But TJ Monroe is putting her to shame with some of the latest ridiculous money wasting going on now.
Here is a taste:
HOSTESS HOUSE:
In October 2019, when the City decided to take over the Hostess House, we were told it needed a few “minor repairs” and “minor decorations”. They spent about $6,000 on a new HVAC at that time also. So a normal person might think “eh, they’ll spend eight or nine grand on some stuff and that will be it”.
You’d be wrong. By August 2020, the new estimate was $500,000. [see page 20]
The CURRENT estimate is $1.3 million dollars. That’s $1,300,000.00 on an “event venue” that currently brings in MAYBE $10,000 per year in rental fees after expenses. So it will only take them 130 years to get their money back.
Only true shit head politicians could go from “a couple grand” to “$500,000” to “$1.3 million” and not blink an eye or maybe question if this was even REMOTELY a good use of funds. Clearly nobody learned a single thing from the $1.5 million Old City Hall debacle, because they are about to do the exact same thing AGAIN!
SKATE PARK:
WAY back in July 2020, a local school teacher heard a radio ad for a skate park/outreach center in California and thought “that would be cool!”
No, I am not joking. That is exactly how the whole thing started. Link to entire article is HERE. The name of her non-profit is “Wings of Eagles Outreach”.
Anyhow, we heard the usual nonsense about how this would be a public/private partnership and the usual hints were made that there would be private donations and volunteering…kind of like the “Bike and Hike” trail project that never went anywhere.
Initial skate park costs were said to be around $200,000. That was SO last year, though. NOW the estimate is $400,000 [see page 20] and I can guarantee you the final cost will be far higher.
Personally, I think the skate park is a terrible idea. Mike White and Misti Talbert were huge champions of this thing. Time will tell if it was worth it or not.
But the fact remains that we went from “I heard an ad on the radio! Sounds cool” to $200,000 to the current $400,000 tells you all you need to know about how TJ Monroe operates and how little she values tax dollars.
Apparently Waste Connections is doing a pretty shoddy job picking up garbage in the City lately. I only know this because it was discussed at the last City council meeting. I’m lucky enough to live in the boondocks – which means I store my trash in the back of my truck and then sneak into town around 11pm and dump it into the cans of people like Misti Talbert and Bruce Haywood.
Just kidding.
Anyways, I thought now would be a good time to re-post a journalistic masterpiece I posted last year when Talbert didn’t feel like putting the garbage contract up for bid:
Here is an interesting nugget I ran across from Jan 17, 2017 [page 11] regarding the last time City council renewed their trash hauling contract.
WAY back then (three whole years ago), the City of Lampasas used Waste Management for their trash hauling. That contract was due to expire in the spring of 2017. Here is what then-council-member Misti Talbert said about renewing the contract with Waste Management:
“City council is not unhappy with Waste Management but wants to see if it is possible to save money on trash collection”
Wow. Smart thinking, Misti. I would agree that it NEVER HURTS to look around for a better deal. Seems to be something City council rarely does with anything else (*cough* AZBELL *cough*), but I wholeheartedly agree it is a smart thing to do with EVERYTHING.
So what happened in 2017? Finley and the gang looked at FIVE different companies and let them bid for the new contract (yes, there are FIVE companies out there!). According to 2017 Finley, this “is a highly competitive process” [1/20/17 front page news].
Oh goody! Competition! That is always good for getting the best price!
They did all this work for a three-year contract…since that Waste Connections contract was to last until April 30, 2020 (two weeks from now). All well and good. Nice job, 2017 Misti and 2017 Finley!
Fast forward three years to 2020 Talbert and 2020 Finley. Waste Connections’ contract is now up for renewal and the new period will be for FIVE years. Do 2020 Talbert (now mayor) and 2020 Finley still have the same zeal for “seeing if it is possible to save money on trash collection”?
Weird how nobody worried about “potential disruption of service” three years ago when they let five companies go at it to get the best price. So what changed?
Three voting members of City council showing off their “prize” from Waste Connections…just a few months before contract was up.
