Is Bruce Haywood Still The Dumbest Person in Lampasas?

I used to think so. Now I’m not so sure. Not because Bruce suddenly displayed any intelligence…far from it. But because so many other idiots have come out of the woodwork lately panicking over Wuhan Flu to challenge Bruce. It is a tough call, though. Bruce is pretty damn stupid:

Like most moron liberals (I repeat myself), Bruce LOVES to virtue signal AND he is easily fooled into panicking over bullshit data (global warming, Wuhan Flu, rampant white-on-black crime, etc) because he has a low IQ and completely sucks at mathematics. He swallows all bullshit hook, line and sinker because he is incapable of critical thought and understanding simple statistics.

Like other dummy liberals, Bruce is also very gullible. If we woke up tomorrow and the Governor told us all to stick a dildo where the sun don’t shine to fight the common cold, Bruce would be first in line to obey unquestioningly. Then chide the rest of the town for daring to disobey and asking “what’s the big deal? It certainly can’t hurt!”

I’ll clue you in, Bruce: the number of cases is going up because TESTING IS GOING WAY UP!!! Cases are increasing FAR slower than the rate of testing AND the average age of those afflicted is plummeting. Here is an example from Florida:

More pesky numbers. Can you understand them Bruce? I doubt it.

Bruce and other liberals are absolutely FREAKING OUT right now because there are like 11 people with the sniffles in Lampasas County (pop. 23,000) and there are around 96 people with the sniffles in Burnet County (pop. 50,000).

Another local moron chimes in….

Not deaths. Not ICU patients. Just positive tests.…while DEATH rate continues to plummet. They are ready to destroy the economy all over again over nothing. They love to ask the rhetorical question “what is the big deal about shutting down and playing it safe?”. If they had their way, we would STILL be shut down from the initial mid-March date!

Idiot liberals can afford to take this position because most of them are useless welfare sponges who didn’t work BEFORE the Wuhan Flu hit (like Bruce) OR they work a government Nerf-job and will get a paycheck no matter what. So it inconveniences them not one bit to not work now.

DEATHS CONTINUE TO PLUMMET!!!!

Like other libtards, Bruce is ALSO a giant hypocrite. He yammers endlessly about shutting down society over a flu that has a IFR of .04% yet he himself is morbidly obese. Typical liberal: can’t even get his own house in order and he’s telling the rest of us how to live. Bruce, don’t worry: A heart attack, stroke, diabetes or cancer due to your morbid obesity is FAR MORE LIKELY to kill you than this thing.

Last year you weren’t out campaigning for the Governor to shut down every fast food joint because hundreds of thousands of people died of heart disease, were you? No. You weren’t. THAT would actually hit YOU where it hurts, you dumb manatee.

Karen Spivey-Cummings is a strong contender to take Bruce’s dunce cap. Ironically, she REALLY IS a Karen who sits on FB literally ALL DAY posting apocalyptic bullshit Covid stats from her favorite libtard rags like Huffpost and NPR (you know, those respected scientific journals).

She parrots all the bullshit like “the hospitals are being overrun in Texas!”. Thanks to morons like her and thousands of other retarded Karens, the dummies in charge are starting to cancel things like Spring Ho, tubing on the river and AGAIN ruining the bar and restaurant business.……for no reason at all.

Hospitals overrun?? Hardly. Here is what actually happens to “overrun the hospitals” (not that a simple, commonsense FACT will sway these imbeciles – they don’t care about stats or facts…just FEELINGS):

Remember when you panicky dunces SHUT DOWN the hospitals to “non-essential” procedures in April and May? Yeah, well after two months of that nonsense, there is a LOT of built up demand as people finally get in to be seen for bad backs, cancer screenings, heart stress tests, kidney stones, etc. Let’s say John Smith goes in for a kidney stone procedure. Guess what? They test him for Wuhan Flu AUTOMATICALLY even though he feels perfectly fine.

