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Climate Cult Will Ruin Us All
Local moron socialist and virtual rancher Comrade Clayton Tucker picked a single day when the sun was shining and the wind was blowing to crow about how it was “saving” Texas…
Of course, when the sun went down that night and the wind died and there were still 33 million people who needed reliable power (like hospitals, refineries, factories, etc). At THAT point, reliable gas and oil “bailed out” his shitty, subsidized Greentarded pinwheel toys as they sat useless in the windless night.
One of Comrade Clayton’s favorite false statements when he’s touting “renewables” is “the wind always blows”….
Which is preposterous and demonstrably false.
Solar panels only generate decent power about 8-9 hours a day in the summer (far worse in winter, as the days are shorter). That means less than 33% of the day. Throw in the rainy and cloudy days over the course of a year, and you’re looking at more like 28% of the time. I know this because I have lived with a 22kw solar power system for over 10 years now. Comrade Clayton lives in his parents house with NO solar panels. So, as usual, he has no idea what the fuck he is talking about and I do.
Wind is EXTREMELY variable: power over sweep for wind is a third-power function of wind speed, so it’s always going to vary massively with small changes in wind velocity. It jumps all over the place. The variance is managed through fast spinnatural gas plantsthat come online to take up the slack.
Sounds more to me like reliable fossil fuel actually bails out the unreliable renewable garbage.
On those days when both solar and wind shit the bed (**cough* February 2021* cough**), Texas STILL NEEDS those 75 gigawatts of electricity or we go back to the Stone Age. That means 75 GW of RELIABLE POWER (i.e. fossil fuel powered) has to be available at all times! Those reliable gas and oil plants require maintenance and staffing and technical expertise to stay in top condition.
Dummy fucks like Clayton Tucker and Bruce Haywood cannot get this through their thick skulls, apparently. So when their shitty subsidized pinwheels blow up the grid, they start bleating like idiot sheep to “fix the damn grid!” – when in fact their shitty, subsidized pinwheels are the ones who broke the grid in the first place.
Germany and Italy are finding out the cost of listening to Greentarded morons like Clayton Tucker and AOC and Greta Thunberg as we speak. Trump warned the idiots in Europe YEARS ago that they were going down the wrong path with their Greentardation (as any of us with an IQ over 95 would also do) and would be at Russia’s mercy for oil and gas when the shit inevitably hit the fan. Which they are now:
But hey – Orange Man Bad! So nobody listened.
Renewables and crypto have two things in common:
They have a cult-like following and they are Ponzi schemes at scale.
They Think You Are Stupid
So the recent surge of young people and world-class athletes dropping dead is from…wait for it….global warming!
Is there a competition going on for the most insane reason for sudden deaths since 2021 they can get into print? Here is another one – which also manages to slip the global warming horseshit into there as well…
They will literally make up ANY bullshit they can to avoid mentioning the obvious one: vaccines were rolled out in 2021.
Then they throw in their usual “global warming” bullshit for good measure.
Unfortunately, about 25% to 30% of the population (like Clayton Tucker and Bruce Haywood) eat this bullshit up and ask for more, because they lack critical thinking skills and are weak-minded imbeciles who are easily brainwashed and unable to think for themselves.
We are well and truly fucked when the population is polluted with that many morons.
More Free Stuff!
Hmmmm. West African incomes are around $1K per year, and African American incomes are around $25K, but I think it would be a bit extreme to ask them to give up the full $24K difference.
Windmills For Thee But Not Me. More Liberal Hypocrite Scumbags
In the latest display of elite hypocrisy, former president, climate change scaremonger and green energy promoter Barack Obama is installing three propane tanks at his $12 million Martha’s Vineyard property—with a whopping 2,500 gallons of storage capacity.
Earlier this month, the town of Edgartown, Massachusetts received an application for an underground propane tank installation at Obama’s estate, consisting of two 1,000 gallon-tanks and one 500-gallon tank, to be used for “residential purposes.”
“We’ve never had a private propane tank come to us,” said a member of the town’s review board. Typical residential storage for back-up generators is 100 to 500 gallons.
At a time when his successor’s economic war on Russia is wreaking havoc on the world and the U.S. economy teeters on the edge of an abyss, Obama’s 2,500-gallon scheme suggests he wants his 6,900-square-foot, seven-bedroom house to be ready for many weeks of energy independence at a time.
