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In the Crystal Ball: More Regulation for Psychics
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| Sept 2, 2010
| Elizabeth Diaz
Posted on 09/06/2010 3:54:07 AM PDT by tlb
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To: tlb
With a little Foresight.....
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posted on
09/06/2010 6:54:08 AM PDT
by
Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
"What is the usual clientele of these folks?" They will typically target people in the midst of life-altering events, i.e. divorces, death of a loved one, loss of employment etc.
One scam involves them telling people that their jewelry, money, etc. is the source of their misery and needs to be turned over to them for "safekeeping". In some elaborate scams, precious gemstones are swapped out with glass or imitation stones before being returned. In other cases the psychic talks the person into signing them as the beneficiary of an insurance policy, etc.
Certainly it's something no "sane" person would do, but when they target people deep in grief with little or no faith, they make surprisingly easy marks.
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posted on
09/06/2010 7:03:35 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: 9YearLurker
I wouldn´t go to any seer who wasn´t already rich from their earlier predictions.
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posted on
09/06/2010 7:33:00 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: tlb
These fortune tellers, tricksters, psychics and seers are on the business TV shout shows every day and night.....and all day on Saturday radio programs, to boot.
They wear Brooks Brothers suits and colorless nail polish instead of purple capes, plumed turbans and beards.
They make their living providing prophetizing entertainment to the awed, trusting, avaricious masses, but their income comes mainly from their own various media and speechifying gigs rather than from the fruits of their own financial predictions.
If it were otherwise, they'd all be retired and living it up on the Isla del Sol and Martha's Vineyard.
Leni
To: tlb
I thought that was the windfall prophets tax.
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posted on
09/06/2010 12:36:48 PM PDT
by
RipSawyer
(Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
To: tlb
I always wondered, shouldn’t psychics be calling you, instead of the other way around?
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posted on
09/06/2010 12:37:33 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: onedoug
The only seers worth paying to see don’t need your money and don’t want to waste their time.
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posted on
09/06/2010 12:40:23 PM PDT
by
RipSawyer
(Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
To: RipSawyer
There are no seers, paid or not.
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posted on
09/06/2010 1:01:51 PM PDT
by
onedoug
To: tlb; Perdogg; grellis; AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; blueyon; ...
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posted on
09/06/2010 3:07:02 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
To: onedoug
“There are no seers, paid or not.”
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Well, if there were any, then what I said would almost certainly apply to them.
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posted on
09/06/2010 3:11:43 PM PDT
by
RipSawyer
(Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
To: SunkenCiv
"We had no mechanism of enforcement to protect people against unsavory characters," Livin' in the wild, wild west...
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posted on
09/06/2010 3:16:40 PM PDT
by
bigheadfred
(We built a tower of stone. With our flesh and bone. Just to see him fly .)
To: SunkenCiv
Used to have “ ‘bigheadfred’s’ psychic hotline—We already got your message” on my answering machine. All I know is there are some DUMB people out there.
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posted on
09/06/2010 3:20:38 PM PDT
by
bigheadfred
(We built a tower of stone. With our flesh and bone. Just to see him fly .)
To: Springman; sergeantdave; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; ...
If you would like to be added or dropped from the Michigan ping list, please freepmail me.
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posted on
09/06/2010 5:05:40 PM PDT
by
grellis
(I am Jill's overwhelming sense of disgust.)
To: bigheadfred
So, that *was* your phone number. I want my money back, those lottery numbers were NO GOOD. ;’)
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posted on
09/06/2010 5:11:47 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
To: tlb
It makes it illegal to say incantations to give good luck without having a license,”
Never stopped Obama.
“Economic Stimulus!”
“Recovery Summer”
“Drink a Slurpee.”
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posted on
09/06/2010 5:14:56 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: SunkenCiv
You can have your money back. Kinda glad I get to scratch a name off my D list. Besides, the money I get from the psychic line gets funneled into the loan-sharking thing and the returns on that are like winning the lottery.
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posted on
09/06/2010 5:25:51 PM PDT
by
bigheadfred
(We built a tower of stone. With our flesh and bone. Just to see him fly .)
To: onedoug
There are no seers, paid or not.'K, Mart, Roebuck will be disappointed to hear it.
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posted on
09/06/2010 6:13:08 PM PDT
by
magslinger
('This is a United States Marine Corps FA-18 fighter. Send 'em up, I'll wait!')
To: bigheadfred
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posted on
09/06/2010 8:11:10 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
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