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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 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.
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I’ve been using a small square of lexan to scrape ice from the windshield of my car. Serious overkill, actually, but it was given to me ten years ago and I never saw any need for anything else. I guess that means I’m not a knife nut… [grin]
It needs a Picatinny rail. Then we’d have to have a rail-mount snowbrush to go with it. And a bayonet.
Uh, I’m missing something. It’s an ice scraper. Picture’s too dark for me to make out much; must be some low-drag, high-speed, operator’s operational aspect I don’t see. Does it come in an OD retention thigh holster?
It’s a Ka-bar ice scraper, with the classic Ka-bar handle! Clearly, you are untactical, sir!
Thats some pretty funny stuff there (Ka-bar icescraper), I thought it was a squeegee until I saw the iced windshield in background.
They forgot to add “extreme” in the description.
Joel: Hey! I’m as tactikewl as they come (at the local mall)! I see what you mean after getting to a different computer and monitor. I wasn’t kidding before about the picture being too dark for me to see detail. The handle needs hammered leather disks for superior icy-death gripping…