RB gives a great tell in the first panel. The sticker on the guitar. David Pomerantz is making bucks as an IAS schill every month. He is now dependent on that income. He does what he is told. David used to have high standards. No more. His career is dying.
Let’s compare to Jeffrey Tambor. Won a Golden Globe, Emmy: top of his career.
Jason Beghe star of NBC hit Chicago PD. Top of his career. Leah Remini, she can write her own ticket now. Paul Haggis just finished directing an excellent HBO limited series. Katie Holmes working again on interesting films.
“Scientology Kills Artists”. That’s my motto!
Good one Regraded Being. That organization is evil. DM says about his father, “let him die”. I say about corporate Scientology. Let it die! Enough already.
“Call New York and tell the staff NOT to have any SEX”
I was on staff and saw this kind of order from top command levels,
I mean actually launching an Atomic bomb on a nunnery by mistake would be a lesser offense.
Regraded/Degraded/Upgraded…it’s all the same crap when it comes from a horse’s ass.
The Penance
Like oceans of wheat,
that bend to the wind.
Man considers his freedom;
he knows his sins.
It’s a stream bursting forth,
tumbling over the stones.
His relief is felt,
from those things mis-owned.
That no one should take,
this sacred trust.
And reveal those secrets,
throwing him under the bus.
Is a foregone conclusion,
if he is to be.
The man we admire,
the man who can see.
Yet you stop this man,
from easing his soul.
For fear his transgressions,
are publically told.
You amuse yourself
with videos and tapes.
Aptly plying your trade,
of spiritual rape.
So while your minions cull folders,
looking for spin.
That discredit sources,
who worked from within.
The world looks on,
with jaundiced eye.
At self respect,
that long ago died.
It’s an incestuous mind,
who would devise such a scheme.
Making others look dirty,
while your hands are unclean.
You’re a sorry excuse,
not half of a man.
Who puts himself first,
before a divine plan.
Hi Dean Thomas, Very good to meet you. Your poem is excellent and thank god did not bring up any images of Ron riding those bucking wild! horses at three years of age! Always
Scientology under miscage is a reverse carwash.You go in somewhat clean. You get out dirty.
You go in writing songs for Freddy Mercury and Barry Manilow .You go out busking or forced to rat on your friends (Peter Schless).
Let’s work harder to stop the degradation of artists.
Yeah, Zenu’s Son. That broke my heart, seeing Peter up there lying about Ron Miscavige. I know both of them and worked with Peter before he went into the SO.
Before Peter went in, he had high integrity and was so nice to people – would NEVER speak ill of them.
Heart breaking.
I wish he’d get back “On the Wings of Love”. For those who don’t know, he co-wrote that with Jeffrey Osborne. It was the most played song in 1983.
I wonder what David Pomeranz obviously is doing some type of amends project. I wonder what he did? Anyone want to guess?
Look what Scientology has resorted too….a circus act trying to attract people to come into the “yellow” tent to see the Dog and Pony show…only there are no dogs and ponies…just illusions.
I hate to say it, “Wog” but David does the IAS shows because he actually believes in the IAS and he loves performing for his fellow Scientologists.
News Flash: They don’t even pay for his plane fare or accommodations. David pays for that out of his own pocket and then he is allowed to have 10% of what the IAS regges at each event. If nothing is raised, he’s SOL on the flight, etc. Same with Jeff Pomerantz and Michael Roberts, as I understand it.
I’m on the floor! RB, you made my day. Thanks so much for what you do.
I believe the orgs are paranoid now. I remember being asked as long ago as five years back, “What are YOU doing here?” by a staff member who knew me well very shortly after I had written a KR on how regging for Ideal Morgues was off policy. My first KR on that or on anything. That was when I stupidly believed that a KR meant anything. Word got around really fast. It meant something alright, just not what I thought it would.
RB your today strip makes not much sense to me .. maybe I have missed the point .. but I would never follow a misorder .. and your strip looks like a bunch of misorder .. and so it is out of my reality ..
