There is a strong argument here that only reason we ever had a coronavirus epidemic at all was because governors in New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois & Massachusetts panicked based on “expert” forecasts and SENT COVID PATIENTS BACK INTO NURSING HOMES!
A whole lotta Ds in those pics. D is for democrat…and dummy.
I have profiled Janet Yoder Kraeff-Crozier several times on these pages. She is a loony locust from Ohio (and later Austin) who has been doing her best to implement a costly and useless recycling program here in Lampasas.
THAT was bad enough. Oh how I long for those days.
NOW, naturally, she is in the “WEAR A MASK” camp, like most brain-dead liberals (*cough* Julie Landrum *cough*). Let’s take a look at her other beliefs….because I ALWAYS take scientific Wuhan Flu advice from a loon who thinks autistic kids are clairvoyant and who believes in numerology, astrology, psychics and bullshit crystal energy healing.
Oh, and who spells pivotal as “pivital”. Yes, she checks all the boxes. She is a typical poster child for the boot-licking, mask-loving libtard group.
Maybe because you are painfully gullible and stupid?
THESE are the types of people who are out there yammering about the hospitals being overrun and ICUs “at 90% capacity!”. They are brain dead. Don’t buy into their nonsense!
If you need two masks to feel “safe”, then you can wear both of them.
Also, a lot of pro-mask people like to ask “would you let a surgeon operate on you without a mask?” as if this is somehow a clever ‘proof’ that masks work. The answer is no, I would not let him operate on me without a mask.
Of course, I also don’t walk into HEB with gaping, open surgical wounds either.
What if some lovable cute young photogenic girl got into a car crash last week and died…and it was discovered her tires were dangerously underinflated. What if Governor Dipshit then decreed that every car owner was ordered to get up at 2am to check their tire pressure or face fines of $500? Would you do that too, Bruce? I bet you would – and you’d say “what’s the big deal? It can’t hurt to do this!”
Here’s an idea: how about all you scared rabbits just stay home and OUT of the bars and restaurants that I will still be frequenting MASKLESS. Then we are all happy. You have ZERO right to walk into any business and then bitch that people aren’t wearing masks (*cough* Julie dipshit Landrum *cough*). YOU are the one with a fear problem. Not me.
Here is MY edict and executive order for Bruce the Hippopotamus:
WHEREAS heart disease kills 650,000 people annually and Texas represents roughly 10% of the population of the United States and thus 65,000 deaths annually JUST from heart disease in the Lone Star State…
WHEREAS the Wuhan Flu has killed only 2,500 Texans and is thus TWENTY-SIX TIMES LESS deadly than heart disease….
WHEREAS any slob like Bruce who is 200 pounds overweight has a HIGHLY ELEVATED CHANCE of dying of heart disease, cancer or stroke….
Governor Lampasshole hereby decrees that manatees like Bruce Haywood are ordered to wear a mask that will not allow cheeseburgers, ribs, steak sandwiches and other unhealthy foods to pass his lips. You are hereby ordered to ONLY allow straws to sip smoothies into your pie hole until you have reached a government-mandated “safe weight” of 180 pounds.THIS IS “FOR YOUR OWN GOOD”.
I expect you would comply with this, right Bruce? You boot licking yam bag.
The Bruce Haywood Cheeseburger, Ribs and Krab Kingz Protection Mask
I think the best thing for shit heads like Bruce Haywood and Julie Cain Landrum to do is just get a freaking HAZMAT suit and leave the rest of us out of it. I will BUY you one. Free. On the house. Gratis.
How about it Bruce, ya dummy???? I’m offering to pay for 100% of your hazmat suit, you incredible dipshit. The catch is you HAVE to wear it every single time you step out of your hovel. Surely, it has to be WAY safer than the dirty t-shirt you currently use as your pacifier. As you so often ask: what’s the big deal???? Gotta be safer right?
Enjoy your mask edict, you clown horn. You are a timorous and third-rate man. A weakling for which the struggle with hard facts and data is clearly unendurable.
Mayors Misti Talbert of Lampasas, Keith Harvey of Kempner, and Carlos Garcia of Lometa issues a joint resolution yesterday. According to the Lampasas City website:
“City Mayors of Lampasas County adopt joint resolution encouraging all citizens to wear a face covering over their nose and mouth when in a business, commercial entity or other locations that involve close proximity with others in addition to other hygienic measures to protect themselves, their family, their neighbors, and all members of the community and to further reduce the spread of COVID-19”
Well, except that Keith Harvey is just a fake doctor nut job presiding over a podunk town of 1,100 people. And Carlos Garcia is mayor of 850. And Misti Talbert is mayor because we can’t get a smart person to take the job. And the resolution is about a non-issue that retards are panicking over.
