Busy Weekend Ahead

Posted March 27, 2009, 11:05 p.m.

I have a very busy weekend ahead (again), so I may fall a bit behind on postings. Sorry in advance!

Melissa and I both have been working long hours for much of the past week for various reasons, but things finally calmed down yesterday and we had a nice little ‘date night’ at Joe’s Crab Shack. Melissa got a giant crab steamer thing and I got crab stuffed shrimp.

The picture at the right is Melissa taking a break from her Coke Float (a Root Beer Float made with Coke instead of Root Beer . . . weirdo) and checking her email before the food arrived.

Have a nice weekend!

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.

Quotes

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. To be in the window and watch people being sent to concentration camps or being attacked in the street and do nothing, that’s being dead.

It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change.

Friendship is a reciprocal arrangement. You are not morally obliged to support someone who is making the world a worse place.

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.

Jesus’s acts of compassion and his call for others to do likewise were never to be done by compulsion, but voluntarily, by free-will choice.

[Free speech] may indeed best serve its high purposes when it induces a condition of unrest, creates dissatisfaction with conditions as they are, or even stirs people to anger.

I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

Who will guard the guards themselves?

I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time for every matter, and for every work.

You can debate the morality of viewing profits as the top priority in business, but you can’t argue that it doesn’t work. At most, you can argue that some companies take it too far. But that is the risk of any tool.

There is no more contradiction between Christianity’s hard-nosed doctrines and its softhearted love than there is between the hard objective truths of anatomy and the surgeon’s compassion for the patient.

Christian perfection has but one limit, that of having none.

People who live their lives selfishly and at the detriment of others are often the ones who complain loudest about how badly they think they’ve been mistreated.

There is no logical path to these laws [of physics]; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them.

Those whom I love, I reprove and chasten; so be zealous and repent.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures, it is our gift to each other.

Remembering is a noble and necessary act.

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

Persistence is useful, but there’s no point in being an idiot about it.

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