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Cibolo Creek Ranch owner recalls Scalia’s last hours in Texas(Pillow over his head)
Houston Chronicle ^ | February 14 | John MacCormack

Posted on 02/14/2016 1:37:21 PM PST by PghBaldy

"We discovered the judge in bed, a pillow over his head. His bed clothes were unwrinkled," said Poindexter.

"He was lying very restfully. It looked like he had not quite awakened from a nap," he said. Scalia,79, did not have a pulse and his body was cold, and after consulting with a doctor at a hospital in Alpine, Poindexter concluded resuscitation would have been futile, He then contacted federal authorities, at first encountering a series of answering services because he was calling on a weekend.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; antoninscalia; asphyxiation; cibolocreekranch; election2016; murder; pillow; poindexter; scalia; scaliacauseofdeath; scotus; texas
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To: PghBaldy

Maybe he committed suicide by suffocating himself with the pillow


121 posted on 02/14/2016 8:02:12 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Can we please kill the guy already who invented the saying "My bad"?)
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To: RummyChick

Unless he hwd a killer. And the killer was sadistic and waited until no pulse and arranged his body. Sometimes there is also vomiting with a heart attack.


122 posted on 02/14/2016 8:04:15 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: dp0622

Maybe he could run for president.....he has to be a billionaire by now!

*A pillow on every bed!*


123 posted on 02/14/2016 8:04:52 PM PST by Daffynition (*Security, confiscate their coats. Get them out of here. It's 10 below zero out there ~DJT)
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To: PghBaldy

This thread just proves that FreeRepublic is for the most part irrelevant.


124 posted on 02/14/2016 8:18:42 PM PST by Republic_Venom (It's time for some Republic Venom!)
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To: Yaelle

Fascinating information.

Forgive me for asking what might seem like a dumb question, but do we know for certain that THIS John Poindexter at the ranch is the SAME John Poindexter of Iran-Contra?

The coincidence just seems too insane.


125 posted on 02/14/2016 8:22:42 PM PST by mkjessup (Islam is the ENEMY of all civilized people. Obama is a Muslim. Do the math.)
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To: Yaelle

Ignore my last post FRiend.

No harm, no foul. A mistake any one might make under these dark conditions.


126 posted on 02/14/2016 8:27:29 PM PST by mkjessup (Islam is the ENEMY of all civilized people. Obama is a Muslim. Do the math.)
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To: Republic_Venom

You don’t think it odd the quote about the pillow?


127 posted on 02/14/2016 8:31:16 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

“No one sleeps like a corpse for 8 hours with hands folded on their chest unless maybe he was doped up on pain meds or something.”

They said he was cold. Perhaps he died as soon as he lay down, may God rest his soul.


128 posted on 02/14/2016 8:39:45 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: VerySadAmerican

When I found my father, dead from a heart attack in bed, his hands were crossed on his chest and he had a peaceful expression.


129 posted on 02/14/2016 8:49:54 PM PST by Elyse (I refuse to feed the crocodile.)
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To: kjam22

Happened to mine as well...he said he was tired and went and laid down...gone.


130 posted on 02/14/2016 8:50:27 PM PST by corlorde
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To: corlorde

Yeah... like I say... I don’t know what happened to Scalia and I’m not making a guess. I just know that heart attacks can happen immediately and be a very peaceful death. Peaceful for the person going to heaven.... not quite so peaceful at the time... for the relatives with them when it happens.


131 posted on 02/14/2016 8:52:54 PM PST by kjam22 (America needs forgiveness from God..... even if Donald Trump doesn't)
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To: corlorde

I told my wife “I’m tired” and sat on the floor (to make CPR easier) then told her to call 9-1-1.


132 posted on 02/14/2016 8:57:53 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (u)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Put a pillow on TOP of your head then keep it there as you lay down. THAT kind of ‘OVER’ your head, ARGHHH!!!! It’s all on how your interpret ‘OVER’ his head.


133 posted on 02/14/2016 9:02:09 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (u)
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To: PghBaldy

Could the man have meant that Scalia slipped down from the pillow, so that his head was on the bed and the pillow was lying above his head? A big deal would have been made of it, if he meant that a pillow was covering his face. In fact, I think he would have used the word face and not head, if that had been the case.


134 posted on 02/14/2016 9:02:36 PM PST by FenwickBabbitt
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To: gaijin; cripplecreek; ROCKLOBSTER; RummyChick; All

I was very suspicious of the Brown death at the time. Regarding the pillow, sometimes my boyfriend sleeps with a pillow over his head if he forgets his black sleeping mask. Someone probably will know if he was likely to sleep like that. If suffocated there should be petechial (sp?) hemorrages in his eyes.


135 posted on 02/14/2016 9:03:18 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: RummyChick

But really if foul play was involved, wouldn’t they have removed the pillow?

And where were the marshals?


136 posted on 02/14/2016 9:04:46 PM PST by DrewsMum (If they wanted a conservative, they'd vote for one.)
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To: dragnet2

Indeed, esp. in the light of this, http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/226701/, if the pillow was indeed over his face.


137 posted on 02/14/2016 9:04:47 PM PST by daniel1212 ( Turn to the Lord Jesus as a damned and destitute sinner+ trust Him to save you, then follow Him!)
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To: PghBaldy

***”We discovered the judge in bed, a pillow over his head. His bed clothes were unwrinkled,” said Poindexter.

“He was lying very restfully. It looked like he had not quite awakened from a nap,” he said.***

As a nurse and someone with common sense a few of these comments are odd.

A pillow over his head? Maybe that is a misquote. I’ve covered my face before with a pillow to cover my eyes with a migraine, but not my nose and mouth, so if have to have more info.

Now the “he looked like he’d not quite awakened from a nap?” What? You can’t tell that! I’ve worked in hospice for years and unfortunately you see a lot of deceased people, sometimes they haven’t been passed for long, sometime that have been passed for hours before you arrive. But being able to tell if he was just waking from a nap, that’s ridiculous.


138 posted on 02/14/2016 9:13:01 PM PST by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: Lil Flower

They are odd. Little too talkative, IMO. Tacky and stupid of the owner.

Caveat: If Scalia were 40, I would be more inclined to assume murder...I have been thinking of how Obama’s people have been saying they want to make his changes permanent.


139 posted on 02/14/2016 9:19:27 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: cripplecreek

As does my wife

And some with massive coronaries drop like a sack of potatoes

No crumpled sheets

Freepers can be kooks


140 posted on 02/14/2016 9:23:38 PM PST by wardaddy (Boy the nasties are sure out in force here.....I hope someone is saving this...Trump Cruz that order)
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