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Oh No! Some High School Kids Caught The Sniffles!

So we all know now that Homecoming was cancelled – and some football players tested positive for Covid. Misti posted an extremely condescending and arrogant order to everyone not to speculate or pontificate about any of this. Just shut your mouth and obey. Right? We’re too ignorant to make informed and educated assessments.

Talbert sets new record for condescending twaddle on Facebook

Nah. I think I’ll swing my big, fat hairy opinion all over the place, thanks very much.

Of course, Misti and others in charge over the last handful of years have PROVED over and over that THEY are actually the ones incapable of making informed assessments on TONS of issues (*cough*Azbell* cough**cough*elevator ripoff*cough*). I’ve chronicled their stupidity, hypocrisy and dishonesty here on at least 8 issues over the last 24 months.

So there’s that.

But she IS right about us not having any information. The Powers That Be certainly see to THAT, don’t they? I’d agree with her that it’s nobody’s business if a couple kids get sick except for the fact that these morons have been forcing every kid in school to wear a dirty face diaper 40 hours a week – so it kinda IS everybody’s business now, isn’t it?

Actually, this whole thing should be a giant non-event. Some healthy young kids have Covid. So what? Better get used to it. As I have said REPEATEDLY – this virus will be with us forever. Like the flu. So you better come to terms with it. It is less of a danger than flu for those under 50. For high school kids, they’re more likely to be killed by a dog, for Christ’s sake:

I’m going to go out on another limb and predict all these kids will be fine. After all, Misti and her daughter were fine and these football boys are in FAR better shape as athletes.

What do you want to bet at least some of these kids didn’t even know they were “sick” until a test told them they were? I’m guessing they are forced to take Covid tests weekly in order to “obey” the “mandates” handed down by morons from up on high. Of course, we’ll never know if that’s the case because we aren’t privy to that data like the Very Important Talbert is. Maybe these poor kids were tested by one of those overly sensitive tests that picks up viral fragments from 12 weeks ago – meaning they are perfectly safe to play. Who knows? We certainly never will!

Oh goodness. There I go again “speculating” and “theorizing” about some hypothesis! Right after Very Important Talbert told me not to!

Shame on me.

Mandy Walsh Begs Ajinomoto To Back ‘Business Park’. Ajinomoto Offered City 200 New Jobs AND $300,000 Back In 2016. City Declined!!

I recently requested a list of businesses that were lucky enough to receive Mandy Walsh’s “the business park is AWESOME” template letter. As you recall, these businesses are supposed to “write a letter” (actually written by Mandy herself) to the U.S. government and support Mandy begging for almost a million dollars of OTHER people’s tax money so the LEDC can waste ANOTHER $1.9 million of their ‘business park’ debacle.

All the details are HERE.

One of the names on the list was Ajinomoto (Windsor) Foods. One of the biggest employers in our town. You may remember Ajinomoto Foods: back in early 2016, they offered to swap about 2 acres of land with the City near Campbell Park so they could expand their business and “add up to 200 jobs” PLUS they would hand the City $300,000!!

From the Lampasas Dispatch (3/18/16):

“The frozen-food company’s proposal, explained in a four page letter submitted March 7 to the Lampasas City Council, involves enlarging the downtown plant to create as many as 200 new jobs. In exchange for acquiring about two acres of undeveloped land on the south side of Campbell Park, Ajinomoto Windsor has offered to give the city 2.33 acres adjacent to the west side of the park “and up to $300,000 in cash for park development”

Sounds like quite a deal to me! Ajinomoto says “hey, you give us those 2 acres there, we give you a different 2.33 acres nearby (land swap) AND we will throw in $300,000 AND we will create up to 200 jobs!”

These are REAL jobs, mind you. Not complete bullshit imaginary jobs that Mike Cour and Eco-Strong are currently offering.

So what does City council do? Do they let the issue go to a vote by the people (which is required by law in any land conveyance like this)? Hell no! They vote to KEEP THE ISSUE OFF THE BALLOT!

