Can you guess what T-S-A-T-L means?

Take one glance at The Stolen Club's upcoming schedule and you will immediately see the effects of  T-S-A-T-L. The crooks and robbers are trying to save money by hiring cheap callers.  Clearly, T-S-A-T-L overran the club.
 
In case you didn't know, experienced robbers and cheats conspired to swindle and steal a square dance club away from the couple who spent thousands of dollars and years of hard work to build the club from the ground up.  What the dirty rotten crooks did is _totally_ wrong.  If _you_ visit the stolen club then you're also totally wrong.  You're a crime enabler and a theft supporter, whether or not  T-S-A-T-L.

What does it feel like, to realize that you helped dirty rotten no-good swindlers drive an innocent hard-working couple out of business?
 
Back when the robbery happened (before  T-S-A-T-L) the club was the premiere club in the area.  Now the club is mediocre at best.  Before  T-S-A-T-L, the club danced to national callers only.  Now they'll hire any caller willing to accept robbery loot.

Before T-S-A-T-L, the club hired Tony Oxendine.  After T-S-A-T-L, they hire John Kephart.  Can you tell the difference? 

Before T-S-A-T-L, they hired Joe Saltel.  After T-S-A-T-L, they hire Arnold Gladson.  Do you notice a pattern? 

Before T-S-A-T-L, they hired Wade Driver.  After T-S-A-T-L, they hire Wayne Weston. Can you detect a trend?

One word tells the entire story:  T-S-A-T-L

The End.

(Did you guess correctly?  T.S.A.T.L. means "They Spent All The Loot".)

Do you have what it takes?

Johnny Preston is a full-time traveling square dance caller. He has no home club to call for. Instead, he goes out and harvests money from other clubs that other people built. He comes into town, calls a dance, collects a handsome fee and then moves on to the next harvest point.

   

But what if a club already has a caller booked on the date when Johnny Preston wants to breeze into town and seize someone's paycheck?  Does a person who organizes, builds, finances and grows a club get to call for his own group?  Or should a rightful club owner be required to forfeit his paycheck every time Johnny Preston happens to bop into town?

  

Think about a job that you get paid to do.  What if somebody happens to travel through your town one day?  What if this traveler wants to go to your workplace and do your job and collect your paycheck for that day? What would you do? How would you feel? 

  

Fortunately, in the square dance world, respected rules already exist to cover this situation.  Following time-honored traditions, the club owner offered to share his paycheck with Johnny Preston.  In other words, instead of letting Johnny Preston come in and outright steal a paycheck from a hard-working caller and his family, the club owner offered to split that paycheck with Johnny Preston.  (This kind of offer is actually common in the square dance world.)
 

But it is completely uncommon ... in fact it's totally unheard of ... for an out-of-town caller like Johnny Preston to come in and insist on outright grabbing someone's total paycheck.  Yet that's precisely what Johnny Preston did in May 2012 ... and it's pretty much what he does every day for a living.  The club owner tried for months to work out a satisfactory compromise yet Johnny Preston insisted that he has the right to come in and strong-arm outright bald-face steal a paycheck from another caller, any time he wants to.

 
Naturally, I spoke out against such wrongdoing. This protest had nothing to do with money.  It is only about doing what's right.  Any person who builds, finances, promotes and grows a club has earned the right to call for their own club.  It was completely wrong for Johnny Preston to come in and outright steal someone's paycheck in May 2012.  I tried for months to reach a compromise.  Ultimately, crooked swindling robbers at FunDancers decided to go behind my back and collude with Johnny Preston and commit a robbery.

 
The robbers stole everything I owned.  They stole my paycheck for that day.  When I continued to protest about how wrong it all was, the swindling cheaters ran a successful smear campaign.  They stole my club. They stole thousands of dollars that the deadbeat club still owes to this day.  They stole my entire life's work.  I lost thousands of so-called "friends" (who, as it ends up, are all totally fake anyway, so it's not a big loss).

  

Although I lost, big-time, by speaking out against crime and robbery, I actually gained something of great value that money cannot buy.  I gained the honor of refusing to participate in theft. I gained the knowledge that I will not tolerate cheating swindling nasty rotten wrongdoers.  I gained the pride that comes from choosing right over wrong.

  

Do you have that same pride?  You do have a choice.  You can go dance to Johnny Preston.  If you do that, you participate in, endorse and profit from strong-arm robbery and out-right theft.  Or you can do the right thing instead.  You can refuse to participate in wrongdoing.

  

Do you have what it takes to Do The Right Thing?

Five Ingredients

To outright bald-face steal a square dance club, you need five key ingredients:

1. A club worth stealing. Most clubs nowadays are so small and piddly that it's not worth the bother to steal them. So ... find yourself a strong club into which someone invested thousands of dollars. Wait until it grows into the biggest club in town, then steal it. Go big or go home. Since you're gonna rob someone anyway, make it worth your while.


2. A club owner who goes out of town. Learn how it's done, from the experienced swindlers at FunDancers. It's much easier to rob someone while they're away.


3. Callers willing to accept robbery loot to call for cheating lying swindling deadbeats who robbed one of their so-called "colleagues". Square dancing is "friendship set to music" ... as long as the definition of "friendship" is "I'm your friend, I'm always there, and whenever someone robs you, I'll be there to grab as much loot as I can".


4. Dancers willing to endorse and participate in your criminal illusion that you "improved square dancing" by cheating a hardworking innocent couple out of their life's work. Here's a helpful hint, if you really want to improve square dancing: next time, target a victim who will take a robbin' silently. It's much easier to get away with robbery when your crime victim is silent. Too bad you didn't know that in advance.


5. Gossips and name-smearers who love to start and spread rumors. Just be careful. If you enjoy the company of gossips and rumor-mongers, chances are good that you might become the target of their next smear campaign. Not "if ... " but "when ... " it happens, look on the bright side: you probably deserve it.

