• Home
  • About Me
  • Mission Statement
  • Welcome Message
  • Open Letter to My Family
  • Donate
  • Contact Me

Mike Rinder's Blog

Something Can Be Done About It

  • All Posts
  • Disconnection
  • Idle Orgs
  • IAS
  • Media
  • Books
  • Fundraising
  • Regraded Being

Hawaii Five-Oh Oh — A Thursday Funny

May 14, 2020 By Mike Rinder 78 Comments

  The "Task Force" to "Save the Islands!" Seriously? Save them from what? They cannot even save themselves. Hawaii has been a small and failing org for decades. And that is being kind. They actually barely exist. That's why all the other orgs have to come to their rescue. I wonder if they realize (probably nobody in Hawaii org is OT III) that this is one of the two most important locations on earth in the Xenu story (along with "Las Palmas" which is a mistake as that is the name of a city, not a volcano or even volcanic island...). According to Hubbard's theories, there … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ideal Orgs Tagged With: Hawaii, Ideal Orgs, LA, Orange County, Sacramento, San Diego, san francisco, Xenu

The Latest Ideal Org Pitch

April 5, 2020 By Mike Rinder 38 Comments

Recently we saw the message from the EDs of Salt Lake City "ideal" org. Today we have another slice of disaster capitalism from a couple of OT VIII commissioned salesman in San Francisco. This is of course unrealistic in the current circumstances but what good scientologist ever let a bit of planetary bullbait stop them from asking for money. A few questions spring to mind as I read this. It's an odd combination of what "should be" (taken from the LRH ED that describes an "Ideal Org") and what they claim IS. No "ideal org" is actually doing point 1. Not even slightly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ideal Orgs Tagged With: fundraising, Ideal Orgs, san francisco

Thursday Funnies

October 17, 2019 By Mike Rinder 51 Comments

    Free Ice Cream Apparently George is George is a whale who supports this mission. He is like the Good Humor Man...     Really not looking good... Bobby Wiggins is sadly not much of an advertisement for "OT VII Super Power Completion"   This their plaque? They can't even get the first name right?   Such a terrible lie And they put it out every year around this time. Seriously? Now that's an offer you can't refuse...       Worst photoshop ever Looks like a cardboard cutout pasted onto the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Funnies, IAS, Ideal Orgs Tagged With: Battle Creek, Bobby Wiggins, Chicago, Columbus, Detroit, Flag OT Committee, Flag Service Organization, Foothills Msn, fundraising, funnies, HAPI, Hawaii, IAS, Joburg org, Kansas City, LA org, Long Island, Michael Wisner, Mick Davies, PAC Bridge, pasadena, san francisco, Scientology, scientology TV, Scotland, Ventura org

The “Elite” Team Fail

June 25, 2019 By Mike Rinder 86 Comments

One of the first "ideal orgs" was San Francisco. Dear Leader yanked its ribbon way back in November 2003. That is nearly 16 years ago now... They're still at it -- trying to get themselves to St Hill Size -- calling themselves an "elite" team. As if this makes them so.   It was the same tune two years ago -- though they were a little more overt: Of course, they may STILL be the "next" org to make it to St Hill Size, because there hasn't been one in the intervening 2 years... But then, we remember this. From 2006 -- the SFO Org magazine "Gateway": And … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ideal Orgs, Idle Orgs Tagged With: David Miscavige, Ideal Orgs, san francisco, St Hill Size

Nothing Says Chinese New Year Like….

February 16, 2016 By Mike Rinder 80 Comments

...left-over anti-drug booklets from the church of scientology. Residual evidence that the grand plan of distributing ginormous numbers of Truth About Drugs for the Super Bowl was another Big Fail(tm). I suspect the people who gave them money for the Super Bowl distribution might be just a bit peeved... I suppose they are trying to clear some space in the SFO "ideal org" so they can fit in more copies of the "Basics," "Congresses" and "ACCs." Every org on earth has rooms full of these items when they were forced to buy them from Bridge/NEP in order to inflate the "sales figures" -- … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Public Relations Tagged With: Church of Scientology, fundraising, Ideal Orgs, public relations, san francisco, truth about drugs

Scientology in the Bay Area — Boom or Bust?

May 20, 2013 By Mike Rinder 59 Comments

Last week we showed you the "test center" for Mountain View Org with a "For Lease" sign on it and reported about the two vacant building in an industrial park that have sat idle for 5 years now. A few miles up the 101 is another "Ideal Org", San Francisco. It is one of the original 5 orgs that launched Miscavige's program a DECADE AGO (Tampa, Buffalo, Joburg, NY and SFO). But even before the Ideal Org hype came the Ideal Mission hype for the "celebrity" Mission of SOMA ("South of Market") -- more on the other "celebrity" missions in Wichita, Memphis and Santa Monica in another post. Izhar … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Celebrities, David Miscavige, Idle Orgs Tagged With: Buffalo Org, David Miscagive, Ideal Orgs, Missions, san francisco, Scientology Idle Orgs, tampa

