You're Looking For Doti Boon? Why Me Too!

I know, I know - don't look at it: the title was a joke! - just continue on, reading, until it's sight can be erased from your mind:

Some SearchMonkey's been doing some very interesting searches for, what has to be, one of my favorite NewAgers in the whole wide world, Doti Boon: The California Psychic - check it out:

'doti boon' crook
'doti boon' fraud
doti boon transvestite

As you've seen above (don't look!) this immoral weirdo is all these things at once, and then some. And, Folks, seriously, that's not a face - or a look in the eye - anyone should be wanting to take advice from. (The hat, alone, is a major no-no.)

So I wonder what prompted this search? Has Doti destroyed someone's life? Or merely ripped someone off? Did "advice" from it's "guide" take a wrong turn? Did one of it's cassettes fall into the wrong hands again? Or was one of it's scams uncovered?

Man, I'd really like to know,....Damn it, I don't want to have to go on a search, myself, back into the NewAge netherworld of websites and bulletin boards that consists of shit like this or worse. Or even worse. (The shit makes my brain hurt.)

Fucking fuck shit, I don't want to do it, but this here calls for an act of desperation, so fuck it - here goes nothin' but a total break in protocol:

Come back, SearchMonkey, come back!

As The World (And The Worm) Turns

"Life has become "awful" for Phil Jones. Just a few months ago, he was a man with an enviable reputation: the head of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, an expert in his field and the father of an alarming global temperature curve that apparently showed how the Earth was heating up as a result of anthropogenic global warming.

Those days are now gone.

Nowadays, Jones, who is at the center of the 'Climategate' affair involving hacked CRU emails, needs medication to fall sleep. He feels a constant tightness in his chest. He takes beta-blockers to help him get through the day. He is gaunt and his skin is pallid. He is 57, but he looks much older. He was at the center of a research scandal that hit him as unexpectedly as a rear-end collision on the highway.

His days are now shaped by investigative commissions at the university and in the British Parliament. He sits on his chair at the hearings, looking miserable, sometimes even trembling. The Internet is full of derisive remarks about him, as well as insults and death threats. 'We know where you live,' his detractors taunt.

Jones is finished: emotionally, physically and professionally. He has contemplated suicide several times recently, and he says that one of the only things that have kept him from doing it is the desire to watch his five-year-old granddaughter grow up."

-- Der Spiegel Online

This particular bit sounds awful familiar, don't it? And how about this from me - all the way back in January, 2008:

"A taste of the wonderful future ahead - science corrupted beyond all recognition - because you don't need science when you're 'saving the planet'".

Considering what we know now, even I have to say wow. Think what you'd like but I'm telling you:

A man can learn a lot by merely studying NewAge.

A Really Big Reason Why The Nation's Sinking

"The press came late to the story. The mainstream media almost had to be dragged to it. It was there waiting to be told at least by the 1990s, but broadcast news shows and big newspapers weren't keen to go after it."

-- Peggy Noonan, talking about coverage of the Catholic church's child abuse scandal (not John Edwards) but still outlining the awful truth about journalists, and the mainstream media, today - they pick and choose what we ought to know, regardless of the truth or the story's worth to the public - using silence to reveal their biases (and, thus, worthlessness) to everyone, including The Wall Street Journal.

Switch Up: Let That Bitch See How She Likes It

"Maybe we should discuss the many social institutions that are giving women unrealistic expectations of men and a sense that they have the right to control men, and men’s sexuality, in their own interest."

-- Dr. Helen Smith, confronting complaints about porn while never mentioning NewAge beliefs - because few ever mention NewAge's arrogant, and deluded, proposition of women as sexual "goddesses", to be worshiped for their (still unapparent) "wisdom", as part of their problem with control - though the quote would more accurately apply, even on Pajamas Media.

Smiles All Around: It's A Wonderful World

"The lawyer of a Lebanese TV psychic who was convicted in Saudi Arabia for witchcraft said Thursday her client could be beheaded this week and urged Lebanese and Saudi leaders to help spare his life.