So there you have it: the five key ingredients for any square dance robbery. Luckily for you, all five key ingredients are in abundance at FunDancers in Schertz. If you enjoy participating in robbery, swindling, cheating and total sheer utter wrongness, look no further. You found all those rotten things, and more, at FunDancers in Schertz.

Announcing a Square Dance Club for Teens and Brain-Damaged

The human brain is very interesting. Do you know what your "Frontal Lobes" are?  That's the part of your brain which takes the longest time (until your mid-20s) to develop. That same part of your brain lets you know the difference between right and wrong.

  

Have you had your frontal lobes calibrated lately?  Do you know the difference between right and wrong? Here's a simple test to measure your own ability to tell right from wrong. 

1. A square dance club owes someone thousands of dollars.  They default on the debt.  They outright baldface cheat that person out of every penny owed.  Right, or wrong?
2. Someone spends years building up a business.  Rotten crooks wait patiently until the business finally becomes profitable.  Then they swoop in and flat-out steal the business in broad daylight.  Right, or wrong?
3. One of your "friends" is robbed, cheated and swindled.  The robbers offer you some of the robbery loot. You know the funds are stolen but you accept the loot anyway.  Right, or wrong?
4. A special event is held at a stolen club and is financed with stolen funds.  You go to the event anyway.  Right, or wrong?
5. A square dance club does not have a website.  They create a website but it is not about the club.  Instead, the website's only purpose is to smear the name of an internationally-known square dance caller in an attempt to put that caller out of business.  Right, or wrong?
6. An expert thief, crook, cheater, liar, name-smearer and swindler runs for office in a local association.  You do not want to hold office yourself.  To reduce the chance that you yourself might be asked to hold office (and/or perhaps due to sheer apathy), you vote for the scumbag. Right, or wrong?

While most people over age 25 have no problem telling the difference between right and wrong, people who support events at FunDancers obviously suffer from malfunction of the frontal lobes.  Each of the above situations is clearly gregariously totally wrong yet some people still support these wrongs.

  

What might cause you to be completely unable to distinguish right from wrong?

  

One possible reason is that the frontal lobes of your brain are damaged.  To find out if this applies to you, ask yourself, "have I had a frontal lobotomy?".  If so, then you are no longer able to tell right from wrong.  In that case, go to FunDancers where you'll fit right in.  People at FunDancers don't know right from wrong either.

  

But what if you have no brain damage yet you still participate in the outrageous wrongs at FunDancers?  What on earth could make you completely oblivious to the difference between right and wrong?  The only possible reason left (according to science) is that your frontal lobes have not developed yet, i.e. you are under 25 years old.
 

Never argue with scientific fact.  If you participate in the wrongdoing at FunDancers, then obviously you can't tell right from wrong.  If you can't tell right from wrong, then the frontal lobes of your brain do not work.  If your frontal lobes don't work then either you had brain damage or you're a teenager.  If you have not had brain damage, then you're a teenager.  It's simple logic.
 

So, if you're looking for a square dance club for teenagers and/or brain-damaged people, i.e. if you want to be with other people who can't discern right from wrong, go to FunDancers where they rob, cheat, steal, smear, swindle and loot.  If you are brain-damaged, or under age 25, at FunDancers you can find other brain-damaged, teenaged and/or downright crummy people just like yourself.  Come celebrate the loathsome human traits of robbing innocent people, not paying your bills, lying, swindling, looting, cheating, name-smearing and utter absolute nastiness.
 

Of course if you do happen to know the difference between right and wrong, then your choice is even more simple. Avoid FunDancers.  Find something wholesome to do instead.
 

It's no longer enough to simply avoid wrongdoing yourself.  You should also persuade your "friends" (even though there is no such thing as genuine friendship in square dancing, but let's pretend).  Encourage other people to also recognize the difference between right and wrong, and to choose right over wrong.  Of course, if they happen to be brain-damaged or teen-agers, send them to FunDancers which is a club for teenagers and/or brain-damaged people who cannot tell the difference between right and wrong.
 

Bottom line:  If you are brain-damaged or a teenager, seek out other brain-damaged people just like yourself. But if you are able to tell the difference between right and wrong, avoid the wrongdoing at FunDancers.  Find a wholesome alternative instead ... and convince the people who pretend to be your "friends" to do the same.

It's really that simple

FunDancers was established with a simple rule.  If the club caller (who founded, organized and built the club) is in town on a Sunday, he calls for his own club.  If he's out of town, he arranges for a substitute.  That rule worked successfully for years.  It's a really simple rule which makes a lot of sense.  If you pay mega-bucks out of your own pocket, and then put in years of work to build your own club, then you get to call for your own group because you're the one who planned, organized, financed, built and grew the group. It's really that simple.
 
With such a simple rule, what could go wrong?  Well, the club founder made a critical mistake.  He trusted people who happen to be cheating swindling robbers.  It could have happened to anyone, even you.  As it ends up, the very minute that the club finally became profitable, dirty rotten cheating filthy robbers found a way to swindle the club caller and his spouse out of the business which took them years of work and thousands of dollars to create.
 
Several local square dancers and callers supported the robbers.  This message is aimed at those people.  If you supported, endorsed or profited from the robbery ... shame on you!
 
If you dance or call at FunDancers, you participate in a robbery.  Whether or not you're willing to admit it, you support and encourage crime.  It's really that simple.  You help cheating swindlers spend robbery loot from a business which they outright bald-face stole from the people who built it from the ground up.  You are sending a clear message that Crime Does Indeed Pay.
 
Did you know that every week, without fail, Ed Wedig sends an email to his crime victim, gloating and bragging about how he outright bilked his crime victim?  Every week Ed Wedig threatens to rob his crime victim again, or to smear his name into the mud even more, or to burn down his house, or to wreck his car, or to rape his wife, or worse.  The gloating and bragging are different each week.  For example, this past week, in his Weekly Gloat, Ed Wedig threatened to shove a gun up his crime victim's ass.  It's a different threat each week.
 
