Motorola Taking Big Bite Of Taxpayer Ass. Again.

This week, City council unanimously approved the expenditure of $409,422 for a new radio system for the police department. Seems like an insane amount of money to me. It’s ACTUALLY a lot more. The REAL total cost is $663,371. The difference in price is covered by a grant from Central Texas Council of Governments.

It seemed like I had seen this movie before, so I searched the Dispatch archives.

Sure enough, Motorola was in the news back in October and November of 2018 but this time with the Sheriff’s department. At issue there was a $500,000 Motorola radio system and the county was waiting to hear if they would get a grant for part of that.

Seems weird that we need TWO separate half-million-dollar systems to cover essentially the same area. If the sheriff system covers the entire county, shouldn’t that system also, by definition, cover the City as well? We can’t do a piggy-back thing?

Motorola really cleans up around here! I wonder if ANY of this stuff is ever put out for bid.

Turns out, Motorola has a near-monopoly on on fire, police and EMS radio! You know what monopolies mean: ridiculously high prices and shitty service.

But there ARE competitors – like Harris Corp. In fact, when Sedgwick County (Kansas) went with a competitor, it SAVED MILLIONS. Perhaps Lampasas should look into competitors now and then? Instead of the usual 7-0 unanimous votes to pay whatever the Motorola piper demands?

Did City council even LOOK INTO Harris Corp? Or is this a replay of the no-bid Azbell A/V system ripoff and the RKJ Construction elevator ripoff and the $180,000 no-bid bathroom ripoff?

[Read about Motorola’s scumbaggery and shenanigans HERE]

It might even behoove City council to wait a year or two and see if the current move towards two-way radio cell phones destroys Motorola’s near-monopoly on police radios. It’s conceivable that a similar system could be had for $200k in a few years. Perhaps even less!

Here are some other City expenditures with Motorola:

July 2012: City council approves the $54,479 purchase of a Motorola MIP 5000 console and 13 portable radios with chargers, to be used by police patrol officers.

November 2015: Approved the purchase of a replacement MIP 5000 radio console for police department dispatching. The cost through Motorola Solutions is $26,606.

Gee – they spend $54,479 on a brand new console in 2012 and then need another one in 2015? They spilling coffee on these things?

April 2019: The council voted 7-0 for an agreement that will allow the city to use radio communication equipment installed on a tower used by several nearby entities. In March 2017, Lampasas gave Burnet County about
an acre for a radio communication tower at the former city landfill on Old
Georgetown Road. Because of the land donation, the Western Regional Radio System — comprised of Burnet, Blanco and Llano counties, as well as the city of Marble Falls — is allowing Lampasas to use the tower at no cost. That provides significant savings, the assistant city manager said, as the usual charge is $15-$18 per month per radio.

Use of the Western Regional Radio System equipment, Cox said, will give Lampasas’ public safety departments better radio coverage inside buildings and will improve communications with nearby agencies.

Ooohhh…better radio coverage! This was all of 18 months ago. What happened to THAT deal that Gary Cox (RIP!) negotiated for the City?

Weird how the price of a 70″ TV has dropped from like $10,000 to $500 over the last decade and every other electronic gizmo/computer/camera plummets in price over time. But when it comes to GOVERNMENT prices for radio (which has been around OVER A CENTURY!), the price is outrageous.

Probably just a coincidence that all these electronics places (*cough* Azbell Electronics*cough*) seem to jam it up the government’s butt with higher and higher prices while prices plummet for the rest of us.

Yeah, that’s it. A coincidence.

This Is Nauseating

These are kids in the prime of their life. Cheerleaders for an awesome football team in a small town. These are the days you look back on fondly – and ignorant morons are forcing them into masks like some ass-backwards, third-world shit hole run by the Ayatolla Khomeini. What’s next? Full burkas?

One of two things is going to happen in 20 years:

1. These kids are going to look at these photos and say “holy shit! I can’t believe how stupid everyone was back then, overreacting like that” – and laugh at it the way our parents laughed at photos of them in bell bottoms.

OR

2. They are STILL going to be wearing masks as brainwashed zombies while THEIR kids are in full spacesuits….STILL awaiting that “huge surge in deaths” that we’ve been “waiting two weeks for” since April 2020.

I’ll be 70 years old and considered that “crazy old guy who thinks he doesn’t need a spacesuit to survive” out on the edges of town. Or I’ll be dead by the hand of Big Gov for daring not to go along.

