Snow!? Yay!

Posted February 28, 2009, 11:15 p.m.

I have a really busy weekend currently in progress, so I’m sorry for the slight reduction in posting. Today was mostly a social day, with a couple different get-togethers with friends with some errands wedged in-between. Tomorrow is church and various other things, including some work on the back-end of my web site (I’m making some architectural changes; they should have no immediate effect on anything from your perspective). I might, if I have time, head over to the NRA range and do some shooting, but I’m guessing I won’t get to that until later in the week.

What I’m most excited about at the moment, however, is the weather. I love winter weather. I’m like a kid hoping he’ll get out of school, except . . . I’m not.

According to the weather men—who are occasionally right—we’re supposed to get snow and sleet this evening (check), followed by snow and sleet tomorrow afternoon turning into snow tomorrow night and into Monday. The current guidance is that we’ll get about 4-6″ of snow and sleet, making it the biggest snowstorm for the DC region this winter so far. It should be fun!

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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In making any assertion, we must be guided by the nature of things, except in those things which are above nature, and are made known to us by Divine authority.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior, and in that, I can learn of him.

Judicial power is never exericised for the purpose of giving effect to the will of the Judge; always for the purpose of giving effect to the will of the Legislature; or, in other words, to the will of the law.

Hardly any amount of oppression from above takes the heart out of a boy like oppression from his fellows.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Control your own destiny or someone else will.

The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow immediately from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority.

The tragedy in all of this is the simple fact that the average tax-paying American was not given an honest and genuine choice. The voter finds himself enduring one party long enough to witness a whole series of travesties and then switches to the other party thinking he will get a substantial reversal of policy. But he doesn’t.

Pray, hope, and don’t worry. Worrying is pointless. God is merciful and he will hear your prayer.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.

Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any farther obedience and are left to the common refuge, which God hath provided for all men, against force and violence.

Creation of the universe from absolute and complete nothing marked the beginning of space, time, and matter. Theology has held that position for over three thousand years. Cosmology in the last decade or so has come to agree.

A methodology that can scarcely do other than confirm the hypothesis that it was designed to test is not valid social science.

You know, Gina, Apple [Computer Inc.] is like a ship. That ship is loaded with treasure, but there’s a hole in the ship. And my job is to get everyone to row in the same direction.

Being absolutely right and being spectacularly wrong feel exactly the same.

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

For the revolution is never stronger than the failure of civilization. Communism is never stronger than the failure of other faiths.

Modern masters of science are much impressed with the need of beginning all inquiry with a fact. The ancient masters of religion were quite equally impressed with that necessity. They began with the fact of sin—a fact as practical as potatoes.

We must strive to reach that simplicity that lies beyond sophistication.