Here's a fine example of crime paying - and handsomely:

"Renowned psychic, bestselling author Sylvia Browne dies at 77"

The scum of the Earth, finally reunited,...

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 I can't see picking on this poor guy any longer, when - after his rarely-mentioned stint with the Maharishi - he's spread their cultish thoughts and tactics so thoroughly, almost every Westerner uses them as a way of life. I mean, considering their political track record, this is the Right-Wing law professor network's argument in a nutshell - up-to-and-including "peddling questionable remedies" as they go:

"It’s a time-honored custom that when a scientist is caught out saying something stupid or wrong, he responds not by defending his ideas or admitting error, but by flaunting his credentials.  'Look at all my degrees, publications, and honors,' he says. 'Does that not give me credibility?'

But science doesn’t work that way.  Scientists don’t defer to authority and credentials: we defer to the quality of one’s arguments and the evidence that backs them up.

Sadly, Deepak Chopra hasn’t learned this lesson.  Although he began life as a respected physician, he went off the rails when he encountered holistic, ayurvedic, and 'alternative' medicine (the last is synonymous with 'quackery'), and now he makes millions peddling questionable remedies and phony wisdom to credulous New Agers."

Who kill, deceive, destroy lives, yada, yada, yada. But nobody cares, until it's them, or because it's not (yet) so - from this day forward - all you can do is isolate yourself as best you can, from their glorious ethics-less future, because operators are standing by.

"For entertainment purposes only" of course,...

 

“Anyone who wants to understand the devious, insane nature of the fraud known as L. Ron Hubbard should read this book cover to cover, and investigate all the footnotes. You will not only want $cientology ended forever, you'll feel the same way about any similar spiritual huckster that comes along in Hubbard's wake.”

“Lawyers and a member of the Federal National Council have said a 1983 law that considers sorcerers con artists was insufficient, and have called for the law to be amended to allow harsher punishment.

'Magic and sorcery has nothing to do with religion,' Salim Al Ameri (Abu Dhabi) said. 'It only affects people badly.'

He recently recalled a case he heard of a 'sorcerer' who told someone he could make the sky rain money.

'Some people believe this,' he said. 'Sorcerers say "I can help you get a job", and people believe them. We want to protect people in society from this.'

Prison sentences for those found guilty should exceed the current three years, he said.”

"You're dealing with a confidence scheme. It becomes clear to you the script (the psychics) are following."

This is always the first - and the dumbest - question a NewAge apologist will ask, because it reveals the massive ignorance they have, surrounding what they think they're defending:

  "If we allow people to perform so-called “faith healings” without having to include a legal disclaimer, then why should someone have to include one for a tarot reading?"

Please, Somebody - Anybody - you want to be fair?

Bring back feeding Christians to the lions, and witch burnings, so we can all get a good night's sleep again,...

 

“Mormonism would gain a measure of respectability if only some credible evidence could be found to support at least one of Joseph Smith’s claims.”

Great wine price con: Supermarkets inflate prices artificially before launching 'special offers' so you think you're getting a great deal

Here are my posts on wine - screaming you're being conned:

Admit it to yourselves,...

 

We wouldn't like it if those same businesses hung signs that read "No blacks," and we would be outraged if they hung signs that said "No Mormons."

As Silicon Valley tech companies boom (with heady talk about paradigm shifts and disruption), the Bay Area's yogis, natural healers, therapists and philosophers want in.

Cherie Blair, Carole Caplin, Peter Foster - even Deepak Chopra - I could predict what was coming, since they're NewAgers, but not when:

  "Conman Peter Foster - the figure at the centre of the 2002 'Cheriegate' scandal - was sentenced to three years in prison in his absence today for his forbidden role in the weight loss industry."

"The Tortoise And The Hare" is ultimately a spiritual tale,..

Before the coming week is over, I expect to be thrown out of my house and losing everything I own, mostly because I'm incapable of seeing the world as others do or even faking that it's remotely possible. Between the religious, the NewAge, the quacks and the con artists, of all stripes, there's just too many for me to defend against or to find shelter from.

 

It's winter here, and the first snows are falling. If my posts become infrequent, this is why. 

I did my best,...

 

I asked you why I bother. All the pins are falling, like they've closed the gutter lanes:

[Marco Rubio] gained the satisfaction of standing up against a gigantic federal boondoggle that’s going to make life harder for a lot of unsuspecting Americans. Fair enough, but after the amnesty debacle, there’s no way to trust Rubio’s motives 100 percent anymore, is there? My sense of his position on “defund” is the same as my sense of him championing a federal ban on abortions after 20 weeks. I’m almost positive that he would have behaved exactly the same way even if he didn’t feel pressure to atone for his immigration vote with conservatives, but … I just can’t be sure anymore. If he was willing to accept the crappy Gang of Eight plan, what other crappy things would he be willing to accept but is forced to reject — for now — because doing so would utterly destroy what’s left of his tea-party cred? Choosing immigration reform as his first big legislative initiative before 2016 had lots of political upsides for him, but also a big downside: It planted the seed of doubt among the grassroots righties who cheered loudest for him when he first got elected to the Senate.

The truth is - suffering from the inability to identify integrity - the religious Teas are now as gullible as NewAgers to con artists,....