A government that has the power to control and loot everyone does exactly that and once it has this ability it will not willingly give it up. Any who challenge it will die by the millions if necessary to maintain the status quo. Once elected and in power there is no difference between who gets elected and what is done to the populace. Obama did not end the war in the Middle East anymore than Nixon who promised to end the war in Viet Nam followed through with his promise. Elections merely keep the populace busy believing they actually have a determining influence in the outcome.

Its been so long since I read Tolkein (and being much less worldly at that time;^), I doubt I even noticed.

Indeed I did. But enough of my hijacking Straightlinelogic's thread.

I assume you mean "good" with characters... ;)

He does military Sci-Fi well. Good with characters, which is always key for me.

Edit, fixed typo Blarman pointed out

Granted. But of the Bolo series, it was the ones co-authored with Weber that I liked the most.

Bolo is really Keith Laumer's series.
Weber wrote in it along with some others.

I buy the ebooks so trees arent an issue.

After Tolkein, nobody seems too long winded.

My main complaint with it is the way Weber spends scores of pages of dialog of political posturing in order to bring the reader up to date assuming the reader missed the earlier novels in the series. For Galt's sake Weber can be long winded! I skim most of that and eliminate at least a third of the book. (Darn, all those trees died for nothing.) Some of the political intrigue is excellent as I said, but on quite a bit I wish he would just get on with the technology and big space battles! ;^)

I like Weber's Bolo series, myself.

I enjoy David Weber's sci-fi

Thanks.

Geez, Robert you did it again. This time you almost made me throw-up. Not quite, the picture almost did. You're correct in the out-come of the morass we call the Federal Gov't. I'm looking down at the bottom there is one horseman clothed in dollar bills called Financial Collapse; the Second Horseman is looks like emaciated Corpse called Starvation; the third horseman is in tattered clothes called Unemployed and the last Horseman with a bullet holed helmet, blood streaming from it's eyes with strips of flesh hanging from it frame and an AK in one hand and an AR in it's other, that one is called Civil War.
So, the bottm of the the barrel is not a pretty site if the citizens of this country don't take their blinders off; the cotton out of their ears, and the gags out of their mouths they will be confronting the Horseman.

Flush long and prosper.

And u 2!!

May the flush be with you.

Ah, the power of metaphor!

And then we can flush that pain right down the
drain! Go, Babe!

the civil war is on in the republican party...it is a purge that can result in the cleansing of conservative fascist/socialists and a renewed party of pro-freedom/liberty capitalists...otherwise we slide into the fascist state...

A much better word is: Kakistocracy

Thanks...I've been trying NOT TO VOMIT!...I use a cleansing technique instead.

Will be back in the US on the 28th, flying into Lubbock as that is where I flew from and my truck is there in the parking lot.

If you're in Albuquerque, shoot me an email at robertgore1@me.com and we'll get together for coffee or lunch.

Yes I do Robert. I still live in Clovis, I am just down here in Belize visiting my stepdad as my mother passed away in March. Sort of checking up on him. An alternative motive is to check on my house, which was delivered on March 22nd. Both my stepdad and house are doing well. I have plenty to do to the house to get it livable, electric, plumbing, insulation and interior walls but I think I will like it down here, been here for about 9 weeks total over 3 trips and have experienced most weather events (no hurricane yet). I still have plenty to do in Clovis yet, a couple of houses, 3 vehicles and lots of stuff to get rid of and get my life in order (finalize divorce). I know you are in ABQ, haven't got there as much as I thought since I retired from PNM, I don't have to go as much. I would like to get together with you sometime and maybe have a coffee or lunch or something. I plan on staying on The Gulch even though I am in effect escaping to "my Gulch". I plan to be around until around the election, not sure I want to stay around to see President Clinton or Trump.

The problem is there is so very little understanding of freedom or what America is that is important and largely lost that the no one being spared will mean the sacking of our best and brightest and most astute.

We either need a full on revolution or for all of us relatively sane ones to get the hell out of Dodge and establish a new nation.