Flippant Friday Raffles

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That sounds about right for a Friday evening Raffle

While  we have this Idiot as PM

1378197_744480138899926_338119738_nWE can all need a bit of frivolity in our lives

so

238.gif.pagespeed.ce.nVgE5VOYXOtumblr_mvbviv5fJy1rvtlumo1_250cute-puppies6Did That cheer you up after putting up with the Idiots attacks on the ABC This week?

Up YOUR’S TONY

Don,t like a bit of critisim. Are you going to shut us down next?

imageHave a good NIght

CK will take your numbers

Good Luck.

426 thoughts on “Flippant Friday Raffles”

  1. Watched the first bit of Insiders which included the Erica interview. I doubt if I can go the distance through the entire program. Erica was painful to listen to and didn’t make much sense. His asset seems to be that his constant droning will wear you down, almost to the point where you’d say, “… All right, I’ll concede everything you say, just as long as you shut up.”

    Cassidy was as bad or worse. He reminds me of an ABC interviewer of a generation ago (Bob Moore?) who would set a person up beautifully into a corner, and then walk away from the crunch question. Always let off the hook!

    Best of luck for those persevering.

  3. Just thinking … If the Cadbury subsidy was given (though it hasn’t been paid to it yet – so says Abetz) because of its Cadbury Tours, then other organisations such as Port-Arthur Tours, Bruny Island Tours, Hobart Historic Afternoon Tours, etc. might have the right to ask for assistance as well.

  4. You must be almost mended, GD – great to see you back. Re Insiders. I only tuned in after Abetz did his droning…..Cassidy hasn’t improved and seems to me he’s become very anti-labor now. I see the mummy savva is there to collect a fee she’s not worthy of…and the abbott has the hide to say the ABC is biased . According to Cassidy Labor is set to lose Griffith and he’s mouthing the anti-union rhetoric that dribbles from the abbott’s mouth.

  5. Not watching, won’t watch. But from the chatter about I have learnt one thing from Insiders. It turns out that Abbott’s promise of a million jobs created over five years was, once again an aspiration. Waddayaknow. I must have misheard him. Again.

    I’m really not sure his strategy of promising all sorts of things, and then not doing them with no explanation, is quite the winner Abbott was expecting it to be. It sounds flawless, I know. And I guess it works in ok with the MSM strategy, which is to wait through all the broken promises until he finally does something he mentioned in the campaign, and then carry on about honouring commitments. But the public aren’t buying it.

  6. The best laugh I have had for years was Nicky Savas comment on Insiders that at last Australia has a charming hard working and extremely intelligent and well liked FM. (I ran out of and’s)

    It had to be the most biased show I have seen. Three Murdoch hacks and it shows that with them evidence or polls for their hero does not matter. It is going to be a long year.

  8. Julie Bishop didn’t know where she was yesterday, she thought she was somewhere called ‘Griffin’. Let’s hope her inability to know where she is doesn’t apply to her duties as FM. Imagine if she confuses Iraq with Iran or gets Afghanistan mixed up with, say, Tajikistan or Kazakhstan? I really hope she has minders who can make sure she gets on the right flight at the airport. We wouldn’t wnt her confusing Australia with Austria on her way back from the UN. The Austrians would never forgive us.

    Photoshopped, of course – at least, I hope it is.

  9. gorgeousdunny

    Please stay away from that rubbish until your recovery is complete and you have had a well earned rest. We know you are brave, and thank you for your efforts, but I want your health to be your first priority.

    Janice

    You’ve been reading my thoughts again and putting them into words.

    Aguirre

    I’ve been wondering if that is their strategy, get everything done that they can in this short time, as they realise when people wake up to them it will be all over. BB’s comment states that people will wake up when enough jobs have been lost, pays cut, pensions destroyed, education in the crapper, health going backwards and have to pay more for it……..