Attorney May al-Khansa said she learned from a judicial source that Ali Sibat is to be beheaded on Friday. She added that she does not have any official confirmation of this. Saudi judicial officials could not be immediately reached for comment.

A Lebanese official said Beirut has received no word from its embassy in Riyadh about Sibat's possible execution. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

The Saudi justice system, which is based on Islamic law, does not clearly define the charge of witchcraft.

Sibat is one of scores of people reported arrested every year in the kingdom for practicing sorcery, witchcraft, black magic and fortunetelling. These practices are considered polytheism by the government in Saudi Arabia, a deeply religious Muslim country.

New York-based Human Rights Watch said last year that Sibat's death sentence should be overturned. It also called on the Saudi government to halt 'its increasing use of charges of "witchcraft," crimes that are vaguely defined and arbitrarily used.'

Last year, the rights group presented a series of cases in the kingdom, including that of Saudi woman Fawza Falih, who was sentenced to death by beheading in 2006 for the alleged crimes of 'witchcraft, recourse to jinn (supernatural beings)' and animal sacrifice.

On November 2, 2007, Mustafa Ibrahim, an Egyptian pharmacist, was executed for sorcery in the Saudi capital of Riyadh after he was found guilty of having tried 'through sorcery' to separate a married couple, Human Rights Watch said."

-- Bassem Mroue, reporting on some serious trouble - crazy Muslims, crazy NewAgers, "sorcery, witchcraft, black magic and fortunetelling" - that's all led to a horrible situation where apparently everybody seems to be losing their heads, according to The Associated Press.

Liberal Newscasters Called Her A "Teabagger"

Politicians have called her worse,...

Hat Tip: The Right Coast

Reality Check: Yep, It's Still Here After All

"Science writer Simon Singh today took a major step towards defeating a libel action brought against him by a group of chiropractors.

The Court of Appeal handed him the right to use the defence of 'fair comment' over an opinion piece Mr Singh wrote in the Guardian in April 2008 suggesting there was a lack of evidence for the claims some chiropractors make on treating certain childhood conditions, including colic and asthma.

He was accused of defamation by the British Chiropractic Association (BCA), which alleged that Mr Singh had in effect accused its leaders of knowingly supporting bogus treatments.

In a preliminary ruling in the dispute at the High Court last May, Mr Justice Eady held that Mr Singh’s comments were factual assertions rather than expressions of opinion and, as such, he would have been forced to prove it was his assertion were true or use the defence of responsible journalism.

Today, however, the Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, Master of the Rolls Lord Neuberger and Lord Justice Sedley ruled that Mr Justice Eady had 'erred in his approach', and allowed Mr Singh’s appeal. The result means he needs only to prove that it was reasonable for him to hold the opinions he does, that the subject was in the public interest and they were based on fact.

Mr Singh described the ruling as 'brilliant'."

-- Jenny Booth, bringing scientists, skeptics, anti-quack activists, and those against England's libel laws, some welcome news - as this case proves, we're winning big time, on several key fronts - a just reward for the valiant efforts individuals are undertaking to confront and chronicle society's ugliest legal and philosophical excesses, in what no one should refer to as The Times Online.

Don't Look, Mammy, Just Don't Even Look

"The Republican National Committee paid $1,946 for a gathering at a sex-themed Hollywood club, which a group of young Republicans had visited without RNC approval. The money is to be paid back.

Now it turns out the RNC inadvertently listed a phone-sex number on a fundraising letter sent to potential donors. People who tried to call the committee were instead offered 'live, one-on-one talk with a nasty girl' for $2.99 a minute."

-- The Associated Press

Tainted Love

"The allegations about a man who claims big-name movie stars and politicians among his followers have shocked and upset thousands of people, coming amid a flurry of incidents involving religious leaders. Police last month arrested one guru for running a brothel involving air stewardesses and college students, and charged another with kidnapping a minor.

