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Lol, you have made no case to rest! You have stated no facts, just the usual vitriol and name calling you people always resort to, when you have nothing substantive to say. You seem to be something of an anomaly, in my opinion. Trashing liberals, yet you listen to Frank Zappa, who was very outspoken against the Republican\Religious Right and his music generally reflects that.

Then there's Warren Zevon (Zivotovsky), who could never decide what politics to follow, he was all over the place just like his life. As well as a serious drug addict and alcoholic whose father, Stumpy Zevon, was a notorious mobster for Mickey Cohen, lol. He was also known for doing hard drugs in front of his young children, unlike Zappa, who may have tried smoking pot, but, claimed he didn't get anything fom it and was not a drug user, at least as far as I know. Not that those things make any real difference, most popular musical artists and other types of artists did drugs and drank heavily, very few didn't or don't. I mean, Frank Sinatra used to snort coke off the belly's of showdancers in Las Vegas, at least that's what some reports have said.

I won't even go into the Ramones, lolol!

I happen to enjoy the music of these people myself, on occasion and grew up listening to Zappa and the Ramones. If I were a presumptive person, i'd say having people like this posted on your fb as likes, is a bit of hypocrisy with your indignation of liberals. Zappa may have once said he was a conservative, but, that is generally regarded as a joke, because his music and outspoken views against Religion and Republicans seems to fly in the face of that.

I do believe the PMRC's power was diminished severely because of a lack of liberal backing. Just a bunch of rich, bored housewives with nothing better to do than try and limit what people can buy and where, I do agree with you on that, as most liberals would or should. This is what I mean about presumptiveness and labeling people. Just because i'm a liberal, doesn't automatically mean i'm against the 2nd amendment, i'm not and would never vote to overturn it. Just as i'm against restricting what is put on the shelf for people to buy. Although, i'm not against some kind of warning system for parents to know, without having to actually listen to the music, whether or not it contains material that young kids (minors) should not be listening to, just like we have a movie rating system. If they choose to buy it anyway, so be it, that's their choice.

I am seriously against the few, telling the rest of us what to do, you know, like organized Religions do! My choice is mine, yours is yours, as long as neither of us is doing something to hurt another, then we should be allowed to do as we please. In cases such as this story is about, then the vast majority should overrule the tiny minority. In order for freedom to actually mean anything, it has to involve sacrifices. It would be an insult to the memory of those that came before us to do otherwise.

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A lifelong Portsmouth resident, Jim graduated from Portsmouth High School in 1982 and earned a journalism degree from the University of Rhode Island in 1986. He's worked two different stints at East Bay Newspapers, for a total of 18 years with the company so far. When not running all over town bringing you the news from Portsmouth, Jim listens to lots and lots and lots of music, watches obscure silent films from the '20s and usually has three books going at once. He also loves to cook crazy New Orleans dishes for his wife of 25 years, Michelle, and their two sons, Jake and Max.