Thursday, April 30, 2009
We Heart Aimee
Thanks to my kindred spirit and fellow Hot Mama, Aimee, who came over Wednesday night bringing gifts of diapers and toys! We're planning on a picnic lunch in the park soon with our respective babies so that Aimee can get more cuddles out of Miles. (Last night was just too close to his bedtime and his social wiles were lacking.)
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Rajun Cajun 2009
This last Sunday continued a Bradshaw tradition. 2 years ago Matt took us to the Rajun Cajun Crawfish festival downtown as part of an anniversary surprise. Last year we took a newborn, almost 3 month old "baby" Miles and this year grown up, toddler "short stack" Miles accompanied us to the outdoor festival. (This time we came armed with plenty of sunscreen!) The Chalk family joined us to dance along with live Zydeco music, dine on corn dogs, philly cheesesteak and our first taste of fresh crawfish. The rain threatened to come over the riverbanks but the most we got was a light sprinkling once an hour or so and we decided to leave right about when the most ominous part of the storm approached making it home just in time to avoid getting drenched. A good time was had by all!
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Taxed ENOUGH Already!
I am a little shocked. Thousands of people packed Audubon park yesterday yet not only did this event not make national news (except for Fox) it barely made local news. Every single station was parked in the field, filming and interviewing us but all I saw was about a 5 second spot on channel 5 last night. If this doesn't prove my conspiracy theory that everyone other than Fox is bleeding heart I don't know what does. Some cameraman had the audacity to ask me, "What do you say to the fact that Obama hasn't been in office 100 days yet? Don't you think you should give him a chance?" I looked right at him and said, "This is not about Obama. This is about how fed up we as a society are of being constantly robbed by Washington. My beef is not with Obama or even the prior administration. It's with Congress ignoring the very people it is meant to represent." He asked what I want them to do. I said, "I want them to go home and get real jobs." Did my comments make it to air? Of course not.
Switching gears now to quell some of my anger: Miles had a blast. We showed up at 1 with a cooler full of picnic lunch and snacks. Short Stack played "soccer" with Dada and walked up to every single person in the park to introduce himself. He even took a cookie from a nice older man who said it was ok because he "had grandchildren too". Once it started to get crowded we had to confine him to his stroller where he watched in wonder at all the cars who drove by honking and some even waving their OWN signs from behind the steering wheel! To quote Matt the energy was fun and intense until the stage turned into a "Christian conservative claptrap." Enjoy some of the pics!
Switching gears now to quell some of my anger: Miles had a blast. We showed up at 1 with a cooler full of picnic lunch and snacks. Short Stack played "soccer" with Dada and walked up to every single person in the park to introduce himself. He even took a cookie from a nice older man who said it was ok because he "had grandchildren too". Once it started to get crowded we had to confine him to his stroller where he watched in wonder at all the cars who drove by honking and some even waving their OWN signs from behind the steering wheel! To quote Matt the energy was fun and intense until the stage turned into a "Christian conservative claptrap." Enjoy some of the pics!
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
"Tax Day" Tea Party
Take part with the Bradshaw Trio, a good sampling of the city of Memphis and the rest of the ENTIRE COUNTRY on Wednesday, April 15 (Tax Day) at Audubon Park, corner of Southern Avenue and Perkins Extended. Join us for a picnic lunch and some mingling with like-minded people who happen to despise the present taxation process just as much as we do. I'm sure the local news outlets will be there and a fun time should be had by all.
We'll be there around noon and will stick around til people start getting off of work or til whenever Miles needs his nap. ;) Hope to see ya there!!
Monday, April 13, 2009
Overton Square Crawfish Festival
This Saturday the Bradshaw trio walked from the house all the way down to the Bayou restaurant for some fresh muffaletta sandwich. We also landed ourselves on the news but that's a different story for a different link. My main concern in this blog is to share pics of Miles' experiences with people wearing giant red foam crawfish on their heads and his first taste of red beans & rice. (He was not a fan.)
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
6 Commonly Held Beliefs Among People Who Lack Common Sense
I love this article from LewRockwell.com. Here's a sample of my favorite parts:
* The constitution is open to interpretation
I love this one. I’m going to employ the transitive law of logic here: If A then B. If B then C. Hence, If A then C.
Here’s A:
If the constitution is open to interpretation then of course, as we’ve seen, every administration will interpret it to their advantage.
Here’s B:
If every administration interprets the constitution differently then that means that it has many meanings.
Here’s C:
If the constitution has many meanings, then it is by definition, meaningless.
Our founding fathers based our entire government, our economic system, our monetary system, our national defense, our justice system, our civil rights on this document. It’s obvious they did not intend for it to be meaningless hence it is not open to interpretation.
Of course "interpretation" here means soulless, slick government lawyers and justices abusing and manipulating its meaning.