In short, Waste Connections handed three members of City council thousands of dollars just months before those same council members would be making a decision on a new five year, $5.5 MILLION dollar contract
Sooooo….back THEN (2017)it was worth it to check around for a better price just for the hell of it. But NOW (2020), after winning a bribe prize from Waste Connections, you are perfectly happy NOT to bother looking around for a better price, despite the fact that there is a “highly competitive process” out there and despite the fact that THIS contract is for a much longer period (5 years versus 3).
Got it.
My how things change in 36 months.
Just to be clear, you can hardly call this a bribe…since ALL the money Waste Connections handed to City council (plus another $7,200 swiped from the HOT slush fund) was immediately wasted on some giant metal letters. They didn’t PERSONALLY see any gain from the money. HOWEVER, they were without a doubt in my mind, influenced and not intelligent enough to see it. Unwittingly duped, as it were.
Well, Covid makes you tired as hell and robs you of your taste (still gone) but I never thought I was going to die. Funny how I never got sick for 18 months despite no mask or vax, but the minute a bunch of young people NOT at risk of dying from Covid (like THIS pussy) started getting the “vaccine” over the last few months, it spread like wildfire. Anyone under the age of 40 who is otherwise healthy and still got the vax is a moron – especially if you’re female. You don’t need it. All you’re doing is poisoning the rest of us.
Oh well. Now I have immunity that is about 20 times better than your weak-ass “vaccine”. I am totally invincible to Covid and can go back to killing my liver with alcohol and wrecking my heart with bacon and dying the old fashioned way like god intended.
Speaking of no taste, local Covid rat and hobby lemonade stand operator Julie Cain Landrum of Wool & VineCry & Whine just can’t keep her rat nose clean, can she? I had a LOT of time to lie in bed and read all the Facebook soap operas going on over the last week and a half. Seems like Covid rat Landrum is always at the center of a whine fest.
Get it? Because she operates a WINE bar? Well, sometimes. When she feels like opening. Mostly it’s closed and she pretends to be a business owner.
This broad will literally go to any length to avoid working and building an actual business. Instead, she spends her time whining on Facebook about how the world is against her.
Correction: you do not own a business. You operate a tiny hobby lemonade stand that is closed most of the time.
The LEDC handed over all that money even though Cry & Whine is barely open and employs nobody at all.
The irony, of course, is that this moron did this to herself. With her non-stop freaking out about Covid, she and her small circle of hipster doofus artsy-fartsy Austin types have petrified themselves into not going out to eat or drink anymore. At least, that’s the excuse she is using for her business sucking:
Becky Strassner appears to be her sister. A sister who is STILL scamming “Covid money” for HER shitty business! Must run in the family.
That is what happens when you watch the morons on CNN all day and work yourself into a petrified state of idiocy. You literally start having nightmares from watching so much fear porn on CNN. This is a mentally weak person:
Especially if you listen to that scumbag “Doctor” Leana Wen:
Did I mention Leana Wen was born in China? The same country that released this virus on us in the first place? Naturally, she “sounds reasonable” to a complete moron like Julie Landrum!
Authoritarian fearmongering morons like Dr. Wen have whipped the weak-minded in our society (like Julie Cain Landrum and Potato Head Stephanie Fitzharris) into a gaggle of scared rabbits who are afraid of their own shadows – and thus won’t go spend money at Cry & Whine, apparently:
This is known as “shooting yourself in the dick” and it is nobody’s fault but your own. Either get your head screwed on straight and understand that Covid is not the end of the world, or suffer the consequences of your own stupidity, mmmkay? Don’t sit there and Cry & Whine about how the City and everyone else is “against small business”
You also might want to try being open for more than a few hours a week. That is not a business – it is a hobby lemonade stand tucked away inside another small business and nobody knows it’s there because you are too cheap to buy signage. This is also your fault, and not the fault of Covid:
EVERY OTHER BUSINESS on the square is open AT LEAST 40 hours a week. That’s what it takes. But Julie Cain Landrum can’t be bothered with that. She’d rather blame Covid and the “bias” of the city of Lampasas against people like her. It makes it easier to be handed free tax dollars like her idiot sister Becky Strassner:
The economy is booming in Texas and this weasel is STILL SCAMMING Covid “relief” funds. What a scum bag.