  11. I think we have yet to see the full extent of what PMBO has planned – wait until the Senate change and then see what happens- what legislation gets whisked through on a nod – that’s when things will become even more stark.
    Astounding that ABC is seen to be left biased – feel like I live in an alternate reality to the majority.
    Speedy recovery gorgeous Dunny

  12. I heard a bit of Erica Betz’s spiel on Sky News a little while ago. He says the Abbott government might not be able to come up with those 1 million jobs in 5 years or the 10 million in 10 years because Labor and the Greens in the senate are blocking the repeal of the carbon tax and the MRRT. It’s all THEIR fault because it meant the government couldn’t get off to the start they wanted. I think we are going to hear that pathetic excuse for a very long time. ‘
    “If Labor and the Greens hadn’t blocked that repeal we coulda done……”

    Here’s the ‘1 million new jobs’ quote and source. You might like to bookmark the link, I think it could come in handy.
    Tony Abbott, 8 August 2013, Doorstop interview, Devonport, Tasmania –

    I am confident that the Coalition’s economic plan can produce one million new jobs in five years, 2 million new jobs in a decade, by reproducing the kind of jobs growth that we had under the former Coalition Government. At the heart of our economic plan, abolish the carbon tax, abolish the mining tax, get productivity up. If we get taxes down, if we get productivity up, we get economic growth up. That means more prosperity and that means more jobs.

    http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/22487/20130903-0148/www.tonyabbott.com.au/LatestNews/InterviewTranscripts/tabid/85/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/9360/Doorstop-Interview-Devonport-Tasmania.html

  13. It is great to see you back in the saddle, GD. How is your book on the CES coming? You know, if you don’t write it, no-one will ever remember what a great service it was. Maybe do it as a book of short stories, following your experiences. 🙂

  14. I warned before the election, that Abbott was not making any election promises. All his was announcing was his expression. Yes, it was clear, that core needs none core promises had become aspirational, Another favorite WORD OF Howard, that he used in a different manner.

  16. Gravel,
    I thought of you the other day when I poked my nose into HomeArt store which has sale signs all over the place – I think they may be going to shut up shop. Anyway, I did a double take when I discovered a great big stack of (sit down now so you don’t fall down) GEL PET Mats marked down from $30 to $15, Naturally, I had a good look and yes, they are exactly the same as those for which we paid $50 from Brightlife Australia. I spat a lot of chips because not only are these the same thing, but the box includes the smaller pillow-size one and all for half the price of the ‘human variety’ of the larger one……no, I didn’t buy one for Paddy because I went into shock mode.

  18. Can someone explain to me why any sane, Labor-voting person would actually CHOOSE to sit through fifteen minutes of Erica on a Sunday morning? And why decide to stick around for Niki Savva? Surely there are better things to do, like sleeping in or going to the beach or having brunch.

  20. I heard a bit of Erica Betz’s spiel on Sky News a little while ago. He says the Abbott government might not be able to come up with those 1 million jobs in 5 years or the 10 million in 10 years because Labor and the Greens in the senate are blocking the repeal of the carbon tax and the MRRT. It’s all THEIR fault because it meant the government couldn’t get off to the start they wanted. I think we are going to hear that pathetic excuse for a very long time. ‘
    “If Labor and the Greens hadn’t blocked that repeal we coulda done……”

    Not difficult to counter that argument. The ALP while in power managed a AAA economy, and that was firstly with a hostile Senate, and then with a hung Parliament. The Coalition wanted the job, they know how Parliament works, no excuses.

    It’s not up to the ALP or the Greens to sit back and allow the Coalition to formulate policy based on guesses. If they’ve got a proper study demonstrating exactly how abolishing two sources of revenue (carbon pricing, mining tax) will benefit the economy, let’s see it. Just saying “this will lead to that” is woefully inadequate. The Coalition have shown they’re able to shed jobs. Let’s see them create some instead of whining about it all being too hard.

  22. Then there is the Brisbane journalist, telling us that Glasson has a chance because of the sympathy vote. Because he failed the first time around, he should get some sympathy for trying again …

  24. gorgeousdunny1
    Yes, he has a similar effect on me. Classic from First Dog the other day-“whining like a betz”.
    Interesting that Cassidy thinks Glasson will win in Griffith.
    It’s natural to perceive bias in those we disagree with & miss it in those we do. But trying so hard to see an overall Left bias in the ABC & I just can’t do it. I think I’ll stop the exercise because it’s really just an attack line meant to resonate with the faithful of the right.

  25. George is growing like a weed and only depends on me for his morning and evening bottle. He’s got very good at demolishing his serves of hay and the mixture of “cow muesli” and calf pellets. His paddock is pretty well bare of edible grass so I have spread a little fertilizer on a patch which I am watering and I notice George spends a bit of time there enjoying the green pick for dessert.

    Grand-daughter Ashleigh had one of her cousins visit last week. Jess is a ‘townie’ so Ashleigh brought her up here to meet George and naturally George lapped up all the attention so that Jess fell for his charms, so much so that she dragged Ashleigh out of bed at 5.30am to be here for George’s morning feed.

