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Business Park Grant Application Resolution Contains Giant Lie

The Dispatch published a giant puff-piece (which I will pick apart in my next post) on the LEDC “business park” and their current attempt to grab federal tax dollars they are NOT (in my opinion) entitled to. It is a welfare queen move and a complete scumbag move. It is no different than scumbag liberal politicians in California or Chicago begging for federal taxes to balance their budgets. Budgets that were ruined FAR before Wuhan Flu came onto the scene.

According to the Dispatch articls:

Projects that respond to “ECONOMIC INJURY as a result of coronavirus”

Funny – it sure doesn’t seem like the City has suffered any “economic injury” to me. Quite the opposite, in fact. They are sitting on a pile of money, according to City Manager Finley DeGraffenreid (who is paid $140,000 per year + roughly $30,000 in benefits):

Things are so good, in fact, Finley recommends giving the entire City workforce an across-the-board 3% raise IN ADDITION to another $40,000 in “salary adjustments” [see page 13 under “recommendations”].

Finley himself even got a $10,000 raise back in mid-May – right as the “pandemic” was supposedly raging and roughly 40 million Americans were being thrown out of work.

Furthermore, the City’s sales tax receipts have also shot upward – the complete OPPOSITE of the rest of the state of Texas.

For the month of March, the entire state of Texas sales tax revenue was DOWN approximately 5% but the City of Lampasas sales tax receipts were UP 11%!!!

For the month of April (the lock down month), Texas sales tax receipts were DOWN 12% BUT LAMPASAS SAW A NINE PERCENT INCREASE! Yes – a 9% increase year-over-year.

For the month of May (the partial re-opening month) the state of Texas as a whole saw sales tax receipts DOWN either 2.6% or 6.5% depending on which source you believe. But City of Lampasas tax receipts were UP AN ASTOUNDING 26%!!!

Yes, you read that correctly. UP TWENTY-SIX PERCENT!!!

** NEW INFO ** – For the Month of June, the state of Texas as a whole saw a 3.6% increase in sales tax receipts year-over-year – but Lampasas saw another MASSIVE JUMP AGAIN of 24%.

All these facts didn’t stop City council from lying through their teeth like scumbag welfare queens with their “Resolution Authorizing Application” for this grant – which will be made through Langford Community Management Services. You can find the entire resolution in the City council packets HERE on Page 44.

It partially reads:

“WHEREAS the ‘Applicant’ has determined that the economic activity generated from this project will positively impact the City economy, overall, which has been adversely affected by the COVID19 disaster;

City council then UNANIMOUSLY voted to approve this resolution. You can hear it HERE at the 25 minute mark.

No discussion. No questions. No comments. ALL SEVEN GOLDFISH agreed to this lie and think NOTHING of using that lie to grab federal tax dollars from innocent taxpayers in Kansas, Florida and every other state. Taxpayers who are now being forced to hand over their hard-earned money to fund the frantic fuck-up (pardon my French) that is the LEDC Business Park.

Just The Goldfish being goldfish, I guess. They have already forgotten (as Goldfish are wont to do) the 26% boom in sales tax, the $1.7 million budget surplus AND the boom in residential construction as Big City clowns rush to small towns like Lampasas to escape failed libtard policies, crime and mask police.

Furthermore, the ‘business park’ is hardly a project that “RESPONDS to economic injury’. How could it be a “response to Coronavirus injury” when it has been in existence for OVER A DECADE and Covid just appeared 7 months ago? It can’t be. So that’s yet another lie.

I’m no lawyer, but it seems to me that LYING to grab money from the government might be construed as fraud. Right Jo-Christy Brown? Not much different than disability fraud or welfare fraud, it seems to me.

I promised you all I would do everything I could to stop this theft. Remember?

Well, I will be sending ALL of this information to whomever reviews these grants at the federal level. Along with my opinion that this is outright fraud – since the City and the LEDC cannot (with a straight face) claim that the City of Lampasas was impacted negatively AT ALL by the Wuhan Flu.

