Thursday Reads

 Insane president thinks about getting  rid of due process.

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Obit:  Actor Joe Don Baker,  89, best known for portraying bat-wielding sheriff Buford Pusser in the film Walking Tall, has died.   He had been in several action films before landing the aforementioned film, which became a big box office hit upon its release in 1973.

The real Pusser died in an auto accident in 1974 and was even bigger than Baker.

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Baker was born on Feb. 12, 1936, in Groesbeck, Texas. His mother, Edna, died when he was 12, and he was raised by an aunt. A linebacker at Groesbeck High School, his hero was Doak Walker, who played halfback at Southern Methodist University and won the Heisman Trophy in 1948.

Baker had his first experience as an actor as a senior at North Texas State College in Denton. After graduating with a business degree in 1958 and serving for two years in the U.S. Army, he moved to New York and was accepted into The Actors Studio.