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Psychics (and the idiots that use them)

I had the Dr. Laura show on for only about three minutes today in my car. I swear.

She is so annoying doing that show, but there's a morbid curiosity about hearing the ding bats that call in for advice.

So when the sports shows I listen to have a commerical, and there isn't a good song on the FM dial, I'll tune in.

A 15-year-old girl was talking about how she had sex with a boy and then went to a psychic. The funny thing was Dr. Laura asking why she went to a psychic, and her never giving an answer. Laura had to keep repeating herself with "Yeah, I understand that...but why did you go to a psychic?"

At 15, if you have a question about why a boy doesn't call you anymore, aren't you just supposed to ask that magic 8-ball? Or call your girlfriend on your hamburger phone and complain? Maybe write something nasty in your diary. Or on his locker at school. Instead, this girl chose to call Dr. Laura and get yelled at.

I then remembered a story the Associated Press had last week. A psychic in San Mateo was pleading no contest to bilking an elderly woman out of $80,000 using tarot cards.

This psychic now faces up to six years in prison, and authorities say there were two other people that were scammed by her.

My question is this. Who is to say what the scam really is?

Sure, this "psychic" made $80,330 by telling this 85-year-old woman that her husband would die of a heart attack if she didn't pay for special prayers.

Aside from the large amount of money, isn't this what churches basically do?

Also, the psychic should've added that the husband would die of a heart attack of he knew what kind of money she was paying a psychic.

And if a woman is paying to go to a psychic, who the hell are the authorities to decide what offense is worthy of making a charge against?

If you are idiotic enough to go in the first place, you get what you deserve. It's nobody elses fault that you're a fool.

Where would any of this end? If a psychic tells a woman she'll meet the man of her dreams next week, and then she doesn't. Or, like that 15-year-old girl that Dr. Laura said..."he just wanted to stick it in you and then have nothing else to do with you. You learned a valuable lesson."

If that's all that happens for a woman, after a psychic told them that THAT guy was the man of her dreams, could that be a rape lawsuit against the psychic? Or, would the psychic at least have to give back the $85 paid for the session, for giving bad advice.

I've had arguments with a few women I know that are silly enough to believe this stuff. One is writing a book on a famous deceased celebrity, and she consults a psychic to ask questions. I felt bad when she told me one story and I laughed in her face. I know she felt it was condescending.

But I couldn't control the urge to laugh.

And it was a lot better than me saying, "Didn't you tell me your husband has had trouble finding work? And you're dropping hundreds of dollars on a psychic? And do you even list that at the end of your book, with all the lists of the previous source material used?"

The other woman I know has told me about police using psychics to help solve crimes. And I have heard a little about that on TV. I need to read more on that, but I'm calling B.S. on that as well.

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I had the Dr. Laura show on for only about three minutes today in my car. I swear.

She is so annoying doing that show, but there's a morbid curiosity about hearing the ding bats that call in for advice.

So when the sports shows I listen to have a commerical, and there isn't a good song on the FM dial, I'll tune in.

A 15-year-old girl was talking about how she had sex with a boy and then went to a psychic. The funny thing was Dr. Laura asking why she went to a psychic, and her never giving an answer. Laura had to keep repeating herself with "Yeah, I understand that...but why did you go to a psychic?"

At 15, if you have a question about why a boy doesn't call you anymore, aren't you just supposed to ask that magic 8-ball? Or call your girlfriend on your hamburger phone and complain? Maybe write something nasty in your diary. Or on his locker at school. Instead, this girl chose to call Dr. Laura and get yelled at.

I then remembered a story the Associated Press had last week. A psychic in San Mateo was pleading no contest to bilking an elderly woman out of $80,000 using tarot cards.

This psychic now faces up to six years in prison, and authorities say there were two other people that were scammed by her.

My question is this. Who is to say what the scam really is?

Sure, this "psychic" made $80,330 by telling this 85-year-old woman that her husband would die of a heart attack if she didn't pay for special prayers.

Aside from the large amount of money, isn't this what churches basically do?

Also, the psychic should've added that the husband would die of a heart attack of he knew what kind of money she was paying a psychic.

And if a woman is paying to go to a psychic, who the hell are the authorities to decide what offense is worthy of making a charge against?

If you are idiotic enough to go in the first place, you get what you deserve. It's nobody elses fault that you're a fool.

Where would any of this end? If a psychic tells a woman she'll meet the man of her dreams next week, and then she doesn't. Or, like that 15-year-old girl that Dr. Laura said..."he just wanted to stick it in you and then have nothing else to do with you. You learned a valuable lesson."

If that's all that happens for a woman, after a psychic told them that THAT guy was the man of her dreams, could that be a rape lawsuit against the psychic? Or, would the psychic at least have to give back the $85 paid for the session, for giving bad advice.

I've had arguments with a few women I know that are silly enough to believe this stuff. One is writing a book on a famous deceased celebrity, and she consults a psychic to ask questions. I felt bad when she told me one story and I laughed in her face. I know she felt it was condescending.

But I couldn't control the urge to laugh.

And it was a lot better than me saying, "Didn't you tell me your husband has had trouble finding work? And you're dropping hundreds of dollars on a psychic? And do you even list that at the end of your book, with all the lists of the previous source material used?"

The other woman I know has told me about police using psychics to help solve crimes. And I have heard a little about that on TV. I need to read more on that, but I'm calling B.S. on that as well.

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