Happy Joe Stack Day

Who is Joe Stack?

So glad you asked. He was an American hero who flew his plane into an IRS building 13 years ago in North Austin.

I remember driving by that building and marveling at the destruction. Unfortunately, he only took out a single employee. But his heart was in the right place.

I invented this holiday 12 years ago in remembrance. It is to remind us that the IRS is a pure, unnecessary evil and anyone who works for them is a piece of shit and deserves pancreatic cancer. That also goes for anyone who cheers on the IRS too.

Fat fuck hasn’t filed taxes in over 23 years

“Agreement Finalized” On Industrial Park! What Are Details?

Well, it only took about 16 months, but according to the City: “the industrial park agreement has been finalized”. I only know this because I make it a point to ask them every single month. The fact it wasn’t trumpeted in the newspaper tells me it’s a shitty deal for the City.

So what are the details of this complex agreement that took 16 months to “finalize” with Martin Rod & Custom?

Well, they are making me wait on that, which surprises me not at all. Oh, and it’s a holiday weekend. So the earliest we get it is Tuesday – even though I requested it two days ago.

I’m going to go ahead and guess it is a giant joke that involves ZERO “breweries and cigar lounges”, creates ZERO primary jobs and is no more than two pages long, despite the fact it took almost 1.5 years to “finalize the agreement”.

We shall see…

P.S. – I’m losing track of all the “possible distilleries and microbreweries” around here! The LEDC was yammering about one in the old Rutland’s building (nothing has happened there for three years), then you have our buddy Mike Hardin and his Train Depot, which was ALSO touted as a sit for a microbrewery. Now this one!

For The “Schools Need More Money!” Crowd…

I’ve spoken before about the Kansas City, Missouri disaster “experiment” where a judge forced taxpayers to VASTLY increase spending on schools and NOTHING changed. The incredible story is HERE.

There is ALSO the fact that the U.S. spends FAR MORE per pupil than any other industrialized nation – and has far shittier results. CLEARLY, it is not about “more money” for schools. They have a TON of it already:

The US spends more on education than other countries. Why is it falling behind?

[The US spent an average of $16,268 a year per student, well above the global average of $10,759 – those are 2017 numbers. It is FAR worse now.]

Now we have more proof from Chicago that throwing piles of money at the schools is NOT the answer:

Spry Community Links High School, in the Heart of Little Village in Chicago, says its vision is to “provide a challenging and supportive environment…to enable our students to succeed in the 21st century.”

Number one on the school’s focus list?

“Increasing reading and math scores to or above grade level.”

But a look at state data that tracks reading and math scores for each Illinois school reveals two frightening facts about Spry. Not a single one of its 88 kids at the school can read at grade level. It’s the same for math. Zero kids are proficient.

Spry is one of 30 schools in Illinois where not a single student can read at grade level. Twenty-two of those schools are part of the Chicago Public Schools and the other eight are outside Chicago. 

The failure list in math is even longer. There are 53 schools statewide where not one kid is proficient in math.

And only 1 out of 10 kids or less can do math at grade level in 930 schools…that’s more than a quarter of all schools in the state.

Defenders of the current system are sure to invoke covid as the big reason for the low scores. But a look at the 2019 numbers show that the reading and math numbers were only slightly better than they are now.

Take Spry, for example. Just 2 of the school’s 127 students in 2019 could read at grade level before the pandemic. In math, zero students were proficient.

The failure isn’t about money, either. Data from the Illinois State Board of Education shows spending at Spry was already at $20,000 per student before the pandemic.

Today it spends $35,600.

THIRTY-SIX THOUSAND!!!!

What’s really incredible is that many of these schools are rated “commendable” by the Illinois State Board of Education. That’s the 2nd-highest of four “accountability” ratings a school can receive.

Not a single one of the 113 students at Sandoval Sr High School can read or do math at grade level. And yet the school is “commendable.”

Same with Ralph Ellison Chicago International Charter School. Over $24,000 spent on each of its 172 students. Labeled “commendable.” And none of the students are proficient in either reading or math.

In a sane world, schools that don’t and can’t teach a single student the most basic of skills would be shut down. But here, they carry on…the system thrives while students wither.

The libtards bleat for more money constantly, but that is CLEARLY not the answer.

“Mighty” Mike Irvin Has Done More For Business In Four Years Than LEDC Has Done In 22 Years With $7.1 Million

Mike Irvin for Mayor and LEDC President!

Today’s Dispatch article shows the stark difference between the free market and a bunch of government nitwits running in circles for the last twenty-two years.

New developments take shape on Fourth Street

As far as I know, the City has never given Irvin a dime of taxpayer money, and look at all the shit he’s done in the last three or four years. Here are some excerpts:

His building facing south at the corner of East Fourth and Briggs Street will include 12,000 square feet of finished space. Irvin said he is seeking users for the building, including those interested in operating an eatery.