Let’s say the test comes back positive (I’ll ignore for a moment the shit load of FALSE POSITIVES out there). Even though he feels fine and is there for KIDNEY STONES, he is now marked down as “overrunning the hospital” with Covid.

See how that works, Bruce? You absolute dunce! Bruce is just SALIVATING at the thought of that moron Abbott instituting MANDATORY face masks. I can tell you this: a LOT of us will be going to jail if that ever happens. Then we’ll be suing the state for abuse of power and violation of civil rights under the Constitution – and the Texas Supreme Court will be on our side. Forcing everyone to wear a mask because they MIGHT get sick is no better than throwing everyone in jail because they MIGHT commit a crime.

I’m sorry, but a pile of unfounded and demonstrably false claims made by idiots like Bruce Haywood, Karen Spivey-Cummings, Freddy Oversteegen, Janet Yoder Kraeff-Crozier and Julie Cain Landrum is NOT grounds for violating my rights and destroying my livelihood.

Need more proof?? Here are more numbers that are probably confusing to Bruce and other libtards but very clear to those of us with a normal IQ. I would advise Dr Georgia Hay and our Mayor Talbert to look at these CLOSELY and see the REALITY:

The above chart represents ALL CAUSE deaths for selected weeks 40-week 17. Overall deaths are only 5,569 higher (.3%) than 2017-2018!!

They are 2% higher than a flu year year like 2016-2017 that NO ONE EVEN NOTICED! This does NOT make Wuhan Flu look like some lethal plague. It makes it look like a baddish (but NOT crisis-level) flu.

Mandy Walsh and LEDC Go Full Federal: Will Become Welfare Queens By Scamming Federal Government “Covid Money” For Their Business Park Boondoggle

For those of you who live under a rock, the Lampasas Economic Development Corp (LEDC) has been wasting millions on a “business park” for YEARS now, with nothing to show for it. They have owned the 165-acre weed patch for about 17 years and plowed about $1 million dollars just in “improvements” into it back in 2015 – promising that “high-paying jobs” would soon follow. That did not happen. The weed patch has sat there as a multi-million-dollar disaster for another five years since then.

[I have covered this ad nauseam HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE]

Recently, the same idiots who said we were all set five years ago, NOW say we need to plow ANOTHER $1.9 million into this fiasco to get it REALLY shovel-ready (even though it was supposedly shovel-ready before). They are even brazenly (and DISHONESTLY) calling this “Phase I” of the ‘business park’ improvements. I guess the ONE MILLION you blew back in 2015 was Phase Zero?

Who would be stupid enough to hand Mandy and the LEDC ANOTHER $1.9 million for this failed project? A project that City council member Mike White HIMSELF called “a goat pasture” and a “poor return on investment” which has been going on for DECADES [5/26/20 Council meeting at the 10:08 and 19:30 minute mark].

Why, the Federal Government would be stupid enough, of course! According to Mandy Walsh at the 6/22/20 City council meeting, they will be applying for grants [free money] from programs established FOR CORONAVIRUS RELIEF.

According to Mandy Walsh herself at the last meeting [go to 6:34 mark]

“We have discussed the EDA (Economic Development Administration) CARES ACT…with our grant writers at length for community management services. What that is, is Congress appropriated $1.5 billion to strengthen and assist communities recovering from the coronavirus pandemic. So the EDA is accepting applications for grants that support a wide variety of projects…um, including, ah, infrastructure…and economic development projects, so that’s what we’re going to be applying for, is the disaster funding through the EDA”

Yeah Mandy….the ‘business park’ is a disaster, all right. But it is a disaster of YOUR making, NOT because of the coronavirus.

So, Mandy and the LEDC are going to try and scam the feds out of a huge pile of money EVEN THOUGH THIS BUSINESS PARK FIASCO HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH CORONAVIRUS and has been a disaster for “DECADES”, by the admission of Mike White himself [5/26 council meeting].

