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“There’s never a good day for a funeral.”

That little phrase was coined many years ago and is as true today as it was when I first heard it. I bring it up today only because we attended funeral services of a niece Monday and it was an amazing event, just a bad day for a funeral.

A young (age 54) lady who hasn’t lived in Nebraska for many a year died and was buried in Grand Island. Between the Rosary service and the funeral service, the church overflowed with family, friends and relation.

The event reminded me so much of a different funeral many years ago. That was for Art Hoelting. Both people were not married, but able to touch so many people by their love and devotion to faith, family and friends.

Both had fitting services for their lives. Their “job” (and our job) on earth is to “Know, Love and Serve God in this world and to be with Him in the next.”

I have no doubt both did their jobs on earth and will reap the reward they so worthily deserve.

A O

“Don’t watch FOX news.” Was a warning I was given a few years back.

I asked why, and was not given a good reason other than “they are just crazy.”

Well, I think I said before I do watch some FOX News, but I also watch some of the other major TV News as well.

I’ve come to the conclusion that most news outlets (TV and newspaper) are major sources of passing out information for our “Liberal” politicians. FOX news sort of tells “The rest of the story.”

Even right here in the center of one of the most conservative states in the U. S., we are constantly bombarded by the liberal vent on everything from pipelines to child birth.

The liberal viewpoint is so often offered as what is supposed to be done. Other viewpoints should not even be heard. An example came up last week in the Hastings newspaper.

The headline read: “Conservatives set sights on education takeover.”

That could be read as a simple matter of fact as what is going on in this years’ legislature seems to be a shift back to a more conservative method of operating our educational system.

However, it didn’t take long in reading the article that the headline was meant to be a negative statement of what going on in Nebraska. It is not what our liberal residents want.

This is just a little more proof that what I’ve often said about our national media. They are often just an extension of the liberal viewpoints in our country. This article in the Hastings newspaper was written by someone in the Associated Press and was not trying to advance any conservative viewpoints at all.

His biggest intent seemed to focus on what are called ‘LGBTQ’ students and how ‘unfair’ current proposals are to those students.

The article noted that our current senator from our district, Dave Murman, from Glenvil was being given power to advance conservative-backed legislation.

Conservatives have often failed in the protection of generally accepted principles of “right” or “wrong” over the years. That is why the efforts to correct the errors made gets so much attention.

I mean, liberals have gone such a long way to convince everyone that it really is good to kill unborn babies and that there really are more than two genders of the human species. Things we as a human race knew for generation after generation . . . until recent years when liberals tried to change so many things.

Ya, by and large I don’t think the Hastings newspaper is a mouth piece for the liberal establishment, but it is interesting how little articles like this one was is presented as just plain news, rather than a promotion of liberal viewpoints.

A O