Congress Car in the Snow

Posted March 14, 2010, 11:10 p.m.

Super busy this weekend with a whole lot of catch-up stuff . . . buying a mattress, working on some techie stuff, and various other to-dos. I’m only half done so my posting may be a little sparse for a while yet.

In the interest of not leaving my faithful readers hanging, here is a picture I took all the way back on Saturday, January 30 but (for some reason) never posted. That was a really busy weekend, complete with a sick cat, snow, getting new phones (and a new carrier), and more . . . so it probably just slipped my mind. I stumbled upon it in my iPhoto gallery today.

The last picture I took on my AT&T BlackBerry Bold before trading it in for my Verizon Palm Pre Plus was of a U.S. Congressman’s car on the snowy streets of Washington, D.C. The California license plate says ‘US Congress’ on the left, and ’28’ on the right. Assuming that the ’28’ means ‘District 28,’ which is not necessarily the case, this would be Representative Howard Berman (D-CA 28th).

I see Congressmen’s cars fairly regularly in the area, but I still think it’s kinda cool.

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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Interest groups . . . are made up of people who willingly support those groups with their time and money. They aren’t some diabolical, nebulous enemy of our democracy; they ARE democracy.

Scott Bradford

No person shall . . . be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

U.S. Constitution

The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which.

Mignon McLaughlin

In every man’s writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.

Thomas Carlyle

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

Mignon McLaughlin

I appeal to you, brethren, to take note of those who create dissensions and difficulties, in opposition to the doctrine which you have been taught; avoid them.

Paul the Apostle

So then, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter.

Paul the Apostle

Democracy loosens social ties, but it draws the ties of nature more tight; it brings kindred more closely together, whilst it places the various members of the community more widely apart.

Alexis de Tocqueville

This triangle of truisms, of father, mother[,] and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.

G.K. Chesterton

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

Reason alone is sufficient to recognize the inviolable value of each single human life. . . .

Francis (Pope)

Freedom can move in only one direction at a time. If a man has ten dollars and chooses to spend it on a night of celebration he has thereby lost the freedom to spend that same ten dollars on some new clothes. Once the choice is made, a person is not free to avoid the consequences of that choice.

W. Cleon Skousen

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Will Rogers

Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.

Mignon McLaughlin

Risks are not eliminated by imposing them on the taxpayer instead of on the capitalist.

Milton Friedman

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Ovid

Those who are certain are demonstrating their personality type, or their belief system, not the state of their knowledge.

Michael Crichton

There are three fundamental states of social being: tyranny (you do what I want), slavery (I do what you want), or negotiation.

Jordan Peterson

War is like fishing with a golden net; the loss risked is always greater than the catch can be.

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