Seems the Gods are not smiling down on Dear Leader.
Either that or some SP’s have conspired to suppress the weather (though everyone else in California is no doubt pleased) and mess with his party on Friday and Saturday.
Confusion reigns inside the bubble — first they announced the date as last weekend, then changed to this Friday and Saturday (“to capture the Academy Awards crowd….”), then word went out that the events would be delayed until Sunday and Monday. Then that changed — like good OT’s who will make it go right, “we will not be effect of the weather” and it was back to Friday and Saturday.
Now the latest is it has changed again. Put over til Sunday and Monday (going to miss the Academy Awards attendees, what a bummer….)
And of course all of this is happening in seekrit. Individual emails only. No bulk announcements (and by this point, they will ONLY have the SO members and truly die-hard sheeple in attendance).
But hey, not to worry, there will be plenty of food (enough hot dogs for everyone to have at least 5 each) and after all, the re-re-renovation of AOLA IS “LRH’s dream” don’t ya know?
And hell yeah, “we” handled the drought in Southern California. Only begs the question as to why you chose to handle it this weekend? Are you CI to Command?
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014
From: Pat Hammersen <phammersen@wus.scientology.net>
Subject: THE GRAND OPENINGS!!Dear Xxxxxx,
The good news is we handled the drought in California and everything will be bright and clean.
However:
The Grand Opening for AOLA and ASHO Day and Foundation will now be on Sunday March 2nd! We are to be here by noon with lots of parking and food and festivities.
On Monday the 3rd of March is the Grand Opening of the Life Improvement Center! We are meant to be on Hollywood Blvd by 5pm!
Again there is lots of parking at the base and there will be transport to the Center, as well as the Metro ~ which takes 6 minutes!
There will be lots of food and this is LRH’s dream!!
I hope someone realizes that planning events based on the weather forecast in LA is like taking a trip to Vegas to make your fortune. It is just as likely to NOT be raining on Saturday and pouring down on Sunday. Or maybe it will be raining both days (and Monday too….) It’s in the hands of the Gods (or SPs).
And another one just in. They are not challenging the rain gods in spite of their OT powers.
Hi Xxxxx,We decided not to challenge the rain gods (besides, LA certainly needs some of that wet stuff) on Saturday. So free-up your button on change: The new day and time for the PAC Base Grand Opening is SUNDAY MARCH 2 at NOON.
The Scientology Life Improvement Center Grand Opening on Hollywood Blvd is scheduled for Monday at 5:30pm.
Apologies for the earlier confusion.
ARC,
Cindy says
I think you’re right, Still On Your Side. DM planned the event during the big rain storm so that he can blame low turn out on the weather. Cunning, isn’t he?
Still on your side says
I think Miscavige learned it would rain this weekend and planned the date of the event for that reason. Heavy rain in L.A., is a good excuse for a low turn out. Of course, if the CoS “handled” the drought by causing the rain, it makes no sense to whine about it, but then logic is not the church or Miscavige’s strong point. Why no press releases from Karen Pouw about the power to make it rain? “Miscavige Ends Drought, Causes Floods.”
RK says
“The good news is we handled the drought in California and everything will be bright and clean.”
These people have no idea the extent of the drought is in California. We have a fraction of the snow that we usually have in the Sierras. Water tables are dropping. Farmers are pulling out fruit and nut trees and not planting crops. Northern California is looking at severe water rationing with major fines for people who do not comply. One rain storm may wash dust off of the leaves in Los Angeles, but in no way does it “handle” the drought. We need months of rain (or more specifically, snow) for it to be “handled.” While the rest of Californians are happily applauding the rain that we are experiencing, these people are “making it go right” to have their inconsequential event. Shame on them for their self-directed ignorance.
MJ says
Hallucinatory cause sums it up nicely.
Bela says
+1
xenubarb says
LRH’s dream was “lots of food?”
So is mine…
Zephyr says
Actually there was plenty of Chemtrail activity going on here in N. CA just before those rains ‘appeared’.
It has not been raining much, just enough so those that were worried about the drought can relax and go back to sleep. We’ll still have a great drought this year.
