Even as they are trying to unload some of the goat pasture, they wind up spending piles of money and spinning wheels. Hilarious! I expect nothing less with Misti Talbert running the show.
Summary:
A few months ago, the LEDC wanted about 80 acres of the goat pasture appraised for possible sale. They retained Herbst Real Estate (who did the ORIGINAL appraisals way back in 2005 time frame).
A few years ago (August 2022), they hired a DIFFERENT company to appraise the goat pasture and were given a number that, in my opinion, was completely insane and nowhere close to reality: about $130,000 per acre. I did some digging on this “new company” and found some unsavory things about them:
NOW, fast forward to today, and the LEDC is miffed at the most recent Herbst appraisal, saying it is too low. Naturally, there is a minor clusterfuck involved.
From the LEDC minutes:
“Board member Finney believes the adjustment grid is significantly off. He does not agree with the appraisal amount. He found a few mistakes; therefore, he feels the appraisal is lacking validity….the board feels that the appraisal is too low. The appraisal document stated that the appraiser was asked to not use commercial properties as comps. City manager Erin Corbell stated that was not true. He was told to use the highest and best comps.The board and City manager discussed having it re-appraised by a non-local, non-biased appraiser.”
Non-biased? Why would you think Herbst is biased? Wouldn’t a local place be “biased” the other way? And if there is a disagreement about what the “appraisal document” actually said, why don’t you just whip it out and look?
I’ll request a copy of this appraisal doc, but it’ll take 10 business days, like everything else they drag their feet on. In fact, I’m STILL waiting for the “conflict of interest document” that should have been produced when we found out that City manager Corbell is currently dating “Greasy” Chris Harrison, the guy with many, many City contracts under his belt.
Ya’ll didn’t forget to round me up that doc, did you???
She certainly hasn’t wasted any time at all trying to grab even MORE City tax dollars for her pet project over there. You’d think after blowing around $70,000 in donations,grants, City tax dollars, donated materials and hundreds of free volunteered manhours in the last few years, she’d be out of stupid ideas.
But you’d be wrong.
Her new bonehead idea? Well, she’s not asking for much. Just “a parking lot or road to the Community Garden/Pavilion area to assist with maintenance and delivery of supplies. (page 2)
“Maintenance”? What maintenance? Pulling weeds?
Crazier Crozier is a far-left loon from Ohio, which means she will NEVER stop dreaming up retarded ways to blow money that isn’t hers.
I can just see her sitting through 95% of the CIP meeting with her eyes glazed over while people talk about important stuff like the $3.5 million we need to spend of wastewater treatment and then snapping out of her stupor at the end to ask for more free shit for the “Community Garden” – of which she is founder and president and Chief Money Incinerator.
No conflict of interest THERE!
Here is an idea, moron: instead of begging the City to waste tens of thousands of dollars to build a parking lot and/or road so you can unload a few bags of mulch twice a year, why don’t you open your little purse up, spend $300 on a solid dolly, and use THAT to wheel your “supplies” from the pool parking lot that is ALREADY there – using the sidewalks you ALREADY had the City buildfor you last year?? Jesus Christ, lady.
Just one more thing she “never asked the City for” right? That is, if you ignore the sidewalk construction they paid for, the irrigation they installed for you for “free,” the $12,700 rain catch tanks you tried to get city council to pay for repeatedly, the thousands of gallons of “free” water you get every year and now this: an entire parking lot or road so you can “unload supplies.”
As the dust settles on the bloodiest massacre on RX Ranch since great-grandpa Clampett-Tucker was shooting and eating squirrels in the 1850s, we get treated to another hilarious aside by the fake rancher himself…
His new plan, as I understand it, is to just kind of wander around and shoot coyotes when he sees them.
