4 Easy Steps to Writing Misleading and Highly Spun Columns

by Angela Durden

Four easy steps to writing your own misleading and highly spun column

By Angela Durden

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Media Elite and HRC's Team Dance the Tarantella

by Angela Durden

The Media Elite, women of a certain age, radical feminists of all ages, and cuckolded men are bound and determined goddammit to see a woman president before they go out of business or otherwise die. 

That Hillary is painfully and seriously ill is so freaking clear as to be ridiculous. The entire world knows it. The only truthful clarity on this whole HRC health thing seems to be coming from the American public who are posting memes worthy of any snarky British tabloid. Kudos to all of you. Keep it up. I love to laugh. 

But to the aforementioned groups in paragraph one, none of that matters, you see, because she must be president. She deserves it, doncha know, champion of women's rights that she is...and a woman, to boot. We as a nation must prove our allegiance to Women's Rights under threat of having our collective balls cut off and must support this most deserved of women because she is the creme de la creme of all things female.

[Excuse me while I barf. Thank you. Back to the column.]

In any case, with this latest emergency of HRC's at the 9/11 ceremony, and the quick public appearance of an obvious body double (somebody should be fired for that choice), something kept niggling at my brain.

In the explaining away of this story . . . 

 . . . The Media Elite were smiling and happy dancing their way to a presidential win. Gosh, where have I seen that dance before? Then I remembered. 

Why, a little piece of music I had learned as a child on the piano called The Tarantella where, as the story goes, one bit by a wolf spider (tarantella) must have the poison exorcised via a happy dance. In my piano exercise book was a drawing of that happy dance. 

So I went online to find it. YouTube did not let me down. That I have connected the HRC/Media Elite to this video, well...I make profound apologies to the wonderful Polish Dance School that is featured. But when you watch this video, you will totally know what I mean about the explanatory responses of the Media Elite, Hill's team, RadFems, and pussified men.

Radical feminism is a hate crime

by Angela Durden

I’ve been saying it for years: Radical feminism is a hate crime against men.

Radical feminism does not celebrate differences in gender: They punish them. We now have more evidence of the success of RadFem’s campaign to incite hate in this story about two men. One dead. One now a murderer.

And why? Because some damn woman didn’t get the RadFem Memo about giving her inner warrior permission to open her own damn door, that’s why. Because her inner warrior was a drama queen that wanted to see two men fight over her. Because that damn drama queen complained to her boyfriend that some other man dissed her. Because her inner warrior needed a man to fight her fight for her.

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And the murdered man. A father. Going into a McDonald’s for a burger. Gets shot dead. What about him? He was probably confused as hell to see a gun pointed at him for not holding a door for a woman — especially after doing exactly what he was trained to do by RadFems who have been torturing men for over fifty years with this no-win set of instructions:

Do not hold back a woman’s inner warrior from being strong and opening the door herself. To open a door for a woman means you are disrespecting her power. We are women. Hear. Us. Roar.

More like Hear. Us. Whine.

Only this time the last thing Mr. Robinson heard was the roar of a gun as it went off and killed him dead.

And where’s the woman? Can’t find her. Her inner warrior doesn’t want get her butt caught by the Po-Po. She doesn’t want to give up her man who, I am certain, is hiding out and wondering why in the hell he listened to that bitch anyways.

Murdering Dude, I know you are just as confused. You’ve been hearing the same RadFem messaging, but some woman turned your head with promises of awesome sex and next thing you know, you’re gallant manhood, DNA deep but unused to operating in real time, went and overreacted.

Look, Murdering Dude, you aren’t smart enough to go on the run. Give yourself up.

And while you are at it, get your own little revenge and tell the Po-Po where to find that &%*#& who just ruined your life. Let’s see how strong her inner warrior is behind bars.

Colin Kaepernick: Being “That Guy”

by Angela Durden

A lone man refuses to do the Nazi salute, 1936.

That Guy in the picture, in the midst of all public opinion to the contrary, said “Hey, something evil’s brewing and I will not support it.”

