Get your vaccination

Quoting from President Lincoln’s Gettysburg address:…” that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom----and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”

I’m a little afraid that with the current majority in Congress we may be veering a bit away from the ideal that Abe Lincoln had in mind. Reading a couple of current authors, Victor Hansen Davis and Mark Levin the trend of our current leadership is to have this country ruled by a liberal elite and little attention paid to us in the shrinking middle class and the ever-growing segment of poor people existing on welfare. Also at present, the corporate media is in bed with the progressives that have the loudest voices in Congress.

Take for instance the issue before the Supreme Court at the moment. Is it not in accordance with the U.S. Constitution for President Biden to issue a mandate that all employees of a large business be vaccinated with the Covid 19 antivirus or they be terminated? According to our Constitution, only Congress can make laws, such as above, and it is the job of the President to enforce those laws. It is the job of the Supreme Court to determine if such laws, vaccination mandates, issued by this President are even legal. Stay tuned as it will be interesting to see what our Supreme Court rules.

On the world stage, the best tennis player ever is trapped in an Australian airport because he refuses to take the latest round of Covid 19 vaccinations. But then he recently had the disease and recovered from it so he already has the natural antibodies that should keep him from contracting the disease again if exposed. It makes no sense but the Australian government has of late become extremely autocratic. A big change from how they welcomed us to help fight the Japanese in WWII. Possibly it has something to do with their lack of a Second Amendment and not long ago confiscated all firearms from their entire citizenry. Obviously, they fear their own people.

It is interesting that President Biden and his administration also refuses to recognize natural immunity hence his mandate to require all to be vaccinated. If the Supreme Court rules that the vaccine mandate is not in accordance with the Constitution and that such laws must come from Congress will our law-making body step up and turn the President’s Mandate into law? I don’t see it happening based on their track record of getting very little done and the Covid Pandemic will be history by the time they get around to doing any meaningful legislation anyhow.

Did you dear reader watch the Democrat’s big production commemorating the anniversary of the January 6th insurrection of the Capital? I thought that both the President and Vice President’s speeches were filled with inaccuracies. For instance, President Biden stated that Officer Sicknick was mortally wounded because a rioter struck him in the head with a fire extinguisher. Didn’t happen. It looked a total farce to me a total hate speech against former President Donald Trump. But what then could the big Democrats brag on? Obviously, they are not too proud of their high gas prices, inflation, supply chain problems, a continuing pandemic, immigrants flooding in through borders, homelessness and the rising crime rate. It all had to be Donald Trump’s fault.

Ah well, politics as usual. Our own third district Congressman Adrian Smith seems to be doing a good job of representing our interests in my opinion although I don’t follow him closely. I have found that he does read this column.

Our own Nebraska Legislature is back in session. It is their short 60-day session. Funny how they can stretch 60 days into months and months.

This week your McCook City Council is to make a recommendation as to which commuter airline will serve this community for the next several years. Actually, the Airport Advisory Committee, of which I am a member, will meet to recommend one of five carriers interested in the job. Then it will be up to the City Council to make the decision and forward their recommendation to the Department of Transportation’s Essential Air Service group that provides subsidy money (your federal tax money) to whichever carrier is awarded the contract. Your local government at work.

Kudos to the street department for getting our first snowfall cleared from our byways. School was canceled so the younger set had a good time playing in the snow. I noted young ones sliding down the large piles of snow on an island at an intersection of Norris Avenue. Fun for them and making wonderful memories. We are so fortunate to live in small-town America.

That is how I saw it.

Dick Trail