BY RAUL HERNANDEZ [email protected] Sunday morning, three more police officers are gunned down. This time the shootings were in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It’s sad. Another shootings, another city. The same results —…
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Just Saying: The Kind of Cops, In the Woods and the Accountability Hype
The five Dallas police officers who were killed were described by others as professionals who loved their families, the community and helping people. These were the kind of cops who you hope show up at your doorstep after you call 911.
Now, they are gone, and it is a big loss to their families and the community.
Just Saying: Will Calls it Quits, Judge Orders Lines Redrawn & America’s Ayatollahs
The exodus is starting to look like the Who’s Who of the Republican Party.
On Saturday, another staunch conservative George Will, who is a Washington Post columnist, announced that he is done with the Republic Party.
Just Saying: Bernie’s Political Tap Dance, Psychopaths by Professions, and the Media’s Declining Numbers
The Headlines Last Week: “Bernie Supporters Practice Getting Arrested at the Democratic Convention.” It seems that Bernie and company want to go out of the Big Democratic Dance kicking and screaming.
Just Saying: The Face of the GOP, Sign on the Dotted Line and Recall Petition
Trump is a reptile.
Trump Make America Great AgainThis guy will do and say anything to get votes or make money.
Sunday, Trump immediately got on Twitter after 50 people were gunned down by an Islamic lunatic and thumped his chest: He bragged: “Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism, I don’t want congrats, I want toughness & vigilance. We must be smart!”
Just Saying: Trump’s Attorney General, Hispanic Voter Registration Up and Oxnard Cops Get Body Cameras
he recent protests outside Trump campaign rallies are just rehearsals for what is in store if Donald Trump becomes president.
Am I fear mongering? I don’t think so.
Consider this: The president of the United States appoints the U.S. Attorney General who takes office after confirmation by the U.S. Senate. The Attorney General serves at the pleasure of the president and is a member of the president’s cabinet.
Just Saying: What Newspaper Bid? The DOJ’s Reply, and Ferguson Prosecutor Finally Packs Up
Okay, so I asked the Antitrust Division if they are aware of Gannett making a serious bid to buy the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and other major Tribune Corp. newspapers?
Why might this be construed as antitrust?
Just Saying: Newspapers Outsourcing Jobs, Gannett Eyeing L.A. Times and Mexico’s Adios to El Chapo
You’re being laid off. But before you pack up and leave, could you please train your IT replacement?
That’s the way it is at two major newspaper chains.
More than 300 IT jobs from two major newspaper chains are being transferred to India.
Just Saying: El Chapo Near U.S. Border, Creativity With the Right to Remain Silent and “Gang” Music
Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the head of the Sinaloa Cartel, is now in a prison near Juarez, Mexico, which is adjacent to El Paso. He was transferred there from the maximum-security Altiplano facility near Mexico City.
Just Saying: Urgent Care, the Rude Awakening and Sleep Apnea
In the days when I seemed to be hopelessly stuck on stupid, doctor visits were on the very bottom of my to-do list.
If something was wrong with me, I didn’t want to know.
I’ve had good health insurance plans through the places where I worked but used it when it was really, really necessary. Then, I’d go to the emergency room, which I used as my urgent care clinic before urgent care clinics started popping up around the country.
Just Saying: Racehorses Heads, Red Lobster and Catering to Millennials
The heads of horses photographs still haunt me even to this day. Then I remember what they did when the Internet arrived, and it all made sense.
Long before the Internet, newspapers sometimes published in the sports pages a row of black and white photographs of the heads of racehorses with the horse’s names underneath the photo.
Just Saying: The Walmart of the Newspaper Industry, the Star and Gannett’s Crimped Management Style
The Star’s and other 13 newspapers including the Milwaukee’s Journal Sentinel staff and readers can expect some drastic changes in news coverage and reporting.
Gannet, which owns USA TODAY, is also known for numerous corporate edicts that include the art of writing “tighter,” which often means limiting enterprise and investigative stories to 18- to 20- inches of newspaper space.