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"What did our parents tell us when
we were growing up? They warned
us not to talk about politics, not to
talk about religion and not to talk
about sex,” he said in an interview.
“Well, it’s hard to talk about any-
thing that matters these days
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about all three of those things, and
Teams to slug it
out — again
Jose Bautista and the
Toronto Blue Jays have
slugged their way back
to the AL Division Se-
ries, and now they get
an opponent clearly not
afraid to swing back.
I’he Jays and Rangers
open a rematch of last
year's Al.DS, which in-
cluded Bautista's homer
and emphatic bat flip in
Game 5. The celebration
irked Texas, and second
baseman Rougned Odor
punched Bautista in the
lace the last time the
teams met. Toronto right-
hander Marco Estrada
and Texas lefty Cole
Hamels will pitch.
I he last to step out was a giant rabbit.
1 guess that one didn’t get the “be scary”
memo regarding costume choice.
None of us in the car said a word. I seem
to remember that we'd all had an adult bev-
erage or two at the party and were pretty
much in an unflinchable condition.
We made it across the bridge and then
started laughing.
1 doubt if giving us a good laugh was the
trio's intent. Whether they meant to cause
a wreck that might have killed us or just
wanted to give us a scare is something we'll
never know. I am quite sure that they knew
exactly what they were doing, popping out
of the woods in the middle of nowhere just
as our headlights came around the curve.
Dumb butts.
So maybe we didn’t have pseudo-killer
clowns in my day, at least not in my neigh-
borhood, but the propensity of young peo-
ple to do dumb-butt things is nothing new.
i specially in (Jctober.
Be careful out there.
It appears to be pretty close to official. A bill reforming
the federal criminal justice system appears dead.
Once touted as a bill that would enjoy bipartisan support
md pass, it is now a victim of a divided (j( )P caucus in the
I louse and Senate. And that is unfortunate, yet another sign
of gridlock that must be surmounted.
Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas is a major ar-
chitect of this bill, one clearly in the nation’s interest. T he
measure would reduce the length of mandatory minimum
sentences and change the types of prior drug convictions
that trigger these sentences. Il would divert federal efforts
to felons who commit violent crimes and broaden chances
for early release of some prisoners w ho get credit for “good
time” served.
But it has run afoul of presidential candidate Donald
I rump's "law and order” platform. Republican Sens, lorn
Cotton of Arkansas and David Perdue of (icorgia criticized
the bill as not recognizing that the United States suffers
from an “under-incarceration” problem. Others do not
want to give President Barack ()bama, who has pushed for
such reform, a win in this election year.
I he problem is that the United States does indeed suffer
from over-incarceration problems. With both federal and
state incarcerations involved, the U.S. leads the world in
imprisoned residents, topping such sterling jailers as C hi-
na, Russia and Iran.
While crime has surged in some urban areas, the nation
is generally experiencing low crime rates compared to the
levels seen in the 1990s. when these get-tough measures
were approved.
And the get-tough laws have had a harmful impact on
minority communities. People of color are overrepresent-
ed in federal prison. I he prison population is 37.5 percent
black and 34.4 percent Latino, but blacks are 13.3 percent
of the U.S. population and l atinos 17.6 percent.
An American (ivil Liberties Union report found that
such nonviolent offenses as stealing a SI 59 jacket and sell-
ing SIO worth of marijuana were among the crimes count-
ed in the three-strikes rule.
Our hope is that after November, the divisiveness stall-
ing this bill will give way to recognition that many of the
country's ailments are being unaddressed.
Another hope is that those slates that haven't already
some have enacted reform without increases in crime rates
will also recognize that harsh sentencing and other get-
tough measures have been counterproductive.
I or the moment, however, count Cornyn's worthy bill as
just one of the latest casualties of continuing polarization
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own one my self), some scary' clown might
just jump out in front of the wrong person
in some dark parking lot corner, wooded
park or on a jogging path and that person,
already unnerved by all the clown threat
stories, might just pull a trigger.
If you are the gun-carrying kind, please
remember that so far the scary clow n sight-
ings have turned out to be idiots out for
a laugh, most of them teens or even pre-
teens.
Stay calm.
Let's just hope all this clowning around
w ill stop pretty quickly, though chances are
it might continue through Halloween.
All this puls me in mind of something
that happened to me around Halloween
many years ago.
I went with several friends to a costume
party a few miles out of town. When we
left the party, we drove the winding road
through thick, dark woods. Just as our
car took a curve that led to a very narrow
bridge, three figures stepped from between
the trees and onto the edge of the road.
One was in vampire costume, complete
with cape and top hat with whitish face
makes and big vampire teeth.
Another was dressed as a werewolf.
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over (26 percent) and people living
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least once a week (57 percent) and
women (51 percent) said they would
rather talk about spiritual matters
than politics.
A key takeaway is that, for many
Americans, religious and spiritual
issues have become controversial,
painful or worse. Clearly, the rising
number of debates about religious
freedom and sexual freedom repre-
sent the front lines in this culture war
over the nation’s future.
“We seem to be increasingly di vid-
Clowns? Really?
Dangerous, plotting, potentially killer
clowns?
I wasn't expecting to have to
about that this week, were you?
Zombies, maybe, given all the unwise
scientific medical experimentation and
weird viruses we sec in novels and films.
Not all of the zombie apocalypse prep-
pers out there are kidding. Maybe some-
day they'll turn out to be right, but killer
clowns?
If you don't keep up with the news,
perhaps you've missed all the strange
clown-related happenings recently.
Well, apparently some people have been
posting on social media some threats that
clowns will invade some of our schools
w ilh bad intentions.
