LEDC Reveals Possible New Businesses Coming To Lampasas

The packet for the next LEDC meeting is up. And while there are still ZERO tenants and ZERO prospects for the $7.1 million dollar sandbox Business Pork Project, there ARE some “prospects” for new businesses opening in town.

HTeaO – a chain store that sells tea, apparently. I had never heard of them but apparently there is one in Killeen.

Anytime Fitness – A chain of gyms. I frankly don’t see that making it here. But then again, I go to the gym during off-hours so maybe there are more gym fanatics here than I give credit for. Again, another chain with a location in Cove already.

Trailblazer Grille – yet another chain. Well, two locations in Burnet and Llano. Never heard of it. Menu looks decent.

Red Barn – yet another chain (storage places). God knows we don’t have enough of those around here! Why don’t you people just SELL your old shit rather than paying $130 a month to store it for years? Again, a location exists in Killeen

[It also says “apartment buildings 1000+” but I have no idea what that means. The population of this entire town is maybe 7,500, so I can’t believe anyone would build 1000 units. Then again, Talbert and the other clowns are giving away tons of money to try and bring as many Austin assholes here as possible to ruin the place, so anything is possible.]

What do all of these have in common? Well, they are all just franchises expanding into new territory. That has been happening for 100 years WITHOUT the help of an “Economic Development Director” like Stacey Ybarra [salary $85,000 and benefits $30,000 paid by taxpayers]. In the small town I grew up in during the 1970s and 1980s, we had lots of franchises move in and thrive…and the whole “economic development director” scam hadn’t been invented yet. Gee, how did we EVER get by??

The most amusing part of it all is that Stacey Ybarra has NEVER worked in the private sector – and has never run a business. So what gives her any special powers to perform this “job”?

It reminds me about the old joke about salt keeping tigers away:

An old man walked out onto his front porch and threw a handful of salt into the yard every morning. Finally a neighbor asked why he did this. He answered “to keep the tigers away.”

The neighbor looked at him and said “sir, there aren’t any tigers around here.”

The old man said, “see? It works.”

Get the joke? It’s the LEDC. Any time a business moves into town, the implication is that it is thanks to the hard work and skill of the LEDC and the Economic Development Director – as if the EXACT same thing wouldn’t have happened if we DIDN’T have an EDD on the payroll at $115,000 per year cost to the taxpayer.

Socialist Maggot is Queen Of Bad Analogies

You can always count on the socialist maggot to throw out a completely idiotic “comparison” that misses every point and makes no sense. What else do you expect from the brain-dead?

A few months ago, she compared paying back what you agreed to borrow to “drinking polluted water”:

Now she’s back, trying (like every lefty scumbag in the country right now) to explain how the Jan 6th “armed insurrection” was the “worst threat to democracy in American history”, when newly-released video clearly shows the cops opening doors, giving tours, and the great majority of people behaving themselves.

It depends. Will you all have a police escort, too? Like Q Anon Shaman did?

This concern about entering places you aren’t supposed to be is especially rich, coming from Comrade Clayton – who thinks border walls are evil and racist. She is fine with illiterates and criminals from Haiti and Honduras waltzing into the U.S. and being handed free shit. I wonder how many illegals Comrade Clayton has invited to live at his parents’ house for free – like he does.

First of all, the Capitol building is a public space. My house is not. You can’t trespass on public property, bro. My name is on the mortgage, so to speak, if you want to use this analogy, so I’ll walk in there if I damn well please.

Secondly, I don’t think anyone on the right ever said it was “no big deal”. I’ve heard them say that a lot of the people were let into the building. I’ve also heard them say the protesters had no chance of actually affecting the election. I’ve also heard them say that holding people indefinitely without trial is tyranny. I’ve never heard anyone say it was no big deal.

When shitheads riot and vandalize and destroy property, you arrest them. Well, unless they are with Antifa – then you let them out immediately and Kamala Harris pays your bail.