One of Mohammed ALI’s quotes was “If you want your Dreams to come true you have to wake-up.” Looks like DLHDM is lost in his dreams of wonderfulness forever. To wake-up would be too painful.
Only in the Toxic Midget’s dreams can Jeff Pomerantz be considered relevant. How long can one live off of writing one great Barry Manilow song? It’s been forty years, Jeff. What have you written lately that isn’t a paean to the dwarf you sold your soul to? And yet, in DM’s dreams, you can bring people into orgs. For an organization utterly trapped in the past like fifty-million-year-old flies in amber, that’s oddly appropriate.
The only questions I see missing from the OSA OCA are these:
Did Cheers improve when Diane was replaced by Rebecca?
Did you see Swordfish and like it?
RB, I have a question, Why red briefs? and, red socks?
In my country, in New York Eve they wear golden and red briefs so as they will enjoy sex.
Not for dm or Kim Jong
David Pomeranz wrote “We scam all”oops eh We stand tall.
The SNL version just moved over 2 million views.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOpapeX6Vzs
Maybe the Fleecewinds could make a convention out of this:
Achieving warp speed circling down the drain by having the right order of magnitude.
Reminded me of a time a few years ago while at Flag I was trying to route out.Not an easy task!I was going through the regular originations and steps to get my routing form to leave to no avail.
Finally after three days of asking and pleading I was given the” form”.I already had a flight out so I started on the task of getting my signatures and completing the “form”.
To my horror I soon found out I was given an alternative routing form which purpose was to NOT let you route out. Each window I went to I was yelled at, humiliated and generally made wrong. I couldn’t believe my church was trying to trick me and the friendliest place on earth had resorted to this.
I was kind of confused but decided to give up on the form. I went back to my room where security was standing at my door.I went in,packed and called a taxi.I walked out of my room security followed me through the lobby, the receptionist kept calling me but I kept going. She later wrote a KR on me.Last time I went to Flag.
You did it the hard way. I haven’t been to Flag for a LONG time, and only once (as a public) but I quickly figured out that “auditing” was a farce so I did what one does when dealing with a robotic bureaucracy. I grabbed a Public leaving routing form. Went to the posted Org Board. I had about 3 different ink pens. I matched the posts on the R/F with a first/last name and made my own initials. I went and dropped off the R/F at the last person listed and walked out the door to the Van that was going to the airport.
You actually have to get written permission to leave Flag?? Will they try to physically stop you from leaving? What if you have to return to your wog job the next day? I’m sure I’m asking a dumb question but I have never been to flag. I have been to big blue in LA, and founding church DC and was not aware of any such procedure there.
Yeah .. fear is fesr .. I remember a day when i wanted to leave Saint Hill UK .. they were behind me .. but sorry .. I can fight back .. it is the price of freedom .. you should be able to fight back .. always ..
There was a seismic even this morning in LA. Did Miscavige “pull it in”? Or was it one of his temper tantrums? “Do you believe your lying eyes?”….bwahahahahaha
@nola, I’ve said it before, but honestly, even if Miscavige doesn’t go to prison, when he loses his “job” as COB, he’s done for. I for one would love to see how many hours . . . minutes? he would last as a McDonald’s fry cook before he discovered how entirely unemployable he is to the entire human race.
Miscavige won’t go to prison. I don’t know how he’ll “route out” – maybe in a submersible car to an underwater secret base. He has the money to pay for the best lawyers and that tells you all you need to know about his chances of being convicted of anything.
Scientology isn’t ending any time soon. It may suffer a legal/financial explosion, or more likely an implosion due to lack of meat bodies, but as other cults have, it will linger on in diminished form for decades, until the last of the true believers expires.
There’s an unforgettable scene in an old film, “Blue Angel” in which a middle-aged college professor falls in love with a beautiful cabaret singer. He leaves his career and joins the show so he can be around her. She regularly punishes him with demeaning little tricks. One night he is forced to appear on stage dressed as a big chicken and squawk while three of his former colleagues sit in the front row bearing witness to his disgrace.