From the Dispatch (3/18/16)

The City Council recently voted not to include the proposed land sale on
the May 7 ballot, however, so the next opportunity for the plan to be presented to voters would be in November.

Who voted against this? You may recognize some of the names: Talbert, White, Williamson and Monroe – FOUR of the current seven council members.

You cannot make shit like this up. The absolute STUPIDITY of the City knows no bounds. I love to make short summaries of the City’s retard moves, so here we go:

2014/2015 – City wastes almost a MILLION DOLLARS bringing water and electricity to 165-acre weed patch known as “business park”. Project has been going on since 2003 and has wasted WAY over $2 million at this point. The whole point of the weed patch endeavor is to “create jobs”.

Early 2016 – Ajinomot0 proposes a land swap that results in 200 new jobs AND $300,000 for park improvements. CREATING JOBS – which is EXACTLY what the LEDC has tried (and failed) to do forever with their $2 million goat pasture.

Early 2016 – City council (including current Mayor Talbert) votes 6-0 to NOT ALLOW this issue on the ballot where the citizens can decide.

The rest of 2016 – of course, the deal dies on the vine and never happens. Not mentioned in the Dispatch again.

2014 thru 2019 – weed patch garners ZERO interest from any businesses despite the wasting of a million dollars. City thoroughly embarrassed that all their predictions of “high paying jobs” have failed to materialize.

2020 – LEDC and Mandy decide that ANOTHER $2 million is needed to REALLY make it ‘developed’. They come up with idea to beg for money from Feds in the guise of “Covid relief” for their “economic injury”, even though the City is thriving by every metric (sales tax receipts, budget surplus, low unemployment numbers).

September 2020 – Mandy sends a letter to Ajinomoto begging them to cheer lead for her ‘business’ park grant submission!!!

Brilliant! Why let a company hand you $300,000 and 200 jobs for no effort when you can INSTEAD squash those jobs and waste $2 million on a weed patch pipe dream across town? Then beg the SAME company to help you out!

The LEDC and Mandy are like that loser friend you have that only calls you when they need to borrow money or bail them out of jail. Bunch of useless turds, if you ask me. I would love it if Ajinomoto told her to suck a big one, but – like all businesses in the City – they probably don’t want to be hassled in the future and signed the letter as directed.

State Health Department Doing Their Best To Hide Covid Testing Info

Our latest update looks like this:

Funny how they are right on top of things with “active cases” but the number of tests administered hasn’t been updated in TEN DAYS.

How is that even possible?? The state HAS to know that number. Are they only reporting “positive” cases and ignoring negatives? If the testing numbers are up big and the “active cases” barely budges, it PROVES the positivity rate (percentage of tests coming back positive) is falling – which wouldn’t help their “scare everyone” narrative they have been pushing.

Also, what exactly constitutes an “active case” here in our county? What are the standards of the testing companies when it comes to the ‘cycle threshold’ (Ct) number? Are they counting every test under 40 Ct as an “active case”? 35? 33? Nobody bothers to tell us these things.

[Cycles are the number of RNA amplifications needed to detect virus. Many PCR tests have a Ct cutoff of 40 to consider the test positive, allowing detection of VERY FEW RNA molecules – which makes the test OVERLY SENSITIVE to old virus fragments. Most studies agree that a Ct over 33 is NOT infectious and thus that “active case” can be safely released into the population without fear of spreading the disease]

Who is doing the testing for Lampasas County? Which testing platform is being used? Are they using one of the very sensitive platforms? Hawaii currently discovered their state was using the MOST SENSITIVE TEST on about 75% of their tests. If they had used the FAR LESS sensitive CDC standards, the number of “cases” would be far lower.

And we certainly can’t have that now, can we?

I expect bullshit like that in a liberal haven like Hawaii or New York. They have every reason to make this look as ugly as possible. I do NOT expect it in the Great Republic of Texas – which is SUPPOSED to be run by people with a brain in their head.

I can’t wait for November 2022 to vote that piece of dung Abbott out of office and watch him roll [pun intended] off into the sunset.

Dummies Now Panicked About College Covid “Cases”

The key feature of 2020 has been a complete and utter loss of perspective.