But you charge THEM with vandalism – not every single person who happened to be wandering around in the 100,000 square feet around them.

And our point wasn’t that you shouldn’t punish the people who destroyed stuff. It was that you lefty morons called this an “armed insurrection” and “deadly insurrection” and anyone who was there was a “traitor” or terrorist and had to be thrown into solitary for years without a trial.

So now if you protest at the Capitol, you are a “traitor”. You know who the REAL traitors are? Socialist scumbags who are working non-stop to destroy America with bullshit stories about “insurrections”.

No officers died that day at the hands of the “mob” despite the left repeating that lie 1000 times since. No guns or rifles or even knives were brandished by the crowd. The lone murder was that of an innocent unarmed woman by a Capitol police officer – let’s see THAT video, btw.

I’ll admit it was very odd that so many Capitol police officers committed suicide in the weeks and months afterwards – close to 1000x the national average. This tells me they were either wracked with guilt over perpetuating the “insurrection” lies their scumbag bosses (Pelosi/Schumer) made them tell…OR they were murdered to clean up any loose ends, like in Goodfellas after the Lufthansa Heist.

Either way, we all saw the video. We all know the left are the biggest pieces of shit in human history. Most of us knew this already. The question now is whose ass is going to be kicked over all of this. Every single piece of shit who sat on than Jan 6th committee should be thrown into solitary confinement for the next 2 years.

That’s just for starters.

Community Garden President Crazier Refuses to Make Her Non-Profit Tax Filings Available. “I Do Not Have Time For Your Nonsense”

After my polite email request to the President of the Lampasas Community Gardens to take a gander at their non-profit tax filings, I was told to get lost:

Lampasas Community Garden President Janet “Crazier” Crozier has taken many gifts from the taxpayer over the last couple of years. She is either not bright enough or honest enough to admit this, of course. According to HER:

“We have not taken money from the City, nor have we asked for anything other than what was promised to the community garden. The only thing that the City provided on behalf of the wishes of the community was the volleyball court that sat vacant for at least 7 years. We pay our utilities. We have set up our own limited water collection system off the roof of our donated shed.“

This is all baloney, of course, except for the part about “not taking money” from the City. Only because the City was not dumb enough to hand her actual piles of cash, like some other fools were. So the City never technically gave her any “money” – but they HAVE provided subsidies, City workers, City time and materials to her for free.

To wit:

She gets highly-subsidized water. The first 5,000 gallons PER MONTH are FREE and the water bill for one entire YEAR was once $35. So you may “pay your utilities” but they are hugely subsidized and the taxpayer is paying most of it.

She got trenching and pipes and spigots done for her by City workers on City time. There is also a new electrical panel over there, presumably for her use. Anyone who has had irrigation or electrical work done recently knows that it costs an arm and a leg. YOU paid for all that. But don’t bother going down there to stroll in the garden – because it is locked with a chain and NOT open to the public.

She is currently pressing Parks Director Chris Eicher to blow over $5,000 on sidewalk modifications over by her pet project. A pet project to bring gardening to those in wheelchairs. She actually had to advertise for people in wheelchairs for this – and as far as I know, my fake Crippled Russian email account was the only person who answered her. A project that she hasn’t even gotten funding for and for which the need is questionable, to say the least.

“Nor have we asked for anything….” – more baloney! She stood before council and tried to get them to buy her over $12,000 worth of “rain catch tanks” – even though she ALREADY gets water that is essentially free from the City. Luckily City council came to their senses after leaning towards paying for these items. This one enraged me the most, I will admit. Twelve grand is not peanuts…and this loon just casually asks for it like it falls off a money tree somewhere. That’s because she is a hard-core liberal/Marxist from Ohio.

Anyways, Crazier did not like me asking any questions. She informed that that “I do not have time for your nonsense”.

I had to inform Mrs. Crazier that she DOES indeed have to produce those tax filings. It is the law.

The easy way is to hand them over. The harder way is to make me go to your CPA or the IRS to get them. But get them I will.