That’s David Pomeranz in the video where he’s singing to bustling New York City pedestrians who are paying him no mind. A crazed, forced ‘happy’ look on his face, he sings a jingle about how scientology can make your dreams come true. !!! Once successful and now middle-aged, this is where he ends up. RB suggests David Miscavige ordered this humiliation and I believe he did out of sheer meanness and we, the former members bear witness to his disgrace. But he asked for it, didn’t he?
I almost feel sorry for Pomeranz…….almost, but, not quite. Oh, who am I kidding! He’s hit the bottom playing on a sidewalk while people push past him! He’s a weenie, too….
I wondered that myself. So demeaning that I figured Pomeranz was doing “amends.”
But think about it. Maybe david miscavige has done a call-to-arms of all the “celebrities.”
Corea is speaking openly in an interview about how he will spend his “actual” birthday. I mean really, these celebrities DO need to start speaking openly about scientology and how great it is; tom cruise can’t carry the whole load himself! Little do they know (or maybe they do) what a career killer it would be.
Mary, I was thinking the same thing! It is a call-to-arms to all celebrities. However, there aren’t many of them left. And the ones still in are probably not trilled to be shills for the cult.
What’s the word I’m looking for…it’s right on the tip of my tongue…OH! Got it: Desperation. And not your mild desperation either. This is FULL BLOWN DESPERATION.
Reminds me of a job interview where I had no possibility of ever landing said job, in which the dour-faced interviewer asked how I would respond if my solicited technical advice was ignored. My response of “hugely pissed off and insulted” was right off the charts. Needless to say I didn’t get the job.
Given my extraordinarily low tolerance for inane, front-loaded questions I wonder how I’d fair on the OSA OCA?
DM needs LSD,and lots of it. Then he could come up with his own zingers…. and charge big money for them. And when trying to run them, any PCs that can’t find them, off to Ethics they go. UUNNOURGH!
RB gives a great tell in the first panel. The sticker on the guitar. David Pomerantz is making bucks as an IAS schill every month. He is now dependent on that income. He does what he is told. David used to have high standards. No more. His career is dying.
Let’s compare to Jeffrey Tambor. Won a Golden Globe, Emmy: top of his career.
Jason Beghe star of NBC hit Chicago PD. Top of his career. Leah Remini, she can write her own ticket now. Paul Haggis just finished directing an excellent HBO limited series. Katie Holmes working again on interesting films.
“Scientology Kills Artists”. That’s my motto!
Good one Regraded Being. That organization is evil. DM says about his father, “let him die”. I say about corporate Scientology. Let it die! Enough already.
“Call New York and tell the staff NOT to have any SEX”
I was on staff and saw this kind of order from top command levels,
I mean actually launching an Atomic bomb on a nunnery by mistake would be a lesser offense.
You are fast RB. That video on Tony Ortega’s blog posted June 8 and this is June 10th
I love Regraded Being. I know it’s a limited audience but superb sense of humor and observation.
Regraded/Degraded/Upgraded…it’s all the same crap when it comes from a horse’s ass.
The Penance
Like oceans of wheat,
that bend to the wind.
Man considers his freedom;
he knows his sins.
It’s a stream bursting forth,
tumbling over the stones.
His relief is felt,
from those things mis-owned.
That no one should take,
this sacred trust.
And reveal those secrets,
throwing him under the bus.
Is a foregone conclusion,
if he is to be.
The man we admire,
the man who can see.
Yet you stop this man,
from easing his soul.
For fear his transgressions,
are publically told.
You amuse yourself
with videos and tapes.
Aptly plying your trade,
of spiritual rape.
So while your minions cull folders,
looking for spin.
That discredit sources,
who worked from within.
The world looks on,
with jaundiced eye.
At self respect,
that long ago died.
It’s an incestuous mind,
who would devise such a scheme.
Making others look dirty,
while your hands are unclean.
You’re a sorry excuse,
not half of a man.
Who puts himself first,
before a divine plan.
I’ll see you in Hell.
Cowboy Poet
Wow. Dean, Long time no see! Nice to see you again.