I hope the morons making these kids hide their unclean mouths are also taking away the car keys of every single kidbecause they are 17 TIMES MORE LIKELY to die of other causes.

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P.S. I’m shocked that high school kids today are such obedient drones. When I was in high school, it was all about rebellion. Kids ditched school, smoked cigarettes and got their ears pierced or their hair dyed. No way we would have put up with this absolute nonsense. My acne was bad enough WITHOUT a filthy diaper rubbing my face all day.

I guess that’s what you get with a generation of kids who grew up brainwashed by social media, Facebook and other propaganda outlets.

Explainer: Why do Muslim women wear a burka, niqab or hijab? - ABC News  (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Iranian women – before and after the revolution

Another Covid Rat Crawls Out And Squeaks

Julie Cain Landrum has a fellow Covid Rat to nibble cheese with now. I give you Christopher McDaniel. Instead of having a pair of balls between his legs and saying something to this poor bastard about ‘jeopardizing the health of his customers’ (LOL!), he chooses to blast it all over LCBN like a pussy instead:

Hey Chris? Why don’t you and Landrum and all the other scared rabbits just go on Amazon and purchase a full Tyvek suit so you never have to worry about any of this bullshit and leave the rest of us alone? I’m beeing 100% serious here. Go buy a spacesuit, asswipe. What is stopping you? Are you afraid you’ll look stupid? Well, you’ve done that to yourself already with this post.

Clearly you are too moronic to read the facts and learn that this “deadly plague” is no worse than the flu for those under 70. If you are OVER that age and obese, then you are at higher risk: so be a big boy and take measures for yourself by putting a spacesuit on. Don’t cry like a bitch that everyone else needs to wear a face diaper.

That advice also goes for scared rabbits who ride motorcycles, like Lee Morey – who is cut from the Melissa Johnson mold and wants to signal his virtue to us all and let us know how much he cares about everyone else:

Lee is super, duper worried about his health…that’s why he rides motorcycles! The most dangerous form of transportation. You DO wear a helmet, right Lee?

So Lee – who rides motorcycles and appears 50 pounds overweight – is NOW worried about his health! But he doesn’t want to inconvenience HIMSELF by driving a car or losing 50 pounds of blubber! No, no, no – that would be taking responsibility and doing some real work. He’d rather bitch at YOU for not wearing a mask. A mask that is completely ineffective against aerosolized viruses. Not to mention the virus is no more dangerous than the flu.

Pardon my French, but you are a hypocritical piece of shit, Lee. You remind me of the annoying Karens who spit 4 kids out of their loins, drive an SUV and then bitch at me about plastic straws because “she cares about the environment”. You are the EXACT same type of “bitch with a capital C.”

Much like Bruce Haywood, Lee is almost GIDDY at the prospect of a national mask mandate. It gives him an erection:

LOL! National mask mandates are funny! Having a bunch of power-hungry lunatics in charge and forcing you to wear a useless face diaper to control you is a big fat belly laugh, eh Lee?

You know what makes ME laugh? The thought of you splattered all over the road after hitting an oil slick on wet pavement. Really makes me giggle.

Council Meeting 11/9/20

I never joined Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, SnapChat or any of the others as I didn’t want to support the libtards running them. Hell, I swore off Apple products in 2003 because they stuck Al Gore on their board of directors. Plus they suck and their phones are for girls.

But NOW we have a competitor to Twitter called Parler. I created an account today and will be posting ‘parlays’ (?) when the mood strikes. Tonight is opening night with the City council meeting.

www.parler.com

@OriginalLampasshole

See you there.

BAHAHAHAHAHA. Good One!

And just like that – the rioting and looting has ceased overnight. Now, the half of the country that pummeled America like a battered wife, calling them racist pigs, nazis and deplorables, is telling her to put on sunglasses, hide her black eye, be a good girl, and “come together as one.”

Her answer?

“Go fuck yourself.”

“She’s Just SO Smart!”

I doesn’t matter how big of a moron you are, if you are a “female of color” the news media and the average libtard like Stephanie Fitzarris or Bruce Haywood will gush over how smart and articulate and beautiful you are. Like they did with Michelle Obama.

Kamala Harris likely has an IQ of around 91 and slept her way to the top, but we’ll be hearing for the next 4 years what an absolute GENIUS she is. Even if she is completely clueless about American history:

Didn’t she break a glass ceiling at Willie Brown’s place with her high heels? Oh wait…that was a MIRRORED ceiling.

Pretty sure McCain picked a female VP 12 years ago. Mondale did it long before that.

What a MAROON!

