinks like a government employee” – so it is no surprise he is in league with Cathy Kuehne – who ALSO relies on taxpayer largesse for her paycheck in real life.

Morris and Pearce (the two newest members), on the other hand, have both lived in the real world for a long time. Just an opinion by me, but perhaps we are seeing evidence of two small camps on council. Kuehne is up for election in a couple months (along with Williamson and Goodart). I was hoping she’d do us all a favor and step down. But the fact that she just voted for herself to run the meeting tells me she is probably going nowhere and likely angling for that pro-tem seat currently occupied by The Vampire.

Clearly, we need a smart, private-sector citizen to step up this spring and help kick Kuehne to the curb.

On to the meeting:

The fire chief wasted the usual 15 minutes (not his fault, but come on already – we don’t give a shit about Covid anymore) giving detailed counts of who has the sniffles and who doesn’t. The numbers provided are all bullshit, as we know, so I’m not sure why they still bother with this after TWO YEARS!

Finley admits that the recycling center loses money [19:16 mark] “in terms of income and expenses”. Shocker. He rhetorically asks “is it worth the $8,000 or $10,000 deficit it runs every year?”. The answer out here in the REAL world is an immediate and resounding ‘NO”. If you ran a business that lost $10,000 every year, you would close up shop. I railed against the recycling nonsense from day one. It was the idea of local Ohio locust and libtard Janet Yoder “Crazier” Crozier.

Finley thinks like a life-long bureaucrat, however. He tells us “it has a tremendous value to the community in terms of providing a recycling service”. Ummm….no it doesn’t. It LITERALLY provides NEGATIVE value – by definition. Why is that so hard for him to understand?

The fact you are losing money tells you that your old mayonnaise jars and newspapers are NOT in demand and that it costs MORE to clean, sort, transport and ‘recycle’ that shit than it does to bury it. Those are facts. Prices of things inform you immediately about the relative abundance or scarcity of an item. End of story.

The City should terminate the recycling program immediately. Old biddies like Crozier who can’t understand all this are still free to load their trash into their cars and drive it to Burnet or Cove or another City that is stupid enough to waste money on that recycling nonsense.

OTHER MATTERS:

City talking about a “conceptual” new development with 177 lots over 48 acres. Great. Just what we need! Maybe Monroe and Williamson can hand them hundreds of thousands of tax dollars too!

Pavilion excavation has begun. He also mentioned that “staff has not incorporated the collection system into the project’. I assume he means the ridiculous $10,000 rain water tanks that Crazier Crozier wanted. Small victories!! Whoops! Randy “Speedbump” wants it on the agenda. I told you that you can’t trust that guy.

Hostess House – still gonna cost a fortune. Reminder: the Hostess House brings in about a whopping $14,000 per year before expenses. Should only take them about 120 years to get their money back. But I’m sure Finley will tell us it provides “tremendous value”. Kinda like the $1.5 million Old City Hall renovation.

Elections on May 7th. Kuehne, Williamson and Goodart are all up for election. All three need to be replaced. You’ll recall that Chuck “The Vampire” Williamson actually got stomped hard in his last election but then weaseled his way back onto council – allowing Monroe to firmly implant her hand in his rectum.

Goodart told me in a personal email he was opposed to all the money being wasted on the “business park” but I have YET to see him open his mouth against it once.

End of meeting.

Libtards Too Dumb/Lazy To Vote Properly. Call It “Voter Suppression”

Clayton Tucker is mad, ya’ll! It’s all this “voter suppression” that’s going on!

How is it NOT voter suppression, Diego? Well, I have a few ideas how:

#1 – Liberals are very likely too stupid to fill out a form correctly. Perhaps they didn’t READ the instructions? Perhaps they can’t COMPREHEND simple directions?

I was at the DMV two weeks ago to renew my drivers license and some poor moron in front of me didn’t bring proof of U.S. citizenship, as the instructions on the website said to do. He didn’t have a passport OR a certified copy of his birth certificate. He was sent home pissed off. Was that “driver suppression”? Or was it just a garden-variety dummy who didn’t read the instructions? Go home and fix it and try again. You just learned a valuable lesson about paying attention to details.

#2 – Liberals are typically very lazy, and thus can’t be bothered to actually go to the polls, so they demand mail-in ballots that should never be handed out in the first place. Perhaps because they are all entitled half-wits who grew up getting anything they wanted by pushing a button on a smart phone app, the thought of actually standing in line for a while repulses them.

