Another year has passed now, and as I look back, it has been a good year; not a great one, but a good one.....every morning I woke up and my feet were above ground. I avoided serious health issues, dodged insolvency, spent time with family, friends, and loved ones, acquired some new guns, shot a few birds and deer, broke a few targets with the Tuesday Morning Loafers at Amarillo Gun Club, made new friends, and sadly; lost a few.
For those poor souls that I may have irritated with my conservative opinions and iron-assed attitude, no apologies will be forthcoming and don't expect any changes in 2015 either.
May the New Year be a healthy, happy, and prosperous one.
God Bless you all, God Bless America, and Gig 'Em Aggies in 2015!
(I'm just a Native Texan redneck that lives in the Panhandle with not enough guns.)

Hey Gary:
Lets hope we can continue irritating the libtard braindead individuals who continue to infest this forum even after they've been outed for the liars they are.
Jimm

Dittos! Especially the anti-gunners who pose as gun guys, but continue to support anti-gun politicians. I don't care if I sound like a broken record... those guys are a threat to every shooter, hunter, or collector here.

Happy new Year!

Happy New Year, Gary! Hope this one is even better.

Best,
Ted

"For those poor souls that I may have irritated with my conservative opinions and iron-assed attitude, no apologies will be forthcoming and don't expect any changes in 2015 either."

"Lets hope we can continue irritating the libtard braindead individuals who continue to infest this forum even after they've been outed for the liars they are."

"Dittos! Especially the anti-gunners who pose as gun guys, but continue to support anti-gun politicians. I don't care if I sound like a broken record... those guys are a threat to every shooter, hunter, or collector here."


Count in for all three of the above guys !

Since liberals are smiling and lying, and conservatives moaning and groaning as hard-done-bys, here's hoping for a happier New Year for members who learn from the liberals how to improve a country by telling little lies.

Everyone lies one way or another. It's absurd for the educated in the 21st century to believe one ideology fits all, and pure fantasy to say that one is purer, more virtuous than the others as fundamentalists everywhere do.

Liberalism in modern societies reigns because it reaches to a common empathetic, compassionate core where we measure ourselves by how well we contribute to others, a gospel of inclusiveness, not separation.

I believe a Canadian who made his mark in America, John Kenneth Galbraith: "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy, that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

That may be a lie. Many would say it is. A lie is something we say that we know not to be true. Galbraith believed what he said. Some members believe adherents to their way of thinking do not lie but those of other ideologies do.

I believe the Iraq invasion ignited the fastest growing, fiercest and hitherto most hideous threat to Christian values in 80 years. Disagreeing doesn't make me a liar any more than other members' opinions are lies i.e. more laissez-faire, less regulation on how much and to whom each provides in taxes.

I believe as Dave Weber that disrespect, filthy language, vituperation and denunciation should have no place in Misfires. They add nothing to conversations. We are blessed that only a few of a particular bent engage in it. The Spirit flourishes. Happy New Year to all.

Hmmm, so libs do lie and they know it, but in the interest of fairness, they're just little lies.

No King, one ideology does not fit all. That is precisely why some are willing to pursue real and specific issues, that can't be bushed off as moans and groans or a punks game. Isn't it absurd for the educated to measure policy failure by calling it a 'punks game'.

Why is freedom of speech, from one side of the aisle, just moans and groans. On the other hand a lib can say the Constitution is useless and dead or gun rights are on an inevitable path to ending, 'because my kids aren't interested'.

Let's jump randomly and 'discuss' the most hideous threat to Christian value in 80 years. bo attacks Christianity on the domestic front, is that why he's sending the US military back into a middle eastern quagmire of a war...to attack Christian values on the world front. Is that a little lie, our 'perfect enemy' is really our progressive means to that end.

Our host here is gracious. Mike's post have none of your criterion for inappropriateness. Why does he get a lecture from you about right and wrong, and Dave's values when he exercises a little freedom of speech to link up an old ban ed thread.

You don't tend to care much for DaveK's fact and figures links, but you do insist on others taking you feelings as facts. Is that what you mean by the 'gospel of inclusiveness'.

