http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2006/12/31/1628/4129 With the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford">trio of</a> <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6302683,00.html">celebrity</a> <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6218485.stm">deaths</a> that ended 2006 still dominating the news cycle, it's time to look forward to 2007 and ask "Who's gonna kick off this year?" Time for the first annual Treesandthings <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_pool">Dead Pool</a>! en-us Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:52:07 EST Sun, 14 Jan 2007 16:59:33 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2006/12/31/1628/4129#18 <i>I will add one, for those of you who might remember her: Elizabeth Taylor.</i><p> Heh! Here's hoping that she takes her <a href="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39000000/jpg/_39000155_jacko_ap203body.jpg">alien </a> ...errr, <a href="http://www.ch Sun, 14 Jan 2007 16:59:33 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2006/12/31/1628/4129#17 I don't know about Debbie Reynolds, but I'm pretty sure that Barbara Walters is healthy. Taylor, OTOH, has had some heavy-duty medical problem for quite a while, I believe. Besides, Walters has to stay alive, if for no other reason than to reap the benefit Sun, 14 Jan 2007 15:48:43 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2006/12/31/1628/4129#16 Barbara Walters and Debbie Reynolds. Sun, 14 Jan 2007 12:47:31 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2006/12/31/1628/4129#15 Although I'm lukewarm about stuff like this, I will add one, for those of you who might remember her: Elizabeth Taylor. Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:32:39 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2006/12/31/1628/4129#14 <i>What happens when you loathe both people in a death match?</i><p> You root for a tie. Sat, 13 Jan 2007 23:15:28 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2006/12/31/1628/4129#13 I saw him being wheeled around at the last ComicCon.  I wasn't too sure myself. Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:53:12 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2006/12/31/1628/4129#12 arthur c clarke is still alive?? I had no idea... Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:58:14 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2006/12/31/1628/4129#11 Paul McCartney(again)--Private plane crash.<br> Arthur C Clarke--Old age.<br> Kim Jong Il--We are told it's from disease, but sometime after 2015 we'll have conclusive proof that was an assassination.<br> Jessica Simpson--We are told it's from an automobil Fri, 12 Jan 2007 04:13:39 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2006/12/31/1628/4129#10 Your view of government power is a bit overbroad in my mind Logan. If the current administration/the GOP had an inherent ability to capture bin laden they would have done so -- thus burnishing their foreign policy/national security credentials for the next Thu, 11 Jan 2007 09:58:06 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2006/12/31/1628/4129#9 Osama bin Laden will never be captured and never be killed. His role is to play boogyman. As long as he is out there somewhere, the GOP can raise his specter in order to make us fear another attack. It might be forty years from now, but they'll still try t Wed, 10 Jan 2007 23:22:15 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2006/12/31/1628/4129#8 Osama bin Laden -- I believe he's already dead...but an announcement/confirmation would be nice. Violent causes.<p> Harold Pinter -  Cancer<p> Louis Farrakhan - "ulcer in the anal area" indeed. Cancer.<p> Brooke Astor - natural causes.<p> Lady Bird Jo Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:34:36 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2006/12/31/1628/4129#7 Everybody wins! It's like Celebrity Boxing. I don't root for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Palillo">Horshack</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Diamond">Screech</a>, I root for the fight to go the distance. The ultimate would b Wed, 10 Jan 2007 18:29:07 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2006/12/31/1628/4129#6 Zbigniew Brzezinski.<br> Bernardin Cardinal Gantin.<br> Jack Bascom Brooks.<br> Thomas Savig Kleppe.<br> Enrique Inglesisas. Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:18:43 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2006/12/31/1628/4129#5 But I do have an idea of who is at the top of two other peoples.  Rosie O'Donnell is on Donald Trump's and vice versa.  What happens when you loathe both people in a death match? Wed, 10 Jan 2007 17:15:08 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2006/12/31/1628/4129#4 I'm gonna go with:<p> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro">Fidel Castro</a> - Cancer. The nature of news emanating from Cuba will make the actual cause of death debatable.<br> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Biggs">Ronnie Biggs< Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:32:19 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2006/12/31/1628/4129#3 *Wishful thinking:<p> <b>Death(s):</b><br> The New York Rangers team plane crashes, killing four people.<br> <b>Reason:</b><br> Jagr, Straka, Shanahan, and Nylander are <i>killing</i> me in the hockey pool.<p> <b>Death(s):</b><br> Judith Regan.<br> <b>Reas Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:09:44 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2006/12/31/1628/4129#2 My picks (a little out of left field but I should get points for difficulty if I nail any of them):<p> Jimmy Carter, May<br> Kevin Federline, June<br> Starr Jones, July Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:44:26 EST http://www.treesandthings.com/story/2006/12/31/1628/4129#1 I'll stick with political figures <p> Dick Cheney, heart attack <p> Robert Byrd, ditto <p> Hugo Chavez, death by Pat Robertson and/or ExxonMobil <p> Iraq Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, assassinated <p> Robert Mugabe, syphilis Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:00:45 EST string http://www.treesandthings.com/search/