In a recent interview with the Times of India, Nithyananda Swami insisted that he had been in a 'state of Samadhi', or trance, when the footage had been recorded late last year."

-- Andrew Buncombe, using a sex tape to bring my sensitive warrior-side out (once again) by revealing Indian spirituality's "if you'll fall for this, you'll fall for anything" mentality in a way I can clearly understand: as tragedy, rather than folly - and it's also kinda ironic, too, how those "big-name movie stars and politicians" are both influential as Hell in India (and now that I think about it, I guess it's O.K., if you want, to use the conventional description of Hell here: y'know, flames licking and lapping "within you and without you", making you jump - it works either way) while, at the same time, the powerful and famous are also about as wound up in india's hot, hot, hot world of smelly, lying about trance-having, big pimpin', kidnapping pervs as you can get - why, from just thinking like this, I'm now so broke up about the whole situation, I'm pretty sure if I discover that even one more of India's so-called "leaders" and/or "media darlings" are amongst anybody's "followers", then damn it, I think that right there's going to be enough reason for me to join this spiritual world, too, becoming powerfully compelled to leave everyone and everything I know, strip naked, and begin what NewAgers have historically called "a never-ending search" to find that special someone, anyone (it's gotta be a chick though) who wants to become intuitive enough, rich enough, and blind yet horny enough, to receive me, my almost-complete collection of TIME Magazines, and all my music equipment - even if it's broken: like the organ - and just do as I say, 24 hours a day, honestly, purely, and freely (it's gotta be freely unless, y'know, you're gonna make a donation up-front or something: hint, hint, hint) so I'll spend a part of each remarkable day, showing you (and maybe your friend - no, the cute one) in a private lesson, something really, really powerful that I promise, one day, is sure to enlighten you to the infinite possibilities of what can really happen if you truly desire to reach transcendence through the rock-hard spiritual guidance of a true master who you'll always aspire to make feel fully empowered as The Independent.

Yea, really.

Nice Place: What Are You Paying In Rent?

"Regardless of whether you favored or opposed the health care legislation passed this week, do you think the methods the Democratic leaders in Congress used to get enough legislation — were [they] an abuse of power, or were [they] an appropriate use of power by the party that controls the majority in Congress?

Abuse of power 53%

Appropriate use of power 40%

No opinion 7%"

-- Gallup Poll

Well, well, well. These are interesting findings on who the supposed "fascists" are out there. What? It doesn't really mean that? Really? Then let's follow it up with some articles noted by James Taranto of The Wall Street Journal:

"• 'Albermarle County GOP's Headquarters Vandalized'--headline, WBDJ-TV Web site (Roanoke, Va.), March 26

• 'Brick Smashes Michigan GOP Office Window'--headline, Associated Press, March 29

• 'Norman Leboon, Accused of Threatening to Kill Rep. Eric Cantor, Donated to Barack Obama's Presidential Campaign'--headline, OpenSecrets.org, March 29

• 'The danger of political violence in this country comes overwhelmingly from one direction--the right, not the left.'--Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, March 30"

4/3/10 UPDATE - Also from The Wall Street Journal:

" • 'The arrests of members of a Michigan-based "Christian" militia group should convince doubters that there is good reason to worry about right-wing, anti-government extremism--and potential violence--in the Age of Obama. . . . The episode highlights the obvious: For decades now, the most serious threat of domestic terrorism has come from the growing ranks of paranoid, anti-government hate groups that draw their inspiration, vocabulary and anger from the far right.It is disingenuous for mainstream purveyors of incendiary far-right rhetoric to dismiss groups such as the Hutaree by saying that there are "crazies on both sides." This simply is not true.'--Eugene Robinson, Washington Post, March 30

• 'Most of the indicted militia members accused of being anti-government extremists have active voting records, a check with area voter registration offices showed yesterday. One is a registered Democrat, and the party affiliations of the rest could not be determined. Jacob J. Ward, 33, of Huron, Ohio, voted as a Democrat in the 2004 and 2008 primary elections.'--Toledo Blade, April 1"

Let's see: documented political violence, accompanied (repeatedly) by "spin" from the paper of record, pinning it all on their political opponents. That sounds pretty illiberal if you ask me. Fascist, even, when I put it with the ugly "ends justifies the means" attitude I've seen since ObamaCare was "rammed through" the process. It's like liberals "don't care" if they're doing wrong - which isn't surprising, considering how often they've told me, to my face, they "don't care" about right or wrong and actually want to start a civil war.

