Holiday Update

Posted December 28, 2009, 5:42 p.m.

Yes, I am slacking on entries again. My excuse is a good one though: I’ve been spending time with family, since it was Christmas and all. Merry belated Christmas to everybody, and Happy Early New Year!

We had a great Christmas and extended weekend with my and Melissa’s parents and siblings. It was great to have everybody together and do all those fun, traditional, Christmassy things. I also managed to squeeze in some errands and other things that needed to be done. It was a good, low-key, enjoyable holiday this year. Very low-stress for once.

Anyway, many thanks to everybody for the great gifts and, more importantly, thanks to God for sending us his son, Jesus Christ, whose birth we celebrate this Christmas season.

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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And, above all, don’t lie. Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell. It was the great and the small lies of the Nazi and Communist states that produced the deaths of millions of people.

Some advocates of science insist that questions science cannot answer are meaningless, but I find this unconvincing—and unattractively narrow-minded. The pursuit of science has led me to conclude that the future is open and novelty is real.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There’s far less competition.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

An automaton cannot arouse the public interest. A leader, a fighter, a dictator, can.

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.

The totalitarian states can do great things, but . . . they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle hanging on the wall of the working class flat or laborer’s cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.

The health and order of society depend on the rearing of healthy, happy, and well-integrated children. That is why law, though it may take no notice of ordinary friendships, should recognize and support marriages.

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

If one man conquer in battle a thousand times a thousand men, and if another conquer himself, he is the greatest of conquerors.

I am made, crudely, for success.

But then I found an astonishing thing. I found that the very people who said that mankind was one church from Plato to Emerson were the very people who said that morality had changed altogether, and that what was right in one age was wrong in another.

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

It is better to be a warrior in a garden than to be a gardener in a war.

My son, do not lead the life of a beggar; it is better to die than to beg. When a man looks to the table of another, his existence cannot be considered as life.

Ideas are cheap. It’s only what you do with them that counts.

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