  26. Insiders had a new set today, but the same old rubbish was presented.

    Cassidy had three Murdoch journalists on this morning, all in furious agreement that “Unions Bad!” is a story, without – even for a second – discussing whether it’s a story with any truth behind it. Doesn’t seem to matter to “insiders”. As long as they have some grist for their bootstrap mill, all is well. If everyone’s talking about it (and why wouldn’t they when one media organizations owns 70% of the newspapers?) then it MUST be news.

    Cassidy made some mention of whether lowly-paid regional workers were suitable targets for Abbott’s “Get tough on militant unions” campaign, but that was about it.

    Nikki Savva with straight face told the audience that the ABC should be never wrong in its stories. If there’s any chance that some allegation or other might not be wholly, forensically true, then better for the ABC to pass on it, rather than give it air time.

    One wonders where Savva’s journalistic nose was as she put the boot into Gillard’s alleged misdoings in 1993, regarding the AWU, or whether she took her brain along to the NPC event where she waxed-so-lyrical about Gillard’s… ears. Now THERE’S a momentous issue of national importance! Can thighs, arse, hair, shoes, glasses, boobs and (sh)ankles be far behind as groundbreaking journalism?

    Much easier to stick to opinionation. No one can say you’re wrong there, or even argue much about your right to say it.

    It seems commercial tabloids and rancid right-wing broadsheets can speculate all they like about stories, giving only one side of the yarn (and mostly less than that) for their readers perusal. The ABC, on the other hand, must have everything double-fact-checked… except Tony Abbott doesn’t like THAT either. He reckons the Fact Check unit is over-rated. Facts are such meddlesome things, especially ones where a blurted-out lie like “Union strikes are crippling the nation!” from a politician (or a Murdoch journalist) takes more than just a casual reference to industrial relations statistics (or other Murdoch newspapers) to prove profoundly wrong.

    The irony of this ABC-bashing on an ABC program was ripe.

    Incidentally, where ARE the ABC journalists on this flagship (of sorts) ABC political panel show? I can’t remember one ever being on it (but I may stand corrected). It seems that finally the Murdoch empire has taken over the show completely.

    This morning’s program was an exercise in complete futility. From the breathless presentation of something to do with the South Australian premier and machine man Don “The Godfather” Farrel muscling-up about the preselection process in an obscure state seat as a news story – “Shock revelation: Labor has factional warlords!” – as being of vital importance to the nation above all other stories, to the kiss on the lips Cassidy gave Abetz, to the unions, to the treatment of the ABC yarn, you’d have thought Murdoch had already bought the ABC.

    There was nothing of any news value to it. Just a bunch of one-sided hacks agreeing with each other.

    There’s been a bit of this lately at the ABC. I’ve heard Richard Glover on afternoon drive agree with Abbott that the story about the burnt hands shouldn’t have been run. Leigh Sales has gone soft on the government, asking polite questions and nodding at the answers. As a thought experiment, just imagine if Julia Gillard had said the ABC needed some reining in, that supporting the government of the day was “patriotic”, and that the ABC had been decidedly unpatriotic in running stories on Manus Island or conditions in Nauru.. sufficient to bring its funding into question). Sales would have had her guts for garters.

    It seems the ABC is not allowed to make mistakes, even when they’re only alleged mistakes. I say “alleged” because the boofheads accusing it of making mistakes refuse to stump up with ANY evidence at all that they are wrong, preferring to accuse the ABC of not taking the word of a minister and that of the Royal Australian Navy at face value. {Cue: Click Go The Shears, CUT AWAY TO: wallabies, wombats, shots of Gallipoli.}

    And some senior ABC senior journalists go along with this attempt to heavy their own organization? Richard Glover telling his listeners that – with his past experience as a news editor at Fairfax – he would have spiked the “burns” story on the spot was the most craven, but Sales wasn’t far behind. She asked “tough” questions, then sat back and let Turnbull say whatever he wanted to say. No interruptions, no talking-over him. Just a sweet smile from the increasingly matronly-looking Sales. She accepted serenely that the inquiry into “efficiency” at the ABC had absolutely NOTHING to do with Abbott’s tirade on Hadley’s radio show. There would have been blood on the studio floor if it had been Conroy. In fact there was blood on the floor when Conroy tried (ever so belatedly) to rein in Murdoch. Why, you’d have thought Leigh worked for Rupert, the way she defended him and his right to make shit up.