At the time, That Guy did not heil Hitler when all around him said he better do it. I guarantee you he was hounded, cursed, his business ruined or fired from his job, kids kicked out of school, wife snubbed at the grocery store, and bank loans called. And that’s the best-case scenario. More than likely he was shot, hanged, or burned in public…as an example. That Guy’s wife and kids were killed too, after each drop of slave labor was wrung from them.

And all for what reason? Because That Guy’s conscience told him he could not support what he knew was a really bad thing.

Colin Kaepernick not standing for national anthem.

That Guy in the picture has had history prove him to be brave, smart, and prescient. That Guy was the canary in the mine. I understand that guy as I’ve been him too many times. Which is why I’m taking up for Colin Kaepernick.

You see, whether he knows it or not, Kaepernick believes himself to be That Guy.

Of course believing something doesn’t make it so. Kaepernick is not in full possession of all the facts concerning blacks being murdered with what he believes to be tacit approval of the U.S. and local governments. His conclusion deletes all other inconvenient truths such as:

That whites get killed in the same manner at double the rate of blacks. That it is not only white police who pull those triggers. And, sadly, that mistakes happen.

Colin is young. I don’t doubt his sincerity. Young folks who care deeply often do not see the full story behind situations, and start marching and hollering and doing all sorts of public stunts — and everybody yawns.

But when you see people protesting who have a lot to lose — jobs and families — or are old, that’s when you know the situation is really serious.

Further, it is my opinion Colin truly does care, and is using his high profile to bring attention to a matter that is important to him.

Can he find a better way to do it? Maybe. Nevertheless, for those feeling patriotically indignant towards Kaepernick, and making snide remarks about his choice of expression to bring attention to a difficult matter important to him, I would make this reminder:

Slippery slopes have hard landings.

Forcing anybody to salute any flag is wrong.

Just ask the 11 million people killed during the Holocaust (1.1 million children). Six million Jews targeted specifically for their religion and race. But the other five million were made up of Jehovah’s Witnesses —especially hated by Hitler — and other Christians — individual priests and groups; homosexuals; the disabled; blacks; mixed-race children; actors; musicians; doctors; professors; Roma Gypsies; and anybody else who didn’t submit to evil, who said no to the forced heil, and spoke their minds against Hitler and his evil machinations.

We won’t even bring into the discussion the human rights records of North Korea, the Soviet Union, China, or Cambodia, among others.

Of all human rights, freedom of speech is the hardest because it allows for differences to be spoken and even acted upon.

Colin Kaepernick has the right not to salute. It doesn’t mean he doesn’t love his country. In fact, I think he does love his country. His not saluting the flag to get attention on a difficult matter proves it.

So those of you out there who are simply hounding him because he didn’t salute, stop it. Instead, ask him why. Ask him for proof of his deeply held opinion.

Debate those issues, but never force the saluting.

Germany’s citizens who still deal with Hitler’s long shadow, ask them how difficult that is.

Snowflakes of Terrorism

by Angela Durden

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Gun-toting terrorists and Politically Correct Doms and Dominatrices — both hereinafter referred to as Snowflakes — see incendiary headlines and badly researched articles generated by one of their own, the self-named Media Elite, and assume that what is there reflects the spine of most men and women of the United States and other free countries.

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That is, Snowflakes believe that when they speak of their feelings that those feelings matter more than the truth and logic we serve. They assume everyone who doesn’t agree with them will think they are brilliant and will roll over and do their bidding.

They are wrong.

We have feelings. We are not opposed to them. We enjoy them or hate them, in turn. But our feelings are not all-powerful. We know they are temporary and do not allow those feeling to guide us. In other words, feelings matter not when they:

— ask truth to be ignored.

— take away rights inherent in our humanity.

— need to destroy that which empowers for good.

— won’t allow honorable business to flourish.

— insist upon others living by the code they’ve decreed as the only way.

— know what is best for you and will, by force of law or social pressure, make you do it.

— rape, pillage, and plunder to satisfy their out-of-control desire.