Oh well, America's dealt with wannabe fascists before, and it never ends well - for them - so keep it up, kids:

You're eventually going to discover that winning the House - and/or seemingly being in charge - ain't always everything it's cracked-up to be.

The Heat Is On (And It's Eating Global Warmists)

"[James] Lovelock says the events of the recent months have seen him warming to the efforts of the 'good' climate sceptics: 'What I like about sceptics is that in good science you need critics that make you think: "Crumbs, have I made a mistake here?" If you don't have that continuously, you really are up the creek. The good sceptics have done a good service, but some of the mad ones I think have not done anyone any favours. You need sceptics, especially when the science gets very big and monolithic.'

Lovelock, who 40 years ago originated the idea that the planet is a giant, self-regulating organism – the so-called Gaia theory – added that he has little sympathy for the climate scientists caught up in the UEA email scandal. He said he had not read the original emails – 'I felt reluctant to pry' – but that their reported content had left him feeling 'utterly disgusted'.

'Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science,' he said. 'I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.'"

-- Leo Hickman, getting a quote that sounds an awful lot like a certain blogger I know - and know very well - standing up for skeptics, and standards (!) acting as The Guardian.

Today's Forecast: Another Severe Depression

"Skepticism appears to be widespread among TV forecasters, about half of whom have a degree in meteorology. A study released on Monday by researchers at George Mason University and the University of Texas at Austin found that only about half of the 571 television weathercasters surveyed believed that global warming was occurring and fewer than a third believed that climate change was 'caused mostly by human activities.'

More than a quarter of the weathercasters in the survey agreed with the statement 'Global warming is a scam,' the researchers found."

-- Leslie Kaufman, with news that shouldn't surprise anyone who's paying attention - paying attention to the news that is - which (believe it or not) you can actually get, sometimes, from The New York Times.

Jesus Be Lovin' All The Little Chillin'

"A serial child-rapist, cult-leader and secretly married confidant of John Paul II and Benedict XVI is finally disowned by his own cult. John Paul II called this multiple child-rapist 'an efficacious guide to youth'. Of course, he was never subjected to any criminal sanctions, was protected by Woytila and Ratzinger for years, even as they knew full well what was going on, and the euphemized statement just released is what the Catholic hierarchy believes is contrition. In 2006, the Vatican decided not even to subject him to canonical hearing because of his advanced age. So if you live long enough, and bring enough cash into the church, you can be allowed to molest countless children and your only punishment is an invitation to spend the rest of your life, supported by the church, in 'prayer and penance, renouncing to any public ministry'.

The person who approved of this non-punishment is now the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the American Cardinal Levada. Punishing Maciel for decades of child-rape with a paid retirement and invitation to prayer was also approved directly by Pope Benedict XVI.

But it is important to remember that this child-rapist was also defended openly and strongly by several leading American theoconservatives. Richard John Neuhaus wrote he knew Maciel's innocence as a matter of 'moral certainty.'

I am unaware of any public accountability for these intellectuals' defense of a figure whose crimes were so great and so clear and so vile that he rightly qualifies as a monstrous hypocrite, child-rapist and cultist. If I had vouched for this man's innocence, I would feel a public responsibility to apologize and explain."

-- Andrew Sullivan, saying something sane for a change - Sullivan's a pretty nutty NewAger himself - but even a fruitcake speaking up is nice to see, in The Atlantic.