Piektdienas nakts LOTERIJAS

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Sveiki un laipni aicināti citu izdevumu Piektdienas nakts Loterijas.

Good Evening patrons and staff of the wonderful establishment called “THE PUB”.

Seems it was all doom and  gloom on the poll front front this week for the party of  light and good.

The party of dark and evil are acting like they have already won and it would be better for everyone if Julia just handed over the keys to Tony and lets not worry about a pesky election anyway  .

Be of good cheer people there is still 211 days until election day and if a lot can happen in a week well a shitload can happen in 30 weeks.

Don’t be downcast be positive ,have a drink,chill and take a few deep breaths.

The music is great,the staff are without doubt the best in any pub anywhere,the company exceptional and the bouncers benevolent.

As always it,s raffle night and you can ask for your numbers straight away as apparently supposedly educated people cannot grasp the concept of after 6.00pm.

Fiona won last week and very narrowly missed out on adding to our kitty of $40.70.

‘A prize will also be given to the first person to name tonight’s header language  without looking up any translator tools.

A tip for the horses tommorow is Melb.race 7/ 6 .Apparently as some ability but who knows.

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470 thoughts on “Piektdienas nakts LOTERIJAS”

  1. Levin12,
    Thank you for the kind words. 🙂 We try our best under sometimes difficult circumstances.

    Sorry about the post disappearing. Word Press can sometimes be like that I’ve found. 😦

    I always try to check the comments in moderation, as do the others, when we are here.

    Jeez I hope your mate’s mum can still vote in September! 🙂

  2. Well, I’m out of here for a while as I have to write up a new post to keep you all amused and informed before I vacate the chair tomorrow and go down to Sydney to commiserate &/or celebrate with the others in our circle of political piety at Abduls. 🙂

    Definitely not to do a ‘Dance of the 7 Veils’ though Mr Bushfire and Mr 6 Pack. 😀

  3. Drag0nista ‏@Drag0nista
    Rudd can’t escape all mining tax dirt | http://thetelegraph.com.au : http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/rudd-cant-escape-all-mining-tax-dirt/story-e6frezz0-1226579026755?sv=f959b997968191e40aeaddf05f74ce94#.UR6tjE86c1o.twitter … via @dailytelegraph

    Andrew Elder ‏@awelder Protected account
    @Drag0nista Well of course not. The people who worked a compromise bagged by one guy who botched it and another who never wanted it

    Who was the one who never wanted it?

  5. Yes that’s what we were discussing last night……the likelihood of her making it to the election ! On her good days , she knows an election has been called and wants to vote . She loves Julia and is glad to have lived long enough to see our first female PM . She’s had so many falls and near misses , but the drs reckon her heart just keeps on keeping on. On another note , I heard Marius Benson on ABC radio this morning giving his summary of the parliamentary week . He almost sounds gleeful at what he believes to be hopeless Labor . We were then invited to get more details from the website…..no thanks Marius .

  7. C@t
    The only thing that Abbott wants is the keys to Kirribilli!
    And he’ll do anythong to get them.

  8. And speaking of ‘the one who botched it’, here’s a real time example of the mendacious incompetence of the man. NOTHING has changed:

    http://m.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/apology-concert-organisers-reject-rudds-claim-that-he-wasnt-invited/story-fn59niix-1226579165747

    KEVIN Rudd’s claim that he was made aware of a concert to mark the fifth anniversary of his apology to the Stolen Generations only via a “public notice” has been challenged by the organisation that hosted the event.

    The Healing Foundation has provided The Weekend Australian with a list of dates and times they had contact with Mr Rudd’s office, including seeking confirmation that it was in his official calendar with two of his staffers.

    At least someone is hip to his jive and is keeping the evidence to rebut him. 🙂

  10. BK,
    Did you read that Tweet about Public Schools? Abbott is couching Privatisation and making them run to make money, as ’empowering locals to run our Public Schools’. Truly horrifying stuff in prospect from the zealot.

