Tag: death
Living Life Large At 29,000 Feet; Dying Alone at 28,200 Feet
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Thu Jun 03, 2010 at 08:09:47 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world, remains the ultimate mountain climber's quest a full half century after it was first conquered. In keeping with what makes a quest worthy, any climb to the summit of Everest can prove fatal. Climbing Mount Everest is an effort which could end up life-ending as well as life-defining. For one Scottish climber recently, it proved to be both.
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Breaking News: Alexander Haig Is Dead
Bertrand.
Posted to Politics on Sat Feb 20, 2010 at 12:00:34 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Alexander Haig, former Secretary of State died from an infection at the age of 85.
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Breaking News: Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) dead at 77
pO157.
Posted to Politics on Mon Feb 08, 2010 at 06:15:19 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
John Murtha, Congressman from Pennsylvania's 12th district since 1974, has died of complications from gallbladder surgery. He was 77. The longest serving member of Congress from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Murtha was a veteran of the Vietnam war. Retiring as a Colonel from the Marines in 1990, Murtha was known as one of the most hawkish Democrats on the hill. Back in 2002, he voted for the use of force in Iraq. Because of his hawkish position and military experience, Murtha made national headlines when he called for early withdrawal of US troops in 2005.
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Breaking News: Incident at Connecticut Power Plant
pO157.
Posted to SciTech on Sun Feb 07, 2010 at 03:36:38 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Mass injuries and multiple causalities were reported at a Connecticut power plant Saturday morning after a large explosion left a large plume of black smoke hanging over the affected area. The explosion damaged buildings off site of the plant and was felt at least 15 miles away. Plant managers were unsure how many people were dead, but confirmed police reports that it was a "mass casualty" incident. The facility is a gas fired power plant that was recently undergoing construction.
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Prescription For Disaster Or Justice?
MayorBob.
Posted to Legal on Thu Oct 29, 2009 at 07:57:21 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Across the nation, deaths caused by drug overdose are on the rise. The leading edge of this upward surge in overdose deaths is led by illegally distributed prescription drugs. While law enforcement tries to cope with the scourge of prescription drugs, many are left wondering who to hold responsible.
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ZOMG! I SHUD'VE PAYD BETTER ATTENSHUN. IM DED.
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Mon Sep 07, 2009 at 09:24:43 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
One of the chief causes of auto accidents is distracted driving. One of the most distracting activities a driver can engage in is texting while driving. The risks of doing that has risen to the point where safety groups are lobbying for laws against it even as politicians are responding to this outcry. However dry words, statistics and laws just aren't enough to make the people, who could benefit from paying heed, change their ways. Perhaps a four-minute-long video made in the UK might be able to do what words, statistics and laws can't.
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Breaking News: Dead Ted
HidingFromGoro.
Posted to Politics on Wed Aug 26, 2009 at 07:35:29 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Senator Edward Kennedy has passed away at age 77.
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Dying to be on Face Book
pO157.
Posted to Legal on Mon Aug 24, 2009 at 01:18:43 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
About a year ago deer hunters found the body of a young woman in a very rural part of Wisconsin. Having no leads from people in the area and believing she may be from outside their rural community, the Fond du Lac sheriff created a My Space and Face Book profile for the woman dubbed "The Fond du Lac Jane Doe."
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Breaking News: Bad Week For Celebrities
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Posted to Music on Thu Jun 25, 2009 at 07:38:39 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Pop star Michael Jackson died of a heart attack today at the age 50.
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Some Call It Blood Sport. I Call It Bullshit.
MayorBob.
Posted to Diary on Fri May 29, 2009 at 12:15:12 PM EST. RSS.
I'll be upfront here and say that I don't like to see animals suffer. For that reason I tend to be against stuff like factory farms. Dog fighting, cock fighting and even more arcane forms of animal on animal combat sicken me. I'm not even particularly a fan of horse racing or zoos. Needless to say, I find the centuries-old tradition of bullfighting to be barbaric. The outcome of bullfights is predetermined with one surefire loser - the bull - which will almost certainly end up dead at the end of the match. There are rare exceptions, such as what happened in Madrid's Las Ventas arena.
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Painfree In Florida
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Thu Apr 09, 2009 at 11:55:22 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
According to the White House, prescription drug abuse "ranks second--only behind marijuana--as the Nation's most prevalent illegal drug problem." One place in the US where the problem is manifest is South Florida. There seem to be more and more Vicodin, Oxycontin, Percocet, etc. on the streets than ever before. The reason for this isn't an increase in ailing, pain-wracked state residents. Some of the people scoring the pills are from as far away as Kentucky and Tennessee. The real reason is that access to prescription narcotics has never been better in Florida.
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In Texas, The Only Thing Crazier Than The Mentally Ill Is The Way They're Released
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Tue Mar 10, 2009 at 03:43:16 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
There are a number of questions surrounding the fate of Raquel Padilla of Del Rio, Texas. Should officials of the state mental hospital have more closely watched the schizophrenic 54-year-old woman when they released her back on December 20th? Or, should they have transported her home? Or, should Padilla's family members have gone to San Antonio to pick her up? Or, was she fully capable of boarding a bus and riding it to Del Rio alone as the people at SASH say? There is one certainty to all of this - Padilla was found dead on December 23rd in a concrete ditch in San Antonio.
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