On his way east, Big Brother was attacked by a suicide collider.
Antlerhu Akbar! Or maybe it thought BB insulted its mother.
BB speculates that its method of crossing the road involved closing its eyes and trying to get it over with quickly. But I suspect that if the SPLC hears about this it’ll probably try to get BB charged with a hate crime.
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. Why do the gungrabbers never mention this?
- 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.
– 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
“Antlerhu Akbar!” That’s funny!
I was just reading “The Life and Times of Muhammad” by Sir John Glubb and I found myself saying out loud, “Aloha Snackbar!”.
My suicide collider had already made it across the road and doubled back. Quite the sight when a deer slides up your windshield… Stupid deer.
Did BB keep the meat?
I hope that your Big Bro is OK. I know what it’s like being hit by a dear. Back a decade and a half ago one came out and smacked into the side of my car. The insurance guy wrote it up as being hit by a flying object.
I doubt it. He still has two days on the road to go – or did, before this.
Getting a deer in the front clip and possibly (Allah forbid) into the windshield was the most common way of having a deer wreck your car when I was young in Michigan. Doubt it’s changed much since then. But I don’t remember ever hearing of a deer colliding with the side of a car.
Been hit in the side twice in broad daylight by deer that thought that could fit through the side window. They were wrong, and it sucked more for them than for me. Glad the window was up both times. Would have been quite an adventure otherwise.
Also worked with a tow truck driver that was towing a car for a couple of German tourists that hit a deer. They were riding in the truck, making polite conversation, when the tow truck clipped another deer. Lots of high speed Germ-glish was spoken as the driver locked the brakes. Driver got out and dispatched the crippled deer with a tire iron, having no other weapon handy. Very quiet the rest of the ride.
Always wondered how that story was told when they got back to the Fatherland.
Yep, coulda been a lot worse.
Had a friend who had one come right in thru the windshield of his people van and land, alive and kicking, in his, his wife’s, and their young son’s laps. He said it got pretty exciting there for a couple moments while the tried to steer and stop the vehicle while also keeping the deer from kicking his wife in the face and rearranging his personal parts with its antlers. Said antlers rather complicated the use of the steering wheel. And when he did get the vehicle stopped, the deer jumped back out of the car and ran off. They were hurt worse than it was.
I have lost count as to how many deer we have hit in Kansas. And ever damn one of them got up and walked off!
We’ve been in Texas for almost 30 years now and very rarely even see a deer.
Maybe there’s something to that ‘deer whistle’ thing. Maybe the two cars we’ve owned have made a noise they don’t like? Some kinda whistling, keening noise from our clunkers? Or maybe just blasting Rush Limbaugh is enough?
Antlerhu Akbar…Yo what a hoot to read that with morning coffee. FOMCL and ROTF
Your brother is a lucky guy, it could have been worse…
http://www.startribune.com/deer-hits-car-ricochets-into-another-car-s-front-window-out-the-back-near-st-peter/453985263/
Mike, I’m wondering why St. Peter was in the back seat of that car.
😉 😉 😉
Flatbilly: “…dispatched the crippled deer with a tire iron, having no other weapon handy. Very quiet the rest of the ride.” The tourists were wondering how to survive telling the driver they couldn’t pay…
KY: Groan. Grammar/syntax be important sometime.
Had a deer hit my truck at the junction of the 1/4 panel and door, couldn’t get out until I put both feet against the door and heaved. Another time a 10-point white tail hit me in a snowstorm and I flew off the road at 60 mph and kept the truck on its wheels but what a ride. Had to drive to a farmer and borrow a rifle, He was glad for the meat. It fed him and his kids that winter. Shhh, don’t tell anyone.
Gramps killed one with his bare hands once. Broke its neck. Korean war vet.
Sometimes you can’t tell which way they’ll run. They can bolt in any direction.
Yup, I am in SW Michigan and that pic WAS actually used by a customer up here. Have had many close calls and one that in fact did same as to your BB, hit my fender and critters front teeth put a 3 ft scrape along the side of the car. My subdivision has maybe 10 to 20 of the beasties wandering about seeing we have ravines on 2 sides and a river on the third. Of course hunting is prohibited here so they multiply like crazy. Back when I was commuting 35 miles each way daily, the DOA deer count to the side of the roads was usually 2 or 3 a day from November through April. Car repair shops around here get very busy these next few months.