Of course, when their operational way is followed, here is the result to a population’s infrastructure:

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and this is what happens when Snowflakes go unopposed for long:

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So, just like it’s illustrated in the picture below, it does my heart good to see more and more logical and balanced people speaking up against snowflakes. Because, you see, when the heat of truth is on, the blizzard of hate Snowflakes dump melts away.

Getting tired of Snowflakes’ silly, inane, illogical threats and rants that shut down discourse and, by extension, the finding of solutions by identifying real causes, more and more around the world in the street, on Facebook and other social media, and the business portal Linkedin, are no longer backing down from the fight.

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Snowflakes are being challenged to defend their positions. When ultimately they cannot defend that position, like all good little terrorists, they resort to threats (“I will destroy you!” and “I have reported you as abusive!”) Then when many say back to them “You are wrong to threaten!”, this writer is seeing many Snowflakes back down on their hate speech, or reverse themselves and try to get along.

And guess what? Just like the DNC’s fave speaker of the day Khizr Khan did and shut down his firm’s website when he was challenged, quite a few Snowflakes are shutting down their profiles on SM and Linkedin. Yay for everybody on that account.

Evil can only thrive where good people fail to speak up. 

Just like it is happening in business and political discussion, I also predict that a huge wave of regular folks in the greater worldwide Muslim community who are sick and tired of being used as cover in a firefight, will soon join others in their communities that are fighting the fine fight in many ways, and in so doing will rein in those in their community using terror against them, and giving them a bad name by exporting terrorism abroad.

Already support funding is drying up for the wannabe government ISIS, causing those who had been paid to fight to either be laid off or quietly leave the job when their wages are slashed.

“Learn him to communicate” said the P.C. Dominatrix

By Angela Durden

Seems a boy had started a service where for a mere 25¢ he would haul your trashcan to the curb on trash day. Neighbors were eating it up and they gladly paid. The boy’s father shared this picture on Linkedin of his 11-year-old son working his business. He was proud. The boy was proud. The neighbors were proud. And the folks on that bastion of business were proud for the boy, too, sending many praises his way.

If that was the end of the story, it would be a good one. But it isn’t.

Almost immediately a P.C. Dominatrix was cracking that whip of hers. Face and name blocked to protect the idiot, here is a screen snip of her comment:



Notice she first implies the dad and boy are greedy because she chides them when she says “life is not about money” as if the boy and his father thought it was. Then she pulled the old “sorry” bit that when said like that means “I’m right. You’re wrong. And because you made me have to say something, you will begin your penance now, you bad person you.” CahRACK! CahRACK! “Feel my wrath!”

Then, of course, like a good little whip-wielding Socialist, she has the solution for the whole thing. “Learn him to communicate,” she commands.

Don’t you just love that? “Learn him to communicate.” Well, I could not hold myself back any longer. Here is a screen snip of my answer to her:



Please note: I did not fall in line and become one of the great unwashed P.C. Whipped when she uttered her commands.

But my reply caused another woman to take exception to it. She then proceeded to accuse me of being all for slavery because he was only being paid 25¢ per can and wasn’t in school. As if the boy can’t do both activities in one day. Oh, the shame I was meant to feel when she invoked slavery, a highly charged word meant to make me realize I am so bad. I do not know what ethnicity she is as her profile picture is an egghead. But it doesn’t matter because she obviously believes I’m invoking white privilege.

Then a man in Israel said:



So this man is trying to deprive the boy of the pride of earning money from an idea he successfully executed, and for what good reason? That the boy’s wasting time? That he should gather as much knowledge now as he can because this is his only chance seeing as how once he’s all grown up he’ll never be able to learn again?

Of course, I had to ask myself, “What are these people doing on a business site if they don’t believe in business?” These people are everywhere. They never follow the logical path to where their caring goes. Everything they do is meant to punish, destroy, and weaken a decent human being’s need to feel responsible for himself and others.

The reason they have gotten so bold is because decent folks like us simply laughed and ignored them. “They’ll go away,” we said to ourselves.

We were wrong.

So, while I do not think that my comments alone to these people will shut them the hell up, when a lot of us call them on it, then they will start slowing down because one thing we know about good, little, obedient socialist P.C. Dominatrices is this: They don’t like somebody cracking a whip their way.