As president, Obama declared, “I am a firm believer that climate change is real and that it is impacted by human behavior and carbon emissions. As a consequence, I think we have an obligation to future generations to do something about it.”
Of course, to Obama and other ruling elites, “doing something” means imposing expectations on society they don’t apply to themselves. From Obama’s fossil fuel indulgence at his 29-acre vacation estate, to lockdown enthusiast Gavin Newsom dining in maskless comfort with 21 guests while he limited indoor dining for others, to gun control-advocating politicians who live under the protection of “assault rifles,” examples abound.
Indeed, this isn’t even the first display of elite hypocrisy at Obama’s Martha’s Vineyard mansion.
Last August, while Democrats and liberal elites were still relentlessly shaming Americans into embracing a dystopian “new normal” life of social isolation and promoting hysteria over the Delta variant of Covid-19, Obama threw a celebrity-studded 60th birthday party for himself, with hundreds of guests.
Sounds like a guy who needs to check his privilege.
More Raises Given During Low Inflation Years…
We already covered a lot of the generous increases in salary and benefits enjoyed by City workers in those years when inflation was nearly non-existent.
Since we are going to see the same argument from the school system soon, let’s go over some of the raises THEY were given before inflation got out of control.
Now, before I shit all over the LISD, I DO realize that if you absolutely cannot fill a teaching position, you CLEARLY have to dangle a higher salary. That is simple economics. However, that money doesn’t have to come from the taxpayer – it can come from the firing of useless slugs like Kathy Staruska who suck down over $80,000 in tax dollars but educate nobody. The school is there to EDUCATE your kid. Not to provide ‘free’ therapy sessions to your kid that you messed up with bad parenting.
Without further ado….
4/6/18 – The Lampasas Independent School District Board of Trustees unanimously approved a general pay increase for all the district’s teachers, administrators and auxiliary staff. Each teacher will receive a $1,500 increase, a raise of about 3 percent will go to administrators,and an increase of about 5 percent will be given to aides, clerical and auxiliary staff. The pay raise will add about$800,000 to the budget, which will be covered by attrition. CPI in 2018 was 2.4% – raises were DOUBLE the inflation rate.
7/5/19 – The Lampasas Independent School District Board of Trustees approved teacherraises totaling $1.5 million for the coming school year. CPI in 2019 was only 1.8%
3/3/20 – “This evening, our school board approved a compensation plan for next yearthat includes a 7% general pay increaseof the midpoint for Teachers, Clerical/Aides, and Auxiliary. Teacher salaries will reflect a minimum starting amount of $47,000. A general pay increase of 5%of the midpoint for administrators was approved as well. CPI in 2020 was 1.2% – raises were therefore 5.8 times higher than inflation.
[So over those three years, inflation was roughly 5.5% while raises totaled about 15% – or almost TRIPLE inflation]
Also don’t forget, school was cancelled for the rest of the year (shortly after that big raise) due to Covid…giving everyone two months off, fully paid.
Once again, job security is the phrase you are looking for.
Everyone was ALSO given TEN DAYS of “Covid-related time off” for the NEXT school year! That’s TWO WEEKS paid vacation in addition to regular sick days, Thanksgiving holiday, Christmas holiday, spring break, etc.
Nice perk:
1/14/21 – The Lampasas Independent School District Board of Trustees voted Monday night to extend Superintendent Dr. Chane Rascoe’s contract, which now is set to expire in June 2024.Trustees also granted Rascoe a 7% raise, bringing his salary to $169,864 as of July 1. CPI for 2021 was 4.7% – Rascoe’s raise was 1.5 times the rate of inflation. Rascoe now makes more than the governor of Texas.
9/3/21 (Dispatch) – On Monday, the Lampasas Independent School District Board of Trustees unanimously approved a $35.9 million Fiscal Year 2022 general fund budget that includes a 2% salary raise for all staff [that includes all the useless Staruska Slugs infesting the LISD]. The district’s new budget will take effect Oct. 1. Of the total, salaries amount to $27.2 million (76% of budget).
**UPDATE 4/7/23**
4/7/23 (Dispatch) – The plan recommended by Superintendent Dr. Chane Rascoe includes a general pay increase of 4% from the midpoint salary for administrators and teachers, and an increase of 10% from the midpoint range for aides and clerical staff. Auxiliary staff earned the largest pay rise, a general increase of 13.5% from the midpoint salary.
