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Key Blagojevich adviser Christopher Kelly dead (Said on Tuesday he was thinking of turning on Blago)
Chicago Sun Times ^ | 9-12-09 | MARK J. KONKOL, NATASHA KORECKI AND ART GOLAB

Posted on 09/12/2009 8:58:53 PM PDT by blueglass

Kelly’s death comes just four days after he pleaded guilty to a scheme involving $8.5 million in fraud at O’Hare Airport. It was the second conviction this year -- he still faced trial along with the ex-governor, in June. Kelly had been indicted three times since 2007 but refused to become a cooperating witness. When he pleaded guilty to the O’Hare scheme Tuesday, Kelly spoke of feeling intense pressure by prosecutors to abandon his loyalty to Blagojevich and cooperate with the feds.

Chicago police are investigating Kelly’s death. A source familiar with the investigation told the Chicago

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Miscellaneous; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: blago; blagojevich; christopherkelly; crime; obamacide
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So he had held out this far, and finally decided to plead guilty. He then mentioned on Tuesday that-

"Kelly spoke of feeling intense pressure by prosecutors to abandon his loyalty to Blagojevich and cooperate with the feds."

Those were basically his last words. If there is anyone, anyone on this board who mentions the word "conspiracy", then I don't care to know you. This is simple and clear cut. This man was murdered. He was murdered because he was going to finally sing. That is a very difficult thing for Americans to stomach. We don't want to hear that. Ted Kennedy tried his best to save that poor girl, and he had to live with the pain of that night. Poor Vince Foster, he was so distraught. All those people in Arkansas- what a terrible coincidence.

Thomas Jefferson said- " There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world." This is such a truth. There are murderers among us, and not all of them are gangbangers and hobos- some of them wear nice suits, and go on CNN and talk about Healthcare and walk where Jefferson once walked.

1 posted on 09/12/2009 8:58:54 PM PDT by blueglass
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To: blueglass
Just a coincidence I am sure. or maybe I'm not
2 posted on 09/12/2009 9:02:21 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com ............. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: blueglass
Aspirin is better than if he had killed himself by shooting himself in the back five times...
3 posted on 09/12/2009 9:04:47 PM PDT by GOPJ (2010 Census? Don't give private information to ACORN or other dem criminal fill-ins...)
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To: blueglass
"If there is anyone, anyone on this board who mentions the word "conspiracy", then I don't care to know you."

I'm confused.

4 posted on 09/12/2009 9:04:53 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
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To: blueglass

Maybe there was a conspiracy to kill him.


5 posted on 09/12/2009 9:07:37 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("Do you call it 'unsound method'?" "No method at all," I murmured.)
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To: VanShuyten

Chicago politics.


6 posted on 09/12/2009 9:11:28 PM PDT by Big Horn (Rebuild the GOP to a conservative party)
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To: Big Horn

In Chicago anything can happen.


7 posted on 09/12/2009 9:12:21 PM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: Eagles6
I'm confused.

I think he means "conspiracy theory."

8 posted on 09/12/2009 9:14:39 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (It's the skinny end of the wedge that goes in first.)
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To: blueglass

Conspiracy, conspiracy, conspiracy.


9 posted on 09/12/2009 9:17:53 PM PDT by jra
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To: blueglass
Chicago police are investigating...

Whew! Now I can sleep better. /s

10 posted on 09/12/2009 9:20:09 PM PDT by rvoitier ("The law allows what honor forbids." -- C. C. Colton)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

I see. Kelly was involved in a conspiracy that reaches the Oval Office. I don’t know if he was murdered but...


11 posted on 09/12/2009 9:20:18 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
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To: Eagles6

It’s not that complicated, really. The problem is, the popular culture has abused the concept of “conspiracy theory” to the point where the phrase is now synonymous with “conspiracy.” It’s like calling a social security number a “social.”


12 posted on 09/12/2009 9:24:03 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (It's the skinny end of the wedge that goes in first.)
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To: GOPJ

Maybe he was anticipating a headache, like, from a bullet?


13 posted on 09/12/2009 9:24:42 PM PDT by GnuHere
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To: blueglass

I agree. Blago is ‘deeply saddened’ alright. He was about to be exposed for the crook he really is. Suicide? More like Chicacide.