Oh my! I bet the goats feel safer already. The kid who wants to ban “assault weapons” and who doesn’t have enough time to feed a guard dog thinks he is going to spend hours and hours driving around every evening HOPING to spot a coyote. Then he’s hoping to have the skill to hit it from a distance (with a bolt-action or shotgun, I assume, since he wants to ban semi-auto rifles), despite probably not having a gun in his hands for a decade.
Sounds like a plan!
A terrible, retarded plan with many holes in it. But a plan nonetheless.
Prediction: I see more dead livestock in his near future.
[There is so much to unpack after the recent coyote attacks, that I will likely have to break it into multiple posts. This one is going to deal with his lies about his occupation.]
Perhaps he’s just tired of trying to remember his past lies.
Perhaps (most likely) he’s just REALLY a dumb guy and thinks nobody will notice.
Whatever the reason, the recent RX Ranch Coyote Goat Massacre aftermath saw our local fake rancher make multiple slip-ups as he talked in his comment section about why he has overseen an inordinate number of goat deaths in the last year. By my count, he’s overseen at least 17 deaths – including those two poor dwarf goats.
The resultant burst of babbling from Comrade Clayton was nothing short of ridiculous.
But the most damning of all, was THIS admission. Multiple people asked why he didn’t just get some fucking guard dogs already, since his donkeys are completely worthless. His answer? Pure gold:
Logistics? LOL. It ain’t complicated – you find a dog, go buy it and drive it home. I know Comrade Clayton has owned dogs before because he blabbered about his dog Hershey all the time in 2020 when he got crushed running for state senate. So what’s the problem? More and more people repeated the guard dog suggestion, so he waffled again!
Huge, complicated logistical issues! Intractable problems! Like building a suspension bridge out of wet noodles! How can he be expected to do it? Oh, but the truth finally came out:
“Due to my campaign work” he’s never around?!? Kind of like I’ve been saying for YEARS now? A fake hobby ranch where you take a few pictures of goats in between Tweeting Bernie Sanders nonsense and pointlessly traveling to 12-person gatherings of old people to yell about power to the people? LOL.
First of all, right there he admits this whole “ranch” thing is window dressing bullshit. It is NOT his job or a source of any real income. It is an afterthought. A joke. Something to impress the urban rubes. Just playtime on grandpa’s property with some pets. If you can’t be bothered to be around enough to save your animals, you are not a rancher. You are a fraud.
Secondly: WHAT CAMPAIGN?? Whoops, Comrade. It’s not even primary season! You have not filed to run for anything at all – you can’t even physically file yet, even if you wanted to. So what “campaign” are you speaking of, you clown?? Did you slip up and admit this is all a prelude to a run for Ag Commissioner? Maybe you’re planning to run against David Spiller, who you also recently took a shit on?
Either way: oops.
But then he changes his story AGAIN the very next day! Now he’s telling people THIS whopper:
“Work” as I understand it (and did myself for many years) involves trading your time and effort for monetary compensation. Puttering around the state and screaming “power to the people” to 14 sad, old farts at a happy hour is certainly not a “job,” you yam bag.
Ouch. Lies, lies and more lies. Of course, that’s what compulsive liars do. None of these lies will look very good if/when you DO decide to run for something soon. I’ll make sure of that, you scumbag.
Oh yeah – incedentally, this information also completely neutralizes Comrade Clayton’s bellyaching and destroys his major excuse for failing at ranching, which is “Big Ag.” Big Ag is trying to crush the little guy! Big Ag has a monopoly on everything! Big Ag is ruining family farms!
It’s not Big Ag holding you back. It’s your own laziness and lack of effort. If you aren’t even willing to do the minimal work required to keep your animals safe (feed a guard dog) because you are off gallivanting around pretending to be a dime-store Bernie Sanders for zero compensation, then you only have yourself to blame – not some boogeyman named “Big Ag,” you fuckwit.
Bill Clinton won election in 1992 on a promise to “end welfare as we know it.” When running for re-election four years later, he declared “the era of big government is over.” Alas, welfare is back in fashion like girls’ overalls, ushering in a new era of bipartisan big government.