This enrages me just as much as when I see scumbag politicians in Illinois/Chicago or New York tell the Federal government that they need to fork over $41.6 billion to their cities/states “because of Covid” and Uncle Sugar should just hand over a check.

I’m sorry, but no, your finances aren’t a train wreck because of Covid. They have been a train wreck for decades because of wasteful and idiotic spending by liberals. Chicago and New York made their beds by electing socialists and morons who ran their budgets into the ground….they should lay in those beds WITHOUT a bailout from the Feds – i.e., the rest of us.

Same goes for Mandy Walsh, the LEDC and our own City council…many of whom I would assume identify as “Republican” or “conservative”. YOU made this mess. YOU kept throwing good money after bad. YOU made this bed and now YOU should lie in it….not some poor tax paying sap who lives in Georgia or Arizona.

I can tell you this: if it’s the last thing I do, I am going to try and stop this theft of federal money you are using to cover up LEDC and City council incompetence. Get ready for a flood of Open Records Requests from me. Who is your grant writer? What percentage of the dough are they getting? Who is your “viable tenant” for the ‘business park’ that you are pinning your hopes on and bullshitting the Feds with on your grant application? I sure hope it isn’t Mike Cour and his Eco-Strong scam, because I already visited his OTHER company (Equicare at 15500 S-US 183) and took photos of the absolute JOKE ‘Eco-Strong” is. It is a weed patch with some crappy rubber mats piled up that have been there for quite a while, by the looks of it.

[Not to mention, Mike Cour and Equicare currently sit on approximately 200 acres ALREADY. He has ZERO need for the business park unless he himself is trying to scam some free stuff from the taxpaying chumps of Lampasas. Don’t worry…I’m all over him like a cheap suit, too]

I’ll be there at every turn calling you all out as welfare queens and parasites, which you most certainly are. This is brazen theft and, in my opinion, fraud. The money you are trying to scam out of Uncle Sugar has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with coronavirus and EVERYTHING to do with rampant incompetence and fiscal mismanagement on the part of the LEDC, City council and Mandy Walsh herself.

List of Communists Infesting The Lampasas Area

#1 – Clayton Tucker – Chairman of the Lampasas Democratic Party and by FAR the biggest commie of them all. Works tirelessly to undermine the U.S. Constitution and destroy property rights. Has come out PUBLICLY in favor of: open borders, socialized medicine, ‘free’ college, $15 minimum wage, allowing young children access to pornography in schools, child mutilation. Lives with his mother at 208 S Western Ave, next to public library.

#2 – Grady Lucas – wears the “woke” badge proudly. Is a RABID anti-Trump nut. Cheers loudly as Soros communists like Alvin Bragg and Fani Willis invent charges to persecute a presidential candidate. Is a very vocal supporter of drag queens dancing provocatively in front of little children (he is gay himself).

PETRIFIED of Covid. Has gotten every shot and booster available – STILL got Covid. Chiding people to mask up in August of 2023. Type of cunt who would report you to the authorities for forced vaxxing.

Thinks he is come kind of genius…not sure why – he is unable to fend for himself and moved into his mother’s house after he put her in a nursing home. He then ran a GoFundMe scam to “fix up my mother’s house” implying an old lady needed help, when it was actually HIS house. Lives at 805 N Ridge St (Norma Banta listed on property rolls).

#3 – Bruce Haywood

#4 – Stephanie Fitzharris/Janet Yoder-Crazier

#5 – Christine Seefeldt

Wise Words….

“When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing… when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors… when you see that men get richer by graft and pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you… when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice… you may know that society is doomed.”

Ayn Rand

Mike White Right – Lampasshole Wrong. April Sales Tax Haul UP 8.8%

Score one for Mike White. He didn’t see how sales tax receipts were going to drop in Lampasas during the Wuhan Flu lockdown. I took the position that with people ‘locked’ in their homes and tons of businesses shut down, that it would be impossible for sales tax revenue to NOT go down. Turns out Mike was correct.

