Thank you, Mouth Breather, we got it. We really got it. It's not necessary to keep repeating yourself.

Hey hey MB. I'm getting a kit put together for some people I've enlisted. I'll make sure the good Mr. Polanco gets one too....... Nice to know where to send it to do the most damage, as opposed to nailing it to the church door.

LotusFace

'I am here this evening because I know that the teaching principals and curriculum offered by the Hubbard College are training today's and tomorrow's leaders with an unprecedented record of success. I am profoundly moved by the works of L. Ron Hubbard and I am taking this knowledge back with me to the Senate to put it to work for California.'

Mr. Richard G. Polanco, Senate Majority Leader of the California State Senate

No problem, Lost.your.Place, be sure and include this website in your kit. Most of these politicos are quite keen when it comes to knowing bullshit when they see it.

Mouth Breather
Actually the 'politico' gets a 1 page executive summary. Their staff get the supporting data. Free advice if you want to lobby them, large info packets handed to the top guy go in the trash. Top guy gets one page, staff gets body weight in 'stuff'. Same with presenting management tech to prospective CEO's, but I'd cross reference that list against HBR and other school rags, as well as rags like the one from Booze first. No point in wasting your money.

Not a bad play on words. Why don't we climb a few rungs up the conversational ladder next ? Seems like you have it in you, and at the current level, you're making me reach farther than I am really willing.

LotusFace

LotusFace, I am also putting together packets to send out and your idea about the summary page going to executives is a good one. Thanks. See, something good came of Mouth Breather being here after all.

LRH on constipation: "Excreta can be caused or cured by positive suggestion with remarkable speed and facility. The urine system can also be controlled."

Dianetics

LRH on gynecology: "There is no such thing as a guaranteed way to abort a child, not a knitting needle or the douche bag."


Dianetics

LRH on constipation and gynecology: "Let us take an engram [the spiritual scar of physical or emotional trauma] that comes from one of Mother's bowel movements. She is straining, which causes compression, which brings about 'unconsciousness' in the unborn child."

Dianetics

Mouth Breather,

Here are more Californian politicians that attended the same Rah-Rah session opening the new Hubbard College of Administration in New York City. Do you think when this gets out it will help or hurt their political carreers?


Xavier Beccerra (D-Calif), U.S. Congressman for district 30, which is Hollywood and surrounding area.

Dario Frommer (D-Glendale), California State Assemblyman for district 43.

Richard G. Polanco (D-Los Angeles), California State Senator for district 22.

Think the Co$ may have bought some pols?

Becerra and Polanco are virtually untouchable.
They are from heavily Democratic districts, and
they are the fair-haired boys, OK, dark-haired boys, of the party. Both might be the "first
Latino X" someday. Politics makes strange bedfellows, and it's sad that those two were
obliged to attend something as awful as the opening of the Hubbard College of Administration ("I'm sorr sir, but your records are not in the computer, so you are not registered for Information Management 101."), but campaign
contributions are supposed to count for something,
right?

I will do my part to help spread the word about this, just so they at least know we know.

Believe it or not, our spiders barfed this up when grovelling through the web looking for info on Agent Media, Bennetta Slaughters company. So, one degree of freedom from Bennetta was this little tidbit, which made the daily effort quite worthwhile.....
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How not to write bad...

Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects.

Prepositions are not words to end sentences
with.

And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.

It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.

Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat)

Also, always avoid annoying alliteration.

Be more or less specific.

Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are
(usually) unnecessary.

Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies.

No sentence fragments.

Contractions aren't necessary and shouldn't be
used.

Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.

Do not be redundant; do not use more words
than necessary; it's highly superfluous.

One should NEVER generalize.

Comparisons are as bad as cliches.

Don't use no double negatives.

Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.

One-word sentences? Eliminate.

Analogies in writing are like feathers on a
snake.

The passive voice is to be ignored.

Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary.
Parenthetical words however should be
enclosed in commas.

Never use a big word when a diminutive one
would suffice.

Kill all exclamation points!!!

Use words correctly, irregardless of how
others use them.

Understatement is always the absolute best
way to put forth earth-shaking ideas.

Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and
omit it when its not needed.

Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo
Emerson said, ìI hate quotations. Tell me
what you know.î

If you've heard it once, you've heard it a
thousand times: Resist hyperbole; not one
writer in a million can use it correctly.

Puns are for children, not groan readers.

Go around the barn at high noon to avoid
colloquialisms.

Even IF a mixed metaphor sings, it should be
derailed.

Who needs rhetorical questions?

Exaggeration is a billion times worse than
understatement.

And finally...

Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
Use words correctly,
irregardless of how
others use them.

Gotta send this to our local newspaper.

A Butterfly
by G. Eustace Owen

A butterfly rested upon a flower,
Gay was he and light as a flake,
And there he met a caterpillar($cios-ite)
Sobbing as though his heart would break;
It hurt the happy butterfly
To see a caterpillar cry.

Said he, 'Whatever is the matter?
And may I help in any way?'
'I've lost my brother, 'wept the other,
'He's been unwell for many a day;
Now I discover, sad to tell,
He's only a dead and empty shell.'

'Unhappy grub, be done with weeping,
Your sickly brother is not dead:
His body's stronger and no longer
crawls like a worm, but flies instead.
He dances through the sunny hours
And drinks sweet nectar from the flowers'.


'Away, away deceitful villain,
Go to the winds where you belong.
I won't be grieving at your leaving,
So take away your lying tongue.
Am I a foolish slug or snail,
To swallow such a fairy tale?'


'I'll prove my words, you unbeliever,
Now listen well, and look at me.
I am none other than your brother,
Alive and well and fancy free.
Soon you'll be with me in the skies
Among the flirting butterflies.'

'Ah!' cried the mournful caterpillar,
'Tis clear I must be seeing things.
You're only a spectre sipping nectar,
Flicking your ornamental wings,
And talking nonsense by the yard.
I will not hear another word.'

The butterfly gave up the struggle.
'I have,' he said, 'no more to say.'
He spread his splendid wings and ascended
Into the air and flew away.
And while he fluttered far and wide,
The caterpillar sat and cried.

This may not be exact in every detail, but the essence is correct:

"What if nothing is real? What if everything is illusion? If that's the case, I definitely paid too much for my carpet." --Woody Allen

This too may not be exactly correct, recalling it from memory

'The Church of Scientology is attempting to hijack the U.S. legal system and crash it through the constitution'


Probably a few other constitutions have crossed their mind, heh.

LotusFace