I have no psychic powers, but I can sense that her supporters and detractors both can point to this, say “See?? I told you!”, and mean two entirely different things.
Well, I’m glad you’re not mad at me! I didn’t mean to come off as a miosogynistic twat 
Most of the women I knew in the Army believed in this sort of crap, as well as the healing power of crystals and magnetic elbowpads and shit like that. One of them was our Battalion Intelligence Officer, another was the Battalion Commo Officer. Scary huh?
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t believe in psychics, but I think Brown (the Browns have been getting a lot of bad press lately) has an out.
At the time she claimed she knew they were alive they may not have gone over to the other side yet. Considering one of the miners “survived” it is entirely possible that the rest of them died shortly before. In fact that might be the reason for all the confusion. Some of them might have even been found barely alive within minutes of death.
Sylvia’s predictions for 2005:
Recorded in December of 2004 on the JREF forums.
I don’t think so. If her talent rests completely with detecting people who have moved on to the other side, why is she making so many predictions that have nothing to do with death. After all, she said they were going to be found alive. I don’t see where she said, “I feel like they are still alive right now.” Seems like a rather large difference to me.
Ugggh, I can’t stand that woman. I think the most ridiculous thing I ever heard her say was on Montel. I was watching it one day when she was on and some lady in the audience asked why the water was disappearing from her pool each night.
“Aliens,” Sylvia replied nonchalantly.
There was a moment of bewildered silence, then she explained, “Aliens are coming at night and sucking up the water from your pool. They need it for (something or other)”.
The lady gave her a look like :dubious: and replied, “Uh, thank you…”
And now for my analysis:
US will pull out of Iraq by mid-year - HIT! Didn’t some troups get pulled out in 2005?
US will go to war with N. Korea in “the next couple of years”
Medical technology will help improve US economy - HIT! Hasn’t the economy improved? Hasn’t there been a few Med Tech breakthroughs?
2008 will bring drug benefits for the elderly - HIT! Medicare part D gives the elderly drug benefits!
We are going to allow drugs to come in from Canada - HIT! Have we passed any legislation banning such drugs?)
A scandal with the FDA - HIT! Boy, that VIOXX thing was a mess huh?
someone close to GW Bush will have a big problem with liquor - HIT! My upstairs neighbor lives about 7 blocks from the White House - is that close enough?
Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake will break up as will Kurt Russel and Goldie Hawn. - I don’t follow this kind of stuff, but I’m sure it must be a HIT!
There will be problems with the Catherine Zeta-Jones/Michael Douglas marriage and Demi Moore will get pregnant with Ashton Kutcher’s spawn.
The next 3, 4 or 5 years will bring about help for MS. - HIT! Microsoft has done very well.
A vaccination for uterine, lung and colon cancer. HIT! It took me a while, but I found it!
Britney Spears will have a baby, but her marriage won’t last HIT!
Robert Blake will get off. HIT!
Donald Trump’s marriage will last 2 years - HIT! It did last two years! And it looks like it’ll last at least another two years!
Elizabeth Taylor may not live through the year - HIT! (She only said “may”, right?)
Gay marriage will be allowed state by state in the next year. HIT!
Medicinal marijuana will be allowed this year, towards the fall - HIT! Voters approved in several jurisdictions.
The divorce rate will level off - HIT! (Decline and level-off mean the same thing)
The economy will turn down at the beginning of the year, then pick up again later - HIT! It did turn down, I saw it myself! Honest!
Her financial advice-buy real estate. Now there is some good advice!
Unemployment will be bad till fall. - HIT! I am sure it was bad for some people!
We will stop frivolous lawsuits by fining lawyers who file them.
Michael Jackson will be convicted and go to jail. MISS!
Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston will break up. HIT!
Laser surgery will be a big breakthrough. They will use a light beam type of thing. It will zap tumors and things. HIT! Tattoo removal is surgery, right?
TX, NC, FL will be hit by bad storms. We are in a polar tilt. HIT! My mom lives in Florida and verified there were in fact several bad storms.
That’s 1 miss out of 19 hits. Not bad huh?