Is Seth Rogen Helping Run Lampasas?!?

This might explain a lot. Like all the cost overruns and valuing a small 4-acre tract in the Business Pork at $500,000.

Here is Assistant to the City Manager Ryan “Dwight Schrute” Ward:

Here is Hollywood douchebag Seth Rogen….

If Ryan Ward and Dave Portnoy had a love child…

Have you ever seen Seth Rogen and Ryan Ward together in the same room???

Wait is sec. Is it “douche bag” or is it “douchebag”? Lemme look that up real quick….

Yeah, one word. That’s what I thought.

Skate Park STILL Not Open!

First it was last fall. (in summer of 2022)

Then it was “early next year” (in fall of 2022)

Then it was February 15th (in early January)

Then it was “end of February” (in middle of February)

THEN it was “this Saturday” (March 4th)

But here we are at March 7th and it’s STILL not open!

**UPDATE** – Ryan Ward was on Lampasas Radio on March 8th and said that the NEW date is “in about two weeks” – which would be March 22nd.

[I love his weasel talk. I really do! He says stuff like “well, the skate park is basically done! Well, except for a little bit more grading and bringing some dirt in and cleaning everything up and removing all the equipment and kind of finishing everything out.” – LOL. That is most definitely NOT done!]

Over/under on the date of the first big injury out there that requires the EMT or fire truck to come out? I’m gonna say May 25th. I’ll make my over/under date on bathroom vandalism/destruction a little later at June 20th.

To my untrained eye, this hardly looks like a project that took well over two years and close to half a million bucks. But what do I know. Finley says it’s a good deal and Finley is NEVER wrong about these things.

He has made numerous other “good deals” like the Azbell A/V system deal and the Industrial Park deal, so who am I to question??

Dummy Lib Heads About To Go BOOM!

Everything they believe is a lie. A complete an utter fabrication. None of them will ever accept that they were so completely mislead and bamboozled…and they will double down in their wrong beliefs. Like a cult member who has been told 6 times that the world will end and it keeps not happening.

First is the bad news for morons who have been getting all the injections…

Top Insurance Analyst Finds a 7% Increase In Aggregate Mortality for Each C19 Dose Received: “The more doses you have in a [US] region, the bigger increase in mortality. If you’re over the age of 50, and you took all 5 doses, that’d be a 35% increase.

This is math. This is indisputable. But dummies like Haywood and Tucker will see this and go out and get MORE shots because they cannot fathom a world in which they are 100% wrong. Which is exactly what the world needs. More idiot socialists increasing their mortality rates. The rest of us will benefit from this.

Then comes the bad news for those who worship at the altar of the “climate crisis” – more facts and figures and math that will make libdummy heads explode. These are scientific facts. There is no escaping reality on this: there IS no crisis. There never was. It’s all a huge lie swallowed by the stupid and the gullible.

  • A warming planet saves lives. Analyses of millions of deaths in recent decades in numerous countries, published in the British medical journal The Lancet, show that cooler temperatures killed nine times (July 2021 study) to seventeen times (In May 2015 study) more people than warmer temperatures. The planet’s recent modest warming (by 1.00 degree Celsius on average since 1880, as calculated by NASA) thus has been saving millions of lives.

  • CO2 emissions do not pollute and instead are environmentally beneficial. In 2017, over 300 scientists, including Richard Lindzen of MIT and William Happer of Princeton, signed a statement that made this point: “carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. To the contrary, there is clear evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful to food crops and other plants that nourish all life. It is plant food, not poison.” Every one of us, indeed, also exhales carbon dioxide with every breath.

  • Since 1920, deaths each year from natural disasters have decreased by over 90 percent. And this happened, data from EM-DAT – The International Disaster Database presented by The University of Oxford show, not only as the planet has warmed, but as world population has quadrupled.

