…that this guy looks exactly like Steve Martin to me.
Insert obligatory rant about how ID wouldn’t be required in a free society, and all that…
ETA: Okay, Alert Readers have pointed out the significance, which is that that actually is Steve Martin.
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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.
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You have to love that he’s apparently selling alcohol, tobacco (close), and firearms at a single source. It’s an ATF one-stop-shop. UHMERICA!!!!
Considering that, perhaps it actually IS Martin.
I don’t see a banjo, but that’s either Steve Martin or a guy who should be a professional impersonator.
Yea, apparently it is Steve Martin: http://laughspin.com/steve-martin-has-a-public-park-in-new-york-where-marijuana-is-permitted-video/
Upon reflecting on the fact that it’s apparently in NYC, I believe the firearms have been photoshopped into the picture. Close examination would appear to confirm this. Still, it’s a clever bit of comedy.
ID. Definitely an invasion of our privacy. Yet, in the public welfare we need it to vote and contract deals. It is a pendulum swinging. We loose liberties and then gain them back.
I don’t much care for mandatory I.D., but I care even less for people voting more than once in any given election, or illegals voting at all, or even being in the country. And I don’t know of any solution to those issues that doesn’t involve some kind of I.D. system. A sufficiently secure border would alleviate the illegal alien problem, but would do nothing about the “vote early, vote often” issue. Not to mention identity theft.