Tough shit.

Here’s an idea: if voting is as big a deal to you as you say it is, then get off your ass and go to the polls. I have voted in-person for 34 years – even with a full-time job! Seeing as how a large proportion of liberals are welfare mooches and unemployed bums (like Clayton Tucker), you really don’t have anything standing in your way, do you? Your whole day is pretty much open.

Notice they NEVER tell you the actual NUMBER of rejected ballots – just that it was “40% to 60%” of them in Travis County. Maybe there were only 1,000 applications and 400 were rejected. There is no way of knowing.

In Harris County, the number was 16% rejected out of 1,276 applications. Doesn’t sound so bad when you put it that way, does it? In fact, 16% is about the percentage of the population that is clinically retarded with an IQ under 85, if you look at a standard Bell Curve distribution:

We can clearly chalk up that 16% to pure stupidity.

Unfortunately for democrats, probably 90% of that 16% population are registered Democrats.

If you are too stupid to fill out a form properly, you are also too stupid to vote. Do us all a favor and stay out of the election altogether.

Even our local socialist (and head of the Lampasas County Democrats) Comrade Clayton Tucker has trouble filling out forms correctly! Here is his application to run for City council last year:

As you can see, Comrade Clayton wasn’t entirely sure what his OCCUPATION was. He started to write “State”-something, then scratched that out like a third-grader and settled on “political organizer”. This is very odd since he has claimed to be a rancher, a cowboy and a farmer for years now. It must have slipped his mind that he was a “rancher”, I guess.

Well, that is certainly definitive proof that he is a rancher like he claims to be. You can’t argue with the hashtag! After all, lot’s of REAL ranchers, farmers, and cowboys stop what they are doing in the middle of a mundane job like cutting wood, take out their iPhone, take photos and then put a gay hashtag on in like “#ranchlife” for their Facebook page, right?

Waking Up Is Hard

It’s OK to be mad.

But be mad at the people who lied to you – not the people who saw through the lie.

It’s time we had “the talk” with the people who got fooled and are now waking up to “public health” and “public policy” and seeing it for what it is.

We know you thought it was a wubbie and that it made you feel warm and fuzzy.

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But it wasn’t.

It was a plague blanket…

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…and it’s time you put it down and asked some pointy questions of the people who wrapped you in it and told you it was for your own good.

Because this is not the face you want people to be making at you.

Trust me on that…

Bruce Haywood: The Man, The Myth, The Moron

As I’m sure you’ve noticed, the official Covid narrative is finally falling apart, or is being hastily disassembled, or historically revised, right before our eyes.

The “experts” and “authorities” are finally acknowledging that the “Covid deaths” and “hospitalization” statistics are artificially inflated and totally unreliable (which they have been from the very beginning), and they are admitting that their miracle “vaccines” don’t work (unless you change the definition of the word “vaccine”), and that they have killed a few people, or maybe more than a few people, and that lockdowns were probably “a serious mistake.”

And now they are all sick with … well, a cold, basically, or are “asymptomatically infected,” or whatever. And they are looking at a future in which they will have to submit to “vaccinations” and “boosters” every three or four months to keep their “compliance certificates” current, in order to be allowed to hold a job, attend a school, or eat at a restaurant, which, OK, hardcore cultists are fine with, but there are millions of people who have been complying, not because they are delusional fanatics who would wrap their children’s heads in cellophane if Anthony Fauci ordered them to, but purely out of “solidarity,” or convenience, or herd instinct, or … you know, cowardice.

Many of these people (i.e., the non-fanatics) are starting to suspect that maybe what we “tin-foil-hat-wearing, Covid-denying, anti-vax, conspiracy-theorist extremists” have been telling them for the past 22 months might not be as crazy as they originally thought. They are back-pedaling, rationalizing, revising history, and just making up all kinds of self-serving bullshit, like how we are now in “a post-vaccine world,” or how “the Science has changed,” or how “Omicron is different,” in order to avoid being forced to admit that they’re the victims of a GloboCap PSYOP and the worldwide mass hysteria it has generated.

If you think these “recovering” Covidian Cult members are ever going to publicly acknowledge all the damage they have done to society, and to people and their families, since March 2020, much less apologize for all the abuse they heaped onto those of us who have been reporting the facts … well, they’re not.

