http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/dead/ en-us Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:04:57 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417961/posts Two Guantanamo terrorists released in November were behind the Christmas Day attack in Detroit. Our security agencies ignored their own security measures and their own intelligence — including warnings from the terrorist’s father that his son was involved with terrorists. The chief of our Department of Homeland Security is preoccupied with covering her ass, and conferring citizenship rights on enemy combatants. Instead of throwing the enemy in the darkest possible dungeon and extracting information on the next terrorist attack, both she and her president are referring to him as an “alleged” bomber and helping him to lawyer up because after... Frontpage mag http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417961/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:04:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2408517/posts After months of contentious litigation, Judge Alsup today granted Apple’s request for a permanent injunction and ruled that the injunction encompasses not only includes Snow Leopard, but Psystar’s Rebel EFI software as well. As a quick reminder, Rebel EFI is a piece of downloadable software available on Psystar’s website that allows users to install OS X onto non-Apple hardware. The order notes that Psystar has until December 31, 2009 to cease all infringing activities, with the Court specifically stating that Psystar “must immediately begin this process, and take the quickest path to compliance; thus, if compliance can be achieved within... Edible Apple http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2408517/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 07:16:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396375/posts SEATTLE — Four police officers were shot dead in an ambush at a Washington state coffee house, a sheriff's official said Sunday. FOX http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396375/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:04:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2393623/posts 56-Year-Old Man Brought Back To Life After 47 Minutes, 4,500 Chest Compressions And 8 Zaps With Defibrillator Staff At New York Presbyterian Hospital Pulls Off True Medical Miracle Joe Tiralosi came back to life after being dead for 47 minutes thanks to a tireless effort from a team of physicians at New York Presbyterian Hospital. CBS 2 HD recently met a Brooklyn man who lived after his heart quit for 47 minutes, and it's all thanks to a team of doctors who refused to give up until they brought him back from the dead. "These doctors did not stop," Joe... WCBS TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2393623/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:37:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384903/posts H1N1 swine flu killed an estimated 3,900 Americans from April to October, U.S. health officials said Thursday. Better estimates show that the pandemic of flu has infected an estimated 22 million Americans and put 98,000 in the hospital, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Of these totals, children account for 8 million of the infected, 36,000 of those in hospital and 540 deaths. Foxnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384903/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:22:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381465/posts Two more workers died overnight after a bridge under construction in the Pyrenees principality of Andorra collapsed, bringing the death toll to five, the government said Sunday. Six other workers were recovering in hospital after the concrete structure of the road bridge gave way around midday Saturday near the Dos Valires tunnel in the Massana valley in northwest Andorra. Emergency teams worked throughout the night to rescue a man who was trapped up to the waist in rubble, but he died shortly after being pulled from the debris in the early hours on Sunday, according to a government spokesman. The... France24 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381465/posts#comment Sun, 8 Nov 2009 13:57:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378090/posts Democrats say reform before end of year is highly unlikely. Senior Congressional Democrats told ABC News today it is highly unlikely that a health care reform bill will be completed this year, just a week after President Barack Obama declared he was "absolutely confident" he'll be able to sign one by then. "Getting this done by the by the end of the year is a no-go," a senior Democratic leadership aide told ABC News. Two other key Congressional Democrats also told ABC News the same thing. This may come as an unwelcome surprise for the White House, where officials from... abcnews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378090/posts#comment Wed, 4 Nov 2009 07:23:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376372/posts Regardless of how lively an election season might be, a new study shows that more 3.3 million voters on current registration rolls across the country are dead. Another 12.9 million remain on voter registration lists in an area where they no longer live. The analysis was conducted by the Aristotle International Inc., a technology company specializing in political campaigns, developing software and databases for politicians. In total that means about 8.9 percent of all registered voters fall under the category of “deadwood” voters on the rolls, the term for voters who should no longer be eligible to vote in a... CNSNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2376372/posts#comment Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:41:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374565/posts Conservatives are sick and tired of being taken for granted, misrepresented, and talked down to by the same "elite" Republicans in Washington who hopelessly screwed everything up during the Bush years.         