In any case, I didn’t feel any shame for speaking up for kids anywhere who want to earn their own money, and I still don’t feel any shame. It is obvious these people have never heard of that great worldwide slave of evil stockholders. You remember them, right? Waste Management?

Joe Friday, What it means to be a Police Officer

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Politically Correct Circular Logic

by Angela Durden

“If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.”

From the first time I heard that saying, I hated it. It’s a truckload of bull crap.

Look, the logic is circular.

How can we learn if we cannot be around those smarter than ourselves while those who are smarter than us are being encouraged not to be in the room with those who know less than them?

This saying is typical P.C. claptrap as it shuts out and shuts down the free flow of information and the challenge of assumptions.

There are those who say, “Oh, no. This saying simply shows how humble these smart people are. Don’t you see they want to be around those with bigger brains than them because they acknowledge they don’t know everything?”

Again, claptrap. First of all, how does anyone know they are the smartest in the room? Did everybody bring their I.Q. Test results and compare? Or is it a judgment call? Uh, oh. That most unholy of words — judgment — has been used and should make the Caring Crowd cringe in consternation, but sadly it doesn’t.

For anyone to think they are the smartest one in a room already shows their opinion of the value each in that room brings to the discussion. P.C. Acolytes’ heads are exploding right about now, so let’s interpret this most highly inflamatory and oft-bandied-about statement. Maybe then they can understand it:

“I am smart. You are not. Can feel the brain drain! Must..leave…now.”

If somebody doesn’t want to be in a room with me because I’m not smart enough for them to waste their time with, then I already know they’ve got a boat load of ego — and they’re wanting me to row because that’s obviously all I’m good for, you know, mindless labor. In other words, they have equated me with an animal.

What type of animal do they believe I am? Not a cute puppy that PETA would rescue off a porch because they thought the animal was in danger of getting into danger. No, they would equate me with a mule, a hybrid only good enough to pull a plow.
If you follow their logic down the rabbit hole, you can totally understand how it is that those who claim to truly and deeply care about others with lesser opportunities than them and sooooo want to help them, in point of fact do not care as they have already judged them to be more stupid and not worthy of being in a room with.

Those who believe that all worthwhile knowledge comes from worshiping at the feet of the intellectual have already proven they have no idea about how knowledge comes to be.

Thus worshipped and crowned as having achieved all the knowledge that is worthwhile, intellectuals simply cease to learn. Next thing you know, they are making stupid laws and thinking that the very nature of humans can be dictated and controlled and changed by the application of policies that are “good for you, you poor ignorant sap”, but that they don’t have to live by because they are so smart.

With that thinking comes communism and socialism.

                                                

So, the next time you hear someone saying “hey, if you’re the smartest…”, you’ll know exactly where they stand.

Alabama rehab

by Angela Durden

Clowns, left. Jokers, right. I’m stuck in the…you know where.

By Angela Durden

Click this link to read the entire transcript — without my inserted commentary — of the speech that has been getting a lot of attention for Mr. Jesse Williams, recent recipient of Viacom-owned BET TV’s 2016 Humanitarian Award. With that bestowment, it is now official: Williams has been anointed as heir to the civil rights throne so recently and unwillingly vacated by a couple of Reverends.

As a humorous side point, I saw a blog that attributed Williams’ beauty as the reason people are listening to him. After all, if a handsome bi-racial male says the struggle not only isn’t over but there’s been no progress either, then it must be so.

I also make comment on the fact that not to acknowledge progress is to perpetuate a lie. To say nothing is better is not the same as saying more progress can be made. No matter or when, more progress will always be needed when it comes to ways for man to be inhumane to man.

Lest you think this is a white woman speaking on matters she has no right to because she isn’t black, let me say blacks are also speaking out against Mr. Williams’ eloquently delivered speech. Read Chicago Tribune’s Clarence Page article here. Inviting possible criticism from fellow blacks, Page summed up the speech this way:

“That's a sharp message to thetrolls out there. Not surprisingly, the audience loved it. But it also remindedme of the anti-intellectualism that I have witnessed sometimes incampus discussions, where criticism is silenced in the interest of ‘safe spaces’ forstudents of color.”