14 posted on 09/12/2009 9:26:45 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: All

Oh great, now years of the media telling us how common death by aspirin is..its the drug of choice.

We are right back to life under the clintons, blatant flaunting of the law and no real prosecutions...

I know its early , but we all know what will become of all this....

It could be worse, didn’t they have a guy whose head was supposedly eaten by a lap dog?..then they found it in a dumpster a couple weeks later..was ruled natural causes?
man this gets old..

Cheney has a common but unfortunate accident with birdshot and its nonstop news for months, democrats could sacrifice people on tv and blame it on someone else. how would we know? nobody would bother to report it.


15 posted on 09/12/2009 9:27:07 PM PDT by uncle fenders
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To: blueglass
Don't worry, Hollywood celebrities will figure it out.

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"Rosie, it's me Charlie. Kelly's dead. Yeah, Bush and Cheney must have killed him. Kelly must have known something about 9-11"

16 posted on 09/12/2009 9:28:13 PM PDT by death2tyrants
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To: jra

LOL


17 posted on 09/12/2009 9:31:48 PM PDT by wideminded
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To: blueglass

Obamacide or Chicago style absence?


18 posted on 09/12/2009 9:31:54 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: hoosiermama

Chicago remains...well, Chicago...


19 posted on 09/12/2009 9:35:32 PM PDT by amom (Proud Mom of a US Soldier. Remembering...)
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To: uncle fenders
how common death by aspirin is..

Yeah, now we will need a prescription to buy aspirin.
20 posted on 09/12/2009 9:36:12 PM PDT by presently no screen name
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To: blueglass

Fox reporting death by ‘aspirin overdose’ - sounds like a pretty uncomfortable way to go

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002542.htm

Treatment depends on the amount of aspirin, the time you swallowed it, and your overall condition when you reach the emergency room. You may receive:

Fluids
Activated charcoal to soak up aspirin in the stomach
Laxative to cause bowel movements that help remove aspirin and charcoal from the body
Other medicines may be given through a vein, including potassium salt and sodium bicarbonate, which helps the body remove aspirin that has already been digested.

If these treatments do not work or the overdose is extremely severe, hemodialysis may be needed to remove aspirin from your blood.

Very rarely, a breathing machine may be needed. But many poisoning experts think this causes more harm than good, so it is only used as a very last resort.

Outlook (Prognosis)
Taking more than 150mg/kg of aspirin can have serious and even deadly results if untreated. For a small adult, that’s roughly equal to taking 20 tablets containing 325mg aspirin. Much lower levels can affect children.

If treatment is delayed or the overdose is large enough, symptoms will continue to get worse. Breathing becomes extremely fast or may stop. Seizures, high fevers, or death may occur.

How well you do depends greatly on how much aspirin your body has absorbed — and how much is flowing through your blood. If you take a large amount of aspirin but come quickly to the emergency room, treatments may help keep your blood levels of aspirin very low. If you do not get to the emergency room fast enough, the level of aspirin in your blood can become dangerously high.


21 posted on 09/12/2009 9:44:25 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Yeah, it’s a “conspiracy theory” unless it’s proven or in plain sight, then it’s ignored. Sorta like hillary’s “vast right wing conspiracy”.


22 posted on 09/12/2009 9:47:05 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
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To: blueglass

Mob suicides like this are really we are going to let you choose your own method on how you are going out; but if you don’t want to do it; we will do it for you.


23 posted on 09/12/2009 9:52:12 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

What a fool Rams. Obviously this is Arkenflue. CDC thought they had contained @ Ft Marcy In DC.

On the other hand their may be a modicon of logic in your rant. Our FBI was in real trouble under Louis Free, Our strongest is hanging tight, but the pot is astir.

Thanks Rab


24 posted on 09/12/2009 9:53:10 PM PDT by Rabin
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To: Marysecretary

saw Blago on Fox (Huckabee show) today (not sure when Huckabee is taped? maybe Friday for Sat show?) - he dropped names all the way up to naming Reid and Mr. Deadfish himself regarding dealings around the infamous Zero senate seat appointment - stopped just short of mentioning Zero by name.....and seemed ready to say even more but iirc Huck just wasn’t getting it. And now this...hmmmm......


