Great Weekend

Posted September 13, 2009, 11:23 p.m.

It’s been a great weekend, but it’s been a busy weekend. My sister came up Friday afternoon to visit for the weekend so we had a nice dinner with her at our favorite Thai restaurant (Star Thai in Fair Lakes).

On Saturday, Melissa had an art show in Falls Church which apparently went reasonably well. While she was at the show (with my sister playing art assistant), I had a few things I needed to get done. You know, fun things like getting new tires for the Subaru and buying a Mossberg 500A shotgun at Virginia Arms in Manassas. Oddly enough, the tires cost quite a bit more than the shotgun. We concluded the day with a great dinner with the whole clan at my parents’/grandmother’s house.

Today, after Mass, we had a nice lunch with my parents (so the whole Bradford clan was together) and then we all went out to the house. The drywall has been put in so it’s starting to look much more like a house. I probably should have taken pictures, but I didn’t. It’s looking really good. Then we went to the mall for Melissa and Kristen to shop. I just went around to the different computer and cell phone stores to check out all the fancy new technology from Apple, HTC, Palm, RIM, and others. I’m a nerd, I know.

As always it was great to have spend some time with my sister, parents, and grandmother. Good times.

Now, sleep.

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

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.

The nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.

Every man of power by the very fact of that power, is capable of doing damage to his neighbors; but we cannot afford to discourage the development of such men merely because it is possible they may use their power for wrong ends.

Favoring action over inaction, even in the face of uncertainty, is generally a good approach to life.

He who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much; and he who is dishonest in a very little is dishonest also in much.

The wisdom of the past was hard-earned, and your dead ancestors may have something useful to tell you.

The Constitution does not prohibit legislatures from enacting stupid laws.

What’s weird about modern western society is millions of people pretend to not understand basic truths, because it has been implicitly accepted that ‘political correctness’ is more important than truth.

In general, if you were to design a country ideally suited to flourish in the world we are living in, it would look more like the United States than any other.

None of us are good at mind reading, and we know it, even if we don’t admit it.

Marriage is a socially arranged solution for the problem of getting people to stay together and care for children that the mere desire for children, and the sex that makes children possible, does not solve.

I think the only difference between me and the other candidates is that I’m more honest and my women are more beautiful.

The one certain way to invite disaster is to be opulent, offensive, and unarmed.

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.

I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.

Students don’t need to have their own faddish or unthinking linguistic habits merely validated at school. They need to have their communication skills sharpened and elevated, lest they enter the adult speech-world handicapped by sounding ill-educated.

The price system works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time. We never realize how well it functions until it is prevented from functioning. . . .