Mike-Rinders-Blog

Subscribe

Loading

Important Reading

Troublemaker - Leah Remini
Ruthless - Ron Miscavige
Going Clear - Lawrence Wright
Bare Faced Messiah - Russell Miller
Counterfeit Dreams - Jeff Hawkins
Blown For Good - Marc Headley
Abuse at the Top - Amy Scobee
Unbreakable Miss Lovely - Tony Ortega
The Church of Fear - John Sweeney
Fair Game - Steve Cannane
Inside Scientology - Janet Reitman
A Piece of Blue Sky - Jon Atack
Beyond Belief - Jenna Miscavige
My Billion Year Contract
Escaping Scientology - Karen Schless
Commodore's Messenger - Janis Grady
Commodore's Messenger - Book II
Scythe Tleppo - Nathan Rich
Expert Witness - Jesse Prince
Perfectly Clear - Michelle LeCaire
Ron the War Hero - Chris Owen
donate-button

Recent Tweets

Mike RinderFollow

Mike Rinder
MikeRinderMike Rinder@MikeRinder·
25 Jun

Watch #TheDeepEnd on Hulu. Fascinating 4 part doc study of cult leader @_tealswan by Jon Kasbe and @BitsSola. Also listen to interview by @sarahjedmondson and @nippyames on @alittlebitculty podcast. Cult leaders are all cut from the same cloth. My take: https://www.mikerindersblog.org/off-the-deep-end/

Reply on Twitter 1540678328771821569Retweet on Twitter 154067832877182156910Like on Twitter 154067832877182156983Twitter 1540678328771821569
Retweet on TwitterMike Rinder Retweeted
UltioetVeritasultio et veritas@UltioetVeritas·
23 Jun

@MikeRinder @LaurenHaggis @LeahRemini @KarendlaCariere @randomname7700 @Vickyy_82 @SkyBird03914123 @PersepPrincess @TeamSPNetwork @enfant_criminel
https://azhlynnes.blog/2022/06/23/paul-haggis-some-thoughts/

Reply on Twitter 1540014650682707969Retweet on Twitter 15400146506827079696Like on Twitter 154001465068270796929Twitter 1540014650682707969
MikeRinderMike Rinder@MikeRinder·
17 Jun

Day on the water. #FLlife šŸ

Reply on Twitter 1537867519737966592Retweet on Twitter 15378675197379665921Like on Twitter 1537867519737966592249Twitter 1537867519737966592
Retweet on TwitterMike Rinder Retweeted
allisonkilkennyAllison Kilkenny@allisonkilkenny·
15 Jun

Because everyone is currently in love with Tom cruise again due to maverick and have conveniently forgotten he’s a weird little carnival barker for a dangerous cult, here’s your reminder to check out #ScientologyTheAftermath on Netflix!

Reply on Twitter 1537157684285382658Retweet on Twitter 1537157684285382658452Like on Twitter 15371576842853826583593Twitter 1537157684285382658
MikeRinderMike Rinder@MikeRinder·
15 Jun

Happy, happy birthday @LeahRemini, my sister of choice. May the coming year be even more fulfilling and successful than the last. Your courage, work ethic, passion, loyalty and empathy inspires me. Love you Leelee.

Reply on Twitter 1537054427080757248Retweet on Twitter 153705442708075724880Like on Twitter 15370544270807572483698Twitter 1537054427080757248
Load More...

Recent Comments

  • Zee Moo on Ron on Saturn: “Lroon really did jump into how to sell $cientology in this Pablum. Yeah, just lie and try to manipulate them…” Jun 27, 14:49
  • ExScnStaff on Ron on Saturn: “The silly thing about claiming it doesn’t require faith is that he expects his followers to take his impossible numbers,…” Jun 27, 14:46
  • Iris on Ron on Saturn: “Brian…#1 and #2 most definitely. Advantages of being older=”experts” no longer have any validity. My Dad called many of them…” Jun 27, 13:29
  • Rosemarie on Ron on Saturn: “When I read this crap now that’s exactly what it feels like…crap! He had no research. He had no studies.…” Jun 27, 12:36
  • Alcoboy on Welcome To My New Blog: “David Miscavige is in charge of ALL Scientology everywhere. He is to Scientology what the pope is to Roman Catholicism.…” Jun 27, 12:36
  • Alcoboy on Ron on Saturn: “I think we all are.” Jun 27, 12:32
  • Alcoboy on Ron on Saturn: ““The Public knows this is a lie. It knows that as soon as soon as you promise cures that you’re…” Jun 27, 12:32
  • Fred G. Haseney on Ron on Saturn: “Re: “…such a stupid planet… you are on it.” The Human Race needs to understand just how stupid L. Ron…” Jun 27, 12:28
  • Brian on Ron on Saturn: “Good day Mike, Your post inspired me. The bread and butter of all cult leaders is our ignorance of the…” Jun 27, 11:51
  • Mylie on Fair Game Podcast: “When are you guys coming back? I check back every week hoping to see a new podcast šŸ™ I absolutely…” Jun 27, 11:41

Past Posts By Month

June 2022
M T W T F S S
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
27282930  
« May    

Copyright © 2022 Mike Rinder Ā· WordPress Ā· Log in