This proven swindler is much more than just a thieving stealing lowlife cheater who bald-face robbed an innocent couple in broad daylight.  He also gloats and brags about it, every week.  Geez, what a psychopath.
 
Think about it.  There's no way under the sun that such a fat lazy despicable crooked filthy cheating misfit could have ever planned, organized, bankrolled and built a square dance club from the ground up.  The truth is that instead of doing all the work himself, he and his accomplices chose a different path.  They waited until someone ELSE invested the money, did the work and built the club.  AFTER the club became successful, they outright strong-arm stole it clean away.  Each and every week since then (103 weeks, but who's counting?) the cheating swindler gloats and brags about the robbery.
 
Knowing these facts, why on earth do you endorse such atrocity?  What in the world is wrong with you?  Are you insane?  Why do you support robbing cheating swindling gloating psychopathic criminals?

Ask yourself a question.  Do you believe in helping people get away with outright theft? Do you like to reward lying cheating scumbags who outright robbed a hard-working innocent couple out of their life's work?

Of course you don't.  Nobody wants to reward crime.  When the criminal gloats and brags about his exploits every week, it only makes matters worse.

Let's always try to do the right thing, but let's also try to know which "right things" are possible.  You can't un-rob an innocent couple.  You can't un-cheat or un-swindle someone out of their life's work.  You can't un-commit a robbery.  You can't reform a deranged madman who enjoys bragging about his crimes and threatening to commit new ones.

Now that we know what we cannot do, what (if anything) can we do?  It's really simple.  There is only one real choice left.  You can stop supporting, endorsing and rewarding criminal robbing cheating swindling braggarts.

If you support FunDancers, you reinforce the idea that cheating swindling lying criminals should prosper.  But if you choose to do the right thing instead, i.e. if you stay away from the crime scene, you send a message that robbery and theft are truly vile despicable acts which you will not tolerate.

It is my sincere wish that you will vote against crime, against cheating swindling lying robbers and against filthy rotten gloating bragging con-artists.  Find a good honest dance to go to instead.  It's really that simple.

It's April

News Flash!  FunDancers finally reached agreement with their club caller, organizer, planner, founder and instructor. The club now has their original club caller back, under these conditions:

• Club caller must be paid far less than any other caller.
• If club caller / founder / builder is out of town, club will spend three to six times as much money to get a substitute caller.  Club caller has no say in who they hire, nor in how much they pay.  The only guarantee is that the substitute caller gets far more money than club caller gets.
• Club caller will pay thousands of dollars in club expenses out of his own pocket, never to be reimbursed.
• If the club officers commit another crime, and if the club caller speaks out against that crime, then the club will expertly use their massive powers of swindling, lying, slander and con-artistry to smear club caller's good name which took decades to build.

Good news!  The new deal starts immediately.  The club gets a top-notch caller at a bargain price. If he can't be there, a local caller gets paid far more money to fill in. Club caller invests thousands of his own dollars into building up the club.  When the club commits another outright crime and if the club caller once again speaks out against crime, the club gets to slander and smear the caller / founder / organizer / investor (and his innocent spouse) completely out of business.

Oh yes, one more thing.  Check your calendar and please notice one tiny detail.   A P R I L   F O O L S

Yep, APRIL FOOLS, you rotten sorry crime-enabling immoral degenerates.  If you think I'll ever call for any sorry ratfink back-stabbing swindling cheaters ever again, you need to wake up from your dream.

Still, please notice that the proposed deal closely matches what the club actually had, before they crapped in their own nest. They had a willing, hard-working, talented caller couple who built the club from the ground up.  In appreciation, the club robbed and cheated and swindled and slandered and lied about and smeared and de-friended and back-stabbed that couple to the extreme. When the caller spoke out against crime, he lost every last one of his (as it ends up, totally fake) "friends". 
 
Meanwhile, the immoral scumbags who cheated and robbed and swindled and lied and smeared ... go figure .... they're prospering.  And you helped them do it.  You're a sorry excuse for humanity!  You clearly illustrate the important life-lesson that crime really does pay.
 
Here's the part I can't figure out.  You had ample opportunity to do the right thing (i.e. send a clear message that crime does NOT pay).  You chose to do exactly the wrong thing instead.  You chose to swoop into a crime scene and grab at the robbery loot with both fists, quickly, before someone else gets it all. Wow, what a rotten lowdown crummy thing to do to your so-called 'friend'.  Let's admit it.  In square dancing, "friendship" lasts only until the robbing, cheating and slander begin.

Dirty rotten scoundrel lying cheaters just bald-face outright stole a square dance club right in front of your eyes, and you know they stole it, and you helped them do it.    You helped lying robbers cheat an innocent couple out of years of hard work.  You watched a hard-working talented couple lose their entire lifelong investment in square dancing.  You watched expert swindlers turn every last fake friend against their crime victim.  You witnessed total worthless lowlifes get clean away with crime as they prospered from outright robbery, cheating, lying and swindling.  You watched expert cheaters and swindlers rip off an innocent couple, motivated by the simple fact that master con-artists need an occasional innocent victim in order to keep their swindling skills polished.

Why on earth did you do it? What on earth is wrong with you?  Why can't you recognize a robbery when you see one?  Surely your mother taught you the difference between right and wrong.  What is just so compelling about crime that you just have to chose it over doing what's right?  How can you justify helping crooks spend robbery loot, when you know the loot was stolen?  Why can't you find a good decent event to support instead?  What's so intriguing about crime scenes that you're just forced to participate and to help crooks prosper?
 
If you ever find yourself wondering, "What's wrong with Square Dancing Today?", the answer is simple.  Just look in the mirror.  You support crime.  You profit from the robbery of so-called "friends".  (In square dancing, "Friend" means "someone who pays the bills so that no one asks YOU to pay your share".)  When you were offered a clear choice between right and wrong, you went out of your way to chose wrong.  When you heard damaging gossip, you immediately jumped all over it.  You're just lower than low.  The square dance activity is in such bad shape today because it has followed your lead.