Despite sales tax revenue for the entire state of Texas DROPPING 11.7% and sales tax allocations for the City of Austin DOWN 19.9%, the City of Lampasas was UP 8.8% for the month of April.

Excuse me while I eat this crow.

Lampasas sales tax allocation jumped from roughly $158,000 in April 2019 to $172,500 for April 2020.

I would love to get hold of a breakdown of the numbers and see how this happened. I’m genuinely curious. I can only think of a few reasons:

(1) The population of Lampasas grew BIGLY over the last 12 months. Maybe an extra 100 people live here now and they all spent $2000 in April? An extra $200k of sales would result in roughly $15k extra of sales tax, very roughly.

(2) A LOT of out-of-town locusts traveled from liberal dumps like Austin to Lampasas to buy scarce toilet paper and other non-food consumables?

(3) Maybe the lure of 0% on automobiles pulled forward demand on a bunch of cars from the future? The marginal buyer saw that 0% and said “I was gonna wait a year to buy a new truck but I better grab it now”. It would not take too many extra cars at $1500 or $2000 tax each to make up that difference.

(4) Everyone sat at home an ordered an extra several hundred dollars MORE than usual from Amazon? I don’t know how those Amazon sales taxes are collected (or even if they ARE – I know I get charged sales tax when I order) but perhaps panic-buying of useless shit put us over the top?

Of course, these increases would all have to MORE THAN offset large declines for some of the businesses in town that got bent over and shafted. One local business held up as an example by Mike himself claimed revenues were down roughly $50,000 PER WEEK. That business loss alone would have caused a large dent in sales taxes.

So, that’s the good news. The bad news is that Mandy Walsh and the LEDC now have more money to set on fire. A salivating Finley is probably already counting out the salary increases for City employees for next year (ALL of whom were safe from job loss during the Wuhan Flu, btw).

Additionally, since the City was too cheap to pay a decent wage to lifeguards this summer, the Hanna Pool is closed this year – a pool which appears to COST the City over $80,000 per year to operate. That means EVEN MORE money in City coffers for Finley and Mandy to mismanage and waste.

That is a bad thing.

It DOES, however, kinda makes me wonder why we handed out over $170,000 in free money to help local businesses though: the LEDC gave out $100k in grants plus the City handed out $72,000 in ‘free’ electricity. The sales tax numbers sure seem to say we came out unscathed compared to the state of Texas as a whole and especially the large cities.

It’ll be interesting to see what the numbers are going forward. Was April just a lot of demand pulled forward? Will we thus see sizable decreases in May, June, July, etc?

Stay tuned!

Council Meeting 06-08-20 **LIVE Updates**

Tune in at 5:30pm.

5:30pm – only two of us watching today!

Ricky Roy up first! My lucky day. Khakis and a dress shirt. Ricky Roy knows how to dress. He’s talking about a drainage project. Go to it, Ricky. I have no beef with the City doing normal City stuff….like roads. Most superheroes have secret identities that are an alliteration between first and last name- just like Ricky Roy! Peter Parker. Wade Wilson. Clark Kent. Matt Murdoch. Bruce Banner.

Five of us watching online now. Talk about a huge stage! Be on your best behavior, City council – .07% of the City is watching.

Every time I watch these meetings online, I can’t help but remember they COULD have stayed in the old City council building (saving over $1.5 million) and then paid Broadcast Works $34,000 to rig up this exact same live-streaming setup (they paid Azbell $96,000 instead). It’s hilarious. The Internet has capacity for thousands to watch this and they get 5 people. LOL! Money well spent, Goldfish!

Whoah – the City spent over $100,000 on the airport runway? Did I just hear that? I’d love to know how many planes land there per year.

Secretary now telling us there is an entirely new “totally online” permitting process….I assume for construction. Wow. Cool! Guess we can fire whichever paper pusher used to do that stuff? Just kidding. Nobody EVER gets fired from City Hall. Except Gary Cox, that is.

