Correction to Newspaper Article

A recent newspaper article about FunDancers contains substantial misstatements.  For example, the club president says "his" club formed in 2010 . That's a bald-face lie.  FunDancers formed in 2010 when a hard-working talented young couple invested hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars to create the business.  It was not "his" club.  It became "his" club only after rotten, lying, cheating swindlers outright bald-face stole the club from the rightful owners in 2012.

  

The article memorializes the success of swindling, cheating robbers such as Ed Wedig, Fay Wheatley, Ken Wheatley, Billy Grimsley, Jim Douglas, Ted Zahorski, Nancy Zahorski, Sam Bloom and a host of others.  It celebrates the perverted act of profiting from the robbery of a colleague, such perverseness practiced regularly by Les Hughes, Darryl Lipscomb, Wade Driver, Tom Roper, Jerry Story, Dan Nordbye, Mike Sikorsky, Bill Wright, Bob McVey and many others.  It celebrates the vile despicable depravity of robbing people and then, when your crime victims won't silently take it, criminally smearing them completely out of business.  The article celebrates how to be really low, nasty, no-good pond-scum.  The article is about people who don't know the difference between right and wrong.  The article celebrates everything bad in life.

  

We can only hope that Google never finds out about the vile indecent crimes perpetuated by lowlife psychotics.  So, let's keep it a secret from Google, lest we damage square dancing's pristine reputation.  Oh yes, that reminds me.  This email was delivered via a Google service.  It is blogged to another Google service.  Google already knows all about your crimes.  Whenever someone in the San Antonio area googles square dancing, all they they find is YOUR crimes.   They will continue to find your crimes until you stop committing so many atrocious crimes.
  

The world is filled with Good and Evil.  Can you recognize the difference?  If you patronize the club which was outright bald-face flat-out stolen in broad daylight, cheating the club's founders out of thousands of dollars and their entire life's work, then obviously you are just unable to distinguish right from wrong.  So, enjoy your stolen dance club today, then burn in hell for eternity.

What Do People Find?

We've all heard of Google.  It's how people find things on the internet.  What if someone Googles "square dancing in San Antonio"?  What would the search results show?

   

You can be confident that Google will show the truth.  If there were a good, wholesome, vibrant, healthy square dance community in San Antonio, Google would accurately report that fact.  If, on the other hand, there is a sick, perverted, screwed-up square dance crime-ring populated by lying, cheating, swindling robbers who bald-face outright rip off a hard-working, innocent couple, then we can faithfully trust Google to tell it like it is.

   

What do you think people find when they search for square dancing in San Antonio?  The answer is simple.  They find the truth.  The truth is that the local square dance scene supports the outright bald-face robbery and name-smearing of hard-working innocent people.  The local square dance scene rewards two-faced back-stabbers, dirty rotten swindlers and liars of all sorts.  The local square dance scene profits from the robbery of others.  That's what the San Antonio square dance scene really is.  That's what Google really finds.
  

If you want Google to report more positive results, then you need to start doing more positive things.  Otherwise, Google will faithfully report the accurate facts:  square dancing in San Antonio is a dysfunctional screwed-up cheater's activity whose primary purpose is to rob, smear and swindle innocent, hard-working people ... exactly like FunDancers did and exactly like the actions which you continue to endorse and support.

  

Google reports the truth.  The truth is not pretty.  It's time for you to stop supporting people like Ed Wedig, Fay Wheatley, Bob McVey, Brad Caldwell, Tom Roper, Mike Sikorsky, Dan Nordbye, Bob McVey, Darryl Lipscomb, Ted Zahorski, Billy Grimsley, Wade Driver, Johnny Preston, Bill Wright, Jerry Story, K O Jeanes, Wayne Weston, Les Hughes, Jim Douglas, Ken Wheatley, Sam Bloom and many others who endorse and profit from the criminal activities of robbing, swindling and bilking.
  

The truth is out there, waiting to be discovered.  You write the truth with your actions.  Google merely reports it.

Can you find and fix the mistake?

The next paragraph contains one mistake.  Can you find it?

