I read the news today, Oh Boy.
Wednesday, October 9th, 2013 03:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanI have to say that the internet and news media have really raised the bar for top-notch quality entertainment today.
Without any effort on my part, I have discovered that according to Owen Paterson MP, commenting on the badger cull, that “Badgers have moved the goalposts” I’m not making this up; it’s the fault of the badgers that the cull isn’t killing as many of them as forecast. Here’s a link to the Shropshire Star, his local newspaper, but you can find it on the BBC News website, too:
http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2013/10/09/badgers-have-moved-the-goalposts-says-owen-paterson-over-cull/
Now, if that weren’t enough, the foreign news tells us that today, October 9th sees a General Election in that model country and paragon of democracy and freedom, Azerbaijan. Pity then, that the government agency in charge of elections released the result of today’s election yesterday. Apparently, the incumbent president will win by a landslide…
https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2013/10/08/with-no-votes-cast-azerbaijani-election-app-releases-final-election-results
Of course it’s true that these are only two articles, but they are of such quality that I thought it important that they be recorded somewhere, even if only here on a journal read by half a dozen people.
Sometimes, it’s just worth it.
Without any effort on my part, I have discovered that according to Owen Paterson MP, commenting on the badger cull, that “Badgers have moved the goalposts” I’m not making this up; it’s the fault of the badgers that the cull isn’t killing as many of them as forecast. Here’s a link to the Shropshire Star, his local newspaper, but you can find it on the BBC News website, too:
http://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2013/10/09/badgers-have-moved-the-goalposts-says-owen-paterson-over-cull/
Now, if that weren’t enough, the foreign news tells us that today, October 9th sees a General Election in that model country and paragon of democracy and freedom, Azerbaijan. Pity then, that the government agency in charge of elections released the result of today’s election yesterday. Apparently, the incumbent president will win by a landslide…
https://www.accessnow.org/blog/2013/10/08/with-no-votes-cast-azerbaijani-election-app-releases-final-election-results
Of course it’s true that these are only two articles, but they are of such quality that I thought it important that they be recorded somewhere, even if only here on a journal read by half a dozen people.
Sometimes, it’s just worth it.
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