Irvin is particularly excited about the strip construction, which may become the home to future law offices and medical care providers. Irvin said he is looking for five different users for the facility.

His last big project in Lampasas was construction of the Marketplace shopping center off U.S. Highway 281 along Sulphur Creek. Irvin believes the new strip center will be even more attractive, and working on the Fourth Street projects simultaneously will be more cost-effective.

So, just to recap:

LEDC – will have spent over $7.1 million and 22 years on their “business park” project. They are currently paying Stacey Ybarra $85,000 PLUS bennies to try and find tenants for the park. Number of businesses in park since this fiasco started 22 years ago? Zero.

“Mighty” Mike Irvin – spends his OWN money over the last four years or so and has already created spaces for MANY businesses.

Many thanks to Mike Irvin for being a shining light of the entrepreneurial spirit and strong example of free-market capitalism!!

Disband the LEDC!

Socialist Bum Celebrates 32nd Birthday Still Living With Mom

Take a good look kids…this is where being a socialist bum for 32 years gets you: alone on Valentine’s Day posting a pathetic virtue signal as you pump your poisoned, ‘vaccine’-tainted blood into the public blood supply.

Netroots Nation is a commie convention attended by traitorous scumbags like Ilhan Omar and Bernie Sanders

Must be tough to find a girlfriend or wife when you live in mom’s upstairs bedroom. Most 32-year-olds are well into their careers and starting families. They are making good money and can take care of themselves. They pay their own rent, buy their own insurance and contribute to society as a productive worker.

Commies are red, socialists too

When it comes to the real world, they haven’t a clue

Now where have I seen those colors on his t-shirt before?? They look very familiar.

Oh right….

Ironically, Comrade Clayton was born the exact same year the USSR fell – which was yet ANOTHER example that socialism cannot work and ALWAYS ends in misery and mass death. But here we are 32 years later, with this dumb kid thinking “well, THIS time it’ll work! We’ll just call it “DEMOCRATIC socialism”! I blame his parents for this. They allowed, nay, encouraged their commie son to follow this path and they enable it to this day by shielding him from the real world in their upstairs bedroom.

We can NEVER rest until every commie scumbag is run out of the Great Republic of Texas.

Sweden Throws Away 8.5 million Doses of Covid Vaccines

Naturally, you won’t hear this on the news.

Just a few weeks after a massive conference in Stockholm where top doctors warned about the dangers of the mRNA shots, news is coming out that Sweden has thrown away almost 8.5 million doses of the covid shots.

That means that around 1/5th of all covid vaccines Sweden bought has been destroyed. The cost to the taxpayer of buying in these shots only to be thrown away was a whopping $144 million. That is money that went straight down the drain because the state bought something that people do not want.

And they even admit that the reason they have been forced to throw away all these doses is because people do not want them anymore. The people are sick and tired of these dangerous garbage shots.

It seems like maybe people have woken up and realized that the “conspiracy theorists” were right.

These shots aren’t traditional vaccines. They are a brand new gene therapy technology that has no long term safety data. Every single person that took the shots, they were the test subjects. We have no idea what happens to them in the next 5 or 10 years.

Hey, maybe Sweden can send them over here to “Doctor” James Cain. He loves them! He can shoot them into the arms of local morons like Haywood and Tucker. Win-win for everyone!!

I Wondered Why the Recent Michigan State Mass Shooter Was Barely In the News…Told Myself “This Guy Must Be Black”

…and he is.

Police identify gunman in deadly rampage on Michigan State University campus

Shocker. The black mass shooters are always kept very quiet. I’m surprised I see ANY black mass shooters because libshits keep insisting there aren’t any at all. Ever. It’s only straight, white males who are a pox on America, according to retards like Clayton Tucker…

They didn’t count the black guy that killed 10 people in Wal-Mart a few months ago either.

This is why libshits are so ignorant and misinformed about everything from useless masks to useless vaccines to the “global warming” scam. They listen to CNN and that’s it. Total mindless parrots repeating what that one channel tells them.

Pearce Facing Off Against Kuehne in Mayoral Race. Time For Man At The Helm.

Another prediction comes true…Cathy “Pork Chop” Kuehne is definitely running for mayor – as is Herb Pearce.

This is a no-brainer. Let’s look at pros and cons:

Kuehne:

Lost her mind during the Covid “pandemic” and became a Covid Cult loon – meaning she is incapable of doing basic cost/benefit analysis.

Has supported every single big-ticket waste of money project that was put in front of her (Old City Hall renovation, Hostess House debacle, Business Pork project) – “even if it costs a bit more” (her words). Has never worked in the private sector. Cannot write or spell at a fifth-grade level.

Pearce:

Did NOT lose mind during Covid, as far as I could see. Has a man brain – which means he is likely to be more logical and rational than a female. Don’t shoot the messenger, but that is a scientific fact. Millions of years of evolution made it that way, not me. Don’t bother showing me some study you dug up from HuffPost either. All you have to do is look at the top geniuses of all time. Newton, Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman, Maxwell, Tesla, DaVinci, Edison. All men.

