I saw the news today, oh boy.

I made the mistake of watching my local noontime newscast. Here were the items covered before breaking for weather:

• Yesterday’s school shooting!!! Complete with interview of distraught parents!!!
• Benghazi!!! No, nothing new to report. Just Benghazi!!!
• Firefighter pointing out what he thought was a deceased victim before the fire truck ran over her…. last year!!! New footage!!!
• Identification of a snowboarder who unfortunately died on Mount Charleston (yesterday)
• Kids set fire in vacant house (yesterday).
• Late night shooting in North Las Vegas.
• Sentencing delayed for the alleged pimp (who allegedly shot another pimp, causing him to crash into a taxi and burst into flames) on [unrelated] sexual assault charges. This is one of those cases that would make a better CSI script than the stuff they film sometimes.

Apparently, it is not newsworthy that:

• Congress is working on an important budget bill (and congrats to the feds for having a $53,000,000,000 surplus in December!).
• Germany may or may not be trying to negotiate a “no-spy” treaty with the United States.
• 75 leading economists think our minimum wage workers deserve a raise.
• Some men in Congress want to make women pay out of pocket for abortions regardless of whether they are medically necessary.
• Anything whatsoever is going on about the NSA, the promised list of upcoming “reforms,” and the court cases involved.
• There are stalled bills to restore food stamps and extended unemployment benefits.

I could go on this way for a while, but there’s no point. Apparently I’ve been watching News Lite: 25% less relevance. I wonder how it compares to original News as far as facts.

In Closing: antibacterial soap, West Virginia chemical, and just maybe if either of the political parties actually tried representing We The People, there wouldn’t be a record level of “independents“.