Nation of Islam taking over Tampa Org?
This is the latest news from the Tampa model ideal org’s St Petersburg “Life Improvement Center.”
For those of you who do not live in the area, St Petersburg is NOT Harlem or South Central LA.
This is either a 50’s throwback and they have segregated courserooms, or its a collection of NOI people who showed up en masse on Tuesday evening based on orders from their superiors (and judging from their attire, it is the latter). They are the ONLY public present and the only white people are the Tampa Org staff.
Also for those who don’t know, this Life Improvement Center is closed and empty every time I have been by.
More evidence the NOI and scientology are becoming the Nation of Islamic Scientologists.
More from the “model”, SH Size, Ideal Org
Surely the “model,” SH Size, IDEAL org doesn’t need to resort to child labor to get their filing done?
How is it possible that this ideal scene has to have yet ANOTHER project to get its Central Files in order?
Has anyone ever entertained the notion that perhaps there is something wrong with this archaic system that no org EVER manages to have an operational CF?
I wonder whether their mimeo machine is still cranking out issues?
Weird letters of the week
It’s a little weird to write a letter to “Silicon Valley” but that’s just the first line.
I wonder how Mountain View ideal org is the “centerpiece” of the Bay Area — why isn’t it San Francisco ideal org? Or Los Gatos ideal org? Or Steven’s Creek ideal org? Somehow it is acceptable in the world of scientology to say anything if the cause is good (meaning it involves getting money now). These other ideal orgs are all failing miserably. They are empty. Don’t have money to pay their staff. BUT, they are “ideal.” So why is this one going to be any better or different or more important or even accomplish anything? The real answer is that IT WON’T. But that doesn’t get people to give you money.
There are TWO other “ideal orgs” right in Silicon Valley already. Only LA has more “ideal orgs” in a single location — and LA are more geographically spread out than the Bay Area ones…
Why aren’t these other ideal orgs “infusing the tech” and “bringing sanity to the region”?
Weird letter 2 — same sort of idiocy.
Even down to “Dear Valley”?? Are these two cheating off one another?
But Sally really didn’t try as hard. An old hackneyed LRH quote from 50 years ago and a few lines of rah-rah.
Come on Sally, you can do better.
Letter #3. This one really takes the cake. I wonder if she is for real?
All these letters make me wonder if someone hasn’t had the “bright idea” of “applying standard tech” and increasing the “Letters Out” in order to increase the donations in?
Speaking of fundraising
For god’s sake, you have her picture there and STILL won’t put her name? Isn’t this even slightly embarrassing to these people?
Before GAT II there was nothing…
This one wins the brownnoser award.
Scientology was a big fat failure before Ideal Orgs, Basics and GAT.
But that is when the brilliant, tireless Chairman of the Board stepped in and made it all happen, and of course, with all of that, we are…
NOT an “ideal org”.
NOT St Hill size.
NOT expanding.
NOT paying our staff.
But believe me, since these magnificent innovations, it’s now time to “do it for LRH COB.”
We just found out this years’ IAS event is HUGE….
Now, what planet has this woman been on?
I could have told her on 27 October LAST YEAR that the 2014 IAS Event was going to be “Huge” and also “monumental”, “magnificent”, “mind-blowing” and “must-see” and that is just ONE letter of the alphabet’s worth of superlatives. And not only that, it is certain to be better than any event ever in the history of history.
Seriously Tashania (the “Events IC”?), you just found out? You are acting like one of those people that suddenly wake up from a coma after 3 years and are able to speak perfect Mandarin chinese. You came to and started spouting Shermanspeak…
Does anyone buy this bullshit?
From: Tashania Faust <tashania@scientology.net>
To:
Sent: Wed, 8 Oct 2014 08:39:44 -0700
Subject: IAS Part I & Part II BriefingI wanted to relay some briefing on the upcoming IAS 30th Anniversary Event Weekend. Two purposes: first so that you have the data, and also you can give the data to those you are in comm with. We just found out that this year’s IAS Event is HUGE! And I want to make sure EVERYONE knows about it!
Chairman of the Board RTC will be briefing on the next monumental advance towards an OT Civilization that will turn everyone’s world upside down! We are being told that this is an earth-shaking announcement, on the order of Golden Age of Tech Phase II – but for our social betterment campaigns!
The event is in TWO PARTS.
Part I is the COB RTC briefing, Freedom Medal Winner awards, and release of new expansion plans that will set the course into our future.
Part II is a VITAL part of the weekend. This is the tactical details about those campaigns, laid out by Int Management executives who are intimately involved in those campaigns. These are the tools you will need to create an impact in your area using the IAS-sponsored campaigns. You also get a close-up look at exactly what makes these campaigns so effective and why they get results. You will gain the certainty you need to get these campaigns executed and rolling in your own zone. This will be held in your own org, starting at 3PM (PAC, CC Int, Pasa, Vly, Ingle).
We’re being told to ensure ALL Scientologists attend BOTH, due to the monumental importance of what is being announced and released by COB.
That’s the data. I appreciate your help in forwarding this message on your own lines!
ML, Tashania Faust
Event Director PAC
The tent is monumental
If the contents of the event matched magnificence of the graphics on the end of the tent, it might be worth attending. These things are all flash and no substance. Snapshot preview of what those who have been harassed into attending the live event will see erected behind the castle at St Hill.
Wait, Jaime Who??
Celebrity Centre (apparently they cannot even spell their own name correctly — they should check out their trademark registration) comes up with some of the most obscure “celebrities” nobody ever heard of who dish out advice on how to make it in “the industry” (though I guess it’s not much different than the teenage Hitler Youth dishing out “ethics” advice). One of our Special Correspondents took a minute to check on IMDB to see whether they could find Jaime listed in all the things he is supposedly credited for. The results?
Weekly standings
All the flag-waving in the world cannot disguise the fact that there are 7 orgs in WUS (the area CLOSEST to having “all orgs ideal” by a WIDE margin) that are NEVER going to be ideal. Even the top two of the 7 have collected a bit over $200,000 — a drop in the ocean compared to what they need. The rah-rah keeps rolling….
As a note, all the “big” orgs seem to max out their attendance at their “huge” events with about 50 people.
Our Own Comic Strip
I am hoping this will become a regular feature from our newest contributor — cartoonist “Regraded Being.”
Cringe corner…
Below is an email sent out from a somewhat desperate staff member in NY Org.
