California-approved gun safe (Updated)

California Approved Handgun Safe

From Coiled Snake.com 
 Hat tip to Harley Standlee; Placerville, Ca

More along these same lines here:
Ann Coulter comments on the book, Negroes with guns. Written back when Democrats refused to allow blacks to own guns for protection against - as she says- Democrat organizations such as the KKK.


Other posts in the Tunnel Wall include the D-Day landings in Normandy  and the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862. But mostly we post on politics and culture in the United States. 
Our links to history sites come from appreciation of America and how we became a nation in spite of - and sometimes because of - all our historical blemishes and triumphs. Some of it is due to sad reminiscences of where we once were and what is now becoming of us.
The Tunnel Dweller.


Meanwhile, check out the Texas Tan Line:

Obama’s second-term taxes

Dick Morris "If Obama is reelected, the tax increase he and a Democratic Congress would impose on middle- and upper-middle-income Americans would be disastrous. It’s easy to lose sight of his tax plans because he has hidden them in a variety of nooks and crannies, including the Simpson-Bowles Commission Report, the Pelosi budget of 2009 and the various tax proposals advanced by his party. But, should he win, they will all come out of hiding, and together, they will be the principal legislative thrust of his efforts in 2013.

http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/obamas-understanding-of-taxation-captured-by-a-cartoon/

"For a couple making $250,000, these tax hikes would add another $3,000 to $4,000 a month in taxes (depending on whether they were self-employed).

"For a couple making $150,000, they would add another $1,200 to $1,400 per month.
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"How will he tax us? Let us count the ways:" Read on...

Liberalism unleashed! SEIU, Anarchist, Occupy Training Manuals, including children’s guide to anarchy

Review Of Occupy, SEIU, Anarchist Training Manuals, Including Children’s Guide To Anarchy… "In the wake of May Day demonstrations and the string of non-peaceful action that ensued across the country, The Blaze is providing a refresher course in the tactics used by progressives, anarchists, Occupiers, the 99% Spring and labor unions in their collective push to rise up against the 1%. What follows is a collection of some of the more interesting progressive handbooks to come to light."  Read more....

CITIZEN JOURNALIST  "Perhaps the most morally offensive of them all, an anarchist’s guide book for children.  “A Rule is to Break” A Child’s Guide to Anarchy“ guides children on being their ”best self” by breaking the rules.
Here is the review written by Obama's mentor, friend and guy he knew in his neighborhood - Bill Ayres:

“. . . A delight to read! A children’s book on anarchy seems somehow just right: an instinctive, intuitive sense of fairness, community, and interdependence sits naturally enough with a desire for participatory democracy, feminism, queer-rights, environmental balance, self-determination, and peace and global justice.” — Bill Ayers, author (To Teach: The Journey in Comics and Fugitive Days), teacher, Barack Obama’s alleged terrorist pal, and grandpa.
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I find this chilling:  "Amongst the worst,  the SEIU manual, which:

details how legal, political, media and regulatory pressure can all be exploited to manipulate employers and help the union realize its goals. It encourages, in a not-so-subtle way, the blackmailing of employers with whom it disagrees by first damaging their reputations, and encourages placing “outside pressure” to jeopardize “relationships between the employer and lenders, investors, stockholders, customers, clients, patients, tenants, politicians, or others on whom the employer depends for funds.”

One of the most telling passages of the SEIU manual reads:

It may be a violation of blackmail and extortion laws to threaten management officials with release of ‘dirt’ about them if they don’t settle a contract. But there is no law against union members who are angry at their employer deciding to uncover and publicize factual information about individual managers.

"In the wake of May Day demonstrations and the string of non-peaceful action that ensued across the country, The Blaze is providing a refresher course in the tactics used by progressives, anarchists, Occupiers, the 99% Spring and labor unions in their collective push to rise up against the 1%. What follows is a collection of some of the more interesting progressive handbooks to come to light."


'The Occupy Handbook' Features Paul Krugman, Michael Lewis, Matt Taibbi And More

"You know what those chirping birds and blooming flowers mean? It just might be warm enough to start re-occupying.  

"Now, there's now a handbook to help any of those interested."