The increase will raise the average teacher salary to $51,000 in LISD. According to the Texas Association of School Board’s statewide 2022-23 District Personnel Survey, the overall median salary for a new Texas teacher is $46,550.
But wait! There’s more!!
Don’t forget that teachers ALSO get the summers off. Why, just look at our own teacher/City council member Cathy “Porkchop” Kuehne! She makes about $67,000 per year (plus bennies) AND has her summers free to work another job! With wages and labor demand what they are now, a determined teacher could easily make another $10,000 to $12,000 over the summer – bringing that total up to nearly $80,000!! Cry me a river!
City Big Wigs Want Raises For Everyone Because of Inflation. Conveniently Forget All The Big Raises When Inflation Was Negligible
ACM Ryan Ward got up on the dais last night and said we need an immediate 3% COLA for everyone working for the City. That will supposedly hold them over until they can hand out much larger “adjustments” in a few months when budget talks start.
[I’m not going to hold my breath that any of the supposedly “overpaid” positions like Police Chief and Librarian get ‘adjusted’ down to normal]
But let’s take a look at the recent past and some nice fat raises and benefit increases that were implemented when there was basically NO inflation. Here are a few examples:
June 24, 2013 council packet – Proposing a three percent (3%) global increase which would be $117,000 budget impact. The new health premiums increased three percent (3%) and would like to budget $71,000 to assist employees with 25 percent (25%) of dependent premiums. Possible staffing adjustments and modifications: one (1) Water/Wastewater employee; one (1) Firefighter (shared cost with County); possibly one (1) full time Economic Development Coordinator (shared cost with Lampasas Economic Development Corporation “LEDC”). CPI for 2013 was only 1.5%. Raises are DOUBLE rate of inflation.
July 25th, 2014 – Initial budget assumptionscall for a 4 percent increase in total salary expenses, although deGraffenried said that does not necessarily mean an across the-board 4 percent raise is suggested. In the budget approved last year, total salaries increased 3 percent. Mayor Pro Tem Wanda Bierschwale said she would like to see employees get “a goodly raise”and for the city to pay a portion of retiree health care costs. Mrs. Bierschwale also said she would like to increase the dependent cost share. White said he supports a 50 percent health care cost share for retirees and a 4 percent raise for all employees. Councilman Chuck Williamson also said he favors 4 percent raises.
[That idiot Bierschwale certainly was generous with other people’s money, wasn’t she?? White and Bierschwale are long gone…but that fat 50% health care cost share remains…as does that fat raise – every year for the last 8 years. So – we see a huge raise AND a ridiculous bump in benefits: increasing the share the taxpayers pay for employees’ dependents AND for City retirees who have ALREADY gotten tons of benefits over their careers. CPI for 2014 was only 1.6%…raises are therefore 2.5 times the rate of inflation.]
Aug 14, 2015 – The council is considering a 5 percent increase in city employees’ salaries. The original suggestion submitted to the council was for a 4 percent pay boost, but Mayor Pro Tem Misti Talbert [the original Drunken Sailor] and Councilman Robert McCauley proposed giving a 5 percent raise. CPI for 2015 was 0.1%. Raises are therefore FIFTY TIMES LARGER than rate of inflation. This was the beginning of the profligate Toups administration.
Let’s pause here a moment. CPI is up 3.1% over those three years and employee raises totaled about TWELVE PERCENT over that time. Nobody bothers to mention all of this. That doesn’t even include the generous INCREASE in benefits covering employee dependents and City retirees.
Here are some more random raises from before inflation went haywire:
Aug 4, 2017 – Mike White also warned the trend of rising insurance costs will continue – which he said will impose a greater burden on the city each year. Last year, the city’s cost increase was 4 percent, the finance director said. CPI for 2017 was 2.1% –therefore benefit increases were almost TWICE inflation rate.
8/3/18 (Dispatch) – Chamber of Commerce salary. TJ Monroe says $45,000 isn’t enough. Needs to be $65,000 to $70,000 [National average is $49,000] – Ergo, TJ Monroe wants a 48% increase in Chamber of Commerce salary…the CPI in 2018 was 2.4%
7/27/19 – Lampasas County Appraisal District Commissioner’s Court voted 4-1 to approve their new budget – which includes a 4% increase in salaries. Previous year’s salary increase was 11% – for a two-year increase of 15%! CPI for 2019 was 1.8%
8/16/19 – The council discussed salaries Monday, and multiple council members said “market adjustments” may be needed to make Lampasas’ pay more competitive with the compensation in nearby entities (sounds familiar?) CPI for 2019 was 1.8%.
