I had the honor of again representing Community of Faith as a lay-delegate at the Virginia Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. This year, the Conference was held from June 13-16 at the Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, Virginia.
The Thaxton Light
Connor picked out a seat near the door in the back corner of an anonymous classroom, nervously awaiting the start of his first class at Freedom High. He wasn’t happy.
He had asked his parents to put the move off for a year so he could finish high school with his life-long friends, but they wouldn’t listen. So there he was, forced to coast through his entire senior year with no friends at a new school in a town he didn’t even like. Connor had a hard enough time finding a niche at his old school, and didn’t have the time or inclination to go through all that social crap again. He hoped to just trudge through the year, get halfway decent grades, and get the hell back to civilization as soon as he possibly could.
Former President Reagan Dies
Former President Ronald Reagan (R) died today surrounded by family members at his home in Los Angeles. He was 93.
Before entering the world of politics, Reagan acted in over fifty films between 1937 and 1964. He was president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1947 to 1952.
A Farewell Address—Ronald Reagan
My fellow Americans:
This is the thirty-fourth time I’ll speak to you from the Oval Office and the last. We’ve been together for eight years now, and soon it’ll be time for me to go. But before I do, I wanted to share some thoughts, some of which I’ve been saying for a long time.
Vice-Presidential Loophole
I found a link to this CNN.com feature on the Drudge Report. It is a list of potential Vice Presidential contenders for the 2004 Democratic ticket.
One surprising name in the list is former President Bill Clinton.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.