Hi Dean Thomas, Very good to meet you. Your poem is excellent and thank god did not bring up any images of Ron riding those bucking wild! horses at three years of age! Always
bang bang
my baby shot me down
Hey, Dean, you’re some kinda guy.
Shoot ’em up, cowboy.
Good to read your work again, Cowboy Poet, Dean. And great post, Regraded Being!
Hi RB, Thank you.I love the part about the OSA Test.Not too much different from the bs I got from GIO/I.You are brilliant and a Lighthouse to me.XXOO.
Hi RB, Bad IPad, Go/I edit Ann,xo
Laughing out loud! Perfect strip!
Scientology under miscage is a reverse carwash.You go in somewhat clean. You get out dirty.
You go in writing songs for Freddy Mercury and Barry Manilow .You go out busking or forced to rat on your friends (Peter Schless).
Let’s work harder to stop the degradation of artists.
Yeah, Zenu’s Son. That broke my heart, seeing Peter up there lying about Ron Miscavige. I know both of them and worked with Peter before he went into the SO.
Before Peter went in, he had high integrity and was so nice to people – would NEVER speak ill of them.
Heart breaking.
I wish he’d get back “On the Wings of Love”. For those who don’t know, he co-wrote that with Jeffrey Osborne. It was the most played song in 1983.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYJA4zDniCc
Correction: Xenu’s Son.
I wonder what David Pomeranz obviously is doing some type of amends project. I wonder what he did? Anyone want to guess?
Look what Scientology has resorted too….a circus act trying to attract people to come into the “yellow” tent to see the Dog and Pony show…only there are no dogs and ponies…just illusions.
I hate to say it, “Wog” but David does the IAS shows because he actually believes in the IAS and he loves performing for his fellow Scientologists.
News Flash: They don’t even pay for his plane fare or accommodations. David pays for that out of his own pocket and then he is allowed to have 10% of what the IAS regges at each event. If nothing is raised, he’s SOL on the flight, etc. Same with Jeff Pomerantz and Michael Roberts, as I understand it.
I’m on the floor! RB, you made my day. Thanks so much for what you do.
I believe the orgs are paranoid now. I remember being asked as long ago as five years back, “What are YOU doing here?” by a staff member who knew me well very shortly after I had written a KR on how regging for Ideal Morgues was off policy. My first KR on that or on anything. That was when I stupidly believed that a KR meant anything. Word got around really fast. It meant something alright, just not what I thought it would.
RB your today strip makes not much sense to me .. maybe I have missed the point .. but I would never follow a misorder .. and your strip looks like a bunch of misorder .. and so it is out of my reality ..
Friend, I think reality is out of your reality.
Perhaps you could ask DM to explain it to you……………….. just sayin!!
You have gotten the point, Friend. Just don’t over analyze it. Everything around DM is Chaos or misorder, as you called it.
Don’t try to make sense out of nonsense. Just ack anything David Miscavige as nonsense that can’t be understood. Next. 🙂
One of Mohammed ALI’s quotes was “If you want your Dreams to come true you have to wake-up.” Looks like DLHDM is lost in his dreams of wonderfulness forever. To wake-up would be too painful.
THE LAST 2 HAVE BEEN JEWELS…
VWD RB!
Great detail with the extra thick soled shoes.
Hilarious. Nice mention of the Laura Prepon….but doesn’t the fact that she plays a lesbian make her an SP, or is acting ok? lol
For some reason, my eyes fell on
28. Do you believe your own lying eyes?
as the first thing I saw in this strip.
Belly laugh.
Then I read the strip. Great mix of OCA and OSA OCA. Love the strip.
Only in the Toxic Midget’s dreams can Jeff Pomerantz be considered relevant. How long can one live off of writing one great Barry Manilow song? It’s been forty years, Jeff. What have you written lately that isn’t a paean to the dwarf you sold your soul to? And yet, in DM’s dreams, you can bring people into orgs. For an organization utterly trapped in the past like fifty-million-year-old flies in amber, that’s oddly appropriate.