"You don't tend to care much for DaveK's fact and figures links, but you do insist on others taking you feelings as facts. Is that what you mean by the 'gospel of inclusiveness'."

a BIG thank you for that Craig !

Leave it to our pathological liar to come up with a New Years justification for his bold faced Lies and intentionally deceptive posts.

King, you disrespect all of us here with your many Lies. When you are caught red-handed writing something you "know not to be true", you simply pretend it never happened and pretend to ignore those who call you on it. You disrespect this board with your anti-2nd Amendment rhetoric and unwavering support of anti-gun U.S. politicians. You engage in vituperation and denunciation with your constant drumbeat accusing Conservatives in the Republican Party, and Conservatives here, of racism, misogyny, greed, and a host of other things that Leftist Liberals see as wrong. You hypocritically seem to think that just because you don't names names, that makes you morally superior to those who recognize you for what you are... a compulsive Liar. You use those Lies as justification to advance your agenda, because without the Lies, intentional deceptions, bloviation,and resume inflation, you are nothing but an empty suit.

You are a complete and utter fraud, and it was nice of you to finally tacitly admit it.

How nice.

Leave it to a punk, sociopathic, statist, religious little troll to use a New Years greeting to rationalize his religions sociopathic infliction on others. I'll provide the translation.

It's not "liberals telling little lies", it's a full blown faith-based sociopathic religious infliction on others that merely rationalizes pathological lying. Insisting on hiding behind the term "Liberalism" shows just how intellectually vapid you continue to be. The charade is over.

Asserting moral equivalency by saying "everybody lies" is typically doctrinal. The standard of ideologies is whether or not they are sociopathically inflictive on others against their will, as your religion is, that's the difference. Individual freedom and equality are certainly more virtuous, unless you're a statist, religious, sociopathic seeking more "willing victims".

Religious statism mistakenly called "liberalism" uses vote-buying in modern societies to further its aims.

JKG? BFD.

Islamic fundamentalism has been the most volatile sociological force in the world since the establishment of Israel. It typically has had strong resurgence when America has weak, incompetent presidents, such as we have now.

Statism is very inclusive, as everyone but the ruling class is a slave.

Save it for May First next time...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!


Unfortunately, tragic economic news happened last night when the New Year rang in:

A reminder for those who forgot or for many that didn't know, here is what took place January 1, 2015 at the midnight hour:

Top Medicare tax went from 1.45% to 2.35%

Top Income tax bracket went from 35% to 39.6%

Top Income payroll tax went from 37.4% to 52.2%

Capital Gains tax went from 15% to 28%

Dividends tax went from 15% to 39.6%

Estate tax went from 0% to 55%

Now the extremely sad but true fact: These taxes were all passed only with

Democrat votes,

No Republicans voted for these taxes.

These taxes were all passed under the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.

The Democratic party’s socialism, unlimited spending, and high taxes has been forced upon us!

If you think it is important that everyone in the U.S. should know, pass it on.

Here's the biggest pathological lie told by the Democrats.

"You can keep your Standard of Living if you want to"....

Thanks for that list Jim. It is good to see it all at once...Geo

HOPEFULLY WE CAN SURVIVE TWO MORE YEARS OF THIS SOCIALIST B.S.
Jim

Modern societies suck it up, take severe measures when they can't pay their bills; the US in hock to China to the extent it pays in interest the other superpower's military budget.

Canada was in similar economic straits, an absolute basket case, called Third World by The Economist for its profligacy, buying more than it was producing, but sacrificed to build a strong economy.

Comrade King, reality always seems to escape you.

This is merely another sociopathic, doctrinal, statist religious response. America's massive debt is the result of religious vote-buying. Whenever responsible people advocate fiscal responsibility they are religiously demonized by you and your fellow sociopaths.

Seriously, do you even remember the things you say in previous posts? The massive expansion of America's debt has been in unconstitutional domestic spending, simply "generational theft", all caused by the democrat's attempt to buy political power, at the expense of free and equal citizens.

