Interesting..

The Tampa bay Area has a lot of OT’s VIII’s who never gp to IAS events, do a basic course once every few years and try to stay off the radar.

I think DM should take a good long look at these people and get them in for an ethics handling.

If he had a functioning CF( Which he does not) it would light them all up.

There is nothing worse than Class VIII’s who stay off the radar.

umm… what was a group of lemmings referred to as?

It doesn’t help that its mother looks to be halfway through one of the morphs in Soundgarden’s Black Hole Sun video. Is this an indicator of the delusion necessary to throw your life away on this?

These missions are going broke because they have to pay so much money up lines which eventually lands in DM’s pocket tax free, and also because Flag has been raiding them of courses, auditing and staff. Now you can get the entire lower bridge at Flag instead of doing it at your local mission which is how LRH set it up. Flag is touted as delivering “more standard tech” than the standard tech of a Mission. It’s like saying you’re “more pregnant” than your neighbor who is also pregnant. Standard tech is standard tech no matter who delivers it and no matter where it is delivered. But Flag would have you think otherwise. And that is how Flag decimates the feeder missions and leaves them twisting in the wind.

There is a Big Game: it’s Cal vs Snodfart, and may Snodfart lose.

Marc, Foothills is a mission franchise in a side walk-out basement space of a commercial-industrial building. From other photos it appears that it was last renovated decades ago when dark wood was in vogue, and is just terribly in need of updating.

The mission should be paying for upkeep out of its income, but it seems that the franchises are mostly becoming money-losers that require subsidies, and now even have to beg their customers to chip in. As far as I can tell they don’t even own the unit, so anything put into it would be lost when the operation finally goes belly-up.

They’ve been on a more than year-long saga to raise money for renovations that are supposed to somehow make them “ideal” even though that seems to involve little more than the new ceiling and carpet:

http://www.mikerindersblog.org/thats-some-ideal-mission/
http://www.mikerindersblog.org/foothill-msn-fail/
http://www.mikerindersblog.org/making-an-ideal-world/

“SUBTLE” is their middle name. ; – )