I got cheated out of money, time, labor, friends, etc.  But at least I kept my good sense.  But you got cheated most of all, because you allowed expert con-artists and swindlers to alter your own perception.  You simply cannot tell the difference between right and wrong.  Yes, it's April Fools ... and you are the fool.

C'mon FunDancers

C'mon FunDancers, really and truly. 

 

Do the right thing.  Pay your bills.

Two years ago, FunDancers realized they owed thousands of dollars to the couple who organized, founded, bankrolled and grew the club.

 
What would you do, if you found yourself owing thousands of dollars?  I surely hope you would not make the same rotten choice as FunDancers.  When faced with a mountain of debt, they simply defaulted.  They declared the debt null and void.  They refused to pay even one penny. 
 
They chose to spread lies such as:

• LIE:  "We don't owe any money" ... yet in fact you owe thousands of dollars.
• LIE:  "We pay our bills" ... yet in fact you have not paid even one cent despite repeated requests for payment.
• LIE:  "That person was never associated with our club" ... yet in fact that person organized, bankrolled and grew the club from the ground up, and everyone knows this.
• LIE:  "We built the club ourselves with our own money" ... which is true only if stealing a bunch of money suddenly makes it "your own money"
• and the most despicable LIE of all:  "The person we cheated went crazy and therefore deserves to be robbed"

The bottom line is that FunDancers outright bald-face stole thousands of dollars in broad daylight. They use the robbery loot to hire immoral callers who knowingly accept stolen funds to call for dancers who willingly participate in a crime.

 
Meanwhile, one thing remains constant.  The club still owes thousands of dollars in debt.  They haven't paid one red cent.
 
So, ignore the constant stream of lies from cheating lying swindlers.  They're only trying to cover up their own crimes.  If the lying cheaters are really such tireless supporters of square dancing, why don't they pay their bills?  The plain truth is that the club still owes their founder many thousands of dollars.  They have not paid even one cent toward the huge debt they ran up.
 
Surely you recognize the difference between right and wrong.  Do you like to reward theft?  Do you believe that people who rob, cheat, lie and swindle should prosper?
 
Me neither! 
 
C'mon FunDancers.  You apparently want people to believe you're the good guys. The best way to make people believe you do the right thing is to actually do the right thing. Pay Your Bills!  The time for lying and excuses is over.  It's now time to finally do that one thing which you should have done all along but which you never even attempted to do.
 
You ran up thousands of dollars in debt.  You defaulted on that debt.  When your crime victim refused to silently take a robbin', you lied and smeared people's good names like crazy.  But you still owe the money.  You still use robbery loot to hire accomplices to your crimes.  Those are the facts.  If you don't like the facts, then do something different and create different facts.

  
C'mon FunDancers.  All of your dirty rotten acts in the past are just flat wrong.  There's only one way to correct this. Simply stop doing wrong things.  Stop lying, cheating and robbing.  Start doing the right thing instead.
 
C'mon Fundancers.  Do the right thing.  Pay your bills!

A Catchy Poem

You've all heard the famous rhyme:

Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.

The crime happened in 1892. Today, we're still chanting rhymes about that long-ago crime. What's even more amazing is that Lizzie Borden got clean away with murder. It went to trial but the jury could not believe that a sweet adorable woman could actually commit such a terrible crime on her own parents.

She was acquitted.

Likewise and similarly, the crooks and robbers who outright stole the FunDancers square dance club also got clean away with their crimes. Square dancers are kind, trusting individuals. Whenever a situation clearly calls for us to recognize and react to vile despicable acts, most square dancers completely bury their head in the sand. They just can't believe that other square dancers are capable of downright rotten strong-arm robbery and theft.

To be fair, it's not _just_ square dancers who are easily hoodwinked. Mankind has been overrun with stupid gullible people throughout history. Whenever our friends and acquaintances engage in a horrible crime, our first inclination is to pretend it did NOT happen.

Yet .... in the case of the swindling cheaters who stole FunDancers ... it really did happen. The huge damage it caused to the square dance movement is severe and permanent. And those thieves got clean away with it, thanks to your inability to face the truth.

The rotten jerks who stole Fundancers owed many thousands of dollars in legitimate debt to the club founder. They never tried to pay even one cent they owed. Instead, they concocted a plan to outright steal the money in broad daylight while the club owners were out of town. Then they used the robbery loot to hire immoral callers to call for unscrupulous dancers.

If you dance or call at FunDancers, then you assist, support, enable and glorify rogues who swindle, cheat and rob. You help lowdown crooks get away scot-free with outright bald-face theft.

Let's put it in simple terms. If you don't do everything in your power to help shut down FunDancers, then YOU are a crime-enabler.

Here's the old rhyme from 1892, updated to fit today's reality.

FunDancers did a criminal act,
You helped the crooks, that's a fact.
How in the world can you call it fun,
to help swindling cheaters take the money and run?

Help the Children

A little kid approached his mommy. He asked, "Mommy, are there any square dancers in our family? Are we in any way related to FunDancers?".

The kid's mommy replied, "I never really thought about it. Why do you ask about your relatives?".

The kid explained, "Well, someone offered to build me a top-notch website at his cost. If I'm related to square dancers then I'll offer an amount which is below cost. But if I'm related to FunDancers then I'll just bald-face steal the work instead".

So ... go ahead and ask yourself a question. Do you honor, reward and celebrate the vile acts of cheating, stealing, theft and robbery? If the answer is "no" (as it should be) then you have one very simple task on your agenda. Simply avoid events staged by robbers.

When you make the right choices, you help improve the world and you'll feel better too. Start improving the world today by avoiding organizations and people who rob, cheat, swindle and defraud.

Hey Elmer Fudd!

Hey, Elmer Fudd! Are you weddy for more wobbin'? As you awweady know, wascally weasels outright stole a square dance cwub fwum the wightful owners. Today they use the wobbery woot (thousands of stowen dowwars) to hire dirty wotten wapscallions who wike to caww for cwooks. It ain't wight. Twy to avoid such immowwal wobbing wascals, okay?

