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From Texas Monthly:

‘It’s Not Who We Are’: Jill Biden Visits the Refugee Camp in Matamoros

On Sunday, former second lady Jill Biden donned a pair of calf-high rubber boots and trudged through thick, muddy fields littered with hundreds of tents and tarps in the Matamoros refugee camp across the border from Brownsville. She was there to bring Christmas cheer to the estimated two thousand migrants, mostly Central Americans, who are idling across the border as a result of the Remain in Mexico policy. Biden helped serve tamales with beans and rice, and later handed out Christmas toys to migrant children.

“It’s not who we are as Americans,” Biden said after spending more than two hours at the camp. “We are a welcoming nation, but that’s not the message that we’re sending at the border. We’re saying, ‘Stop. Don’t come in.’”

Jill Biden is the wife of Joe Biden, the current Democrat front runner for Presidential candidate in 2020, and potentially the next First Lady of the United States.

One expects that everything she does now is calculated to help her husband’s campaign.

So if she was going to spread Holiday cheer in a way that would increase Joe’s electability, what do you think she would do?

Serve Christmas dinner to troops overseas in Iraq or Afghanistan?  If there were security issues there, she could have at least gone to visit troops in South Korea or Germany.

Maybe she could have served Christmas dinner to some of Los Angeles’ 58,000 homeless people.

She could have visited police officers who were working Christmas eve.

Those all make sense if you are the Republican candidate’s wife.

For the Democrats, you go to Mexico and serve dinner to the people who are trying to enter the United States illegally by taking advantage of our asylum laws.

This really gives you an idea of who the Democrats prioritize.

I was gifted the box by a kind reader (Thank you very much once again) and the wife ordered to go under the tree till Christmas. So, as promised, I am doing the review today.

This is the box.

The specs according to Hornady are:
Dimensions: Interior: 9.75”x7.5”x2.25” Exterior: 10.25”x8”x2.75”
16 gauge steel housing and a 1500 Lb 3 foot steel cable. It comes with two tubular keys in a little pouch I forgot to take a picture.

It is about 6 pounds so it is heavier than the less expensive offerings out there and the impression you get is of a one solid box.

As you can see, a full size pistol has no problem fitting in the foam-covered interior and notice the two solid locking points:

This is the lock from the inside with what I presume is an anti-tampering shroud:

The view of the anchoring cable with the box anchor in place. It is stronger that I thought it would be.

One complain I have read about other boxes is the hinges. They are usually tacked by three points per side and might be an eventual weak point which can be cracked with a sharp hit. In this box, the hinges appear to be integral to the box itself, no welding, no rivets.

Hornady claims that the box meets TSA Airline Guidelines for firearms storage and I could very well see that.

Verdict: It is a very good box in my opinion…as long as you remember it is not a proper safe but an anti-theft delay device for the opportunistic, “untooled” burglar. Anybody with the right tools and time will break into anything deemed safe.

The package came with the NSSF’s “Own it? Respect it. Secure it” shield of project Childsafe. And yes, it will be a good box to keep small children from accessing the gun.

It is going in my truck. No argument there.

I had doubts about joining in the chorus of people leaving condolences to anybody. I thought they would be diluted by the repetition and “sameness”: They don’t.

Each comment left here or in Facebook or tweeter and emails felt very needed and appreciated.

You guys helped us very much and the missus and myself want to extend our profound thanks.

And she is gone. December 25th 2019, 07:43am.

She was a child of the Spanish Civil War and the truly backward customs of the era. She ran from the sheer poverty of a Spain post Civil War and WWII that made many like her emigrate to other places She also survived Cuba under both Fascism and Communism and all she built in Venezuela was swallowed again by Communism. Let’s say she hated both of the sides and managed to pass that gene to me.

But she lived he last almost two decades in the US, with her son and “daughter” (She always called my wife “her daughter” which sometimes made for embarrassing moments during introductions) as free as she could be. Made friends with people who did not speak the same language and above all she lived in peace. Whereas in Venezuela she ended up living behind tall compound-like walls topped with razor wire and barred windows, the only thing between her and the street here was the pane of glass on her window.

She loved us deeply, she lived fully and she died painless. In the end, is something we all should aspire to when the time comes. I am sure she is now with dad making sure he is well dressed and well behaved up there. Kinda sorry for pops though, his vacation in Heaven is over.

I will believe in Santa for one of these.

I want to make it clear, this fucking asshole does not represent the opinion of the majority – if the entire rest – of the Jewish community in the United States.

Wish your Christian coworkers a Happy Hanukkah today. If they say "I'm not Jewish", say "I'm not Christian but you jam your holidays down our throats so…"

— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) December 23, 2019

This bitch is the worst kind of Progressive.  She needs to feel like a victim during the Holidays and is using her “Judaism” to give her a grievance and an excuse to make other people feel like shit.

This attitude is both disgusting and the antithesis of Jewish teachings.

It is Rabbinic teaching: Dina d’malkhuta dina  which means “the law of the land is the law.”

As Jews, we are supposed to follow the laws and customs of the nations in which we live – except when they directly contradict Jewish laws.

As a Jew living in a majority Christian country, if we are wished a “Merry Christmas,” it is both the decent thing and the Jewish obligation to wish the other person a “Merry Christmas” back.

This woman is a shame on the Jewish community and to her parents and really needs to crawl under a rock and shut the fuck up for… ever.

I’m sorry.

Ignore this piece of misery spreading human garbage.

Sincerely,

Your Jewish Friend

I am, if nothing, a traditional guy.  Stop complaining , you know I always play this one.