25 posted on 09/12/2009 9:59:19 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Maybe Blago had better watch HIS back. Could be running a bit scared now, eh? I hope he squawks like a chicken and tells all.


26 posted on 09/12/2009 10:02:30 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: blueplum

Maybe Blago had better watch HIS back. Could be running a bit scared now, eh? I hope he squawks like a chicken and tells all.


27 posted on 09/12/2009 10:02:31 PM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL!)
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To: blueglass
Hmmm, for some reason I'm thinking of Erwin Rommel (you know, the Field Marshal that knew too much.) History reports that Mr. Rommel was given the choice of erasing himself or having it done for him (and his family).

Then there's a scene in one of the Godfather movies along the same lines. A little chat with the consiglieri, and suddenly it makes sense for someone whose strayed too far from "family" values to bleed out in a tub rather than let the Corleones get creative.

At least we can be assured that all of the "news" media will be giving this their full attention (before they spike the story.)

.

28 posted on 09/12/2009 10:03:11 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
It’s like calling a social security number a “social.”

Does that make the "lock-box" a box social? One with pork pies and ham sandwiches for all comers?

I would not doubt for one second that a conspiracy was involved, and that is no conspiracy theory.

29 posted on 09/12/2009 10:27:00 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (The Great Obamanation of Desolation, sitting in the Oval Office, where he ought not...)
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To: Seaplaner

“Hmmm, for some reason I’m thinking of Erwin Rommel was given the choice of erasing himself or having it done for him” ex.

Bin watching to much History Channel mono.

ER was the top Cav line Officer in the organization that invented armored cavalry, Got himself crosswise of the power structure, failed, paid a price. Sold out in the run up, by not forcing the issue.

Kinda doesn’t feel like this Chicago fella, I don’t think.

Rab


30 posted on 09/12/2009 10:44:38 PM PDT by Rabin
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To: blueglass
My understanding is that as a means of committing suicide, aspirin is a low probability method. That having been said, another posted mentioned something quite intriguing which I asked him to follow up on but he has yet to do. That is that aspirin can mask symptoms of cyanide poisoning.
31 posted on 09/12/2009 10:51:58 PM PDT by fso301
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To: blueplum

I find this so suspcious. When I was a young nurse we had an old man who came in after ingesting 500 aspirin. They had found him in his house hours after taking them. They did all the stuff they’re supposed to. He lived three more days and then died...to die so suddenly after being taken to one hospital with no trauma unit is no excuse if the hospital had an ER. This sounds so like those 3 dead gay guys in Chicago....two of whom were murdered...that just happened to go to Rev. Wright’s church....hmmmmmmm?????


32 posted on 09/12/2009 10:58:45 PM PDT by imfrmdixie
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To: GnuHere

Maybe - the “Chicago way” doesn’t include talking about the powerful and getting away with it...


33 posted on 09/13/2009 3:40:38 AM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats - an association of organized criminal groups. ACORN - one of many.)
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To: blueglass

Ft. Marcy Hospital......aspirin OD.

yeah aspirin OD, thats the ticket.

Nothing to see here...move along.


34 posted on 09/13/2009 3:52:47 AM PDT by Vaquero ("an armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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To: blueglass
Kelly spoke of feeling intense pressure by prosecutors to abandon his loyalty to Blagojevich and cooperate with the feds.

Blago mentioned Tony Rezko on Huckabee last night...he had better watch his back too. The Chicago "long knives" would not hesitate to strike twice.

35 posted on 09/13/2009 6:11:53 AM PDT by eleni121 (The New Byzantium - resurrect it!)
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To: blueglass

No doubt an nObamacide victim.

Overdose in a parking lot at 3:00 am. Hummmmmm


36 posted on 09/13/2009 6:30:13 AM PDT by chainsaw (If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J..)
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To: blueglass

UPDATE

http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/blagojevich/1768286,CST-NWS-kelly13.article

It is interesting how this story is covered...

http://news.google.com/news/more?um=1&ned=us&cf=all&ncl=dnA2nbakdU2zBkM3cAWRdLZIKo5dM

AP makes it sound like he killed himself to avoid jail...

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hYQDQxn1tJkXsVGlosXaRLo8L-qAD9AMAB280


37 posted on 09/13/2009 8:01:15 AM PDT by NoObamaFightForConservatives (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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To: blueglass

And the Donald Young murder hasn’t been solved either.