City Council Actually Going To Throw Money At Loony Failed Life Coach’s “Community Garden” Idea!!

Sometimes I think The Goldfish do dumb things like this just to see if I’ll have an aneurysm and die. I feel like they can’t POSSIBLY be this stupid. Then again, soon-to-be-former Goldfish Chuck Williamson once complained about the City giving away too much free stuff but then went ahead and gave away a bunch of free stuff to TWO local developers. About $250,000 worth of stuff, to be exact. So we are not exactly dealing with rocket scientists here.

Anyways, take a moment to refresh your memory about local locust and failed ‘life coach’ Janet Yoder Kraeff-Crozier (Thunberg) and her ridiculous “community garden” idea. I’ll wait here while you go re-read the post and get up to speed:

Local Loony “Life Coach” Now An Expert Gardener

Well, apparently City council thinks this is a great idea and is prepared to throw money at it. According to the packets for the 11/9/20 City council meeting tomorrow [page 9, Section 4]:

The City shall provide, install and maintain, at City expense, Security Lighting for the Garden, in the locations shown on Exhibit A” [note – I could not find ANYTHING labeled ‘Exhibit A’ in the packets]

Furthermore:

“The City shall hire, at City expense, a qualified electrical contractor to connect the Security Lighting installed by the City to the City power supply”

Can’t wait to see what THAT costs. Also, don’t forget that the entire agreement between the City and the Garden needed to be drawn up by the City’s attorney Jo-Christy Brown…and she doesn’t work for free! In October ALONE, Jo-Christy Brown billed the City $15,907.50 for “general matters” (pages 40 and 45). I wonder how much of that was wasted on this idiotic gardening contract. It boggles the mind.

But I have a few obvious questions:

Why in the hell do they need security lighting?? Are you going to be gardening at midnight or are you worried someone is going to jump the fence and steal your radishes? I’ve got news for you: deer, raccoons, squirrels, possums, mice and rats will be doing FAR more damage to you than any mischievous meth head.

You’d think the City might be a little more concerned about the rash of recent vandalism at all the (very expensive!) public restrooms than a sad plot of dirt belonging to Janet Yoder Thunberg..

Why are you paying an outside contractor to hook up a simple security light? You’re telling me that with all the electricians on the City payroll, nobody knows how to do that? Hell, I’ll bet you $100 right now that Rickie Roy could get that job done in 45 minutes with his eyes closed and then yell “Go Badgers” just for good measure.

Oh…and “pest control” will also be the City’s problem, according to the agreement. So when these hippies build their compost pile (and fail to maintain it properly) and attract raccoons, possums and rats from all over the area, then it is the CITY’S problem. LOL.

God, I cannot WAIT to watch this whole thing get halfway built and then implode. Just to warn you nitwits, I’ll be down there a LOT next spring leaning on the fence and watching this whole disaster take place. I’ll also comb through your non-profit “Community Garden” tax fillings with a fine-toothed comb so I can do a cost-benefit analysis of this stupidity. I am stunned that ANYBODY would give this idiot a penny for this. She has absolutely not idea what she is doing – that much is clear to me.

Best case scenario: Janet and the City spend about $15,000 between them setting this thing up, and produce about 20 pounds of veggies before it all gets overrun with weeds and nobody bothers with it anymore. That works out to about $750/lb for veggies you can get at HEB for about $1.50/lb. Compared to the ROI on the ‘business park’ project, that is an incredible deal!

Mark my words. I’ve been involved with helping to build a “community garden” before and it was a total disaster. This will be too.

Libtards Have Stood In The Way Of Election Reform for Decades. Here’s How To Fix It.

Unsurprisingly, libtards are vehemently against any type of transparent and fair standard national system for elections. I wonder why that is:

Potato Head doesn’t trust it! That’s rich. Sorry, but these are FEDERAL elections that affect all of us – so a nationwide standard and OPEN SOURCE CODE for counting software is a must…as is PHOTO ID and PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP.

[Ironically, Potato Head’s mental health evaluations (no doubt conducted by quacks of her choosing) would have screened out Dementia Joe years ago. But I digress]

Because it benefits them, of course! Every time a common-sense standard is brought up, libtards scream “disenfranchisement! Voter suppression!”, which is of course, nonsense and easily debunked (I’ll do that in a moment).

The fat lib-slob pictured above should have never been able to pull that scam off.

“We the people” trusting political parties to administer their own elections and count their own votes is like shepherds trusting wolves to perform the lamb census. This is painfully obvious when you stop and think about it. Yet decade after decade, we do nothing. Why?