News flash:  Hard-working couple invests years of their time and thousands of their dollars to build a nice square dance club.  The very minute it turns profitable, swindling cheating robbers outright bald-face steal the club in broad daylight.  The lying, immoral crooks get clean away with their crime.  Each week, the robbery victim's so-called "friends" profit from the robbery loot. 
 
Did you find the mistake?

Here's the mistake:  it's not "news".  It's "olds".  The robbery occurred in April 2012.

Guess what?  You have the power to end the crime spree!  All you have to do is stop supporting cheating, swindling, robbing jerks.  Think twice about hiring or supporting callers such as Brad Caldwell, Noah Siegmann, Bob McVey, Wade Driver, Johnny Preston, Mike Sikorsky, Bill Wright, Billy Grimsley, Tom Roper, Dan Nordbye, Arnold Gladson, K O Jeanes, Jerry Jestin, Jerry Story, Darryl Lipscomb, Gary Sanders and Les Hughes ... all of whom are happy to profit from robbery.
 
Steer clear of dancers such as Ed Wedig, Ted Zahorski, Sam Bloom, Jim Douglas, Ken Wheatley, Nancy Zahorski, fundancers, Arthur Wills and Fay Wheatley who like to swindle and cheat innocent, hard-working people.
 
If you're looking for good line dancing, square dancing or a square dance caller near San Antonio or Schertz, choose a good honest individual instead of someone who will help rob, cheat, swindle and smear a colleague out of business.

It's your choice.  You can continue to support events run by robbing, cheating, swindling thieves.  Or you can do the right thing instead.  Choose a good, honest, non-controversial, upstanding, moral event to enjoy.

Why Is This Happening?

A few years ago, a gang of robbers stole a square dance club in broad daylight.  They cheated an innocent, hard-working couple out of an entire lifetime of investment and hard work.
 
The crime has been written up repeatedly on the internet. Did you know that the write-ups follow a very deliberate pattern?  Do you have any idea what the pattern is?

You get an email, and a post gets added to a website, and the message goes around the world, etc., each and every time the club's original founder / investor / creator / builder should have called the club's dance, but someone else came in there and swooped up robbery loot to call a dance which was outright stolen from the rightful owner.

Think about it.  A caller invests much time and money to build a nice square dance club. Why would someone build a square dance club?  There's only one reason.  The caller hopes to eventually recoup the huge up-front investment by calling future dances at the club. 

But in this case, the very week that the club finally became profitable, dirty, rotten crooks outright stole it from the original founder / builder / investor.  The club-builder never gets to recover his investment.  The future payout goes to accomplices in the crime.  Other callers gladly accept a handsome return on the investment made by an acquaintance who was duped, cheated, swindled and smeared.

 
Every time another episode in this crime spree occurs, it's just flat wrong.  Every time someone calls a dance which rightfully should be a return on the founder's original investment, YOU get a email message and a blog post gets made and a bunch of other things happen. 

Think about it.  These are not random rants.  Instead, they are carefully planned responses to events which YOU control. Every time you see a message like this, it means that YOU helped swindling, cheating liars to freshly rob an innocent crime victim of an incremental amount.  Each message is recorded for all time on  website which serves as a permanent monument to the moment when YOU made a bad choice.  You took a bad situation and made it WORSE by continuing to participate in crime.

Nobody's keeping count but the total robbery amount is now well over $60,000 in direct losses that an innocent couple suffered strictly because Ed Wedig, Fay Wheatley, Ken Wheatley, Sam Bloom, K O Jeanes, Johnny Preston, Jerry Story, Gary Sanders, Arthur Wills, Bill Wright, Wayne Weston, Les Hughes, Arnold Gladson, Ted Zahorski, Nancy Zahorski, Brad Caldwell, Mike Sikorsky, Dan Nordbye, Tom Roper, Wade Driver and a host of other people happen to be robbing, cheating, swindling thieves.

There's a very good reason for "naming names" but that will be the subject of a different message.  Remember, you get a message every time you commit an additional crime.  You'll get the rest of the story soon, I'm sure.
 
Square dancers are supposed to be fine, upstanding, moral people but the plain truth is that you're just flat NOT decent people.  You helped completely rip off an innocent, hard-working couple.  You did it by claiming that someone went crazy and therefore deserves to be robbed.  Decent people just flat do not do what you did. There is no rightness nor justification whatsoever about the crimes in which YOU participated and in which you CONTINUE to participate.