I don't mean to make light of it. These
posts promise violence. So far, though,
police investigations have turned up only
dumb butts, most of them underage, whose
goals were to create nickuses.
Whether all the threats are empty ones
and actually coming from such dumb butts
just for a giggle or whether some might
constitute an actual threat, the problems
stemming from all of this are quite real.
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nothing except hypocrisy so long as
they remain code words for discrim-
ination, intolerance, racism, sexism,
homophobia, Islamophobia or any
form of intolerance.”
This creates a
Americans who are worried about
civil public discourse or even the
odds of having friendly conversa-
tions with friends, family and neigh- and religious issues. Only one in five
bors, noted Scott McConnell, head of said they wanted more.
Io no surprise, evangelicals (32 lives of others....
“An increasing number of Ameri-
cans are having trouble understand-
ing the idea of religious convictions
really mattering at all, in real life.”
Texans put DE
Still on IR
HOUSTON (AR)
The Houston
placed defensive
Devon Still on
reserve Wednesday be-
cause of a foot injury that
required surgery.
Still appeared in three
games for and had three
tackles.
Still became an inspi-
ration by sharing details
of his now 6-year-old
daughter Leah's fight
with cancer. With Leah
in remission, Still reded-
icated himself to foot-
ball and earned a spot on
Houston’s roster.
On this date:
In 1683, thirteen families from Krefeld, Germany, ar-
rived in Philadelphia to begin Germantown, one of Ameri-
ca's oldest settlements.
In 1927, the era of talking pictures arrived w ith the open-
ing of " I he Jazz Singer” starring Al Jolson, a movie featur-
ing both silent and sound-synchronized sequences.
In 1958, the nuclear submarine USS Seawolf surfaced
after spending 60 days submerged.
In I960, the historical drama "Spartacus,” starring Kirk
Douglas and directed by Stanley Kubrick, had its world
premiere in New York.
(hie year ago: Gen. John I. Campbell, the top U.S. com-
mander in Afghanistan, recommended before Congress
that President Barack Obama revise his plan to cut the cur-
rent U.S. force oI 9.800 and keep more than 1,000 U.S.
troops in the country bey ond 2016.
Thought for Today: “Talking comes by nature, silence
by wisdom.”
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While it's hard to pinpoint the pre-
cise moment it happened, it's clear
that most American discussions of
religious liberty have turned into
shouting matches about “religious
liberty,” a term now commonly
framed in "scare quotes.”
Ihe recent U.S. Commission on
( ivil Rights “Peaceful ( oexistence”
report made this clear, claiming the
First Amendment’s defense of the
free exercise of religion is not as im-
portant as some people think. Thus,
“civil rights” now trump “religious
liberty.”
The commission stressed: “Reli-
gious exemptions to the protections
of civil rights based upon classifica-
tions such as race, color, national or-
igin, sex, disability status, sexual ori-
entation, and gender identity, when
they are permissible, significantly
infringe upon these civil rights.”
In a quote that went viral online,
commission chair Martin ( astro add-
ed: “The phrases ‘religious liberty’
and ‘religious freedom' will stand for secular nonbelievers would probably
view the same conversation as a po-
tentially hostile debate about politics.
So who does, and who does not,
want to talk about faith issues these ed about the value to religious faith,
period,” said McConnell. “More and
more people seem to be wondering if
there is something intrinsically pos-
itive and valuable about religious
„ t — beliefs
that mean they cannot accept certain
behaviors in their own lives and the
sion.
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Across our nation, nu-
merous schools expe-
rienced unusually low
| attendance when parents
kept their children home
after hearing about an on-
I line clown threat in their
I area. ()t her schools and
even entire school districts
have closed their doors
for a day or two while
threats were checked out
and then found baseless.
Police are spending a lot of time check-
ing out clown-related threats and scary
clown sightings and that's lime they could
be spending in much better ways.
What is worst about all this is that it all
plays perfectly into the minds of young
people who long to make an impact any
kind of an impact on their friends or on
strangers.
“Oh, cool’,” they think. "Let's go scare
people! It will be fun!”
I un. Somebody is going to get killed
and that somebody will likely be some kid
dressed as a clown.
I hope it doesn’t happen, but given the
number of guns in this country (and yes, I
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I people are tense.”
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| are Americans,
when it comes to about politics in the previous month, .
talking about reli- while only 8 percent reported no con-
gion? According versations about politics. Fewer than ‘
to a new Life Way half (44 percent) had three or more
survey, conducted religious or spiritual conversations,
during the chaotic while 22 percent said they had zero
presidential primaries in March, six conversations about spiritual matters,
in 10 American adults are more com- Men (69 percent) and nonevan-
fortable talking about politics than gelical Americans (65 percent) said
discussing matters of faith, spirituali- they would rather talk about poli- ’
ty and religion.
McConnell said researchers al-
lowed survey participants to use their
personal definitions of w hat is "polit-
ical'' and what is “spiritual.”
I hus, from the viewpoint of tra-
ditional religious believers, a chat
with friends or neighbors about sex
and marriage might be seen as a “re-
ligious.” However, people who con-
sider themselves liberal believers or
Ducks Unlimited
to hold banquet
Bay town Ducks Un-
limited will hold its an-
nual banquet al 6 p.m. on
Oct. 20 at Ihe Bay town
Fairgrounds, 7900 N.
Main in Baytown.
Ihe event will feature I
an auction and drawing
for prizes will all pro-
ceeds raised going to
Ducks Unlimited. Tick-
ets are $50 for individu-
als, $75 per couple, and
$20 for “greenwings.”
Tables can be purchased
for $500 for bronze lev-
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