The bottom line is that neither Covid nor anti-business “bias” are your problem. The problem is that Julie Cain Landrum is unfit to run a business. She is merely a dummy who thought “I like wine! I’ll open a wine bar” and that’s about as much thought as she likely put into it.
I mean, she gets flustered by a single mosquito or a package of Emory boards! How the hell is she going to deal with the demands of running a small business? She isn’t. She’s going to fuck it all up and then blame it on a cold virus:
Emory board packages….mosquitoes…fireworks. It doesn’t take much to throw Julie Cain Landrum into a tizzy and ruin her day. It’s no wonder she can’t even run a hobby lemonade stand without falling to pieces – like most rabid liberals, she is likely mentally ill.
Honest to GOD, I was just about to sit down three days ago and make a nice post about how awesome the Lampasas ISD was for not being sucked back into the mask mandate bullshit and for returning to normalcy – free of Plexiglas and social distancing and the rest of the nonsense.
Then Chane had to go and screw the pooch with this nugget the very next day:
This collective bullshit is known as “hygiene theater” and it is completely useless. Even more useless than the “security theater” the TSA puts on at the airport when they grab grandpa’s nutsack before getting on the airplane.
Extra cleaning routines DO NOTHING. The Covid battle is not fought on surfaces. I’m pretty sure that was all proven about a year ago. This is nothing more than a charade put on by Chane Rascoe to appease the small number of idiot parents who probably can’t balance their checkbooks, let alone understand a bar graph. Like Veronica Rose.
Social distancing? An even bigger joke – which was proven by people a hell of a lot smarter than Chane Rascoe or Chels LaJuan. But they’re going to do it anyways – because they are assholes who don’t care about science or doing psychological damage to little kids. They just want to (a) appease a tiny number of moron parents and (b) protect their $170,000 per year jobs by “doing something” – even if that “something” is totally useless in stopping viral spread and most likely does damage to kids.
Banning parents from campus? You mean the very same parents that all these kids go home to every night and spend the next 17 hours with? That makes a lot of sense – seeing as how most transmission takes place in the home already. Banning parents from campus is – you guessed it! – more useless theater that accomplishes nothing except to fuck up the kids’ school experience.
Time for a gut check on ACTUAL RISK of dying from Covid. Nothing is more ridiculous than reading these pearl-clutching women on Facebook (**cough**Julie Landrum**cough**) get hysterical over “my best friend’s sister’s husband’s mom” died of Covid at 49 years old and she was super healthy!”
That is called an “anecdote”, assuming you can even believe it. Your (likely false) anecdote is meaningless in the big picture.
What are YOUR odds of dying from Covid? New pre-print from John Ioannidis (most cited living scientist alive). He charted comparable odds.
If you’re under 50 you have a better chance of dying from drowning, choking on food, sunstroke or dying from a sharp object.
This is MATH. These are FACTS. Your ‘feelings’ don’t enter into it. Pull your head out and get a grip.
“It has come to my attention”. Jesus lady, you really think you’re in charge of the planet, don’t you? A year and a half of telling everyone to wear a mask and get vaccinated and generally playing a mini-Hitler douche will do that to a person, I guess.
Hedge a bet? I think you mean MAKE a bet, idiot. Middle-aged potato-head cow trying to sound cool and failing badly. You HEDGE a bet by taking some secondary action to lock in profit on the original bet, dipshit.
I’m sorry, but kids in the 18-22yo age group have about 250,000-1 odds of dying from Covid. Their chances of dying in a car crash are about 50 times higher. Therefore, if you are in the 18 to 22yo age group and scared to go outside without a piece of cloth on your face (which has been PROVEN to be useless), that means you are clinging to a security blanket – and are therefore a pussy.
Young adults don’t need security blankets or teddy bears. Unless, of course, they are actually pussies.
Any college kid wearing a mask SHOULD be berated and mocked. Because they are definitely being a pussy. If some kid was walking around in water wings at age 21 because there was one chance in a million that a flood might happen, I’d call him a pussy too.
Let’s face it – sometime you gotta call a pussy a pussy. If I was on a fishing trip and some kid was scared to bait a hook and called it “icky”, he is a pussy. There is simply no other way to put it.
Afraid to run from the house to your car in the rain without an umbrella? Pussy.
