Ruined my day, Blinddog.  I had been thinking of Jeane Dixon. . .the one person I thought might have some ability, but, alas, her predictions were so broad that she would eventually get one right. 

I liked the New Zealand chart which list common names, subjects and other things that cold readers use to make them look psychic. http://www.skeptics.org.nz/download/mediumchecklist.pdf

The Kiwi's also offer a reward (NZ$100,000 about US$75,000):  "Psychics – we challenge you to use psychic means to find two halves of a promissory note hidden within 100 metres of the Challenge display at Puzzling World, New Zealand."  http://www.psychicchallenge.co.nz/  No one has claimed the money.  However, they pay a fee of $1,000 to try. 

"One of the strangest challenges involved a lovely young lady who declared that she could find the Promissory Note. All Stuart had to do was to put his hands on her bare breasts and she would get the message (what message?!). Stuart, mindful of potential lawsuits, declined the challenge!"
http://www.psychicchallenge.co.nz/previous.html

Great.  Lets see only the one about the pizza.  I went to the one and only Disney there was when I was a kid.  I used to have a Lab.   But, see you would be right; you were just remembering my past. 

I want a huge beach house on the Outer Banks in NC.  Everyone is welcomed.  We could travel from Inn to Inn.   

Revenant said:

And what is with Larry King?  Some interviews, he does a decent job.  Asks decent questions.  He gets a psychic or medium up there and turns to pudding.  He just kind of lets them say whatever they want and doesn't challenge it in the least.  I just don't get it.

I do not know what is up with Larry King.  Seems as though some previously tough, or decent interviewer's brains turn to mush when talking a psychic.   However, I thought I would look and see if Larry King had a soft spot for cold readers.  Didn't really find anything, except a bunch of his interviews with psychics. 

But I did find something very exciting:  Certified Psychics: American Association of Professional Psychics, Registered with the US Government. Guaranteed Authentic.  http://certifiedpsychics.com/?gclid=CPqTir63zJoCFVJ_3godgjgL3A  What is really cool is that you can see if the psychic of your choice is busy, or available by the little lit up telephones, plus they have a discount for first time callers.

Hannah said:

But I did find something very exciting:  Certified Psychics: American Association of Professional Psychics, Registered with the US Government. Guaranteed Authentic.  http://certifiedpsychics.com/?gclid=CPqTir63zJoCFVJ_3godgjgL3A  What is really cool is that you can see if the psychic of your choice is busy, or available by the little lit up telephones, plus they have a discount for first time callers.

Thanks for all the links within your last two posts.  Let's take a look at a part of the FAQ at this website:

Accuracy and Free Will

If a Psychic foresees something in my future that I don’t like, can I change it? Is my future fixed?

"Life has an open door policy. There are an infinite number of ways to approach life's challenges.

This needs to be clear: You control your life. When a psychic sees future events, they are seeing the most likely results of the current momentum in your life. Momentum is one’s spiritual velocity; it’s the course we set forth by our motivations, intentions and beliefs. Any momentum you have created, you can uncreate and, ultimately, change the final outcome.

It would be rare for a Psychic to simply say “You will loose your job next year”. Your Psychic will see more about the internal and external conditions that would lead to that event. This would be their focus and direction of the reading. To empower you to make the best choices to ‘uncreate’ your current momentum, if that is, indeed, what you ultimately wish to do!"

This is pretty cool if I'm the psychic.  It means that I can tell you anything about the future.  If it comes true, wow…I'm pretty powerful.  If it doesn't come true, you've done something yourself to "uncreate" your "momentum" and thus change what I saw…wow.  I win either way.  Nice set-up…

I also liked the Larry King links.  Glad I'm not alone.  I don't really watch Larry King all that much.  But from what I've seen, it disappoints me in the way he handles paranormal topics.

Lastly, I did like what I've read in Joe Nickell's "Adventures in Paranormal Investigation."  I'm going to have to pick that book up.  You know, Stephen said that he might write a few book reviews for the site…maybe this could be one of them.  In any event, it did a great job is showing what Van Praagh really is…just a cold reader.  An excellent cold reader, but nothing more.  It's a skill anyone can learn.  I did a pretty good job of it once and I only practiced for a few weeks.  I've said this many times on the site…if its strictly for entertainment, fine.  Start taking money for it from people who truly "believe"…and it's criminal.  It's just out right fraud.

blinddog50 said:

Here we go again:

http://comics.com/get_fuzzy/2009-05-20

You hit it on the nose blinddog.  Thanks for the link.