Ignore the spelling, punctuation and grammatical errors and focus on the scare tactics — “a long time scientologist died and was low on the bridge, do you want to end up like that?”
There are plenty of parallel dire predictions of terrible fates that await those who have not embraced the teachings of other faiths before their passing, and it is not uncommon to see this sort of threat disguised as pity/sympathy in all sorts of religions. What makes scientology different is that they CLAIM to be on a higher plane. They consider themselves superior to those who threaten people with not making it to heaven or being sent to hell — “scientology helps you in the here and now, it’s not just promises of salvation after you die” and “heaven is an implant.” Scientologists also claim they are not evaluative. Quite a lot of evaluation here, both about the person who died, AND the recipient of this email.
The veneer of acceptability is wearing awfully thin in the church of scientology as the pressure keeps mounting to try to survive.
And finally, I would be very curious to know how far up the bridge the NY Org Academy Word Clearer has progressed.
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 22:06:58 +0100
Subject: You alone are enough….
From: ccnyacad@gmail.com
To: janicarose4@yahoo.comAs we close out on another season for this year, I thought it important to put all the activities we engage in, into perspective. Is what I’m doing in alignment with my ultimate goal? Does it spread wonderful effects across all my dynamics? Am I doing all I can to be the best me?
Depending in how you answered these questions will determine how you receive the following.
Earlier this year, a long time Scientologist dropped her body and at the time of her passing, had only completed actions on the lower level of the Bridge. One may say the actions she did would-be better than someone dying and not having experienced any Scientology. While this may be true, the point here is, we don’t have an eternity to wait for people to decide this is worth doing.
Message: You are here now, in a time where scientology has never bee more clear, easily accessible and receivable. Stop wasting time with the ‘why’ you can’t get this done and let’s work together(or with your whomever your terminal is) to start doing something about making the answers to those questions, affirmative ones.
I’d love to hear your thoughts. Please respond when you get a moment,
Tanya
Academy Word ClearerP.s. I probably know more about you than you know about me, which is partially why I am sending you this email. You are receiving this message because at one point in time you made a decision to be better, be better and do better. I am here to remind you of that and to get you moving in that direction again, once and for all.
Love the “only the tigers survive” quote – even at the time one subspecies was already extinct (or nearly so). Today three subspecies are extinct, one’s found only in zoos, and the remaining five are all endangered.
Maybe army ants would have served the point better?
Since my first steps in Scientology I was informed that the most important org classification was the one relative to the Birthday Game (SCN expansion). And in proximity of the end of the game there was a lot of stress in order to improve one’s position.
But now this game is not considered very important – I do not know why – and I see that many orgs – like Valley org – take into consideration another classification, that is Ideal Org Game, considered the New Game, base on CI.
This has been covered extensively on this blog previously. Just search for Idle Orgs. Or Ideal Orgs.
Fabulous comic Regraded Being, thank you. I couldn’t write all the LOLs everyone, the bee thing was priceless. One thing that struck me with these 10 or so articles, is how bizarre they all are as a grouping. What kind of group would represent all these crazy people?? (rhetorical question) The ambassador of the Americas, the spineless Qual Sec and the illiterate word clearer. This is better than the Colbert Report.
As I read these letters begging for money for MEST buildings, while simultaneously worrying people about how horrible it would be if their body died before they get very high on the Bridge , my jaw drops. I am just dumbfounded.
Meanwhile, they are not bringing in new people or delivering services in the volume that was done in the ’70s and ’80s. I cannot imagine who in their right mind could not immediately see through this bullshit. It is really alien to anything that I associate with Scientology. I remember the crush regging and trolling for IAS donations, but I’ve been out of that environment and away from that scene for a few years now. It seems to have gotten so much worse.
They have gone from being an organization which helped people on their paths of self-discovery and increased self-determinism to being a belief based cult like those which try to control people by scaring them with stories of hell and damnation.
Get the behind me David Miscavige.
“This is the tactical details about those campaigns,…These are the tools you will need to create an impact in your area..”
It’s a good thing that everyone knows that this is all just Hot Air Balloon Airlines, not a serious campaign by a group of religious fanatics hell-bent on changing the very core of society. And with its own navy, too…
Well, hell, how high up the bridge do you have to go then? I know several OTs who died long enough ago that they should have sent me a note by now, letting me know all’s well and they’re having a great time in college or whatever.
The line is always something like, “oh, to do that would be out-R” or some such excuse. Bullshit. For a Scientologist, that would be totally IN-R! It would be the coolest friggin’ thing in the world!
I was just thinking of one departed friend this evening, and if this OT business were true, I totally know how he would make himself known to me. It would be a total blast!
But it won’t happen, because none of that shit is true. It’s OK, though. I’ll have a sip of good Bourbon in his honor tomorrow night – a toast to his memory – and be happy for the fine friends I have past and present.
The cartoon is great! What a treat. Keep the good works Mike.
“Stop wasting time with the ‘why’ you can’t get this done…” – One of the most aggressively desperate statements I’ve read in a while (well, maybe since an hour ago). Such a big FU to everyone that receives this email.
That word clearer said an interesting thing and of course suppressive –
“P.s. I probably know more about you than you know about me…”
With the plethora of off policy & out-tech run in the orgs today perhaps the receiver of that email was staying away from the orgs for good reason. Perhaps Mr Word Clearer they indeed know more about you than you’ll ever know about yourself. Stupid is what stupid does and you ‘is stupid’ to think you are delivering Scientology at all.
Death and brimstone talk is effective only on the weak of mind and gullible of heart but really(?) how could anyone word clear miscavige’s dribble and call themselves anything logical?
And also Mr Word Clearer – how’s your products going for you? How many auditors you make last month or the month before? In fact how many in your org in the last year and what classed auditor are you?
Just what goes on the minds of those people? Whatever it is it’s not what’s worth a tinker.
This is an amazing statement about COB: “We’re being told to ensure ALL Scientologists attend BOTH, due to the monumental importance of what is being announced and released by COB.”
LRH said/wrote so many amazing things so many times, that I was completely blown away by what he said or wrote year after year. In terms of quantity of times I was amazed, I can’t say that any other author or person I have encountered in my life matched up (and I read a lot). So, I followed LRH into this cult for 40 years. That is MY excuse.
But, would I follow someone else like COB? Of course not. Would you? I doubt it. So, what are these people doing following COB? He talks bullshit and wrote nothing enlightening. It’s hard to imagine there are any Scientologists left inside the cult that are not somehow enslaved or indentured servants because of family or business connections.