But BESIDES all that, it’s JUST like the Atlantic Charter.
Boy, I’ve never heard someone complain and whine as much as the owner of Wool & Vine. Considering the store is essentially a rich couple’s hobby (who also took a $3,000 handout from the LEDC) which wasn’t even open five months before Wuhan hit, she sure has a lot of nerve complaining about “tough times”.
Such a brave trooper! You owned an eatery/bar for an entire 4.5 months before the Wuhan Flu hit.…and as I recall, you were open about 25 hours a week, if that. It’s really more of a lemonade stand than a real business, if you ask me.
I was originally planning on never setting foot in there anyways. Not because their t-shirts are hideous...but because the owners are rabid bleeding-heart liberals. I make it a point never to put a dime in the pocket of a liberal. It’s the same reason I’ll never pay to see an Alec Baldwin or Sean Penn movie. I love voting with my wallet.
But even all of that wouldn’t push me to slam them publicly. I was just going to quietly watch them fail on their own accord. No….it was the owner’s Wuhan-nanny-state-mask-smugness and her publicly ratting out another restaurant for “Covid violations” that spurred me to do this. Sorry Julie/Karen!
Here is a quick timeline of the entire existence of Wool & Vine:
November 8, 2019: Ribbon cutting ceremony. From the operating hours I saw back then on Google, they were open roughly 22 or 25 hours a week. A part-time gig, if you will. The owners are artsy-fartsy types. The ones who usually suck at math, market research, accounting and so forth. They are the types that say “I love flowers! I’ll open a flower store!” or “I love liver pate! I’ll open a bistro!” without knowing a damn thing about running a biz. Then wonder later why it all fell apart.
Mid-March, 2020: (Four months later). Wuhan Flu hits and they are forced to close. Now mind you, they SUBLET a very small space from My Girls (who also received $2,500 in LEDC funds) so their rent is likely very low, and were only open part-time (i.e. a lemonade stand). I’m not even sure they actually EMPLOY anybody! So they weren’t exactly being crushed by Wuhan like most REAL small businesses. But they gladly hoovered up those free tax dollars!!
June 12, 2020: They were SO damaged by the Wuhan Flu that they decided to open up ANOTHER new place! The Hidden Pearl! Not exactly the actions of a couple who are hurting for money.
The irony is, of course, delicious. Unfortunately, all of us with brains are also being hurt by their ignorance.
But it doesn’t end there. Julie Cain Landrum of Wool & Vine then publicly lambastes another restaurant in town for “not following the rules”. This is a #Karen move of biblical proportions and I cannot let that pass.
Such a hero! Such a martyr! Such a SNITCH!!!
Hilariously, her friend is ACTUALLY NAMED KAREN! My god.
Here is a chick/couple who has owned a ‘business’ for all of six months AND already got bailed out by the taxpayers and she is whining about her situation. Here’s an idea! Why don’t you and Andrew just pull up stakes and move to Portland! Or maybe San Francisco! It is a paradise. You can participate in BLM marches every day and cater to doofuses like your husband all night long. It’ll be perfect!
As for you blaming your woes on the fact you think you can’t compete with “Covid cheaters” and publicly pissing and moaning, perhaps it’s something else. Maybe your business idea sucks. Maybe your location sucks. Maybe a lot of people are turned off by your radical leanings. Maybe your food is crap. Who knows.
But I WILL let you in on a little secret, so you can stop feeling so put upon:
Owning ANY small business sucks. You deal with employees who no-call/no-show….with suppliers who screw up orders…with customers who are pains in the ass but you have to smile and pretend they are right. Even in NORMAL times, it is a thankless job. The restaurant/bar/eatery industry is even WORSE. That is why 60% fail in their first year and 80% by the fifth year. Like all my restaurant-owner buddies say: owning a restaurant is like owning an elephant – it costs a fortune and sooner or later it shits on your head.
The small business owner has to watch giant corporations get bailed out while he gets nothing. Everyone gets paid before him: his employees, his landlord, the insurance company, the utility company, his suppliers, the parasites in local government, the parasites in the federal government, and THEN after everyone else has gotten their chunk….THEN the small business owner can pay himself. And let me tell you this: those first few YEARS when you divide your take-home pay by the hours you worked (i.e. – all the time) you find you would have been better off working at McDonald’s for minimum wage.
So please, do us all a favor. Take your $3,000 in free tax dollars and just shut your yap.…and stop being a Covid snitch.
“These people don’t see that if you encourage totalitarian methods, the time may come when they will be used against you instead of for you.” – George Orwell
Saturday, June 27th Radiogram page 1: An announcement on the Spring Ho website said the Spring Ho Committee, along with Lampasas County Local Health Authority Dr. Georgia Hay, County Judge Randy Hoyer and Lampasas Mayor Misti Talbert, “unanimously agreed that in the interest of the health and safety of our community” the 2020 Spring Ho festival is canceled.
