The Ultimate Answer to Kings: Oh, but we do, Joe. We do.

They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means "The Ultimate Argument of Kings," and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. "We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it's about: You'll do as I say or I'll send my goons to kill you."

I thought about that for a long time. If there's an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I've got bullets - he's got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that's not going to happen. So if there's an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain't bullets.

It finally came to me - and that's when I left the city, abandoned a goodly percentage of my goods, and gave all that was behind me a good, stiff Randian Shrug.

The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Oh, but we do, Joe. We do.

Biden: ‘I Wish’ Jobs Bill Critics Knew What It Feels Like to be Raped, Robbed

“I wish these guys who thought it was temporary, I wish they had some notion of what it was like to be on the other side of a gun, or [to have] a 200-pound man standing over you, telling you to submit,” Biden told a crowd at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia on Tuesday, adding, “Folks, it matter, it matters.”

He is determined that we will all have a better chance to get that notion, since as far as I can tell Joe's vision of the "Jobs Bill" has to do with hiring more cops and nothing else. And they will be only too happy to show us what it's like to be on the wrong end of a gun, or to have a 200-pound man standing over us, telling us to submit.

2 comments:

Kevin Wilmeth said...: Funny, Wendy McElroy just posted a picture of what we can expect under that there jobs bill.; October 19, 2011 at 3:16 PM
Mayberry said...: I like it when they put their plans out in the open. Tells me to buy more ammo...; October 19, 2011 at 5:42 PM