I have to admit, I am shocked these numbers continue to climb like this. A combination of inflation and libtards flooding our state keeps sales taxes going higher.
Lampasas trailed the state as a whole by 2.6 percentage points – an improvement over last month’s 6.2% gap.
LAST year, Lampasas saw an 18% increase [see row 585] in March 2022 compared to March 2021 – so quite a drop off from last year. The state of Texas saw a 28% increases last March compared to 2021.
Year-to-date, the City has collected $955,726 compared to $887,774 for the same period last year – an increase of 7.6% (roughly in line with inflation, I might add).
Now that Wool & Vine has gone bust, I guess we’ll see these sales tax numbers drop even more precipitously next month, right? LOL.
THIS bullshit is why we desperately need school vouchers. The corrupt teachers unions and make-work Nerf job holders like McBurnett and Rascoe are strongly against that, of course. That’s because they are slugs who are afraid to compete in a free market for education. The free market would quickly eliminate overpaid bullshit positions like this and money would flow to the best teachers while the dogshit teachers got fired and ended up bagging groceries at HEB.
The schools are broke??? Hardly.
In March 2021 the federal government sent $112 billion out to 14,000 districts with almost no strings attached. The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief, or ESSER, funding came on top of another $60 billion from two earlier waves of pandemic relief dollars for schools (in sum, roughly three times the annual federal investment). Never before had schools seen anything like it.
To say school districts were (and still are) flush with cash is an understatement. District leaders have more money at their disposal than ever before.
You want to know how I know vouchers are an awesome idea that would definitely work? Because the biggest moron in town is against them. He’s wrong about everything else and he’s wrong about this too…
Not much progress for a project that supposedly started “on or about January 20th, 2023” according to the agreement.
ALSO according to the agreement:
4.07 (1) Lessee will store ONLY RVs and boats that are fully operational and have/display current State of Texas registrations.
4.07 (3) Lessee shall not store any other equipment, vehicles, items, trash, partial vehicles, TRAILERS or materials on the Leased Premises other than the operational and registered RVs and boats noted in item (1) above.
Oops.
Do I sounds like the little turd in 3rd grade ratting out Timmy for chewing gum? Eh, maybe. But I don’t give a shit. This is about something bigger than the Industrial Park.
It is about the much larger and more expensive Business Pork that they have wasted over $7.1 million dollars and 19 years on. If they cannot get their shit together on this little piddling 5-acre joke that they are giving away for $100 per month and then selling for under market value, then how are they going to get their shit together on the Business Pork?
Answer? They aren’t.
They are going to go around in circles for another year and when they FINALLY get someone in there, it’s going to be such a bad deal for the City and the LEDC and for such a pissant amount of mediocre jobs, that they will NEVER let me see the details for fear of being exposed as the morons they are.
How about it, doc? Did you get kickbacks like this in 2021 to push that garbage on every swinging dick that walked through your doors?
It is immoral for a provider to bribe physicians without informing their insureds that doctors may have received additional compensation to push certain drugs or treatments. And it’s immoral for doctors not to notify their patients.
How does this not violate the anti- kickback law?
Dr Meryl Nass recently pointed out (RFK Jr and Dell Bigtree have reported for years) that pediatric offices can earn ‘commissions’ up to $40,000 per year just for having a certain percentage of patients fully vaccinated. It’s also all or nothing. Fall below that percentage and lose it all.
A clear photo of a sasquatch! This could be worth a lot of money, Comrade Clayton Tucker of Lampasas Texas SDEC-24!!
Better shave her before you kiss her goodnight!
Note his lapel pin too. Very likely some fucked-up Arabic symbol for Allah. This is the same asshole who flew the Ukraine flag on his mommy’s house where he still lives at age 32.
This idiot ditched his parents on Easter (the very parents who let him live in their house with them since he is incapable of surviving on his own), bought some kind of ridiculous Muslim lapel pin to impress this moron Tlaib, and drove THREE HOURS each way just to get a picture with (and lick the asshole of) some filthy foreigner socialist scumbag in Congress who has never had a job in her life and works tirelessly to undermine the U.S. Constitution.