The one and only purpose of this message is to explain WHY seemingly random info keeps showing up all over the place.  In fact, it's not random.  Every time a new crime occurs, a new message is born.  YOU control the messages.  The messages will stop the very minute that YOU stop participating in the robbery, cheating and swindling of innocent, hard-working people.

What is a Square Dance Caller?

In 2004 I set up a website for the entire Rio Grande Valley of Texas.  It cost me hundreds of hours in time and hundreds of dollars of my own money to get the site up and running.  The site was set up as a public service for the square dance community. When I left that region in 2009, I outright gave the website to the couple who will call tomorrow at FunDancers.
 
In early 2012, I enhanced the website so that it can make money by selling ads. This took hundreds of additional hours of time. After I set up the ad program, I showed them exactly how to go out and sell ads. I personally loaded all the ads into the system and showed them how to mail out invoices and get paid.

We agreed to split the income.  Actually, a 50-50 split right down the middle would have been a totally fair deal.  However they negotiated me down to only a 20% share (because I had a real job and they didn't).

So, let's recap.  I came up with the idea.  I set up the website. I put in hundreds of hours of time, absolutely free, and hundreds of dollars of my own money just to get the site running. I set up the advertising program. I showed them exactly how to make it all work. 

They are to get 80% while I only get 20%.  This surely sounds like an extremely generous deal (for them).

Whenever you talk about how square dancing is "friendship", what do you think the word "friendship" means? Perhaps it means "friends" will do all the work and then just outright give someone a money-making website in exchange for only 20% of the action.  Yep, square dancing is all about "friendship", especially when you have "friends" you can use.

Anyway, we made a deal.  They get 80 percent, I get 20.

Except ... they paid me exactly one time ... the very first month the program was running. They never paid a dime after that.  Interestingly, that same month (April 2012) was when Ed Wedig and the Wheatleys brutally, senselessly and criminally robbed, swindled, cheated and smeared me and my innocent spouse out of the square dance business which took us a lifetime to build.

Fast forward to today.  Today, ads still run on the Rio Grande Valley website which I built.  Ad money still rolls in every month.  I still came up with the idea, did all the work, financed the project out of my own pocket, set up everything and showed them how to use it. Everything today is going exactly to plan  ... except  ... I've been cheated out of my share of the deal for over two years now.

Do the math.  Tomorrow's caller has outright cheated me out of nearly $3000. That's in addition to approximately $35,000 which I was directly and/or indirectly swindled out of by Ed Wedig and the Wheatleys when they outright strong-arm robbed me and my wife.

So, let's recap.  What kind of person would cheat a "friend" out of thousands of dollars? Well, that's the kind of person who calls square dances today and/or is a leader in such a "friendly" activity.

To be fair, it's not an isolated problem.  Almost all "prominent" square dance callers today are lying, cheating, back-stabbing, money-grabbing, swindling, robbing, immoral, duty-shirking bill-dodgers.  Let's be honest. Square dancing is way down.  Square dance callers nowadays, if they want to survive, must lie and cheat and swindle ... just to get by.  It's almost impossible to start a new square dance club.  A much better way is to wait until someone else starts a club and then steal it from them.

So whenever you talk about how square dancing is "friendship", just remember that if you are willing to do all the work and put up all the time and money only to get cheated out of all that you built, then you can be a true loyal "friend" to a square dance leader.  But if you are not willing to silently tolerate being a crime victim, then suddenly you're labeled as "crazy" or "unfriendly", etc.

If it's "crazy" to speak out against robbery and cheating, then so be it. Your personal opinion of someone's mental health does not change the unalterable fact that it's just flat wrong to rob, swindle and cheat other people.  Additionally, this same person who rooked me out of my share of advertising revenue (by pocketing the entire amount instead of paying the agreed-upon split) has come in to Schertz many times and helped himself to robbery loot.  When my club and my money and my business was outright bald-face stolen from me, this same "friend" has profited handsomely.  He comes in and scoops up fistfuls of robbery loot, as much and as often as he can, quickly, before it all runs out.