* We live in a free market economy and the lack of regulation by the government has caused the current economic recession
Free market: A free market is a market that is free of government intervention and regulation, besides the minimal function of maintaining the legal system and protecting property rights.
There is not a single market in this country that is not regulated or intervened on behalf of the state in the form of taxes, commissions, bureaus, regulatory committees, offices, departments etc…
Therefore, there is no lack of regulation nor free markets since all markets are regulated and therefore, our free market economy does not exist and so couldn’t possibly be the cause of our current economic recession.
A little research on the Internet will show one that prices in all markets are higher due to government regulation and inefficiency while we still have all the same problems we would have without it:
Even though we have the FDA we still have salmonella in food products.
Even though we have the FAA and the TSA we still have hijacked planes and plane crashes.
Even though we have the Department of Education we still have one of the world’s worst education systems.
And the list goes on. This argument is so tired and worn out it’s a sure way to demonstrate that you are in fact going through life fat, drunk and stupid.
* Time travel is possible
As much respect as I have for Albert Einstein, I have to disagree with him. Time travel is in fact not possible.
3.5 million years ago the entire continent of Africa was covered with tropical rain forests and our earliest ancestors were swinging from the treetops to get from place to place.
Then all of a sudden the craziest thing happened: the earth started to warm and the rain forests started to dry up and die. So our ancestors had to come down out of the tree tops and move along the ground to get from place to place.
In doing so, they realized that standing upright on two legs was faster and more efficient. Ladies and gentlemen I give you the earliest homo-sapiens.
It’s obvious that time travel is not possible because if it were, Al Gore and the other environmental nut-jobs would have gone back in time by now, reversed the global warming and saved the rain forests and we wouldn’t be here today.
Even sadder is that if we’re not here today then Al Gore wouldn’t be here today and there would be no Internet.
April 9, 2009
Don Cooper [send him mail] is a Florida native, Navy veteran and Oxford educated economist living and working in the Midwest.
Copyright © 2009 by LewRockwell.com. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit is given.http://www.lewrockwell.com/cooper/cooper12.html
* The constitution is open to interpretation
I love this one. I’m going to employ the transitive law of logic here: If A then B. If B then C. Hence, If A then C.
Here’s A:
If the constitution is open to interpretation then of course, as we’ve seen, every administration will interpret it to their advantage.
Here’s B:
If every administration interprets the constitution differently then that means that it has many meanings.
Here’s C:
If the constitution has many meanings, then it is by definition, meaningless.
Our founding fathers based our entire government, our economic system, our monetary system, our national defense, our justice system, our civil rights on this document. It’s obvious they did not intend for it to be meaningless hence it is not open to interpretation.
Of course "interpretation" here means soulless, slick government lawyers and justices abusing and manipulating its meaning.
* We live in a free market economy and the lack of regulation by the government has caused the current economic recession
Free market: A free market is a market that is free of government intervention and regulation, besides the minimal function of maintaining the legal system and protecting property rights.
There is not a single market in this country that is not regulated or intervened on behalf of the state in the form of taxes, commissions, bureaus, regulatory committees, offices, departments etc…
Therefore, there is no lack of regulation nor free markets since all markets are regulated and therefore, our free market economy does not exist and so couldn’t possibly be the cause of our current economic recession.
A little research on the Internet will show one that prices in all markets are higher due to government regulation and inefficiency while we still have all the same problems we would have without it:
Even though we have the FDA we still have salmonella in food products.
Even though we have the FAA and the TSA we still have hijacked planes and plane crashes.
Even though we have the Department of Education we still have one of the world’s worst education systems.
And the list goes on. This argument is so tired and worn out it’s a sure way to demonstrate that you are in fact going through life fat, drunk and stupid.
* Time travel is possible
As much respect as I have for Albert Einstein, I have to disagree with him. Time travel is in fact not possible.
3.5 million years ago the entire continent of Africa was covered with tropical rain forests and our earliest ancestors were swinging from the treetops to get from place to place.
Then all of a sudden the craziest thing happened: the earth started to warm and the rain forests started to dry up and die. So our ancestors had to come down out of the tree tops and move along the ground to get from place to place.
In doing so, they realized that standing upright on two legs was faster and more efficient. Ladies and gentlemen I give you the earliest homo-sapiens.
It’s obvious that time travel is not possible because if it were, Al Gore and the other environmental nut-jobs would have gone back in time by now, reversed the global warming and saved the rain forests and we wouldn’t be here today.
Even sadder is that if we’re not here today then Al Gore wouldn’t be here today and there would be no Internet.
April 9, 2009
Don Cooper [send him mail] is a Florida native, Navy veteran and Oxford educated economist living and working in the Midwest.
Copyright © 2009 by LewRockwell.com. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit is given.http://www.lewrockwell.com/cooper/cooper12.html
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