Archive for the 'Coincidence?' Category
Escalator Fall Kills Hedge Fund Manager
September 28th, 2009Via: NBC News: A hedge fund executive died early Sunday morning after falling three floors from an escalator at The Pier Shops at Caesars, according to police. Atlantic City police said James Vellanti, 40, fell from the third to the first floor. Vellanti lived in Clinton, Hunterdon County and was Chief Operating Officer for the […]
FBI Releases Edited OKC Bombing Tapes
September 28th, 2009Via: AP: Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the recordings said Sunday. “The real story is what’s missing,” said Jesse Trentadue, a Salt Lake City attorney […]
Male Breast Cancer Patients Blame Water at Marine Base
September 25th, 2009Via: CNN: The sick men are Marines, or sons of Marines. All 20 of them were based at or lived at Camp Lejeune, the U.S. Marine Corps’ training base in North Carolina, between the 1960s and the 1980s. They all have had breast cancer — a disease that strikes fewer than 2,000 men in the […]
University of Chicago Professor Dies from Exposure to Plague
September 23rd, 2009Definitely one for the dead biologists list. Via: ABC News: A University of Chicago researcher died after being exposed to a strain of bacteria that causes plague. And Malcolm Casadaban’s family wants answers. The Chicago Department of Public Health says there’s no sign anyone else was exposed to the bacteria. The tragic irony is that […]
Nuclear Power Plant Engineer Dead in “Probable Suicide”
September 18th, 2009There’s absolutely no reason (as far as I can tell) to think that this is assassination. Just noting it anyway. Via: Arizona Republic: Police have confirmed that the man found dead in a vehicle on Wednesday in Yavapai County was a missing Glendale man, Cornelius Hardy. Yavapai authorities are investigating the incident as a probable […]
Christopher Kelly, Key Figure in Blagojevich Corruption Probe, Is Dead
September 13th, 2009Oh Sure: Possible Overdose on Over-the-Counter Medicines Via: Chicago Tribune: Christopher Kelly, a key figure in the federal corruption probe into former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, is dead. The Cook County medical examiner’s office today confirmed that Christopher Kelly of Burr Ridge was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital at 10:46 a.m. The office said Kelly died […]
Dow Jones Industrial Average Closes
September 12th, 2009The close of the DJIA on 9/10/2001: 9,605.51 The close of the DJIA on 9/11/2009 : 9,605.41
Three Mass Shooters Used Same Online Gun Store
August 8th, 2009The Reddit heads have uncovered a lot of George Sodini materials, in case anyone is interested in looking into this case further. I didn’t spend too much time on it, but one thing I noticed (besides the madness) was his resume (mirror). He lists a BS in Computer Science in 1992. He was 48 at […]
The Deep Politics of Hollywood: Close Encounters with the Pentagon
August 3rd, 2009I wish I’d taken a screenshot from the scene in the 2007 Transformers where John Turturro is shown against a wall and the sign to the left of the frame says something like, “322 days since last accident.” HAHA. I almost upchucked the lamb chop I ate for dinner that night. I hit REWIND and […]
Report Blasts FEMA on Storm Trailer Formaldehyde
July 27th, 2009Children in Katrina Trailers May Face Lifelong Ailments FEMA Trailer Manufacturers Knew About Formaldehyde, Findings Went Undisclosed Via: AP: The Federal Emergency Management Agency took too long to respond to initial reports of dangerous levels of formaldehyde in trailers delivered to victims of the 2005 hurricanes, exposing people to possible health risks, a report of […]
