April Fools Site: Website 15.0!!!

Posted April 1, 2004, 4:03 p.m.

To mess with people, I decided I would come up with a crappy design for my site and put it up as an April Fools joke. Here is the supposed “Website 15.0!!!” that went up on that day. Made in 2004.

Website 15.0!!! April Fools.

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

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Power from any source tends to create an appetite for additional power. Power coming from wealth tends to create an appetite for political power and visa versa. It was almost inevitable that the super-rich would one day aspire to control not only their own wealth, but the wealth of the whole world.

No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

Well-makers lead the water wherever they like; fletchers bend the arrow; carpenters bend a log of wood; good people fashion themselves.

Insanity is always a reasonable diagnosis when you’re dealing with writers and artists. Sometimes the only real difference between crazy people and artists is that artists write down what they imagine seeing.

Like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children.

There is . . . a close bond and necessary relation between . . . freedom and productive industry. This proposition is generally true of all nations, but especially of democratic nations.

Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

A great memory does not make a philosopher, any more than a dictionary can be called grammar.

The socialists were more intrinsically capitalist than the capitalists. They believed just as strongly in money. They just thought that if different people had the money, the problems plaguing humanity would vanish. This is simply untrue.

It is obvious that tradition is only democracy extended through time. It is trusting to a consensus of common human voices rather than to some isolated or arbitrary record.

Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do. That’s true for companies, and it’s true for products.

Let not one sin after another, difficult to be conquered, overcome us; may it depart together with greed.

If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the unlimited authority of the majority, which may at some future time urge the minorities to desperation, and oblige them to have recourse to physical force.

The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus.

For when I look at these various anti-Christian truths, I simply discover that none of them are true. I discover that the true tide and force of all the facts flows the other way.

The Constitution was designed to keep government off the backs of the people.

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