Rick Olson

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”   —Winston Churchill

I find it relatively easy to remember those veterans, especially family members and loved ones who have taken up arms in defense of this nation. Often times, the conditions can be tough, families are separated and financial challenges abound, not to mention when we lose that person on the battlefields.

It is veterans day today that I share the story of one Private Edward W, Allord. 393rd Regiment, 1st Battalion, 99th Infantry Division, C Company.  Private Allord was a family man. He had a wife and three very young daughters, named Priscilla, Katherine and Dorothy. When the call came the 29-year-old Private Allord left his job as a carpenter in December of 1944…Left his wife Priscilla May…and his three young girls, Prisclla, Katherine and Dorothy, off to fight the Nazis in Germany.

On March 17, 1945 near Ramagen, while engaged in heavy fighting with the ArmeeKorps LIII, under the command of Capt. Willi Bratge, Private Allord was killed in action, leaving behind his wife and three very young children. His last letter home was written March 11, 1945 from Germany.

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“Irony is the hygiene of the mind.”   —Elizabeth Bibesco

“Together Colorado“, an anti-gun group in Colorado had planned to host a gun buy back program whereby gift cards or tickets to sporting events would be exchanged for guns. The scheme intended to have people come, hand over their guns and get the gift cards or tickets….not so fast. With the recent passage of Colorado’s Strict Gun Laws, such a program would violate those very laws. Irony.

Colorado law, as passed by the legislature and signed by Hickenlooper states that all firearms transfers must go through a federally licensed firearms dealer. The dealer, according to law, then performs a background check for each transfer. Yes…every gun transferred.  If Together Colorado, had wanted the buyback to take place the group would have to host it at a gun shop, by law. Traditionally, dealers charge a transfer fee somewhere in the neighborhood of $25 to 35 per firearm.

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“Nobody calls me silly. That is not a word that applies to me.”   —Jane Pauley

KTVU Channel 2 News in San Francisco has issued an on-air apology for misreporting the names of the pilots in the Asiana Crash. The Fox Affiliate Co-anchor Tori Campbell  reported the Asiana pilots names as, “Captain Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk, and Bang Ding Ow, live an on the air. Later that day, KTVU took responsibility for the gaffe, apologizing to the viewing audience.  A summer intern answering the phone at the NTSB took some “creative license” with releasing the names to KTVU when they called in. But the larger question is, “How does this happen?” Why was KTVU the only station to fall for this?

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“If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?”   —Steven Wright

As Reported on Fox News yesterday, A new Android app asks users to expose the home addresses of gun owners they deem “potentially unsafe” — and share that information with the world.

The Gun Geo Marker app, a lecturer with the Visual Arts department of the University of California, San Diego, is the creator of this Android app. Geo Gun marker was released to Google’s Play app store this past Sunday.  The app invites users to mark the homes and businesses of “suspected unsafe gun owners … to help others in the area learn about their geography of risk from gun accidents or violence.” 

Stalbaum, tells Fox News he has received threats over the app and says…

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“Stupid people are ruining America.”   —Herman Cain

You just cannot make this stuff up.  Kim Ratliff is the Mecklenburg County North Carolina  board’s Democratic vice chairwoman. Presently in Charlotte- Mecklenburg, there is a vacancy for the position of County Manager. who told WBTV that

In commenting on the county manager vacancy Friday, Commissioner Ratliff, who is black, told local CBS affiliate WBTV, she’d prefer commissioners not choose a “white male” to fill the position. “The county needs a manager who is “a nonwhite male who can have good working relations with all people,” Ratliff says.

How could they run this story? “Is WBTV Channel 3 merely a mouthpiece for angry white males in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg market?”  Somebody somewhere must be asserting this because this station is being racist for reporting this. Are they not? Is that not the present-day template in the lame stream media?

Second, Is WBTV reporter Colleen Harry an, “Uncle Tom,” or a, “Sell-out,” for breaking this story?  Is Colleen Harry throwing Kim Ratliff under the bus as a media career stepping stone? These are important questions!

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“No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand… Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.”   —Anton Chekhov

People keep asking, “Who read Tamerlan Tzarnaev’s name when ‘No More Names’ came to Concord?”   ANSWER: A duly elected member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.

Several anti-gun State Representatives stepped up and read names off of the list at the anti-gun podium. N.H. State Rep Mary Beth Walz (D) Merrimack District 23-Bow.  The source was another State Rep who positively identified her. So there’s that.

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“Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.”   —Khalil Gibran

On May 27, 1999 a month after the Columbine Massacre, Father of student Rachel Joy Scott, lost to the Columbine Massacre,  Daryl Scott presented this statement to the House Judiciary Committees’ sub-committee on crime.  This statement is over fourteen years old. Remarkably though,  so few people I talk to know so little about its existence. This statement is “epic powerful,” so I truly fail to understand why my brethren in the Pro-gun, Pro-Second Amendment Community continually “guild the lily,” with this. WHY? Daryl Scotts’ word are legitimate…they are true! This is IN FACT what he submitted to the sub-committee, so why my brethren keep dressing it up with Bullsh*t?

There were no “national leaders present;” There was no, “special session;” These words are powerful, insightful and should be heeded. So without further fanfare I include them below unadulterated, sans showmanship and window dressing:

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“The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That’s what the Supreme Court said.”   —Laurence Tribe

In the Union Leader today, the headline read, “AG says Manchester man justified in shooting home invader.” In my post on this incident on June 11, “Castle Doctrine, NOT Stand Your Ground”, folks were commenting in the Union Leader citing this as an example of, “stand your ground.”

The Attorney General’s office publicly released its final report. The matter is settled. To summarize what occurred, In the early hours of Saturday June 9, two men kicked in the door of  Ian Peters’ 430 Lake Ave apartment with the intent of harming Peters. The AG report indicates that Peters knew neither of the two men and the incident arose from threatening texts to Peters’ Fiancee.

The couple and 3-year-old son were in bed when they heard footsteps outside the apartment on the porch. The apartment door was kicked in and despite being armed with a handgun the attacker charged Mr. Peters who fired.  The assailant, 24-year-old Larocque was struck in the arm and abdomen and died there.

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