Oluckyme, I hear you.

I had a woman friend back in the day who was verbally abused and disrespected continually by her long term boyfriend who refused to marry her yet wanted to continue living with her and generally using her. She always, always made excuses for him and turned things around like SHE was wrong. This used to upset me and I’d try to reason with her but she always kept it that whatever the problem was at any given time was her fault with his behavior the reaction she deserved. Her mother aided and abetted her in doing this because her mother didn’t want her to break up with the boyfriend. For decades she stayed with him yet cheated on him continually because it was an intolerable relationship for her and being with other men from time to time was the only way she could stay. She and her common law husband were, and are, a sick couple. After a while I lost my outrage at what he was doing to her and my compassion for her unhappy plight just dissipated. As soon as she got no more sympathy from me, as soon as her sad stories got only a shrug and a kind of “Oh, well”, from me, she lost interest in me as a friend and dropped me. My role was to be sympathetic and when I stopped feeling that she lost interest in me as a friend.

I’m using this story as an illustration of how compassion wears out with me after a while.
The Still Ins, if there are any, who are truly clueless, yes, I feel for them. As someone never on staff or in the SO, I was clueless for many years, and I do mean clueless. I have compassion for these people, because they deserve the benefit of the doubt, meaning that, if they knew, they would NOT be ok with it. So I have compassion for the clueless.

But for the ones who HAVE seen, who ARE trained, and who still look away and make excuses, give reasons why, who absolutely KNOW yet still make all this blatant out tech, off policy, out admin OK, all this colossal crap, OK for themselves, OK for others, for the enablers of David Miscavige’s abuses and lies, for all those who WILLFULLY turn a blind eye, for THESE people I have no more compassion. Let them be abused, lied to, fleeced for every dime they’ve got. Good for them. They deserve it.

I know that’s horrible, I know I shouldn’t feel this way, but I do.

The ideal org is further up the road, outside the downtown area and only accessible by vehicle. That building was the old offices for Time-Warner cable. It’s a 60’s building and totally unattractive as is. That still doesn’t explain why it would take $10 million to refurbish it.

IAS and Idle Morgue regges just LOVE their victims, I mean prospects, to be in wheelchairs. It makes it kind of hard to out-run or outmaneuver a desperate reg trying to make their quota. The only thing better than a prospect in a wheelchair, is an unconscious prospect in a wheelchair with a signed, blank check in his hand. Nothing is beyond the pale for the “vulture culture”.

Let’s follow up in a year and give Mike a call to find out how Columbus Org is doing. My guess is that they will still be raising money for the marble floors.

Yeah, I know about ancestry.com and the Mormons. However, I’ve got nothing personal against Mormon beliefs (they don’t mind us gay folk too much, unlike the cult, who want us dead), and thanks to that belief of baptizing the dead, they keep the best ancestral records around and provide an easy-to-use interface on Ancestry for searches. As for the Genographic project, Ancestry’s kit was $120 cheaper, and it’s more likely to provide the answers to the questions I want answered, top of the list being “Who’s my father?”

He’s bankrupted himself, Annette Chaffee. No one MADE him do it.

He’s just tell the FBI that he loves doing it!

Hear! Hear! Joe Pendleton.