Melissa Is Okay

Posted January 8, 2010, 8:38 p.m.

Just a really quick update: Melissa got through the surgery okay.

There were some complications, so the surgery lasted 4x longer than expected and they will be keeping her overnight. But she’s okay and should be heading home tomorrow.

Thanks for the continued prayers!

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.

Quotes

There’s no point in having sharp images if you’ve got fuzzy ideas.

Jean-Luc Godard

My dear, when people show you who they are, why don’t you believe them?

Maya Angelou

I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.

Ulysses S. Grant

Those who understand freedom as the radically arbitrary license to do just what they want and to have their own way are living in a lie, for by his very nature man is part of a shared existence and his freedom is shared freedom.

Benedict XVI

As a rule, we can’t always tell the difference between the people who are far smarter than us and the people who are dumber. Both groups make choices we can’t understand.

Scott Adams

Totalitarians are fond of saying that Christianity is the enemy of the State—a euphemistic way of saying an enemy of themselves.

Fulton Sheen

The difference between the Republicans and the Democrats is that the Democrats let the poor be corrupt, too.

Oscar Levant

He who has begun is half done; dare to know; begin!

Horace

The key is in remembering that a model is a tool to help us understand the complexities of the universe, and never a substitute for the universe itself.

Nate Silver

People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.

Blaise Pascal

Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.

Teddy Roosevelt

The lesson of all this was, of course, that because we’re a great nation, our challenges seem complex. It will always be this way. But as long as we remember our first principles and believe in ourselves, the future will always be ours.

Ronald Reagan

Don’t judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.

Josemaría Escrivá

Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.

Whittaker Chambers

[A boundary is] an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.

Ambrose Bierce

Diplomacy is utterly useless when there is no force behind it; the diplomat is the servant, not the master of the soldier.

Teddy Roosevelt

It cannot be too often repeated that in this country, in the long run, we all of us tend to go up or go down together.

Teddy Roosevelt

When children come to school knowing that their parents have high expectations, it makes everything a teacher is trying to do easier and more effective. Self-esteem is important, but it is not an entitlement. It has to be earned.

Thomas Friedman

Real power begins where secrecy begins.

Hannah Arendt

For when I look at these various anti-Christian truths, I simply discover that none of them are true. I discover that the true tide and force of all the facts flows the other way.

G. K. Chesterton

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