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.
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…
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 disastershave 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.
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….
“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?”
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”
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!
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:
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.
Socialists like Comrade Clayton Tucker are lazy and filled with envy. They want what others have but do not want to work for it. Unfortunately for Corade Clayton Tucker, he is too short, weak, doughy and effeminate to come to your house and take what he wants by force. A strong wind would knock him over.
So he votes for other scumbags to do it for him and calls it “fairness”.
Comrade Clayton bellyaches about “trickle down capitalism” all the time. He speaks of it derisively and with contempt.
In fact, it is more accurate to describe capitalism as “trickle up”
A business owner first pays salaries. Then rent. Then cost of goods, etc. Only if customers, suppliers, and employees consider themselves to have received a bargain is anything left over for the business owner.
Comrade Clayton has no clue about any of this because he has never run a business or created anything of value in his entire life. Hell, he’s never even had a real JOB!
This is an amazing list: 10 of the 15 richest Americans started their businesses this generation. The other 5 inherited from recent founders. Almost all these businesses brought dramatically better goods to the masses for dramatically lower prices.
Capitalism works!
Even if we confiscated ALL THE WEALTH ON THIS LIST, we could only give each American a mere $3,000. How quickly would the joy of receiving that $3,000 fade upon realizing there were no computers, no discount retail, no cheap energy, no online shopping?
There’s a reason the world’s poor come to America.
Here is the same list, but for European billionaires. More than half of them are heirs or kleptocrats European “equality” is a mirage. Economic mobility is a joke. It has been said that the US has poor, Europe has wards. Remember that when idiots like Comrade Clayton tells you we should copy Europe.
We don’t have a revenue problem. We have a spending problem. We are at the point now where entire Departments of the federal government need to be eliminated. I’d suggest the Departments of Education, Transportation, Homeland Security, Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS) Energy, Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the EPA for starters.
The 800,000 parasites who work in those departments will need to go find something useful to do.
None of those departments existed prior to 1953 and we got along just fine without them. Those useless parasites cost the country close to $2 TRILLION per year just in direct costs. The indirect costs are likely half of that.
Yes, of course! “We” should pay people more money. Sounds EXACTLY like the kind of hard-hitting economic analysis my 8-year-old kid would come up with. Pay the unskilled janitor $170,000 per year, if need be. Whatever it takes for a “living wage”, right?
Pardon me for asking, Comrade Rancher Clayton – but how many people does your ranch employ and at what wage? I assume your ranch that you supposedly run is part of that “we” you are talking about, right? Or is this the royal “we”? The “we” that never includes YOU – just lightens everyone else’s wallet?
What is the name of your ranch, by the way? You never did say during all your many lies posts about being a rancher! You DO sign the checks for all of your many, well-paid employees, right? You give them all full benefits, full health insurance and a big, fat $80,000 wage so they can live with dignity in retirement, right?
Who signs YOUR checks? Do you get a W2? Do you get a “living wage” from THEM? If so, why do you still live with mommy? If NOT, why don’t you quit and get a better job?
Nobody cares about your “soar” throat and positive Covid tests. Get a life, nerd.
This guy is definitely dumber than Haywood.
“Minimal discernable symptoms” but still crying like a pussy.
Covid will be with us forever, moron. So of course it is “very much with us” right this moment. So is the flu. So is syphilis. Those of us with brains said this almost three years ago but morons like Lucas and Haywood thought that if we JUST MASKED HARD ENOUGH, it would all go away – which was literally impossible thanks to animal reservoirs of the virus.
Why would anyone without symptoms bother getting tested or treated? Unless you were an insane hypochondriac little whiney bitch….like you.
You know what provided a “vessel for mutations“? Your mom’s uterus.
Younger populations are not affected by Covid. They are literally more likely to be eaten by a bear. However, they ARE being killed in large numbers by the “vaccine”. Hopefully, that goes for 67-year-old libtard shitbirds as well.
And finally, our chance to “get ahead of this thing” was to hang Fauci by his neck until dead for performing GOF research when it was strictly prohibited. Of course, we can still hope that day comes.
I asked Finley several clarifying questions about the Industrial Park agreement by email. Of course, he “didn’t have the agreement right in front of [him]”, so I didn’t get an answer to most of it.
Weird, because I only read it a couple times and I think I remember all the major points….and I’m not even a City manager making $200,000 in salary in benefits with an assistant who does all my busy work for me! Nor did I haggle over the minutiae of this deal for well over a year. But that’s just me.
Finley must be swamped with all the train wrecks currently going on around him like the disastrous Hostess House bidsand the skate park still not being done. Oh well. I’ll give you my synopsis – which is likely 100% correct. I’ll edit this later if Finley says I got something wrong.
#1 – Martin Rod & Custom (MRC) is renting the entire 5.6 acre parcel from the City for only $100 per month. Yes, you read that correctly – $17.50 per acre per month. Or about 1/20th of a penny per square foot. I remember a couple years ago when a farmer friend of mine said she was renting land for $500 per acre per month. Too bad she didn’t have a city government of the other side of HER deal!
Mind you, Martin himself admits he thinks he can rent this space out (boat and RV storage) for $50 per month per boat/RV for 50 boats/RVs and rake in $2,500 per month [see page 23 under Business Description]. I am doubtful he can pull that off, but I will humor him.
Making 25x your cost is not a bad ROI at all. He will make $30,000 per year if he is right – and pay the City $1,200 for the land he is using. At the very LEAST, he will cover his $100 per month with ease. Hell, he could just store his own personal crap there and come out ahead on this. So this is ZERO risk to him. None.
#2 – The City removed the concrete there for $38,300 SPECIFICALLY for MRC. So the City starts off in the hole that amount. The City lied about this in October of last year. This was the first gift.
#3 – The city can change and extend any of the deadlines in the deal, if they want to. So, if we get to June of this year and things are kind of a disaster for MRC, the City can give him more rope to save face when this ridiculous fairy tale fails to materialize (see page 15 – “The City may grant an extension to the deadlines noted herein…).
So far, we see zero upside for the City here: they spend almost $40,000 to clean up the land, collect $1,200 from MRC for the year and MRC pockets $30,000 for himself – and creates ZERO JOBS…which is supposedly the Prime Directive of Economic Development, as I understand it.
As far as I can tell, this “RV and boat storage” “phase” of the “agreement” may last one year OR it may last two years! A nice option for MRC – and I have no doubt he will take the entire two years. Why wouldn’t he?? That’s $60,000 in his pocket for doing very little. He can push the wild promises of “Phase II” out another year at no cost to himself.
#5 – MRC has the right BUT NOT THE OBLIGATION to buy the property for $165,000. This is the second gift. As a former professional derivatives trader myself, I can tell you this is known as a “zero-cost call” or a “free look”. All upside and no downside. The City can only renegotiate the price of the land if MRC takes longer than 18 months to shit or get off the pot. Until then? Free look.
If the real estate market takes off scorching hot again in the next 18 months (which I consider unlikely), MRC can grab the land at a bargain price. On the other hand, if the economy is deeper in the shitter and land prices are too, MRC can walk away from this entire thing, as I understand it.
I see nowhere in this document where he is FORCED to buy the land nor pay any penalty for not doing so. Finley can correct me if I’m wrong, but I’ll be damned if I can see any real penalty for walking away from this whole thing and never doing Phase II as described.
I am guessing that “deals” like this one will be struck for the Business Pork Project too, someday. All upside for a company which puts no skin in the game and all downside for the taxpayers.
