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With school starting soon, or maybe already has started, I’m going to share a couple of comments that my sister-in-law recently shared with me.

* Teacher: How old is your father?

Kid: He is six years old.

Teacher: How is this possible?

Kid: He became father only when I

was born.

* Teacher: Maria go to the map and

find North America.

Maria: Here it is.

Teacher: Correct. Now, Class, who

discovered America?

Class: Maria.

* Teacher: Donald, what is the chemical formula for water?

Donald: H I J K L M N O.

Teacher: What are you talking about?

Donald: Yesterday you said it’s H to O.

* Teacher: Glenn, how do you spell

‘crocodile?’

Glenn: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L.

Teacher: No, that’s wrong.

Glenn: Maybe it is wrong, but you

asked me how I spell it.

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The longer I live, the more I learn.

For example, last week I learned that it is impossible to attend three funerals, a wedding and a 50th Anniversary party all in one day. And, do justice to all of them.

We were able to give respect to the funeral services in one form or another and was able to attend the wedding, even if we were just a little late. However, the Anniversary events were just out of reach. We had to leave Lawrence before they got started and didn’t get home until they were pretty much over.

Our return trip home on Saturday evening brought back some memories of days gone by.

We left Grand Island in time to get home about the time it got dark. However, we didn’t plan on the time we sat on the side of the road waiting for the rain storm to die down. Twice it happened and when we heard that Hastings received and inch and half of rain in one-half hour, we knew why it was smart to wait out the rain.

We’ve done that before, but it’s been a lot of years since we had to do it.

Live and learn.

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Just a couple of years ago, I needed to show a photo ID to purchase a flower in Hastings . . .

Nebraska is kind of an interesting place to live in. A person just never knows exactly what is going to happen in the sphere of public government.

Take voting for example.

Our Unicameral Legislature, for example, is one of a kind in the nation. It seems to work well as near as I can understand.

Even though our Legislators are “non-political” everyone seems to know who is “liberal” and who is “conservative.”

As a whole, it seems the state is conservative. Across the nation many of those states that identify as conservative seems to have started some sort of voter I D regulations. To date 20 states require photo identification for citizens to cast their ballots.

In Nebraska, voter ID legislative proposals have been unable to clear filibusters by opponents in the Legislature. (If Nebraska is so conservative, how can the liberals stop such proposals?)

Well, last week an Initiative Petition drive to propose a constitutional amendment that would require photo identification in order to cast ballots in Nebraska elections started.

The proposal would authorize the Legislature to determine what constitutes valid photographic identification.

The petition needs 5 percent of the registered voters in 38 of the state’s 93 counties to sign the petition to be put on the 2022 general election ballot. That’s about 124,000 signatures.

Doesn’t sound overwhelming and I hope it gets done.

Liberals, of course, don’t want this to succeed. They claim it would be expensive and would deny people the right to vote.

Now, to get back to the opening paragraph in this section. That flower plant I wanted to buy . . . I used a credit card to pay for it, but the lady told me I needed to show a photo ID so they could make sure I was who I was.

Photo ID’s are asked for in all kinds of place and not to ask for one when you are voting is just silly. I need a photo ID to buy flowers . . . but not to vote . . .

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