Old-Fashioned vs. New-Fangled

The old-fashioned path to success: invest lots of time and money to build a square dance group. After you invest thousands of your dollars and years of your time, you can relax and enjoy the fruits of your own labor.

But that's so old-fashioned.

The new-fangled way, and the way chosen by FunDancers, it to dupe someone else into building up a nice club for you. Be patient!  After the fledgling enterprise grows and eventually becomes self-sufficient, then you can swoop in and steal the club.

If your crime victim gripes about being robbed, plan and carry out a smear campaign.

You'll have to admit that the above strategy is ... successful.

The lowdown cheating swindling scumbags who stole FunDancers get to enjoy a nice square dance every week in their own hometown. They did not invest all the time or money required to build up a club. Instead, they waited until someone else made that investment. Then they outright stole the results of someone else's work.

The old-fashioned way is to build. The new-fangled way is to steal. The old-fashioned process involves paying your bills. The new-fangled way is to run up a huge debt and then default on that debt. Instead of paying what you rightfully owe, wait until your victim goes out of town, steal every last cent you can, then use the loot to hire accomplices. If anyone protests, paint them as a lunatic.

Don't laugh. The strategy does seem to work.

So ... if you want to validate and reward people who cheat, swindle, lie and rob, then you'll want to dance at FunDancers. But if you cannot support the ideals of theft, double-crossing, defamation, and robbery loot, then you will want to choose a different venue instead.

You might be wondering about my purpose. First, I do not want my club back. It's too late for that. While it would be nice to get reimbursed for at least some of the many thousands of dollars which were outright stolen from me, that's only a side issue. The main thing is that we must stop rewarding crooks and robbers. In a proper world, theft and swindling should not lead to prosperity. FunDancers must be shut down, strictly because it is so horribly wrong for bad people to profit from robbing good people.

With so many good honest dances in the region, why on Earth would you patronize a dishonest swindling cheating stolen club who doesn't pay their bills?

How does it feel?

Perhaps you dance several times a month. Some dances you go to are legitimate, straight-up and wholesome. Alas, some dances in your local area are run by robbing, stealing, lying, cheating swindlers who use stolen robbery loot to hold dances for folks who endorse crime and theft.

How does it feel to you? Can you detect any difference between "right" and "wrong"? If a dance is paid for with stolen robbery loot, at a club which was outright swindled away from the very people who built the club, by robbers who cheat, swindle, defame and defraud your former "friends" ... does that feel any different (to you) than a regular ordinary good square dance?

This is an important question. Your answer is important.

It's such a disgrace when people (perhaps even you) choose "wrong" over "right". Yet the very true fact is that some people (perhaps even you) cannot detect any difference at all between right and wrong.

Does this describe YOU? Does a legitimate rightful dance feel any different, to you, than a stolen swindled cheated event?

If you want to do what's right, first you must be able to discern the fundamental difference between "right" and "wrong". So ... can you tell the difference? When you participate in an event which only exists as a result of robbery, theft, crime, swindling, defamation, back-stabbing and/or cheating, does it feel any different to YOU than other square dances?

You can be assured that there is a very real difference between "right" and "wrong". The only question is, can you feel the difference? No matter how slight that difference might be, do you know right from wrong?

And if you DO know the difference between right and wrong, why on earth would you support wrongdoing?

Let's all start paying attention to the fact that "right" feels different from "wrong". Let's support good honest right events and let's steer clear of cheating lying swindling stolen wrong robbery events. Let's make the world a better place by choosing "right" over "wrong". Is that too much to ask?

Does It Ever Bother You?

A few things bug me about a local square dance club. I wonder if those same things also bug you.

First, how did a band of thugs end up running a square dance club which was started, promoted, built and grown by someone else? How did known swindlers end up with their own club?

The shocking truth: they just outright bald-face STOLE the club (along with thousands of dollars). Ed Wedig and his Bandits were entrusted with running the club whenever the founders were out of town. Instead of running the club, they outright stole it. It's a simple plot. Gain someone's trust. Wait until they go out of town, then rob them.

Outright theft bothers me. Does it bug you at all? If so, what do you plan to do about the fact that someone outright stole a square dance club (and thousands of dollars), then lied their ass off about it, and now they want you to pretend the cheating swindling lowdown robbery never happened and/or the victims deserve to be robbed?

Under what set of sick and twisted values does someone deserve to get robbed? That philosophy is extremely bothersome.

Other things are amiss as well. It takes 8 people (okay, 9 counting the caller) to square dance. Apparently nine people in your community are completely okay with robbery, theft, cheating, swindling, etc. Does that sad fact bother you? Would you have ever guessed that an outright robbing crook could find nine cronies to support and endorse theft, robbery, lying, cheating and swindling?

If you go to the stolen club then you are in that bad square of robber-supporters.

Other things bother me. Let's suppose that you owe someone thousands of dollars. Instead of paying it back, you decide to steal the money and also steal their square dance club right out from under everyone's nose, then lie like crazy to cover up your crime. Let's suppose that you really did all those things. In other words, let's suppose that you are Ed Wedig.

Okay, what's your next move? What do you do with your freshly-stolen club and the thousands of dollars in robbery loot which you stole?

Your next move is to find a caller who will knowingly accept stolen robbery loot to call for your stolen club. Surely you face an obstacle. What caller on this planet is immoral and lowdown enough to knowingly accept stolen robbery loot to call for a stolen club run by robbing cheating lying slanderous swindlers?

The sad answer is "every caller they ever asked".  Not one caller refused to help robbers spend loot. You'll find more restraint at a shark feeding frenzy. Most callers rushed back repeatedly to grab more loot, scooping up the spoils of robbery as fast and as often as possible.

Do you find it shocking that every caller will gladly help rob a professional colleague? Do you find it amazing that, in the realm of square dancing, the term "friendship" is as flimsy as a puff of smoke?