That's what it takes, nowadays, to be a successful square dance caller.  You must be willing to rob and cheat others if you want to survive.  You must totally steep yourself in absolute no-good rottenness.

On Sunday you can dance to a deadbeat who robs his friends, doesn't honor his agreements and cheats his colleagues.  You can dance at a club which was strong-arm bald-face stolen and swindled by deadbeat robbers, name-smearers and cheaters.  You can reward dastardly immoral people who prosper from horrible illegal activities. 

If you dance at Fundancers, you send a message that it's perfectly okay to rob, swindle, cheat and steal. Is that the message you really want to send?

Or ... you can choose do to the right thing instead.  You can avoid robbers.  You can find a good wholesome activity to do.  It really isn't hard to find some other activity which does not require you to reward robbing cheating swindling scumbags.  It's your choice.  You can endorse and validate criminal robbing cheating bandits.  Or you can do the right thing by avoiding wrongdoing.  Which choice will you make, and what message does it send?

Who You Gonna Call?

FunDancers was founded as a welcome alternative to the unpleasant dysfunctional politics of other square dance clubs. Alas, the plan backfired when seasoned crooks silently infiltrated FunDancers. The bad guys waited patiently while the club organizers / developers / builders invested years of hard work and thousands of dollars to grow the new club.

The club eventually became profitable which also meant that it had grown large enough to be worth stealing. That's exactly what the swindlers were waiting for. They outright stole the club away from the founders / workers / builders. Unlawful crooks used their superior skills of lying and cheating, along with their well-rehearsed talent for gossip and defamation, to steal the club (along with thousands of dollars in actual cash money) and to turn hundreds of so-called "friends" vehemently against the good people who started and grew the club.

When it first happened, the situation still seemed manageable. After all, square dancers are supposed to be fine upstanding people. Surely square dancers know the difference between good and evil, right? Surely no square dance caller would help criminals rob and cheat honest people, right? Surely the crooks could never find a caller who will knowingly accept stolen robbery loot, right?

WRONG!

To avert the very slight chance that any caller was completely unaware of the robbery, the club's founder / organizer / builder / crime-victim personally contacted every scheduled guest caller. He informed each potential crime-enabler that the club still owed a ton of money to the founders. Robbers and swindlers outright stole the club in broad daylight, thus cheating the club builders out of years of hard work and thousands of dollars. The club planned to use loot from the robbery to hire guest callers.

What happened next was a total surprise.

Would you care to guess how many callers turned down the chance to call for cheating robbing dirty rotten stealing scumbag lying name-smearing swindlers?

Go ahead and try to guess how many callers refused to accept stolen funds. Remember, every caller the club ever booked knew ... in advance ... that they would get paid with stolen robbery loot.

Did you try to guess how many honest callers are at-large among us? Please take the time to think it through and make your guess. How many callers just will not help rob a colleague? Go ahead and guess right now, because you are about to discover how many honest callers can be found in the local region.

Okay, here's the answer you've been waiting for:

NOT ONE BLASTED CALLER refused to accept stolen money!

EVERY last LOWDOWN caller who EVER called for the lying cheating robbers KNOWINGLY accepted ROBBERY LOOT.

EVERY caller for the stolen club is a SORRY CHEATER-helping SWINDLER-abetting money-GRABBING unethical STEALING RATFINK who KNOWINGLY CHEATS their colleagues and ROBS the square dance activity blind.

EVERY caller who EVER called for the crooks UNJUSTLY PROFITED by GRABBING STOLEN ROBBERY LOOT offered by SWINDLERS who, in an UNPROVOKED and UNPRECEDENTED ATTACK, CHEATED good honest hard-working people out of THOUSANDS of dollars and YEARS of hard work.

EVERY STINKIN' CALLER eagerly grabbed as much loot as possible, as OFTEN as they could. Many of them CAME BACK for a SECOND or THIRD helping of loot! Today they STILL grab whatever's left of the robbery loot, as often as they can!

Callers totally LACKING in morals KNOWINGLY accept robbery loot from CROOKS and gladly help SMEAR the good name of their crime victims. Many of these lowlife backstabbing callers are actually AMUSED because one of THEIR OWN COLLEAGUES was robbed, swindled and cheated.

