when backup got there, they were hurling racial insults, saying feed nigger baby to the alligators. in about a minute, somebody came back with a rope. apparently they had been riding around with the noose in the car. so when the guy game, the noose was already in the rope. they just through it in the tree when they brought it back and put it around my neck. and officer patch began to pull the rope and pull it and choke me enough to pull me up to my toes. local officials called it a sick prank. the guy who put the rope around my neck, he confessed on the witness stand. yeah, i did it, your honor. but i wasn t trying to hang him. i was just trying to scare him. in the middle of the glenn diamond case, robert shelton, at that time the most powerful klan
I was eight when I saw my first R-rated movie. I had two friends over – Jake and Michelle – and my mother took us to the video store to rent a movie. No doubt Mom expected us to pick something Disney, or, if not that, something on the G-end of PG, like
The Goonies. But Michelle – a raven-haired little angel who might’ve been the inspiration for Winnie Cooper from
The Wonder Years – had another idea.
Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter.
Mom was … a bit dismayed. This wasn’t
Gremlins or
Ghostbusters, where the scares aren’t grounded and, maybe, even a little campy. Jason loves murder more than his victims love not being murdered, and this installment, with SFX legend Tom Savini handling the gore, was especially visceral. Also, up to this point in the franchise, this was the movie with the most nudity (and responsible for my first crush, Judie Aronson), so we were getting exposure to
shutdown. what happens? i have to tell you, when it comes to the government shutdown, what you will hear people say is the president has made an offer and it is up to the democrat leadership to come to the table and exercise something on that offer. i was in the produce aisle at the grocery store and a constituent, this guy game past me and said marsha, i m a veteran, an independent voter. build the wall. our citizenship is not for the taking. it is for the earning. and there are so many tennesseans that feel that same way. that this is precious and they want to make certain our sovereignty is preserved. that our country is secure. that we re dealing with the drug traffickers and sex traffickers and the gangs that are trying to come across that border and they are saying secure it. i had somebody else yesterday at the airport when i was coming to d.c., they said what
what have they done? we ve gone through the travel ban. just to that point, chief of staff asked define extreme vetting. what is extreme vetting? extreme vetting is we interview people and have to satisfy ourselves that the person we re talking to are the person they claim. tough to do in some cases. they won t come in then if you can t verify that, they aren t coming in. if we can t verify, they shouldn t come into the country. this is their view on immigration looking out the windshield. looking out the front view. in the rearview, again, this guy game in seven years ago through a program no such vetting in place and new york city authorities who are good at this say he was radicalized when he got here. until we have other information, no reason to think otherwise. i agree.