How much of a loser do you have to be if you’re 32 years old and this is what you are doing with your life? I can understand the young ones because their brains are full of cottage cheese and imaginary pronouns…but eventually one day the hope is that they grow out of it. For failed 7/11 clerks like Clayton Tucker this just shows how pointless his existence on this planet really is.
Not only is Clayton Tucker of Lampasas Texas SDEC-24 a socialist scumbag who hates America, he has some kind of weird fetish for Muslims. He collects pictures with them like kids collect Pokemon cards.
Another Muslim foreigner who refuses to assimilate and is working to destroy the American way of life.
Save some chicks for the rest of us! Sorry Comrade, but she only sleeps with her brother.
Now THESE fellows might give you some love. If you dress up like a goat.
Clayton Tucker of Lampasas Texas SDEC-24: hater of America. Hater of the Constitution. Hater of the free market and capitalism. Lover of socialism and foreign invaders. Ass kisser of ANY worm in D.C. who can maybe get him a job doing nothing in politics so he can FINALLY move out of mom’s house…
P.S. – if you are wondering what kind of raging bash the “Emgage Ramadan Gala” is, here is a photo. Join us for a crazy day of mask wearing and fasting! No alcohol either! We will have many interesting presentations today! Such as “How To Marry Your Brother to Skirt U.S. Immigration Laws” and “Making Love to a Goat”.
Of course, I use the word “business” as a joke. It was a hobby for the Landrums, who never actually employed anyone but themselves. Of course, that didn’t stop the City from handing them $3,000 in Covid money – which went 100% unappreciated by Julie Cain Landrum, the Covid rat herself, as she instead whined about The Struggle…
The City was SO biased, they handed $3,000 to a moron who had no clue how to run a business.
Ah yes – “The Struggle”. Of course, it is more of a struggle when you are only open a couple days a week and then take off months at a time to “move furniture around”.
Narrator: Covid was NOT raging at all, actually.
It also doesn’t help that you associate with other wacko liberal Covid Cult loons from Austin who are afraid to leave the house, and thus cannot patronize your hobby lemonade stand.
We are so virtuous and conscientious that we are now out of business. The end!
I knew this would happen eventually. They only shocker is that it took this long for Landrum to finally throw in the towel. Hopefully, this means more business for the REAL businesses in town like Lampasas Beer Market and Giovani’s, etc.
This is former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines.
She is a decorated swimmer, an SEC champion, and an Olympic Trials qualifier. Last year she added her name to the long growing list of victims of transgenderism when she tied biological male Lia Thomas from Penn University in the 200 meter freestyle at the NCAA Championships. Thomas competed for the men’s team for the first 3 years of his career and was an average swimmer.
However, if you compete on a men’s Division 1 sports team it means that you’re better than every women’s college athlete in the country. By simply declaring that he was a woman, growing his hair long, and taking hormones, this dude was allowed to compete against women. He smashed NCAA records and made a mockery of the sport. His female teammates anonymously complained to the media, alleging that they were threatened with losing their scholarships if they spoke out. They were told that if they thought something was wrong with this that it actually meant that something was wrong with them.
To make matters worse Thomas was celebrated by ESPN for breaking barriers during Women’s History Month. Yet another reason I refuse to watch ESPN.
It’s the most transparently evil, immoral, and unfair injustice that we all can plainly see with our own eyes. And no one is allowed to speak out against it because they fear the cult of transgenderism.
Lia Thomas was awarded the trophy over Riley Gaines despite tying her because the NCAA wanted to be seen as progressive. At the time Gaines was upset about this injustice, but still had good things to say about Thomas:
Even though she was upset by the situation, Gaines made clear that she was not upset with Thomas personally. “I am in full support of her and full support of her transition and her swimming career and everything like that because there’s no doubt that she works hard too, but she’s just abiding by the rules that the NCAA put in place, and that’s the issue,” Gaines said.
Unfortunately this qualifies as the strongest condemnation of Thomas by any of his female opponents. Riley Gaines knew that she was cheated but still referred to Thomas as she/her, and said she wasn’t upset with Thomas personally.
