I would’ve named my daughter Rachel.

Have you heard the news?
Montel’s show is ceasing production!
I suppose the Sylvia Browne Wednesday’s weren’t enough to keep the show afloat (crap floats) or maybe the show’s producers received enough letters of complaint and conscience to reconsider if the money was worth all of the harm Sylvia Browne creates with her cold readings and misleading medical advice and missing person case debacles.

I know that it was discussed in the James Randi Educational Foundation’s (JREF) discussion group that letters needed to be written enmass to the producers and sponsors of the show. 

I’m not sure if that is what did it or if the producers read Robert Lancaster’s site, StopSylviaBrowne.com and decided to no longer be the devil’s advocate.  Ironic that this news came out the same day that Robert had two articles up about how the shows really went down verses what you see on TV.

Hmmm…isn’t it ironic?

ETA:  I never watched Montel.  I only watch The View and Ellen…

Hey folks!

I spent a decade learning, teaching and discussing Sylvia Browne’s books and the beliefs of her “church” the Society of Novus Spiritus.

Last April (2007) I found out the truth.
Rather, I had my suspicions that I had all along proven to be true.
I found out so much about Sylvia Browne and her cohorts who were reaping financial gain hand over fist by taking advantage of people on their last leg…spiritually, mentally and physically.

It knocked me off my foundation for a bit.
I had invested so much time and effort into it all.  I created a discussion group and kept it going for almost a decade and I devoted so much time to mastering the concepts that Sylvia and her cohorts (for lack of a better word and good manners) stole from other books and slapped a label on it and live under the tax shelter as a church.

I found out that the woman I saw on Montel, so condescending and ignorant to the people in the audience was really that way!  Vile and rude and ungracious!
I found out alot…but nothing that my husband and I didn’t suspect all along.
I didn’t get too deep into it but some of my friends invested alot more than time and devotion and lost alot of money to these people.
Anyone who buys a reading ($750 for 20 minutes of bullcrap) has lost alot of money to these people.
But nothing compares to the wild goose chases she sends people who are missing a loved one.  Shawn Hornbeck is only one example.

But, I think what bothers me most is she made it an awkward thing to say “I’m a Gnostic Christian” for fear of being mistaken as one of her followers, as she has hijacked the religion much like what happened 2000 years ago.
I still say it though…

History will repeat itself until we learn.

Also in April, I met a guy online who runs StopSylviaBrowne.com.  His name is Robert Lancaster and he’s probably one of the nicest human beings I’ve met online in all of my years.  Definitely genuine…and I can only say that about 2 people I’ve met online for sure.  No offense anyone.

I have a permanent link to his site but I wanted to explain why.

Sylvia Browne is no more psychic than my dog is able to use the toilet properly.
Notice that I say ‘properly’ as we do not know my dog’s true intent…yet.
Novus Spiritus is no more a spiritual organization than raw chicken is good to eat.

But I’m not going to make up anyone’s mind as much as I’d like to.
People have to learn things in their own way.
I want to say to people who are venturing into the spiritual world of endless knowledge that they need to be careful who they latch on to, and that they shouldn’t latch on to anyone tighter than they do to God, but that’s invasive. 

No, I can’t make up anyone’s mind for them but I can offer them a fair and balanced review of some of Sylvia Browne’s work.
Check out the site and make up your own mind.

Peace

I was going to write about this movie a few weeks ago.

We had rented it and I thought that I’d spare someone the $4.50 or whatever their rental charges are because it was SO HARD to watch Heath Ledger in a role where he’s playing a mainline drug user who spirals out of control with his pregnant girlfriend.

We watched 80% of it before we both looked at eachother like “it’s okay if you want to watch something else” because that moment in the movie where things start to work out seemed to never come!!  We waited!!  We watched!!
I guess it might have come in the very end…
Maybe I’ll rent it again someday and watch the end especially in light of Heath’s recent passing.

I think about how ironic it is ~
How that was only a few days before he died ~
Glad that I deleted the post before it had time to feel at home here.

And just to be clear…I don’t believe that it was drugs that killed him nor do I care as I said last week.
I do, however, believe that with his insomnia and reported pneumonia and other issues, it is possible that his heart went into a fibrillation/tachycardia and stopped which would not necessarily show up in an autopsy like a heart attack would.  I know because I get tachycardia’s and fibrillations and all of the lovely things that come with heart disease.
And yes…he was young.
So was I when I had my heart attack.  (34)

I Got a Zit Today…Cut me a freakin break!!

JEEZ!!!

Isn’t it bad enough that I’m going through hot flashes and night sweats now and then and increased panic attacks, because I was already blessed with them before this, and I still having to put up with the monthly hormone sweeps!