38 posted on 09/13/2009 8:14:21 AM PDT by mojito
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To: imfrmdixie

“This sounds so like those 3 dead gay guys in Chicago....two of whom were murdered...that just happened to go to Rev. Wright’s church....hmmmmmmm?????”

http://citizenwells.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/obama-donald-young-murder-chicago-police-investigation-larry-sinclair-phone-numbers-sinclair-and-young-contact-do-you-know-this-story-obamas-church-choir-director-murdered/


39 posted on 09/13/2009 8:15:49 AM PDT by Gabrial (ObamaCare: The efficiency of the Post Office, the compassion of the IRS, the costs of the Pentagon)
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To: Gabrial

As well as. The 0bama,Clinton,McCain Passport file case during the POTUS campaign.

April 19, 2008

Key witness in passport fraud case fatally shot

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/apr/19/key-witness-in-passport-fraud-case-fatally-shot/


40 posted on 09/13/2009 8:28:39 AM PDT by NoObamaFightForConservatives (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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To: blueglass

Uhh??? Does Obama’s mandatory “end-of-life counseling” cover snitches too?

So...is there a ‘death panel’ or just ‘one person’ in charge of who gets the visit from the Grim Reaper?

Come on now....Obama’s people all come from the medical field and an aspirin overdose was the best they could do? Sorry, I am not believing that for a single moment!


41 posted on 09/13/2009 8:34:54 AM PDT by Curious George1978
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To: Rabin
I agree with you re E.R. history Rab.

My thoughts, however, were more along the lines of a question...

..."When is a suicide not really a suicide?"

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42 posted on 09/13/2009 8:58:28 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: blueglass

Aspirin? If I really wanted to off myself I’d choose a method with a more guaranteed outcome. Sleeping pills or something.


43 posted on 09/13/2009 9:24:31 AM PDT by SandyInSeattle (Socialism is the plundering of the productive by the unaccountable)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives; All

Yes, the headlines are always about his going to jail- it had nothing to do with that. He plead guilty and was going to be a witness against Blago. Bad move on his part, but totally ignored by the “press”. This is actually Watergate times 10000000, but la la laaaa, nothing to see here.


44 posted on 09/13/2009 10:22:49 AM PDT by blueglass
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To: chainsaw

Poor Vince Foster was so depressed, he shot himself (with the wrong hand), in the back of the head, and then rolled himself up into a carpet and moved several places after his death. That’s some serious depression.


45 posted on 09/13/2009 10:25:46 AM PDT by blueglass
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To: blueglass

Overdose
Main article: Aspirin poisoning

Aspirin overdose can be acute or chronic. In acute poisoning, a single large dose is taken; in chronic poisoning, higher than normal doses are taken over a period of time. Acute overdose has a mortality rate of 2%. Chronic overdose is more commonly lethal with a mortality rate of 25%; chronic overdose may be especially severe in children.[100] Toxicity is managed with a number of potential treatments including: activated charcoal, intravenous dexterous and normal saline, sodium bicarb, and dialysis.[101]

(from Wikipedia - Aspirin)


46 posted on 09/13/2009 10:53:04 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Psalm 109:8 - Let his days be few; and let another take his office)
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To: fso301
aspirin can mask symptoms of cyanide poisoning.

Now that's interesting.

Another thread says Kelly was Rezko's business partner. Obviously Kelly imperiled the powers that be.

47 posted on 09/13/2009 11:19:24 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
Now that's interesting.

I did too except the poster who posted it to me hasn't followed up with requested supporting info and I haven't found any either.

48 posted on 09/13/2009 11:22:20 AM PDT by fso301
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To: fso301

I googled this...

http://docs.google.com/gview?a=v&q=cache:QZBkS1YPG60J:www.abacrimtrial.com/competitions/13_6anewsarticleaccused-9-15.pdf+aspirin+masks+cyanide&hl=en&gl=us


49 posted on 09/13/2009 11:39:16 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: blueglass

Yeah and the proof is in the titles. How can he be a witness and a future confict?


50 posted on 09/13/2009 12:24:44 PM PDT by NoObamaFightForConservatives (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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