Frankly, I am embarrassed to be labeled as a "caller" because it unfairly lumps me in with so many lowlife robbing stealing double-crossing back-stabbing immoral scumbags. I am shocked beyond belief that every caller who had the chance to Do The Right Thing actually turned the other way and ignored all common decency. I am flabbergasted that any caller would gladly help cheating lying swindling defaming slandering proven crooks who dangle stolen robbery loot as an apparently irresistible lure.

To be fair, some callers avoided the crime scene. Perhaps they were never offered a share of the loot. The good guys (or perhaps the ones who don't call well enough to get offered any stolen money) are surely in short supply. Still, a surprising number of callers (actually, any number greater than zero is surprising) is totally willing to help rob and cheat and swindle one of their own. These immoral callers continue to cheat, rob, loot, swindle and profiteer even to this day.

Make good note of the callers who gladly participate in robbery and scandal. Just so there's no doubt, I shall publish a complete list of crime-enablers soon, on this website, for your handy and permanent reference.

If you ever want to plan your own robbery, you'll know exactly who to contact. Get someone with experience. Just look at the past, present and future callers at the stolen club. They all knowingly participated in robbery. Those are the callers you'll want to contact should you ever need help to pull off your own cheating swindling cut-throat robbery. Just be careful. The caller you get to help you rob someone else just might gladly rob and swindle and cheat and back-stab you.

FunDancers - New and Improved!

Good News!  We now have the same GREAT dancing each week ... without all the politics! No more meetings.  No more officers.  No more resolutions, sub-committees, proposals, motions, minutes or bylaws.

Just dance and enjoy "Fun without Fuss".

If you liked the old FunDancers, you'll LOVE the NEW FunDancers!  Don't worry:  we still need help and support from all our friends ... and this means YOU!  Everyone is important because everyone adds something unique and special to the overall party atmosphere.

We have heard great reports from other clubs around the world who found themselves similarly bogged down in politics. They solved their political problems the quick and easy way.  They retired all the politicians and got back to basics: dancing and having fun!

So ... WELCOME to the New FunDancers!  We're glad you're here and we know you're just gonna LOVE IT!

The New FunDancers kicks off in great style this Sunday April 29 with Internationally Known caller Darryl Lipscomb from Mission Texas:
  5 pm - Lines and Squares for January Beginners
  7 pm - Lines and Squares for Experienced Dancers
  9:15 pm - afterparty

January Beginner Dances will continue through the end of May. Starting in June, we'll all dance together as Experienced Dancers. The Beginner Progress chart is online at http://www.fundancers.org/beginchart.htm.  Hip Hip Hurray for our fantastic January beginners, as well as our wonderful Experienced dancers!

Remember:  Dancing is the smartest activity in the world because it's fun yet it's also extremely good for you!

Big thanks to everyone who helps make FunDancers such a friendly and joyful place on Sundays!

Don't be an April Fool! Come to FunDancers on April 1!

Everyone loves a parade!  Get Ready for a Parade of Guest Callers at FunDancers!

 

  Sunday, April 1 - Jimmy Johnson from Austin
  Sunday, April 8 - (closed for Easter)
  Sunday, April 15 - Ed Larder from Temple
  Sunday, April 22 - Nasser & Jeanna from Live Oak
  Sunday, April 29 - Darryl Lipscomb from Dallas
  Sunday, May 6 - Brad Caldwell from Georgetown

 

Dance schedule
  5 to 7 pm - January Beginners
  7 to 9 pm - Experienced Dancers
  9:15 pm - afterparty at Chuy's

 

January beginners are doing great!  Nasser will provide guidance to the guest callers so that everything remains on the straight and narrow path. :)  The beginner progress chart will continue to be posted each week at http://www.fundancers.org/beginchart.htm.

 

Each person is vital to the success of the group because everyone brings something unique and special to the overall mix. Together, we ALL have more fun, fitness and friendship. Big thanks to all of the fantastic folks who make FunDancers such an wonderful party event on Sunday!

Darryl Lipscomb tomorrow!

