Chuck

Charles is "shocked and saddened" that the very "alternative" medicines - he has been told for decades don't work - have finally been proven, on him, not to work

This is nothing less than the portrait of a king, as a fool.

Of course, I am neither shocked nor saddened, after he held himself out as an example - to my ex-wife - of why I was wrong, and she was right to believe in "alternative" medicines. He was a prince, and now a king - who was I?

She, as I've written many times before, took things even further, by actually sleeping with the homeopath who killed her mother, using the same "treatments" Charles is getting.

She and her stupid girlfriends glorified in her abuse - and leaving me in Hell over it all.

But - while I'm sure Queen Camilla is as big of a fool as my ex-wife is - I sincerely doubt the con artist who is killing her husband will find her nearly as enticing to sexually exploit.

 

This Is A Big Day For Losers Confessing,...

...James Hewitt says he considered suicide after his affair with Princess Diana:

I felt I had let people down - probably myself, my family, my friends, the nation, the army, my regiment. Other than that, no one at all.

Which sounds like our old friend, shame, who we were told was dead. Now why would Hewitt feel like that? He'd slept with another man's wife, publicly, but today he's claiming he doesn't want to talk about details - like whether or not Harry's his son - "out of respect for everyone." Where was his sense of "respect" before? Where was Diana's? (And why was everyone worshipping that NewAge cult freak again?) Where was Charles' - or Camilla's? Who, or what, at this point - Diana IS still dead - is he supposedly respecting?

And what is anyone celebrating any of these people for, even now? Isn't Kate Middleton willingly following in Diana's footsteps?

As Jerry Seinfeld said, they're not special people - they're even less than average.

They're a bunch of fucking losers.

1-2 Cha-Cha-Charles! 3-2 Cha-Cha-Charles!

Taking A Turn For The Worse (Just Got Better)

We're starting to think these kids might be on to something:

'Off with their heads!' shouted the crowd as Charles and Camilla met rage in Regent Street.

Hell, their adulterous Homeopathy King - and his butt-ugly "second wife" - don't use their heads anyway,...

Negativland

Of course, it's the NewAge, so Devo's back - wearing their "energy dome" helmets.

They're gonna need 'em.

Come on, weirdos - don't despair - even L. Ron Hubbard had a Jazz band!

And have I mentioned that Scientology is moving into India - at the same time the Indians are making a crazy pro-Hitler movie? What a coinkidink!

Don't give up hope, believers:

If you don't kill your kids first, NewAge may win out yet!

News has it that Camilla Parker Bowles must be whipping the sexy on Prince Charles something fierce, because he's back to confidently spitting the wicked wang-dang doodle like there's no tomorrow.

And, if we leave it up to him, there won't be a tomorrow.

Prince Charles exit question:

Is it even possible for Camilla Parker Bowles to whip the sexy on anybody?

Speaking of pretenders to the throne of desirability, Kabbalah star Madonna got played.

But, then, she deserved it.

Which leads us to a morality tale:

Long after Charles de Gaulle taught the French to always lie about themselves being heroic, the latest celebrated French hero decides not to lie:

"I acted like a complete idiot."

And in case any of you other idiots don't get the memo on stupid:

Recycling is a ritual designed to punish you for living.

And you can take this much on faith, just like everything else:

God is not One - which was proven when Kelly Osborne stared screaming "My God loves gays!"

Listen, I honestly don't know why I'm doing this, or if anything I've written about God or spirituality is true or not, all I can tell you for sure is believing in things has certainly not been kind to us blacks,...

The "Emergency" No Believer Treats Like One

"It would be hard to make this up."

-- Labour MP Ian Davidson, on news Charles and Camilla will undertake a £300,000 ten-day official tour of South America to promote global warming - in a private jet - sparking cries of "hypocrite" from The Daily Mail.

Prince Charles Is A NewAge Scumbag

"She was the Australian who married a peer and became a prince's lover. But the affair broke her heart and unhinged her mind.

The name is largely forgotten. The big hair, the luscious lips, and the constant partying have so faded in memory that they might never have existed.

When Kanga Tryon - once a household name and a central figure in the life of the Prince of Wales - died almost three months after Princess Diana, in 1997, she was quickly forgotten.

Nobody ever quite understood how she fitted into the royal jigsaw.

For most people, the battle for Charles's heart was a straight playoff between two women - married Camilla, his one true love, and virginal Diana, a knee-jerk response to a nation baying for a royal bride.

But, for a time, Kanga was just as important to Charles as Camilla. Yet the story of how she came to love and lose her prince has never been fully told. Until now.

For the first time, a Channel 4 documentary reveals the extraordinary bed-hopping antics of the heir to the throne in the years leading up to his marriage to Diana.
High Society reveals how, for a period during the 1970s, when both women were married to friends of his, HRH bounced from the bed of Camilla to that of Lady Tryon, then back again.

While dithering over the very necessary duty of finding a suitable wife, Charles was happily having his cake and eating it.

For both women were his mistress. Both bore sons whose godfather he became. Both named them Charles (in Camilla's case, it was a second name). And, in the end, both hated the other with a loathing that bordered on the pathological.

Yet we only know about Camilla."

-- Christopher Wilson, filling us in further on the despicable man who thinks he's worthy of telling the rest of us how to live, in The Daily Mail.

Charles And Camilla's Quackery Can't Cure You

Mosaraf Ali's list of patients includes Kate Moss, Geri Halliwell and the Duchess of Cornwall. They are enthusiasts of his particular combination of Eastern and more traditional forms of healthcare, which has seen him hailed as a pioneering healer who can help those whom conventional medicine has failed.