If those Kool-Aid OTs now claim to be in charge of the Chemtrails I’ll get really pissed off!
Greta
MJ says
Drove down LRH Way today and saw some staff setting up for the event. Hard to find anyone smiling – so sad. 🙁
Bela says
Most likely the majority of those who do attend will be SO and local staff, along with the public that were scheduled for course or auditing at that time. And, despite forcing them to cancel sessions and close course rooms in order to boost event attendance, they will still be expected to have their stats in screaming affluence for the final 2 weeks before March 13th.
plainoldthetan says
“And, despite forcing them to cancel sessions and close course rooms in order to boost event attendance, they will still be expected to have their stats in screaming affluence for the final 2 weeks before March 13th.”
True dat.
Draco says
So here is the picture in my mind….DM is sitting in an office somewhere in a state of total disarray, pulling his hair into little tufts all over his head, empty whiskey bottles everywhere, overflowing ash trays and screaming at the top of his voice: (Could be offensive to sensitive readers)
“Who fucking said it could rain!!!!???? Did I fucking say it could fucking rain????!!!! Declare every fucking OT in California!!!! They have fucking done this to me!!! Fucking CICS!!!! Change the fucking dates!!! I don’t care if people have fucking rearranged their fucking miserable little lives!!!! Who changed the fucking dates???? I did NO FUCKING WAY say to change the fucking dates!!!!! Change them back!!!!! Who changed the fucking dates back????!!!! It is going to fucking rain you fucking CICS!!!!!! Do I have to do everything myself????!!! (Pitch rising to a thin screech)
And all around his faithful staff scurry to make sense of what he actually wants. After all they have not slept for 3 weeks so they must be the ones who cocked it up, mustn’t they?
And they watch as the greatest being on earth rapidly unravels, losing what remains of his insane mind….
Aaaah…staff – what fun times we had… 😉
Annabelle says
Wow! You have got it down pat, Draco!
Gus Cox says
Oh, and please allow me to add my very favorite Miscavige line to that very accurate diatribe: “…and who fucking cried for me???!!!”
Bwaaaaaa ha ha ha ha! Sorry Davey, I’m laughing at you!
SILVIA says
Yes they have moved their dates back and forth so many times that it perfectly fits the GAT definition of a floating needle: back and forth, back and forth.
The difference is that, instead of an even rhythmic pace, Black Heart’s plans move at a frantic, random, erratic pace.
Annabelle says
Actually it needs to swing one more time.
Cindy says
Good one Silvia!
Paul J Salerno says
LOL @ ” are you CI to command “. Great daily slice of cult reality.
Bonnie Kittelson says
Well, which is it?? First they take credit for the rain, then they don’t want to challenge the “rain gods”?! I can’t imagine how nobody sees this as a contradiction of who’s actually “in control of the rain”. What supercilious IDIOTS!
plainoldthetan says
Hey, it worked at the grand opening of the Super Power building.
Martin Padfield says
UK OTs haven’t quite mastered this weather thing, unless they decided Britain needed the wettest winter in history complete with disastrous flooding and thousands forced from their homes. Cramming maybe?
Martin Padfield says
Come to think of it they weren’t much use at the London Org opening. It was grey cold and wet. Maybe it just needs bigger beings with more Tom Cruise-osity.
El Jeffe says
The sky is cryin….
Can’t you see the tears roll down the street
The sky is cryin….
Can’t you see the tears roll down the street
I’ve been looking for my baby
And I wonder where can she be
I saw my baby early one morning….
She was walking on down the street
I saw my baby early this morning….
She was walking on down the street
You know it hurt me, hurt me so bad
Made my poor heart skip a beat
I’ve got a real real real real bad feelin
That my baby she don’t love me no more
I’ve got a real real bad feelin that my baby don’t love me no more
You know the sky, the sky’s been cryin
Can you see the tears roll down my nose
gato rojo says
Yep–that’s the one I was thinkin’ about.
remoteviewed says
Mike,
I can’t think of anything sarcastic to add to your last post.
Any sarcasm I have is no match to your rapier wit at this moment.