  • Global warming has not increased hurricanes. A NOAA report, updated on November 28, 2022, states that “there is essentially no long-term trend in hurricane counts. The evidence for an upward trend is even weaker if we look at U.S. landfalling hurricanes, which even show a slight negative trend beginning from 1900 or from the late 1800s.”

  • The same report sums it up in bold: “We conclude that the historical Atlantic hurricane data at this stage do not provide compelling evidence for a substantial greenhouse warming-induced century-scale increase in: frequency of tropical storms, hurricanes, or major hurricanes, or in the proportion of hurricanes that become major hurricanes.”

  • Global warming also does not increase land burned by fires. As environmental statistician Bjorn Lomberg has shown using data from the Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, Remote Sensing of Environment, and Earth’s Future, the percentage of global land burned per year in 1905-2021 has been declining.

  • Sea levels are rising – but only by a small fraction of an inch each year. An EPA report updated on August 1, 2022, states: “When averaged over all of the world’s oceans, absolute sea level has risen at an average rate of 0.06 inches per year from 1880 to 2013,” including a slightly increased rate since 1993 of “0.12 to 0.14 inches per year.”

  • The UN climate models that President Biden, John Kerry, and other climate doomsters use to predict future global temperatures are so speculative and unreliablethat they have been unable even to reproduce the 20th century’s temperature changes. This is a key point in the must-read book by Obama Department of Energy Under Secretary for Science Steven Koonin, Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters.

Ass Hat, No Cattle

Time for yet another Baby Seal Bashing. I do this for the same reason chicks go to the spa and get massages and facials. It’s therapeutic and makes them feel rejuvenated.

I also do this so that when this idiot runs for office again someday, his opponent has a massive treasure trove of evidence about how full of shit he really is and what a pathetic socialist bum he really is.

CHALLENGE: Pick out the “5th generation rancher” in the photo. The one who “always wears his iconic cowboy hat” and is a farmer, rancher AND cowboy!

Kristi Lara = HUGE Bernie-loving commie loser

What’s that? There IS no rancher in the photo? Give the man a cigar! You are 100% correct!

You see, this was in 2019, BEFORE he had invented his fake rancher persona. Back THEN, he was just a spoiled trust fund commie nerd who went to Bernie Sanders rallies with other dorks, while living with mommy.

Don’t believe it? Allow me to show you hard evidence….

#1 – he forgot he was a rancher when he ran against Dawn Buckingham and got his dick kicked in the dirt…

He IS (present tense) a socialist agitator living in rural Texas. No mention of ranching. Water researcher? More bullshit.

#2 – here is more evidence from June 2nd, 2017 when Trust Fund Tucker tried to get appointed to an open City council seat and told The Dispatch all about himself [fourth column, bottom]. Know what he said?

“Clayton Tucker has lived in the city about one year. A 2013 graduate of Southwestern University, he is a teacher and writer.”

Was NOT a teacher OR a rancher in 2017 – just an unemployed bum. No mention here of being a “rancher”…again.

Wait, what??? He had only been in the City for “about one year”? How was he ranching if he wasn’t here in Lampasas on the family farm/ranch? The “5th generation rancher” only arrived in Lampasas in 2016?? How confusing.

Luckily, Trust Fund Tucker clears it all up in the next sentence when he tells us he is a “teacher and writer”. Oops! Zero mention of being a 5th generation rancher! Must have slipped his mind.

[He was not a teacher either, but that doesn’t stop him from lying to the Dispatch]

That is THRICE now he has been caught red-handed telling the public he is something OTHER than rancher or farmer. The third time was when he filled out the form to run for City council in 2021 and filled out the OCCUPATION box with “Political Organizer” – apparently forgetting AGAIN that he was a rancher!

So as it turns out, this moron is no hat AND no cattle!

Well, he may have NO hat and NO cattle, but he has “several goats“! Surely THAT is proof you are a real rancher.

Tell me you aren’t a rancher without telling me you aren’t a rancher!