Secretary now using the huge TV screens they paid like $8,000 for. Ironically, there is no public gallery, so nobody can see it. It is not visible on YouTube at this resolution.

Now showing off the new Wastewater Lab. I have no doubt tens of thousands of dollars of graft and waste were skimmed off while building this, but it is necessary infrastructure…so I let that shit slide.

5:52pm: Old City Council building. Oh joy. Now they get to spend a pile of money on the ‘old’ crappy building that wasn’t good enough. It’s going to be the “IT Building”. Better call in Network Solutions to take a look at where they’ll be doing all their work now.

Finley to talk about Hancock swimming pool. Their high-count day was last Saturday – 121 total swimmers, which is supposedly nowhere near the max. I see Finley is now laying the groundwork to allow people from out of town to use the pool. I suspect Delana Toups is behind this, as she was the most butt hurt about the “no non-residents allowed in the pool” rule.

To summarize, Council/Finley were too stupid to offer a wage that attracted lifeguards (they offered min wage). Nobody applied for a job. They used this as an excuse to close Hanna Springs pool rather than up the wage a bit. They then reduced Hancock capacity with some “Wuhan flu” horseshit. Now, after roughly NINE whole days of data, they have deduced that it’s just dandy to let out-of-towners take up valuable pool space.

Makes sense. Congrats Delana!

6:10pm – adjourn workshop session. Will reconvene in 10 minutes. Can’t wait to hear all the ‘business park’ discussions coming up!

6:21pm – meeting reconvened. Back to two people watching.

Manager’s reports. Finley talking about Brodie Estates. I think that’s the one where City council handed their old council buddy ‘Greasy’ Chris Harrison $150,000 for their detention pond.

Business park: staff looking at financing options. Trying to find suckers to provide a boatload of money for the LEDC waste on the business park. That’s it?! Finley tosses that off on the LEDC meeting coming on June 17th. What a letdown. I think their big plan is to “apply for grant” and steal money from other people. Shocker. True fiscal conservatives.

Well, that’s all I care about. The rest looks like fluff. See you in two weeks.

OK – Can We Get Back To Lamenting The Money Wasting?

Now that ‘racism’ has been solved by a couple of teen kids (who have probably never been more than 50 miles from their hometown) who ‘shared their wisdom’ with adults twice their age, can we get back to the money wasting?

Specifically, that these LEDC and City council FOOLS are going to plow ANOTHER $2 million dollars into the failed goat patch ‘business park’??

That’s IN ADDITION to the millions ALREADY wasted on this thing.

I remember the heady days of 2015 when Chris Toups was mayor and City council had the EXACT SAME DISCUSSION about this corpse repository ‘business park’ boondoggle.

The thinking then was that they had held this property long enough and it was time to shit or get off the pot: either sell it or spend close to a million dollars to “develop it” into “shovel ready” parcels by bringing electricity and water into the ‘park’. The theory was that AFTER wasting another $1,000,000.00 THEN the high-paying jobs would come pouring in. THAT was the story that was used to sell this pipe dream back in 2014/2015.

Of course, they made the WRONG decision. Goaded on by Toups (who was ALL FOR this ‘upgrade’), instead of selling this piece of shit they poured another million into it. I have LOTS of dummy politicians and bureaucrats [Monroe, Toups #2, Finley, etc] on record claiming that a ‘business park’ BOOM was imminent.

That was five years ago. It’s still a weed patch today.

NOW the EXACT same dummies are making the same argument: we need to shoe this horse or sell it (actual statement by City council). Except THIS time it will cost the taxpayers TWO MILLION [see page 4]. And like clockwork, the dummies made the WRONG choice yet again. Here are the estimated costs to make the corpse repository SUPER DUPER ‘shovel ready’ this time:

[OF course, all these estimates come from Pope Eckermann, who will also be handed large sums to bless this project]

Total roadway and drainage: $1,396,272

Total wastewater to support Phase I improvements: $279,566

Total water to support Phase I improvements: $298,041

Grand total: $1.974 MILLION DOLLARS

I know what you’re thinking: how can they be SO STUPID as to waste ANOTHER $577,000 on ‘water and wastewater’ when they ALREADY paid Qro-mex somewhere north of $800,000 five years ago to run water and wastewater to the ‘business’ park.