People who have lived near wolves for a century are suddenly cowering in the house because there’s chihuahua puppy in the yard.

Covid never posed any meaningful threat to students or colleges.

US college campus deaths related to alcohol: 1,800 annually

US college student deaths from COVID-19: Less than 10 (zero in the 2020/2021 school year)

The fact is, there are over 3 million alcohol related deaths globally every year. Many of these occur in the young and healthy, tragically.

Most still acknowledge alcohol prohibition to be a bad idea.

Yet closing schools, colleges, restaurants and businesses for COVID-19 with FAR FEWER deaths is a good idea?

Amazon.com: John Belushi Animal House Poster Chug Jack Daniels: Prints: Posters & Prints

Cancer, heart disease, road collisions, alcohol, drugs, flu, pneumonia. The list is longer than your arm, yet no ‘shelter in place’ for any of that. You couldn’t make this mask shit up if you tried.

This Is What The “Experts” Are Doing To Your Kids At School

Hopefully the LISD and the county “health authority” understand the downsides to masks for kids who are far more likely to die in a car accident than they are of Wuhan Flu:

These same morons will wonder why we have an explosion in respiratory problems in young adults in a few years and say “well, we couldn’t have seen THIS coming!”

Think for yourselves. The “experts” don’t know jack.

Somebody Forward These FACTS To The Mask Nannies…

…like “Doctor” Chane Rascoe, Dr Hay (Health Authority), all the snitches and mask lunatics, Bruce Haywood, Melissa ‘Dum Dum’ Johnson, etc. From a friend of a friend:

“I was trained as a chemist. A large part of my professional career was working in various parts of the filtration industry. I developed a line of mixed esters of cellulose membrane filters. Millipore type filters, that were used to sterilize flu vaccines for Merck Sharp and Dohme as well as other medical products companies. I developed respiratory protection products for Wilson Safety Products used in the mining industry. I worked for Baxter developing medical / IV filters. I have patents on three IV filters I invented. Baxter sold more than 5 million of one of those every year for most of a decade. I know a little bit about filters.

Surgical masks were not designed as filters and were not intended to be used as filters. Surgical masks were designed to be used by surgeons standing face down over an operating table holding a patient with an open wound. The surgeon wearing the mask would be able to talk to others in the room without discharging spittle droplets into the patient’s open wound. Spittle droplets are large and can cause infection.

I witnessed a test of surgical masks. Small plaster particles were generated in a room. They were visible as a white dust in the air. A man was properly fitted with a surgical mask and spent a short time in the room. When he came out the mask was removed. A camera was focused on the man’s face. The entire area that had been covered by the mask was coated by the white dust. The camera showed that his nostrils and his mouth had been penetrated by the white dust. The dust particles were measured and found to be around 40 micrometers in diameter. The particles that penetrated the mask were the same diameter.

Covid-19 virus molecules are about 0.1 micrometers in diameter. That is 400 times smaller than the plaster particles that penetrated the mask.

[Please take note, Dr “I love bandanas” Hay]

Surgical masks will not prevent the wearer from inhaling or exhaling viruses or bacteria. They provide absolutely no protection for either the wearer or anyone nearby. They create a very dangerous false sense of security for everyone. They also force the wearer to rebreath carbon dioxide. Which will over time reduce the wearers blood oxygen level. That can become very dangerous especially for older people.

This farce is being promoted by sleazy politicians who believe that if they can convince people that they are protecting them or creating a safe environment for them by pushing this mask farce those people will re-elect them.“

Find mountains of further evidence HERE at this link.