Do you find it dismaying that if you ever happen to get robbed, your only choice is to just silently take it like a man, elseways the robbers will smear your name all over the world?

Yes indeed, something's not quite right at one of the square dance clubs. Does this bother you in any way? If so, what do you intend to do about it?

Here's how you can help solve the problem: stop supporting the robbers! In an ideal world, we'd all persuade the cheating lying swindling robbers to give back the thousands of dollars they stole, but let's be real. We will never see such a rosy outcome from this mess. All we can hope for is a realistic compromise.

The only practical solution, i.e. the only way you can help, is to recognize that there are honest dances in the area. (I say this knowing that almost every dancer and caller in the area has already participated, in some way, in the robbery). It might actually be impossible to find a completely honest dance. But surely you can find a dance which is more honest than the totally immoral corrupt swindled robbed cheated club which is operated today by a crime ring.

Here's how you can make things better. Every time you're tempted to support the crooks, DON'T. Instead, find an honest dance (if you can) and support that event instead.

I Was Wrong

Back when I first realized that swindlers had stolen the square dance club which my spouse and I organized, founded, promoted, built and grew, I was NOT alarmed. I thought, "Surely the robbers cannot attract any people because surely the nice upstanding dance community will never tolerate dishonesty or theft.". I just _knew_ that square dancers were good honest people. 

Boy oh boy, I was clearly WRONG! 

I TOTALLY over-estimated the honesty and integrity of the square dance community.

The local dance community blindly supported the lying cheating swindling stealing robbers. The dancers believed filthy raunchy vicious lying rumors which were started and spread by the people who robbed me. The idea of checking with me first (to find out if the rumors were true) never occurred to anyone. Dancers gossiped with wild abandon. In addition to being a robbery victim, I became the target of a defamation campaign and an outcast in my own home town.

When I refused to silently suffer as a victim of robbery and lynching, the crooks who robbed me set up a website to smear my name.  The dirty rotten lying stealing cheating swindlers tried their dead-level best to put me completely out of business worldwide. 

Think about it:  how often do you see a website whose _only_ purpose is to smear an internationally-known square dance caller and try to run him completely out of business?  The answer is "never".  You NEVER see this because there are certain lowdown atrocious acts which are so vile and despicable that people simply NEVER do those criminal acts.

How would you like it if someone robbed YOU and then set up a website to smear YOUR name?

Yet in fact the rotten crummy swindling robbing cheating scumbags who stole my club (and cheated me out of thousands of dollars) did indeed set up a smear-site for the sole purpose of defamation.

The lying cheating rotten crooks went to my own website and found my schedule of future calling dates. They contacted every last one of my future bookings and tried to cancel those engagements. They told outright lies such as "he won't show up" or "he quit calling" or "he's deathly ill and cannot contact you himself". They did these vile despicable unspeakable horrific acts strictly to cause my wife and me financial harm, and specifically because of one fact:  when cheaters and swindlers stole my club and thousands of dollars from me, I refused to take the robbing silently.

Such criminal acts of defamation and harassment are absolutely horrible and totally unprecedented in the square dance world.

Yet, even then, I was not overly worried. I just KNEW that the nice upstanding dance community would observe the crummy evil dirty nasty smear tactics of the cheating lying swindlers and that the dancers would realize that those crimes are just TOTALLY WRONG and unheard of. I fully trusted that the good people in the dance community would steer clear of the evil name-smearing gossipy lying rumor-mongering cheating stealing slanderers and defamers.

Well, guess what?  I was totally WRONG again.

I mistakenly thought that local square dancers were good honest people.  I would have never guessed that people who purport to be "friends" would actually side with cheaters, swindlers, robbers, liars and crooks. I was so totally utterly wrong.

To be fair, the vast majority of my so-called "friends" completely DROPPED OUT of square dancing forever due to the vicious criminal acts of a small band of dirty lowdown cheating robbers. Yet a surprising number (actually, any number greater than "zero" is a surprising number) of so-called "friends" turned completely and permanently against me and my spouse after we were the victims of an unprovoked and unjustified robbery committed by cold calculating experienced swindlers and cheaters.

NOT ONE "friend" stood up to say "HEY, this is ROBBERY and it's just SO WRONG!"  NOT ONE local dancer has ANY morals whatsoever.  As far as I can tell, they ALL support and endorse (or at least tolerate) crime and theft. They continue to participate in the stolen club and profit from the robbery, despite repeated pleadings from the crime victims to please STOP supporting robbery, cheating, lying, theft, slander, crime, etc.

Having lost all faith in the goodness and integrity of the local dance population, all I can say is ... SHAME ON YOU. 

SHAME ON YOU!

Your mother taught you better than that, you immoral CHEATING swindler-supporting LIAR-ENABLING back-stabbing FALSE-FRIEND flat-wrong TWO-FACED loot-spending TURN-COAT money-grubbing IGNORANT easily-misled RAUNCHY confused INDECENT vile DESPICABLE unethical DEFAMATORY vicious LOW-DOWN dirty ROTTEN untrustworthy GOSSIPS.

I can only hope that every last crime-supporting false-friend loot-spender gets robbed and cheated and swindled and lied to and gossiped about and taunted and shamed and defrauded and slandered ... and then I hope that all of your fake two-faced "friends" laugh hysterically at your plight. Then you'll finally understand what you have done. 

Your total lack of morals and your enthusiastic support for cheating swindling robbers has damaged square dancing in the local area beyond repair.  The region will NEVER recover from the disastrous fact that YOU fully supported theft and robbery. 

For all practical purposes, the very minute that you decided to support swindling cheating gossiping lying robbers, you signed a death certificate for square dancing.  You had the opportunity to do the right thing, and as far as I can tell, you just flat let that opportunity pass you by.

Yep, I was totally wrong.  I mistakenly believed there was at least one grain of decency in the local dance community.  I never dreamed that square dancers would enthusiastically help crooks rob honest hard-working people. I totally under-estimated the lack of morals, the power of gossip, the delight of joining a lynch mob and the lure of spending robbery loot.

