Just going to toss these out there…
Gee…what happened in 2010??
Some Interesting Correlations
Get Your Property Appraisals Yet?
Oh joy!
I don’t think the assessors got the message that the bubble has burst. Last March was the top in real estate. Prices are down 10% to 15% since then.
Just ask Potato Head Stephanie Fitzharris – who has had to lower the price on her Potato Patch in Austin from $999,999 down to $889,000 and it still hasn’t been sold.
Next stop $849,999, right Potato Head?
If you are unfortunate enough to live in Burnet County, then you are getting bent over even harder. Somebody has to pay for Keith McBurnett’s OUTRAGEOUS $205,000 salary – which is 20% higher than our own overpaid “Doctor” Chane Rascoe for the exact same number of students.
McBurnett is required to work 226 “duty days” per year. He also gets health insurance for “free.” So he is costing the taxpayers close to $1,100 per day for teaching zero kids. Nice work if you can get it.
There are some who bitch and moan about property taxes, even as they constantly demand the schools spend more.
Local retard Bruce Haywood was LOUDLY proclaiming that kids should NOT be going back to school during Covid in the summer of 2020 and held his own kid out of school. I predicted (quite correctly) that this was going to be a disaster and that morons like Bruce were going to cost the rest of us a fortune when remote learning failed. I wrote about it in July of 2020:
Idiots Like Bruce Haywood Are Going To Cost The Rest Of Us A Fortune
THEN, Bruce had the balls to complain about property taxes under Abbott! This was when he was cheerleading Beto for Governor last year:
But guess what? Bruce Haywood not only hasn’t filed federal taxes “for over 23 years…LOL”…
But Bruce Haywood ALSO PAYS $0.00 IN PROPERTY TAXES and has not paid anything in a VERY LONG TIME.
So to recap:
Bruce Haywood (1) demands the schools spend more all the time – school lunches, free this, free that, remote learning, etc (2) Bruce Haywood complains about high property taxes and suggests we elect a raging libtard named Beto to fix this problem (3) Turns out Bruce Haywood pays ZERO federal taxes, ZERO state income taxes (since Texas has none) and ZERO PROPERTY TAXES.
Funny though. Bruce has plenty of money to buy a brand-new pickup truck every couple of years. This is the same guy who wanted a solar farm here to “save the planet” but drives a gas-guzzling pick-up truck, even though he doesn’t need it at all.
This is the very definition of a PARASITE. Bruce is a scumbag, a piece of shit and a hypocrite. Fuck you, Bruce.
Industrial Park “Contract” Still Being Ignored By Martin’s Rod & Custom.
This is what’s known as ‘leverage.”
As in, “the City has none and Martin’s Rod has it all”
The City is so desperate to get someone in there, they’ll allow complete and utter disregard for the basic rules of the contract they signed. You know, basically the ONLY two rules they had: only boats and RVs allowed to be stored there….NOT trailers.
Makes me wonder why they pay JC Brown thousands upon thousands of tax dollars to draw these agreements up when they are routinely ignored.
I mean, seriously…what is the City going to do? Tell them the deal is off? No way. They’ll sit there and get shit on repeatedly – anything to avoid admitting they can’t get the “Industrial Park” filled and looking foolish publicly.
The same thing will happen at the end of this year when S2M2 doesn’t have their 22 houses built at Brodie Estates. Will the City claw back the $185,000 in taxpayer money that Talbert so generously handed to a private business? Hell no. They’ll pretend it didn’t even happen.
Color me cynical, but I don’t see “Phase II” happening by June 20th when Phase I was a complete flop so far.
City Attorney Still Silent On Name(s) Of Business Pork Project Prospects
Let’s be frank. Everyone on the LEDC knows the name of this secret business pork prospect. The City attorney knows the name. Likely, everyone on City council and more than a few City employees also know the name. At least three dozen people know who it is.
Yet City attorney J.C. Brown is silent and refuses to respond to my requests to name this prospect. Why? Is there a law against it? No. Is it because the prospect is such a joke, you cannot bear to let me know because I will ridicule it and poke a dozen holes in the entire idea? If that is true, you should be ashamed of yourselves for such a shitty prospect.
Is it Eco-Turd?? Please, God, let it be Eco-Turd.
Well, we will know in a day or two or I’ll be hiring my own lawyer again and also going after the City for my attorney’s fees. We have already been through this multiple times. You don’t have a leg to stand on, JC Brown. RELEASE THE NAMES!!!
If any of you naughty employees wants to leak it to me in total anonymity, feel free to drop me a line at lampasshole@protonmail.com
Tucker Versus Tucker
Such a wit!
Don’t worry, bozo. You will NEVER be compared to Tucker Carlson.
Tucker Carlson is smart, rich, educated, successful, adored by millions, reveres the Constitution, despises commies, knows the war in Ukraine is bullshit, knows the Covid vaccine is bullshit, knows J6 was bullshit, has sex with an actual female regularly, owns his own house and doesn’t live with his mom.
In other words, the complete opposite of you.
