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There’s no brakeman on this train
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HS football
new school year unfolds.
David Bloom
McCain’s example not lost on Americans
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DID W HEAR ABOUT THE
RECENT MASS SHOOTING?
I smell a dirty rotten rat. It’s a smell
we’ve learned to live with because
we have been told that smell is nor-
mal. I think its high time we decided
it is not. The issue involves the stran-
glehold Harris County has on the
Baytown jail. Something here defies
logic and yes, logic is always a co-
nundrum when it comes to the rules.
Here is the big question: Why
WHICH
ONE?
On this date:
In 1967, the Senate confirmed the appointment of Thur-
good Marshall as the first black justice on the U.S. Su-
preme Court.
In 1983, Guion S. Bluford Jr. became the first black
American astronaut to travel in space as he blasted off
aboard the Challenger.
In 1984, the space shuttle Discovery was launched on
its inaugural flight.
In 2005, a day after Hurricane Katrina hit, floods were
covering 80 percent of New Orleans, looting continued
to spread and rescuers in helicopters and boats picked up
hundreds of stranded people.
One year ago: The former Hurricane Harvey completed
a U-turn in the Gulf of Mexico and rolled ashore for the
second time in six days, hitting southwestern Louisiana as
a tropical storm with heavy rains and winds of 45 miles
an hour. Floodwaters began to recede in Houston, where
thousands of homes were flooded.
Thought for Today: “Walk on air against your better
dency. McCain preferred to keep his
honor.
For all of that, sometimes the na-
tion needs a warrior, and McCain
was definitely that. The Washington
Post’s conservative columnist Max
Contemplating the heroic life of
Sen. John McCain, it was easy to
think of him as the last true Republi-
can — a politician who thought it his
duty to elevate country over party.
Elsewhere, hyper-partisanship and
cowardice have become the nonn in
today’s GOP, scared to death of Fox
News bluster and Donald Trump’s
twitter feed.
As Hillary Clinton explained to
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bER I managed when we Maybe that $65 million needs to in-
MARSHALL have trained officers elude some provisions that aren’t
on the beat; not taxi- planned. If our jail is certified as a
doesn’t Harris County pick up the ing prisoners up to five times a day. Harris County jail annex, we would
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season begins
Starting tonight, the high school football season
kicks off.
Around here, the start of football is a highly antici-
pated season. For a lot of folks it ranks right up there
with the start of spring, summer, fall and winter.
Whether you pull for the Lee Ganders, Sterling
Rangers, GCM Patriots, Barbers Hill Eagles or other
teams across our area — it’s all about community, spir-
it and pride.
But it’s not just football. The cheer team and the high
school band have had their own camps, putting in the
hours and work to get ready for the new season.
Weeks before the season starts the football play-
ers, cheerleaders and band members, along with their
coaches and directors, begin working to be the best for
their school and fans. And, when the season starts, it
continues to be a work in progress as they practice,
practice and practice some more to improve their skills.
Regardless of what school or team the football play-
er, cheerleader and/or band member represents, when
he/she takes the field, one can rest assured that a lot
of hard work and sweat went into preparation for the
performance.
No one knows what will be the night’s outcome, but
one thing is for sure - the football team, cheerleaders
and band members deserve the applause and support
of their fans.
When they take the field, make a good tackle, gain a
bunch of yards, score a touchdown or just need some
encouragement, stand up to applaud and yell. When
they play the “fight song,” stand up and clap along, and
when they say “number,” you say “one!”
Let them know you are there to support them all the
way and you’re not just a body in the stands.
The long-established rite of Friday night football is
a celebration built on community spirit and hometown
pride.
So we’re happy to see the high school season un-
derway. Regardless of whether you have a deeply held
rooting interest in any particular team, there are a lot
worse ways to spend a late summer evening than sit-
ting in the bleachers and taking in the sights and sounds
of the crowd and a ball game as dusk falls on another
work week.
We wish all schools and teams the best of luck as a
S other Harris Coun- something only little towns do any-
enty cities handle this way. No, it takes years to get cops
I constant drain. We like these replaced, so why are we
| i are on the far side toting prisoners up to five times a day
reported, because ters — a K, a G and B.”
he thought the na- His pointed rebuke of attempts to
tional outpouring race-bait Obama or to participate in
of grief over Me- the shameful “birther” smear that
Cain’s death was Trump subsequently embraced may
“over-the-top and have cost him his shot at the presi-
Press,” McCain sought personal al- to persuade Trump to put aside his Boot got it exactly right: “Trump hat-
liances with Democrats because he jealousy of a dead man and lower the ed McCain and insulted him at every
wanted the U.S. Senate to function White House flag to half-staff for an turn because McCain was everything
as the Constitution intended. American hero. Trump is not — and everything that
“He knew that the Senate couldn’t Has there ever been a more Trum- we need in our politics today but
work if we didn’t work together,” pian moment? tragically lack.”