Nearly half of New York City residents are on Medicaid. As are 40% of Californians. Since the ObamaCare expansion took effect in 2014, Medicaid enrollment has swelled. Meantime, states are gaming the program’s rules to wring more money out of Washington.
California imposes a tax on insurers to obtain more federal matching funds, which allows it to extend coverage to millions of undocumented immigrants. The Golden State expects to receive some $120 billion in Medicaid matching funds this year, more than Florida’s entire state budget.
During the 1990s, both parties sought to crack down on such schemes. In 1991, George H.W. Bush signed a bipartisan law to prevent states from using taxes on healthcare providers to milk more federal matching funds, some of which they then kicked back to those same healthcare providers. Even Reps. Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer voted for it.
California, New York and other states then devised ways to circumvent the law’s limitations. Many Republican-led states have joined the Medicaid racket—why give up a free lunch that others are taking? But someone has to pay, and it will be future taxpayers.
Many Republicans in Congress who campaigned against ObamaCare—here’s looking at you, Josh Hawley—are refusing to close Medicaid’s all-you-can-eat buffett. Some are spooked by Democratic claims that any changes to the program, however modest, will throw poor people to the wolves.
As the 1990s welfare reforms suggest, shrinking Medicaid can be a political winner if Republicans make a moral case for it. That means explaining how ObamaCare perversely encourages states to spend more on able-bodied adults than the disabled and discourages work.
If Republicans can’t or won’t make this argument and surrender the battlefield to Democrats, they deserve to lose.
Clinton Made Matters Worse
Clinton did end welfare “as we knew it”. But he made matters worse.
Want to understand the huge spread in disability fraud? Look no further than Bill Clinton as explained in detail in link #1.
This all goes back to 1996 when president Clinton promised to “end welfare as we know it“. Clinton did indeed do just that, and fraud is the result.
Why?
The federal government pays disability, but states pay part of welfare costs. This creates a huge incentive for states to actively promote disability fraud (simply to get people off state-sponsored welfare programs).
And that they have done. A primary example pertains to Hale County (see link #2).
25% of the people in Hale County Alabama collect disability. They are all tied to Hale county’s Dr. Timberlake.
Dr. Timberlake asks a simple question to all his patients. “What grade did you finish?” If you claim “back pain” and do not have a degree, Timberlake believes you are disabled.
The Journal is wrong. Welfare is not back as we knew it. Instead we have the worst of welfare and the worst of disability fraud.
The “One Big Beautiful Bill” Will Continue Spending at Biden’s Level
The House bill shrinks from a fight over able-bodied men on the dole.
The work requirement doesn’t kick in until 2029—a political lifetime from now. The bill also sets up a waiver process, which states have long abused to evade work rules in food stamps.
But far more notable is that the bill fails to end Medicaid’s outrageous bias toward prime-age men who can work.The feds pay 90% of the cost of able-bodied adults eligible for Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act—but only roughly 50% to 77% (depending on the state) for pregnant women, the blind and so on.
Republicans won’t even insist that able-bodied persons must work.
If this budget passes, there is no way inflation comes down other than a huge recession that destroys demand.
Democrats put a guy in prison over an election meme.
Trump has an OBLIGATION to ruin Comey’s life now.
Retribution. It’s the only way to make the madness stop.
Mayorkas, Fauci, the auto-pen scandal, the J6 Committee scam, the pipe bomb scam, the Secret Service “mistakes” that almost killed Trump, weaponization of the DOJ and FBI. People need to pay with very long prison sentences or this will NEVER stop.
.@JesseKellyDC: "Is it realistic to think we're going to see government people go to prison in the next four years?"@EagleEdMartin: "Yes. The answer is yes."
