CommentsDisplaying FromtheBasement's 10 most recent comments.

• Updated – The Super-Collider & The ‘God Particle’ Explained

  April 25, 2011 at 1:36pm

  In reply to porkay78.

  @Porkay78, I couldn’t agree more. I don’t understand the need to pit science against religion, and vice versa. Particle physics/quantum physics is simply us trying to understand creation in a greater way. Why is that evil? Who is to say the things we are discovering, including evolution, aren’t the very mechanics that God used to create this wondrous universe, and us as well?

  I prefer Dr. Werner Von Braun’s take on this, and I’m paraphrasing, “Science is man’s attempt to understand creation. Religion is man’s attempt to understand the creator.”

• Too Far? New Anti-Gun Ad Features Man Shooting Silhouette of a Child

  April 12, 2011 at 3:27pm

  In reply to texasfarmer.

  @TexasFarmer, the irony is that they had to create a specialized target, then purchase and USE a handgun to make their commercial. I guess it’s okay if THEY buy handguns, just not the rest of us. :-P

• Why Is This Florida Woman Addicted to Eating….Sofas?

  April 12, 2011 at 3:25pm

  In reply to beckwill.

  @Beckwill, maybe when eating, she likes to feel “stuffed.” ;-)

• Deja Vu: Noisy Unions Storm Michigan Capitol Protesting GOP Gov’s Budget Bill

  March 16, 2011 at 5:19pm

  They’re upset because they have to pay 20% of their medical insurance costs? I have to pay 100% of mine and most of them make more money than I do. Why are they so special? Give me a break.

• ‘I’ll Break Your God**mned Neck’: OH Union Protester Threatens Tea Partier

  March 8, 2011 at 7:38pm

  In reply to wodiej.

  @WODIEJ, he must be a plant. Nancy Pelosi promised us that the left and the Dem’s would “NEVER” use hate speech or violence like us on the right do. ;-)

• Chivalry is Dead: VA Boy Suspended for Opening Door at School

  March 2, 2011 at 2:48pm

  In reply to cnsrvtvj.

  It makes no sense, @CNSRBTVJ. This security system is a joke. It’s begging to be used as gate to keep police out during a crisis. Let me explain, if a student brings a weapon into the school with the intent to kill other students and teachers, bypassing whatever other security methods they have to prevent that, this security system ensures their success. All they have to do is make sure their first target is the administrator manning the door system. They can then easily destroy the switch, from what I can see, effectively locking out police who may be trying to enter to stop the killing. In fact, the room where that switch is kept is likely a great secure spot that can then be used by the crazed student to murder anyone who approaches trying to stop it.

  Paranoia does not breed safety, it breeds discontent.

• Celeb Chef: Palin a ‘Froot Loop’ for Criticizing Obama Admin Eating Initiatives

  February 28, 2011 at 6:33pm

  In reply to NickDeringer.

  @nickderinger, Jamie Oliver may be clueless in bringing up Sarah Palin, but I think there are several people here who don‘t understand that this isn’t about giving the government control over what our kids eat in school, they’ve already done that! The USDA already has strict guidelines as to what MUST appear in a school cafeteria. If you compare them to what is considered healthy eating by today’s standards, including the USDA’s own current eating guidelines, you’ll find they differ immensely. The school districts are forced to include unhealthy items along side the healthy ones by the USDA. Based on some things I’ve seen, I wouldn’t be surprised to find that the USDA is in cahoots with various food suppliers, as well, so that cheap foods that barely meet the minimum dietary guidelines, and are chock full of chemicals and additives that any dietitian would scream against, are being passed off as “healthy choices.“ ”Finger foods“ are becoming the norm as more and more schools stop supplying eating utensils in order to conform to the latest politically correct claptrap about ”no weapons in school.”

  If the schools are going to provide lunch as service, and one which most of us pay for not only through taxes but voluntarily through school lunch programs, we should be getting what we pay for. As parent/consumers we should have a right to say, “Hey! I’m paying for this crap? No way. Fix it!” But right now the USDA says they know better than we do, and so the only control we have is to either live with it, or quit using the school lunch program for our kids (my personal choice, by the way).

  So far, from what I see, this is about reforming the obscene food controls that are already in place, not making new ones. If the left has trouble articulating that fact, and laying blame where it’s really due, it doesn‘t change the fact that it’s already screwed up.

• 11-Year-Old Co. Boy Arrested for ‘Innapropriate’ Stick-Figure Drawing

  February 22, 2011 at 6:21pm

  In reply to Highland.

  @GhostofJefferson, much like @VTDave, I wasn’t going to reply, but as I read your further comments, I had to weigh in.

  Much like you, I was very suspicious of the whole ADHD thing. One of my nephews was diagnosed with it and I chalked it up to bad parenting. My youngest has been diagnosed with it now, and I feel very differently. Our story is very much like VTDave’s was. In fact, I thought he was taking a page from my life in his first reply.

  I’m going to chalk your reaction to ADHD up to ignorance on the subject. You’re welcome to your opinion, of course. Making such a sweeping decision about a well-researched and well documented disorder is like believing that all of Iran has no hateful intentions towards Israel and wants to have a peaceful and respectful relationship with them. In other words, it goes against the facts.

  In this case, the fact that this kid has ADHD is irrelevant. Arresting, detaining, and questioning an 11 year old for a stick-firgure picture he drew in school is insane and, I suspect, borderline illegal. Why isn’t the ACLU screaming that the police violated his rights to free speech? What I suspect happened is that it frightened an overly sensitive teacher, who then failed to get satisfaction from the principle in dealing with the supposed problem. After school the teacher, probably called the cops and complained about “threats to his/her life” this child had made, a completely false allegation.

  The charge of “interfering with staff and students at an educational facility” is simply an embarrassed cop trying to save face. How in the world is drawing a picture “interfering with staff and students?” Good grief.

• Controversial Confederate Flag Painting Removed From Art Exhibit

  February 4, 2011 at 11:31am

  In reply to Carl1 Supports Israel.

  @Carl1, I think that‘s the artist’s point. The history of the southern states is tied to the confederate flag and violence. What I find ridiculous is that this piece can be so easily removed when pictures of the Madonna covered in feces or paintings of religious figures participating in depraved sex acts are so quickly defended and allowed to stay.

• Senate Kills GOP Effort to Repeal ObamaCare

  February 2, 2011 at 6:48pm

  In reply to xm-1774u.

  @XM-1774U, I don’t know that anyone should be surprised by this. We pretty well knew it wouldn’t pass the senate. This is actually a good thing, though, IMHO. I believe this will force the issue to the Supreme Court faster than the various state’s appeals would have.