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    10 Habits of Decidedly Defective People: The Successful Loser's Guide to Life
    10 Habits of Decidedly Defective People: The Successful Loser's Guide to Life
    10 Habits of Decidedly Defective People: The Successful Loser's Guide to Life
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    10 Habits of Decidedly Defective People: The Successful Loser's Guide to Life

    By Doug Giles and Jason Mattera

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    10 Habits of Decidedly Defective People is a road-tested, tongue-planted-firmly-in-cheek disaster plan guaranteed to give those bent on destruction proven principles to help them ruin their lives. Filled with anecdotal illustrations, practical philosophy, and zany cartoons, 10 Habits of Decidedly Defective People will propel the slackers among us to...uh...well...nowhere. Yes, to be a successful loser, one must adhere to the credo the author has laid down in these inspired pages. Deviation from these destructive traits could cause the determined loser to derail his disastrous existence and actually end up getting a life! This book will at the same time prevent the sharp, solid, and smart ones from lathering, rinsing, and repeating the deeds of the disastrous ones. For a good laugh, read up and then run in the opposite direction of these principles of disaster.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBaker Publishing Group
    Release dateJun 5, 2007
    ISBN9781441225160
    10 Habits of Decidedly Defective People: The Successful Loser's Guide to Life
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    Doug Giles

    Doug Giles is the creator and host of ClashRadio.com (IRN/USA Radio Network). In addition, Doug is a popular Columnist on Townhall.com, read moreminister, artist, Campus Lecturer and Author.His articles have also appeared on several other print and online news sources, including The Washington Times, New York Times, BigGovernment.com, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Examiner, NRA News, American Hunter and ABC News. He has been a guest on both major television news programs and nationally syndicated radio shows across the nation.Doug earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Texas Tech University and studied for his Master of Arts in Christianity and Culture from Knox Theological Seminary.Doug and his wife Mary Margaret have two daughters: Hannah Giles who devastated ACORN with her undercover videos and Regis Giles who is a NRA columnist and 2nd Amendment activist. Giles’ interests include guns, big game hunting, big game fishing, fine art, cigars and being a big pain in the butt to people who dislike God and the USA.

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      10 Habits of Decidedly Defective People - Doug Giles

      WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

      ABOUT DOUG GILES

      (AT LEAST TO HIM)

      Giles’s style is deliberately provocative and in your face, but it’s refreshing. Not many reverends can dish it out as well as anybody. Giles is one of them, and even better, he’s one of us.

      DAVID AIKMAN

      Author, A Man of Faith: The Spiritual Journey of George W. Bush

      The Wild Man attitude is alive and well with Doug Giles and ClashRadio.com.

      CHARLIE DANIELS

      Country music legend

      In his unique no-compromise style, Doug Giles stands up to the forces tearing our great nation apart, refusing to back down against the media, political and cultural elites. Doug takes no prisoners.

      JONATHAN GARTHWAITE

      Editor, Townhall.com

      Doug Giles’s refreshing voice cuts through the moral fuzziness of our culture with great clarity and trenchant insight. Doug’s candor, boldness and verve in tackling controversial issues make his writings essential reading. His contagious humor provides a delicious icing on the cake.

      DAVID LIMBAUGH

      Columnist and author, Persecution

      Doug Giles is an A-team writer with a fresh and ferocious style. Doug’s weekly columns on Townhall.com are must-reads.

      MICHELLE MALKIN

      Columnist, Fox News analyst

      New York Times Best-selling author

      Doug Giles and ClashRadio.com are doing a great job. Keep at it, Doug!

      COLONEL OLIVER NORTH

      Political Commentator

      Doug Giles is the secular fundamentalist’s nightmare. He has faith, hope and even a little charity. He lambastes the enemies of the Lord and of common sense. And he does it with wit as well as logic. Doug serves two great causes: religious truth and what Arnold Bennett once called the great cause of cheering us all up.

      JOHN O’SULLIVAN

      Columnist and editor-at-large, The National Interest

      Doug Giles brings a sharp, humorous, bold and captivating style to ministry.