    The ABC, in a vain attempt to curry favour with the real bovver boys – those in the Coalition – over the past few years has used opinionation, imagination, rudeness, bullying tactics and phoney “balance” to make a Labor government look bad, and now that a real bully is in the playground, they have folded like the cowards they are.

    God rot them. They can go to hell as far as I’m concerned. They have let their overpaid “star” presenters wreck their organization by sucking up to those in power (and those not even in power) and look where it’s gotten them: precisely bloody nowhere.

  27. None of these so-called ‘journalists’ are mentioning the gigantic elephant in the election room – the decision to dump mud near the Great Barrier Reef. No-one brought up that subject after the Glasson launch presser yesterday, no-one seems to be mentioning it today. Are we supposed to believe that no-one in Griffith knows or cares about it? For me it would be the absolute clincher if I lived in Griffith and was undecided. Labor could put up Daffy Duck as a candidate and I’d vote for him as a protest against the vandalism of the Abbott government.

  29. Cassidy, allegedly a Labor supporter says Glasson will win.
    PvO, allegedly a Liberal supporter says Glasson has no hope.
    Who to believe?

  30. Political candidates fear being considered a shoo-in because voters might send a message of disapproval by voting for the other candidate.

    When voters think the election is tight they are less likely to send messages of disapproval.

    Or alternately Barrie Cassidy needs his job sooo badly that he has become a COALition booster

  31. Janice

    Seriously, what rip off. Must tell my sister, she is looking for some, I don’t know whether they have a HomeArt store where she lives, will check it out.

    Glad George is doing so well, a little bit of love and care is all it takes, well done.

  32. If someone is receiving bribes isn’t someone paying them?

    Maybe not in Oz Reporterland.

  34. “Someone who is polite,professional, efficient and can make decisions”. Who is Nikki talking about?

    Yes foreign affairs, but what minister?

  36. Gravel,
    HomeArt used to be known as CopperArt – dunno anything else about them though. Maybe it would be worth doing a bit of an online search as a lot of companies are online these days. I know of another company selling these mats for $99 a pop but I couldn’t say whether its a better product or not because I’m not rich enough to buy one at that price for comparison purposes!

  38. If the ABC. was sold…Bazz Cazz would be out the door before his heels hit the floor!…..along with half the staff.

  39. Nikki Saava became redundant the day she was no longer needed to drop chocolate buttons into Costello’s always open mouth!

  40. You’d think Bazz Cazz would have realised his support for the Coalition wasn’t worth a crumpet after Brandis ‘asked’ him to resign from his position as chairman on the Old Parliament House Advisory Council. But no, he’s still hanging in there, talking up this miserable government and pushing the doom and gloom for Labor line as usual.

    In case you’ve forgotten about that forced resignation-
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-10-25/brandis-asks-cassidy-to-quit-old-parliament-advisory-council/5044882

  42. I haven’t watched Insiders for 18 months or more. I’m not at all surprised to read all the negative reports on this morning’s 2014 welcome program.

    On the other hand the show I do watch, Offsiders, looks as though it will be much improved in 2014. No Bazza, he’s gone, horray horray but as well it looks as though the panel has been spruced up. All Bazza’s mates, the old fogies, Caroline and Roy etc were not there. The younger panelists, all of whom speak sense, filled the sofas. Good sense flowed on and on for 30 minutes. I know not all of us here at the Pub appreciate the almost-dominant role of sport in Australian life but the fact is that it does and it’s good to have a crowd of informed people discussing it. Bye, bye Cassidy.

  43. I asked HomeArt about their signs. It appears they are not closing down. Mumbled something about clearing stock. The funny thing is, the prices go back to normal. Only to reappear down the track, as another clearing sale. If one misses out, one just has to wait, until the price comes down again.

  45. http://www.politicalowl.com/home/2014/02/02/throwing-beer-cans-at-cyclists-and-other-australian-newspaper-front-pages-sunday-2-february/

    http://www.politicalowl.com/home/2014/02/02/asian-newspaper-front-pages-sunday-2-february/

  46. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/feb/01/coalition-split-gove-bid-politicise-education

    http://priceonomics.com/the-curious-resurgence-of-pogs/

  47. http://thetyee.ca/News/2014/01/31/Shale-Gas-Earthquakes/

    http://sciencenordic.com/even-tiny-oil-spills-may-break-arctic-food-chain

  49. If only we had a Customs ship monitoring the Japanese whaling fleet……………………..

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