Rosie's Friday Leftovers

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's Friday, fake news you can trust from the Babylon.
B Obama distraught after Trump bombs the nuclear factory he
paid for, and Hamas claims responsibility for the New York
City Democrat primary. Now for the real thing. Trump's big

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beautiful bill, it's a big beautiful mess. The tax and
spend legislation he promised to have a week from tomorrow
has been derailed in the Senate. The Senate Legislation proctor
Parliamentarian Aaron McDonough, appointed by former Senator Harry Reid and
herself a one time advisor to Al Gore, says some
of this stuff doesn't qualify for reconciliation, which allows a

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bill to pass with the simple majority, not the filibuster
proof sixty. She has thrown out some of the huge
chunks of the Senate version, including the part about no
medicaid for illegals that means the Senate version would add
more to the debt and deficit than the House bill.
A number of GOP senators and Republican House members say

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as of today, no deal. Local politics, we may have
seen the last of Congressman Don Bacon. City Councilman Brinker
Harding is scooping up the five term Republican staffers and
campaign personnel, hinting the seat maybe open. If so, expect
former state Senator Brett Linstrom to jump in. The Democrats

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have their best shot already announced state Senator John Cavanaugh.
Trump's plan to cancel funding for public broadcasting is getting
hit with friendly fire. Republicans Rounds of South Dakota and
Fisher of Nebraska say our PBS stations need the DC
money to make sure emergency alerts reach their hinterlands. Anybody

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out there unable to hear your local commercial station didn't
think so at night? You can hear this one at
the North Pole. Your seven hundred million dollar Omaha street
cars getting more expensive. MUD, which is rep placing and
re routing gas lines under the streetcar route, is pulling
crews off the project until the city gets current with

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its share of the cost. The city says the bills
MUD is sending are twice as much as the estimates.
If you drive a truck, remember you're taller than the
rest of us. Guy behind the wheel of a semi
in Denham Springs, Louisiana made a left turn under a
traffic light yesterday while an electric worker in the bucket

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was changed in a bulb. The trailer trimmed the bucket,
spilling the worker dangling upside down. He was wearing the
safety strap. Nebraska's oldest tree, a burr oak in Paka
State Park, got last rights by the Game and Parks Commission.
She made it to three point eighty was already two
hundred and twenty three when Nebraska became a state. It

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wasn't lightning, a fire, or disease. It was the persistent
Eastern Nebraska drought that got her. This week's Champions of
Character ourself. Omaha basketball stars Ryan Kalchbrenner and John Tanji,
both taken in the second round of the NBA Draft,
Both way underestimated out of high school, proving in the

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game of life and basketball, it's not how you start,
but how you finish. Dead. Bill Moyers, the small town
Oklahoma Baptist minister, later press secretary to Lyndon Johnson and
TV commentator at ninety one, his PBS shows ranged from
government corruption to modern dance. One of Nebraska's most gifted

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and hardest working reporters is all Through. Andrew Ozaki retires
on Monday after forty three years in local TV, mostly
covering state government. Andrew got it right every time, shot
and edited his own stuff. I don't know if Nebraska
journalism has the depth to replace these retirees. Meanwhile, fans

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of TV's The Simpsons were outraged when the last scene
of the season finale had Homer kneel before Marge's grave.
Producer Matt Selman called for calm, said it was a
flash forward, and we've had lots of those over the years.
Marge is not dead. One more Sign of the Times
meme sent in by listener Donna. Liberals are so upset

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with President Trump, you'd think he stole ninety percent of
the Haitian Relief Fund, sold twenty percent of our uranium
to Russia, deleted thirty three thousand classified emails, and let
innocent Americans die in Benghazi