Everybody knows exactly whom we're talking about here.  The same snobby, elitist, stuffed shirt, squishy, poll-obsessed Country Club Republicans who went to D.C., forgot who put them there, wasted the incredible opportunity they had to change this country for the better, and are now pointing the finger at everyone except themselves for their mistakes.         Here are five messages for those people:         We're not going back to the Bush years:... chron watch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374565/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:04:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368343/posts The Obama Administration may have found its breakthrough in dealing with Iran, but not through its diplomatic engagement. Rumors are spreading in and outside of Iran that Supreme Leader Khamenei, who at 70 years old has been known to be in poor health, is in a coma or dead. The regime denies this, but has failed to offer any proof that he is alive. Khamenei may ultimately prove to be alive, but it is clear something happened to him and his near-term fate is uncertain. The rumors that Khamenei was in a coma began to quickly spread after prominent Iran... FrontPage Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368343/posts#comment Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:48:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2362191/posts In assembling a new committee of Mobile County Democrats, the state Democratic party included one person who died last year, his widow and other party members confirmed this morning. Reynolds Smith, Jr., of the Eight Mile community, passed away in November at age 83, according to a Press-Register obituary at the time. blog alabama http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2362191/posts#comment Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:42:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359354/posts 19 new swine flu deaths last week sends H1N1 child death toll through the roofSwine flu has taken the lives of 76 children in the United States including 19 in the past week, health officials said Friday, suggesting that the H1N1 virus could be unusually harmful for its youngest victims. The regular flu kills between 46 and 88 children a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. H1N1 deaths could dramatically outpace that number, experts said, if swine flu continues to spread at the rate it has so far. Children are especially susceptible to catching the virus... NBC11 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359354/posts#comment Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:51:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356289/posts Dead whale in Tampa Bay was hit by shipThe Associated Press Last Modified: Tuesday, October 6, 2009 at 2:41 p.m. ST. PETERSBURG - The 41-foot-whale found floating in the Port of Tampa last weekend was killed by a ship out in the Gulf of Mexico. That was the word Tuesday from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which performed a necropsy. **SNIP** He said it was "a clear-cut case of a ship strike." The animal was found floating in Tampa Bay Sunday morning. It was towed to Fort DeSoto Park in St. Petersburg, where it was buried Monday. Herald Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2356289/posts#comment Tue, 6 Oct 2009 22:55:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353577/posts DETROIT (CNNMoney.com) -- At 1300 E. Warren St., you can smell the plight of Detroit. Inside the Wayne County morgue in midtown Detroit, 67 bodies are piled up, unclaimed, in the freezing temperatures. Neither the families nor the county can afford to bury the corpses. So they stack up inside the freezer. Albert Samuels, chief investigator for the morgue, said he has never seen anything like it during his 13 years on the job. "Some people don't come forward even though they know the people are here," said the former Detroit cop. "They don't have the money." Lifelong Detroit residents... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2353577/posts#comment Fri, 2 Oct 2009 17:49:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347762/posts Vice President Joe Biden told the nation's governors Thursday that if the $787 billion stimulus fails, "I'm dead." Biden, who holds regular calls with governors and mayors to chart the progress of the stimulus package, said he was pushing accountability standards purely out of "self-interest." "If it fails, I'm dead," he said. thehill.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2347762/posts#comment Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:03:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2323825/posts Does convicted Ponzi schemer Bernard L. Madoff have cancer, as two newspapers are reporting, or not, as the U.S. Bureau of Prisons is stating? Under the headline "Bernie's Cancer Cell," the New York Post reported Monday that Madoff, who was sentenced to 150 years in prison for swindling investors out of as much as $65 billion, wrote: "Bernie Madoff had little to lose by confessing to masterminding the world's biggest Ponzi scheme -- he's dying of cancer, sources told The Post." The story goes on to say that Madoff, 71, has been telling fellow inmates that he doesn't have long... The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2323825/posts#comment Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:34:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2285608/posts We're receiving reports into the WACH FOX News Center about the death of a former Tennessee Titans quarterback. According to various media sources, including FOX News, Steve McNair has been killed in Nashville, Tennessee. The incident apparently happened near 2nd South and Lea Avenue. Nashville police are saying it looks like a double homicide. A female victim was also found dead. Midlans Connect.