But the glittering reputation of Dr Ali, Britain's best-known champion of integrated medicine, is about to receive a stern examination. He is facing a High Court lawsuit from a former patient who claims that treatment at the central London clinic where Ali practises led to him needing to have both legs amputated.

Ali's status as a doctor to the stars rests on him having helped Prince Charles's wife Camilla to 're-energise' and quit smoking, treating socialite Tara Palmer-Tompkinson for her cocaine habit, and advising former Spice Girl Halliwell on her weight problems.

However, Raj Bathija tells a very different story. A textile trader from Mumbai, he flew to London for treatment by Ali in September 2005, hoping that such a high-profile doctor would help him walk again after two strokes had left him in a wheelchair. His mobility was already limited to occasional assisted short walks around his home. But in legal papers filed at the High Court, he claims that Ali and his brother Imran, a masseur at the doctor's Integrated Medical Centre, were negligent in their care of him. Backed by public funding from the Legal Services Commission, Bathija is seeking compensation and to expose what he now sees as the perils of relying on the healing powers of non-traditional approaches to medicine to treat illness.

His action will bring unprecedented scrutiny to bear on the methods and expertise of a man of whom Vogue once gushed: 'What Deepak Chopra is to LA, Dr Ali is to London.'

He is close to Prince Charles, whose interest in non-traditional approaches to healthcare is so strong that he has his own Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health.

Ali claims to achieve astonishing results. He has spoken of helping paralysed people to walk again through 'a special massage designed to improve blood flow to the brain', and of saving the life of a patient with a brain tumour whose conventional doctors had told him to expect to die.

He has some very satisfied clients. Selina Scott, the TV presenter, said: 'If Hippocrates had needed a doctor, he would have sent for this man. Dr Ali is surely the cure for all cares.' He's the 'eighth wonder of the world', according to the former 'It girl' Palmer-Tompkinson. Ali's treatments involve yoga, massage, exercise, dietary advice and relaxation. He eschews drugs and says the body's ability to heal itself is the key.

Bathija, 69, states that Ali's advice during his first consultation on a Monday was to eat potassium-rich foods and have massage from Imran and physiotherapy. However, after the massage he was left in terrible pain. The morning after his first visit to the IMC he says his left leg was pale and cold and that he had pins and needles in his left foot.

He claims that Ali assured him there was nothing to worry about. He recommended Bathija to have further massage, take a supplement and put the foot in hot water.

According to Bathija, his condition worsened dramatically, and soon both legs felt cold and had become discoloured. On the Friday he was taken to St Thomas's Hospital in central London, where doctors diagnosed chronic lack of blood supply to his legs. The damage was so great that later that month Bathija underwent mid-thigh amputations of both legs.

His lawsuit claims that Ali should have realised that the pain and cold in his left leg were signs that something was seriously wrong and referred him to hospital urgently. He is taking legal action because, although the IMC's brochure offered patients a combination of traditional and alternative medical practitioners, he received only alternative treatment at a time when he clearly needed conventional medicine.

'I was promised an integrated medical approach at the IMC, which meant that conventional medicine help and guidance would be available when required. And that was exactly what didn't happen. I did not receive conventional medical assistance when my symptoms presented themselves and this is one of the reasons for my seeking legal recourse,' said Bathija.

Bathija's daughter, Shibani, says: 'Before he attended the IMC my father was in a wheelchair but was making progress with his walking. He hoped he might become a bit more independent, like making the short walk to the bathroom unaided. With the amputations, that's all gone. His goal has been taken from him.' His documents claim that, if he had received conventional medical help far sooner, one or both legs might have been saved.

Although the clinic offers 'integrated medicine', the case comes amid growing controversy about the effectiveness and safety of alternative medicine. Edzard Ernst, Britain's first professor of complementary medicine, believes some forms of complementary and alternative medicine do more harm than good, such as using acupuncture to treat nausea and osteoarthritis. The NHS is referring fewer patients for homeopathy, after serious doubt was cast on its credibility.

Bathija's lawyer, medical negligence specialist Edwina Rawson of Charles Russell solicitors in London, said: 'There's a danger that people will have alternative treatments simply because some celebrities swear by them. The Bathija family were impressed by Dr Ali's clientele and that encouraged them to seek treatment at the centre.'

Last month, Dawn Page, of Oxfordshire, got £800,000 in damages after a 'hydration diet' led to her developing epilepsy and a brain injury. Page had consulted Barbara Nash, a nutritional therapist. The diet involved taking greater amounts of water and less salt. Nash's insurers settled without admitting liability.

The Bathija family have raised questions about Ali's credentials as a doctor. He always calls himself 'Doctor' but he is a natural health practitioner, not a conventional medical doctor. The General Medical Council, which licenses doctors in the UK, said he was not registered with it. Ali's medical degree came in 1980 from the Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University in Moscow. The GMC says 'Doctor' is a courtesy title that can be used by anyone with medical or academic qualifications, which Ali has.

But Shibani Bathija said that her father opted to seek treatment at the IMC partly because famous people such as the Prince of Wales had endorsed Ali's treatment but also because he was a medical doctor, too. 'The website shows Dr Ali in a white coat and stethoscope, leading us to believe that he was a registered doctor in the UK,' she said.

It is understood that the Alis will vigorously defend themselves. However, lawyers for Imran Ali said they could not comment because of the claim. Capsticks solicitors in London, who are advising Dr Ali, said that their client would, on the firm's advice, make no comment on the case because of the dispute. 'As this matter is the subject of legal proceedings, it would be inappropriate to comment. It's our advice to him to say nothing.' The Observer had given Dr Ali a week to respond to the allegations.

-- Denis Campbell, The Observer's health correspondent, on a case that could break the Indian "alternative medicine" scam wide-open, in The Guardian, U.K..