My Sister’s Fall Showcase (Videos and Photos)

Posted October 31, 2010, 10:45 p.m.

Melissa and I spent a nice weekend down in the Roanoke area. The main purpose of the trip was to see my sister Kristen dance in her Fall Showcase with Arthur Murray Dance Center of Roanoke, which was held Saturday afternoon at the Hotel Roanoke. She did a great job, as always.

This time, I brought my Canon camera instead of relying on a cell phone, so I got some good photos and halfway-decent videos (as good as can be expected with the room’s crappy lighting). I took a number of random photos before, during, and after the showcase, and took video of Kristen’s various routines.

We also got to spend some time with both my and Melissa’s parents in celebration of both of our birthdays, which was nice. It’s great to spend some time with the family (and get free food ;-)).

Anyway . . . videos and photos from the Showcase below. Enjoy!

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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If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions.

If America’s wealth were spread around the world it would soon be dissipated, but if her system of free government and free enterprise were spread around the world, nations would soon find them to be perpetual producers of wealth.

For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness. Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

We have been forgetting the basic truth that the greatest threat to human freedom is the concentration of power, whether in the hands of government or anyone else.

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it. . . .

If any one refuses to obey what we say in this letter, note that man, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed. Do not look on him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother.

The revolution of the United States was the result of a mature and dignified taste for freedom, and not of a vague or ill-defined craving for independence.

It is the weak man who urges compromise—never the strong man.

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

There is one God, and one Christ, and one Church, and one chair founded by the voice of the Lord on the rock. . . . Whoever gathers elsewhere scatters.

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.

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths.

A free and open society is an on-going conflict, interrupted periodically by compromises—which then become the start for the continuation of conflict, compromise, and on ad infinitum.

If we attach great importance to the opinion of ordinary men in great unanimity when we are dealing with daily matters, there is no reason why we should disregard it when we are dealing with history or fable.

The fact that I want to fly to Albuquerque does not constitute probable cause for an invasive search.

Thy eyes beheld my unformed substance; in thy book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

We need to safeguard property rights, pay our debts, and fulfill obligations freely incurred.

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus [and] the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Some dogma, we are told, was credible in the twelfth century, but is not credible in the twentieth. You might as well say that a certain philosophy can be believed on Mondays, but cannot be believed on Tuesdays.

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