Stop Wearing Masks Alone in Your Car, State Says - Coal Region Canary

The WHO admitted to the BBC that its June 2020 mask policy update was due not to new evidence but “political lobbying”: “We had been told by various sources WHO committee reviewing the evidence had not backed masks but they recommended them due to political lobbying. This point was put to WHO who did not deny.” (D. Cohen, BBC Medical Correspondent)
Japan, despite its widespread use of face masks, experienced its most recent influenza epidemic with more than 5 million people falling ill just one year ago, in January and February 2019. However, unlike SARS-2, the influenza virus is transmitted by children, too.
Many states that introduced mandatory face masks on public transport and in shops in spring, such as Hawaii, California, Argentina, Spain, France, Japan and Israel, saw a strong increase in infections from July onwards, indicating a low effectiveness of mask policies.
Austrian scientists found that the introduction, retraction and re-introduction of mandatory face masks in Austria had no influence at all on the infection rate.
In the US state of Kansas, the 90 counties without mask mandates had lower coronavirus infection rates than the 15 counties with mask mandates. To hide this fact, the Kansas health department tried to manipulate the official statistics and data presentation.
In children, the risk of Covid-19 disease and transmission is very low – much lower than for influenza – and face masks for children are therefore, in general, not indicated.
During the notorious 1918 influenza pandemic, the use of cloth face masks among the general population was widespread and in some places mandatory, but they made no difference.

I Was Wrong

It takes a big man to admit he was totally wrong. I was wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. I could not have been more wrong.

Back on November 8th of last year, I wrote a piece entitled “RKJ Construction Kicks deGraffenreid In The Nuts One Last Time For Elevator“. I was lamenting how RKJ screwed our City manager one last time at delivery by jacking up the price a teeny bit more ($8,800) on the elevator the City had ALREADY paid a THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLAR premium for. The elevator that was about SEVEN MONTHS LATE and held up the entire $1.5 million dollar City Hall remodeling debacle.

I was wrong: RKJ Construction was NOT done kicking Finley’s ball sack. They have actually kicked it a LOT more over the last year. Apparently this elevator (which City council stupidly agreed to pay $128,400 for when there was a perfectly good $96,605 bid on the table) has had to be serviced FIVE TIMES already!

Mayor Talbert is “disappointed” and “unhappy” that Finley’s nuts have been pummeled like this. But, she says she has asked if FIVE elevator repairs in a year is normal, and “everybody” says it is.

Really?

Of course, she probably DIDN’T complain to RKJ Construction – the ones who raked the City over the coals on this piece of shit elevator.

I lived in the Big City for quite a while. I worked for 10 years in the same skyscraper. The elevators there actually went up and down 110 floors hundreds of times a day, and I don’t recall them breaking down every other month. Those were HIGH USE. Same goes for the high rise I lived in. Maybe broke once a year, at most.

But HERE at City Hall – which has a whopping TWO floors and is probably used only 10 times a day, the thing breaks down constantly! Amazing! RKJ Construction must do quality work.

So now, the City (after a careful discussion of approximately 90 seconds) unanimously agrees to enter into a SEVENTEEN THOUSAND DOLLAR maintenance agreement! Are you kidding me???

Do you know what Mr Lampasshole would be doing if HE was the City manager? Here’s what:

You get on the phone with RKJ Construction and say “Hey buddy! Remember that elevator we paid an EXTRA $30,000 for to “keep it local”? Remember how you screwed the pooch and held us up because it took you an extra SEVEN MONTHS to get that overpriced elevator installed?”

“Yes, well, it’s a huge piece of shit that has broken down every other month. So we’d like you to go ahead and pay the first two years of our new wildly overpriced $17,000, 3-year maintenance contract. It’ll cost you about $5,800 a year. Considering you fleeced us an extra $30k for this thing, I think that’s a fair deal.”

If RKJ Construction are a bunch of assholes and says NO to that request, you inform them politely that “you will NEVER, EVER see another dime of City contract money. Thanks very much”

THEN you make sure The Lampasas Dispatch prints THAT in their newspaper and publicly humiliates RKJ Construction.

I mean, Jesus Christ. Didn’t ANY of you idiots on City council or City Hall think to take this route? Get Rickie Roy on it. He’s one of the few guys in City government who seems like he DOESN’T have his head up his ass.

No. Nobody thought to grow a pair of testicles and play hard ball with RKJ Construction. Instead, they just bend over and waste ANOTHER $17,000 on it. What a bunch of wimps and punching bags.