Stacy Dash, not interested in safe spaces for herself and marked as the new whipping girl of the black civil rights elite, also spoke out against it here, saying:

“I’ve said it before and I’llsay it again: BET is keeping racism and segregation alive and this pastSunday’s awards show proves it,” Dash writes. “Particularly the speech given byGrey’s Anatomy star Jesse Williams, whose tirade after receiving the 2016 BETHumanitarian Award for his black activism was nothing short of an attack onwhite people.”

Also, Mr. Williams’ comments do not reflect the fact that more whites are killed by police than blacks. Read what this WashingtonTimes.com article reported:

“An analysis released last weekshows that more white people died at the hands of law enforcement than those ofany other race in the last two years, even as the Justice Department,social-justice groups and media coverage focus on black victims ofpolice force.”

Though my AncestryDNA.com results showed that 0.1% of my DNA comes from the western parts of Africa, no one would ever mistake me for anything but coming from European descent, most notably 87% British but with so many more variations thrown in that it only proves my ancestors were a randy lot who loved to meet new people.

However, as a white mother who raised her white children to see color as an adjective and not a judgment call, and whose adult children reflect those values she instilled in them, this woman does have a right to speak out on this subject when someone attempts to tar her with the brush of racism and prejudice. So, let’s get to it.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT [With my inserted commentary in this style.]

Peace peace. Thank you, Debra. Thank you, BET. Thank you Nate Parker, Harry and Debbie Allen for participating in that. [Angela says: Very well done.]

Before we get into it, I just want to say I brought my parents out tonight. I just want to thank them for being here, for teaching me to focus on comprehension over career, and that they make sure I learn what the schools were afraid to teach us. And also thank my amazing wife for changing my life. [Angela says: Very nice. I also love how he has managed to quietly skewer the existing school system’s inability to teach, while showcasing the importance of parents taking an active role in their children’s education outside of the classroom. Yay for Jesse.]

Now, this award – this is not for me. This is for the real organizers all over the country – the activists, the civil rights attorneys, the struggling parents, the families, the teachers, the students that are realizing that a system built to divide and impoverish and destroy us cannot stand if we do. [Angela says: Classy. No mention here of race, color, political, socio-economic, or religious references of those involved in the civil rights struggle, as all are acknowledged.]

It’s kind of basic mathematics – the more we learn about who we are and how we got here, the more we will mobilize. [Angela says: With the use of the words “we” and “who” the inclusion aspect is huge here since many of all colors and races have been involved in civil rights both here in the U.S., and in other countries where those civil rights issues may or may not be about color but about caste, religion, or political affiliation.]

Now, this is also in particular for the black women in particular who have spent their lifetimes dedicated to nurturing everyone before themselves. We can and will do better for you. [Angela says: I’m not sure why this is in here since it speaks more to interpersonal relationships than civil rights per se, but I shall surmise as to his meaning. It is possible Mr. Williams was alluding to the practice of some men who leave their women high and dry to raise children on their own. And he acknowledges that those women have done that and done it well. Also that the older generations of men who have done right by their women will teach the younger generation these same high principles.]

Now, what we’ve been doing is looking at the data and we know that police somehow manage to deescalate, disarm and not kill white people every day. [Angela says: The police also manage every day not to kill people of all other colors and races. Mr. Williams’ statement here is inflammatory. He is accusing all police of using their training only to benefit white people. Given that black (12.2%), Hispanic (11.6%), other (3.5%), and women (12.2%) make up about 40% of the police in the U.S. — see WSJ report here — he has, in effect, called all black police racists. Surely he cannot mean this. Did he really mean to insult — what one can only assume he thinks of as — his black brothers?]

So what’s going to happen is we are going to have equal rights and justice in our own country or we will restructure their function and ours. [Angela says: Here Mr. Williams is implying the function of the police is to kill blacks and get away with it. He does not acknowledge how many times those same police put their lives on the line to save others without once asking their color before they fling themselves into the fray. His threat to restructure is grandstanding at best — actors are good at that — to pandering at worst.]