The only questions I see missing from the OSA OCA are these:
Did Cheers improve when Diane was replaced by Rebecca?
Did you see Swordfish and like it?
RB, I have a question, Why red briefs? and, red socks?
In my country, in New York Eve they wear golden and red briefs so as they will enjoy sex.
Not for dm or Kim Jong
I just noted my answers to this OSA OCA on paper. Where can I file the results so someone can evaluate me? 🙂
David Pomeranz wrote “We scam all”oops eh We stand tall.
The SNL version just moved over 2 million views.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOpapeX6Vzs
Maybe the Fleecewinds could make a convention out of this:
Achieving warp speed circling down the drain by having the right order of magnitude.
The OSA OCA, hilarious. The whole thing hilarious.
Great one. LOL through the OSA OCA. Brilliant
Reminded me of a time a few years ago while at Flag I was trying to route out.Not an easy task!I was going through the regular originations and steps to get my routing form to leave to no avail.
Finally after three days of asking and pleading I was given the” form”.I already had a flight out so I started on the task of getting my signatures and completing the “form”.
To my horror I soon found out I was given an alternative routing form which purpose was to NOT let you route out. Each window I went to I was yelled at, humiliated and generally made wrong. I couldn’t believe my church was trying to trick me and the friendliest place on earth had resorted to this.
I was kind of confused but decided to give up on the form. I went back to my room where security was standing at my door.I went in,packed and called a taxi.I walked out of my room security followed me through the lobby, the receptionist kept calling me but I kept going. She later wrote a KR on me.Last time I went to Flag.
You did it the hard way. I haven’t been to Flag for a LONG time, and only once (as a public) but I quickly figured out that “auditing” was a farce so I did what one does when dealing with a robotic bureaucracy. I grabbed a Public leaving routing form. Went to the posted Org Board. I had about 3 different ink pens. I matched the posts on the R/F with a first/last name and made my own initials. I went and dropped off the R/F at the last person listed and walked out the door to the Van that was going to the airport.
No one ever figured out what I did.
That, is fucking funny!
Now THAT was funny! ROFL funny! So funny, I am screaming with laughter….. WAAOO,HONK, WAAOO,HONK,HONK,HONK!
You actually have to get written permission to leave Flag?? Will they try to physically stop you from leaving? What if you have to return to your wog job the next day? I’m sure I’m asking a dumb question but I have never been to flag. I have been to big blue in LA, and founding church DC and was not aware of any such procedure there.
Bravo.
I know that Miscavige never read a book in his life, but if he had read a book, I bet it was Catch-22. And he thought it was a how-to manual.
Or Lord of the Flies. But he skipped the last part. Oops.
He DID read “Lord of the Flies”. It’s his Bible. He alter-ised it a little, now it’s “Lord of the Clams”. GNAAROOGH!
Yeah .. fear is fesr .. I remember a day when i wanted to leave Saint Hill UK .. they were behind me .. but sorry .. I can fight back .. it is the price of freedom .. you should be able to fight back .. always ..
This is horrible. What year was that?
There was a seismic even this morning in LA. Did Miscavige “pull it in”? Or was it one of his temper tantrums? “Do you believe your lying eyes?”….bwahahahahaha
Dave’s 5.2 magnitude morning-after-scotch alarm clock, 30 miles south of Palm Springs.
RB thank you for giving us front seats on the fast fading scam.
You know, I think this is the first time we’ve seen the SO characters smile. Too bad it was just a dream.
I long to see that sawed-off little runt eating his food from a prison cafeteria tray.
Enjoy it while it lasts DM. Tick-Tock.
@nola, I’ve said it before, but honestly, even if Miscavige doesn’t go to prison, when he loses his “job” as COB, he’s done for. I for one would love to see how many hours . . . minutes? he would last as a McDonald’s fry cook before he discovered how entirely unemployable he is to the entire human race.
Miscavige won’t go to prison. I don’t know how he’ll “route out” – maybe in a submersible car to an underwater secret base. He has the money to pay for the best lawyers and that tells you all you need to know about his chances of being convicted of anything.