  16. BK,
    I’d say it’s sleazy and outrageous. Abbott wants to smash the Teachers Federations and turn them into serfs, such as is happening in America and the UK.

  17. Plus, he doesn’t care if they go on Strike, I’d hazard a guess. It just means they would spend less time teaching the children of the great unwashed and it would thus speed the dumbing-down process, while the Economic Elites and the Wanna Be Elites send their kids to the Privates.

  19. What is it with Conservatives and their ‘Secret Squirrel’ haircuts that have a part down the middle!?!

    Just look at this photo of the ridiculous Michael Caltabiano:

    It looks like he’s got two little horns above his eyes.

    Which is appropriate I guess. 😀

  20. fionaj,
    As a feline, you are perfectly entitled to sleep in on a Saturday. 🙂

    I slept in too! Until 8am. 🙂

    Anyway, now that you are here I can go back to my other job…bashing out a post to leave in my absence tomorrow. 🙂

  21. Don’t worry about the details. I know it’s hard not to, but Abbott WANTS you to try to make sense of his nonsensical utterings.

    The only strategy that will work against Abbott is to point out, and keep pointing out that he’s a con man.

    And that if you deal with a con man you’ll lose your shirt. Best to just walk away.

    Trying to analyse his “policies” – full of ambiguities and contradictions as they are – is a fool’s quest.

    He spreads them around like tacks on a floor to force his critics to stop and pick them up.

    Meanwhile he’s off at the next Town Hall meeting saying the opposite of whatever he just said, to another set of mugs.

    I have little doubt that Abbott himself doesn’t have a clue what he wants to do when in power. A few vague ideas, maybe, a couple of paybacks to his patrons of course, but not much more than that. He just wants to be “The Authority”.

    He’s had a lifetime of people loathing him for his thuggish ways, laughing at him for his gaffes and his lies, belittling him for his religious beliefs. Now it’s payback time, Abbott’s chance to issue a big eff-youse-all to his detractors.

    To get to this point he’ll do or say anything.

    That is where Labor’s attack on Abbott should be made: make him a laughing stock, rub it in that he’s a self-confessed liar, tell the punters that if they think they’ve worked out Abbott’s scam to their own benefit, then that means he’s scammed them good.

    Abbott relies on mugs knowing he’s a liar. It sounds paradoxical, but it’s stock standard con man strategy.

    There are sophisticated cons where you’re relieved of your money by a gentleman wearing a pin-striped business suit. Then there are the cheap scams, where the spruiker is an obvious liar, a spiv. Abbott’s belongs to the latter class.

    Gather the mugs around, give them the patter, flatter them a little, keep them smiling, let someone else lose their money first by always picking the wrong shell to find the pea under.

    Let the others think they’ve sussed it (they picked the pea every time).

    Get in a couple of winners, too, who win the money every time. As long as the onlookers pick the same picks, they think they’ve worked it out.

    Then challenge them to put up something of value to test their skills. It can be money, or in politics it can be their vote.

    Of course the mug who lost three times in a row is always the con man’s mate, a shill. So is the smarty who won. Their money goes straight back into the kitty.

    In Abbott’s game, the losers could be those who are havng their tax breaks cut by him, and the winners would be “Business” or any number of tradies and self-funded retirees who reckon Abbott’s the real deal.

    The onlooker thinks to himself, “I don’t get the tax break anyway, so no loss, and I’m a small businessman. I’ll be a winner too.”

    It’s the onlookers who originally thought the game was dodgy, who knew it was, probably still do, but who picked the pea each time that finally feel confident enough to have a bet. This game seems legit, or if not actually legit, easy to beat.

    As soon as they make that decision, as soon as they give their vote to Abbott based on outsmarting him at his own game, they’ve lost.

    The only thing to do with shell games like Abbott’s is to walk away. Just like you spam-bin Nigerians begging for money, or emails telling you there’s been a bank error in your favour (“… please supply full personal details to pick up your windfall”).

    Just.Walk.Away.

