Posts by Richard Olson Jr.

Come At Me, Bro

May 21, 2013

“Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don’t come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they’re having a piss.”   — Banksy, Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall The Union Leader on line this morning featured the [ Read more ]

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Manchester Is For The Bourgeoisie

May 17, 2013

“The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history.” —Buenaventura Durruti You cannot make this stuff up! Do you know Him? is a ministry that feeds the homeless in downtown Manchester at Veterans Park. This ministry serves free hot breakfasts to homeless at Veteran’s Park Each Weekend. This [ Read more ]

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A Dirty Ex-Cop and a Mope

May 16, 2013

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.   —George Bernard Shaw Kristin Ruggiero engaged in a series of lies and falsehoods with the specific intent to destroy her estranged husband Jeffrey Ruggiero. For a time it seemed that Kristin was “teflon”…Nothing seemed earthly possible that would [ Read more ]

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Kristin Ruggiero Makes the Discovery Channel

May 16, 2013

“While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph.”   —Lewis Hine When Kristin Ruggiero assumed room temperature in prison by her own hand, She was one of those few people in life I thought was a fitting and just end. I quoted Gore Vidal on the death of Truman Capote when he quipped, “Good career [ Read more ]

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The Shields Model for Gun Confiscation

May 13, 2013

“All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The communist party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.”   —Mao Tse Tung Who is Pete Shields?” Nelson T. “Pete” Shields, the Third, born in 1924, was the 1978 founder of  Handgun Control, Inc. Hailing [ Read more ]

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Stupid People

May 12, 2013

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”   —Benjamin Franklin For the life of me, I could not find anything in the U.S. Press about this. Plenty in the foreign presses, but nothing in the States…What is This? Protesters outside the Czech Republic in Washington DC protesting the Boston [ Read more ]

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Crooked Attorney Theroux To Be Next State President of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Ladies Auxiliary

May 9, 2013

“To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”    —Ella Wheeler Wilcox On June 9, “Retired” attorney Linda Theroux will be installed as the State President of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Ladies Auxiliary.  Established 1914, The  Ladies Auxiliary to the VFW set out to serve the American veterans and communities in [ Read more ]

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Dr Seuss and Gun Grabbers

May 3, 2013

You can not, shall not have a gun,  This banning craze has just begun…  Guns and bullets make me ill,  Pass the Kool-Aid if you will…  You don’t really need a gun,  From violent criminals you can run!  And when the violent felons come …  You have scissors, but don’t you run!  And to defenseless [ Read more ]

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House Bill 135 Is All But Dead

May 1, 2013

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. —Plato Senator Sharon Carson (R) Dist. 14, Chair, Senate Judiciary (Londonderry), sent me a message yesterday afternoon that the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 4-1 on HB 135 to recommend, “Inexpedient to Legislate…”  legislative [ Read more ]

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House Bill 135: From the Senate: “Inexpedient to Legislate”

April 30, 2013

Senator Sharon Carson just messaged me… The Committee voted to recommend 4-1 HB 135 ITL —MORE TO COME…

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The Culture of Complainers and Whiners

April 30, 2013

Complainers change their complaints, but they never reduce the amount of time spent in complaining.  —Mason Cooley The Londonderry Fish & Game Club, Inc. was established in 1951 and has been in its present location in Londonderry since 1973. Aside from LFGC’s  primary mission, the club has sought to be good community stewards in the [ Read more ]

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Legislator’s Lounge on HB 135

April 28, 2013

“When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass, any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.”  —Mark Shields I haven’t been writing as much as I like. I’ve been busy with Wildlife Federation Business and Londonderry Fish & Game Club Business. On April 12, 2013, I was a guest [ Read more ]

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HB 135: State v. Craig Moses

April 27, 2013

“In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.” —Tacitus Liberals love to ignore inconvenient facts. Stick fingers in ears, close eyes and yell, “La-la-la-la-la!” Franklin resident Craig Moses was acquitted under the Granite State’s “Stand Your Ground” law.  Moses was arrested nearly a year ago in Nashua outside a nighclub and charged [ Read more ]

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“Citizens With Guns:” Better Trained Than Police? Really?