Craig, I don't answer all posts nor do other members. Others have as much right to their opinions as I do. None is obligated to respond to each and every expression. It sometimes makes sense not to, leave it be. It's only another opinion.

I'm not responsible for true believers getting their knickers in a knot, fulminating nonsense about a separate virtuous people called conservatives who don't lie or abide deficits nor make mistakes. If I add a little holiday levity, they go nuts.

I care very much for Dave's facts and figures links. They help to measure my prejudices. All data is valuable in making informed decisions. I also apply that data to other sources without feeling a need to reply to his.

It's all entertaining. Misfires is probably the best peek going into the current American psyche. A little stir of the sediment provides an amazing amalgam of values, the most hideous of those who clearly don't love their country.

We may have different notions of what is constitutional, Ken. We agree on the vote-buying. There's the chicanery, the lack of probity of omnibus bills. Canada is up to its ears in it.

What's unconstitutional of Democrats voting one way and Republicans another for Jim's list? Rightly or wrongly, that's the way the system works. For all the majesty of conscience, sincerity and candour, virtue also has the vice of error.

The notion Americans will change it two years hence is divine comedy.

More "Fun with statist, religious sociopaths".

Another round of doctrinal, bigoted, religious demonization.

Now, "those who clearly don't love their country" are those who believe in individual freedom and equality, reject statist neoslavery that benefits totalitarians, and refuse to be the "willing victims" of leftist, religious sociopaths.

Talk about the Poster Child of misinformed decisions and ideology. Simply hideous. When sociopaths express opinions that directly advocate the loss of freedom for others, what do they expect? Willing victims?

On this, we're in total agreement. It will either take a total collapse of the economy, or a long process of de-programming the belief of statist, religious entitlement. The first step being the teaching of the Constitution.

Understood. I noticed it was getting difficult to quote your feelings at the times you didn't respond.

Best peek going?, not by a long shot. You know it's not to early lock up an early pick in an upcoming litter. By next fall you could be watching a seven or eight month old pup wrestle/drag back its first duck.

Last sentence poignant. Just stroked head, ears of faithful Jake, seized by age from the blind this year, too weak to enter car, truck or boat. We're the same age and I ponder my responsibilities of getting another for coming fall---imagining the joyful picture you've etched in memories of my other Jakes.

I merely meant at this special time of year to wish good fortune to those of this forum who love the double guns and other fine firearms that make up the history and heritage of many countries around the world. Hunting has been around since man found out meat tastes good, and he has constantly been refining the tools with which to acquire that meat. Unfortunately, this forum (along with just about any forum on the net today)has attracted some who use it to push their beliefs in a social system that has never worked in any country it has been instilled in, or carny hucksters who take advantage of a mere $10 fee in an attempt to sell third-rate junk that wouldn't get an inner city pawn shop loan. It wouldn't matter if you posted "Have a nice day"....some socialist troll would inject non-related comments that neither add nor enhance. One wonders about the mental stability of such people and whether they should be trusted with firearms or allowed in the presence of children. I find it telling that these trolls never post any answers or enlightening comments to questions posed about fine guns, pictures of their own vintage guns, or pictures showing those guns used in the field. Perhaps it is because they lack any knowledge or experience with good guns, don't own any, and the only hunting they do is with a computer keyboard.
It is especially hilarious that a citizen of another country constantly insists he knows more about what is best for this country than we who live here do....could it be that his beliefs in a shopworn political agenda have worn out all welcomes in his own country?
"May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face;
the rains fall softly upon your fields,
and until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of His hand."

Shoot no, the little ones are sprouting like weeds up there.

"The real motives of liberals have nothing to do with the welfare of other people. Instead, they have two related goals--to establish themselves as morally and intellectually superior to the rather distasteful population of common people, and to gather as much power as possible to tell those distasteful common people how they must live their lives." Thomas Sowell

with power comes wealth.....liberalism is the biggest con in history.
Can a liberal ever be truly happy and content? - never

Hey Gary,
Check your PMs.

