House: Framed and Roofed

Posted August 10, 2009, 9:00 p.m.

Melissa and I ran out to the house on Sunday afternoon just to see the progress. As you can see, the whole house is framed and has a roof and everything. Supposedly it will still be done and ready for delivery in a November-ish time frame.

Now we just need to get everything set up with the loan . . . boy that’s a headache all its own. I’ll get into that later.

I do really wish that we could simplify the process of buying houses, buying cars, buying cell phones, etc. There’s no need to layer complexity upon complexity.

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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[Man] can survive in only one of two ways—by the independent work of his own mind or as a parasite fed by the minds of others. The creator originates. The parasite borrows.

I think there is always a need in any struggle for sensationalists. They get the headlines, they get the ear of the public, they take the race horse chances.

A confederacy of republics must be the establishment in America, or we must cease altogether to retain the republican form of government.

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.

The purpose of the First Amendment’s religion clause was not to protect the state (or the people) from religion, but to protect religion from the state. . . .

Without justice, mercy would be indifference to wrong: without mercy, justice would be vindictive.

The reason why we love those who are straightforward is that they make known the truth, and the knowledge of the truth, considered in itself, is a desirable thing.

They who imagine truth in untruth, and see untruth in truth, never arrive at truth, but follow vain desires. They who know truth in truth, and untruth in untruth, arrive at truth, and follow true desires.

Besides, it is a truth confirmed by the unerring experience of ages, that every man, and every body of men, invested with power, are ever disposed to increase it, and to acquire a superiority over everything that stands in their way.

Mass formation blinds both intelligent and less intelligent people to the same extent. People really don’t have to be part of a conspiracy to systematically make the most foolish mistakes.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good; let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth!

Murder is sometimes punished, free speech always.

It was Communism that was evil, and the more truly a man acted in its spirit and interest, the more certainly he perpetuated evil.

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason. It is our part, by religion and reason joined, to counteract them all we can.

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.

Such is the nature of the understanding, that it cannot be compelled to the belief of anything by outward force. Confiscation of estate, imprisonment, torments, nothing of that nature can have any such efficacy as to make men change the inward judgment that they have framed of things.

How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always burning? Do you not seek a light, ye who are surrounded by darkness?

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