Though I loved the added comments about LRH’s dream of lots of food.
Just too funny ………….bawahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha…:)
Where'sShelly says
Actually, the gods are laughing–those are tears of hilarity.
Aquamarine says
“…we handled the weather…”
I mean, come ON, who IS this imbecile?.
But on a cheerier note, I would love to see DM do his own version of that bit from “Singin’ In The Rain” – the famous number where a very happy and in love Gene Kelly gets utterly soaked doing his athletic soft-shoe moves, with so much affinity for the rain and everyone and everything that he ends up stomping in the puddles. Talk about Spirit of Play! Sir, whaddya think? Wouldn’t that be uptone? Give your speech and then go stomp in a few puddles. The crowd’ll luvya!
MJ says
Sorry, but he’s above all that.
Lurr Kurr says
“Free up your button on change”…..that is the most manipulating sentence of it all. Worse than disgusting….
Cindy says
I agree Lur Kur, The org is so unorganized to keep changing the dates of the event at the last minute, so instead of admitting they are wrong, like Keystone Kops, they make the parishoner wrong… “well you just have to flatten your button on change and re do your Grade III.” What a misdirector to keep attention off the real goonies who flubbed up.
Gus Cox says
“So free-up your button on change…” Yeah, I noticed that too. It’s SOP for the fucking Sea Org, or any staff for that matter. Basically, they fuck everything up because they are completely unorganized, then put it on you. Whether it’s “there’s a Hill 10 and you need to come in do filing right now” because they fucked up, or “get over it” because they fucked up their stupid re- re- re-opening schedule. It’s always your fault. Assholes.
MJ says
I think the button on change refers to money.
Steph says
Gus,
Awesome comment !
Half the time I can’t stop laughing at these nitwits and the other half they piss me off so badly that my head explodes.
Thanks.
MJ says
Caught between a rock and a hard place.
Spectator says
“There will be lots of food and this is LRH’s dream!!”
Lots of food is LRH’s dream? Well, with how morbidly obese he was, yeah, that makes sense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InvUA94uk0A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRth_LInVIM
🙂
Spectator says
“There will be lots of food and this is LRH’s dream!!”
anon says
Lots of food is LRH’s dream. Do you think anyone proof reads this stuff before it gets sent? Haha
Chris Mann says
It rained at the las Vegas grand opening. They gave everybody umbrellas.
I actually thought it was sort of cool.
But I think it destroyed the carpet when everybody came in. The front area was totally saturated, like 100 gallons of muddy water dumped in the foyer.
I would hate for COB to get wet. I dont know what they do for his hair and makeup before the event , but moisture can’t be good.
FOTF2012 says
No worries there. COB is already all wet. And his soul of ice has permafrosted his “do” ion place.
Cindy says
Maybe if COB gets wet it will be like the Wizard of Oz, “I’m melting!”
GTBO says
To sum it up in two song titles:
“I can’t stand the rain”
“Don’t worry, be happy”
Oh I forgot one:
” The boy in the bubble”
Rain? No wukkas
Steph says
Yes, Shelgold, and I am also laughing too hard to comment.
Annabelle says
And I am crying too hard to comment.
Mreppen says
Ha! What an excuse. Southern California had 1 inch of rain the past damn year. Rumor has it we may get 2 inches on Friday. Not Saturday.
threefeetback says
Hey Dave, About 7 inches of rain is forecast for the Inland Empire. Do you have your Int goons on flood watch?
Bela says
“There will be lots of food and this is LRH’s dream!!”
Wow…that is the first time I have heard that LRH’s dream was to have lots of food!