"Let Us Help You Pack"

Sent to me by an old friend and classmate from Garibaldi, Oregon and I have chosen not to vet it any further because I like it as it is.  It came with this text:

"Let Us Help You Pack" 

FYI in case you have not seen this from a woman who lives on a small horse ranch in Western Colorado and who is married to a former US Marine, her son was a US Marine who survived Desert Storm; there are other US Marines, plus one USAF grandson, in her family tree but she is the only singer.This lady has a really good voice, and she's using it... and a really good idea!

Hat tip to George Smith, whose brother Crawford is one of the founders of Tillamook Country Smoker, makers of the most addictive beef jerky I've tried.  

Forward!

From Townhall:

Hope 'n Change

"Still, Hope n' Change can understand the appeal of the word "Forward" to Obama's campaign team. Because it's the opposite of "Rewind" - a word which would invite voters to actually review Barack Obama's disastrous, debt-ridden, America-diminishing first term. And that's certainly no way to win reelection."

Just to have a bit of fun with this:

Or not..  It's good to hear these young men aspire to excellence, but...

But one can hope one of those young men will become another Thomas Sowell and write with wisdom such as this:

There is no subject on which lies and half-truths have become so much the norm on ivy-covered campuses than is the subject of race. Moreover, anyone who even questions these lies and half-truths is almost certain to be called a "racist," especially in academic institutions which loudly proclaim a "diversity" that is confined to demographics, and all but forbidden when it comes to a diversity of ideas.

Great minds such as that of Thomas Sowell can lead us forward-  Barack Obama can only diminish this nation.

The Obamanomony as we know it

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Dismal jobs numbers  "The BLS calculates what they refer to as the Civilian Labor Force which is those who have jobs and are seeking jobs.   Those the BLS estimates are not seeking work are not included." 

Another dismal month of job creation: More unemployed give up looking for work (Updated)  "For the record, the Labor Department says the unemployment rate fell to 8.1% - down from 8.2% last month. But looking inside the numbers gives a dreary picture of what it's like to be unemployed in Obama's economy."


American Enterprise Institute:  Why the job market might not be normal until 2019 or beyond …  "As I have been pointing out, the plunging labor force participation rate has been distorting the true picture of the labor market. But economist Mike Darda of MKM Partners has a way of getting around the demographic issue by only focusing on folks during (what should be) the prime of their working life:

Obama 2012: Stealing Bush's Legacy

Pamela Geller  "For years before he became President and then on the campaign trail in 2008, Obama railed against and denounced the very policies and procedures that ultimately led to the Bin Laden kill. The capture and kill of Osama bin Laden was ten years in the making. And during those years, Barack Obama excoriated George W. Bush for "enhanced interrogation techniques" and waterboarding three (!) top jihad killers. Thousands of lives were saved, but Obama cared more about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's sore nose. Now he is taking credit for those very things? Whiplash. How about the SEALS who took out Bin Laden? Do they deserve any credit?
"Much is made of the fact that Obama okayed the kill. Do you mean to tell me he could have said no?"

NBC's Williams In Awe of Obama's 'Even Keel' During Bin Laden Killing 
"Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough replied: "As a big fan of Costco, I can confirm that we did eat Costco that night. Frankly, throughout the day." "

Bin Laden Documents Show Obama Strategy a Farce "That the Obama administration continues its ill-considered plan to “engage” the Taliban when it has zero positive to show for its efforts and against all evidence that its strategy is actively harming U.S. servicemen and the U.S. position in Afghanistan and undercutting the desired outcomes in Afghanistan, is nothing short of policy malpractice."


USS COLE COMMANDER SLAMS OBAMA AD  "“This whole thing of even putting out that ad, to me is just disgusting because you are politicizing a national security decision,” Lippold said during an interview with The Daily Caller on the one-year anniversary of bin Laden’s killing.

"“Any president that was put in that position would have probably made the difficult choice,” he said. “I don’t care what political stripe they are, they would have done it.”"

Who's missing in that NBC bin Laden/ Obama campaign infomercial?

Politico  "Gates, who does appear prominently in that photo, "was asked and declined" to appear in the NBC program, a source close to the former defense secretary said Thursday. "You'll learn more of his thoughts about the raid (many of his views are well-documented) and all the subsequent talk of it in his book, which he is hard at work on now," said the source, who asked not to be named."
....Gates declining to appear could be traceable to the irritation he expressed publicly last May about what he indicated was the White House's failure to abide by a pledge to limit disclosures about the operation.

