Certainly having a mental disorder like "gender identity disorder" is disqualifying. So is undergoing drastic plastic surgery and taking hormones.
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A couple of obits:
Director Tobe Hooper, 74:
Hooper was born in Austin, Texas in 1943. He worked as a college professor and documentary filmmaker before moving into feature films.
In 1974, he directed, produced and co-wrote “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.” Hooper produced the movie on a small budget, filming in Texas with a cast of relatively unknown actors. Hooper had trouble finding a distributor at first because of the amount of violence in the film. The movie become one of the most profitable independent movies of the 1970s.
The story of a group of friends who encounter the evil Leatherface and his family of cannibals in rural Texas was noted for realism and dark humor. The movie originated many horror movie elements including power tools as weapons and a menacing faceless killer.
It was inspired by the infamous Ed Gein case.
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Actor and radio show host Jay Thomas, 69, died of cancer:
Born John Thomas Terrell in Kermit, Texas, he began his radio career as a sports announcer for high school football and college basketball while attending schools including Gulf Coast College and Jacksonville University to earn bachelor's and master's degrees, according to his online biography._________
He worked as a radio disc jockey and station program manager in so many Southern cities that "I had a career like a Piedmont Airlines schedule," he joked in an AP interview.
His radio experience led to stand-up comedy gigs and eventually acting on stage and TV. In 1979, he was cast on the hit sitcom "Mork & Mindy" in the supporting role of delicatessen owner Remo DaVinci.
How did things get so screwed up in this country?
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There is no such thing as a "male" brain or a "female" brain. Any sex differences are entirely learned and not innate.
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For whom in America has Trump made great?
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