      DR. R. C. SPROUL

      Distinguished theologian

      Best-selling author

      © 2007 Doug Giles

      Published by Revell

      a division of Baker Publishing Group

      P.O. Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287

      www.revellbooks.com

      Revell edition published 2014

      ISBN 978-1-4412-2516-0

      Previously published by Regal Books

      Ebook edition originally created 2012

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—for example, electronic, photocopy, recording—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

      CONTENTS

      FOREWORD by Jason Mattera

      INTRODUCTION FOR PERSONAL DESTRUCTION

      HABIT 1: Be a Slacker

      HABIT 2: Blame Others

      HABIT 3: Embrace Hopelessness

      HABIT 4: Follow Others Mindlessly

      HABIT 5: Be a Self-Obsessed Me-Monkey

      HABIT 6: Learn to Kiss Up

      HABIT 7: Become a Fear-Addled, Backward-Looking Hamster

      HABIT 8: Quit When the Going Gets Tough

      HABIT 9: Rip People Off

      HABIT 10: Deliver Less Than Promised

      AN ADDENDUM FOR THE DDP DUM-DUM: Sin and Sin Again

      POSTSCRIPT: What to Do If You Unfortunately Succeed

      AN ADDENDUM FOR THE NDDP

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      FOREWORD

      Doug Giles is one of the most funny, entertaining, witty and bright commentators in America today. As a media spokesman for Young America’s Foundation, I am invited to speak on many talk radio and television shows about the uphill battles facing young conservatives in academia. Without question, it is always a privilege to be a guest on Doug’s radio show, Clashradio.

      Doug’s questions are engaging, his humor is priceless and his attitude is jocular—all of which facilitate a smooth, informative and captivating interview. But Doug is not just an award-winning talk radio host. He’s a prolific writer and moving orator to boot! Doug’s columns regularly appear on Townhall.com—one of the nation’s premiere conservative websites—and he is a pastor with international reach.

      Doug is a man’s man. His tenor resembles John Wayne and Rambo, but his message resembles that of C. S. Lewis. He’s a tough guy, both physically and intellectually. How many of us could describe ourselves as an avid big-game hunter and monster-shark fisherman in one breath, and in the next breath articulate the pitfalls of postmodernism and secular humanism? Well, Doug can.

      As you’ll see, Doug doesn’t pull punches. Doug gives you a good laugh, makes you feel like a wuss when appropriate, and gets you on a purpose-bound track. Ten Habits of Decidedly Defective People is a blistering slap in the face to those who squander their talents. Doug assembles time-tested and clear ways to mess up your life and approach loser status.

      Here’s where Doug’s hilarity and ingenuity manifest. Walk into a Barnes & Noble, Borders or even your local 7-Eleven and you’ll have your pick of self-help books. A majority of these self-help books portray an inaccurate blueprint for life, usually tattering along the lines of thinking happy or positive thoughts as a way to self and spiritual actualization. Very little, if anything, is said about the importance of discipline and focus. What makes this book compelling is its contrarian approach to overcoming complacency and perpetual immaturity. Ten Habits of Decidedly Defective People will shame you into changing slothfulness to productivity.

      Whether or not you like it, there is a war being waged on traditional values, strong work ethics and individual empowerment. This war is carried out by those who preach, ad nauseam, a message of victimization and dependency. That’s why there is an overabundance of books that promise to bring people fulfillment in life, but never deliver on that promise.

      As you read through 10 Habits of Decidedly Defective People, you’ll see that Doug is not one who just yields to this pounding. He’s a fighter. He’s thrown the virtues of endurance, patience and confidence back on the table. Read this book and spread the word. You are in for a real treat.

      Jason Mattera

      Young America’s Foundation

      Washington, D.C.

      INTRODUCTION

      FOR PERSONAL DESTRUCTION

      Human beings, almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

      DOUGLAS ADAMS

      I know what you’re thinking after reading the cover. You’re thinking, Finally! It is about time someone wrote a book for me, the Decidedly Defective Person (DDP), to help me jam my face into the pavement and put whatever survives my face-plant into the meat grinder of life.

      How did I discern your inner secrets and needs?

      I’m bulimic. I can read your mind.

      I know. It’s a trip, isn’t it?

      You’re excited, aren’t you? I feel you, man. It’s crazy, ain’t it? I’m ramped up as well. All the guesswork is soon going to be history from here on out for a person like you who wants to K-Fed his or her life into odious oblivion. I—and I alone—have the secrets to disastrous living. And being the benevolent guy that I am, I am going to unfold the mystery to you, the DDP. It’s awesome, dude.

      What exactly are you talking about? you ask.

      Well … you’d better sit down, because I don’t think you’re ready for this jelly. Are you sitting down? All right, here we go. I’m about to unleash the beast. Hold on. The dog is nearly off the chain. Just a second. Okay, here it goes: In a little more than 140 pages, I’m going to take you to a place where there will be no limits and no boundaries for your plans of disastrous living.

      Wow!

      I nearly passed out just from typing that paragraph. There’s power all over this room right now. The lights in my kitchen where I am typing my book on my refurbished 1996 Dell

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