Best,
Ted

Nice one, Craig! Canada is doing well with a parliamentary system that allows winning parties and their leaders to do what they say they will do. None ever does, of course, but liberals and conservatives have made a great country although they never felt predestined to greatness living next to a superpower of surpassing generosity and intellectual vigour. Liberalism isn't shopworn anywhere.

It saddens when American members denigrate their country as ruled by rubes who don't think as they do, proclaiming their governance as mob rule sliding toward totalitarianism, presided over by a president not infrequently called a piece of shit. People who think that way don't remain for long as citizens of a great nation. They need reminding the United States isn't going to hell. Its electorate won't permit it.

Gary's observation of who is or isn't contributing is as errant as his knowledge of Canada. He couldn't know as a relative newcomer what others contributed many years before his arrival. He will learn that each member asks for information and responds according to ability more in earlier years, and waits in later years for acknowledged experts in particular fields for definitive contributions. Misfires, of course, rants and raves for pure entertainment.

Surpassing. Well we know that libs stand at around 51% and the right are a bunch of shellfish. I'm in awe of the burden that the left shoulders.

Nuts and bolts time. 'Saddened' by leaders who don't 'think' as they(emphasis on divide) do. What the jagermeister, oops sorry. Let me point out that there is criticism of policy, tactics and results. The 'sadness' could better be attached to those who cover for the failure by saying they're educated thinkers, oh and have tons-o-feelings.

What a difference a day makes. Yesterday, misfires was a window in to America's soul. Today, it doesn't even make the back page.

A peek, Craig, a peek into America's psyche is what I said. A big window on the world provides what it is. Misfires often provides part of why. No country is as aware of your culture as your neighbour, closest friend and business partner, Canada.

I didn't refer to "leaders who don't think" as causing sadness. I commented on American members here, a minority of conservatives of actorly ego, who denigrate shamelessly their country and institutions and citizens because others think differently than they do.

Almost every year between 1996 and 2012, except 1997, the Pew Research Center asked random samples of the American public: "[d]o you think of yourself as conservative, moderate, or liberal?" In 1996, 40% of the public identified themselves as conservatives, 40% said they were moderates, and 20% claimed to be liberals. In 2012, the percentages of the three categories were 39, 37, and 23. With one or two exceptions in the 1990s, most years saw shifts of one or two percentage points.

Moreover, whether one looks at Gallup or Pew Research Center polls, self-identification as conservative has outweighed liberal identification by as much as 2-to-1 or as little as 3.5-to-2.

Claims that the "Obama Era" represents a profound shift to the left at the American grassroots ring hollow.

Whoa, Dave, don't upset the apple cart!

I don't know whether you've an emotional truth there or a practical reality. Let's wait for Ken and Jim to decide.They say Obama liberals are pushing US to socialism and totalitarianism, the country's going to hell.

Conservatives wouldn't do that.

I gave up on understanding them. Most aren't smart enough to realize that free abortion and or contraceptive pills are cheaper than taking care of child that will most likely be on welfare for the rest of his/her life.

I don't think this is even a question to anyone who has been paying attention. Obama's socialist background is well known. The fact the the Democratic Party of my parents which I also suported in my younger years has been taken over by the radical left is also well known.
Now we have a new fight on our hands with the RINO traitor in Arizona, John McCain, who I have been cautioning everyone about since I started posting here. That old Libtard fool is threatening to run for the Senate again in 2016.
He is a good example of "The Enemy Within".
Jim

Ah, Comrade King Brown, the "soulful sociopath" that makes sagely pronouncements on America while religiously demonizing those who don't hold his sociopathic, statist, religious beliefs. Then, he augustly pronounces that those who hold the same beliefs as America's founding fathers are destined not to "remain citizens of a great nation". Which great nation? Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union? You certainly can't be referring to America, the country that champions individual freedom, liberty, and equality.

Of course a vote-bought electorate is assisting the march towards totalitarianism. Once the Constitution is circumvented by sociopathic statists it becomes easy.

Really Comrade King, you're one step away from declaring those who believe in the Constitution to be mentally ill.

Has anyone noticed, as I have (I track things like this) that the vast majority of Comrade King's post always contain some form of statist religious, demonization? This is soviet psychopolitical doctrine, and is easily identified once you know what to look for.