Every one of you who nonchalantly voted for this lie is now officially a welfare queen and political scumbag. You are no better than a worm-like Chicago or Baltimore political parasite. It’s absolutely disgusting.

But…But…But…The Nurses Wear Masks!

“But nurses have always worn masks all day.”

No! SOME wear them, for short stints.

Remember when nurses in Canada fought for the right NOT to wear masks, and an arbitrator heard testimony and sided with them, concluding masks were useless and the requirement unreasonable? True story.

It was waaaay back in 2015.

I know how much you lefty dummies LOVE the Canadian healthcare model. So you’ll be all over this, too….right?

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Branch Covidians Fail At Math

I knew the average American was completely inept at basic math, but this REALLY takes the cake. I find it unsurprising that idiot liberals (who traffic in emotion and fail at math) are falling for this mask nonsense the hardest of all.

New poll shows Americans think 9% of people have died of COVID19, that is MORE THAN 200 TIMES THE ACTUAL NUMBER!!!!

Of course, 9% of America would be about 30 million people dead. How stupid can you be? It boggles the mind.

I also read a story about a guy talking to his buddy in Oregon (liberal haven). The Oregon resident insisted that 80,000 Oregonians have died of Wuhan Flu. The actual number is more like 400.

We are literally living in a society where morons cannot process the difference between 400 and 80,000. Unfortunately, the morons are loud and in charge. Any attempt to refute their stupidity with actual facts is shouted down as you are called a “grandma killer”.

These people need to be slapped in the head until they are knocked back into reality. I see no other way to resolve this.

Also, any assholes throwing hot coffee or spraying mace into the faces of the maskless should be beaten until they are a pulp on the ground.

People wonder why I detest liberals with every bone in my body. THIS is why. They yammer about Trump being a “facist” but THEY are the ones who will be loading people into train cars for not bowing to their moronic demands.

City Flush With Cash – Will Still Beg For Federal Money To Fund ‘Business Park’

Everything is coming up roses for the City of Lampasas! Between saving roughly $80,000 by not opening a public pool, people being forced to stay home due to Wuhan Flu and run up City electric bills, and the idiots in Washington DC handing out trillions of dollars, the City is sitting on a nice surplus!

And you know what we do with surpluses, right? Dream up a million ways to squander it, that’s what!

Sales tax collections were up TWENTY-SIX PERCENT for the month of May compared to May of 2019. That’s an extra $50k or so in the City’s pockets just right there. How is that possible?? Well, the federal government handed just about everyone $1200…PLUS another $500 for each kid…PLUS all the people being paid and extra $600 in unemployment to sit home and watch TV. Add all that up, and there was likely an injection of about $4 million into the local economy. People were SO close to starvation and destitution that they went right out and spent it on tattoos, new dogs, iPhones and other unnecessary shit.

Presto – the City gets an extra $50k in sales tax receipts!

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it is another $3 trillion piled on the federal debt, but who cares about that?? Right Bruce? Just print up another few trillion and give everyone a free lunch! Yay! Just remember that when your grocery bill goes up 30% next year. Of course, the SMART people know how printing trillions in paper currency always ends. But I digress.

The City immediatley made some “accelerated purchases” – some sweet 2020 trucks. A City drowning in cash doesn’t bother looking for deals on 2017 models! Hell no! Every City employee is already scheming about how to get “their share” of the windfall, no doubt.

So riddle me this: if the City is sitting on a huge pile of unexpected cash, why are they going to go beg the Federal government for close to a million dollars to fund their corpse repository ‘business park’??

You remember the ‘business park’, right?

Could it be that everyone on City council, the LEDC and City Hall actually DOES know that the ‘business park’ is a giant piece of dogshit and colossal waste of money? Methinks that might be the case.

After all, if pissing away over $4 million on the corpse repository is SUCH a fantastic idea and SUCH a good use of tax dollars, the City would be falling all over themselves to fund it with “their” money.

But they aren’t.

