Sylvia's Waiting List

Reno said:
Apparently it's something Montel Williams said on his show when Browne was (once again) promoting a book.
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Forgive me, but I can't stop myself from saying the other obvious punchline:

Sylvia Browne's books are full of crap!
 
Missing person's case Browne charged

Browne said she doesn't charge for missing person's cases. Well, she charged this family and made them wait a year:

PAPER: St. John's Telegram (Newfoundland)
December 4, 2002 Wednesday Final Edition
SECTION: Life & Times; Pg. B1
LENGTH: 1192 words
HEADLINE: Without a trace: A Labrador City man's family still grapples with his mysterious disappearance in Alberta five years ago
SOURCE: Special to The Telegram
BYLINE: Danette Dooley

Will Anyone Search For Danny? The title of Earl Pilgrim's best-selling book is a question Jose-phine Gaulton-Rowe has been asking every day for the last five years. A resident of Labrador City, Gaulton-Rowe's brother, Danny Gaulton, disappeared in Grande Prairie, Alberta five years ago. Fearing he's been murdered, his family has been searching for answers ever since.
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After turning to world-renowned psychic Sylvia Brown, Gaulton-Rowe contacted forensic offices in all U.S. states and Canadian provinces asking about any unidentified remains they might have.

"I waited a year for (Brown) to talk to me on the telephone. It cost about $700 or $800 US dollars, but if you think anything is going to help, you do it."

While she doesn't believe in psychics, Gaulton-Rowe has talked to two such people in a desperate attempt to find her brother. Both psychics were adamant that Danny Gaulton was murdered.

"They both said the same thing -- that he died from a severe blow to the back of the head. And Sylvia Brown alluded to the fact that maybe his body has been discovered but hasn't been identified. And after that, I called all the coroners but came up with nothing."
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In the meantime, the family will continue to do whatever it takes to solve what Gaulton's sister is convinced is not only a missing persons case, but a homicide.

She says it's important that closure come sooner rather than later, especially for the family's elderly mother, who lives in Labrador City.

"Our family has had a lot of tragedy and because of that we're very close.

"I don't know where my mother gets her strength. She was five months pregnant with Danny when my father died in a hunting accident. Then I had two sisters when they were 16 or 17 killed by a drunk driver, and now for this to happen," she said.

"So, none of us will leave our mother in the dark now. We make sure she knows where we are and what we're doing so she's not worrying. And Danny would have called Mom. And, being a mother, Mom has got this hope that we're going to find Danny alive."

Gaulton is five feet, eight inches tall, and weighs about 200 pounds. He has close-cropped brown hair and blue eyes. He has a tattoo of a wolf's head, set with an orange moon, on his left arm.

Anyone with information on Gaulton's disappearance is asked to call their nearest police department, or crime stoppers at 1-800-363-8477.
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20 readings a day

In case anyone needs a citation:

SHOW: The Montel Williams Show (5:00 PM ET) - SYND
DATE: February 12, 2003 Wednesday
LENGTH: 7944 words
HEADLINE: Strange phenomenon with Sylvia Browne; Sylvia Browne helps guests get answers to some strange things that have been happening to them in their homes
HOST: Montel Williams
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Montel Williams, Diane Rappoport
TITLE:STRANGE PHENOMENON WITH SYLVIA BROWNE

Announcer: Psychic Sylvia Browne Wednesday, confronting strange phenomenon.
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(Announcements)

WILLIAMS: Yes, ma'am, you have a question for Sylvia.

Unidentified Woman #5: Yes, hi, Sylvia. I feel like I have some negative, dark energy in my life right now that's preventing me from moving forward.

WILLIAMS: You need to get that--kick that dude to the curb. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Ms. BROWNE: Do you know what is amazing? Let me tell you something, and I know people in the audience and watching this. It hasn't been so much even since 9/11, but have you noticed in the last two years--'cause I do 20 readings a day. The last two years, people have gotten themselves--I don't know what it is, it's an atmosphere. You'll break out of this after the first of the year. Some as--some astrologer said Saturn was sitting on us. I don't know anything about that. I said, 'Well, whatever it is, get the damn thing off.' But, no, two years, people have just been a mess. No, things really pick up for you in May.

WILLIAMS: But Sylvia visited some places here in New York City that are supposed to be haunted, and one of those places is called the White Horse Tavern. Now there the poet Dylan Thomas supposedly drank himself to death at a corner table and still haunts the bar. I want you to take a look at this.
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Source

$700 (for a reading, now it is higher) x 20 (readings per day) x 5 (work days a week) x 52 (weeks in a year) = $ 3,640,000
 
Questioninggeller said:
In case anyone needs a citation: (Source)

$700 (for a reading, now it is higher) x 20 (readings per day) x 5 (work days a week) x 52 (weeks in a year) = $ 3,640,000
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Like so much else Sylvia says, I think she just pulled that "20 readings a day" number out of her ... uh, out of thin air. I highly doubt she does that many.
 
I would assume it's more like "I do 20 predictions a day." I'd think that with that kind of volume she'd be right more often than she is.
 
There are multiple instances of her making this "twenty readings a day" claim. Sometimes she says "twenty readings a day, six days a week."

I trust those figures as much as I do her claim to an 87% accuracy rating.
 
While the number is doubtful, it is important to document the claims and the implications of her income.

For example, if she says she needs money one can point to her claims about her readings (and subsequent income).
 
angrybeliever said:
Hi MA,

It doesn't make sense, I agree. If we try to make some rational sense of of something irrational to the mind, or senseless even, we will continually go round in that circle.

Whatever transpired to allow the contract to expire, did. As to why 450,000 children will die from non innoculation...that is strictly an asinine man thing. IF we spent half as much money on THAT instead of on wars...I'm all for that!
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So this little meaningless (in the scheme of things) rental contract was an act of God?
But the deaths of 450,000 children is "strictly an asinine man thing"?
Wow! Priority check!
 
Brattus said:
So this little meaningless (in the scheme of things) rental contract was an act of God?
But the deaths of 450,000 children is "strictly an asinine man thing"?
Wow! Priority check!
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Priority check? Yeah! If money and serum was made available to ALL for innoculations then the numbers would drastically reduce. Then, perhaps, we can do something about food, irrigation systems.

Don't think that the lack of these services is anything but a societal, political huMAN thing, for in that thinking a real priority check would be needed.

People on this planet die every day from lack of things that MONEY, COMPASSION, and just plain COMMON SENSE would alleviate. But, we as a society are so caught up whatever drama is playing at the moment.

Brattus, you seem like a nice person, and I hope that your response wasn't an attempt to start an argument. Nah....you wouldn't do that!
 
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