But she really should’ve been. Lia Thomas knows what he is doing is wrong and he’s doing it anyway because he’s a selfish asshole. He knows that he’s not a woman, and he knows that going through male puberty gave him physical advantages that no woman could ever compete with. No one made him competing against women. He just wanted to.
But Riley Gaines wasn’t as aggressive because she was scared of the transgender mob. They use violence more than any other liberal outrage mob. One of them murdered 3 children and 3 teachers in Nashville recently, and the immediate response was to victimize the shooter. Riley Gaines thought that using the wrong pronouns and saying nice things about Lia Thomas would appease these sadists, but it only made them smell fear and weakness.
Since then Gaines has been much more outspoken on the issue, appearing on Tucker Carlson and other right wing media outlets dozens of times. This has made her a target whose safety is in danger every time she leaves the house, which was proven last night at San Fransisco State University.
Gaines was invited by the conservative group TP USA to speak to students at the school about the issue of transgender athletes competing against women in sports. This led to a mob of blue haired losers organizing with the sole purpose of shutting it down via the use of fear and intimidation. Listen to the language they use:
“I wanted to sit in and I did want to hear the conversation,” Harvey said. “I think it’s unfair for a group like this to come to a college campus where a lot of people move to San Francisco. I personally moved to San Francisco to escape a conservative household. I think it’s unfair for them to ask us to make space for them as well as tolerate them.”
She hates her parents and is going through a phase so she moved to San Francisco where she assumed differing points of view would not be allowed to exist. She believes it’s “unfair” for her to tolerate people she disagrees with, but doesn’t think it’s unfair for Riley Gaines to object to having men beat her in swimming.
Harvey says Gaines mentioned sexual harassment in the locker rooms and described how body autonomy has changed since the NCAA began allowing transgender athletes to compete.
“It further proves the point that people will sexualize trans people for just existing,” Harvey said.
Lia Thomas isn’t being sexualized. He has a cock which women are forced to see while changing. It makes them uncomfortable because women’s locker rooms are supposed to be a cock-free zone.
When the event started it was in a small room so only some protesters could sit there with their masks on and signs.
Angry commie losers. The Cade Snyders of the world. These little fucks are just like Mao’s Red Guard or Hitlers Brown Shirts. Mindless zealots who want to destroy America.
“Trans women are women.”
If that were true then you wouldn’t feel the need to call them trans women. You’d just call them women. But they’re not. They’re dudes, because they have cocks.
After Gaines spoke the mob of hundreds rushed the room. Gaines had to be escorted out by police as the mob angrily pursued her, calling her a “transphobic bitch.” When police saw a mob coming from the direction they were headed they had to head into a corner and barricade her in a room for three hours for her own safety.
When the Dean showed up he didn’t hold anyone in the violent mob accountable. No one was threatened with expulsion or discipline. Instead he listened to their demands as Riley Gaines remained locked in a room for her safety. They demanded $10 each for her safe exit.
This is kidnapping.
These people act so hard because they know that no one is gonna punch them in the face for it. The fact that they don’t fear that happening is the problem. Look, we can either be perpetual victims of these weak, pathetic, cowardly people who are afraid of their own shadow, or we can make them scared of us.
Look at those freaks.
Just look at them. We under no obligation to treat them civilly or be nice to them. They deserve hatred and cruelty, because it’s how they treat us. These are people who have never been in a fight before and have live the most sheltered lives possible. Yet we fear them. The exact opposite should be happening. They should be named, shamed, doxxed, and made destitute. They should fear the consequences of involving themselves in a mob like this, knowing it could ruin their lives. We should publish the names of their family members. We should leave a digital trail that will follow them forever and make it impossible for them to find work.
If you see anything wrong with this tactic then you don’t understand how the game is being played. You are bringing a knife to a gun fight against much weaker people.
Abortion is illegal under Section 218 of the German criminal code, and punishable by up to three years in prison (or up to five years for “reckless” abortions or those against the pregnant woman’s will). Section 218a of the German criminal code, called Exception to liability for abortion, makes an exception for abortions with counseling in the first trimester, and for medically necessary abortions and abortions due to unlawful sexual acts (such as sexual abuse of a minor or rape) thereafter.