Saturday, June 27th Radiogrampage 4: “On Friday the state reported 12,398 available staffed beds which includes 1,284 staffed ICU beds. Dr Hay, the Lampasas County Health Authority, said that WE REALLY DON’T HAVE MANY HOSPITALIZATIONS…”
Wow. NOT MANY HOSPITALIZATIONS. Sounds super serious!
Not.
Like I’ve said all along: testing goes WAY up…number of positives goes up far less…and DEATHS are still plummeting.
Houston Methodist CEO Dr. Marc Boom told CNBC on Monday that the demographics of the outbreak have “flipped” and that the mostly-younger people arriving in the state’s hospitals often don’t require ICU beds.
“Even though we have about 200 more patients in house, about double, we only have about three or four more people in the ICU, so that’s encouraging.”
Boom reiterated his comments from last week that the number of hospitalizations are “being misinterpreted, and, quite frankly, we’re concerned that there is a level of alarm in the community that is unwarranted right now.”
“We do have the capacity to care for many more patients, and have lots of fluidity and ability to manage,” Boom said.
He pointed out that his hospital one year ago was at 95% ICU capacity, similar to the numbers the hospital is seeing today.
“It is completely normal for us to have ICU capacities that run in the 80s and 90s,” he said.
I used to think so. Now I’m not so sure. Not because Bruce suddenly displayed any intelligence…far from it. But because so many other idiots have come out of the woodwork lately panicking over Wuhan Flu to challenge Bruce. It is a tough call, though. Bruce is pretty damn stupid:
Like most moron liberals (I repeat myself), Bruce LOVES to virtue signal AND he is easily fooled into panicking over bullshit data (global warming, Wuhan Flu, rampant white-on-black crime, etc) because he has a low IQ and completely sucks at mathematics. He swallows all bullshit hook, line and sinker because he is incapable of critical thought and understanding simple statistics.
Like other dummy liberals, Bruce is also very gullible. If we woke up tomorrow and the Governor told us all to stick a dildo where the sun don’t shine to fight the common cold, Bruce would be first in line to obey unquestioningly. Then chide the rest of the town for daring to disobey and asking “what’s the big deal? It certainly can’t hurt!”
More pesky numbers. Can you understand them Bruce? I doubt it.
Bruce and other liberals are absolutely FREAKING OUT right now because there are like 11 people with the sniffles in Lampasas County (pop. 23,000) and there are around 96 people with the sniffles in Burnet County (pop. 50,000).
Another local moron chimes in….
Not deaths. Not ICU patients. Just positive tests.…while DEATH rate continues to plummet. They are ready to destroy the economy all over again over nothing. They love to ask the rhetorical question “what is the big deal about shutting down and playing it safe?”. If they had their way, we would STILL be shut down from the initial mid-March date!
Idiot liberals can afford to take this position because most of them are useless welfare sponges who didn’t work BEFORE the Wuhan Flu hit (like Bruce) OR they work a government Nerf-job and will get a paycheck no matter what. So it inconveniences them not one bit to not work now.
Last year you weren’t out campaigning for the Governor to shut down every fast food jointbecause hundreds of thousands of people died of heart disease, were you? No. You weren’t. THAT would actually hit YOU where it hurts, you dumb manatee.
Karen Spivey-Cummings is a strong contender to take Bruce’s dunce cap. Ironically, she REALLY IS a Karen who sits on FB literally ALL DAY posting apocalyptic bullshit Covid stats from her favorite libtard rags like Huffpost and NPR (you know, those respected scientific journals).
Hospitals overrun?? Hardly. Here is what actually happens to “overrun the hospitals” (not that a simple, commonsense FACT will sway these imbeciles – they don’t care about stats or facts…just FEELINGS):
Remember when you panicky dunces SHUT DOWN the hospitals to “non-essential” procedures in April and May? Yeah, well after two months of that nonsense, there is a LOT of built up demand as people finally get in to be seen for bad backs, cancer screenings, heart stress tests, kidney stones, etc. Let’s say John Smith goes in for a kidney stone procedure. Guess what? They test him for Wuhan Flu AUTOMATICALLY even though he feels perfectly fine.
Let’s say the test comes back positive (I’ll ignore for a moment the shit load of FALSE POSITIVES out there). Even though he feels fine and is there for KIDNEY STONES, he is now marked down as “overrunning the hospital” with Covid.
