I've been watching a lot of the news shows over the past few days while the Christmas season rotates around me. While the Christmas movies have taken over most of the prime time hours, has anyone noticed something else? All of the 'talking heads' are discussing the politics of Iowa and the caucus coming up, along with the 'surge' of the Republican candidates and the fall of the same.
   Gotta ask: what about the rest of the world? The political games of US are not the beginning and end of the news. How about the power change in N. Korea? The earthquake in New Zealand? The protest marches in Moscow? Or follow-ups on things in the US, like the tornadoes, the floods, the drought in Texas?
  I've seen 30 second coverage 'sound bites' on North Korea. While we might not have reporters there, shouldn't we have a little more coverage, maybe even S. Korea's reaction? We have reporters in Moscow. Have you seen any coverage of the 30,000 people that marched over election results? How about New Zealand? There's a series of earthquakes and it gets 30 seconds before we're back to Newt and Rick and their ups and downs.
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Sorry for the preemptive morning blog today - normally I would ask before leap-frogging the normal order here 
and even when I do that I get a nasty case of writers' block and don't usually follow through. However in this case I just read something that made my blood boil 
and I feel compelled to fore-go part of my sleep cycle to write about it.