Sounds like a game or a lottery or something…
the Monthly Hormone Sweeps…

Aren’t women my age supposed to be doing everything possible to appear younger? In that case isn’t getting a zit now and then a good thing?
You’d think so…
I guess that theory doesn’t work all the time…
But seriously, does this zit make me look younger? My daughter’s dyed her hair 3 times this week. Every day I wait for her to get up so that I can see what color it is today. I don’t know what her goal is. Baldness?
I try to tell her but anyone who has teenage girls knows that there is no living with them sometimes.

She gave up a long time ago, God rest her soul.
Life was easy-going as long as we stayed out of trouble…I’m talking about my mom and I.
All I had to do was be home before she got home which could always be calculated by when the club she was in closed. That was back in the 80’s, Man. She was disco, I was rock-n-roll.
I never really became her friend even after we grew up. We were opposites on everything…if I was happy, she was sad. And she had this “disease” that my aunt said plagued my family…the Dark Cloud disease. Everywhere they went, they brought with them heartache and misery and if they didn’t, they at least talk about it.

It’s very strange to have chosen a mother like that but I learned a lot from it. I’ve “tried” to be a better mother from what I learned but I am finding out the hard way that it doesn’t matter what you do.
Your children will be who they planned on being no matter how many times you tell them to get their elbows off the table, figuratively speaking.

And because it’s all a-buzz…

I am NOT into politics but I do keep an eye on things because it matters.
I won’t discuss my beliefs here except to say that the right man for the job wouldn’t take the job so all we can do is vote for who we think is better than the rest.
I like Huckabee but not as President…I only like him as a friend.  What a cool dude with a great outlook!!!
I think I’m going McCain only because I think he knows what are military is feeling and will hopefully act according. 

And I’m amazed to see us at the place and time where we’d even consider a black or a muslim or a woman as president!
I’d say we’ve come a long way but I don’t lie.
I come from a time when I was one of the first to experience desegregation in the public schools in Florida.  Race riots and craziness that just can’t make any sense!!  I think we’ve come a long way but there is so much further for us to go.  What, oh God what will it take for us to realize that we are all one!?
This country seems to just find more ways every day to be divided and yet we are preached at to ”unite”!
I have no problem uniting…

Knowing that you can trust your family, to really trust them and know that they love you enough that should you get Alzheimer’s they won’t try to convince you that you live next door or that polyester pantsuits are back in style.

I wonder if people who act in commercials for things like Valtrax, which is for herpes…you’re better off if you didn’t know that already…or erectile dysfunction medications have to deal with strange looks and advances when they’re out and about?

Can you get a date after doing a commercial where you saying, “I have vaginal herpes so I have to be careful.”  Um…no?

And does the guy with the big, huge…um…smile get pats on the back and inappropriate encounters all the time?  He sure looks obnoxious in the commercial…does he look like that all the time?  I’d have to smack him!

I’ve never met anyone who did a commercial before but I’m sure that if I met someone who was in a denture commerical, I’d be staring at their teeth and if they happened to be one of those ladies who took a cross-country ride with her aging girlfriend and touts that she was only able to do it thanks to her diaper-like underwear, I’d totally be looking at her ass to see if she’s got one on now!!

I guess that it can go both ways.

You could be on a breath freshener commercial or something.
Definitely better than being a toe fungus ointment user!
I’d rather be the girl getting the diamond ring from her beautiful Italian, muscle-y husband or boyfriend…not the lady with the thin, brittle nails.

My advice if you are considering a career in commericals is to stick with radio.  Nobody see’s your face.

I saw a commercial the other day for a computer that is the size of a magazine and fits in a standard shipping envelope!! 
I admit…I would LOVE one but it seems to me that this thing would get lost or sat on in NO time!!

Everything’s smaller these days…sometimes too small!
I bought an MP3 player yesterday that has buttons on it that are so small that I am grateful I don’t bite my nails cuz I need them to work the thing!  I use it while I’m painting because my dogs do not appreciate good music and I am a kind-hearted person and I take the comfort of my dogs seriously, but I spend half the time trying to work the damned buttons!!

It’s amazing to think that when I was a little girl, 40 years ago, a computer took up half a warehouse and now they’ll fit in your pocket! 
I wonder if in the future we’re all fitted with a computer chip at birth and our brains do the computing!! 
Look ma!  No hands!!

It could happen!  You never know!!

That which is conceived cannot be inconceivable!!

Coming from someone who recently admitted that she likes TMZ, it may sound strange but I don’t care to hear the details, the speculations and the gossip.
Heath Ledger is gone and that is all…
Some stars cry out for attention ~ Some deserve respect.