The Blue Angels are also canceling summer performances.

Canceling the WH tours could be a time-honored “Washington Monument” strategy that backfires. However, one suspects that the reason members of Congress are squealing is not so much because they think it’s silly but rather because they have to deal directly with constituents disappointed about the tours. Methinks that’s the idea. A little extra incentive to get busy making the cuts that make sense, restoring the spending that shouldn’t be cut and doing a grand bargain on entitlements and revenue.

All the fuss about the WH tours is diverting attention from real meat on the bones cuts that will start kicking in in a few weeks, including furloughs equivalent to 20% pay cuts across the government, including Defense. They need to fix this.

Interesting comment about stolen guns, which are a big part of the illegal guns on the streets. The thieves seem to have a sixth sense about where to go to steal. Once when I was working in Bellevue, Washington (Seattle burb), an employee drove up from Olympia (an hour or so away) to interview for a promotion. Our building was in a secluded wooded area, with the parking lot in front, right outside my office window, where we conducted the interview. When she left the building after the interview, she found her window smashed and her handgun missing from her glove compartment. This happened in broad daylight, about a 100 feet from my office.

Hers was the only car broken into, so it appears somebody knew what they were doing. My question has always been, how? Yet, there are states passing laws at the behest of the NRA that would prohibit employers from banning weapons stored in trunks while parked in company parking lots.

What an idiot!

This is exactly the type of crap we can afford to cut. Americans should be outraged that people are waliking around with free cellphones, while the White House is closed to visitors.

The cost of Obama’s last Golf outing with Tiger would fund the White House tours for an entire year. Due to the evil GOP Obama was forced to mmake cuts. Instead of focusing on wasteful spending he opportunistically cut access to a high profile national monument (reminiscent of Bubba and the Washington Monument). What makes this move by the White House even more dispicable is that closing the White House to tours is the ONLY CUT that has been made to the administrations budget since sequestration! Talk about transparency. Making the cuts hurt as much as possible is priority #1.

Seems obvious, but we’d probably be surprised how often not observed. There was one 4-year old kid in a Chicago suburb who started playing around with his grandfather’s revolver that was left on a kitchen table, next to a bag of ammo. Fortunately, no harm came of it. That kid was me many moons ago.

Of course, the other obvious but often ignored advice is to always assume there’s one in the chamber. Not long ago, there was a dad who set his handgun on the dashboard while his young son was in the back seat. Gun went bang. Kid gone. Dad said he thought the gun wasn’t loaded. You hear stories like that all the time.

In designing a PSA campaign about guns, never underestimate the stupidity of the audience.