"Frankly, a week ago Sunday, in the Situation Room, we all agreed that we would not release any operational details from the effort to take out bin Laden,” Gates said then, as POLITICO's Jennifer Epstein and Chuck Hoskinson reported. “That all fell apart on Monday — the next day."

http://www.cagle.com/2011/05/conservative-cartoonists-slam-osama-killing-president/

Oh, by the way: Obama’s Afghanistan Visit Timed Conveniently for Campaign Impact

"This week, the President marked the death of Osama bin Laden with a self-congratulatory campaign ad. If Lincoln had spent the entire Gettysburg Address talking about himself, it wouldn’t have been quite that crass. Now, the President zips to Afghanistan—coincidentally on the anniversary of the Seal Team Six raid."

American Glob: Obama’s Political Fate Could Be SEALed  "An increasing number of reports suggest the US Navy SEALs are unhappy about Barack Obama’s use of the Osama Bin Laden raid for his own political gain. Who could blame them?

"The fact that the ever left leaning BUZZFEED is taking the story seriously speaks volumes. According to their report, more SEALs are planning to come forward…

Turning the Bin Laden raid into a story about Obama’s ego would break one of the biggest arrows in his electoral quiver. And needless to say, the optics of SEALs criticizing O for making the OBL raid all about him are … not so good for the White House. Are they worse, though, than Obama having to defend eight-plus percent unemployment? He’d much rather have an argument with conservatives over the OBL raid than the economy since every minute spent talking about Bin Laden is (a) a reminder that O did in fact give the order to liquidate the bastard, however shoddy his behavior might have been afterward, and (b) a minute not spent talking about the thoroughgoing crappiness of, oh, pretty much every other part of his record.

Members of Congress Work to Rein In Overcriminalization in America

Heritage  "What do a legendary guitar maker and a lobster importer have in common? Both are alleged to have run afoul of the Lacey Act, one of the most egregious, overcriminalized statutes on the books. Now some Members of Congress are working to inject some much-needed fairness into the justice system."
Why can't Obama treat this law the way he does the DOMA and various immigration laws; simply refuse to enforce them?
...."The result, predictably, has been miscarriage of justice. Federal agents raided the Tennessee manufacturing plant of Gibson Guitar for an alleged violation of the Lacey Act due to the import of certain wood from India. Months after the raid, the U.S. government still holds more than $1 million in seized property but has yet to file charges against the company."
....Abner Schoenwetter spent five-plus years in prison for “heinous” crimes like importing lobsters into the U.S. that, under a void Honduran law, were too small to be taken and should have been packed in boxes rather than in clear plastic bags.

RNC campaign parodies Obama '08 sticker

The Washington Times  "The Republican National Committee is getting ahead of President Obama's official campaign kickoff in Ohio and Virginia on Saturday with a media blitz labeling his re-election drive the "Hype & Blame" tour." "

White House Dossier: RNC: From Hope and Change to Hype and Blame  "The new messaging drive suggests the Republicans are going to try to go beyond reacting to various Obama salvos and attempt to drive the conversation while putting the White House on the defensive."

Gutsy Call!

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Rumsfeld: It Was Not A "Tough Decision" To Kill Bin Laden  " "I think after spending that amount of time, that number of years and that much money -- we increased the special operations forces by about 50 percent. We increased their budget. We increased their equipment. And they develop these skill sets and improve the intelligence capability of our country," Rumsfeld told FOX News' Greta van Susteren. "And finally, when all that comes together, to not make that decision, it seemed to me, would just be dumbfounding. I can't imagine any president not making that decision. That's not to say it wasn't a huge accomplishment. It was." "  Blackfive gives Obama a hat tip for not stopping the operation.

http://www.nationalreview.com/#

New Veterans Ad Shreds Obama For Taking Credit For Bin Laden Killing…

Many thanks for this to Weasel Zippers

Cut from the same mold is this video tribute at Blackfive. Go to the link because I can't figure how to imbed it. TD


Meanwhile from earlier is this:  Longtime Admirer Brian Williams Rewarded With Obama-Promoting 'Exclusive'  "It’s no surprise that Obama turned to Brian Williams to help trumpet his message, as the face of NBC News has fawned over Barack Obama since the start of the 2008 presidential campaign. A review finds the NBC anchor has typically loaded up his interviews of Obama with politically-convenient softballs and few tough questions:"
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"Going into the last six months of the crucial 2012 general election, the Democratic President will have the luxury of being interviewed by journalists who openly admire him and may have even wept at his inauguration. So much for fairness."