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It's Friday. First up, fake news you can trust from
the Babylon b The Minnesota Vikings are changing their nickname
to the Minnesota Somali Pirates, and Trump adds Minnesota to
its third World travel ban. Now for the real thing.
Eastern Nebraska looked a lot like the Ok Corral this week.
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Sixty to seventy rounds between cops and twenty eight year
old Juan meglar Ayala at an Omaha Sea store on Wednesday,
three offices, hurt, shoot dead. He's an illegal with a
long list of lawbreaking. And then in Lincoln yesterday morning,
one dead, one hurt in a shootout at a Sea store.
There both shootings inside the stores. For years, homicides were
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rare in Lincoln, but this is their seventh of twenty
twenty five. Now we know. One of the things that
got the Democrats to reopen the government last month was this.
They get to force a vote on their own bill
to fund Obamacare insurances, knowing Republicans will vote no. Usually
the majority party calls for votes. The Democrat bill changes
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little but extends the subsidies for three years. The GOP
version restricts the cash help to just those really in
need beefs up, oversight on fraud and waste, and reforms
the pharmaceutical peace. Democrats are hoping we won't be able
to tell the difference they have until December nineteenth or
no deal. Yesterday, they fought on Capitol Hill over a
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video of a drug boat getting blown up by US
naval strikes. Democrats say they saw helpless survivors needlessly killed.
Republicans say they were enemy terrorists. The president's political enemies,
unfamiliar with Article two of the US Constitution, will make
you wonder they have trouble identifying a woman a criminal,
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a peaceful protest, dementia, or which bathroom to use, but
they sure know a fishing vote. Appley Airfield is getting
another none stopped to Phoenix. Those Southwest and American flights
are always full. Frontier will jump in next spring with
flights to and from three times a week. Two passengers
on the Allegiant Airlines flight from Omaha headed to Florida
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were kicked off ran their mouths disruptive. Once you're kicked
off a flight, it is very hard to ever get
on another one that is a long drive. MUD's rates
are going up. Gas and water for the average Omaha
user next year will go up thirty three dollars. Notice
how we're never the average user. Which is the smartest
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dog breed well, According to readers Digest, which asked seven
veterinarians in acending order, third smartest German Shepherd number two
poodle number one Border Collie, they can comprehend up to
two hundred and fifty words. Twelve years ago, the great
American company Kodak, which first produced a personal picture camera
in eighteen eighty eight, filed for bankruptcy. Bad investments in
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a drug store chain, ink jets for printers, and competition
from cell phone cameras piled up over one point five
billion in debt. New CEOs went to work carefully, sold
off losing subsidiaries, restructured its employee pension plan, reinvested in
chemical development, and today debt is down to two hundred million.
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They have five hundred million in the bank, and Kodak
stock is up twenty nine percent in the last three months.
It helps that disposable cameras are selling again, especially with kids.
One hundred and two year old Warner Brothers, which produced
some of the most popular movies of all time, Casablanca,
the exorcist Harry Potter sold all of it, including CNN
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and TBS including HBO, and royalty rights to the streaming
service giant Netflix eighty three billion. This one might run
up against antitrust laws. Meanwhile, small business bankruptcies those with
debts under two point seventy five million, are up eight
percent year over year. Happy couples heal faster. Scientists in
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Europe administered minor blister wounds to eighty heterosexual couples. Found
the wounds healed faster on the couples who had more
sex by twelve points. They call it sexual healing. In
this week's Tournament of Rosies, it's Dick and Barbe hirshprinter
of Columbus. I'm a little late. This is from two
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weeks ago, but they're still together now for fifty four years.
Today's mugshot comes from listener Mike on his favorite coffee copy.
It reads, I don't need Google. My wife knows everything.
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