http://www.deadissue.com At home drawing pictures of mountaintops Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:00:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 deadissuehttp://feedburner.google.com http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/07/04/wow/ http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/07/04/wow/#comments Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:00:22 +0000 John Rove http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/07/04/wow/ Sarah Palin to resign. What kind of scandal is about to unfold? ]]> http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/07/04/wow/feed/ 0 http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/06/22/centrist-democrats-worse-than-republicans/ http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/06/22/centrist-democrats-worse-than-republicans/#comments Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:04:41 +0000 John Rove http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/06/22/centrist-democrats-worse-than-republicans/ Paul Krugman has a great column in the New york times today, regarding health care. This part especially goes a long way towards explaining why the “centrist” members of the senate are far from the center: Honestly, I don’t know what these Democrats are trying to achieve. Yes, some of the balking senators receive large campaign contributions [...]]]> http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/06/22/centrist-democrats-worse-than-republicans/feed/ 2 http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/06/18/good-at-not-doing-their-job/ http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/06/18/good-at-not-doing-their-job/#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:59:58 +0000 John Rove http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/06/18/good-at-not-doing-their-job/ Got this from Washingtonmonthly.com: One executive said rescission is about “stopping fraud and material misrepresentations that contribute to spiraling healthcare costs.” So, for example, when a woman in Texas was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer, her insurer dropped her coverage because the company found an instance in which she visited a dermatologist for acne, and didn’t [...]]]> http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/06/18/good-at-not-doing-their-job/feed/ 0 http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/06/17/wingnut-welfare/ http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/06/17/wingnut-welfare/#comments Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:28:20 +0000 John Rove http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/06/17/wingnut-welfare/ Can someone explain how does Megan Mcardle keep her job ]]> http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/06/17/wingnut-welfare/feed/ 2 http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/06/16/meat-free-mondays/ http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/06/16/meat-free-mondays/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:12:54 +0000 John Rove http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/06/16/meat-free-mondays/ I am not a big Beatles fan, and Yoko’s duet with John Lennon makes me cringe, but this seems like a good idea ]]> http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/06/16/meat-free-mondays/feed/ 1 http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/06/08/conservatives-against-gm/ http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/06/08/conservatives-against-gm/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:00:14 +0000 John Rove http://www.deadissue.com/?p=2344 You would think that conservatives would love General Motors, the company has been a consistent denier of climate change and they gave us the Hummer, the SUV for men who need to compensate, but no: “In the effort to reverse this lurch beyond the farthest left fringe of previous Democratic statist urges, individual Americans have a [...]]]> http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/06/08/conservatives-against-gm/feed/ 2 http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/05/21/just-a-thought-2/ http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/05/21/just-a-thought-2/#comments Fri, 22 May 2009 02:34:44 +0000 John Rove http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/05/21/just-a-thought-2/ Maybe we should start calling Dick Cheney former President Cheney as he is leaving no doubt who was in charge during the “bush” administration. Update: It also seems that Mr Cheney is trying to make-up for his role in the September 11 attacks, my only question is does he know he screwed-up and is intentionally [...]]]> http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/05/21/just-a-thought-2/feed/ 1 http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/05/21/the-end-of-the-postal-service/ http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/05/21/the-end-of-the-postal-service/#comments Thu, 21 May 2009 14:35:10 +0000 John Rove http://www.deadissue.com/?p=2338 Probably not the end but looks like they may go to a five day schedule from the current six days of delivery, given that the US mail is mostly a delivery system for bad advertising that goes straight into a landfill, it might be better to go to delivery four days a week or [...]]]> http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/05/21/the-end-of-the-postal-service/feed/ 0 http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/05/18/thanks-to-you-tube-we-know-rick-perry-is-an-idiot/ http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/05/18/thanks-to-you-tube-we-know-rick-perry-is-an-idiot/#comments Mon, 18 May 2009 14:33:20 +0000 John Rove http://www.deadissue.com/?p=2334 One of the more interesting debates over the past few months has been whether Texas should secceed, and while I recognize that it would create a third world country on our southern border, it might be for the best. Rick Perry the governor of Texas does not seem interested in being president of the [...]]]> http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/05/18/thanks-to-you-tube-we-know-rick-perry-is-an-idiot/feed/ 0 http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/05/13/reagan-worship/ http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/05/13/reagan-worship/#comments Wed, 13 May 2009 14:48:09 +0000 John Rove http://www.deadissue.com/?p=2331 Yglesias trys to explain Reagan worship: Scratch a liberal, and he’ll find some good things to say about FDR. Some good things to say about JFK. These days there’s more and more appreciation of the fact that Lyndon Johnson did some very great things along with some very bad ones. Jimmy Carter’s not so popular, but [...]]]> http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/05/13/reagan-worship/feed/ 2