Yes Robert, COB is the great pretender. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with the spirit of play.
+1
Robert, So, what are these people doing following COB? Because he uses LRH’s writings, words, techniques, or pretends to, and in so doing, partakes of that power.
Ahhh ~ this was in comment to:
Potpie – you made me think of something and I have a question: Do you think someone who users the slur “Jewboy” is anti-Semetic?
David Miscavige calls Marc Yager that. Perhaps he has similar sentiments with Farrakhan as you noted.
Good question. I’m afraid it’s going to be a sick answer. Just when you think it couldn’t get any worse…
Regarded Being – your comic strip is so effing funny! Thank you.
War Horse,
ROFLMAO!!!
Funniest TR-4 I ever read!
Truthfully, I don’t like any of this pathetic stuff. Too bad no one took Debbie Cook’s advice several years ago to refuse to do off policy donos, etc., for example, had I listened I’d be a lot better off financially. But I didn’t listen because I “knew” better…lol! And since the CofS isn’t honoring their refund policy any more I’m not likely to see any of the money I was pressured into forking over to “help” the 4th dynamic. I’m not bitter about paying for any T&P. I wanted to pay for those things. But that squeeze for $38,000 to make Patron when I was on the Class VI C/S internship at ASHO soured me but good. I was triple teamed by IAS reg Ted B, Capt Lundeen and ASHOD Senior C/S, Margie E. I caved after Margie’s gentle urgings to be a friend to Mankind. Then right after I said I’d talk to my non-scientologist husband and make it happen Margie told me that now she knew I really was her friend. My heart sank. This is a woman I’d known since 1971 in San Francisco who at this late date was just deciding I was a friend…! Good grief.
Knather, this comment is sad on so many levels. It shows how much well-meaning people allow themselves to be used when they believe they are helping others and it also showed the pain the people using them cause. I do wish the vulture culture Regges would come out of their heads long enough to just read one comment on the actual effect the greed is creating. I also wish I had a unicorn. My chances for the unicorn are much higher.
I am witnessing the Danse Macabre of the Church of Scientology. How bizarre it all seems. People, for all intents and purposes, speaking in tongues, as they babble on about things that cannot by any stretch, mean anything to anyone.
Kevin Johnson, the Major of Sacramento has intentionally located a new arena right next door to their ideal org — of course he did.
Word Clearers using the deceased as motivation to go up the Bridge. The amazing Sally Jensen doing a wonderful impersonation of a centenarian cheerleader, trying to get the ole boys and their walkers out onto the court.
And then there’s Ed Fleetwood — who we all know and respect — taking one more stab at the vile transcriptionist, who altered all of LRH’s book, right under his nose. Really. She did it. And it changed everything.
FUCKING WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If all of this comm is intended to be uplifting, motivating and a clarion call to all members to unite and march into eternity – then why is it so effing Painful to read?
It’s like watching your beloved child shooting up heroin.
OMG – where is the Advil?!
Odd
Co$ is in the terminal phase and like most of these scams is concentrating purely on emptying the pockets of the last adherents before disappearing. I also wouldn’t be surprised that when Cap’n Miscreant and cronies sneak off into the sunset that all the real estate will be signed over to “new owners” or sold (leaning towards the former).
This is somewhat off topic but germane to posted content.
It seems to me this idea of a person “dropping his body”, like you might accidentally drop your keys or gods forbid your cell phone has its start with LRH’s death.
People don’t drop their bodies, they die, they are deceased, pass away, croak, can’t order the pizza anymore, they are dead.
LRH didn’t drop his body, he died, and not well. The composite being we knew as LRH is dead. It seems to me this idea of dropping your body started with the news that Ron was dead. God forbid management say he died to the flock so they invent another way of saying it to make it sound as if he did this causatively. No doubt there have been individuals that have done this deliberately and causatively but Ron wasn’t among them.
I’m not attempting to step on anyone’s toes concerning living past body death, should that be your view. I am only talking about a deliberate act of body death. My deceased friends and relatives did not “drop their bodies” in some deliberate or causative fashion. Given a choice, I’m sure most of them would have wanted to continue living. Their bodies aged, shut down and eventually stopped working. They died. If that’s too harsh then they passed away or are now deceased.
Taking this a step further, if someone dropped his body in some causative way then isn’t that in effect, a suicide? If Ron “Dropped his body” in a causative fashion then he committed suicide.
Now I don’t have a problem with suicide per say but the CoS has a big problem with suicide, Ron had a big problem with it. So, management invented another term to account for his passing away. You can’t say he died because that’s effect and Ron couldn’t be shown to be effect, so PTS that he died as a result so you need to invent something more palatable. You say he “dropped his body” rather than saying he passed away or died. One is causative and the other effect and since a Scientologists can’t be effect they make believe causative action, “he dropped his body”. More of the Bubble mentality, subtly infused in the cult.
No, this terminology was in use long before that. It is a scientology concept of thetan/mind/body that the thetan “discards” or “drops” bodies because the body is simply a vehicle for communicating and interacting with the physical universe. There is a lot of mention in earlier lectures about “doll bodied” that were animated by thetans. They picked them up and dropped them when they were no longer useful… This is a very old concept in scientology.
Talk like this is not going to get you any closer to the absolutely, 100 percent real, Target Two, Tim S…
‘Earlier this year, a long time Scientologist dropped her body and at the time of her passing, had only completed actions on the lower level of the Bridge. One may say the actions she did would-be better than someone dying and not having experienced any Scientology. While this may be true, the point here is, we don’t have an eternity to wait for people to decide this is worth doing.’
See now I’m confused! Why on earth should this be of any concern to a fully believing scientologist? Isn’t it the thetan, that moves up the bridge? And dropping body is as inconsequential as changing clothes because the thetan gets a new body and just continues where it left off.
That’s right isn’t it? That’s what LRH said isn’t it so it can’t be be bullshit! Right?
Now I’m beginning to think that Pentecostals and other fundamentalist Christians have got a much less onerous eternal salvation qualification requirement than Scientology. With them, you only have to accept Jesus, be born again, and you are saved. But with Scientology, you have to keep playing a never-ending game of spiritual chutes and ladders in pursuit of what, I don’t know. And you get the added pleasure of being stamped in the face by COB’s boot — forever (to paraphrase Orwell).
