S2M2 Is Going To Fail To Meet Their Economic Incentives Obligations. Will The City Do Anything About it??

Well, S2M2 is finally working on house #7 – and they promised 22 houses by the end of this year. I’m going to go ahead and say they aren’t going to make it (as I have said many times before).

So what will happen? Well, after watching Martin Rod & Custom take a shit on Finley’s head with THEIR agreement (costing the City $45,000 and delivering zero jobs while violating every term of the “agreement”) I am guessing nothing at all.

The City will NOT claw back the $185,000 they handed over to S2M2 after believing all their bullshit. Nor will they get back the tens of thousands they spent to bury power lines for the ill-fated development.

Here is the Brodie Estates agreement for those of you who love reading mountains of bullshit.

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I’m guessing the City’s hack attorney JC Brown made about $10,000 in billing off of THIS useless agreement, too.

What a great racket she has going!!

But don’t worry. Just because the City got shit on by Martin AND S2M2 doesn’t mean they won’t strike a shrewd deal with the secret Business Pork prospect. After all: Misti Talber is in charge!!

Ruh Roh! Lampasas Sales Tax Receipts Fall AGAIN. That’s Two Months In A Row.

Could it be that the recession is finally showing up? Methinks the answer is yes.

The state of Texas saw sales tax receipts GROW by a fairly healthy 6.4% compared to last June – but a big drop from LAST June’s 16.4% YoY number.

Lampasas sales tax receipts were DOWN for a second month. Falling 1.02% YOY (last month saw a 1.5% decline). Receipts were $231,245 versus last June’s $233,645.

Don’t worry though. The LEDC has announced “20 to 35” fake jobs created and a phantom $700,000 in capital investment by a secret company in the Business Park. We’ll turn the ship around in no time with wizards like Misti Talbert in charge of things.

Chairman Of Lampasas Democratic Party Comes Out In Favor Of Exposing Little Kids To Porn.

First, the Chairman of the Lampasas Democratic Party Clayton Tucker SDEC-24 TX came out in favor of child mutilation. Now he’s in favor of exposing 6-year-olds to porn?

Lib scum is angry that parents don’t want their little kids exposed to porn.

Yes, keeping shit like THIS from little kids is “banning” books. Sure it is….

What kind of organization lets a “man” like Clayton Tucker hold the title of “chairman”? Disgusting. Reminds me of another disgusting liberal pervert in town named Grady “Man Gravy” Lucas:

All he needs is a windowless van to complete his look.

What’s really weird, is that Comrade Clayton Tucker doesn’t have any kids. He has never even had a girlfriend that I have seen, for that matter – so he will likely NEVER have kids unless he figures out a way for science to allow Beto O’Rourke to breed him.

Unlikely.

Kind of makes you wonder about his keen interest in little kids, doesn’t it?

Then again, the guy he voted for and worships ALSO has a penchant for little kids, doesn’t he?

Economic Director Stacey Ybarra Attends Nerf Conference – City Pays To Learn Obvious Facts I Have Written About Here For Years (For Free).

Well, better late than never.

Unfortunately, the City had to pay over $1,100 to send Economic Director Stacey Ybarra (starting salary $85,000 plus retirement and medical benefits of over $30,000 per year) on a junket to the Texas Economic Development 2023 Mid-Annual Conference in Dallas a couple of weeks ago.

I have written about these ridiculous Nerf vacations before:

Nerf Job = Nerf Workshops + Nerf Travel

Stacey came back with all SORTS of nuggets of wisdom! Just look:

No way! The world needs people willing to work who have skills, and the colleges are churning out idiots majoring in social justice and gender studies? Who knew???

She got some fancy buzzwords for her money, too. Like “little emperors” – which is a fancy term for “lazy assholes who think they are above getting their hands dirty to earn an honest living.” Like Clayton Tucker.

Oh wait. Everyone has known that for years now. If Stacey had ever worked in the private sector (or even lived in Lampasas) she would have seen it with her own eyes, like the rest of us. The only difference is Stacey Ybarra gets paid $85,000 per year (plus over $30,000 in retirement and medical insurance benefits) to go to Nerf conferences and be told the obvious – and we don’t.

Those of us who run small businesses have known for YEARS that labor is tight – and part of the problem is libtards paying people not to work and also telling them they didn’t have to pay back their school loans or pay their rent because of a fake pandemic. That obviated their need to earn a living.

Many others are just lazy assholes who live with their moms.

If Stacey read here and learned from the lessons put forth, she would have known it too:

Why the Business Park is a Disaster That Cannot Be Fixed (Feb 2022). Where I wrote yet again:

#4 Do we even really NEED the jobs??? Like a general fighting the last war, the LEDC acts like we are some worn-out, down-on-their-luck steel mill town desperate for jobs. The reality is quite the opposite! Every single business in town is hiring and cannot find workers. There are something like 4 million more jobs than workers in this country.