April 24, 2013

“Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”   —George S. Patton I was at the State Senate hearing yesterday on HB 135. I heard a great deal of testimony. Senator Carson asked people not to read their testimony, Zandra Rice-Hawkins, boringly read [ Read more ]

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PETA To Use Drones to Track Hunters

April 19, 2013

“People should go to the store and buy the meat they make there, not kill animals for food.”  —PETA PETA is actively looking into a drone program to surveil  hunters. PETA has taken notice of the ever- increasing use of drones for nonmilitary purposes. Drones are now used in  fighting wildfires and in search-and-rescue missions.  PETA [ Read more ]

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The Respite

April 19, 2013

“If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”  —Dale Carnegie News, day and night is awash with the Boston Bomb tragedy. Three people, one of whom is a kid…perished…No need to rehash the whole sordid thing, its plain tragic and horrific. Nobody will come right [ Read more ]

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The Gun Maker’s Exodus Part II

April 15, 2013

“The number one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S.” —That “Happy Warrior”Vice-President Joseph Biden That is what he said…and without much credibility because we know that vice president Biden is a stupid person. Alas, the “Happy Warrior.”  This quote is instructive, because on [ Read more ]

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Is Kelly Ayotte Caving On Gun Control?

April 10, 2013

“The know-your-audience philosophy can be a big step down the road to pandering to the audience.” —Edward Tufte Red State’s Erick Erickson reports the Republican Conference is “scared to death” of the tactics of Senators Lee, Cruz and Paul – that it is supposedly putting them in a tough spot. Several of the Republicans are [ Read more ]

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Shooting In the Londonderry Musquash: Its a War Zone Out There!

April 9, 2013

“Everything is funny, so long as its’ happening to someone else.” —Will Rogers LONDONDERRY The town conservation committee had their commiseration session tonight relative to target shooting in the Musquash Conservation area.  The comments were little more than drama…many of which were likely exaggerated or perhaps grossly untrue.  “Shooting at the feet of people on [ Read more ]

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Cops And The Second Amendment

April 9, 2013

“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.”   —Aristotle Doug Wyllie, Editor-in-Chief at Police One.com conducted a survey of More than 15,000 verified law enforcement professionals. The scope and purpose of this survey was aimed at bringing together the thoughts and opinions of [ Read more ]

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The Gun Industry’s Exodus

April 8, 2013

“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.”   —Joseph Stalin On Saturday, a Union Leader Editorial entitled, “Grabbing gun makers NH’s big opportunity” posited the question, “So why is the state not aggressively pursuing these companies and the jobs they would [ Read more ]

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Former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Dies

April 8, 2013

“To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.”  —Margaret Thatcher From Fox News: Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has died after suffering a stroke at the age of 87. Known as [ Read more ]

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The Diana DeGette ‘Assault Weapon’ Schematic

April 7, 2013

“Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.” —Dean Koontz A very special HAT TIP goes out to Rocky Mountain Right today. Now I just love snark in the form of a really sharp stick pointed at Kool-Aid-drinkers in Congress. And RMR delivered today! I thought it [ Read more ]

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And Now For the Ammunition Ban

April 5, 2013

“If there are twelve clowns in a ring, you can jump in the middle and start reciting Shakespeare, but to the audience, you’ll just be the thirteenth clown” —Adam Walinsky We’ve talked a great deal these past months about a potential gun grab. What went sleepliy unnoticed was Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), and Rep. Carolyn [ Read more ]

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“You’d Probably Be Dead Anyway,” Says Colorado Lawmaker

April 4, 2013

“Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.”   —Katharine Hepburn Diana DeGette: An example of  the sophistication of “the Left” in the gun control argument “Res Ipsa Loquitur”

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