Someone made the Pentecostals look good… live long enough and you see everything. 🙂
Yep Biggrizzlybear, you said it. And I had a registrar, the lovely Edy Lundeen at AOLA, tell me that I better hurry to Flag for auditing cuz I might have cancer and so many of our parishoners have died of it and why, well, it could even be growing undiscovered in you right now even as we speak! Now give me that credit card! It’s all scare tactics and manipulation to get the money.
Why does Tom Cruise think everything he says on late night televison is so hysterically funny?
He goes into glee every time he makes an appearance.
Oh that cartoon is great. RB *NAILED* the change in tone level over 9 years of the little SO chick and the harassed and exhausted Trumanite.
The laughter you see from Tom is when Dave told him he didn’t pay a penny for all the work John Brousseau did on all his stuff.
Mike — concerning your first item, “Nation of Islam taking over Tampa Org?,” and your observation this might represent, “a 50’s throwback and they have segregated courserooms” — isn’t the Tampa Church of Scientology the place they send parishioners who somehow do not “qualify” to receive Scientology religions services at the Church of Scientology Flag Land Base located in Clearwater, Florida?
That should of course be, “to receive Scientology religious services….”
Since it is Thursday Funnies and everyone seem jovial…
Q: “How many Scientologists does it take to screw in a light bulb?”
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A: “Thank You. How many Scientologists does it take to screw in a light bulb?”
Funny!!!!! Loved it.
How many light bulbs does it take to stop a Scientologist from being in the dark?
Just one, but he’s got to open his eyes.
10,1 to screw in the bulb, and 9 to handle the routing form.
I guess it’s important for everyone on planet earth to know, with full certainty, that before the church became the church of miscavology:
No one ever properly understood the definitions of words
No one ever knew how to get someone to understand the definition of words
No one ever understood the oh-so-poorly written LRH books
No one ever grasped how to reg huge donations for no exchange (this is true, of course)
No one knew how to audit before dave invented GAT
No one knew how to audit before dave invented GAT II
No one knew how to audit before dave invented GAT III (it’s coming)
No one understood policy until dave clarified it (it’s coming)
Dave is god, apparantly. The savior. A saint. The only one who knows how to do anything at all really.
I guess no one ever realized anything about anything at all until dave came along to edify them.
I heard on the grapevine that one of dave’s new policies (written by LRH but perfected by dave) is titled
How to Correctly Bitch Slap a Junior
Hey, I already know how to do that!
There is nothin’ like a dave,
Nothin’ in the world,
There is nothin’ you can name
That is anythin’ like a dave!
There are no books like a dave,
And nothin’ looks like a dave.
There are no drinks like a dave,
And nothin’ thinks like a dave,
Nothin’ acts like a dave,
Or subtracts like a dave.
There ain’t a thing that’s wrong with anyone here
That can’t be cured by kicking the rear
Of screaming, cowardly, soulless, goldenrod dave!
This is just a guess, but I suspect that since Jaime Aymerich appears to be a Spanish speaker (based on his Telemundo credit), and is ID’d as an “Actor and Voice Over Artist,” that he may have been involved in dubbing the blockbuster movies mentioned. I wasn’t able to find any credits online, but maybe Jaime voiced “Werewolf #3” in “Twilight” or something like that.
Nation of Islam and Scientology must not be allowed to merge. I’ve been waiting around for what seems like forever waiting for Scientology to die. New life must not be injected in the form of crazy Nation of Islam. I’m hoping that they eventually get around to realizing that they are two different fundamentalist movements and repel each other, but given the cognitive dissonance in both these groups, I won’t hold my breath.
Student: Do birds fly?
NOI Student: Birds flew when the ego-gratifying white man systematically enslaved the body, mind, and spirit of our brothers and sisters over 5000 years ago; they flew while the Honorable Elijah Mohammed exposed the blond-haired, blue-eyed, bloodsucking devils that pass for humanity; and they will continue to fly until the Mother Wheel spaceship arrives on Earth, raining destruction upon the harlots and pimps, the connivers and thieves, the Catholic and Jew, and minions of all gutter religions save those who embrace the Holy and beneficient Allah and the Nation of Islam.
Student : Thank you. Do birds fly?
That’s really good, Warhorse.
WH,
That is REALLY, REALLY good….
I may need some TR O Bullbaiting on this subject.
Is anybody game?
Greta
The cartoons are great. Nothing better that hitting the head on the nail.
The Divorce Lawyers could be called ‘Donald Inflate, Split, Schism and Strife LLP’ 🙂
I do not understand why the Church of Scientology is pairing with the Nation of Islam, which is classified by the Southern Poverty law center (the leading authority) as a racial hate group. I have seen the internal literature that NOI puts out that calls white people “devils” who are evil and not human, and state their intention to separate themselves and eliminate the white race. In the San Francisco Bay area where I live, the NOI has been heavily involved in organized crime, (look up “your Black Muslim bakery” in Oakland) and highest level management have been convicted of the killing of a journalist, Chauncey Bailey, who was writing an article about them for the Oakland Tribune newspaper. The NOI leader was convicted of having several underage ‘wives’ (13 years old) who were brutalized and held in captivity. Those that don’t know the history and theology of this group, please inform yourselves! I am lucky to live in a racially and ethnically diverse area, and am to have friends and of every color, nationality and religion, but this group is really bad news, and has stated intentions never to accept white people. Why is Scientology having anything to do with this racist group?
And one brutal racist hate group should have nothing to do with another brutal racist hate group because . . .
Yup. Not strange bedfellows at all.
Because they are the only group who will have anything to do with the Co$?
TJ, are you REALLY asking why one organization founded by a criminal is pairing with another like organization?
BTW, the SPLC is NOT an authority on racism. They neglect to list MANY racist groups like the NAACP, La Raza, et al. They don’t call out caucuses in Congress that are race based admission, etc.
“I do not understand why the Church of Scientology is pairing with the Nation of Islam, which is classified by the Southern Poverty law center (the leading authority) as a racial hate group. ”
Well, racial hate groups like to pair up. It could be explained in Cult parlance as ‘mutual out ruds’.
“In the San Francisco Bay area where I live, the NOI has been heavily involved in organized crime, (look up “your Black Muslim bakery” in Oakland) and highest level management have been convicted of the killing of a journalist, Chauncey Bailey, who was writing an article about them for the Oakland Tribune newspaper.”