I was once speaking to a hospital CEO about all the regulations they had and how they made no sense. He said something profound that stuck with me: “you have to understand, it’s not like this because people are idiots. It’s like this because someone wants it this way.” [see: Miss Piggy Fitzharris above]

This is true of the US electoral process as well. We are the richest, most technologically advanced country in the history of the humanity. Does literally ANYONE believe that if we put our minds to it, we could not create an accurate, verified, real time voting system?

Of course we could. But even any baby step in this direction is met with avalanches of resistance and outlandish accusations [see: Miss Piggy, above]. It’s very obvious that the vested interests do not want to see the system change. And why would they? They control the current system.

The bigger and more powerful government becomes, the more corrupt it becomes. Coercive power draws corruption like strawberry jam draws ants.

Gato’s Law: “as soon as you allow politicians to determine what is bought and sold, the first thing bought and sold will be politicians”.

Election fraud has been with us for ages, almost certainly from the very beginning. The question has never even been “if” we have it, but “how much?” and “did it flip the results?”

Many seem to argue that it does not affect outcomes. I find this line of reasoning ridiculous.

Of course election fraud affects outcomes. Why would anyone go to the trouble and the risk if it didn’t? You can go to jail, get barred from politics or have an election nullified if you get caught. So why would anyone do it, over and over, if it did not affect outcomes? [see: fat lib-slob above. The second one]

These are not people shoplifting for the thrill of it. These are well run, experienced political machines that know exactly what they are doing and have institutional knowledge about how to pull and to keep the levers of power.

It is time for this to end. If we’re going to have elections, then we need to have real ones and the technology to do it is readily available. This starts with real voter ID.

[Potato Head Fitzharris and her ilk, take note of the following:]

Voter ID is a fake controversy. It does not “suppress voting.” Puerto Rico has incredibly strict voter ID. You have to get a special photo ID to vote from a voter registration office. It’s a laminated, hologrammed ID. It takes 2 forms of ID and proof of residence to get.

You go down to the office, show them your ID and your social security card/passport and your proof of residence. People from 3 different parties all handle part of your application and keep watchful eyes on one another.

You need this card to vote, you can only use it in one place, and they check it against a picture of the card and, thus, your face. You sign on the line next to it then get sprayed with UV ink to prevent multiple voting (they scan you when you come in).

THIS is what a serious system looks like.

and yet Puerto Rico has some of the highest voter turnout in the US despite being one of the poorest places. Voting is not suppressed. This is a baseless claim made by morons [see: Potato Head Fitzharris] with no evidence or even plausibility. Those making it are just trying to keep access to fraud and fiddling.

But even this is not good enough. We need a whole system to make voting work and count properly and it’s really not that hard to design in the age of public key cryptography. Voter ID needs to come with a private key. You can store it on the card and create real verification.

Then, we need a system to administer the election. But who can we trust to design it and run it?

NOBODY.

Luckily, that’s exactly what we can use. This whole system needs to be open source and auditable by anyone…UNLIKE the current bullshit “black boxes” our politicians like. Do you understand that, Potato Head “I don’t trust it” Fitzharris??? That is the LITERAL definition of a system you can trust. Open source and auditable! We can do that too:

We need an open contest to design this open source system. All code to be published, audited, and compared. This is how all good encryption schemes work. You’d never trust closed source encryption.

Put a nice big $1 million dollar bounty on the win to bring the best of the best to the contest.

Then you keep a standing bug bounty where anyone who can break it or tamper with it gets paid a pile of dough. Make it safe by paying handsomely for people to constantly check it for flaws.

Look how well things like Apache web server work. This is a tried and true plan.

It’s a plan EVERYONE can trust – even Potato Head – because it’s code everyone can see and a system designed by top security people to withstand scrutiny and verification.

We need this. We could easily have it in 4 years, possibly 2. Once you see it, it seems obvious, no?

This current goat rodeo is going to become the norm if we do not do something. This sort of system is real, verifiable voting outside the control of the vested interests.

So, I challenge team donkey and team elephant to agree to this and sign on. Make it happen. Michelle Obama is yapping about “healing the nation” after this election clusterfuck? Implementing a fair and TRANSPARENT national standard would be a huge step towards that.

If they won’t implement such a system, I WANT TO HEAR WHY!

Giving lip service to free and fair elections then resisting the development of a system to ensure them and take the corruption out will be tough to defend.

We the people need to demand this or we the sheep are gonna get fleeced. Again.