In fact, if I was presented with one of those “trolley dilemmas” where a trolley is barreling down the track and I have control of the switch and I can make the trolley go down one track with Clayton Tucker tied to the rails and the other track had a freshly-laid turd laid by Tucker Carlson, I would most definitely save the Carlson turd. No question.
Sophia DeLoretto-Chudy Is a Scumbag Commie “Teacher” Who Should Be Thrown Into a Wood Chipper.
Every day it gets crazier with these commies. This lunatic was in the news lately…
The purple hair, the nose ring, the hyphenated last name, the crazy eyes. Always.
Anyways, according to her TikTok (always with the TikTok), this “Austin teacher” was just innocently trying to teach her 3rd graders about their “legal and constitutional rights” and the evil administrators had a talk with her about that. From the article:
“But my favorite amongst them is, ‘We’ve noticed an intentional attempt at teaching your students about their legal and constitutional rights.’ That’s the concern,” she reveals. “Why are you concerned? Why is that a concern? Why does that concern you?”
Sophie, who is “queer until proven straight,” is outspoken about human rights on her social media platforms. She covers a plethora of current events, including the Queer Capitol March and Texas legislation.
“I have no other choice but to be political. life is depending on it,” reads her Instagram bio. “unwilling to die for the dow. abortion advocate.”
First of all, you moron, 8-year-olds DO NOT HAVE any legal or Constitutional rights. They are minors. They have legal guardians. They cannot enter into contracts or vote or even drive a car. They are nowhere close to the age of majority.
You have “no other choice but to be political”? Wrong. In all my years of schooling (1970s and 80s), not ONCE did ANY teacher ever talk politics with me. Certainly not Mrs. Shearer, my third grade teacher.
Your job is to teach them fractions and spelling. Beyond that? SHUT THE FUCK UP, you commie freak.
But these commies cannot shut up. They spend every waking hour indoctrinating your child. Like Mao (Red Guards), Hitler (Hitler Youth) and Pol Pot (Khmer Rouge) before them, they know that little kids are ignorant, highly susceptible to brainwashing and capable of horrible cruelty. It is not a coincidence you are seeing crazy tranny shit and global warming propaganda being spread on TikTok to kids. It is very much by design.
As Lenin once said: “Give me four years to teach the children, and the seed I have sown shall never be uprooted”
We are now reaping their sowing. We have morons like Clayton Tucker and Greg Casar running around actively promoting socialism and destroying the very fabric of this country. There are millions of them. AOC, Greg Casar and Delia Ramirez are just the tip of the shitberg.
You wonder how so many complete idiots with zero life experience who have literally NEVER HELD A JOB (sound familiar?) are now in Congress wreaking havoc with garbage like the $100 trillion dollar “Green New Deal”? This is how. We have a generation now of voting age who are devoid of critical thinking and have been brainwashed by these commie scum. It doesn’t matter if Biden and Fetterman are mental vegetables, because “Racism! Fascism! Transphobia” and whatever the TikTok screen tells them. They would vote for an armadillo, if their iPhone screen told them the other guy is a racist transphobe who wants to destroy the climate.
This Sophia twat is not a public school teacher “just trying to inform kids about civics.” This is a professional communist agitator who only very recently became a “teacher” in order to indoctrinate little kids and get paid by the taxpayers to do it.
I can’t even find her in GovSalaries at Becker Elementary. This means she very likely started “teaching” just this past year. Probably because chanting commie slogans with the other losers doesn’t pay the rent.
Here is a look at her LinkedIn resume. She hails from Oregon by way of California (of course) and was involved in multiple far-left organizations until recently. She was also heavily involved in “registering and turning out voters for the special elections of Rev. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff to the U.S. Senate, determining the control of the chamber” just over a year ago. She is a straight-up commie carpetbagger.
Oregon, California and the Georgia special senate election all in the last four years. Yeah, she’s just a committed Texas teacher who cares about your kids and innocently wants to teach them about their “legal rights” – NOT some commie freak jumping from state to state brainwashing your kids.
Yeah right, bitch. Lemme guess which legal rights you’re pushing. The “right” to be called by a made-up pronoun and have your dick or breasts chopped off without telling mom and dad? Maybe the “right” to get the ‘vaccine’ without mom and dad’s consent? Fuck you.
When the great state of Texas finally decides to secede and get away from these lunatics, commie scum like Sophia need to be rounded up, deported and permanently banned from ever entering the Great Republic of Texas ever again.
Socialist Donkey With IQ of 85 Wants To Spend $93 Trillion To “Save Planet”
Well, if the socialist Puerto Rican bartender said it, it must be true.
If Sandy Cortez can sit down and write out $93 trillion in numerical form and/or tell me how many millions are in a trillion, I’ll eat a bowl of my own feces.
Yes, by all means. Let’s go back to the Stone Age and live like animals so that the global temperature MIGHT be 1 or 2 degrees cooler in 100 years. Makes perfect sense. Especially considering your predictions from just 6 years ago were 100% wrong.
