Slow Day

Posted July 27, 2009, 11:04 p.m.

It’s been a slow day. First, it’s a slow news day. I’ve hardly found anything of interest today, which is out of the ordinary but not unheard of. Second, I took a sick day from work because I woke up with a brutal sore throat and congestion. I slept late, and really didn’t do much but drink fluids and watch 007 films all day. Thankfully I’m feeling a bit better now. Vitamin C, water, and Mucinex are my friends.

Despite being sick, which is no fun, it was nice to have a slow day. I’m sure it won’t last though. I’ll probably be up to work tomorrow—working from home, at least, but probably even going into the office. Tons of stuff to do this week, and then yet another busy weekend ahead. I’d love to have a nice, slow, do-nothing 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.

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Western man got rid of God in order to make himself God, and then he became bored with his own divinity.

Risks are not eliminated by imposing them on the taxpayer instead of on the capitalist.

The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed . . .

If a man foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my ungrudging love; the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

I am unacquainted with [the Creator’s] designs, but I shall not cease to believe in them because I cannot fathom them, and I had rather mistrust my own capacity than His justice.

The West did not get rich because of slavery or imperialism or because of a neocolonialism that supposedly siphons off the riches of Third World countries. It is successful because of its culture, rooted in the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian heritage, because of the distinctive institutions that developed over centuries, because of the freedom granted to individuals.

America is now free. She now enjoys a greater portion of political liberty than any other country under heaven. How long she may continue so depends entirely upon her own caution and wisdom.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do what I tell you?

The world may disagree with the Church, but the world knows very definitely with what it is disagreeing. . . .

I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.

The Fifth Amendment is an old friend and a good friend, one of the great landmarks in men’s struggle to be free of tyranny, to be decent and civilized.

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.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

The people of these United States are the rightful masters of both Congresses and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.-

It is only life and love that give love and life.

The question is not what power the federal government ought to have, but what powers in fact have been given by the people. . . . The federal union is a government of delegated powers. It has only such as are expressly conferred upon it and such as are reasonably to be implied from those granted.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

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