Yeah, lots of “5th generation ranchers” who have been ranching for years and years go ape shit over a few baby goats being born. They can’t contain themselves and they name them all and then post endless photos on their social media accounts, too!

Surely a “5th generation rancher” has seen hundreds, nay THOUSANDS, of animals born. Yet she posted non-stop on social media about this like a 13-year-old girl from the Big City spotting her first deer out in the countryside.

Last year was a brutal one, if you made your living off of the land. We had 100-degree temps in early May, non-stop wind in April and May, close to zero rain in April and May also. By August, REAL ranchers were hurting badly.

REAL ranchers were posting stuff like this:

FAKE ranchers were posting stuff like THIS…

Clayton Tucker of Lampasas: fake hat, no cattle, “several goats” and many, many, many lies.

Say, that reminds me of a joke I heard once…

Two fake ranchers, Clayton and Beto, are driving down a dirt road when they come across Penny the donkey with her head stuck in the fence.

Beto says “Man I haven’t had any pussy in months!” He jumps out of the truck Prius and just starts banging the donkey like there’s no tomorrow.

Then Beto looks over at Clayton and says “Hey, do you want any of this?” Clayton replies “Sure….but do I have to put my head in the fence?”

Council Synopsis

Not a lot to report about last night’s meeting:

Hostess House? A mess. We’ll talk about it at the next meeting in two weeks.

Roads? Forrest Gump Ward talked at length about seal coat. It was terrific soporific.

City Manager’s report? The LEDC talked about their business pork project at their last meeting (2/22). Important stuff was discussed like exterior finishes on future buildings, covenants and zoning district boundaries. They also talked about the potential TxDot relief route. What did they not talk about at all? A single prospective tenant moving into the park. But don’t worry – I’m sure they are getting “RFIs every week from the governor”

LOL

Hostess House bids officially rejected.

Goldfish Swim Tonight – Hostess House Debacle Edition 2-27-23

A weem-a-way, a weem-a-way, a weem-a-way, a weem-a-way

A weem-a-way, a weem-a-way, a weem-a-way, a weem-a-way

In the fish bowl, the pricey fish bowl, the Goldfish swim tonight!

In the fish bowl, the pricey fish bowl, the Goldfish swim tonight!

Oooooh, oooooh eee-ooo-wam-a-way.

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Tonight’s topics include: Hostess House bids coming in at $3 million. Original budget for this project was $200,000. Which was AFTER we were assured it only needed “minor repairs” when they took it over.

Watch art-teacher-who-would-be-mayor Cathy Kuehne try to explain this one away!

Janet “Crazier” Crozier Costing Taxpayers ANOTHER $5,200 For Her Never-Ending Money Pit Garden

This woman is unbelievable. A garden is supposed to produce food for minimal cost. This one just incinerates money in ever-increasing amounts. And while that would be fine if it operated on the fees she charges her “gardeners” plus whatever fundraising she pulls off, that is not the case at all. She has bilked the City out of piles of money and continues to do so today. Her latest?

That would be Chris Eicher, Director of Parks. Why he is caving in to this moron is beyond me. That sidewalk was perfectly fine before Crazier Crozier put in her garden. Now it needs to be altered so this idiot can proceed with her hare-brained “ADA compliant” project?

You’ll remember, a year and a half ago I strung her along by email pretending to be a crippled Russian who wanted to garden when I answered her public pleas for handicapped people:

Janet “Crazier” Crozier Falls For “Old Russian Cripple” Prank. Sorry Janet: Haywood Jablowmi Is Actually Me.

Yes, you read that right. She actually had to go out ADVERTISING for handicapped people in the first place so she could blow another $15,000 or so to make it ADA compliant.

Putting this moron in charge of money is like handing a bottle of whiskey and car keys to a teenaged boy. She has ALREADY blown over $25,000 on this thing. How about taking a break and growing some tomatoes or something, lady?

Then again, what do you expect from a raging liberal locust from Ohio who is a failed Life Coach and thinks autistic kids are clairvoyant? Par for the course.