Won’t do a shot of whiskey with your boys on a camping trip? Pussy.
Scared to shoot a shotgun? You guessed it…..pussy.
I’d probably throw “doesn’t know how to drive a stick shift” in there, too.
Of course, Potato Head Stephanie Fitzharris raised a kid who turned out to be a total pussy, so it is unsurprising she is unable to identify other pussies. Half the reason we are in this Covid mess and people are afraid of their own shadows is because parents like Potato Head Stephanie Fitzharris raised a bunch of pussies and unleashed them upon us. Pussies can’t think for themselves – so we have 23-year-old girls driving in cars by themselves with masks on.
Ridiculous.
If your kid has green hair, lives in Oregon, loves communism and whines publicly that he is too stupid/poor/lazy to get “art supplies” on his own at the age of 31, then you have raised a pussy.
If this isn’t a pussy, then I don’t know what is
This is what happens when your idiot mom fills your head with liberal horseshit from a young age and withholds spankings – you think there are no genders and you dress like an androgynous retard….which makes you a pussy.
Pussies cannot use logic. They think that if t-shirts, rocks and bowling balls have no gender, then OBVIOUSLY people don’t either. You REALLY did a number on this kid, Potato Head. Christ.
One final point – proof of vaccination at a football game means absolutely nothing in terms of stopping any spread. We NOW know that the vax isn’t worth a shit. Vaxxholes can still spread the disease AND get sick AND die. So what is the point of getting it? In fact, vaxxholes can carry 250x the viral load of non-vaxxed and it is likely this latest surge is actually CAUSED by vaxxholes taking a “leaky vax” and making things WORSE. You vaxxholes are actually the super-spreaders!!
You know what you call the people who ran out like scared rabbits and got the vaccine even though they were young and healthy and probably already had Covid and recovered and whose natural immunity is FAR STRONGER than the vaccine? People who were willing to trade their freedoms for perceived safety?
Waco public school students, teachers and staff will be required to wear masks beginning Monday due to the rising number of COVID-19 cases in Waco schools, Waco ISD Superintendent Susan Kincannon said Thursday.
In a letter to families and school employees, Kincannon said she will order face masks to be worn inside all schools and district buildings, noting that since classes started Monday, 55 people that had spent time at a campus or other facility had tested positive for COVID-19.
Fifty-five positive tests in a school system with 14,500 students. In other words, literally 99.7% of students did NOT test positive. Clearly, this bitch was never a math teacher.
This woman then continues to lie her face off:
“In my visits to schools this week, I was heartened to see many (but by no means all) of our students and employees voluntarily wearing masks,” Kincannon wrote. “Masks have repeatedly been shown to reduce the spread of the virus, and increasing the number of people wearing masks will make our schools a safer place in the midst of this pandemic. We will continue to consult with medical experts and monitor both legal and public health developments. Right now, though, I believe that Waco ISD has to do our part to stop the spread of COVID-19 in our community.”
That is a bald-faced lie. There is no simpler way to state it. This woman is a liar who wants to smother kids in face diapers. That makes her a special kind of scumbag. If the Waco ISD school board had any balls whatsoever, she would be fired tomorrow for child abuse. She should lose her ridiculous $250,000 salary, her pension AND her freedom. She should be jailed as a child abuser.
Period.
This simple-minded tyrant is in charge of the educational opportunities of other people’s children. She is clearly unhealthy, does not take care of herself physically, and is choosing to smother herself with a face diaper despite being vaccinated. She clearly has a mental disorder
She is a political hack with no school-aged children attempting to hurt other people’s children.
I encourage ALL parents of kids in the Waco school system to ignore this half-wit. You should send your kids to school MASKLESS next week and see what they do. If your child is suspended or expelled, you now have grounds for a massive lawsuit. PARENTS are the ones who make medical decisions for their kids. NOT political hacks and half-wits like Susan Kincannon.
These people are evil and you shouldn’t feel the need to be nice or cordial to them. Remember that they are trying to abuse your children, they are your enemy, and they should be treated as such. Under no circumstances should you attempt to find common ground with them. They seek to destroy your way of life, and you should seek to destroy theirs.
