Busy Few Days Ahead

Posted January 6, 2010, 11:59 p.m.

For at least the next few days I’ll be posting less than usual. My wife, Melissa, will be having surgery on Friday and that—and a few other things going on—will end up taking up a ton of time. Posting here will be about 53rd priority on my list until next week.

Of course there’s always the chance that I’ll be so bored in the hospital waiting room that I’ll write for the site. Don’t bet on it, but anything is possible.

Anyway, Melissa’s surgery is a fairly routine surgery to remove a large ovarian cyst. Assuming no complications, it will be an outpatient surgery and she’ll be home on Friday. There’s no need to worry, but you are totally welcome and encouraged to pray for her :-).

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

When children come to school knowing that their parents have high expectations, it makes everything a teacher is trying to do easier and more effective. Self-esteem is important, but it is not an entitlement. It has to be earned.

Literally speaking, there exist no mysteries, there are only truths; but truth becomes a mystery to him who does not understand it.

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.

There is nothing better or more necessary than love.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

Science consists largely in telling people things which they already know, in a language which they cannot understand.

The great masquerade of evil has played havoc with all our ethical concepts. For evil to appear disguised as light, charity, historical necessity[,] or social justice is quite bewildering to anyone brought up on out traditional ethical concepts, while for the Christian who bases his life on the Bible, it merely confirms the fundamental wickedness of evil.

I had much rather be a real President for three years and a half than a figurehead for seven years and a half.

Socialism is structured so that it will never achieve its stated goals. The reason is self-evident: Socialism is a self-perpetuating consumption of other people’s labors, and when those labors run out, the whole system collapses.

And he who lives a hundred years, ignorant and unrestrained, a life of one day is better if a man is wise and reflecting.

I’m the king of debt. I’m great with debt, nobody knows debt better than me. I made a fortune by using debt.

I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic.

The only problem with demolishing examples of Brutalist architecture is that there are other examples still standing.

And as to state religions, I have always held, that if they be sometimes of momentary service to the interests of political power, they always, sooner or later, become fatal to the Church.

‘Stand on the other side from where the physics is happening’ is actually a good general rule for scientific equipment.

If kings and peoples had only had their true interests in view ever since the beginning of the world, the name of war would scarcely be known among mankind.

Better a thousand times err on the side of over-readiness to fight, than to err on the side of tame submission to injury, or cold-blooded indifference to the misery of the oppressed.

When men are uniform in their opinions, it affords evidence that they are sincere. When they are shifting, it gives reason to believe, they do not change from conviction.

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