8/10/20 council meeting: budget proceedings – Finley asks for 3% raises for everyone once again. CPI in 2020 was 1.2%. ONCE AGAIN, raises are DOUBLE the inflation rate.
Between 2019 and 2020, salary for IT Director Monica Wright increased 7.8% from $73,397 to $79,115. CPI for 2020 was 1.2% – or SIX AND A HALF TIMES HIGHER than inflation. She possess NO network certifications!
Between 2019 and 2020, salary for Network Administrator Kristy Acevdeo jumped 9.4% from $52,674 to $57,639. CPI for 2020 was 1.2%. Her raise was therefore 7.8x higher than inflation
[Also don’t forget, the IT Department workload DECREASED greatly when the police department decided to take the police servers out of the hands of Monica and Kristy and pay someone else to do it. Also don’t forget that TSM Consulting does a LOT of their work for them, at a huge cost to the City]
Between 2019 and 2020, salary for police chief Sammy Bailey jumped from $92,493 to 103,387 – an 11.8% increase! CPI was 1.2% that year – almost TEN TIMES the rate of inflation.
[I’m sure that huge bump had NOTHING to do with artificially increasing her ‘average salary’ for pension purposes right before retirement, right?]
In 2020 – Finley deGraffenreid got a raise of 15%….from $130,000 to $150,000. Inflation that year was 1.2% – a raise that was about 12.5 x faster than inflation!!! Don’t forget that Finley also has an assistant now (that was Misti Talbert’s idea years ago) – so his workload is actually LESS as he makes MORE. See how that works?
9/20/21 – City handed out “paid quarantine leave” to public safety employees of the City (front page Dispatch). Nice little perk!
So I say this to ACM Ward and City Manager deGraffenreid: Gimme a fucking break.
My advice to anyone with the City making $90k or $100k or $200k in salary and benefits is that you should have saved more during those ridiculously generous years instead of taking four annual vacations and buying a brand new $60,000 vehicle every 3 years. THAT’S how it works in the real world.
These idiots need to go and re-read the fable of The Ant and the Grasshopper.
The City is infested with grasshoppers – mostly at the top. You want to give raises to the guys doing actual work? The guys fixing water pipes and sewer mains and electric lines and the guys mowing lawns for $12? Maybe bump them to $18 or $20? I’m fine with that – they deserve it. All these other Nerf jobbers making six figures to sit in an airconditioned City Hall? Fuck that.
Time to say NO to ever-increasing salaries.
Total expenditures for the 2015/2016 City budget were $9.462 million. For the 2020/2021 budget it was $12.175 million – a 29% increase. Increase in the CPI during those 5 years? Under 10%. Expenditures increased roughly TRIPLE the rate of inflation!!
The Finley School of Thought? Big raises during boom times but also big raises during the shitty times too! No time is a good time to tighten the belt in government spending. The taxpayer can go suck a big one.
Next up: a review of teacher raises during the low inflation years!
Skate Park Approved…But At What Cost?
Yipee! Yay! They approved the skatepark! This will turn all kids in town into high-achieving children who never get into trouble or turn to drugs. They will develop confidence in themselves as they learn the half-pipe. They will all excel in school and master calculus at an early age! It is the greatest thing since sliced bread!
Tons of people from ALL AROUND will come here for the skate park and spend tons of money at restaurants and antique stores! It will even rake in more sales tax dollars than the giant metal LTX sign in the City square!!
Well, that’s what I hear on Facebook anyways.
What I DIDN’T hear on Facebook was the final cost of this debacle. As you recall, this thing went from $200,000 (yes it did, Finley!) to $300,000 to $470,000 over the course of 16 months.
A skatepark that is a great idea at $250,000 is a very stupid idea at $800,000, for instance.
It’s a shame that LEDC prez Misti Talbert stole that $971,000 from the City back in February, or we might not be worried about the cost of this.
Oh, and don’t forget that ACM Ryan Ward (who makes over $150,000 per year in salary and benefits) is banging the drum VERY loudly for huge raises for every government employee this year.…And he wants them NOW…like, starting next month! That’s a 3% hit now and a lot more later this year, during the budget process.