I profiled Karen many a time on these pages. She was a far-left moron and when it came to Covid, she was yet another scared rabbit who wanted us all to mask up and stay home like she was already doing. She was only 71 years old. I’m wondering if pumping herself full of untested “vaccines” and boosters is what did her in?
Very sad.
Let me be clear: I’m not sad she’s dead. Not at all. I’m just sad she died in April of 2024 and didn’t get to see Trump elected. When she croaked, Trump was being hit from all sides by bullshit lawsuits and she (like that dummy Haywood) probably thought he was going to jail. Instead he’s now president! LOL. THAT would have killed her anyways if the ‘vaccine’ didn’t.
Here is one of her dummy shitlib friends wishing she got to see Trump jailed – which ended up not happening. Oops!
Didn’t happen. Ouch.
I remember in 2021 when all the authoritarian cunts were trying to force the fake “vaccine” on us. They would laugh and say “I hope the right wingers DON’T get the vaccine! Then they won’t be around to vote in November of 2024. HAHAHAHA! They’ll all be dead! Trump will have no voters left! HAHAHAHA.”
Who’s laughing now, fucknuts? LOL. Heath AND Karen both dead before the election got here. Go figure.
Birds falling out of the sky! Cows falling over and gasping for their last breath. Children so dehydrated and delirious, they are darting out into traffic on Key Avenue. Basically the end of the world!!!!
Oh, wait….
Look at that. The socialist is wrong AGAIN. From wind power to Tim Walz to choosing goats over cattle to telling us the world will boil in a few years – he’s got an unblemished record of failure on his predictions. What a chump.
Yet another Covidiot has exposed himself as a fraud and a loser, as they all eventually do.
Yet ANOTHER person who wouldn’t shut up about masking and staying home to “save lives” turns out to be a hermit and bum who was ALREADY not working – so he was ‘sacrificing’ nothing at all. Just like our old friends Melissa Johnson, Potato Head Fitzharris and Clayton Tucker.
When Covid hit, these people were loudly demanding everyone wear a useless mask and “stay home.” Turns out, every single one of them was ALREADY staying home due to lack of employment or ALREADY wearing a mask due to “allergies” and stuff.
Stephanie Fitzharris was also a stay-at-home potato, so spending more time on her recliner didn’t affect her one bit
Clayton Tucker was unemployed already in 2020 (and all other years), so for him to demand everyone “stay home” was also the height of hypocrisy.
Now we can add local loser Gregory Thompson to the list. Thompson recently appeared on LCBN begging for money. When someone told him to get a job, he admitted he hasn’t worked in 15 years.
You do it to “be a good citizen”? No you don’t, you fuck. You do it because you are a bum. Apparently you’ve been a bum since 2010!
Somebody else chimed in that they saw Gregory at Giovani’s skipping out on his bill, but Gregory corrected him and said his debit card wasn’t working properly. Which begs the question: if you’re so broke you can’t afford your utilities, what the fuck are you doing going out to eat at Giovani’s?? Fucking bum.
Thompson also had a hissy fit when Abbott wisely tried to reopen quickly and avoid massive damage to our economy….
Yet another shitlib prediction that was 10000% wrong. Shocker.
When you shitlibs get all worked up about welfare getting cut, remember – it’s able-bodied bums like this who are 80% of the problem. Fuck him. Hope he ends up under a bridge.
#2 – ONE DAY of freak 105 temps is not a “massive heat wave,” you clown – temps go right back down to normal the rest of the week.
It’s called “weather” – a few years ago, I remember very well we didn’t have our first triple-digit day until August. Weather is variable and wild. It’s not a fake, gay, predictable computer game you play on your iPhone.
#5 – “We need information to see heat waves and drought coming” – that already exists, you moron. It’s called a “weather app” (free) and also The Farmer’s Almanac (costs some money but worth it). The Almanac already predicted a hot and dry summer. Plan accordingly. Maybe think about getting hay instead of driving all over Texas doing those 14-person “Oligarchy Tours,” lol.