Oh, and thanks again ‘Greasy’ Chris Harrison, for your brilliant motion as councilman years ago to overpay RKJ Construction by 30% because they are “local”. You complete moron.

5 Easy Elevator Hacks That Will Help Give You An Express Ride

Quick recap:

The City sends out the elevator contract for bids WAY back in November 2016. Austin Elevator Co is the lowest bid at $96,605 but our idiot former City councilman “Greasy” Chris Harrison motions to go with RKJ Construction at $119,532 [page 6] to ‘keep it local’. Motion seconded by Mike White and passes unanimously (includes TJ Monroe, Talbert and Chuck Williamson).
The next time the elevator is mentioned in the minutes, it has somehow morphed to $125,508 [Jan 2018]. I never saw an explanation for this.
The Old City Hall renovation is held up for MONTHS because of the elevator.
Old City Hall project FINALLY done in November/December 2019
RKJ bills City $128,400 for elevator – FAR MORE than originally agreed to.
Elevator breaks constantly over the next 10 months (‘about’ 5 times, according to Finley)
Dummies on City council decide to enter into a $470/month service contract for three years ($17,000) rather than make a simple phone call to RKJ to demand decent treatment.

Scumbag Mayor and Health Officials Hide Low Covid Numbers In Nashville

Gee – this is a SHOCKER! To all you wormy Covid snitches picking up the phone to rat out restaurants and golfers: THESE are the types of scum bags you have all over the country LYING about Covid severity. From today’s news:

Nashville Officials Concealed Low COVID-19 Numbers Coming From Bars And Restaurants: Leaked Emails

Leaked emails between the senior adviser to Nashville’s Mayor and a health department official reveal a disturbing effort to conceal extremely low coronavirus cases emanating from bars and restaurants, while the lion’s share of infections occurred in nursing homes and construction workers, according to WZTV Nashville.

On June 30th, contact tracing was giving a small view of coronavirus clusters. Construction and nursing homes causing problems more than a thousand cases traced to each category, but bars and restaurants reported just 22 cases.

Leslie Waller from the health department asks “This isn’t going to be publicly released, right? Just info for Mayor’s Office?”

“Correct, not for public consumption.” Writes senior advisor Benjamin Eagles. –WZTV

Four weeks later, Tennessean reporter Nate Rau asked the health department: “the figure you gave of “more than 80” does lead to a natural question: If there have been over 20,000 positive cases of COVID-19 in Davidson and only 80 or so are traced to restaurants and bars, doesn’t that mean restaurants and bars aren’t a very big problem?“

To which health department official Brian Todd scrambled for an answer – asking five health department officials: “Please advise how you respond. BT.”

The response – from an official whose name was omitted from the leaked email: “My two cents. We have certainly refused to give counts per bar because those numbers are low per site,” adding “We could still release the total though, and then a response to the over 80 could be “because that number is increasing all the time and we don’t want to say a specific number.””

According to a metro staff attorney asked by city councilmember Steve Glover to verify the authenticity of the emails, “I was able to get verification from the Mayor’s Office and the Department of Health that these emails are real.”

Glover told WZTV: “They are fabricating information. They’ve blown their entire credibility Dennis. It’s gone. I don’t trust a thing they say going forward …nothing.”

Glover says he has been contacted by an endless stream of downtown bartenders, waitresses, and restaurant owners. Why would they not release these numbers?
“We raised taxes 34 percent and put hundreds literally thousands of people out of work that are now worried about losing their homes their apartments etcetera and we did it on bogus data. That should be illegal!” he says.
Again, we weren’t told by the mayor’s office this wasn’t true. We were told to file a freedom of information act request. –WZTV

LISD Makes Correct Choice…For Now

Great decision guys. But there is just one thing that worries me: that little word “DELAY“. Makes me think you tipped your hand and you are planning on doing this anyways at the smallest excuse, but not right now because parents are so enraged at you.

Some other observations:

“After carefully reviewing case counts in our schools and Lampasas County…”

Huh? What is there to ‘review’? According to our esteemed County Health Authority, there are a whopping 14 cases in our county of 22,000 people (99.94% of us are NOT active).

