Blizzard of 2010 Photos

Posted February 7, 2010, 3:16 p.m.

I’ve been loving the Blizzard of 2010 here in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. Normally I would have just sat-tight for a day or two, but Melissa’s art show wasn’t canceled so I was out in the thick of it. The Subaru, once again, handled it beautifully. Today I went ahead and dug Melissa’s car out too. Here are some photos!

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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Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

Too many of us believe we will never need to act individually—violently, if necessary—to protect ourselves, our families, our liberty, our communities, or our country.

Thus while walking along the road one needs not to be thinking of the end at every step.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

On the other hand, if you’re just starting out as a writer, you could do worse than strip your television’s electric plug-wire, wrap a spike around it, and then stick it back into the wall. See what blows, and how far. Just an idea.

No one can have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.

Under this authority, Congress may mortgage any or all the revenues of the union, . . . [and] create a national debt, so large, as to exceed the ability of the country ever to sink. I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befall this country, than to be loaded with a debt exceeding their ability ever to discharge.

People are rightly punished for one and only one ultimate reason: because they are loved.

The fact that I myself, at the moment of painting, do not understand my own pictures, does not mean that these pictures have no meaning. . . .

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

People who live their lives selfishly and at the detriment of others are often the ones who complain loudest about how badly they think they’ve been mistreated.

When I say ‘follow your heart,’ it’s actually shorthand for ‘follow your heart unless your brain makes a reasonable objection.’

Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws. . . .

He is no fool that gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

Matters of fact are stubborn things.

The politicians regard the public as a cow to be milked. . . .

Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who’ve never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, contempt and general indifference, and they call it love.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil, in its worst state an intolerable one. . . .

The totalitarian system doesn’t have to be overcome so much as one must somehow survive until it destroys itself.

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