Now… I got more y’all – yesterday would have been young Tamir Rice’s 14th birthday so I don’t want to hear anymore about how far we’ve come when paid public servants can pull a drive-by on 12 year old playing alone in the park in broad daylight, killing him on television and then going home to make a sandwich. Tell Rekia Boyd how it’s so much better than it is to live in 2012 than it is to live in 1612 or 1712. Tell that to Eric Garner. Tell that to Sandra Bland. Tell that to Dorian Hunt. [Angela says: Tragedies need no commentary other than to say one should always make sure of all facts concerning a case before anyone should cite it to support a claim of injustice. I myself will not comment on these cases as I do not have all the facts.]

Now the thing is, though, all of us in here getting money – that alone isn’t gonna stop this. Alright, now dedicating our lives, dedicating our lives to getting money just to give it right back for someone’s brand on our body when we spent centuries praying with brands on our bodies, and now we pray to get paid for brands on our bodies. [Angela says: Mr. Williams is confusing branding from a hot iron inflicting horrible pain and leaving behind an ugly scar in order to show ownership of a body with the voluntary spending of one’s own money to purchase an item with the logo of a person or company one admires and wants to be associated with. The two have nothing in common. Unless — and this is possible — unless Jesse is saying that folks are being forced to spend that money and have no choice in the matter, in which case we should have another and very different conversation.]

There has been no war that we have not fought and died on the front lines of. There has been no job we haven’t done. There is no tax they haven’t leveed [sic] against us – and we’ve paid all of them. But freedom is somehow always conditional here. “You’re free,” they keep telling us. But she would have been alive if she hadn’t acted so…free. [Angela says: Freedom is always, and always will be, conditional for everyone because there is no such thing as unconditional freedom. Freedom is a hard-won state of being. There will always be those who don’t want others to be free, including anyone who says they are fighting for civil rights but whose every word and action does nothing but foment hatred and division in order to line their pocket and set themselves up as a new messiah.]

Now, freedom is always coming in the hereafter, but you know what, though, the hereafter is a hustle. We want it now. [Angela says: Oh, Mr. Williams, don’t we all?]

And let’s get a couple things straight, just a little sidenote – the burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander. That’s not our job, alright – stop with all that. If you have a critique for the resistance, for our resistance, then you better have an established record of critique of our oppression. If you have no interest, if you have no interest in equal rights for black people then do not make suggestions to those who do. Sit down. [Angela says: Ah. I wonder. Can Mr. Williams define what it means to have an “established record of critique”? Who sets the criteria for established record? Again, big words that make awesome soundbites, but on their face are meaningless.]

We’ve been floating this country on credit for centuries, yo, and we’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil – black gold, ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit. The thing is though… the thing is that just because we’re magic doesn’t mean we’re not real. [Angela says: Again, great soundbites but meaningless. If there were no blacks killing more blacks than anybody else. If there were no blacks selling their brand-name clothes at highly inflated pricing while targeting those sales at poor blacks. If there were no black institutions using predatory lending only on blacks. If there were no bankable and highly respected and very-well-paid black actors or artists. If there were no black-owned music streaming services selling out while claiming to be all for the black artists. Then and only then would I say you might have a point, Jesse. But there is, so you don’t.]

Thank you. [Angela says: You are welcome, Jesse. If your goal is to inhabit the civil rights throne so recently — and unwillingly — vacated (by certain Reverends who have held corporations hostage with threats of blackmail if they didn’t get their hush-money fee), then you’re on the right track by stepping right on in it by indulging weakness and employing questionable methods. But Jesse? I don’t think that is what you want. I think you’re a young fellow feeling his oats and like all young people you want to do something. Well, if you really want to do something beneficial, first get your facts straight, reign in the dramatics, then maybe you too can teach a man how to fish. In any case, don’t go about making enemies of people by tarring those who have been fighting injustice on more fronts than you have and for much longer.]