    If you think you’re being conned, you probably are.

    This should be Labor’s No. 1 strategy.

    They shouldn’t waste any time arguing with either Abbott or his trolls.

    In both cases, it’s exactly what they want you to do.

    Don’t fall for it.

  23. C@tmomma,

    If you want, let me know when you have published and I will do the new threaddy thinggy 🙂

  24. Regarding the MRRT- just a poiint that I don’t think others have mentioned and that is for the FIRST time in it’s history Rio Tinto made a LOSS- ( how could anyone have predicted that?) the CEO left/was replaced- and a new CEO took over. This is a fact- surely it should have some bearin g on the MRRT recipets?

  27. G’day peoples.

    If Abbott hopes to smash the Teachers Federations by turning state schools into independent ones then he is very badly informed. Teachers in private/independent schools have their own unions and very vocal and hard-working ones they are too.

    Priavate shool teachers also go on strike – they did last year in Victoria in support of state school teachers. The wages and conditions of private school teachers are tied to those of state school teachers. If the pay for state school teachers does not keep up with cost of living rises and whatever is paid in other states then private school teachers miss out too.
    So they are keen to see the system protected from government cutbacks.

    I don’t think Abbott has yet worked out that state school teachers affected by his changes will just join another union.And they will be very stroppy new members too.

  28. Abbot doesn’t care whether they join another union. All he wants to do is get over the line.

    And if there are some possible votes among the 2GB crowd by bashing teachers, he’ll bash away.

    It’s very cocky of him. He must be awfully confident. Maybe he’s been reading his own publicity?

    To go up the other day and slap Rudd on the back in best “Hail fellow, well met” fashion was the height of chutzpah.

    Then again, Rudd HAD just endorsed Julie Bishop as an excellent choice for Deputy PM (to keep Tony in line… har-har… see?)

  29. Catalyst,

    Yeah right – Riotinto made a loss after writing off half its assets (on paper) and minimised its tax payment as well as paying no MRRT.
    I wouldn’t believe a word coming out of the mouths of any of these companies who can afford to pay CEOs 10, 15 or 20 million dollars a year.

    I still reckon the Labor Govt ought to stick it up to them by telling them that since they don’t want to pay extra on their super profits then, in order that Australians all benefit from their mineral resource, then ALL mining companies will not only not get a cut in company tax but they will be slugged an increase according to the size of their super profits. And the Govt might add that Twiggy Forrest, who yelled long and loud and campaigned vigorously against the MRRT can look forward to paying his fair share of tax henceforth.

  31. Catalyst,

    It’s as plain as can be that the Rio Tinto loss was That Woman’s fault. She suborned the departed CEO, Tom Albanese (geddit – the connexion’s obvious!) by telling him that the Mozambique coal would just float down the Zambezi River – no need for silly stuff like rail infrastructure.

    Floods? Drought? Nah, pieceacake, that’s what she said.

    Nothing to do with lousy management. All the fault of this dysfunctional gummint.

  33. Bushfire Bill,

    That’s sickening, but not surprising.

    Almost as sickening is that the report – about a semi-serious current affairs program – is in the DT’s “entertainment” category.

  36. Yesterday I sent my mock election ads (from last Sunday) plus some of Mr Bushfire’s choicer comments, to a certain ALP Federal MP. I’ve just received an email telling me that he has “passed them on”.

    Who knows what if anything will come of them, but the more bright ideas we contribute to this fight the better!

  38. Yesterday I sent my mock election ads (from last Sunday) plus some of Mr Bushfire’s choicer comments, to a certain ALP Federal MP.

    *** Blush ***

  39. Fiona,

    Great that your election ads idea plus BB’s comments have been passed on to whomever might/can make use of them.

    re Xenophon.

    I’d like to send Morriscum and JulieB over to Malaya this weekend and see if they are also deported. These people have shouted loud and long that Malaysia’s human rights record stinks and they weren’t above embellishing the stink either. Do they honestly think such a country is going to sit there and take the shite they dish out?