See how that works, Bruce? You absolute dunce! Bruce is just SALIVATING at the thought of that moron Abbott instituting MANDATORY face masks. I can tell you this: a LOT of us will be going to jail if that ever happens. Then we’ll be suing the state for abuse of power and violation of civil rights under the Constitution – and the Texas Supreme Court will be on our side. Forcing everyone to wear a mask because they MIGHT get sick is no better than throwing everyone in jail because they MIGHT commit a crime.
I’m sorry, but a pile of unfounded and demonstrably false claims made by idiots like Bruce Haywood, Karen Spivey-Cummings, Freddy Oversteegen, Janet Yoder Kraeff-Crozier and Julie Cain Landrum is NOT grounds for violating my rights and destroying my livelihood.
Need more proof?? Here are more numbers that are probably confusing to Bruce and other libtards but very clear to those of us with a normal IQ. I would advise Dr Georgia Hay and our Mayor Talbert to look at these CLOSELY and see the REALITY:
The above chart represents ALL CAUSE deaths for selected weeks 40-week 17. Overall deaths are only 5,569 higher (.3%) than 2017-2018!!
They are 2% higher than a flu year year like 2016-2017 that NO ONE EVEN NOTICED! This does NOT make Wuhan Flu look like some lethal plague. It makes it look like a baddish (but NOT crisis-level) flu.
For those of you who live under a rock, the Lampasas Economic Development Corp (LEDC) has been wasting millions on a “business park” for YEARS now, with nothing to show for it. They have owned the 165-acre weed patch for about 17 years and plowed about $1 million dollars just in “improvements” into it back in 2015 – promising that “high-paying jobs” would soon follow. That did not happen. The weed patch has sat there as a multi-million-dollar disaster for another five years since then.
Who would be stupid enough to hand Mandy and the LEDC ANOTHER $1.9 million for this failed project? A project that City council member Mike White HIMSELF called “a goat pasture” and a “poor return on investment” which has been going on for DECADES[5/26/20 Council meeting at the 10:08 and 19:30 minute mark].
Why, the Federal Government would be stupid enough, of course! According to Mandy Walsh at the 6/22/20 City council meeting, they will be applying for grants [free money] from programs established FOR CORONAVIRUS RELIEF.
According to Mandy Walsh herself at the last meeting [go to 6:34 mark]
“We have discussed the EDA (Economic Development Administration) CARES ACT…with our grant writers at length for community management services. What that is, is Congress appropriated $1.5 billion to strengthen and assist communities recovering from the coronavirus pandemic. So the EDA is accepting applications for grants that support a wide variety of projects…um, including, ah, infrastructure…and economic development projects, so that’s what we’re going to be applying for, is the disaster funding through the EDA”
Yeah Mandy….the ‘business park’ is a disaster, all right. But it is a disaster of YOUR making, NOT because of the coronavirus.
So, Mandy and the LEDC are going to try and scam the feds out of a huge pile of money EVEN THOUGH THIS BUSINESS PARK FIASCO HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CORONAVIRUS and has been a disaster for “DECADES”, by the admission of Mike White himself [5/26 council meeting].
I’m sorry, but no, your finances aren’t a train wreck because of Covid. They have been a train wreck for decades because of wasteful and idiotic spending by liberals. Chicago and New York made their beds by electing socialists and morons who ran their budgets into the ground….they should lay in those beds WITHOUT a bailout from the Feds – i.e., the rest of us.
Same goes for Mandy Walsh, the LEDC and our own City council…many of whom I would assume identify as “Republican” or “conservative”. YOU made this mess. YOU kept throwing good money after bad. YOU made this bed and now YOU should lie in it….not some poor tax paying sap who lives in Georgia or Arizona.
I can tell you this: if it’s the last thing I do, I am going to try and stop this theft of federal money you are using to cover up LEDC and City council incompetence. Get ready for a flood of Open Records Requests from me. Who is your grant writer? What percentage of the dough are they getting? Who is your “viable tenant” for the ‘business park’ that you are pinning your hopes on and bullshitting the Feds with on your grant application? I sure hope it isn’t Mike Cour and his Eco-Strong scam, because I already visited his OTHER company (Equicare at 15500 S-US 183) and took photos of the absolute JOKE ‘Eco-Strong” is. It is a weed patch with some crappy rubber mats piled up that have been there for quite a while, by the looks of it.
[Not to mention, Mike Cour and Equicare currently sit on approximately 200 acres ALREADY. He has ZERO need for the business park unless he himself is trying to scam some free stuff from the taxpaying chumps of Lampasas. Don’t worry…I’m all over him like a cheap suit, too]
I’ll be there at every turn calling you all out as welfare queens and parasites, which you most certainly are. This is brazen theft and, in my opinion, fraud. The money you are trying to scam out of Uncle Sugar has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with coronavirus and EVERYTHING to do with rampant incompetence and fiscal mismanagement on the part of the LEDC, City council and Mandy Walsh herself.