Ban this! Ban that! Ban the other thing over there! Gad, you’re boring.
And when you’re against everything and for nothing, you will invariably get bitten on the ass by your own oppressive nihilism.
Erika Quinn who described herself as a Moms Demand Action leader for Oklahoma, was ordered by the courts to remain 300 yards or more away from the children named in the order, as well as surrender any and all firearms that she may own.
And we will all be ever so sorry to hear about your troubles.
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 abandoned the city and most of my stuff, 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.
Little Bear 2009-2018
Laddie the Amazing Torso Boy 2011-2020
"Freedom Outlaw. It’s not what you do; it’s how you do it. It’s an attitude — from which actions always follow. It’s a do-it-yourself occupation. And a lifetime vocation."
- Claire Wolfe, Backwoods Home Companion, 6-07-10
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
- G. K. Chesterton
"If every Jewish and anti-Nazi family in Germany had owned a Mauser rifle and twenty rounds of ammunition and the will to use it, Adolf Hitler would be a little-known footnote to the history of the Weimar Republic."
- Aaron Zelman
"Authority should derive from the consent of the governed, not from the threat of force."
- Barbie
"Never underestimate the ability of shit to find a fan."
- F. Paul Wilson
"You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs." The sophistry of villains - Bah!
- Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star
“Truth is, I’m not specifically interested in an armed society. What I want is a free society.”
- George Potter
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
- D. H. Lawrence
Aristippus passed Diogenes as he was washing lentils.
He said, “If you could but learn to flatter the king, you would not have to live on lentils.”
Diogenes said, “And if you could learn to live on lentils, you would not have to flatter the king.”
Sandy Hook was a Gun Free Zone. So was the Westroads Mall. And the Aurora Theater. And Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Should I go on? They were all Gun Free Zones.Â
– Reality
“Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.”
- Robert A. Heinlein
"Civilization is the process of setting man free from men."
- Ayn Rand
If ever a man should ask you
For your business or your name
Tell him to go and fuck himself
Tell his friends to do the same.
For a man who'd trade his liberty
For a safe and dreamless sleep
Doesn't deserve the both of them
And neither shall he keep.
- Frank Turner
Don't be afraid to try something big, just because you're an amateur. The Ark was built by amateurs. The Titanic was built by professionals.
- Anon
"Nothing scares a police officer more than the threat of being treated the way that they treat people every day."
- Anon
"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet."
- Gen. James Mattis
"Lust for power is the most flagrant of all the passions."
- Tacitus
"The man who knows what freedom means will find a way to be free."
- F.A. "Baldy" Harper
"The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude."
- William James
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
- Viktor Frankl
The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country.
- Milton Friedman
“We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.”
- William Faulkner
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
- Ernest Hemingway
"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
John Moses Browning - The most badass Mormon who ever lived.
"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.'"
- Ronald Reagan
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
- James A. Baldwin
"It is better to be a warrior in a garden than to be a gardener in a war."
- Anon
“I tried to live in such a way that, when dying, I would rather feel happy than scared.”
– Witold Pilecki
Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
- Sallust
"Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark."
- Lazarus Long
Read, every day, something no one else is reading.
Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do.
It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
– Â Christopher Morley
“I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason. He must be able to detect no inconsistencies in slavery; he must be made to feel that slavery is right; and he can be brought to that only when he ceases to be a man.”
-Frederick Douglass
ESSE QUAM VIDERI –
To be, rather than to seem
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
“A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.”
– Ida B. Wells
Do what thy manhood bid thee do; from none but self expect applause.
He noblest lives and noblest dies, who makes and keeps his self made laws
– Sir Richard Burton
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
– Winston Churchill
“Happiness is a journey, not a destination. Dance as though no one is watching you. Love as though you have never been hurt before. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.”
― Father Alfred d’Souza
I’d love to be a mouse in the corner and see if she actually has any guns. You know, those ugly, evil things she thinks none of the rest of us should be trusted with… Feinstein isn’t the only such hypocrite, by a long stretch.
