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It is Friday, fake news you can trust from the
Babylon b twenty four hour stalemate as Mormons knock on
the door of a Jehovah's witness, and now for the
real thing. In reminding Nebraskans if you grow up on
a farm, there's always more work to do. Embattled Governor
Jim Pillon announces he will seek re election in twenty
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twenty six. He's lowered the state income tax, put state
agencies on a diet, and kept boys off girls teams.
But this announcement comes just two days after mailboxes across
Nebraska filled with notices of increased property tax valuations, reminding
us of one of his unkept campaign promises. Some homeowners
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in Douglas County saw theirs increase by triple digits. One
campaign promise Donald Trump made and keppt is to get
a list of every town, county, and village in the
country that invites houses and or serves illegal aliens, calls
them sanctuary jurisdictions. Each will get a sternly worded letter
warning them to report any illegals to DHS, tell us
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where they are, and get out of the way. Five
hundred on this list, including Arthur Blaine, Grant, Greeley Hooker,
Howard Logan, Loup, McPherson, and Thomas County, Nebraska. Now, how
did DHS get this information? The man the American political
left loves to hate has left town. Elon Musk, the
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billionaire inventor entrepreneur, is leaving his no pay government job
looking for waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars. Promised
to find two trillion, wound up with two hundred billion.
His board of directors at Tesla was getting impatient. Sales
have plummeted. Its stock is down fifty percent since Elon
left for DC, almost halfway through the year. How is
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your four to oh one K or IRA holding up
for the year? The S and P is up one
half of one percent, The Dow and Nasdaq are down slightly.
If your guy has had you in fixed income this year,
you're doing fine. You know who doesn't care what their
four to oh one K plan looks like? Public employees
In California, taxpayers kick in fifty percent of a retirees
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pension there, otherwise it would go bankrupt. Firefighters make an
average of two hundred and fifteen thousand on the job.
Can retire at fifty seven at ninety percent of that,
and then work part time so as to qualify for
Social Security. Doesn't include health insurance. They get that too.
Your company put in fifty percent of your contribution each paycheck.
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Nobody does. Big day in North Platt, the first cow
hit the kill floor at the brand new sustainable beef
packing plant. At full capacity, it'll do fifteen hundred had
to cattle a day and employ eight hundred and fifty.
The executive director of the State Liquor Control Commission is
under criminal investigation by the US Attorney Hobart Roupe was
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suspended without pay after agents served a warrant and searched
his office. That's all we know for now. On the
night of December twenty third, nineteen eighty three, somebody or
budd eas broke into the Walker, Iowa home of farmer
Ronald Lee Novak, robbed him, beat him, bound him, and
left him out in the cold. He died forty two
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years later. They've made an arrest. Michael Shappard of Fairview,
Oregon is in custody. They used DNA from Novak's clothes
and genetic genealogy, a process of identifying unknown DNA by
comparing it to family members who voluntarily submitted THEIRS to
a DNA database. Shop Talk Lester Holt, the anchor of
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NBC's Nightly News who announced his retirement earlier this year,
has a last day today. These network TV types have
a fraction of the audience they once enjoyed, and after
the Joe Biden years, even less credibility. In this week's
tournament of Rosie's John and Shirley fi of Plattsmouth, this
makes fifty three trips around the Sun together. One more
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Sign of the Times meme sent in by listener John.
Democrats colon bunch of rich people convincing poor people to
vote for rich people by telling the poor people other
rich people are the reason they're poor