On a segment from the Rachael Ray show a few weeks back, a visibly exhausted and seemingly brainwashed Remini told viewers in the most melancholy of tones how addicted her daughter Sophia is to "the baba." And if self-professed Scientologist Remini is following the religion's doctrines correctly, this means she is obeying founder L. Ron Hubbard's instructions to never breastfeed and, instead, feed babies a mixture consisting of barley water, homogenized milk, and oodles of sugar-heavy honey. But this is hardly the scary part. You see, Hubbard, who we must note claimed he had visited Heaven several times during his life, also claimed he discovered this baby formula after magically traveling back in time to hang out in ancient Rome: "I picked it up in Roman days and have used it since...Modern hospital formulas and patent mixes for babies are not just bad, they are criminal." While we're pretty sure that keeping one's baby on a proper nutritional diet is the furthest thing from criminal, we're equally sure that keeping the little ones sucking down Hubbard's formula well past their third birthday isn't doing any favors for the child's social development skills. As they say, this one is developing...

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As we can hear in the phone call reportedly placed by what sounds like a muckraker to the Freewinds HQ, an operator tells the potential cancer patient that the trip has been postponed, due to what we think he describes as a "refit." The operator continues, "It's not only a refit, it's basically a brand new ship that's being made." When the caller asks when he can expect to set sea, he's given the vague "we don't have a date" response. A brand new ship? And yet, there were no problems whatsoever with the original? We can think of at least one: whatever toxins were streaming from the Freewinds' walls caused Tom Cruise to dry hump and scream-sing his big head off. That, Scientology spokeswoman, is a problem in itself.

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