They are going to spin, equivocate, rationalize, and lie through their teeth, whatever it takes to convince themselves and their audience that, when the shit hit the fan, they didn’t click heels and go full “Good German.”

I’m not going to forget all the mini Hitlers out there over the last 18 months. The Covid rats and scumbags who applauded the idea of universal mask mandates and forced vaccinations.

Here is a partial list of local Covid Cult scumbags, just so we don’t ever forget those who went full “Good German” and showed their true colors:

Bruce Haywood, Melissa Johnson, Karen Spivey-Cummings, Julie Cain Landrum, Potato Head Stephanie Fitzharris, Jennifer “Morono” Moreno, Christopher McDaniel, Heath Bishop (aka Hubert Humperdink), Maria Velasquez Aguilar, Lee Morey, Gregory Thompson, Clayton Tucker.

***It’s so simple! Force everyone to get a shot and it will go away! Wrong again, dipshit.***

**Bruce Haywood: in favor of ruining kids’ education since 2020.**

LEDC Swallowing More Bullshit and Hype. Will They Never Learn??

Looks like the Lampasas Economic Dunces Club is at it again. Not since Jack sold his cow for some magic beans have we seen economic wizardry like they practice over at the LEDC.

First it was Mike Cour and his Eco-Turd scam. The LEDC (desperate to make a deal and finally get a tenant for their multi-million-dollar Goat Pasture) was strung along by ridiculous promises made by a charlatan. It was obvious to me how it would end, but apparently Talbert, Monroe and Walsh are a little more naive.

Unfortunately, they didn’t learn from that debacle. So they’re about to create another one.

From today’s packet:

I see a LOT of the same words and phrases that I have seen before and which indicate a high likelihood of bullshit. Words like “intending”, “proposing possibilities”, “hope”, “initially” and “up to” $30/hour. Mike Cour used a lot of the same bullshit words himself when he was proposing his ridiculous tire recycling facility.

Lots of wiggle room there. Do you know what wiggle room gets filled up with eventually? Bullshit. Lots and lots of bullshit. That, and failed promises. Which is why these deals are always heavily loaded on the back end: in a few years when it all goes to shit, who is going to care enough to point out what a train wreck it all was? Besides me, of course.

Here is how it will probably go down (and this is my opinion, not fact):

This guy gets a sweetheart deal on a lease. He then charges people to store their boats and RVs there – which employs nobody while all the money goes into his pocket. Not much risk to him there – he gets a free swing of the bat to see if he can get people to store their stuff there. In fact, if the idiots at the LEDC give him enough free stuff, he can also undercut any competitors in the area!

At the one year mark, he maybe tells the City that the market just isn’t quite right yet for the other stuff – after all, Brandon has been fucking up the economy for two years now! Can you blame me?? Can I keep using this as a storage space for another year? The LEDC agrees to this because they have fallen for the Sunk Cost Fallacy over and over again and they don’t want to admit failure.

At the end of the second year, same song and dance. Maybe the guy offers a ridiculous low-ball price to buy the property hoping an embarrassed LEDC will just puke it up to avoid more hassle.

The cigar bar and distillery and barber shop stuff? All bullshit. Will NEVER happen. Ever. We heard this “distillery/brewery” story before over two years ago when some guy was going to develop the Sante Fe train station. Remember that? I do – I called it bullshit then and it is bullshit now.

From two years ago:

Several meetings ago, Council was briefed regarding the redevelopment of the Santa Fe Depot to a restaurant and possible brewery. Although the tenants have not been identified by the developer [shocker…I doubt there are any yet], he has proceeded with construction plans, specification and bidding. Mister Hardin has also discussed the possible partnership with the City to fund a portion [is that like ‘cost sharing’??] of the right-of-way improvements including sidewalks and flatwork – which may be between $80,000 and $100,000

There it is again – “possible”. As in, it is POSSIBLE someone will give me a free G5 private jet tomorrow. But I’d be a fool to plan a $15,000 honeymoon around that.

LEDC – Brand New Year, Same Old Incompetence

Well, it’s a brand new year, but I see the same old LEDC incompetence. After deciding to skip their December meeting, they STILL have not posted the agenda or packets for tomorrow’s meeting:

LEDC Agendas. LEDC packets.

