Rosie's Friday Leftovers

Episode Transcript

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It is Friday and fake news you can trust from
the Babylon b This morning, California issues a commercial driver's
license to Stevie Wonder. Dems say mail in ballot band
will place undue hardship on dead voters. Now for the
real thing. In Nebraska, it pays to die. The state

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auditor found eighty three payments to medicaid providers for thirteen
dead people. In one case, penmits kept coming for more
than two years. Total loss about sixty five thousand. But
that's just what they found so far. All that pillow
talk between Trump and Putin and Alaska wasn't worth the breath.
Just as the plane lands in Moscow, Putin bombs a

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huge American electronics plant in Ukraine. One dead, fifteen hurt.
Makes Trump look like a chump. Embarrass him. You never
see the next one coming. Ask John Bolton, Trump's former
national security chief, went public with mean things about the
former boss. His house was rated by FBI agents this morning.

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Local politics, Tony Vargas, former school board and state senator,
two time candidate for Congress, is running for Douglas County treasurer.
Has zero experience in finance or business, but is an
expert at running for office. Virtually his entire adult life
has been in government work. James Dobson, the pediatrician turned

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evangelical broadcaster who spent fifty years railing against abortion, homo sex, divorce, drugs, porn,
and bad parenting, dies at eighty nine. Is one hundred
forty million dollar multimedia empire. Focus on the family made
him a celebrity of the American right, one of the
first to coin the phrase the Bible belt is the

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only thing keeping the country's pants up. How much does
Buffett collect in Social Security? Rough estimates have his monthly
Social Security check at around fifty one one hundred. Like most,
he's gotten a lot more out than he ever put in.
By the way, if he gave every American and equal
share of his one hundred sixty one billion dollar fortune,

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we'd each get four hundred and thirty two dollars. Bed
Bath and Beyond. California, in emerging from bankruptcy which forced
the once massive retailer to close eleven hundred stores, is reopening,
but none in the state of California. The CEO says
it's not politics but reality. California is the most overregulated,

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expensive and risky business environment in the country. The first
reborn BBB is in Nashville. To your health, Parkinson's may
not just be bad luck. Two neurologists have published a
book that details decades of research on the root cause.
Only fifteen percent is genetic. Eighty five percent of Parkinson's

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cases are environmental air pollution and exposure to chemicals that
have seeped into ground water. Farmers and those who live
on golf courses are the most at risk. Best defense.
Filter your water, rigorously, wash all fruits and vegetables, and
get an in home air purifier. Remember that magnificent ocean

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seaside mansion owned by Sharon Stone's character in the movie
Basic Instinct, Well, it's for sale five point three acres
on the cliffs above Modterey, California, ninety one million. If
you're looking for a bargain, Lake, Delaware Farm, a sixteen
hundred acre estate in the heart of New York's Catskills,
stately and updated, seven thousand square foot house, private lake

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and mountain views, is for sale for the first time
in two hundred and thirty eight years. The same family,
descendants of one of the state's first governors, has owned
it since seventeen eighty seven, just two hours from New
York City fourteen million. That's a steal. This week's best mugshot.
It comes from listener Jerry Glenn on his first cup

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of coffee each day. It reads, yet despite the look
on my face, you are still talking. Email the pick
of your favorite coffee mug. We might share it on
our Friday Chats Rosie atkfab dot com. In today's Tournament
of Rosies, the Haywards of Lincoln Janison Dale, now side
by side for seventy four and John and Donna Crete

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of Ewling, Nebraska, north of Fremont today makes the Big
six to Oz for them. Their family tree is fully grown,
six kids, twenty eight grandkids, five great grandchildren. One more
Sign of the Times meme sent in by listener Jim
Introverts unite separately in your own homes