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Honolulu Lite Charles Memminger |
Psychics had (poor)
vision of Kerry win
Psychics, seers and prophets had a hard time with their crystal balls and Ouija boards picking the winner of the U.S. presidential race. In fact, so many self-proclaimed psychics picked John Kerry to win the election that they might have to have laser surgery on their cosmic eyes.Wrong predictions came from as far away as Nigeria, where a group of spiritualists and church prophets announced that "it had been decreed in the spiritual realm" that George W. Bush would lose.
On the Psychic Prophecy, Prediction and Premonition Registry Web site (www.prophecies.us), psychic visibility was worse than the Pali in a rainstorm.
A seer calling himself Eyes of Age said, "after being 90 percent accurate for 30 years of readings," Kerry would win with 52 percent of the vote.
"I think it is going to SHOCK the nation! Landslides," he wrote. Apparently Eyes of Age needs new spectacles.
Popo1, who calls herself "a real clairvoyant," said she had a dream about Kerry winning. She said the last time she had such a dream, the space shuttle Challenger blew up. So Kerry got off easy there.
ON THE Web site Paranormal Phenomena, Bob91322, who claimed to have predicted Al Gore winning the popular vote but losing the last election to George W. Bush, also saw a Kerry landslide, winning by 5 million votes. He then predicted the electoral vote breakdown of each state, predictions that were so extraordinarily wrong his Dionne Warwick Psychic Friends Network membership card should be revoked. A 3-year-old could have done better. Or maybe not.
A distinguished journal of record, the Weekly World News, quoted 3-year-old psychic Mary Janess saying Arizona Sen. John McCain would be elected president in 2004.
A few psychics did peer into the future and see a Bush win. Star Whisper said, "I hypnotized my son and did a time line on him, sending him into the future. I had him purchase a newspaper and read the headline. It said, 'Bush Wins By Landslide' with 68 percent of the votes." It must have been a Texas paper.
I'm going to try that hypnotism thing with my daughter. But when she picks up a newspaper in the future, I'm going to have her go directly to the stock listings.