And the Cult has it’s own Lisa McPherson. Come on TJ, you can get the concept here……
TJ, two possible reasons I can think of:
1) Because they are all too happy to get someone in, anyone they can get in
2) Some other more sinister reason
The NOI appears to be building their own operations based on the model of the G.O. and its descendant. Certainly NOI’s highest executives envy the chirch’s covert/overt operations capabilities.
To answer your question Edge, YES the small, inexpensive Div 6 courses are STFU tactics of exhausted church members to get the reges off their backs and to keep their PR in.
When I moved back to CA after being gone for several years, my best friend (who has since disconnected) told me, “Do not go into any org. Do not do a course at any org; the reges and IAS are there waiting for you after every course period and they reg you and follow you to your car. ” She continued, “just do little Div 6 courses at a local Msn because they are more lax there, no SO reges are there usually, and you can tell people you are ‘on course’ if anyone asks what you’re doing on the Bridge now.”
That was her advice word for word in 2010. And it still holds today. I can’t tell you how many OT’s I saw on small courses at the Foothills Mission because they didn’t want to go into any orgs for the same courses. And everyone and their dog had to retreat the PTS/SP Course and they did it at the Foothills Msn instead of the orgs.
Okay, I know I should know this but what is STFU?
Shut the F*** up. Unfortunately I’ve heard it dozens of times in its’ abbreviated format. My brother actually refers to the SOTU (State of the Union) Address as the STFU address in his blog. Very few people catch the distinction.
STFU = Shut The F*** Up!
Shut The Fuck Up is what I come up with.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=stfu
“Stop the foreign U-bends”. Usually said by disgruntled members in the back of the yoga classes held on Wednesday nights at the mission.
Joking… 🙂
STFU stands for “Shut the fuck up” in common parlance.
It’s something you say to a scientologist when he won’t stop trying to convince you that it’s not a cult: SHUT THE FUCK UP!!! With the follow up: GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE!!!
Cindy – very true that your ex friend’s advice still holds true today. There are many OT’s who are still on the Basics and most people do them as an Extension Course, so they don’t even have to drive anywhere and yet still be ‘on course’.
Yes, Pepper, so true. I even did exactly that: Basics by Extension course, taking my own sweet time on it.
Yes Cindy, this situation (of being hounded by IAS and Ideal Org Regges) was a large part of my comment a while back on why there are not many (if any) students on course in Academies these days. Not only poor (“tough”) course supervision but also these hyenas lurking in and at every corner of the Org. But then LRH did not envision that such would occur when he wrote HCOB “Recovering Students and PCs”. They are of course being driven away.
When I was last on course in the org, there was a day when we were herded into the hallway “for an announcement.” That was Sher Klima (IAS reg) briefing us on the next big whatever. Then she walked up and down the line of students and handed each of us a donation envelope. I saw some students refuse to take the envelope from her and she physically forced the envelope into their hands. I have never seen anything like this and knew that the org was doomed.
Wow, just disgusting.
+ 1
The CHILDANON Abortion clinic is bitterly funny, and accurate!
+1
The bit about using the threat of an undesirable next lifetime is so spot on. Like “friends don’t let friends die without Jesus.” (Not that I have anything against Jesus, I think he was a great teacher but badly misinterpreted.) The word clearer does sound desperate. I bet she thought this was a great letter too. I wonder if she got a response?
I credit John P Capitalist and others on this blog for creating the phrase “STFU money” for the small donations people make to get the regges off their back at the events. Something I saw a few weeks ago at Tony’s made me wonder: Are the extension courses “STFU participation”? Yes, like universities offering online courses it is a convenience for people who live away from the school/org, and maybe that’s how the church sees it. But we all know that NO ONE goes to the orgs anyway, even in the metropolis with the largest concentration of scientologists. And I figure with the courses, why would they? The books are practically given away for nothing on ebay, I’m sure the course materials are a pittance compared to the prices for auditing, the org gets a stat, and the sci can say he’s doing just enough to say they’re “active”. Everyone’s happy, especially the sci since he doesn’t have to go near the org and get subjected to the regges. It seems to me to be the perfect fence-sitter/UTR tool. And if there’s a backlog in marking the course sheets, so much the better.
I do so hope that all the STFU online people are going to an ideal online org to do their online courses, because how else will they get case gain.
Seriously, aren’t online courses CI to everything the COS stands for these days – how can you continuously drag more money more money out of someone you can’t see who can hide their physical address and who pays pittances and who (heaven forbid) actually has a chance of making it through a course uninterrupted by regging.
I liked that WUS flyer, “GO WUS!” (LOL)…it’s more like, “Go, You Wusses!”
And the kids at the org handling filing duty….I wonder if members there feel reassured about their case file privacy? And.what lawyer would LOVE to look through THOSE files to uncover more illegalities at Co$…? Really high tech filing system for an organization that prides itself for “tech” of all kinds…..
Well the most grotesque thing for me here is the overt use of “the catch” by my 49ers. That is one of the most famous catches in the HISTORY of professional football and I am APPALLED that they would have the gall to use that. GROSS.
It’s subliminal, an oblique reference to the gold rush represented by the 49ers of the 1800’s. It’s the golden age of tech, get it?
Ouch!
” and I am APPALLED that they would have the gall to use that.”
BBJ,
You’re letting me down here a bit! Not you of all ex cult members!! 🙂
Remember, these are the same cats that will sell their their family members into bondage and never look back.
“This is the tactical details about those campaigns, laid out by Int Management executives…”
What? This is MONUMENTAL!! There are Int Management Execs????
Well, they are “execs” because that is what Miscavige denominates them for event purposes. And they are called “Int Management” because they work in the HGB.
That is their only resemblance to “Int Management Execs.”
Sure execs – David Miscavige, COB, David Miscavige’s right hand, David Miscavige’s left hand, David Miscavige’s right side of his face, David Miscavige’s left side of his face, David Miscavige’s sock puppets, David Miscavige’s marionettes, David Miscavige’s . . . you get the idea . . . lotsa execs. You just have to know where to look.
I’m going out on the limb here but I can’t help but wonder why a guy
like Farrakhan (and the NOI) who not only dislikes the Jewish faith, but publicly states
the desire to blow Israel off the face of the earth, take up with Scientology?
And worse yet is welcomed with open arms by Miscavige and his henchmen.
Micavige and Farrakhan do have something in common….”What’s in it for me?”
But Farrakhan makes Miscavige look like a bumbling small time crook in the real world.