So if jobs are plentiful, why is the LEDC wasting $7,000,000 to bring MORE jobs?

But reading words of wisdom on these pages doesn’t cost a dime and doesn’t come with a fancy title. So instead she goes to empty rooms like this to listen to eggheads state the obvious:

The LEDC now skims over $400,000 PER YEAR off of sales taxes (see Part VIII, line 11a). The City pays the Economic Development Director $85,000 plus over $30,000 in benefits.

Are the citizens really getting over a HALF MILLION DOLLARS of value from all this bullshit every year?

I think you know the answer.

This Is Why Only Men Should Be Cops

Pathetic.

In New York, lesbian cop partners have to get help from some random MAN on the street to subdue a whacked out bum. Then they whip out some pink handcuffs.

I thought this was fake, at first. But like so many stories today, it is sadly true. No wonder the thugs, freaks and weirdos are running wild these days.

“Diversity is our strength!” LOL

Video of two idiots failing to arrest a crazy bum.

“Anything you can do, I can do…….Hey sir, please help!!”

Guess they checked all the boxes EXCEPT proficient at being a cop.

This is how the world will look when the lefty idiots like Stephanie Fitzharris get their dream of disarming police and replacing them with social workers – preferably black and gay social workers.

Is The Roof Already Failing At The $1.5 Million City Council Chambers?

I guess $1.5 million doesn’t go as far as it used to.

Recall, the City blew over $1.5 million “remodeling” the Old City Hall Building a few years ago.

First they sold the building for $75,000. Then they bought it back about a year later for $229,000. This was fairly typical for the idiots running things between 2013 and 2022.

City manager Finley DeGraffenreid explained away this colossal waste by telling us that a lot of improvements were made in that year. LOL.

OK.

Anyways, when they paid JNW Architects $18,500 (October 2016) for a “structural analysis” of the building, apparently the roof passed muster.

Unfortunately, the City then spent $45,194 to re-roof the building about two years later. So much for all those “improvements” the City paid $154,000 for, right Finley?

Well, the roof debacle might not be over yet.

From tomorrow’s City council packet (page 70):

“After noticing some plaster deterioration in the corners of the Calvert Building, staff reached out to Clark roofing to assess any possible penetrations or deficiencies in the roofing. The roof was installed in 2018 and is still under warranty….once the leak or leaks are fixed, staff will complete repairs to the interior.”

Oh. So will Clark pay for those repairs to the interior too? Or will Ryan Ward just go to the money tree and shake it a few times and let the taxpayers pay for yet ANOTHER costly mistake by a contractor?

Lest you think I’m kidding, recall that the Old City Hall elevator was such a disaster that the City had to pay $17,000 (out of their own pockets) for a 3-year maintenance contract because the elevator was breaking down so much.

I’m sure it’ll be different this time, though!

“Experts” Predicted Global Cooling When I Was A Kid.

You’d think people would be more skeptical of the “experts” after the Covid/masking/social distancing/vaccine debacle. But you’d be wrong. They are dumber than ever and gulping down “global warming” bullshit by the gallon.

It wasn’t always about “global warming” – not too long ago, the “experts” were singing quite a different tune.

Here are some headlines from the “experts” when I was a kid:

 “The Earth’s Cooling Climate,” Science News, November 15, 1969.

“Colder Winters Held Dawn of New Ice Age,” Washington Post, January 11, 1970.

“Science:  Another Ice Age?”  Time Magazine, June 24, 1974.

“The Ice Age Cometh!”  Science News, March 1, 1975.

“The Cooling World,” Newsweek, April 28, 1975.

“Scientists Ask Why World Climate is Changing; Major Cooling May Be Ahead,” New York Times, May 21, 1975.

“In the Grip of a New Ice Age?” International Wildlife July-August, 1975.

“A Major Cooling Widely Considered to Be Inevitable,” New York Times, September 14, 1975.

“Variations in the Earth’s Orbit, Pacemaker of the Ice Ages,” Science magazine, December 10, 1976.

Don’t even get me started on the acid rain bullshit.

Millennials Are The Biggest Liars, According To New Survey. I Believe It. Clayton Tucker Is Exhibit A.

It’s Seal Bashing Saturday!

File this under “obvious”:

They lie on social media? No way! Like claiming to be a cowboy when they aren’t?

Or a farmer??

Or a rancher? LOL.

Or having “special knowledge” of energy policy? BAHAHAHAHA

Where else are they lying? On their resumes!

Fabricating stuff on their resumes? Who does that? Oh yeah….