:rolleyes:
Not so fast. How do we know she wasn’t speaking of a later conviction for a crime committed in '05 that we just don’t know about yet.
Shit, now I kinda feel like an asshole for pitting her.
I’d lay you money this won’t hurt her career in the least. There’s video footage of John Edward and James Van Praagh lying their asses off on camera, these people have been exposed by expose’ after expose’, James Randi has a running clock of the length of time since Sylvia agreed on national TV to take his challenge but has refused (222 weeks), but they never miss a meal or a Porsche. Sickening.
What kills me about Sylvia is that she hasn’t been busted for practicing medicine without a license. I have seen her on Larry King (who I think knows she’s full of shite but is way too lenient with her) and Montel and other shows telling people “It’s your liver… have the doctor check your liver” or “I’m thinking aortic embolism”, etc., and she’s never busted.
She also asked a caller on King once whose husband she channeled. I’m paraphrasing because I don’t remember the exact dialogue, but my word of honor it was to this effect:
Sylvia: Your husband… did he die of something that happened with his blood flow…
Caller: Yes! He died of an aneurism…
Sylvia: Uh huh, uh huh, that’s what I thought, because I sensed blood vessels contracting or clotting and the blood supply being sealed off.
As ignorant and untrained as I am in medical science even I know that an aneurysm is the exact opposite of a clot or a contracting- it’s when too much blood flows into a region due to widened arteries. Of course King’s response to this bullshit was basically “Outstanding. Our next caller…”
I wish I knew the name of the archaeologist who said this, but all I remember is he’s a big bearded guy who’s a very respected Egyptologist and when asked this in a press conference about a discovery in Egypt replied (words to this effect) “Yes, I have no doubt aliens crossed trillions of trillions of miles, came to ancient Earth, looked at the people who had next to no medical knowledge and no mass communications or transportation and who were at the total mercy of the floods and insects and disease and the elements and who didn’t know that the earth was an orb that went around the sun and thought disease was spread by evil stares and that crocodile dung was a good idea to use for health and the aliens said ‘We’re gonna do something that will really help these people- I know! We’ll pile a bunch of really big rocks on top of each other’.”
That’s not a woman, that’s a MAN, baby!
(I couldn’t resist. Down to the boiler room I go.)
My prediction for how Sylvia will salvage this: The miners were indeed all alive when the reports about them being found alive were aired, but then they died just after that, and that’s why she was confused. And they actually died from the cave-in and a combination of heart and thyroid things.
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My mom is really into her. I heard some of Sylvia’s shtick on Montel & Larry King while I was home for the holidays. She didn’t even have the integrity to do a proper cold-reading. Her answer to every thing was basically Imaginary Friend.
“I feel this presence. Is it my dead grand father?”
“No, just a guardian. His name is, uh, Pepe. That’s it, Pepe. Totally unrelated to you, no way to verify. Next?”
“I heard a voice…”
“Guardian. Named Laverne. Next?”
I mean come on. At least most of those other douche-bags at least try.
The woman really works my nerve, mainly because she gives my mother no end of dire perilous predictions for New York City. Terrorism, *Day After Tomorrow * like storms, time traveling ass-bandits, etc., etc. My mother was never happy about my moving to the east coast, and thanks to Schylvia, I get weekly “move back now before you die!” phone calls. Love them! Thanks a bunch!
Well, duh! His blood stopped flowing, that’s why he died. Who needs a medical degree or psychic talent to come to that conclusion?
"Me: Your dog…did he die of something that happened with his teeth?
Caller: No, he run over by a steamroller.
Me: Well, see, he turned to look to see the steamroller coming at him and it hit him in the face first, then continued on flattening the rest of him. The face is where dogs keep their teeth, so I was completely on the mark with that prediction."
I hate her fake nails, too. I hate them in general, but moreso on her.
I forsee a great future for you…
…as White House press Secretary!
Go read Connie Willis’ new book, *Inside Job*. You’ll all feel better. I promise. 
I know a psychic nut job at the office who predicted Katrina would hit New Orleans and prayed it wouldn’t.
Now, try to sort that all out.
Well, it depends on which “jury” we’re talking about, and how you think of Bahrain. I think that one could be a HIT if you work it right.