He is much more powerful on a wider global scale than Miscavige will ever be. Nor do I
think Miscavige could or ever will have any influence over the actions of Farrakhan and the
NOI.
What’s in it for Farrakhan? Does he really see the tech as some workable data for
his flock or does he have other intentions?
To me Scientology and the NOI are very strange bedfellows indeed.
I sincerely like that David Miscavige doesn’t see that he has been outplayed by Farrakhan. Must be something big in it for Farrakhan.
Good questions Potpie. But seriously Islam and Scientology have a lot in common. 2 things I can think of:
1. They both go after any one who criticizes their “religion” ruthlessly. Recall when people were killed because cartoons of Mohammed were drawn.
2. They both accuse people of bigotry whenever they criticize the horrible practices in the “religion”. It is never that the people are concerned about human rights violations, no….only that they are “bigots”.
Potpie – you made me think of something and I have a question: Do you think someone who users the slur “Jewboy” is anti-Semetic?
David Miscavige calls Marc Yager that. Perhaps he has similar sentiments with Farrakhan as you noted.
David hates all equally.
Ewwwwwwwww…I knew Davey was vile, but this is way beyond vile. Maybe like vile squared?
MJ – David Miscavige believes in equality when it comes to hatred and discrimination. He calls and refers to women by their female body parts, and Guillaume Lesevre a “cheese eater” because he’s french. So “The Jews” shouldn’t be left out!
Yes, Dave’s got some issues. I wonder he’d like to be called cocksucker?
Hi Pepper,
In this day and age yes it can be
considered anti-semantic but I really
can’t say what Miscavige thinks.
His jewboy comment towards Yeager
certainly appears to have the intention
to introvert and invalidate.
As far as Farrahkan goes, I have no
Idea what Miscavige is thinking other
than “what’s in it for me”.
Thanks Potpie. I think Dave Miscavige is always looking out for his own best interests too. Maybe the Aryan brotherhood has something to offer him too.
“We are being told that this is an earth-shaking announcement, on the order of Golden Age of Tech Phase II – but for our social betterment campaigns!”
Okay, so Minnie He has tipped his hand as to the next big distraction from the collapsing cult. The Golden Age of making A.B.L.E. able… Cash, check & charge at the tent exit,
“Message: You are here now, in a time where scientology has never bee more clear, easily accessible and receivable.” Ok, this is a new low even for this cult! Why the hell are they picking on bees? At least bees have an important function in life and that’s pollinating crops. And it sure beats fleecing people of every last dime.
I think Tanya flunked 6th grade grammar. That’s why they made her a “Word Clearer.”
Bees? Bees? What’s honey got to do with this?
That’s what I was wondering, Dave! But, it’s right there in black & white! “…in a time where scientology has never bee…” That’s a honey of a screw up! Makes it a very sticky situation. At least, that’s the buzz on the streets. Hope his Dwarfness doesn’t get mad and someone gets stung! Where are the bee keepers when you really need them?
The hive in Hemet.
Thanks Fagan for reminding me of that stupid F’ing movie! How many times did I have to sit through it and pretend I liked it? Oh the pain of not being able to J&D the wonderful acting. It did indoctrinate me to seeing SO members screaming at each other so when I witnessed it on the Fleeswinds bridge and HGC it wasn’t a shock. Sorry Mr. Howard but that film was painful every time.
Nobody recognizes where I got that line from?
Wasn’t David Wilson the one who said that line?
Jeff,
I liked that film.
Dave
There’s more here than meets the eye. I’m sending you to ETHICS!!!
Beecuz lotza bees stung me once and it hurt. Seriously I was 12 and I was mowing the lawn in front of my dad’s beehives and wearing perfume (I was 12, ok) they all came out after me and chased me in the house and stung me when I hid in the bathroom to get away from them (once again, I was 12). So hell to the yeah, pick on bees! They’re mean.
I sent all those bees packing with a swift slap on the beehinds. Not many of them lived through that. My parents both laughed at me – more trauma. Pick on bees yep.
Of course in a time where Scientology has never bee it shouldn’t bee and I would bee offended if it bee’d. Wrap your Old Surfer brain around that sentence.
Bee keeper? Someone needs a bee keeper? Right here! What are bees doing in the same sentence with Scientology? Good grief, cover your ears, girls! Yes, all 250,000 of you. Old Surfer Dude, linguistically, you are very punny, honey.
+1 🙂
I spit my animal crackers at “Why the hell are they picking on bees?” LOLOLOLOL 🙂
(Why is a grown woman eating animal crackers? Because the snacks around here suck. Note to self: get better snacks.)
My BS detector is sitting at +100 on the Richter Scale. How does one even respond to this crud anymore?
Ridicule seems to be the preferred method here Shelley.
Well then, just call me Her Royal Highass of the Louisiana Gulf Coast then!
Thanks for the post, Mike.
Will do 🙂
I want an invite to the crowning ceremony. I’ll bring the Gumbo. 🙂
And I’ll bring a picture of Dumbo (Dave) to throw darts at.
Tara, totally the George Rodrigue blue dog and gator.
Plenty of lulz this week Mike!
And kudos to Regraded Being – those cartoons are great!
I am still trying to figure out if “Allah”…”Amen”…or “HiDave” would be the proper acknowledgement for all this delusion, or if I just simply should keep laughing?
Yes, it is better, keep having the best ever Ideal laughs with this Thursday’s funnies. Thank you Mike.
The appropriate ack is “Fuck you Dave.”
I thought it was “you SCOHB”
Either one. Eat my shorts, eat shit and die motherfucker and get out of my face before I bite it off. These all work well.
The unholy alliance of NoI and CoS continues to be the most bizarre, under-reported, ominous development in this whole nightmare tableau.
The Clash of the Cult Titans would make good Marvel comics fare.
Miscavige and Farrakhan: Axis of Evil, at first united in the battle to mentally enslave the world, and enrich themselves, but eventually turn on each other in an epic battle for supremacy and survival as the Forces of Good fight back.
Each thought he had the upper hand over the other, but both suffer painful and humiliating demises at the hands of their own minions.
Or something like that.
I can’t wait for the next installment, and to see how it all turns out.
Well, Farrakhan seems to be winning this battle…he looks a whole lot healthier than DM has looked at recent events!
And you should see the crowds at his events.Tens of thousands.
I couldn’t even get near one to protest one time.
Quite unlike the DM shows.