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2285608/posts#comment Sat, 4 Jul 2009 20:55:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2283722/posts One of the most exciting new frontiers in medicine today is the research on the probability that medical science could revive the "dead." Sounds like blasphemy, irreverence, or total fiction? Not quite. It's purely medical science to show the God-given special attributes of His creation, called Life, that is yet to be discovered by man. Our present thinking is that, unless cardiopulmonary resuscitation is done within 4-5 minutes following a respiratory of cardiac arrest, death ensues. Our definition of clinical death states that life is gone when the heartbeat, breathing and brain activity are no longer present, in spite of... The News Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2283722/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jul 2009 00:35:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2280312/posts LOS ANGELES – Michael Jackson spent the last years of his life buried in debt. But the King of Pop's death is likely to yield a financial bonanza more lucrative than any comeback tour ever could, as fans snap up his music and memorabilia ... "Quite frankly, he may be worth more dead than alive," said Jerry Reisman, general counsel for the Hit Factory, a recording studio where Jackson produced his best-selling album "Thriller." Jackson's death at age 50 leaves a multitude of questions about a financial empire that included his own music, as well a 50 percent stake in... AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2280312/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:01:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275527/posts A homeowner who had twice ordered a teenager to leave the property — once while holding a rifle — shot the teen dead after the boy refused to leave and walked toward him, authorities said. “He feared for his life,” said Harris County sheriff’s Lt. Rolf Nelson. Dwayne Austgen, 69, was inside his north Harris County home in the 5500 block of Susanna around 10:30 a.m. Wednesday when he noticed a teenager in his front yard, officials said. The man went outside, confronted 17-year-old Vidal Herrera, and told him to leave, authorities said. Mom Houston http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2275527/posts#comment Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:36:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2274560/posts By ADAM GOLDMAN and VICTOR EPSTEIN Associated Press Writers NEWARK, N.J. -- The pilot of a Continental Airlines flight from Brussels to Newark died over the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday, but the jet landed safely with two co-pilots at the controls. Flight 61 touched down on-time just before noon at Newark Liberty International Airport, authorities said. The Boeing 777 was carrying 247 passengers, said Kelly Cripe, a spokeswoman for the Houston-based airline. Passengers weren't told of the pilot's death in flight. During the flight, an announcement was made asking if any doctors were aboard and several passengers approached the cockpit.... Miami Herald http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2274560/posts#comment Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:03:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2271221/posts It seems like just yesterday that Obama announced the details of his Nationalized Health Care plan. Today, Bill Kristol and Yuval Levin write in the Weekly Standard that if the Republicans stay united against it, there are enough moderate Democrats who will vote against it and the whole thing will go down in flames. Kristol and Levin aren't just hoping for this outcome, they have contacts and have named names. This is encouraging. The Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2271221/posts#comment Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:48:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265308/posts MEXICO CITY -- Mexican police found 11 bodies - most with their hands and feet cut off - inside an abandoned car in the border state of Sonora Thursday in violence attributed to drug traffickers battling for control of the region. Sonora's state prosecutors said in a statement that the bodies were discovered inside a sport utility vehicle on a road between the towns of Caborca and Sonoyta along with a threatening message. The SUV had been stolen in Arizona. Prosecutors did not reveal what the message said or the identities of the bodies. They said the killings are linked... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2265308/posts#comment Fri, 5 Jun 2009 09:49:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264618/posts “Kill Bill” star David Carradine was found dead in a Bangkok hotel room Wednesday, his manager told FOX News Thursday. While the cause of death has yet to be determined, a Thai newspaper claims the actor died in an apparent suicide. FOX NEWS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264618/posts#comment Thu, 4 Jun 2009 14:40:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249184/posts ANNE ARUNDEL, Md. -- Millions of Americans on Social Security are receiving $250 checks as part of the president's stimulus plan -- including an Anne Arundel woman who died more than 40 years ago. ... WBAL TV Baltimore http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2249184/posts#comment Tue, 12 May 2009 13:01:16 GMT