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Due to my inability to control my temper and complacently accept continued silliness with not-quite-as-reliable-as-it-ought-to-be Blogger/Blogspot, your beloved Possumblog will now waddle across the Information Dirt Road and park its prehensile tail at http://possumblog.mu.nu.

This site will remain in place as a backup in case Munuvia gets hit by a bus or something, but I don't think they have as much trouble with this as some places do. ::cough::blogspot::cough:: So click here and adjust your links. I apologize for the inconvenience, but it's one of those things.


Thursday, June 27, 2002

Let's hope she doesn't find herself in Wetumpka: Miss Cleo Won't Discuss Birthplace
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - Television psychic Miss Cleo repeatedly invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination Wednesday, refusing to discuss a birth certificate that shows she was born in Los Angeles to American parents.

Miss Cleo, whose real name is Youree Dell Harris and has claimed to be a Jamaican shaman, gave a deposition in a civil suit filed by Florida. It accuses her with deceptive trade practices for her television ads pitching a psychic hot line that charged up to $4.95 a minute.

She had been resisting for months the state Attorney General's Office's requests to interview her, but Wednesday she fielded questions for more than two hours behind closed doors.

Assistant Attorney General Dave Aronberg said he went line by line through Harris' birth certificate, asking her if it was accurate. Each time she took the Fifth Amendment, he said.

"Any time I asked her where she was born or where she was from, that's what happened," Aronberg said, according the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. "We maintain the birth certificate speaks for itself — that's she's from Los Angeles." [...]


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