+100
Sara Bareilles reworded for the RCS:
Say what we tell you to
And let the words be Dave’s
Honestly, I’d like to see you behave
NOI and the C of S. There was a time I would have thought these were strange bedfellows. Not any more. I’ll eat my words if I hear a Farrakhan speech at the next NOI Convention where he speaks of the new found love that the NOI has for Jews. In fact, I’ll do my A to E.
I laughed at the picture of all the NOI doing TR’s, everyone black except for white course sups. How staged is that? And how staged is it that most of the NOI doing TR’s are in full dress suits and ties? No one goes to course in a suit in real life. Who do they think they are fooling with this staged picture? We should get one of our UTR’s to go in there on a surprise visit on a “normal” day and take candid pics to see who is actually on course for real.
I went to an event with NOI. They do dress like that, Cindy. Very well mannered and polite too. The SO members aren’t the only ones who attempt to deceive with some sort of facade to hide what’s underneath or inside.
The email from Tanya, the word clearer from NY Org, has got to be one of the most condescending pieces that I have ever seen in print. Sure, ANY scientologist who has ever “visited” with a reg has heard this same dreck over and over and over and over, but to actually put it in print and send it to a potential “recoveree” is truly stomach turning. Especially this early in the morning.
I would ask Tanya something like: Where are all of the people who died who were at the top of the grade chart? Has there ever been a SINGLE documented instance of any of these folks who claim to be fully “at cause” over the physical universe showing up for round 2 to help clear the planet? Hubbard was clever enough to give himself an excuse for his conspicuous absence by saying he wasn’t coming back here, his work was done, so he is headed for Target Two. How convenient is that? What about the long dead SO members? Has a SINGLE documented dead SO member reported back for duty after their 21 year LOA is up? Maybe these absences can be written off because everything was so “out tech” back then because of some semi-colon catastrophe. How convenient is that? As they might say over at Ortega’s blog, dox or STFU Tanya…
+1
I understand that the Sea Org people don’t come back …?
Gosh, I’m relieved.
All kidding aside, I personally know some “returnees” who were in Scn in their LLT, but none that have returned and rushed out to sign a new SO contract.
I have heard people say they have lived before this life. It would not be hard to do a little fact checking but then again, we don’t want to shake those well supported belief systems too much. Better to let Polly Anna have her day, after all, no one is getting hurt. That is unless you happen to be paying big bucks to some group that you believe holds the keys to your having that belief …. I mean ability.
As an OT VIII completion, didn’t you run any whole track incidents of your own at points on your Bridge?
Sara, there is no empirical evidence that anyone “comes back”. Not saying it isn’t possible (I hope it IS) but there is no evidence of it and those who purport to have done so haven’t stepped forward to be examined.
Just as there isn’t a single OT 8 completion who has had their “whole track” amnesia handled. The ONE objective E.P. El Wrong named for an OT level…
“I probably know more about you than you know about me, which is partially why I’m sending you this email”.
Gotta love that one. Covert Hostility, much? Good luck with that tone level, Tanya.
“I most definitely don’t want to know about you and you don’t know shit about me, which is specifically why I’m putting your email in my spam folder”.
Is the Silicon Valley Org a different name for mt view org?
Yes
I get the feeling that Sergey Brin and Larry Page won’t be availing themselves of the tech over there.
Those kids doing the filing might be from the Flag Cadet Org. A van load of children used to be rented out for about $50 for a half day to do filing. The money would be used for cleaning and school supplies needed at the Cadet Org. If any kid messed up they were in “ethics trouble”. Most of the cadets liked to go on these “filing missions” as it provided some small opportunity that they might run into one of their parents.
🙁
Looks like they’re from the CW Delphi school. Their parents pay private school tuition so their kids can go to the Tampa org and file. How’s that for education?
Jeez Too, don’t you know that filing is educational? It allows you to continuously practice the alphabet and as per scripture, “The number of times through the materials equals certainty.”
It is most clearly [apologies for the pun] worth the outrageous tuition.
Vicki Shantz has lost her mind. She knows better. Maybe she can take over Cal Cole’s old job, just like last time?
Vicki’s another one of those women that were beautiful that Scientology made ugly from all the overwork and abuse. She was so pretty, now she’s got a mustache.
Brainwashing 101
Most of you have probably seen this video, but for those who haven’t, note the fixed dedicated glare from these certified kool-aid card carrying consumers who care so very, very, very much – just like Tom does.
Scientology 2010 Ideal Org Crusade (Leaked intern…: http://youtu.be/bJJxAbwSRgg
WARNING: Current members who suffer from MSAF (Miscavige Shermanspeak Agitprop Flatulence) may experience extremely uncomfortable and disorienting feelings when undergoing withdrawal, akin to battered person and/or Stockholm syndrome.
I watched the whole 6:31 of that video. Is it just me or is everyone in it exhausted?
“We are going to make all orgs ideal in 2010.”
– no comment.
Letting go, I do understand your “-no comment.” However, this is low hanging fruit that I just can’t resist:
“We are going to make all orgs Ideal in 2010,” Hahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! Hey, shit for brains, you didn’t even come close! AND, you’re not even close now! How’s it feel to be a loser in a loser cult? You’re the LAUGHING STOCK OF THE WORLD! You’ve been described as being a cross between the Moonies and the Mafia (more mafia than Moonies, though). You and all of your cronies know these Idle Morgues are just that: Idle! Fucking Idle! And why do I use the word “morgue?” Because when you go into one of these Idle Morgues, you die spiritually! Homo Novi. What a crock! You’re actually Homo Crap-i and just don’t know it.
Thanks, Letting go! I feel much better now.
Letting go and OSD – 2010 doesn’t mean anything because time is only a consideration. So is money. All of those people in that video are still at it four years later and are not giving up any time soon. It’s mind boggling.
Oh dear God in Heaven, WHY do so many people think “Crusade” is a good word to use? Is it not offensive enough that they use “Mecca” and “Pope”? I would really like to find the person responsible for this instance and have him/her word clear “Crusade, Children’s”.
Sorry, never-in Christian here who knows enough history to be ashamed.
Whoa NJ, I had not seen that video before and it is very intense.
I’m assuming most or all of the people there are actors? Are any of them actually recognizable actors, because some of the faces looked kinda familiar.
19 plus 8 is 37 minus 8 plus 3 is 470 .. maybe my calculation is wrong .. I am a little bit confused
Friend, haven’t you studied the new math?