Did you know all mechanics are Republicans and listen to Limbaugh?

by Angela Durden

I was married to a mechanic. He was a great mechanic, too. Still is. But this is pretty much the conversations he used to have with people — sans the cursing insults, of course, but I'm sure he wanted to say it. You'll enjoy the political tie in, too. Hilarious mechanical voices. 

Identify Incoming Threats. Act Fast. Fight.

by Angela Durden

Who would have thought the day would come when my hyper-vigilance would come in handy, heck, even be approved? 

Learned during a childhood full of violence in the home, my watchfulness helped to deflect, manage, contain, and defuse more situations than my mother or siblings ever knew, though as a child I was limited in stopping all of it. But I studied the habits of my mother's husband, and learned to read him well. I became practiced in the art of subterfuge in the aid of the innocent and have employed that skill in many situations throughout my life. 

I've never understood the concept of waiting to be a victim of a death threat when action will do. I've hardly had anyone agree with me as they seem to think that being a sheeple will not make the bad guy angry. 

They don't understand that anger has nothing to do with the ability and willingness to do violence. 

When I was 20, I was held hostage for 45 minutes by a man with a gun while I checked people out at the convenience store where I worked. When the last customer was gone, I bagged up his purchases and the money. When he told me to go in to the storeroom, he said, "I'm going to tie you up." He showed me the duct tape. 

I said no and did not move from my spot behind the register. He couldn't believe it. He said, "You do realize I have a gun?" I said, "I do. But I'm not going to voluntarily walk into a private place where you will without fail hurt me and then kill me. We will do this publicly." He insisted I go. I insisted otherwise.

But one thing was clear to him, and I saw it in his eyes. He knew I was going to fight him and, if I didn't win, at least I wasn't going to voluntarily make it easy for him to be mean to me. Oh, yeah. At the very least, his DNA would've been under my fingernails and between my teeth. 

He was pulling out his gun when another customer walked in. He said, "You have no idea how lucky you just got." Oh, I knew. I had a lot of practice sizing up evil. 

The man was never found; his getaway was clean. One month later he came in the store again. I saw him when he hit the door. Watching me closely, he went through the store and got in line. I knew that if I reached for the phone, he could very well have turned violent. When he laid his stuff on the counter, I checked him out, bagged his purchases, and took his money. He just kept smiling but with an expression that said:  She is real. I did not imagine what happened that day.

I gave him his change and said, "I know who you are. Get out." He never uttered a word, just kept a bemused smile like he couldn't believe this was happening to him. As soon as he was out the door, I dialed the police and told them he had come in again. My customers never knew a thing...and they were safe. 

Well, it seems I've done good in both instances, family and in public. The Brevard County Sheriff (in Titusville, Florida, near Daytona) just released a new video saying that. Sheriff Wayne Ivey was on the scene at Orlando's recent carnage wrought by another evil dude.

I encourage you to watch his updated active-shooter video called: It's Time to Fight Back.

Not Everything Can Be on the Clock: Five Minutes and Knowing Where to Tap

by Angela Durden

An international brand hired a songwriter to come up with a theme song. After signing the contract, the man went back to his lonely writer’s garret and came up with the song. Took him all of five minutes. The company was not happy and did not want to pay him their agreed upon price. It wasn’t that they didn’t like the song. Oh, no. You see, the songwriter was dealing with those with an employee mindset.

These employees could not understand how it was he could come up with a song in five minutes. They thought it had to be a retread or old over anything but brand new and written just for them. Did the song work? The employees agreed that it did. So the songwriter explained that they only saw the five minutes but clearly and thoroughly missed the thirty years that came before wherein he learned and came to an understanding and knowing of what wouldn’t work.

Here’s another example of employee mindset. A ship’s engine wouldn’t start. No one could fix it. They brought in a consultant. After looking over the engine, he pulls out a small hammer, taps something, and voilá, the engine works. Balking at his bill, they ask for a breakdown of his fees. His new invoice simply said “Tapping with hammer: $2. Knowing where to tap: $9,998.”

What do these two stories have in common? First, that most people don’t appreciate and often undervalue accumulated knowledge and the benefit to time-savings that can bring. Second, that most people have an hourly-employee mindset.

