Sunday, October 30, 2011
Chris and Carlene at The Birkby House, Leesburg, VA
A few images from a small, short wedding ceremony at the Birkby House. We had a fair amount of rain and wet ground for most of the session, but all in all things worked out pretty well. Click on image to enlarge. For more images from this wedding, please click here.
Tommy & Anna at Berry Hill, South Boston, VA
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Occupying Wall Street
I suppose a person should not make a judgement on something without actually being there, but I believe I have seen enough of the Occupy Wall Street to draw a couple conclusions: 1) despite the handful of "normal" people shown on conventional news programs, the majority of the people involved are socialists, Marxists and anarchists; and 2) despite these OWS people hating having other people tell them how to live their lives, these OWS people are fundamentally telling other people how to live their lives. Let me start with that.
Back in the 1980's, the Christian Coalition and the Christian right were flexing their political muscle for the first time. Most of this revolved around social issues, specifically abortion. They wanted Roe v. Wade overturned. People on the left fought back. They did not want other people, especially church people, telling them how to live their lives or not giving them the ability to make their own choices regarding their lives (who cares if we're talking about the life of an unborn child). The catch phrase of the 80's was that you cannot legislate morality. In other words, individuals, particularly in America, have an expectation of personal responsibility and freedom to make moral decisions on their own, absent of compulsion from the government or from a group of outsiders. That was something that the left and the right could seemingly agree on.
Flash forward to 2011 and Occupy Wall Street. What do these people want? Well, the best answer to that is "who knows". They are all over the place. But fundamentally what I hear most of them demanding is what other people (and specifically the "rich") should do with their money and how "the rich" should live their lives. It ranges from placing limitations on how much someone can earn to hanging these people if they don't repent from making so much money. What they ultimately want is to legislate morality. They want to strip away an individual's freedom of choice; in this case, how much money that person chooses to make or retain. I'm not "rich", but I certainly do not want some smelly 20 year old Socialist wanna be telling me how much money I can earn or what I should do with what money I have.
Make no mistake, these OWS people are mostly Socialists, Marxists and anarchists. How do I know that? Listen to them. I heard several interviews with people saying that we should abolish money. One girl lamented how messed up our system is that a person has to work so hard just to make money so they could buy food. Others talk in what I could only call "college classroom talking points". They seem to parrot what they heard someone else say in a classroom, with no substance or rational thought that would help push their argument. "We demand that all debt be forgiven" Really? I'm guessing that is because no one owes you anything, right?
The OWS people want to overthrow America . . period. They want to do away with our Constitution and form a union that more resembles their utopia: the 1960's Soviet Union. To that end they have received the blessing of the Communist Party of America, Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and yes, Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi. Ah, the company you keep. These are Barack's people: rich trust fund white kids, socialist in nature, who love a good party with plenty of weed and sex; so they could take photos with their iphone and post on their facebook page, and say "I was there. Not sure what it was all about, wasn't quite sure how to answer the reporter's questions, but I scored some good weed, shouted some good chants, learned some new hand signals, got some free food. It was really groovy man."
And in the end: absolutely nothing was accomplished.
Back in the 1980's, the Christian Coalition and the Christian right were flexing their political muscle for the first time. Most of this revolved around social issues, specifically abortion. They wanted Roe v. Wade overturned. People on the left fought back. They did not want other people, especially church people, telling them how to live their lives or not giving them the ability to make their own choices regarding their lives (who cares if we're talking about the life of an unborn child). The catch phrase of the 80's was that you cannot legislate morality. In other words, individuals, particularly in America, have an expectation of personal responsibility and freedom to make moral decisions on their own, absent of compulsion from the government or from a group of outsiders. That was something that the left and the right could seemingly agree on.
Flash forward to 2011 and Occupy Wall Street. What do these people want? Well, the best answer to that is "who knows". They are all over the place. But fundamentally what I hear most of them demanding is what other people (and specifically the "rich") should do with their money and how "the rich" should live their lives. It ranges from placing limitations on how much someone can earn to hanging these people if they don't repent from making so much money. What they ultimately want is to legislate morality. They want to strip away an individual's freedom of choice; in this case, how much money that person chooses to make or retain. I'm not "rich", but I certainly do not want some smelly 20 year old Socialist wanna be telling me how much money I can earn or what I should do with what money I have.
Make no mistake, these OWS people are mostly Socialists, Marxists and anarchists. How do I know that? Listen to them. I heard several interviews with people saying that we should abolish money. One girl lamented how messed up our system is that a person has to work so hard just to make money so they could buy food. Others talk in what I could only call "college classroom talking points". They seem to parrot what they heard someone else say in a classroom, with no substance or rational thought that would help push their argument. "We demand that all debt be forgiven" Really? I'm guessing that is because no one owes you anything, right?
The OWS people want to overthrow America . . period. They want to do away with our Constitution and form a union that more resembles their utopia: the 1960's Soviet Union. To that end they have received the blessing of the Communist Party of America, Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and yes, Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi. Ah, the company you keep. These are Barack's people: rich trust fund white kids, socialist in nature, who love a good party with plenty of weed and sex; so they could take photos with their iphone and post on their facebook page, and say "I was there. Not sure what it was all about, wasn't quite sure how to answer the reporter's questions, but I scored some good weed, shouted some good chants, learned some new hand signals, got some free food. It was really groovy man."
And in the end: absolutely nothing was accomplished.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Jeremy & Betsy at Rust Manor, Leesburg Virginia
Here are a few quick picks from Jeremy and Betsy's October 8 wedding at Rust Manor. Click on image to enlarge. To see more images, go here.
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