DC Excursion

Posted April 3, 2011, 10:11 p.m.

My sister Kristen came up to visit for the weekend. On Friday we went to Joshua Hoover’s great reception down at Carbon in Washington, DC. Then, yesterday afternoon (Saturday), we went down to Hains Point and the Tidal Basin ostensibly to see the cherry blossoms. Of course, one cherry blossom looks the same as any other as far as I’m concerned, but whatever.

It was a little chilly and it rained part of the time we were there (and even hailed a little), but then it cleared up and was a bit better. I brought my camera and took a bunch of photos. Some are of the blossoms, but, as usual, I mostly focused on other random stuff. Pictures below!

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.

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An unjust law is no law at all.

Augustine of Hippo

When a democracy loses its moral sense, it can vote itself right out of democracy.

Fulton Sheen

When you’re right, you don’t have to worry too much about stinging political defeats. All you have to do is sit back and let the winners enact their policies. If you’re really right, and they’re really wrong, their policies will fail.

Scott Bradford

Scripture alone is insufficient. Authoritative teaching is also needed.

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

God reigneth. All is well.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Many economic fallacies are due to conceiving of economic activity as a zero-sum contest, in which what is gained by one is lost by another.

Thomas Sowell

No man chooses evil, because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as an honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

William Faulkner

You only live twice: Once when you are born, and once when you look death in the face.

Ian Fleming

Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of his country. No qualification of wealth, of birth, of religious faith, or of civil profession is permitted to fetter the judgement or disappoint the inclination of the people.

James Madison

We are witnessing, I think, a new American phenomenon. The two parties have become almost indistinguishable; and each is controlled by the establishment.

William O. Douglas

Conflict is the essential core of a free and open society.

Saul Alinsky

Money is the best counterfeit money.

Mignon McLaughlin

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

George Washington

There’s no difference between a white snake and a black snake. They’ll both bite.

Thurgood Marshall

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Laurence J. Peter

I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back.

Harry S. Truman

There are only two kinds of foreign countries—those that require shots and those that don’t.

Thomas Sowell

There are many hypotheses in science that are wrong. That’s perfectly alright; it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.

Carl Sagan

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.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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