I live on hostile ground surrounded by leftists and unfortunately represented by Senators Kennedy (ugh) and Kerry (more ugh). Communicating with them is useless. I am self employed which means I am too busy. It is rare that I have time to surf the web. I was fortunate to stumble upon free rebublic while following a thread from another conservative site. My FReeper name "LebenFrei" means "Live Free" in German.