They’d rather go hat-in-hand to taxpayers all over the United States with their bullshit story about “covid” and steal a pile of cash from hardworking truck drivers in Oklahoma and waitresses in Mighigan, right?

Disgusting. What a bunch of welfare queens.

City Council Hands $3,410.59 To Burger King For “Covid”

[They also handed $3,716.61 to Bush’s Chicken. It appears our old friend Deorald Finney is involved in Bush’s holding company too – but I need to sort through the records more. These corporate records are quite tangled sometimes]

Council came up with the bright idea to help out local businesses hit by Wuhan Flu by giving them some ‘free’ electricity. They estimated the cost to the City at around $70,000 at the time.

This ‘free electricity’ program is in ADDITION to the $100,000 that Mandy Walsh and the LEDC handed out previously.

I don’t know how they decided who got what, but if anything I have to assume Burger King did MORE business during the lock down since they were exempted. I know I myself ate there WAY more than I normally do. Hell, Burger King is DESIGNED to do a lot of drive-thru business. I would be willing to wager their revenue was MORE during the lock down than before the lock down.

Either way, the idea of the City handing out FREE MONEY to Burger King seems quite outrageous to me. This is the same group that can’t be bothered to offer any more than minimum wage to local high school kids to lifeguard at the pool – leading to very few applications this year and (supposedly) leaving them unable to open the City’s second pool.

Lest you think Burger King is owned by some sweet, local mom and pop type of franchisee…..think again. It is owned by Jimmy Jamshed in the FORT WORTH area…through his Landmark & Landmark Group limited liability company.

CORPORATE WELFARE

Jimmy is listed as CEO of at LEAST 10 companies. I’m guessing he has deep pockets.

So – just to recap for those on the short bus:

Wuhan Flu causes unwarranted panic and City closes a bunch of LOCALLY owned restaurants – forcing them to try and adopt a take-out business model

Burger King was ALREADY positioned for this and very likely saw INCREASED sales.

Burger King is a massive corporation with deep pockets and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange

The owner of this particular franchise is based up in FORT WORTH.

Landmark & Landmark owns and operates Burger King restaurants in Gatesville, Early, Brownwood, McGregor, Brady, Clifton and Stephenville. The company also owns and will operate the Burger King under construction in Burnet.

Absolutely outrageous. I’m surprised I don’t see Wal-Mart on the list of “free money” recipients as well.

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Normalizing Muzzles

I noticed the following piece of idiocy making the rounds:

The mandatory mask nannies who post this garbage think they are being clever and making a point equating masks to other “minor inconveniences’. In reality, all the are doing is trying to NORMALIZE tyranny. If anything, all the other examples show exactly who HOW FAR the typical American has gone in letting the morons in government trample all over their rights! We all slowly became sheep over the years because of morons like the mask nannies.

If you are holding up the TSA making you take your shoes off as an example of “a reasonable request” then you are an imbecile of the highest order.

Let me dissect each example, if you have the time, dear reader.

No shoes, no shirt, no problem. This kind of falls under the FALSE claim that balloon heads like Bruce Haywood like to make: ‘their business, their rules!‘. They repeat that mantra like a mentally impaired myna bird. It’s not true at all. Just ask the baker who didn’t want to bake a cake for a gay wedding. Or ask the bar owners in Chicago who want to allow smoking in their establishments. Or ask any biz who couldn’t afford to become ADA compliant (thanks a lot, Bush!). There are a thousand ways the local, state and federal governments have their fingers up your ass when you own a small business. Just ask our local “Lampasas Beer Market” about that.

So no, it ISN’T ‘their business, their rules’ – that is a lie. But when it comes to wearing shoes or shirts in a store, I’m pretty sure that goes to a question of sanitation and human modesty. It’s the same reason we have bathrooms with doors on them and then little stalls inside with more doors. We don’t want people taking a shit in the aisle at The Corner Store. We don’t want to see your hairy ass or your shriveled penis. Or your disgusting filthy feet.