To listen to the mayor tell it, our Health Authority barely knows what’s going on in her own county – so how does the LISD have information that is any more detailed than the “expert”? It appears to me that the only information is “there are 14 cases”. Period.

I have to think if any kid tested positive for Covid, you would all go into a ridiculous panic and overreact greatly. So I have to guess that hasn’t happened yet. So why all the “careful reviewing” nonsense?

If Dr Hay is the one suggesting this “mask for little kids” garbage, I would suggest she read up on current Covid data and mask efficacy. Maybe take a look at Sweden. Or maybe she is too busy doing “contact tracing” for the County at $25/hour to do anything else.

What I DO know is that she is a big fan of masks, according to her statements in the July 3rd Radiogram.

Ah yes…remember the “hospitals are being overwhelmed” line of crap?

She “feels” they will prevent “at least some” cases? That doesn’t inspire much confidence. Hard evidence trumps feelings in my book, and there is nothing worse than the Haywoodian logic that “well, masks can’t hurt”. Masks most certainly CAN hurt and have many downsides. See a list of them HERE.

I have alarming news for you – billions of people have been “making someone sick” since human history started. It’s why we have immune systems.

Furthermore, if Dr Hay is SO sure that cloth masks are a panacea and will prevent deadly viruses from being brought home to grandma, then why has she been silent the last 13 years of her medical career while the influenza virus ran rampant? Why didn’t she shout out on the radio and newspapers last November/December demanding masks in schools when the “flu” was running rampant in our schools? A “flu” that I think was VERY LIKELY ACTUALLY COVID-19 hitting the kids already!

See “My Evidence Wuhan Flu Already Hit Lampasas“

But hey…I’m no “health authority”, I guess. Just a guy with common sense.

Once again, to all the bureaucrats and health authorities out there who use the ‘logic’ that “masks can’t hurt, so we’ll play it safe” – PLEASE read this thread on the MANY ways masks do harm.

P.S. – are any of these ‘experts’ maybe noticing a massive increase of strep throat this season? Can’t wait to see the Mayor and Dr Hay report “Strep throat active and recovered” cases….seeing as how thousands of kids are now breathing through a warm, damp bacteria breeding ground all day long. Disgusting.

Biggest Asshole Covid Snitch Of All Time

Picture this: some old lady is driving down Naruna Road, right past the golf course. I drive past there hundreds of times a year myself.

She looks to her left, and sees a few people standing on the clubhouse porch. Maskless…outside! And they are not the mandated six feet apart – a random number of mandated feet that some idiot pulled out of their anus earlier this year.

Instead of driving on and ignoring this since it doesn’t concern her, she instead CALLS CITY HALL and rats out these poor fellows.

Sounds insane right? Wait. There’s more.

Instead of ignoring this insane Covid snitch jerk and pretending the call never happened, the City actually takes action and comes down hard on the golfers!

What kind of ABSOLUTE PIECE OF SHIT would make the call? What kind of ABSOLUTE PIECE OF SHIT at City Hall would even bother taking action on this?

Minister orders Brits to snitch on neighbours who break 'rule of six' coronavirus restriction

I know a lot of straight-laced people in this town don’t like my language. I hear them say “you’d have a lot more readers if you toned it down a bit”.

Guess what? I don’t care. We are WAY past that. If you are worried about bad words over what is happening in this country, you are not paying attention. George Washington sneaked across the Delaware to slit British throats on Christmas Eve. Sam Adams blew up British ships. You think they gave a SHIT about a little harsh language? There are bigger forces at work here.

Covid-19 exposed the real division of the country and it isn’t democrats, republicans, and a mix of idiots that can’t make up their minds. It is freedom seeking individuals, Marxists who are determined to make every subject a slave of government tyranny, and worthless sheep who follow whoever will herd them in the current direction of politics.

Freedom to live is also freedom to die. What you do with your life is supposed to be your choice. If we are forced to wear masks that don’t even work to attempt to eliminate a .04% chance of death at the maximum, WE ARE NOT FREE TO DO ANYTHING!