I wonder if his boss Finley deGraffenreid (salary and benefits of over $200,000) will get a raise too! The poor guy hasn’t gotten anything since that 15% increase (bi-weekly paycheck went from $5,000 to $5,769) he got in 2020 during the ‘pandemic’. You don’t REALLY expect him to survive on $12,500 every month, do you? (Plus free gas and phone and healthcare and 2-1 matching pension contributions by the taxpayer).
That’s the ‘pandemic’ where the government ruined the livelihoods of many, many people. I’ll bet you $100 that not a SINGLE CITY EMPLOYEE missed a SINGLE PAYCHECK during that entire year.
Any takers? That’s called “job security” and it’s something most gov employees take for granted.
Let’s take a look at his current paychecks, shall we?
No worries! Even though we are very likely entering a bad recession right now, they can just shake the money tree out back to pay for all this stuff.
Clayton Tucker: World’s First Virtual Rancher/Farmer/Cowboy
When you have a low IQ, you make a lot of dumb mistakes.
For instance, you forget which lies you previously told in newspaper interviews, you forget what your current fake job supposedly is, and you completely forget to put fake jobs on your resume and have to go back and do it later.
Here is his resume as shown in March 2021 – ZERO mention of “ranch manager” in 2016:
Here is his resume NOW. He had to go back and insert “ranch manager” to cover for his previous lies:
It must be exhausting.
He also listed his occupation as “political organizer” when he applied to run for City council back in March of 2021. I guess he forgot he was a “rancher” then too!
Of course, since local socialist Clayton Tucker spends all day sitting at his laptop in mom and dad’s upstairs bedroom, that’s the most exhausting thing he does.
Apparently, the Internet went out for a little while yesterday. I didn’t know this because I have Viasat satellite Internet that only really goes down in a huge thunderstorm every now and then.
Clayton Tucker predictably went insane about it (as he always does). During his usual petulant tantrum about how “the Internet is a RIGHT” and “should be a utility” (as if utilities don’t sometimes fail as well), he slipped up once again talking about his ‘job’:
You work virtually? I thought you were a rancher!!
So is it like one of those “virtual” ranches? Like on Facebook or something, where your fake friends visit your virtual ranch and feed the fake goats digital hay or something? Fascinating.
Oops, Clayton. Huge oops.
You must be the ONLY ‘rancher/farmer/cowboy‘ who spends SO much time sitting at his laptop, that he just happened to be on the computer all three times the Internet has failed over the last 12 months.
Tucker then whines that due to the Internet being down, he can’t use credit cards, “debt” (I think he means DEBIT cards) or Apple pay! The horror!
First off, only girls and douchebags use Apple Pay.
Secondly, back in the old days, we had NONE of those things. Literally none of them. We went REAL old school and carried CASH, you wuss. Hell, your parents’ house (where you live) is LITERALLY three blocks from First Texas Bank.
What a lazy asshole. Then again, he IS a socialist. Kind of comes with the territory.
Instead of REAL old school, Clayton goes “old lady” old school and carries his checkbook around with him. I bet his checks are imprinted with Bernie Sanders or Tweety Bird images too.
Naturally, two or three of his fellow losers commented on his post, saying “we need to end this monopoly!”
Ummm…there is no monopoly, you retards. You have a TON of choices now. Hell, Nextlink is supposedly doing 130 to 170 installs PER WEEK. Call Viasat. Or Hughesnet. Or Suddenlink. Or use your cell phone as a mobile hotspot.
Bunch of fucking babies.
Local Socialist Comrade Clayton Tucker Apparently Growing Obligatory Moustache
If history has taught us anything, it’s that you can’t be a good little commie/socialist weasel without a moustache.
Stalin, Maduro, Marx, Guevara, Hitler, Castro – all had the ‘stache (plus beard, for many of them). Mao Zedong, Pol Pot and Kim Jong-un are the only commie scum I could think of who DIDN’T have any facial hair, but that’s because Asians suck at growing facial hair.
Well, apparently local socialist shit worm Comrade Clayton Tucker has finally noticed this, because he too, is attempting to grow some facial hair. It is only in the “pubestache” stage now, but don’t worry – in 40 or 50 years it’s gonna look amazing!
Maybe he thinks the facial hair will make him look older and make people forget he is a 31-year-old boy who still lives in Mom and Dad’s upstairs bedroom…
[Pictured above with the young and vibrant members of the Medina County Marxists Democrats]
Hey, that old guy with the beard looks familiar. Wasn’t he hanging around another meeting looking for free soup or something? I think he was…
