Wedding Turkey (and a Bonus Parakeet)

Posted May 17, 2008, 10:10 p.m.

Melissa and I were at a wedding today in Rustburg, Virginia, and, for some reason, there was a big old turkey walking around. I don’t think the turkey had anything to do with the wedding specifically—I think it was just there—but I thought it was pretty random and worth documenting. Read on to see some more pictures of the turkey, plus a bonus picture of my parents’ parakeet Tarzan.

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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How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success.

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.

The more you do for others, the more you have. The more you give to others, the greater your abundance.

Some western scholars have tried to argue that Islamic anti-Semitism is only a recent phenomenon learned from the Nazis and that Jews lived safely under Islamic rule for centuries, especially in medieval Spain. These assertions are not supported by the evidence.

When you ain’t nothing else, you are an artist. It’s the one thing you can claim to be and nobody can prove you ain’t.

Nothing subsisting is greater than the rational soul, except God.

The more I see the better satisfied I am that I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.

The preservation of civilization and culture is now one with the preservation of religion. If the anti-God forces of the world conquer, culture and civilization will disappear, and we will have to start all over again.

When one has had all his conceit taken out of him, when he has lost all his illusions, his feathers will soon soak through, and he will fly no more.

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.

A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.

Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Okay, so I lost The Tonight Show, but I’ll show them . . . I’ll stop shaving.

A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both.

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.

If we did not have the freedom to say no to God, we could not truly love Him.

Nature’s imagination is always richer than ours.

Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of his country. No qualification of wealth, of birth, of religious faith, or of civil profession is permitted to fetter the judgement or disappoint the inclination of the people.

My dear, when people show you who they are, why don’t you believe them?

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