Short Stories Archives - Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

Parking Vulture (writing as Tamera Finn)

Posted February 24, 2004, 2:26 p.m.

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

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

All religions, arts, and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man’s life.

The ballot box produces conformity without unanimity; the marketplace, unanimity without conformity.

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

The said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of The United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.

The ultimate victory over radical Islam will have to come from civilized Islam.

And every prophet who teaches the truth, but does not do what he teaches, is a false prophet.

I wish for nothing more than a good government and a constitution under which our liberties will be perfectly safe.

You might think a topic is too complicated to master for your use, but you might learn otherwise in less than a minute if you bother to check.

The more you do for others, the more you have. The more you give to others, the greater your abundance.

You can’t get good Chinese takeout in China and Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That’s all you need to know about communism.

God alone is the inciter and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor.

No one man, therefore, or any class of men, have a right, by the law of nature, or of God, to assume or exercise authority over their fellows.

We are never so inescapably ourselves as when we are alone with God.

From the very beginning in the womb of a woman, until the very last moment when a person’s breath speaks of his or her presence in the world, this life is human, even if it develops into an immense array of conditions of weakness [and] suffering. . . .

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men—from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

Creation of the universe from absolute and complete nothing marked the beginning of space, time, and matter. Theology has held that position for over three thousand years. Cosmology in the last decade or so has come to agree.

In America any boy may become President, and I suppose it’s just one of the risks he takes.

If you do not know how great marriage is, you cannot know how terrible divorce is.

State welfare leaves the poor with little incentive to improve their situation because their basic needs are being met. A free ride through life doesn’t help people in the long run—it destroys their greatest capacity to learn and grow.

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