  40. Thank you, thank you – I’ll be here all week.

    I’m feeling sufficiently uplifted to post this:

  41. Janice,

    I’d like to send Morriscum and JulieB over to Malaya this weekend and see if they are also deported.

    I understand where you are coming from, but couldn’t they just be placed in mandatory indefinite detention? If would be a salutory experience for both, and would also save us from their presence.

    Win-win, in my book 😉

  42. Further to last night’s tweet on the topic. Cross post

    Thought I’d pop in and report an interesting conversation I had with a Federal MP (a Rudd supporter who is considered part of his “inner circle”).

    He said outright that Rudd is in the media with the PM’s knowledge and blessing and intimated that some sort of meeting took place between them where they agreed on the best way to use Rudd’s skills to win Labor the next election.

    Now, maybe I’m looking at things through this prism now, but has it occurred to anyone else that Ruddy is out putting the notion of the need to reform the MRRT precisely BECAUSE the Government has plans to make changes to it part of their election platform and they want the heat of the debate out of the way now, rather than closer to the election?

    It also gives Ruddy plenty of opportunities to remind people he’s a team player and that everyone is pulling together to get Labor across the line in September.

    Food for thought …

  43. Fiona,
    I’m sure the Malaysian Officials could think of a choice way to put both of them in their place. I think it would quite delicious if they suffered ‘deportation’ like Xenophon.

    Victoria,

    It occurred to me awhile back that Abbott and his media pals have been using Rudd for their own agenda. All these Labor ‘sources’ are either made up or are sourced through the blogs like PB.

  44. janice

    Go have a look at who posted the comment over at PB and let me know what you think then.

    My observations over the past week tells me there is something going on. Dont know what precisely, but something is being played out.

  47. So as far as Abbott wanting to cut the Public Service it is interesting to see OECD’s Value for Money report re Australia’s PS numbers:

    Mr Gray said the OECD’s Value for Money report last year showed the size of general government employment including states and territories was very low in Australia compared with other countries.
    ”It is one of the best in the world because Australian public servants are located where they can deliver effective and efficient services,” he said.

    Read more: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/ps-cuts-abbott-under-attack-20130215-2ej2e.html#ixzz2L1RImvl5

    Having read BB’s take on Abbott and realising how easy it is to get suckered in every time to negate his bullshit as he moves on, I agree the best approach would be to follow BB’s advice i.e. in twitterspeak ‘Abbott’s a con & self-confessed liar, laugh at him, walk away.’

    If BB doesn’t mind, I will be tweeting that message out, and variations of same.

    Abbott really hates being laughed at. Emerson is the obvious one to push this fact.

    C@t momma, do you know if the ALP has considered crowdsourcing funds? I for one, would be happy to donate given some reminders on Twitter for example, without having to go to the ALP site. Having negotiated my way over there a few days ago, my card was not accepted, even though I had used it for online shopping recently.

  48. Thanks Victoria. Reliable poster IMO and it stacks up against the Rudd media interview I saw when Rudd said that whomever is promoting him etc might reflect on the fact that “I should have some say in it” or wte. He was also asked if he couldn’t tell his supporters to stfu and he said that it wouldn’t make any difference – if MPs want to talk they will; they always have and always will!.

    So I think Rudd is playing a team part this time, but who knows whether he has cottoned on to the fact that he’s been used as the means to stop Labor from getting re-elected.

  49. janice

    Agreed. It is from a very reliable poster. Rudd is a lot of things, but he knows what the coalition are up to. What is interesting is that the coalition are being extremely nice to him. Bishop, Abbott, and even O’Dwyer giving him a choc rose for Valentine’s day. Perhaps Rudd is playing them after all!!

  50. Well, I really, really wanted to join The Pub Club at Abdul’s tomorrow but no last minute reprieve so I’ll just have to stay home and like it. There are very few occasions when I want to break out and enjoy some pleasant company of like minded people, and this is one of them. Maybe I’ll make the next gathering – an election win celebration?

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