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If you are a customer of Glenwood – you most likely received your new’ telephone directory in the last week or so. I got mine and quickly admired the picture on the cover. (Glenwood always asks for customers’ pictures to be submitted and uses one of them for the cover of the book.

Well, the latest book cover has a ‘reddish/orange’ Nebraska sunset picture captured by Selena (Faimon) Laughlin.

Beautiful picture.

A O

I’ve spent some time lately at the Tiffany Square Care Center in Grand Island. The other day a couple of young women employees were walking by and one used the exclamation “it was like a chicken with its head cut off.”

That’s a phrase I had not heard in a long time and had to ask her, how such a young person ever learned what the phrase meant. I didn’t think such a young person ever had the experience of either doing or watching the preparations of a “Chicken Supper.”

“Well,” she said, “I do work with a lot of ‘older’ people all the time and it’s a phrase used often.”

Enough on that subject.

A O

On Sunday, at the Catholic Mass I attended, the priest used and interesting way to get his point across to the crowd there. There was a 16-year-old boy there and the boy was asked: “If you drove 400 miles east, then 101 miles north, then 100 miles east again followed by 32 miles south, how old was the driver?”

Seemed that most everyone there was trying to count up the miles and directions being driven, but no one dared a guess as to the age of the driver. That was the 16-year-old boy who was asked the question to start with.

The answer was “16” as he was asked if “he” drove all those miles and directions. All that information about miles driven and directions did not have anything to do with the problem of deciding how old the driver was.

The priest used the example to explain how so often people did not understand the parables Jesus Christ used to explain the new church He was establishing. People than . . . and now get caught up with all those details that have nothing to do with the basic question.

I enjoyed the homily and thought about how it was very appropriate for this day and age.

We have just elected a new president for these Untied States and there is going to be a lot of distraction coming at us in the coming days.

As we wait all these days before the new president is installed into office, we will see many, many distractions. They will often not be easy to see, but they will be there.

Keep in mind that the election results told us that Americans in general want to stop many of the “Liberal” programs we’ve seen in the past dozen years or so. We didn’t want Nebraska to be a state that women could come to kill their baby via an abortion . . . We didn’t really want biological men to compete in sporting events against women . . . We really didn’t want the nation to continue to increase its debt by paying out so much more than our taxes could pay for . . . and maybe the most important thing we didn’t want was a women with absolutely no practical experience to be our next president.

As the newly elected president, along with the Conservative government we hope he brings to the country, don’t get caught up in all the “events,” “controversy,” and “story telling” that will be coming. We are going to have to remember the reasons for all of this.

A O

Over the years some people have questioned the wisdom of the way we Americans elect our presidents, specifically the Electoral College. They question the fact that a person could have more of the popular vote, yet lose the Electoral vote.

Some Liberal and ‘left-leaning’ groups came up with a system that would allocate electoral votes to whichever presidential candidate wins the national popular vote – regardless of which candidate wins a majority of the state’s vote. In fact, already 17 states and the District of Columbia have joined what is called the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact that would do what was just noted.

The concept was conceived by Liberals in the belief that Republicans would never earn enough votes to win the popular vote in most years.

Mr. Fred Lucas, a writer for ‘The Daily Signal’ investigated what would have happened this year if that system was actually used.

Unless something changes, Trump now has 312 electoral votes to 226 for Kamala Harris.

If the Popular Vote system was used this year, Trump would have 520 electoral votes to 18 for Harris.

Can you imagine what voters in New England, New York and/or California would think if all their votes were given to Trump? I’m sure that some voters in one of those states would quickly find a Liberal Judge and file a law suit to change all that silliness.

It is interesting to see what some Liberal ideas look like when everything doesn’t go the way the Liberals would like.

Our current electoral system may not be “perfect,” but it does what it was intended to do. That of giving rural populations a little protection from the more heavily populated areas imposing their own brand of government upon all.

It has worked in our history and I can’t see any reason for a change.

A O

Money doesn’t always buy election. Have you heard that K. Harris paid $10,000,000 to be endorsed by some music star? And $2.5 million to be endorsed by a movie star? And even though she raised a billion dollars for her campaign . . . . She is still $20,000,000 in debt.

That’s a lot of money folks.

A O