CommentsDisplaying MrSatyre's 10 most recent comments.

• ‘Celebrate Reason’: New Atheist Billboard Calls Christmas a Myth

  November 30, 2010 at 4:09pm

  As an agnostic AND a libertarian-leaning conservative, I’m always amused/dismayed by all the self-righteous bleating from the religious right whenever someone mocks their beliefs. After all, conservatives main claim to fame is the ability to stick to the FACTS, and point out the errors and purely wishful-thinking, idealist, pie-in-the-sky socialist nuttiness in other groups’ arguments.

  And Sparky101, can you hear yourself? “NO one dies for a lie.” Maybe you haven’t heard of suicide-bombers, or religious cult leaders and their followers. Jim Jones or Heaven’s Gate ring any bells?

  A little rationality on the mass-murdering, self-perpetuating hypocrisy that’s organized religion, please.

• HOAs ‘Tread’ on Patriotic Symbols

  August 31, 2010 at 8:43am

  It’s really six of one, half-dozen of the other if you stop and think about it. On the one hand, you have patriotic symbolism, which is highly commendable, and on the other you have visible clutter which varies drastically from one house to the next. If ALL the homes abide by the same regulations as to type and placement of flags and other symbols (as they do on military bases), everything would be uniform and neat. But everyone wants to be unique (and who can argue with that).

  Therein lies the problem, however, in that if you desire home values in this lousy economy to be maintained based on curb appeal and uniformity of the neighborhood as a whole, you cannot be unique past that invisible, undefinable line. If everyone put up whatever they wanted, wherever they wanted, pretty quickly your street would look like the front yard of “Sanford and Son”. One man‘s treasure is another man’s eyesore; it IS a good thing to have uniformity, at least where neighborhoods are concerned. I really don‘t think it’s a matter of the HOA in question not approving “of” the aforementioned flag or signage, but wishing to maintain a more reserved, less cluttered look because everyone has completely different taste where size, color and placement are concerned.

  My own HOA is a mess (sends warning letters to the wrong households on a regular basis, for example).