“Wear a seat belt or get a ticket” – the people say “no problem”? I don’t think so. I’m old enough to remember when these mandatory seat belt laws were introduced – and people did NOT say “no problem”. People went berzerk. Just like they did over mandatory helmet laws. As well they should. It’s nobody’s goddamn business if you wear a seat belt or not.

Does wearing a seat belt save lives? I happen to believe it does. I wear one myself. Not because the tyrants tell me to, but because I have seen mountains of evidence (REAL evidence – not made up Covid bullshit mask conjecture) that I have a better chance surviving a wreck if I do. I understand the laws of physics and the unavoidable outcome of a high-speed impact putting my face through a huge piece of glass two feet away. I’d prefer not to have that outcome.

For all those reasons – I wear one. I really don’t give a shit if you wear one or not. The cops don’t either – they just saw a MASSIVE revenue stream untapped. That’s it. Sorry, but it’s true. It’s more nanny state bullshit and it was one tiny step on the path to boiling us frogs.

OSHA says to wear safety goggles. OSHA is an agency in the federal Department of Labor. The federal Department of Labor is unconstitutional and should never have been created (thanks Nixon!). Gee – how did we EVER get along in this country for 200 years without the Department of Labor?? Bunch of useless parasites.

You know who SHOULD care about safety in the workplace? The workers and the business owner. More specifically, whoever INSURES that business. They have a direct financial interest in seeing nobody get hurt. If you want to be an idiot and not wear safety goggles, then the employer has every right to fire your ass for putting his insurance premium at risk. No federal parasites are needed for this all to work – just simple financial incentives. Insurance rates are calculated by very smart nerds called “actuaries”. They use FACTS and DATA to calculate the likelihood of certain outcomes. The mask douche bags do none of that. Their only “evidence” is saying ‘well, it can’t hurt, right?’.

That’s not good enough for me to give up my civil liberties.

You must be seated with a seat belt on and tray up during landing. A couple hundred people crammed into a sardine tin moving 500 miles an hour is a little different than me passing you for 2 seconds at Walmart while I may or may not have a cold virus that you have about a 500,000-1 chance of actually catching during that 2 seconds and even THEN a very small chance of dying from.

In the event of a crash, people need to be able to MOVE QUICKLY to get out. Tray tables in the down position and imbeciles’ bodies strewn all over the aisles prevents that. Quite frankly, I think those rules are ridiculous in the first place, considering the odds of a plane crashing are astronomical. But morons like the illusion of control. Far MORE dangerous, in my opinion, is letting morbidly obese manatees get on the plane in the first place. No way you can move 500 pounds of blubber out of the way when it is between you and the exit aisle.

TSA rules about shoes and belt buckles. Absolute idiocy and bullshit. We all know it. We all KNOW the TSA is populated by cretins who were too stupid to become a real cop and even too stupid to work at the post office.

For almost TWENTY YEARS we have been taking our shoes off for nothing. It is all theater. The TSA is as good as useless at finding guns and knives.

Including the TSA in this idiotic example only weakens your argument. Because that’s what the mandatory mask police bullshit is: it’s the TSA all over again. I said THREE MONTHS ago that this mask shit will never go away. I said, AND I QUOTE “This will be like taking your shoes off at the airport – a huge pile of useless bullshit with zero benefits”

The only difference is the shoe thing sucks for about 8 minutes a year. The mask thing will suck all day, every day. Forever and ever. We have the moron mask nannies to thank for that.

Know The Odds

The odds of a kid under the age of 15 dying of Covid-19 are 1 in 1.7 million… but since most kids do NOT suffer from comorbidities those odds move to 1 in 8.5M

Even with the raw odds, kids under 15 have a better chance of getting hit by lightning than dying of Covid-19.

Is there a mask for lightning? We should make people wear a mask for lightning, maybe. Right?

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Of course, Democrat lawmakers are probably now putting together a bill that prohibits anyone under the age of 15 to go outside – to protect them from lightning strikes.