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    “Bigger is Better!”

    How often have we heard that phrase?

    I thought of it on Thanksgiving Day while watching the parade in New York. If I remember correctly, that Thanksgiving Day Parade has always be noted at “the” parade in beauty, length and enjoyment.

    I have not watched every year, but I did see most of the parade this year.

    And . . . I was disappointed.

    It was not a “parade,” it was an event organized for a T V audience and for that purpose, and I was not impressed.

    I have also witnessed many a high school parade, usually for the homecoming event each year. Those, I enjoy. They were simple and intended to entertain all the people along the parade route, not just those close to the TV cameras.

    That parade in New York must be one of the “biggest” around, but it fails easily in the “better” category.

    But then, I’m getting a little older each year and most likely harder to satisfy.

A O

    O K, I was a little early in praise for the Huskers last week.

    The Thanksgiving week with the football team and the volleyball team dropping games brought me back to reality. What happened in Iowa and Penn State should never have happened.

    However, I am not depressed. I think we have an improved football team and a pretty great volleyball team as well. And considering past Nebraska basketball teams, they are doing very well.

    Life is good.

A O

I heard a recent TV news report on the effort to improve computer availability to rural areas. The information seemed to come from people in Congress who were in positions to know the information was correct, or not.

Simply said, the information said in the last four years, your U.S. government allotted $42 billion to improve the setup.

Seems the money was spent (at least much of it), and . . . not a single new setup was made in any of the rural areas because of all that money allotted to the program.

    We’ve all heard of similar activities of the federal government before . . . but there always seems to be new examples of such activities year after year. (Remember Obama’s efforts to increase “Green Energy” and all that money going to several companies that were on the edge of bankruptcy? The money went to repay the investors.)

Our form of government is not simple to operate, it takes constant effort to make it work. It is, however so much better than other efforts around the world.

A O

    Even in an election year “You are never too old to learn something new”

    I learned a new word this week. “Misogyny.”

    It’s a word I’ve seen at times, but just not very often. However, since the election the word has appeared in both speech and print quite a bit more often. I tried to figure out its meaning by the way it was used, but that didn’t help, so I finally got out the ole dictionary.

    What the dictionary said was: “having or showing a hatred and distrust of women.”

    It’s not a word a person often uses in daily speech, but I’ve heard it most often from Liberals who are trying to make a point. I’m not sure what they are trying to prove, but I’ve an idea.

Since the November election, it seems that the Liberals have been telling anyone who would listen that anyone who voted for Trump was just not very smart. They go on to use words such as misogyny because they think no one would understand they were saying something nasty.

It’s sort of like when Obama said: “America needed to be fundamentally changed.” Nobody understood what he meant until it was too late to stop him.

What Liberals like to tell us is that we hate women, but don’t want to come out and accuse us of doing that in certain words. They just hope most of us will not take the time to find out what their words mean.

It’s the way the Liberal minds work. They think they are the only one “smart” enough to run the country. It has been that way all over the world for many years, and . . .  it just doesn’t work.

Having faith in our fellow citizen is sometimes hard to do, but in the long run . . . it is the best way to go.

A O