Whether it is on resumes or social media, whether it’s about being a cowboy, a rancher, an energy expert or a farmer – Comrade Clayton Tucker SDEC-24 and Chairman of the Lampasas Democrats has lied about it. It has ALL been chronicled here on these pages.

Pathetic.

Don’t Forget The BLM Supporters Either. They ‘Defunded Police’ And Caused Current Crime Waves.

Some of the same people who were rabid Covid Culters in 2020 were ALSO full-in on the Black Lives Matter scam. BLM made the claim that innocent blacks were being systematically targeted by the police due to systemic racism. That was total nonsense, of course.

There WAS no epidemic of “racist” shootings.

In actuality, BLM is a socialist front group and scammed millions from gullible fools like Stephanie Fitzharris. The checks that guilty, self-hating white liberals like Stephanie Fitzharris wrote to BLM from her husband’s checking account went directly to scammers who used it to buy lavish homes.

Two super white sisters virtue signal to each other and to everyone on Facebook. They are holier than thou.

Plenty of studies show that blacks are NOT killed at a higher rate. But this garbage “fact” led to police officers being vilified and crucified. It also led to the “defund police” movement – which resulted in the MUCH higher crime rates we are seeing today.

You can thank BLM supporters like Stephanie Fitzharris for that as well. As usual, once the policy she screamed loudly for backfired and caused massive crime spikes in HER town, she backpedaled furiously and pretended she never said any of that stuff – just like she now pretends she WASN’T an insane Covid Cult loon:

Potato Headed Lib Stephanie Fitzharris Beclowns Herself Yet Again

There WAS no systemic ‘brutality’ against blacks – it was all bullshit

“Remember when I was a rabid BLM idiot and screamed to defund police and wanted social workers to talk compassionately to car jackers? Turns out I didn’t really mean that now that my shitty town of Austin is overrun by crime!”

Idiot.

Potato-Headed Far-Left Authoritarian Clown Lost Her Mind Over Covid. Never Forget.

Three years after the Covid Cultists panicked and went full “Good German,” a lot of these far-left liberal Covid loons have erased their Facebook pages to bury the evidence. Some people like Stephanie Fitzharris, have started SEVERAL new profiles over and over to try create a false new persona and distance themselves from the truth.

Those people cannot be allowed to get away with it and it must NEVER be forgotten or forgiven. So we will be doing a tribute to remind EVERYONE of their true colors.

Stephanie Fitzharris was LOUDLY and CONSTANTLY screaming for FORCED masking and FORCED “vaccination” – and called for persecution of anyone who questioned her authoritarian view.

Potato head cheers for forced masking – which did NOTHING to stop the spread. Twat.
If you pointed out the vaccine didn’t stop the spread, you were spreading “disinformation.” Twat.
Children were not “asked” – they were FORCED. Twat.

Make no mistake about it: Stephanie Fitzharris would have turned you into the Covid police in a split second. She was all in favor of destroying small businesses because she herself had no job and could easily sit home and play with her inner child while others suffered.

Thankfully we have the Second Amendment here, so we didn’t turn into New Zealand or Australia – where they were setting up concentration camps for those who refused to get the “vaccine.” Naturally, Stephanie Fitzharris is no friend of the Second Amendment either:

She demanded censorship of anyone who suggested that Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine might work. She EVEN demanded the president of the United States be brought up on charges for suggesting HCQ might help – a position that was later proven correct.

Millions of American lost their jobs when they refused forced vaccination. To this very day, hospitals and air travel are highly disrupted by nurse and pilot shortages thanks to Joe Biden’s idiotic authoritarian policies. Stephanie Fitzharris is a HUGE Joe Biden supporter – and lover of Bernie Sanders, the socialist. She is a FAR left nut job. Do not forget that either. You can thank voters like Stephanie Fitzharris for the disaster that is Joe Biden:

She has been known to lie and say she wasn’t really a Democrat or a far left loon. That is not true. She is 100%, full-on libtard lefty Covid Cult loon and BLM supporter:

She is also full-on woke! Very, very woke. No wonder her own father can’t stand her. She’s annoying to the point where her own Dad told her to STFU:

Woke is not decency. It is horseshit ruining the country. Twat.

She also thinks CRT is just a hoax….

CRT is VERY real – and part of the push for communism. Twat.

…and she’s VERY much AGAINST voter ID laws to secure elections. When Georgia passed a law to tighten election security, MLB responded by taking the All-Star Game away from Georgia. Potato head Stephanie Fitzharris cheered this on:

Stephanie Fitzharris has lived in Oregon, California and Austin – all three of those are HARD CORE liberal bastions. She has praised Oregon repeatedly and told us last year she was going to sell their house in Austin and move back west to Oregon, where her commie-loving “son” lives…

Never forget. Never forgive. People like Stephanie Fitzharris belong in Oregon, California or North Korea. NOT in the fine state of Texas.