Where'sShelly says
LOL!
nomnom says
Raindrops keep fallin’ on my head
And just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed
Nothin’ seems to fit
Those raindrops are fallin’ on my head, they keep fallin’
So I just did me some talkin’ to the sun
And I said I didn’t like the way he got things done
Sleepin’ on the job
Those raindrops are fallin’ on my head, they keep fallin’
But there’s one thing I know
The blues they send to meet me won’t defeat me
It won’t be long till happiness steps up to greet me
Raindrops keep fallin’ on my head
But that doesn’t mean my eyes will soon be turnin’ red
Cryin’s not for me
‘Cause I’m never gonna stop the rain by complainin’
Because I’m free
Nothin’s worryin’ me
Steel says
I do this beautiful old number and I can see that I havent had the words quite right…gonna take your copy nomnom,if thats okay….and I will likely get some interesting pics next time I play it….Like, a washed out gnome having a tantrum..in the rain…shouting…”who said it could rain,who fucking said..it COULD RAIN!!”Actually…you may have trashed it for me nomnom…but that aint worryin` me..cos I am free!
KFrancis says
“…we handled the drought in California.”
Ok….but why let it happen in the first place? Next time just get Pat Parodi on it early so he can glow and divine the whole thing right. But…shhhhh…don’t tell anybody about it.
tetloj says
Hmmph! No exclamation marks on the second email!! Can this be genuine?!!
WhiteStar says
so they’re rainmakers now too, who have benevolently decided to let it rain.
the sheer nerve it takes to put out these kinds of things is off the charts.
by any dictionary’s definitions, the words they string together don’t add up to sense. they just don’t make sense.
MJ says
The gods are crying or…
DollarMorgue says
Or laughing so hard they can’t stop crying.
MJ says
Good one!
Idle Morgue says
A Scientologist apologizing????? Get him to ethics immediately! He is hiding crimes!
plainoldthetan says
Even worse, Pat Hammerson is the Ideal Org Troubleshooter, called in when things aren’t going exactly right. She ranged far and wide over Arizona to find patsies to join staff for the Phoenix Idle Org. And a month after its “grand opening”, the Phoenix Idle Org board still hadn’t come anywhere close to being filled in.
I suppose she thinks it’s funny to blame the gods for the problems in L.A.
But The WHY is GOD is still an HCO PL, isn’t it?
breppen says
These people are so delutional it is beyond belief, if they are so ever powerful they should NOT have allowed the drought in the first place, idiots. They ignore that there are cycles and patterns in everything i.e., weather, earthquakes, investments, life, etc. And have the adacity to think they somehow control the cycle, it’s absurd.
Tim-S says
Ditto Betsy
“We handled the drought” Really Pat? Please word clear Delusional Cause and theetie weetie.
“he operates in a totally psychotic way while being totally serene. The valence is all the way up at tone 40 and the pc is all the way down at minus eight.” (SH Spec 6105C12)
Says it all I believe.
Carol says
Betsy you made me laugh….so true!!
Cindy says
Well said Betsy. When I read that about being Cause over “ending the drought” I thought at first they were joking and then was horrified that some may actually believe that. (Although real weathermen say this rain will not end the drought).
But this is KA “think” at its best… Cause over everything. Delusional Cause is more like it. I was at The Battle of Portland in 1985. And it was supposed to rain on all the outdoor protesters. So word went to a few well loved “OT’s” to tell them to make it so it didn’t rain. I am ashamed to admit that I believed an OT VIII could make it not rain. And as luck would have it, it did not rain, and this particular OT VIII (you know who you are), took all the credit for it and basked in the admiration. Years later when I got onto OT VII and audited on it, I realized that he didn’t stop the rain and that he was a fake for taking credit for it. Smoke and mirrors.
And as stated in Mike’s earlier post, this is why the Freedom Medal Winners slink off in the sunset. They are ashamed that they didn’t cause or do what the PR lies from the Gold shoot about it said they did. They can’t live up to the legend that is told at the events about them. It makes them feel like a fake, and so they get Missed Withhold Phenomenon from it. What a dirty trick. LRH said never use lies in PR. That is all DM deals in : lies and deceit.
Zephyr says
And while we are on the subject of Battle of Portland 1985 remember that we were told that the
Portland criminality went down to ZERO when we were there?
There seems to be no end to ‘peeling this onion’ as far as truth and lies are concerned.
Greta
shelgold says
I am too grossed out to comment….
John Doe says
I’ve seen it mentioned again and again…”Lots of parking.”
I remember in the late 80s, it was hard to find a spot in the Asho parking lot.