People need to admit when they are wrong.

I admit it.  I was completely wrong.  I mistakenly believed that square dancers were much better people than they actually are.

It's Your Turn

This weekend (just like every weekend) the stolen club in Schertz uses stolen robbery loot to hire a caller who is willing to accept stolen cash to call at a stolen club for people who robbed, cheated, swindled, bilked, hoodwinked, slandered, defamed and committed crimes which originated with secret meetings held while the club originators, organizers and founders were out of town.
  
If you enjoy supporting outright theft and crime, come be with other people just like you, i.e. people who profit from crime and who support theft, dishonesty, cheating and swindling.

  
While you're at at, please start looking for a new crime victim.  It's important.  Although the dirty rotten lowdown robbers did manage to steal several thousand dollars from Nasser and Jeanna, those stolen funds can't last forever.  You desperately need to trick, hoodwink, deceive, bilk, swindle, and rob a new gullible victim so that the long string of loot-enabled dances can continue.

Here's a thought.  What if the next victim is YOU?  Wouldn't that be great?  After all, if you enthusiastically support Ed Wedig and Ken & Fay Wheatley rampantly cheating Nasser and Jeanna out of thousands of dollars, hundreds of friends, dozens of calling dates, years of hard work, etc., then SURELY you can support a similar robbery / swindling / slander-fest / cheating happening to YOU, right?  Wow, what a great idea!
  
So, get busy!  Start building up your OWN club.  Invest thousands of dollars and years of work into your OWN group.  Build it up to the point where it finally starts to pay off after years of your hard work and thousands of your own dollars.  You'll have the biggest club in the region.  Enjoy it for a few weeks, then watch as ruthless dishonest crooked swindling lying robbers steal it away from you and smear your name into the mud.
 
THEN, you can laugh at your OWN plight ... just like you're amused today because someone ELSE was robbed.

Just think ... you can try to convince your former "friends" to stop supporting crime, only to be rebuked at every attempt.  Yes, a taste of your own medicine will do you a lot of good, you ROTTEN ROBBERY-SUPPORTING CRIME-ABETTING CROOK-HELPING SLANDEROUS DEFAMATORY SWINDLER-ENABLING TWO-FACED IMMORAL INDECENT VILE DESPICABLE JERKS.

 
But that's all comes later (AFTER you invest thousands of dollars and years of hard work into your own group, only to have it stolen by swindling lying cheating robbers).  Let's talk about the HERE and NOW.  THIS weekend, go ahead and enjoy the use of stolen robbery loot to pay a caller four times what they were paying the club's founder, to call for one-fourth the crowd. While you're at it, discuss various ways to build up square dancing.  Yes indeed, it's the eternal question, "How can we make square dancing grow?".  Well, for starters, STOP CHEATING AND ROBBING THE PEOPLE WHO CREATE THE CLUBS.

Just remember:  it's YOUR turn to get robbed and cheated next.  So, start investing.  The sooner you put thousands of dollars and years of hard work into your club, the sooner the robbing lying cheating swindlers can take it away from you, smear your name into the mud, and amuse all your former "friends".

Holiday Notice

Due to a religious holiday, the local crime ring is inactive this week. But don't worry.  Next Sunday they go right back to cheatin', lyin', gossipin', stealin', name-smearin', robbin', swindlin' and lootin'.
 
Let's face facts. Crooks and robbers have infested the square dance activity. It's much worse than "we've got a problem". It is probably THE single biggest theft (approx. $8500) in the _entire_ history of square dancing. And __YOU__ endorse the "Biggest Crime in Square Dance History" if _you_ continue to support events financed with stolen funds and run by cheating thieving lying swindlers.

Do you have enough backbone to do the right thing? For almost a full year, I have urged you to avoid dishonest events.  It's time to ask yourself a question.  Have you even _tried_ to do that ONE right thing which actually addresses the problem? Have you stayed away from the liars, robbers, cheaters, swindlers and gossips?

If so, congratulations! If not, there's still time.  You can still help straighten out this mess.  Here's the one and only thing you must do: Find a dance which does NOT involve stolen funds, cheaters, swindlers, gossips, robbers, liars, etc. Then go to that honest dance instead of a lying, cheating, swindling, stolen, defamatory, fraudulent event.
 
Help put the bad guys out of business. Don't let robbers, cheaters, swindlers, liars and defamers get clean away with their crimes. Stop supporting robbery.  Don't condone the biggest theft in square dance history.  Put an end to crime. 

Find a good clean event at an honest club instead.

Make the right choice

Something to do in your spare time:

1. Go to the police station and wait until someone comes in and reports being robbed.
2. Make fun of that person.  Call him a liar.  Call him nasty names. 
3. Demand that the crime victim never contact you again.  Cancel all future business dealings with the person who got robbed.  Threaten to beat him up.
4. Tell everyone that the robbed person is crazy and therefore deserves to be cheated and swindled.  Drag that person's name through the mud.  Call him a liar again.  Threaten to have him arrested.
5. Make friends with the robbers.  Help the crooks spend the loot.
6. Repeat every Sunday.

If you go to FunDancers in Schertz, you're helping robbers get ahead by cheating and swindling.

You're supposedly a grownup.  Why do you need constant reminders that it's wrong to steal, lie and cheat?
 
So ... stop doing wrong!  Do the right thing instead!  Do NOT support square dance clubs which rob, cheat, steal, swindle, bilk, hoodwink, defame or defraud people.  Is that too much to ask?  Do NOT help robbers spend any loot.

You only have a limited amount of spare time.  Choose honest activities.  You'll be happier.

Remove me from your list

This Sunday a local square dance club once again uses loot from a robbery to hire callers who knowingly accept stolen funds.

Come celebrate all the rotten things about square dancing: swindling, robbing, cheating, stealing and lying while petty crooks smear the good name of their robbery victim.

Some of you have requested "remove me from your email list". 

