http://www.deadissue.com At home drawing pictures of mountaintops Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:03:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 deadissuehttp://feedburner.google.com http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/11/04/win-two-lose-two/ http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/11/04/win-two-lose-two/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:03:03 +0000 John Rove http://www.deadissue.com/?p=2439 Yesterdays election was a mixed bag. Two governorships, Virginia and New Jersey went to Republicans but two congressional seats went to Democrats. What does this mean? In my state Colorado the same dynamic seems to be working our current Democratic governor, Bill Ritter, has spent most of his term cutting state services in an [...]]]> http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/11/04/win-two-lose-two/feed/ 0 http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/11/03/do-we-need-nasa/ http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/11/03/do-we-need-nasa/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:52:00 +0000 John Rove http://www.deadissue.com/?p=2433 I am starting to think it is time to get rid of NASA., after killing numerous astronauts on their unsafe space shuttles they have decided to endanger other animals. “The beauty of this is that we can assess at different time points after exposure, so not only do we get a sense of rather immediate effects, [...]]]> http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/11/03/do-we-need-nasa/feed/ 0 http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/10/31/jesus-gets-a-golden-shower/ http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/10/31/jesus-gets-a-golden-shower/#comments Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:01:58 +0000 John Rove http://www.deadissue.com/?p=2431 Bill Donhue of the Catholic league is not pleased ]]> http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/10/31/jesus-gets-a-golden-shower/feed/ 0 http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/10/28/more-on-the-opt-out-compromise/ http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/10/28/more-on-the-opt-out-compromise/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:53:56 +0000 John Rove http://www.deadissue.com/?p=2429 I wonder if conservatives are starting to understand how unpopular opting out will make them at the local level and in addition I have a feeling that the states that are going to opt out are also the states that have the most unhealthy people, like Texas and Mississippi, so by opting out they are [...]]]> http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/10/28/more-on-the-opt-out-compromise/feed/ 0 http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/10/27/overtreatment-2/ http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/10/27/overtreatment-2/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:24:14 +0000 John Rove http://www.deadissue.com/?p=2427 I am not sure I get the outrage on this one: Checking the “female” box when buying health insurance is likely to cost extra — perhaps up to 50 percent more than a man would pay for the same coverage. Gender-rating — or what some term as flat-out sexual discrimination — is linked to the simple fact [...]]]> http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/10/27/overtreatment-2/feed/ 0 http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/10/26/unrelated-thoughts/ http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/10/26/unrelated-thoughts/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:14:03 +0000 John Rove http://www.deadissue.com/?p=2425 Finally got to watch some football yesterday, it seems Chicago is just good enough to narrowly miss the playoffs, just like the Denver Broncos of a year ago. And, it should be illegal to experiment on babies. ]]> http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/10/26/unrelated-thoughts/feed/ 0 http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/10/22/opting-out/ http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/10/22/opting-out/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:34:59 +0000 John Rove http://www.deadissue.com/?p=2423 Looks like their may be a public option for health insurance with a clause that allows states to opt out if they don’t want to let their residents have the choice of public insurance. Other than the fact that this will probably make the south, the only area of the country that may “opt [...]]]> http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/10/22/opting-out/feed/ 0 http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/10/21/the-best-care-in-the-world/ http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/10/21/the-best-care-in-the-world/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:35:46 +0000 John Rove http://www.deadissue.com/?p=2421 As the healthcare debate heats up opponents of reform argue the U.S has the best health care in the world. Maybe not so much: “McAllen is legal hell,” the cardiologist agreed. Doctors order unnecessary tests just to protect themselves, he said. Everyone thought the lawyers here were worse than elsewhere. That explanation puzzled me. Several years ago, [...]]]> http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/10/21/the-best-care-in-the-world/feed/ 0 http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/10/14/at-least-use-real-facts/ http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/10/14/at-least-use-real-facts/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:17:20 +0000 John Rove http://www.deadissue.com/?p=2416 One of the strangest things to come out of the health care debate was the the Price Waterhouse report. At one time Price Waterhouse had a good reputation but after the report on the Baucus bill where at the direction of the insurance they produced a report thin on facts and fat on scare [...]]]> http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/10/14/at-least-use-real-facts/feed/ 0 http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/09/30/more-money-and-less-kids-will-make-us-happy/ http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/09/30/more-money-and-less-kids-will-make-us-happy/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:15:18 +0000 John Rove http://www.deadissue.com/?p=2410 From Newsweek What we do need to be cautious of is leaping on the nascent science of positive psychology before we are certain that we are asking the right questions. The most recent findings, for example, are that wealth makes you happy but children do not. So … more money and fewer kids. Can this really be [...]]]> http://www.deadissue.com/archives/2009/09/30/more-money-and-less-kids-will-make-us-happy/feed/ 0