A Few Blizzard ’09 Pics

Posted December 20, 2009, 11:53 p.m.

I’ve mostly been hanging out indoors, but I did spend some time yesterday afternoon and then again today digging out the car. They plowed our street today, so we are no longer stranded. Our total accumulation was somewhere in the 18″ ballpark, easily ranking in the top three biggest snowstorms I’ve experienced. I love snow!

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

Western values—the basis of the West’s self-evident economic, social, political, scientific, and cultural success—are clearly superior to any other set of values devised by mankind.

The object of a free and wise people should be so to balance parties, that from the weakness of all you may be governed by the moderation of the combined judgments of the whole, not tyrannized over by the blind passions of a few individuals.

Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again.

We’re faced with problems that are caused by the fact that science—or that which passes for science today—is often neither accurate nor reliable.

Just exactly what happened in the twentieth century, anyway? How was it that so many tens of millions had to die, sacrificed to the new dogmas and ideologies? How was it that we discovered something worse, much worse, than the aristocracy and corrupt religious beliefs that communism and fascism sought so rationally to supplant?

One of the grand fallacies of our time is that something beneficial should be subsidized.

For it is better to suffer for doing right, if that should be God’s will, than for doing wrong.

The spirit, if it truly stirs, never brings peace, but always brings a sword. Submission to the spirit may bring peace. But the spirit itself, aroused in man or nation, is a blade that exists to divide the truth from untruth, the living from the dead, the conformist from the Christian.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.

In truth, mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

But if we successfully reduce gun murders without reducing the overall murder rate, that’s not really success. The murder victim doesn’t care whether he was killed with a gun, knife, hammer, car, poison, anvil, or blow-dart. Neither should we.

My brethren, if any one among you wanders from the truth and some one brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Virtue is not always amiable.

Don’t judge a group by its worst 5 percent. If you do, you’re probably in the worst 5 percent of your own group.

And it is a smaller thing to suffer the punishment than to have deserved it.

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