Your request is certainly heard and understood, yet you are terribly misinformed. This message is aimed exclusively at robbers and cheaters ... and the people who support them (like, for example, YOU). You receive this message for ONE reason only: it is believed that YOU support and participate in criminal activities. By the way, whenever you endorse atrocious acts, you cause permanent harm to square dancing.

If you want to stop receiving these messages, you must do exactly one thing.  Stop supporting crime! If you can prove that you no longer support the robbers, cheaters, swindlers, defamers, etc, then your name will be cheerfully removed from the list.

So, indeed, you cannot ask someone else to remove your name from this list.  Instead, you can very easily remove your OWN name from this list by submitting evidence that you no longer support crooks and thieves.  This message goes out only to crooks, thieves, fraudsters, rip-off artists, etc.  There is strong reason to believe that you participate in these activities.  To stop receiving these messages, merely stop engaging in activities related to robbery, cheating, swindling, defamation, sharing in the loot from a crime, etc.

The only purpose of this message is to help transform YOU into a better person. Hopefully you will become someone who no longer aids and abets fraudsters, slanderers, scammers, etc. Isn't it great that there's an internet service dedicated entirely to YOUR improvement and rehabilitation?

It's normal for people like you to WISH for a "law" which, whenever someone's opinion differs from your own, you can legally compel them to shut up. Unfortunately such a law does not exist, else that law would have already been used on YOU many times.

Can't you see that a victim of fraud and defamation has the right to ask YOU to stop participating in even more crime?  Can't you see that if you help people rob and lie and cheat and swindle, then you yourself are encouraging even more of those filthy acts in the future?  Can't you see that a crime victim has the right to ask you to stop rewarding the criminals?

So, for those who claim "our opinions differ therefore I demand that you shut up", I must counter with "you support robbers, cheaters, swindlers, fraudsters, defamers and liars, so I demand that you stop doing these horrible things".  For those who say "remove me from your list" I counter with "remove your OWN self from this list by refusing to support any more crime".

It is not rocket science.  Swindlers, liars and cheaters robbed the people who founded, promoted, financed and grew the Sunday club.  Quite frankly, the robbery victims simply could not afford to lose the $8,500 that the robbers stole.  Today the bad guys use the stolen funds to continue operations ... and YOU are believed to support these crimes.

Well, stop doing that. 
 

If YOU endorse and enable crimes then I very sincerely and earnestly hope that these same crooks choose YOU as their next crime victim.

Surely your mother raised you to know the difference between right and wrong.  Surely you know that stealing is wrong. Surely you know that if you owe money, you should pay it. Surely you know that if you rob and cheat and swindle someone, and then if that person gripes about being robbed, you should NOT continue to defraud and defame and cheat and hoodwink the victim of your crimes.

Here's an executive summary: Do not support crime.  Do not honor defamers, robbers, cheaters, swindlers, bilkers, liars, etc. Stay as far away as you can from the Sunday club.

Abandon your life of crime.  Do the right thing instead.

Learn from Past Mistakes

The local Sunday square dance club:

•  stole the club away from the very people who founded and grew the club,
•  ran up a huge debt and then defaulted (thus stealing a trainload of money),
•  defrauded and cheated and hoodwinked and swindled good honest people,
•  spread bad rumors all over town,
•  lied profusely in an attempt to cover it all up.

 
We can "look the other way" (pretend it didn't happen) ... or .... we can face the problem head-on.

Let's choose to tell the truth. The Sunday club is hopelessly infested with expert and experienced fraudsters and swindlers.

They outright cheated their founder out of many thousands of dollars and many years of hard work.  They turned many so-called (i.e. FAKE) "friends" against the club's founder and they're still costing an honest hard-working couple hundreds of dollars each month due to their constant defamation and slander.

Now they warmly invite YOU to a nice friendly square dance on Sunday.

If you're a total ignoramus with no clue whatsoever, go ahead and fall for their elaborate ruse.  The plain fact is that you're supporting a stolen club which uses the loot from a robbery to hire callers who will gladly accept stolen funds to call for stolen people at a club which is just outrightly totally blatently stolen.

The Sunday club is run by expert liars, crooks, embezzlers, fraudsters and swindlers. The club's original founders made the mistake of trusting these outrageous cheaters.  Let's at least try to prevent other good honest people from making the same mistake.

If you decide to believe all their lies and if you decide to trust these dangerous crooks, please be careful. They might choose YOU for their next robbery victim.

Guess what?

Guess what?
 
The FunDancers website will soon disappear. 
 
Website hosting fees are payable annually in advance.  The FunDancers fees were last paid one year ago.  The club never reimbursed their webmaster for those legitimate business expenses, therefore the site will be terminated for non-payment now (one year after the last annual payment).
 
You might be wondering how this affects you.

The main effect on you is that the club claims they "always pay their bills on time", yet the plain fact is that their claim is just not true.  The club does not pay their bills on time.  In many cases, they do not pay their bills at all.  The past-due website fees are just one small example. 

The club has had a website for three years.  The first year was eventually reimbursed, almost two years after the fact.  Years two and three have never been paid.  That's just the tip of the iceberg.  The club owes their founder many thousands of dollars in legitimate business expenses.  The club claims they "fired" their caller, but that's just not true.  Actually, the club "robbed" their caller by not paying expenses they owed.

I could easily list many other examples.  The plain truth is that the club cheated their caller and founder out of many thousands of dollars.  They stole the money and the club.  They're using the stolen funds to operate the stolen club while attempting to totally smear the good name of the person they swindled.

The point is, the club is perfectly willing to proudly proclaim "we always pay our bills on time" yet that proclamation is just flat not true.  The club says "we don't owe one penny" yet that claim is completely false. 

It makes you wonder about the truthfulness of other statements the club makes.

I'm really not sure which is worse:  people who intentionally lie, or fake friends who immediately believe any lies they hear.  Either way, it's not the kind of situation I enjoy, therefore I'm staying far away from it ... and I encourage you to do the same.