Friend, you are trying to use Wog math to understand Scientology calculations. Silly you. In Scientology, you just believe the numbers, you don’t question them or check for yourself. Oh wait …
The letter from the word clearer pissed. Me. Off. I agree with you on this one, ignore the spelling and grammar errors and focus ob the tone.
When everyone who is in Scientology is being recycled through the bottom of the bridge, no one can say they are anywhere but the bottom because when they hit the first step, they get pushed back down.
BUT, what really jumped out at me was the creepy stalker factor of “I probably know more about you than you know about me.”
If I had received this letter I would have vacillated between reporting her to the police or her senior, blocking her email, or sending a stalker creeper email back to her telling her generic stuff about the desperate lives the staff members lead which would make her understand I know more about her than she knows about me.
All that being said, the letter fits so perfectly with the entire Scientology think “I am so superior to you that I have a right to be condescending even though I have no clue who you are” that LRH instilled in us all in SO.
Sad
Yes, I agree with you Valerie; that letter from the word clearer, in Scientology parlance, is suppressive.
Valerie, I have a feeling this is letter from the word clearer is from someone who recently joined staff or became aware of “Scientology” or the version they have of it now in Orgs. What I am saying is that her brutal “enthusiasm” is something that many, particularly young, Scientologists go through at first until they mellow out a bit and get some wins from auditing and training, if they are lucky that is and surrounded by sane opinion leaders and Execs.
I remember when I was first in the subject as a teenager and I look back on some of the things I thought and said and luckily, as I was surrounded by relatively sane peers, soon realized that my (hopefully brief) “superiority complex” (which I suppose it was) was a bit naff. They’ve suddenly discovered a subject that allows them to be “different” or supposedly superior than their fellow man and they whoop it up so to speak. Once they’ve had a few Comm Evs and injustices and late night all hands and the dust settles hopefully she would become a bit more humane.
This instance however highlights the fact that young and/or new staff are easily impressionable and take their cues from the current style of “management” – in the good old days the Execs at the Orgs I was in would pass on their (relatively) sane way of managing things and people (“the blind leading the blind” – the opposite of course) and this would not have occurred. In other words she would have been told off for behaving like that. Now of course this sort of behavior is mostly condoned, unfortunately. But she may mellow out. Or rather be able to communicate somewhat better. But then in the atmosphere of the current Church probably not. Some would say here “let us pray that this will occur” but then the Why is not God, but rather an aggressive off-policy out-of-comm “management”, so we won’t pray to anyone to resolve that problem.
My point here is that we perhaps we shouldn’t gang up on this woman for being a novice “Scientologist” with misguided enthusiasm and a recently discovered superiority complex – she’ll get over it. Even in the good old days many people went through this phase when new to the subject – fortunately mine was short lived. I hope hers will be also but I had the advantage of being surrounded by sane Execs and peers.
Of course if it comes out that she is a Class VIII OEC/FEBC with 25 years experience in “management” Orgs who has been busted to the post of word clearer – then – to hell with her – ha!
Valerie – I couldn’t agree more. Tanya the Word Clearer is one of those people who probably believes that if you haven’t gone all the way up The Bridge, or done everything humanly possible to help forward the aims of Scientology, you will come back a female in Afghanistan or get psych drugged as a child in your next lifetime etc.
I know a few Scientologists like this: who say that they “will do everything possible” to eradicate their case, so they can come back with full power to not be born into a non-optimum situation and be the effect if it. They actually live in fear and are also terrified of getting cancer or some other catastrophic illness. They handle this problem by constantly running to doctors, homeopaths, nutritionists, etc and take copious amounts of supplements along with one fad diet after another. To me, this is introversion and is a manifestation of anxiety. I feel bad for people like this.
The ones like Tanya who are condescending and think its okay to indicate to others that they need to be “reminded that they once wanted to do better, so now they need to do better once and for all”, don’t particularly inspire me to do anything. I would immediate delete her email and block her address.
From the Department of Unintentional Hilarity:
“And I’m not being dramatic. I’m actually making the most fantastic understatements I think I have ever made on a platform. I’m not noted for understatements, and yet that is an understatement.”
LRH’s desperate overstatement of his supposed understatement is beyond nonsensical. And that may be the real understatement here. It’s like saying that I’m a non-violent person, and just so you understand that, I’m going to beat it into you with my fists.
“I probably know more about you than you know about me”
That’s because you read people’s preclear folders, isn’t it, Tanya?
Creepy stuff, whatever way, especially in this era of mass surveillance
I had the same thought David J. Very creepy and manipulative.
David, yeah, I thought that was creepy too. These personal emails can be so much more revealing that the glossy Shermanspeak mailers.
I LOL’ed on that, Regraded Being!
On another note, what greater tribute to the COB than to make everything Miscavige-size rather than Saint-hill-size!
With the brain of a peanut
And a heart made of stone
He is clearing the planet
All on his own
Suppressed thought of a staff member encountering David Miscavige.
very nice! LOL
Love it MJ.
Thanks Pepper. Time for Dave to take a billion year vacation.
“Regraded Being” deserves an award or maybe a status or a trophy or something. Very funny and very spot on.
Don’t forget inflated being for the whales.
Indeed! The cartoons are a hoot and that brilliant nom de plume, Regraded Being, is worthy of an award all by itself!
Laughter is the best remedy for these non-laughing folks. But they’ll never be permitted to see it. 🙁
And I noted, in Letter #2, the reuse of “insouciance”. Don’t these folks ever use a dictionary?
Recipe for Sheeple Kool-aid ™
1. Believe Dave
2. Never ask embarrassing questions
3. Get your sec checks
4. Add heavy doses of insouciance
5. Go out and fundraise!
I nominate him /her for the Freedumb Medal of Suppression! VWD!
MJ, your recipe for Koolaid is, on a serious level, very true. That is the exact recipe.
Oh that cartoon had me ROFLMAO. He got it down perfectly, especially the lingo of the SO lady. That Big Being close has been used to death. And asking for money to keep the lights on is both funny and pathetically true. The Sunland Msn had OT’s paying their light bill and rent for years cuz they couldn’t make it from the little GI that came in. And finally even that trickle dried up and they have closed the Msn. Tell our Regrade to do more cartoons! Loved it!
“Split, Schism & Strike
Divorce Lawyers
Don’t Be A CICS
Ask About our RPR
Disconnection Special”
LOVE the cartoons, still LOLing, many encores, please, Regraded Being!