Thanks, Geoffgo – and I am telling our stories with vigor and passion! One of the reviewers for the Adelsverein Trilogy said that he hoped it would do for the Texas Hill Country what Gone With the Wind did for the old South. I hope that I wasn’t too terribly subtle in some of my story, for much of it is how people form a community, and do for themselves, agreeing and disagreeing on some matters.

As for a political penalty that the rent-seekers and the parasites must pay… my feeling is that it is to be voted overwhelmingly out of office the next time around – never mind the efforts of ACORN and our American ‘rotten buroughs’. Boycott the crummy leftist movies and television shows, the useless universities and their classes which teach students nothing but a sense of entitlement, write about the matters that the MSM refuses to cover on our blogs and websites, remind our elected officials whose employees they actually are.

They work for us, remember- our elected officials. We hire them, and they serve at our pleasure, not the other bloody way around. So, demand an accounting from them, loudly and passionately. We have a republic… if we can keep it. And we must keep it, because the alternative is unacceptable. We are citizens… not subjects.