Question About the Ridley Report Guy

[Tom Sawyer]

I think it's more like 1759... and I am a brash young sea captain with flowing locks of gold hair taking a load of slaves to New Hampshire when a fiery slave girl captures my imagination.

[coffeeseven]

I think it's more like 1759... and I am a brash young sea captain with flowing locks of gold hair taking a load of slaves to New Hampshire when a fiery slave girl captures my imagination.

Is she your first mate now?    nyuk nyuk nyuk woop woop woop

[PattyLee loves dogs]

How can the free state be next to the most statist state?

It's called a "control group". BTW, by tax burden, VT is the most statist state. So NH has at least two good controls; one for economic socialism, one for personal.

[dalebert]

How can the free state be next to the most statist state?

Seems like it's like having a lifeboat right next to a sinking ship. You're more likely to fill up the lifeboat that way!

[watershed]

The Revolution for Independence started here with the raid on Ft William and Mary. The Brits had stockpiled cannon, arms, and powder to supply 2000 troops being sent from Britain to quell the countryside.
Paul Revere road to Portsmouth and warned the locals. The locals raised 400 men and raided the fort which was only guarded by a few. Without blood shed the pieces and powder were dispersed out of the Great Bay and through out the countryside (Poplin (now Fremont) Notingham, Chester, Kingston) and were held for later use. All the artillery and powder were used at Breeds Hill to the north of Boston.

Later, Ethan Allen of The NH Grants, performed a similar raid on Ticonderoga and used at Dorchester Heights to the south.

Eventually all Royal Loyalist became refugees and fled to Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. Liberating a rich port from Georges hand.

So NH is the birth place of LIBERTY!  Welcome Pilgrims!

[MattLeft]

If it's 1776, I call shotgun on sporting the tri-corner hat look.

[Ron Helwig]

If it's 1776, I call shotgun on sporting the tri-corner hat look.

I call .357 

[I got a good tricorne from the Sutler of Mount Misery]

[Lex]

Who is DadaOrwell?

[d_goddard]

Who is DadaOrwell?

RidleyReport

[Luke S]

Ah, so the truth finally comes out.

DadaOrwell is Dave Ridley.

[Puke]

The first rule of Ridley Report is you do not talk about Ridley Report!

The rule is kind of bad. 

[SethCohn]

The first rule of Ridley Report is you do not talk about Ridley Report!

No, the first rule of Ridley Report is always write your sponsor's name onto a piece of notebook paper and film it with lots of camera motion, so it looks really classy.

[Puke]

The first rule of Ridley Report is you do not talk about Ridley Report!

No, the first rule of Ridley Report is always write your sponsor's name onto a piece of notebook paper and film it with lots of camera motion, so it looks really classy.

Oh, right. 

[keith in RI]

The first rule of Ridley Report is you do not talk about Ridley Report!

No, the first rule of Ridley Report is always write your sponsor's name onto a piece of notebook paper and film it with lots of camera motion, so it looks really classy.

this is the funniest thing ive read all day....THANK YOU!  ROTFLMAO...

[srqrebel]

You ask a lot of personal questions.

Yeah, Kat... I took note of that, too... why doesn't he just come here and get to know everyone in person, and become a part of the action? It's not as if we are all holed up in some exclusive compound... and we sure as heck don't bite

On the "Questions for the Free State Project People" thread, I almost asked whether he was compiling a report for his superiors, or just in the process of writing a book

I decided to wait and see where he's going with all this...