Here we go again! “Doctor” Chane Rascoe (who makes $177,000 per year – more than the governor of Texas) has recommended everyone and anyone get some more nice fat raises in the Lampasas school system. That means every single person with a pulse – there is no merit involved here. I think you might be shocked at some of the salaries these people get for nine months of work.
It’s too bad they do this in April and thus as far away as possible from when we pay our ridiculous property taxes in the fall. People will unfortunately have about seven or eight months between now and when they are billed for this nonsense to forget about how hard they are being screwed.
If property taxes were due next week, they might be more pissed off. Rightfully so.
First, you should acquaint yourself with all the raises they got in the past when inflation was tame – especially the MASSIVE raises in 2020 just before the school year got cut short. You can see that post linked below:
Wanda Bunting – Business Services Professional – $90,258
Whitney Walker – Human Resources – $82,680
Penny Wilson – Counselor – $82,526
Tonya Cockburn – Occupational Therapist – $76,946
Jennifer Adams – Counselor – $75,522
Donna Clark – School Nurse – $73,129 (my goodness! Putting Band-Aids on boo boos pays better than being an ICU nurse working 12 hour shifts!!)
[Notice anything about the $586,000 in salaries for the above seven people? None of them are actually teachers!! Amazing. Let’s see some more….]
Christine Byrd – Counselor – $72,750
Christy Wiley – Teacher – $68,215 (her husband once whined on Facebook that his wife “only makes $4 an hour when you add up all the hours she spends.” Which is utter nonsense, of course. Right Mike?)
Beverly Sue Spencer – Transportation – $75,280 (?!?!?)
Kerri Holcomb – Librarian – $65,345 (are you kidding me?)
Cathy Kuehne – Art teacher – $67,915 (current City council member who “put herself at risk every day” during the Covid scamdemic)
Michael Kuehne – Teacher – $60,835 (BLM supporter and pizza lover)
Anyways, you get the picture.
I have no beef with GOOD teachers who teach IMPORTANT subjects (math, science, reading) being paid well.
What I DO have a problem with is the bloated and ever-increasing mass of “administrators” and bullshit artists like Kathy Staruska getting automatic raises and growing larger every year.
I have talked about this in the past, but here it is in graphical representation AGAIN:
The number of “administrators” (paper pushers and Nerf job clowns) has increased FOUR TIMES FASTER than the student population. This is absolutely outrageous considering this number should have SHRUNK with the advent of computers, the Internet and other productivity-enhancing inventions.
[If you are good at math, you will realize immediately that “administrators” needs to be cut by roughly 75% to get it back in line. Think of that money THAT would save!!]
The teacher population has grown TWICE as fast as well. When I was a kid in the 70s and 80s, every single one of my classes had about 30 kids in it. Now it’s more like 20. Ergo, teachers are being paid more to deal with 33% LESS kids. So I can’t exactly cry a river there either, but at least they are in the classroom imparting knowledge – unlike these other clown horns.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) analyzes the skill requirements of different jobs, assigning each a pay grade based on the federal government’s General Schedule (GS). At the lowest skill levels—a GS-6 on the federal scale—teachers earn salaries about 26 percent higher than similar white-collar workers.
The average public school teaching position rated an 8.8 on the federal GS scale. After adjustment to reflect the time that teachers work outside the formal school day, the BLS data show that public school teachers on average receive salaries about 8 percent above similar private-sector jobs.
Contrary to myth, teachers are generally not foregoing higher salaries by staying in the classroom. Data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation show that teachers who change to non-teaching jobs take an average salary cut of about 3 percent. Studies using administrative records in Florida, Missouri, Georgia, and Montana showed similar results; the Georgia study found “strong evidence that very few of those who leave teaching take jobs that pay more than their salary as teachers.” [This data is from 2018 – the disparity is no doubt far larger now after the huge raises in recent years]
As the New York Timesreported, public-employee retirement and health benefits are bleeding dry state and local budgets. Neither the public nor teachers fully appreciates the costs of these programs. We forget the value of benefits when considering how teacher pay compares with private-sector work. And research suggests that teachers value deferred compensation less than upfront salary.