Demonization? Now proclaiming your casuistical claptrap of citizen responsibility as intent of the founding fathers! And trying to wiggle out of your fervent claim the US is governed by mob rule with no justice or freedom because of vote-buying by an over-night change to a country that champions freedom and liberty. Which is it? Your notions aren't demonic, Ken. They're unintelligent and old-fashioned.

You're welcome, Gary. Any time.

Has anyone noticed???

Hell yes we've noticed. The majority of us who post here have noticed... except for ed, the Village Idiot.

We've not only noticed King Brown's frequent demonization of anyone and everyone who does not subcribe to to his insane Leftist Socialist beliefs, but more and more are finally fed up to the point of actually calling him the LIAR that he certainly is.

But understand, King Brown's demonization is OK, and even civil, in his mind, because he does it in a sneaky cowardly underhanded manner. In his sick mind, if you cast a wide net or do it in a non Ad Hominum manner... it's OK.

King has long gotten a pass from many on his lies and bullshit because of his age. All that has done is embolden him to feed the forum more lies and bullshit. An elderly liar is just someone who has been a liar all their life, and is not worthy of a milligram of respect. Once again, today, in another thread, he is demanding PROOF from you Ken... the name of an author you cited. Yet when you ask for proof, you get more doctrinal fluff and bullshit. Same for craigd, DaveK, Jim, etc., while I just get his amusing and childish pretend-to-ignore act with his excuse which was based upon another King Brown lie. I love it. It's so revealing.

Even when he does provide some statistics, more often than not, they are easily disproved as just more bullshit. And confronted with the truth, King Brown will never admit he is wrong or deceptive.

The guy is a complete and total fraud, and his behavior here, in my opinion, is symptomatic of mental illness. After all, if most of the sand had already run out of the top of your hourglass, would you waste what little was left on a bunch of guys who realized that you were full of shit?

We've called Obama a lot of things King, but I don't recall anyone calling him a piece of shit. Perhaps you can show us that post.

But since you bring up the subject, check the following link and watch the videos. I know you think there are no flies on Obama, but a picture is worth a thousand words.

http://beforeitsnews.com/obama/2013/01/o...os-2447234.html

Ironically, a friend of mine in D.C. recently said almost the identical thing, only her words could be paraphrased as, "The fact the Republican Party of my parents which I also supported in my younger years has been taken over by the radical right is also well known."

I say this not to refute James M or to pick sides, but only to point out that, to those of us who have the luxury of standing back and observing from a distance, the partisanship has become so intense and so visceral as to make the entire system dysfunctional. Its ideologically-driven gridlock in governance to a degree that is perhaps unprecedented in modern times.

Gee, I thought you liked him. His rants on subject of poor Israel remind me of yours. I have real bad news for you. He will probably win because in couple of election cycles AZ will be a Blue State.

Comrade King,

This response is so nonsensical and contradictory that I had wait to respond when I could stop laughing at it. I think you mean "Causal", as in "Causation" when you're referring to "Claptrap of citizen responsibility as intent of the founding fathers". This directly relates to individual freedom and equality, as in the direct sense, each is responsible for himself. This follows John Locke philosophy, that society functions best when all individuals are allowed to develop to the full extent of their abilities. This clearly is the antithesis of your statist, religious beliefs, where "everybody is responsible to everyone for everything", which is only possible when subjectively and sociopathically determined (and inflicted) by the ruling class of the State. It's really a thinly-disguised reiteration of "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs". Of course, again, always determined by a sociopathic "ruling class". More statist, religious, sociopathic, claptrap and mumbo-jumbo.

When the Constitution is circumvented and simple majority rule is used, of course indoctrinated, sociopathic "victims" will vote for statists willing to take other's freedom away and reward it to them. Such is the purpose of of social programs that still allow participants to vote.

I appreciate your attempts at refutation, you're enjoyably relentless in the defense of your sociopathic religion. Either that or you suffer from extreme short-term memory loss and are unable to remember my previous posts. (Kidding).