I don’t give a shit what the temperature will be in 100 years. I’ll be dead. You think anyone from 1920 gave a shit what the temperature would be today? No, they didn’t. Temperatures were HIGHER 10,000 years ago, LONG before the first fossil fuel was discovered.
Global temperatures go up and down over eons. Even if mankind WAS having that big of an effect (we aren’t), India and China are going to do whatever the fuck they want. They represent about 3 billion people – or roughly TEN TIMES more than the U.S. So while you are sitting in the dark thanks to unreliable windmills, the chinks are building a new coal-fired power plant every few WEEKS.
Goldfish Swim Tonight – Council Meeting 4-24-23
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.
Join us on Gab.com – for commentary.
I may soon have to retire the “goldfish” moniker since there are fewer and fewer dummies on City council compared to when I started this site almost 5 years ago. We now have non-goldfish like Pearce, Morris and Keele up there on the dais.
Hopefully after the elections next month, we will be rid of not only Monroe, but Kuehne as well. I’m seeing a LOT of Herb Pearce signs around town. Unfortunately, he has to deal with the Teachers Mafia – hundreds of teachers who will blindly vote for Kuehne just because SHE and her husband are also teachers. Gonna be tough to overcome that. But overcome that we must, if we are to avoid having our fourth substandard mayor in a row.
Tonight’s subjects:
Get ready to pay more for water and electricity!
Is Finley about to hang up his cleats and retire? Will Ryan “Forrest Gump” Ward be taking over in the next month?
Dealing with the Hostess House debacle.
Details of the new Business Pork prospect. Just kidding. You are not allowed to hear about that. It’s all Super Secret. You will only hear about it HERE on this blog after I battle with JC Brown and blow my own money hiring lawyers. Again.
Irving City Council Gives $75,000 Economic Incentive To Kelly -Moore Paint Co.
Here is a recent example of a city handing out free money to a company in exchange for “creating jobs” in that city. I am bringing this up because it is very clear that our own LEDC and City council is now in the midst of “secret negotiations” to “evaluate financial information from a business.”
The bottom line for the Irving deal with Kelly-Moore paint is they get $75,000 in “incentives” in exchange for promising to create 30 jobs with a $100,000 salary. In other words – $3 million of salaries for a $75,000 donation.
As much as I detest governments handing out “incentives,” you have to admire the ratio: 40-1 in favor of the citizen ($3 million divided by $75,000).
I am posting this now so that we can later compare any “deals” that the geniuses like Misti Talbert and TJ Monroe make with any Business Pork prospects. I GUARANTEE you they will be far shittier than this. Remember: the LEDC has ALREADY spent over SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS on that goat pasture. They better bring in some hella good jobs to justify that waste.
Something tells me it will be more like 10 jobs at $42,000 per year and a ridiculous promise for hundreds more “in the future”.
Even CNN Admits “The Rich” Are Paying Far More Than Their “Fair Share”.
Wow. Even CNN can’t ignore the math anymore. Too bad socialist morons like Bruce Haywood and Comrade Clayton Tucker SDEC-24 TX are incapable of 3rd grade math. The mathematical facts are that “the rich” pay FAR MORE than their fair share. The problem isn’t “the rich being greedy”. The problem is the laughable expansion of the welfare state and the tens of millions of parasites sucking the rest of us dry. From the CNN article:
While “fair” is subjective, most Americans might not understand how much of the tax burden the rich actually bear. The answer may surprise them.
According to the IRS, in 2020, the top 1% of taxpayers (about 1.5 million taxpayers), paid $722 billion in income taxes. That amount accounted for 42.3% of all income taxes paid, the highest percentage in modern history.
By contrast, the bottom 90% of taxpayers (about 142 million taxpayers) paid a combined $450 billion in income taxes, or just 26.3% of the total, their lowest percentage of the tax burden in decades. That means the top 1% of taxpayers pay a far greater share of the nation’s tax burden than 142 million of their neighbors combined.
Surely, the rich pay a larger amount because they earn the most money, right? Not exactly. In 2020, the top 1% of taxpayers earned 22% of all adjusted gross income; their 42.3% share of the income taxes is nearly twice their share of the nation’s income.
The opposite is true for the bottom 90%. They earned more than half, 50.5%, of the nation’s income but paid 26.3% of the taxes — roughly half of their share of the nation’s income.
This hasn’t always been the case. In 1980, the tax burden was much more evenly shared. The bottom 90% earned 68% of the nation’s income and paid 52% of the income taxes. The top 1% earned 9.6% of the nation’s income and paid 17% of the income taxes.
What led to our tax system becoming more progressive today than it has been since at least World War II?
One reason is the massive expansion of social programs delivered through the tax code over the past three decades. Some of the largest programs aimed at lower-income families and those with children are run through the IRS — the Child Tax Credit and the Earned Income Tax Credit. Collectively, they deliver roughly $180 billion worth of benefits each year, much of which is refundable — meaning a family gets a tax refund check even if they don’t owe any taxes.
What dicks people like Clayton Tucker SDEC-24 TX are. Envious little morons. Useful idiots for permanent Washington.