If memory serves me right, was not there a deal between the Christian right and raygun to ease restrictions on home schooling and private church schools, which is one reason we are in the predicament we face now.

and private church schools, depending on how radical they are, are not bad either.

Not sure what you are referring to but it would be nice to elaborate.

Like everything around us, even interest groups like religious groups that have a very hard agenda which I believe has more to do with the organizers zest for money, once in a while they do promote things that help the country, not often but once in a while, and I happen to believe that releasing sanctions on home school and religious private schools has not bee a negative.

If we compare that with "Charter Schools" then I would agree, but charter schools were not pushed by religious groups, they were pushed by groups who think tax payer's money should move into their coffers, as well as those who are not interested in the improvement of public education.

He's got some pretty weird positions on things. He's also a conservative who does not believe in the main positions of the Democratic Party and middle class Americans. He's anti-federal government, anti-tax, anti-social programs, and the like.

does not coincide with my 48 years of being a Zappaphile. For one thing, Frank and Gail donated $100K to the Democratic Party in the early nineties. He called himself a "Constitutional Fundamentalist." And really really really DID NOT LIKE televangelists, as witnessed be his "Beatles Medley" from the 88 tour.

Lucy in the sky with diamonds was subtly rewritten; "Louisiana Hooker with Herpes."

I heard him sound a bit libertarian at times, but he sure was correct much of the time.

+10

Tom Braden wrote a book called Eight is Enough and it was turned into a TV show.

Of the show.

Lofton especially, deserved a quick poke to the schnozz for lurching in and out of Zappa's personal space with his Gish Gallop and slimy, stubby index finger.

That was an amazing display of composure and restraint by Mr. Mother of Invention.

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.” ― Frank Zappa

Well, except for the fact that he was exactly correct in his prediction of the nation heading down the path of theocratic fascism.
When you see where we are now, Frank looks like a visionary.
Just like George Carlin, they had it right way back when.
There is an old pennsylvania dutch saying, "we get too soon old, and too late smart."
Hopefully it isn't too late for the country to smarten up as to how the pseudo-spiritual right-wing fundamentalist anti-christians are dragging this country down the road to their own personal brand of hell.
May God have mercy on this country if they don't.

Patrick Phillips

the born-again atheist, whose father started the Evangelical Movement in the Seventies.