Cats!

Posted November 13, 2008, 12:05 p.m.

So the cats are really starting to get along, which is good. Vincent is in his kitten equivalent of his ‘terrible twos’ though, and is being a little terror around the apartment. He’ll jump up on things that he shouldn’t and start knocking things over, and so on. He’s a fun little guy though. Mei Mei is just getting over a little cat cold that had here looking pretty miserable for a week or two (swollen eyes and everything), but is doing much better now.

Anyway, the two spend a lot of their time chasing each other around and play-fighting, which is pretty funny to watch. They both seem to be pretty happy and content with the arrangement now.

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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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

Do what you can do, not what you can’t. Then build on the momentum.

You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong—only because cruelty was pleasant or useful to him.

Because God can be relegated to remote times and places and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great deal more about the universe than we do now to be sure that no such God exists.

We know on seeing smoke there must be fire, and cause and result are ever classed together thus. We are forbidden, then, to say an unthinking cause can make a thing that has intelligence.

The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society; and in the next place, to take the most effectual precautions for keeping them virtuous whilst they continue to hold their public trust.

Free peoples require alert, aggressive leadership and a socially and politically conscious citizenry. This is not easily maintained, but it is the price of freedom.

For thou didst form my inward parts, thou didst knit me together in my mother’s womb.

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

‘Power comes out of the barrel of a gun!’ is an absurd rallying cry when the other side has all the guns.

Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.

Those who do not trust enough will not be trusted.

The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. . . .

It has been said that beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. It can also be said that hiccups are proof that God hates us and wants us to be angry.

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

I appeal to you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree and that there be no dissensions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgement.

How is it possible for us to retain the advantages of simplification, without falling prey to the accompanying blindness? The answer is to be found in the constant dialogue between genuinely different types of people.

By attempting to measure the unmeasurable, measurement becomes a form of pseudo-objectivity. Instead of bringing the researcher closer to his research object, the measurement procedure leads him further away.

The West has lost the golden thread that binds us to God, Creation, and each other. Unless we find it again, there is no hope of halting our dissolution.

For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.

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