I really can’t believe we are back at this point once again. Almost TWO YEARS after the virus was released from a Chinese lab, and after mountains of evidence shows masks and social distancing do nothing, and after more mountains of evidence show kids are not at risk from this virus, and after ANYONE who wants the supposedly “awesome” vaccine can have one for free – people like this are still freaking out:
Your son is terrified because YOU terrified him.
Kids like this used to get wedgies. Now they get interviews on CNN. Newsflash – you’re gonna get sick, kid. It’s part of life. This is why science gave us immune systems.
This is a mental disorder. People like this should not be taken seriously in a sane society, and luckily in Lampasas they are the minority. Unfortunately, all is takes is a few loud morons like this to cause bad policies to be implemented by idiot school bureaucrats in the name of “safety”.
This kid wrongly believes that he will die from COVID if an airborne virus gets into his mouth, and that wearing a mask somehow will prevent that from happening. This is what the mask symbolizes to children. We have trained them to be afraid to breathe air because there is a killer virus lurking all around them that is looking for any opening it can find to get in their mouth. Keep the mask on or die.
He clearly doesn’t know that children almost never die from the virus. He doesn’t realize that he is infinitely more likely to die in a car accident than he is from COVID. He is not old enough to use logic like this on his own, so it’s up to his parent to be the adult and tell this child the truth. But she’s not doing that. Instead she’s exacerbating his fear and watching him plunge deeper into insanity.
If my daughter told me she thought the bogeyman was under her bed I would tell her she has nothing to worry about. If Veronica Rose’s son told her he thought the bogeyman was under his bed she would probably tell him that he was right, but if he wears a mask the bogeyman will leave him alone.
All it takes is a couple of moron, snowflake parents to start an avalanche. An avalanche that spooks our $170,000 per year superintendent to implement some new idiocy like mask mandates or remote learning – or worse. That is the LAST thing these kids need after being screwed last year.
The whole Facebook kerfuffle was started by THIS complete and utter moron – Chels LaJuan. The fact that this person is in charge of FOUR young lives as a single mother should scare the shit out of you. She is barely literate, has a low IQ and is ranting about how everyone needs to bow to her insane and illogical fears by re-implementing “online learned” [sic]:
This idiot ALSO wrongly believes that her kid will die from COVID if an airborne virus gets into her mouth, and that wearing a mask somehow will prevent that from happening. She thinks we should all have to accommodate her emotionally fragile offspring.
This Chels nitwit probably texts while driving, lets her kids wander freely around unprotected swimming pools without knowing how to swim, owns three pit bulls, and lets them play with plastic bags from the dry cleaners – but this VIRUS is what REALLY frightens her. This is a person who is incapable of rational thought and should not be in charge of four kids.
Online “learned” [sic] was a massive failure. Trust me, with you as a parent, this kid needs all the help she can get. Everyone needs to stop being such pussies. Stop getting your kid tested every time they sneeze. You are clearly a moron who can barely run your own life – don’t you dare try and call the shots for anyone else.
It’s all so “simply”! Just put these poor teachers through the useless bullshit of remote learning and impose all those costs again because this hood rat demands it:
These people are evil and you shouldn’t feel the need to be nice or cordial to them. Remember that they are trying to abuse your children, they are your enemy, and they should be treated as such. Under no circumstances should you attempt to find common ground with them. They seek to destroy your way of life, and you should seek to destroy theirs.
Do you think the City had any clawback provisions in that “agreement” with Finney when they handed him over $100,000 in taxpayer dollars?? Maybe a clause that says “if you sell these things for a ridiculous windfall profit, you give us our $100,000 back”?
Hell no. Finney is going to see a roughly $2.5 million windfall from this deal. This is typical when idiot politicians like TJ Monroe, Chuck Williamson and Misti Talbert get involved in handing out subsidies: any profits are privatized and go into the pockets of developers. Any losses are eaten by the taxpayers.
That’s why they live in mansions while Talbert and Monroe have trouble adding 2+2 together.
Once again, we see proof the Talbert administration (along with TJ Monroe, and Chuck Williamson) was a colossal failure and waster of tax dollars.
Misti is gone as mayor, but don’t let out any sighs of relief. She is now running the LEDC….into the ground, as it looks from my point of view.