Scientology isn’t ending any time soon. It may suffer a legal/financial explosion, or more likely an implosion due to lack of meat bodies, but as other cults have, it will linger on in diminished form for decades, until the last of the true believers expires.
I’m not sure if he’s tall enough to even SEE the food…..
That mini spy camera in Bldg. 50 is getting great material.
Even D.M.s dreams.
Yes, there is an OSA OCA Test made by ex B 1 staff.
D.M is waken up with Blue Ridge Coffee made with distilled bottled water
per an exact protocol he wrote himself. any mistakes it’s the HOLE you go.
There’s an unforgettable scene in an old film, “Blue Angel” in which a middle-aged college professor falls in love with a beautiful cabaret singer. He leaves his career and joins the show so he can be around her. She regularly punishes him with demeaning little tricks. One night he is forced to appear on stage dressed as a big chicken and squawk while three of his former colleagues sit in the front row bearing witness to his disgrace.
That’s David Pomeranz in the video where he’s singing to bustling New York City pedestrians who are paying him no mind. A crazed, forced ‘happy’ look on his face, he sings a jingle about how scientology can make your dreams come true. !!! Once successful and now middle-aged, this is where he ends up. RB suggests David Miscavige ordered this humiliation and I believe he did out of sheer meanness and we, the former members bear witness to his disgrace. But he asked for it, didn’t he?
I almost feel sorry for Pomeranz…….almost, but, not quite. Oh, who am I kidding! He’s hit the bottom playing on a sidewalk while people push past him! He’s a weenie, too….
I wondered that myself. So demeaning that I figured Pomeranz was doing “amends.”
But think about it. Maybe david miscavige has done a call-to-arms of all the “celebrities.”
Corea is speaking openly in an interview about how he will spend his “actual” birthday. I mean really, these celebrities DO need to start speaking openly about scientology and how great it is; tom cruise can’t carry the whole load himself! Little do they know (or maybe they do) what a career killer it would be.
Mary, I was thinking the same thing! It is a call-to-arms to all celebrities. However, there aren’t many of them left. And the ones still in are probably not trilled to be shills for the cult.
What’s the word I’m looking for…it’s right on the tip of my tongue…OH! Got it: Desperation. And not your mild desperation either. This is FULL BLOWN DESPERATION.
I was laughing amout loud through the whole thing. Awesome.
Laughed so many times, RB. It is scary how you understand the mind of david miscavige. If I were you, I’d be scared. LOL
“Life is basically seeking status.” Priceless.
Wait……WTF? So now you’re telling me that “Life is basically seeking status.” Holy crap! Who do I donate to??? Quick!
Fabulousness!
Love the OSA OCA, very very clever.
Reminds me of a job interview where I had no possibility of ever landing said job, in which the dour-faced interviewer asked how I would respond if my solicited technical advice was ignored. My response of “hugely pissed off and insulted” was right off the charts. Needless to say I didn’t get the job.
Given my extraordinarily low tolerance for inane, front-loaded questions I wonder how I’d fair on the OSA OCA?
fare, not fair. oops
Just don’t let it happen again, Scott. We have protocol here. One more slip like that…well…I don’t even want to think of the consequences…
Wow. I know about making ones dreams a reality.. but this… lolol Very good.
Timely…and absolutely hilarious!!
No wonder DM is failing at this evil cult leader stuff. He isn’t taking pinks and grays before going to bed.
He’ll never come up with zingers glycol coated souls being nuked in volcanoes by just drinking single malt scotch!
Plus he doesn’t drink rum like Hubbard. You can’t be cool if you don’t drink rum. I mean, we ALL want to be like Hubbard, right?
Right OSD! And jaunty naval hats. Must be jaunty!
Those jaunty naval hats are just… simply Fabulous! It’s the ‘in’ hat this year…
DM needs LSD,and lots of it. Then he could come up with his own zingers…. and charge big money for them. And when trying to run them, any PCs that can’t find them, off to Ethics they go. UUNNOURGH!
So close to the truth that is makes you hurt while you laugh