Mama, she tweeted that she owns three guns, and posted pics of her holding a rifle.What isn’t clear from the screencaps I’ve seen is whether the pics and claims were posted before April 14 when the restraining order expired.
I followed some links and ended up at her blog. Tried reading some… and that woman is bugf–k nuts. She should not be loose without a keeper, and I can understand why the restraining order forbade her possessing firearms (and according the court docket, that order was granted initially as an emergency and then upheld after she appeared in court).
Like Bear I too took a look at the ladies blog. I think Bear was being a little too kind in his assessment.
I’m glad there was an order to take this wing-nut’s guns away. After all if it saves one life… *grin*
Honi soit qui mal y pense (Shame be to him who thinks evil of it)
I didn’t read the blog… I’m allergic to rabbit holes. LOL But I have bad news for you, MJR and Bear… (as if you didn’t know, of course)- like any other aggressive criminal, she can get all the guns she wants if she really wants them. “Taking them away” isn’t the answer, obviously… well armed defense is. There’s good, permanent cure for aggressive wing-nuts, and nobody needs to go near a court – at least not until afterwards. sigh
Any sort of “restraining order” against this person will be just as useless as those against any other predator or maniac. Whoever is watching those children simply needs to be ready and able to deal with it… I sincerely hope they are.
I never did figure out what she did?
Hey MamaLiberty, I was kidding about the taking the guns away thing but not about the she is nuts part. BTW I’m surprised you don’t look at the blogs of these wing nuts, as SunTzu said “know your enemy” and all that.
I have, of course, seen things on the Box about Moms Demand Action, etc., (I almost abbreviated them as MDA, but I won’t insult a charity doing things for Muscular Dystrophy, knowing some people so afflicted), but I thought it was only on the ‘net. I’d heard about some TV ads by them, but only in odd areas, & as I don’t watch TV, that as well was only vague.
Well, today I had to go to & through Trashville. I avoid it unless I’m paid to do so or my objective is on the other side, but I was buying another motorcycle, so it was a vital matter. In my constant scanning (if you don’t do it too, you aren’t really driving) I saw a big billboard advising me that I should “Tell Kroger: Guns and groceries don’t mix” (with pic of a balding, bespectacled, clean-shaven white dude about my age, 50-ish, with his scary EBR slung over his shoulder).
No, I won’t, because in my experience they do mix with no problem. Every time I buy groceries I’m armed, as are some others I notice & undoubtedly many about whom I can’t tell. My local bank branch is in a Kroger, & I’m sure as hell not going to take possession of large sums of cash in view of who-knows-whom, as I did today, without a miscreant-deterrent device. As a bonus, Kroger has given them the (politely phrased version of) the option of pissing up a rope, for which I cheer Kroger: I’d hate to have to change stores, there not being a lot of choices in my area.
I should note that this was not in one of the more liberal areas of Trashville, such as Brentwood, Green/Forest Hills, etc.: the billboard was in one of the most heavily illegal-alien-ridden parts of town (Murfreesboro Rd-Antioch {locally called Hispanioch}, for those familiar with the area).
My sincere apologies for the long post, but I was a bit shocked to find such a billboard here at all. Then again, Trashville is to TN as Austin is to TX, being a big part of why I don’t go there.
Wow! That was even longer than I thought it was when typing it. Maybe I ought to go hang out with that prick who annoyed Tam. Not a bad, idea, actually….if I didn’t bore him to tears with my droning on & on I could just amuse myself thumping on him. Difference is, Joel’s readers I don’t want to annoy. Mea maxima culpa.
MJR, I never did quite understand that “know your enemy” thing the way you put it here. I don’t need to wade through a swamp to know it is dangerous, and I don’t need to swallow poison to know I don’t want any. A lifetime of dealing with and observing all kinds of people, in almost every setting, gives me plenty of the insight I need into how people think and act – and how to avoid them. I’m going to spend my limited remaining time on earth building positive things, not wallowing in ugly stuff.
But, each to his/her own. 🙂
You know, I heard more than once somewhere or the other that the picture in the top was actually made deliberately by anti-prohibitionists at the time as satire making fun of prohibitionist women.
Not really related to anything you were saying but I just think its funny.