Does this mean there is no meeting tomorrow? Hard to believe, since they are in the middle of “planning” a multi-million dollar boondoggle known as Phase II of the Goat Pasture (Mike White’s words, not mine).

Mandy even mentioned in November that perhaps they might want to actually meet in December since “we have more active topics of discussion” [page 21].

Apparently that was too much to ask for the Talbert-led group to bother with, because they haven’t met since November 17th.

Maybe there IS a meeting tomorrow, but they are too incompetent or lazy to post the agenda and packets before then.

Who knows. But one thing is sure: it is clearly the same old, same old at the LEDC despite a brand new year.

These Are The Imbeciles Clogging Up The Clinics and Hospitals

Two years into this “pandemic” and it just boggles my mind that there are still people out there who are afraid of coronavirus. Thanks to a surge in “cases” there are thousands of morons who aren’t sick at all, waiting in hours-long lines to take a test to see if they have a virus that couldn’t possibly kill them.

It is the world-class dunces like these who (a) keep this ‘pandemic’ hysteria going when it is clearly over and (b) are clogging up the clinics and hospitals and fucking things up for people with REAL medical problems:

**They should have slapped your face and called you a moron, too.**

We can’t go on sharing a country with people like this. Their brains are too broken and they can’t be fixed.

Hey dummy: your 10-year-old grandson is not at risk of dying from this. He is more likely to be killed by lightning. By your own admission, the kid isn’t even SICK! He was just “around his uncle and aunt” who supposedly had it – or maybe they just tested positive. Teresa Christoph, whoever she is, should have a big “MORON” tattooed on her forehead and be banned from the doctor for a year.

Brandy English is arguably even worse! She actually drove around clogging up the works and wasting the time in THREE towns! Keep your dipshittery in Killeen, lady. There are people in Lampasas with REAL medical problems. Your 8-yo is more likely to be killed in a car accident with you driving all over hell’s half-acre gumming up the healthcare system than she is to be killed by Covid.

If you are related to any of these people, please grab their shoulders and shake them. Maybe slap them across the face a few time to snap them out of it. You are acting like complete dipshits.

Council Meeting: Surprise $1.5 Million Electric Fund Cost Discussed.

The Goldfish swam last night – the first meeting of the year and first in nearly a month:

Finley presented council with an 89-page fiscal year 2021 financial report. He didn’t want to go into too much detail or “bore you with this”, except to say that “it was a tough year” and mentioned the winter storm and electric fund [starts at 7:30 mark].

Wait…what??

We were told last year that the electric fund was VERY healthy. The former Bungler-in-Chief Misti Talbert even specifically praised Finley for his supposed deft handling of electricity purchases. I wrote about it HERE.

They raised rates anyways, of course, starting back on 11/1/21. But now Finley is telling us it was a “tough year”. The electric fund took a roughly $1.5 million dollar hit (they spent $7.8 million on electricity but had only budgeted $6.3 million), according to Finley [17:10 mark]

This is very odd to me, because the Bungler-in-Chief Misti Talbert bragged on Finley last year when she said:

“It’s important for the people watching at home to know: the position that we are in in terms of the utility rates we pay is accredited to one person and one person only – his name is Finley deGraffenreid….0ur risk has been mitigated by his ability to broker deals for us and secure us not knowing that something like this would happen, but in the event that it has we come out on top. When it comes to utility rates, that’s who you thank right there” [points to Finley]

Then Finley pat himself on the back a little bit with these assurances:

Finley: “Our contracts are currently fixed-pricing…so the pricing from our wholesale suppliers per kilowatt will not change”

Finley: “We are financially healthy…our electric department does carry adequate reserves to overcome the temporary spike”, “I think this is a bump that we just absorb because we are healthy financially….the impact…is pretty negligible…but we are certainly in a position to absorb that if council so chooses”

[Listen for yourself at the 20 minute mark HERE.]

A $1.5 million dollar hit sure doesn’t sound like we came out on top. Sounds more like we were on the bottom….biting the pillow.

Yet another huge black mark Misti Talbert’s disastrous mayoral adventure. Keep in mind this same idiot is now running the LEDC and recently signed off on ANOTHER $1.5 million loan for the Business Park boondoggle.

I’ve requested the 89-page report so I can see it all myself. I’ll keep you apprised.