Look at the top 100 chess players in the world. All men.

[If it is any consolation, ladies, we also have more retards and criminals at the low end of the Bell Curve. Like, 12 times more. Which is why the prisons are filled with 93% stupid males.]

Now granted, there are SOME guys running around today with female brains in their skulls, like Bruce Haywood and Clayton Tucker and any other “man” who is a rabid liberal. This makes them fall for hysterical nonsense like “global warming”, using pinwheels for electricity and socialism. These poor saps are to be pitied and never elevated to any positions of power. I don’t think Pearce is in that group, but I’m pretty sure Kuehne is.

Herb Pearce for Mayor!!

As I said almost a year ago:

Unfortunately, I think Kuehne has her sights set on being mayor someday. That cannot happen. She is part of the Talbert Faction of Cronies. This includes Misti Talbert (now wreaking financial havoc at the LEDC), TJ Monroe (current mayor), and Chuck “The Vampire” Williamson (who has his strings pulled by Monroe). It is an incestuous group that has squandered incredible sums of money over the last 6 or 8 years.

All remnants of the Talbert Faction of Cronies need to be pushed out of the Lampasas political body like a large bowel movement and flushed down the toilet. We need more council members who have actually lived in the real world and run a REAL small business. Zac Morris and Herb Pearce were a good start. 

New Economic Development Director Stacey Ybarra Will Make $85,000 Per Year To Start.

Wow.…and that doesn’t include the fat bennies either (roughly $30,000 if history is any guide). Total cost to the taxpayer? Over $115,000

I’m pretty sure that’s MORE than Mandy Walsh made [page 96] AFTER she had been here five years already AND went to school for more training to get a bunch of letters after her name.

It’s also very fat considering there isn’t really any objective way to know if she is “doing a good job” at “directing the development” here!

I mean, if the guy who fixes water mains or downed power lines fucks up, you’ll know about it pretty fast when the line explodes again or the power doesn’t work. That guy is also called out of his nice warm bed plenty of times to fix those messes in shitty weather or the middle of the night.

Something tells me Stacey won’t have to do any of that for HER $85,000 – which is probably TWICE the money that poor guy who does REAL work makes!

Ain’t government work grand!

Now Finley might tell you “well, we only had a few applicants and we had to jack up the wage to attract some people”, which is funny because Finley NEVER uses that logic when trying to attract life guards to the pool for summer jobs. No, he’d rather just close the pool an extra day. Paying some local high school kids an extra buck an hour for the summer? Sorry – can’t afford it!

But when it comes to the Nerf job of “Economic Development Director”? Oh yeah – let’s shoot for six figures for someone who has NEVER held that position before! Sounds like a good idea!

I’d respond to THAT by saying: “maybe we don’t need anyone to “direct” our economic development in the first place. Let the free market do the job”.

And I’d be right.

Lampasshole Wins Bet. PhoLicious Raises Offered Wage From $13/hr to $15/hr In Houston. Still Behind Wal-Mart.

Ah…sweet victory! Trousdale FINALLY faced reality and jacked his offered wage in Houston from $13/hr (which I said would never do the trick) up to $15/hr (which is getting closer, but still behind the curve).

Wal-Mart still ahead of you, Joe!

If you’re new to all this, here is the synopsis:

The LEDC had high hopes that Pho-Licious would be a tenant in their $7.1 million sand box Business Pork project. I laughed at that.

PhoLicous hinted they were down with that, but then Pho-cked over the LEDC.

Then we learned that PhoLicious was creating ONE WHOLE JOB in Houston at $13/hr. Hardly the stuff for a bloated $7.1 million dollar pork project!

Then I laughed at the idea they would find anyone at that wage and bet my buddy it would never happen.

Then PhoLicous HIRED someone at $13/hr and it looked like I lost my bet.

Then the new hire ghosted Joe…bet still on!!

Finally, Joe bit the tit and raised his offer from $13 to $15 yesterday! Lampasshole for the win!

I find it hilarious that Wal-Mart (which we already have here) is paying MORE than PhoLicious (who the LEDC tried to lure into their Business Pork with subsidies). Wal-Mart has a lot more than one position at the store, too.

Just more proof that the LEDC is utterly incapable of seeing economic reality and accepting that their Business Pork will NEVER have any kind of ROI. It was all just a colossal waste of taxpayers’ money.

P.S. I’m not saying I’m a genius who can see the future a year down the road, but I’m not NOT saying that either. Here is what I said almost a YEAR ago about why PhoLicious wasn’t a viable Business Pork prospect:

#3 They don’t really employ anyone right now. I think it’s just the two of them doing everything themselves. Maybe have another body or two at $15/hr to put the kits together, but we are not talking a huge amount of jobs here. Certainly not enough to justify $7.1 million dollars in land, roads, electricity, water, etc that the Business Pork has committed to.