Clinton said. “I think it was heart- I certainly never voted for McCain, Even so, if you keep your eyes
breaking to him ... as he said in the nor ever would. Except in retrospect open, you can see that American
speech he gave right before he vot- — Vietnam, Iraq — the man seemed ideals of duty and honor haven’t
ed against repealing the Affordable never to see a war he didn’t like, succumbed to partisan rancor ev-
Care Act ... we need to cooperate. Maybe he was half-joking when he erywhere. Consider Paula Duncan,
...He was so typically John in those went around singing “Bomb, bomb an outspoken Trump supporter and
remarks because he said stop listen- Iran” to the tune of the Beach Boys’ juror in the Paul Manafort trial, who
ing to the bombastic loudmouths on “Barbara Ann.” But only half. explained to Fox News that despite
radio and TV and the internet. To hell McCain could also be something her suspicion of special counsel
with them, they don’t want anything of a showman. His dramatic vote to Robert Mueller’s motives, the evi-
done for the public good. He real- save Obamacare rescued health in- dence against Donald Trump’s for-
ly understood in the marrow of his surance coverage for millions, and mer campaign manager was “over-
bones what it meant to be an Ameri- he milked the moment for everything whelming.”
can and how important it was for us that was in it. “Finding Mr. Manafort guilty was
to, yes, disagree and differ. But at the Most of the time, however, he hard for me. ... I really wanted him
end of the day to come together, to was a reliably partisan Republican, to be innocent, but he wasn’t,” she
work together, to trust each other to voting enthusiastically for the very explained. Duncan wants people
get things done.” Supreme Court justices whose Citi- to understand that it wasn’t even a
Indeed, a farewell message from zens United verdict dismantled Me- close call. But for one flaky juror,
McCain to his Arizona constituents Cain-Feingold campaign finance Manafort would have been convict-
emphasized exactly that: “We are refonns and handed the U.S. govern- ed on all 18 counts of tax evasion and
citizens of the world’s greatest re- ment over to the highest bidder. bank fraud.
public, a nation of ideals, not blood Sen. McCain was a real piece of Like Sen. McCain, Duncan did
and soil. ... We weaken our greatness work: passionate, morally and phys- her civic duty proudly, driving to the
when we confuse our patriotism with ically brave. He laughed, and made courthouse every day in her “Make
tribal rivalries that have sown resent- others laugh, more than anybody in American Great Again” ball cap, al-
ment and hatred and violence in all Washington. Some of his jokes could though she now wishes Trump would
the comers of the globe. We weaken be pointed. In a 2008 presidential change the slogan to “Make America
it when we hide behind walls, rather debate with Barack Obama, he made Kind Again.” Fat chance of that.
than tear them down.” a sly reference to President George
Meanwhile, the wall-builder W. Bush’s naive remark about seeing Contact Arkansas Times columnist
sulked in his tent like a counterfeit Vladimir Putin’s soul: “I looked in Gene Lyons at eugenelyons2@yahoo.
Achilles, The Wall Street Journal Mr. Putin’s eyes and I saw three let- com.
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of the ship channel to Houston?
and I believe our Maybe the citizens of this great
prisoners in the Baytown jail? Why I am a fan of our city and our po- suddenly have two to five more cops
do Baytown police officers make the lice department. Since 1974 when I free to patrol the streets and stop all
2-3 hour round-trip visit to Hous- moved here after leaving the service, this red light running and car steal-
ton two to five times a day to trans- I have never had a negative instance ing. Does this sound unreasonable?
fer prisoners when they could be with BPD. I also support our city and Look. I am not suggesting we all
working our streets? Why didn’t our wish it to be a great place to raise a gather at city hall with masks, signs,
“new” jail of 15 or so years qualify family. Our police training programs and throw smoke bombs. I am sug-
as a Harris County jail annex when are top notch and we train cops from gesting each and every person con-
most of us thought it would? all over the country. I want it to con- tact your councilperson and inquire
How come the $65 million future tinue to be professional and leaders why we are continuing this at tax
police department building doesn’t in law enforcement, instead of pris- payers expense. It is illogical and
include this resource-robbing issue? oner Uber drivers. should be addressed by citizen input.
Over the years I’ve asked this ques- Maybe this is just the way it is I love this town. I do not ever plan
tion and it has always been explained done. Everyone under Harris Coun- on leaving. I am asking for your help
that there is nothing BPD can do to ty and Sheriff Ed Gonzales do it one to set this situation to the advantage
alleviate the problem. I’m patient, but way and that’s just the way its going of Baytown and its law enforcement
does it seem logical that we continue to be; I don’t know. Maybe it can’t be officers.
this practice to the waste of our po- done another way, but let’s get real.
lice patrols and citizens’ tax dollars. We just tragically lost two top cops Bert Marshall is the owner of Our-
I do not blame BPD. I blame the with many years experience. They Baytown.com and a Baytown resi-
current system and Harris County cannot and will not be replaced us- dent since 1974. Reach Marshall at
and personally, I do not care how ing “shake and bake” cops, which is baytownbert@gmail.com.
AP FACT CHECK: Trump overstates
his job performance ratings
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump isn’t
getting his facts straight when citing his overall job ap-
proval ratings. In a tweet, Trump boasts of poll numbers
that show 52 percent of all Americans approved of his
performance in office, in spite of the “fake news media.”
TRUMP: “Over 90% approval rating for your all time
favorite (I hope) President within the Republican Party
and 52% overall. This despite all of the made up stories
by the Fake News Media trying endlessly to make me
look as bad and evil as possible. Look at the real villains
please!” — tweet Sunday.
THE FACTS: He’s wrong in regard to polls citing his
overall job ratings.
The Associated Press couldn’t find any evidence of a
recent poll that put Trump’s approval at 52 percent, and
the White House and his re-election campaign didn’t im-
mediately respond to requests for specifics.
Polls are a snapshot of public opinion at the moment
they are taken, and job approval can — and has in re-
cent history — vary during a president’s term. George W.
Bush, for example, had approval ratings that reached into
the high 80s and low 90s in the wake of the Sept. 11 at-
tacks, and dropped into the high 20s and low 30s toward
the end of his time in office.
Since his inauguration, however, Trump’s job approval
has been remarkably consistent — in the high 30s and
low 40s — in polls from various media organizations
and other pollsters. The latest AP-NORC poll, taken this
month, finds Trump’s approval among American adults at
38 percent. Some other recent polls measure his approval
in the low to mid-40s.
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