Great question. I guess it’s the same stupidity that allows them to pay to have the same piece of property surveyed over and over and over again. Or to waste over FOUR MILLION on an idiotic project like this.

Just a sample of how wrong they were last time:

“I feel like we’re getting somewhere,” LEDC board president Dr. Neal Leavell added. “I think we’ve really accomplished something. It’s taken a lot of patience, but we’re here.” – September 23, 2014

“Advocates of utility extensions have said entities compete vigorously for new jobs and that cities with ready-to-build sites have an advantage as they try to attract new businesses.” – August 8, 2014

“Economic development officials have said utilities for the business park are essential to make the 165-acre area attractive to companies.” – July 22, 2014

The LEDC was “proactive,” deGraffenried said, in acquiring the U.S. 183 property several years ago for a business park. The goal of utility extensions, the city manager said, is to develop the land into a site that can promote economic growth. – June 17, 2014

BLM Ain’t About Black Lives. It’s Commie Pinko Horseshit Masquerading As ‘Equality’

Cade Snyder and Fin Burbz are just pawns. Useful idiots in a greater plan. The plan is to implement communist and socialist agendas into the United States. Sounds crazy? Take a look at some of the zany crap posted on the blacklivesmatter website:

We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable.

“We practice empathy. We engage comrades with the intent to learn about and connect with their contexts. Every day, we recommit to healing ourselves and each other, and to co-creating alongside comrades, allies, and family a culture where each person feels seen, heard, and supported.

“We cultivate an intergenerational and communal network free from ageism. We believe that all people, regardless of age, show up with the capacity to lead and learn. We are self-reflexive and do the work required to dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift Black trans folk, especially Black trans women who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans-antagonistic violence”

We foster a queer‐affirming network. When we gather, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual 

Smart people saw BLM for what it was YEARS ago….as you can see HERE.

BLM launched in 2013 with a Twitter hashtag, #BlackLivesMatter, after neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman was acquitted in the Trayvon Martin killing. Radical Left activists Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi claim credit for the slogan and hashtag. Following the Michael Brown shooting in August 2014, Dream Defenders, an organization led by Working Families Party (ACORN) activist and Occupy Wall Street anarchist Nelini Stamp, popularized the phrase “Hands Up–Don’t Shoot!” which has since become BLM’s widely recognized slogan.

Garza, Cullors and Tometi all work for front groups of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), one of the four largest radical Left organizations in the country. The others are the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), and the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS). Nelini Stamp’s ACORN—now rebranded under a variety of different names—works with all four organizations, and Dream Defenders is backed by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center and others.

The brilliance is in the name “Black Lives Matter”. How can anyone be against THAT? If you speak out against these commie pinko dirt bags, then clearly you must think black lives DON’T matter and you are shouted down as a racist. This is where all the brain-dead 20-something chumps come into the picture. Chumps like Cade Snyder and Fin Burbz, as well as a gaggle of local morons right here in town.

I’ll be posting some of their pictures later. But they all have something in common: early 20s, mostly female, overweight, low IQ, poorly educated, a couple of kids to take care of and no man around. It’s sad and pathetic, really. These kids’ parents are to blame for doing a poor job of raising them.

Helen Leathem is a sick woman, doing this to her daughter. These people are SICK

This woman is committing child abuse. If she has a husband, he is the saddest cuckold in the history of cuckolds. I never condone hitting a woman, but I would grab my wife by the neck and throw her out of the house if she did this to our kid. Absolutely disgusting and nauseating.

I’ve said it before and will say it again: commies, socialists and pinko scum need to be wiped off the earth. Not reasoned with. These are the sick people we are up against.