Posts by Richard Olson Jr.

The International Baccaluareate And Political Truancy

May 2, 2012

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.   —Abraham Lincoln Bedford students say issue is local control, reads todays’ Union Leader Headline. Over one-hundred Bedford High School students showed up at yesterday’s hearing to oppose HB 1403. Amidst cries of outrage over interference with, [ Read more ]

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HB 1403 Is Good Law For The International Baccalaureate Program

May 1, 2012

“You know your in the IB if your school has this traffic sign posted in the parking lot: Caution: Kids might throw themselves in front of your car.”—Unknown Jeffrey Beard, director general of the International Baccalaureate Organization writes today in our own local Union Leader. Mr. Beard extols IB virtues and advocates for schools to adopt [ Read more ]

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Atheists to USMC: Take Down Crosses Or We’ll Sue

April 20, 2012

“Some people will spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference in the world. But, the Marines don’t have that problem.”  —Ronald Reagan, President of the United States; 1985 Every Veteran ought to be disgusted. An atheist group is saber-rattling, threatening legal action over crosses erected on Camp Pendleton Hill, demanding the removal [ Read more ]

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Weaseling out

April 19, 2012

“In the Halls of Justice, the only justice is in the halls” —Lenny Bruce Elizabeth “Kim” McDonald, mother of deceased shrew, Kristin McDonald Ruggiero pleaded guilty to criminal liability  for the conduct of another yesterday in Rockingham County Superior Court before judge Delker. The plea came on the heels of a plea agreement. She had negotiated [ Read more ]

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Its An Obama Eat Dog World Out There

April 18, 2012

Its a ‘Eat dog’ world out there! Pass the sauce, Barry…” —Rick Olson, Granite Grok, just making stuff up for lack of a salient Quote. So the brouhaha all started over some years ago when Mittens strapped his dog Seamus’ kennel to the top of the family people transporter for a 12-hour drive. Okay…on the [ Read more ]

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More GSA Hackarama

April 17, 2012

“Experience has shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”   —Thomas Jefferson On April 3rd I detailed the happenings of the GSA and their corrupt spending practices in, GSA, Clowns, Mindreaders and Sushi. So, this morning at 5:50 AM [ Read more ]

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The ‘Lamb On The Dole’ Enters The District 2 Senate Race

April 17, 2012

“Even though I’m a leftist. I think the left eats its own.” —Ted Rall “Liberal” Democrat Robert C. Lamb Jr. of Holderness has declared his candidacy for the Senate District 2 seat  now held by Jeannie Forester. Lamb skylined himself back in February when he argued in favor of keeping Holderness in District 2 with [ Read more ]

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Fraudulent Voting And Its’ Hardcore Advocacy

April 16, 2012

“Those who cast the votes decide nothing.  Those who count the votes decide everything.”—Josef Stalin Pulling out all the stops, the anti-voter ID crowd showed up in Concord Tuesday to decry the passage of a law that would require citizens to prove they are who they say they are when showing up to vote. Same [ Read more ]

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Never A Surprise

April 14, 2012

 ”In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.” —Mark Twain Londonderry School District Superintendent Nate Greenberg lobbied against HB 1607, “AN ACT establishing an education tax credit.” Not surprising at all…In fact, this is expected. Long ago, educrats stopped caring about the delivery of a qualitative, substantive education for [ Read more ]

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Walmart And Their Secret Gun Policy

April 11, 2012

“When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.” —Will Rogers Time for some new tires. Wal-Mart had a decent price on Goodyear Tracker 2 tires for my SUV (or, urban assault vehicle as my friends who strap Pruis’ to the behinds refer to it as) So I lumber on into Wal-Mart in my Ford Explorer. The [ Read more ]

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Leftist-Progressives: Always The Dependable Deniers

April 11, 2012

“An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.” —Friedrich List Last week the Union Leader’s Gary Rayno reported on a check made of electronic databases searching for potential welfare fraud. House Speaker Bill O’Brien is [ Read more ]

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Voter ID: Challenging the Challengers

April 5, 2012

  “American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver’s license age than at voting age.”  —Marshall McLuhan HB 1301, a bill seeking to remove requirements for an an affidavit to challenge votes , and permitting voter challenges on election days to be made at voting registration tables. The Bill, sponsored by Representative Paul Mirski [ Read more ]

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GSA, Clowns, Mindreaders and Sushi

April 3, 2012

 ”I used to look down on the world for being corrupt, but now I adore it for the utter magnificence of that corruption.”  —Richard J. Needham You cannot make this stuff up. The U.S. Office of Inspector General Released a  16-page report detailing the gross abuse and excesses in the use of taxpayer monies of [ Read more ]

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An Airsoft Gun-Free Zone?

April 1, 2012

“Don’t carry a gun. It’s nice to have them close by, but don’t carry them. You might get arrested.” —John Gotti An Airsoft gun can be dangerous. Dangerous because if one gets hit in the eye with one of those plastic BB’s, an eye could be lost. Like the old saying goes, “It’s all fun and [ Read more ]

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Voter Fraud Efficacy

March 29, 2012

“It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.”  —Rep. Virgil Goode,  5th congressional district of Virginia: 1997 to 2009.  It intrigues me that Project Veritas struck again [ Read more ]

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Dog Bite Politics

March 26, 2012

“Like a hand grenade, (Pit Bulls) are inert until you pull the pin. Once the pin is pulled, there is nothing you can do to stop the explosion.” —Gary Wilkes Last Wednesday, the front page of the Union leader featured Janis Milne who, while out walking her 8 year-old lab named Sue, Monday afternoon, was viciously attacked [ Read more ]

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Bill Maher: A Cultural Icon…Not!

March 17, 2012

“An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.”  —Edgar Quinet So How about that Bill Maher? He calls Governor Sarah Palin a “c*nt and gets a pass on it from the Hollywood elite, so say my fellow conservatives. Me? not so much. My impression of Bill Maher is that he the type of [ Read more ]

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U.S. Marines Asked to Leave Weapons Outside When Panetta Visits

March 15, 2012

“The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.”  —Henry L. Stimson Fox News Reports that U.S. Marines at Camp Leatherneck were asked to disarm when Secretary [ Read more ]

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Voter ID Passed in the Senate, But Really?

March 8, 2012

“It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.”—Virgil Goode Yesterday, the New Hampshire Senate passed SB289 right down party lines 18 to 5, according the the New Hampshire [ Read more ]

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How About Those Gas Prices?

March 7, 2012

“As you know, the government takes 40 percent of what you make. The other 60 percent, of course, taken by the gas stations.” — Jay Leno Been to a Gas Station Lately? Prices have spiked markedly in the last two weeks. For those of us driving Sport Utility Vehicles the effect is most pronounced. Just [ Read more ]

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