The employee mindset says only when a clock is punched does work begin. Most employees live by the credo when the cat’s away the mice will play. Those with employee mindsets do not own companies. Always equating physical presence and effort to deserved compensation, those with the employee mindset complain about anybody making more money than them — especially if that anybody barely breaks a sweat.

What employee-mindset folks fail to recognize — and frankly never will — is that those who do not punch clocks are paid to take their wide-ranging knowledge and experience and apply it thereby ensuring those with the employee mindset have a clock to punch. Even when sunning on the beach, these people never stop thinking. They never stop with this then that and what if scenarios. They are always, without promise of real-time compensation — that is, they aren’t on the clock — studying and learning so that, when confronted with a thorny problem or new challenge, they know where not to drill, they know what not to tap, they know what not to sing.

Once you know what doesn’t work, then the options for what does work become much clearer, and problem-solving progress is made much faster. Employees basically have a socialist mindset. They do not understand that anything deserves a higher compensation than they do, and believe that all compensation should be equal. Socialists and employees do not understand why, nor do they understand how, to look to the future. All they know how to do is whine about now. But that thinking does not grow a business nor make it strong. Socialists and employees also do not understand this:

Invoice for Tapping: $2, and knowing where to tap: $9,998.

Now, subtract: Paying for 100% of Fed and State income taxes, insurance, office space, travel, coffee and pot, the right hammers, and more.

Socialists and employees are provided these things. They never think about who is actually paying for it.

Imam: I condemn Orlando gunman's actions

Greta vs. the Imam . . . 

Hitler's Record Label Is Losing Money

IRS sued by 426 non-profit organizations on Hit List

by Angela Durden, special to RightingOnTheWall.com

I personally know one of the 426 in this lawsuit.

Mary Grabar, whom I first met years ago at a luncheon hosted by a book publisher, is the sort of woman who takes no guff from anybody. While she never goes out of her way to pick a fight, she's doesn't back down from one when it is brought to her door. Of this she should know how to do from her parents as they fled communist rule when she was a child. A fight has been delivered to her door. She has not backed down. Here's the short version of it. 

Mary, teaching college English beginning in 1993, in the early years of this century, began writing about education with an emphasis on culture and politics' influences on it as delivered via that pretty and caring Trojan horse called Political Correctness. Mary should know the troubles of the encroachment of political correctness and the rewrite of history, as she found it harder and harder to keep a job at the university level while properly serving her students. 

The job of a teacher is to open minds and teach how to think. By all accounts and definitions, Mary Grabar is that and more. So, it wasn't so much that others disagreed with her as she was told to cease and desist. But everyone is entitled to their opinion, right? Isn't open and spirited conversation and debate what makes students valuable to their communities? Well, no, she was told.  

Professors like herself, and many students, on U.S. campuses were (and still are) being threatened with job loss or failing grades if they did not teach and support what the dommes and dominatrices of political correctness had anointed as the holy way of thinking, that is, their most-learned opinion that produces easily manipulated sheeple. 

Dealing with everything from the rabid embrace of Common Core Curriculum and its subsequent shoving down parents' and students' throats to their detriment, to the destroying of the study of the classics in literature replacing those with P.C. Crap by radical professors who openly identified themselves as socialists and communists intent on controlling their little fiefdom with full intent to shut down all opinion not their own...well, Mary had had enough. While being threatened with job loss, and unable to get tenure, Mary did not back down from those self-styled bullies. 

For years, she funded her massive research proving who the forces were behind all this, shedding light on their ultimate goals. She testified (when allowed), and was threatened when she did so. And still the long-term jobs are being denied her causing much financial troubles. There came a time when she set up a 501(c)(3). She met all the requirements, but that didn't stop the IRS from making nasty with her as they did with many other organizations who did not tow the party line. You can read about that here. Now, Dissident Prof is named as a party in a lawsuit against the IRS along with 425 other non-profits who also are not towing the party line. 

Many do not understand the nature of bullies. Bullies don't care about people. Those who stand up against them do care. Strength meets strength. Without that, we all are doomed.