This just in from our president:

Yey! Darryl and Decah Lipscomb will be at FunDancers tomorrow!

Our Plus class is at 5:00, and our evening dance is at 7:00. We will have fun as long as you come enjoy it with us!!

The Lipscombs have a very hectic schedule, with a 3-day A and Challenge weekend in Schertz before they come to us, and a trip to Georgetown and Houston after us. But we know they will exude a calm but fun dancing atmosphere at Center North for FunDancers!! We're so glad to be on their calendar!

Come on out! See you manana!

Fay

Darryl Lipscomb at Fundancers this Sunday (September 25)

FunDancers is THE place for a fantastic dance experience each Sunday. Burn mega-calories, have fun, enjoy good friends and be royally entertained ... all at the same time! Visit FunDancers this Sunday (September 25) to enjoy guest caller Darryl Lipscomb.

Schedule:
- 5 to 7 pm - Plus Class
- 7 to 9 pm - Club Dance
- 9:15 pm - afterparty at Chuy's

Please note that Nasser and Darryl will be calling together for a week at Kirkwood Lodge, Missouri in June (11 thru 15), 2012. It will be a great square dance vacation and everyone is invited.

A progress chart for the Plus Class is online at FunDancers.org. Don't even try to completely master a call the first very time it's taught. We constantly re-teach and review all calls until everyone becomes proficient.

October 2nd will be "Free Sample Day". Bring someone (even if they never danced before) as your guest at 7 pm for a free sample of the unique FunDancers style of fun, fitness and friendship. The newbie portion of our program will last less than an hour. We'll include some beginner dances and we hope to interest these nice visitors in our upcoming January Beginner Dance Series. In addition, everyone (while supplies last, there's enough for 8 squares) gets a FREE sample of authentic top-quality Belgian chocolate. It's the real deal, personally purchased in Belgium and lovingly hand-smuggled into the USA by your club caller. Looking for a free sample of line dancing, square dancing and true Belgian chocolate? Sunday October 2 is your day!

Sundays are Always Special at FunDancers. You won't find a better caller lineup anywhere else on the planet. You just KNOW you're gonna get a great dance with super-fun people every Sunday at FunDancers:
- September 25 - International Caller Darryl Lipscomb
- October 2 - Club Caller Nasser Shukayr - "Free Sample" Day
- October 9 - International Caller Johnny Preston
- October 16 - International Caller Mike Sikorsky
- October 23 - Club Caller Nasser Shukayr
- October 30 - Halloween Party with National Caller Mike Kelly

Remember: dances are always a lot MORE fun when YOU're there! Each person adds something special. All members and visitors are appreciated. Tell a friend. Let the good times roll!

FunDancers welcomes Darryl Lipscomb on June 26

It's fun to dance to different callers. Experience the fun this Sunday (June 26) when Darryl Lipscomb, an internationally known caller from Dallas and McAllen, visits FunDancers. Nasser and Jeanna have danced to Darryl Lipscomb many times so we know you'll enjoy him and his lovely wife Decah. His calls are interesting and challenging yet very smooth and flowing. He's a top pro caller. Let's show Darryl and Decah a warm FunDancers welcome!
 
The dance is from 7 to 9 pm. The level of dance is Mainstream with two "Announced Plus" tips and with line dancing between tips.
 
Here's something new. Let's talk about a different benefit of square dancing each week. This week's focus is "exercise". During a typical 2-hour dance you'll walk over 2 miles while burning 800 to 1600 calories. In addition to the calories burned, dancing improves many things such as circulation, metabolism, stamina, balance, blood pressure, mental acuity, cognition, muscle tone, etc. It improves one more thing which escapes me at the moment. Oh yes, now I remember, it improves memory. Dancing is a complete workout which does not feel like work because it's so much fun. No wonder people all over the world love this superb recreation.
 
Here's a quick look at upcoming weeks. FunDancers will be dark (no dance) on July 3. On July 10, Nasser and Jeanna return with a Quick Review session (6:15 to 7 pm, free of charge) prior to the dance (7 to 9 pm).
 
We continue to appreciate one and all for the tremendous fun, friendship and enthusiasm you bring to the group on Sundays!