Once again It’s Friday raffle night. 
Things may be looking up after this
Newspoll figures show surge in support for Labor, Bill Shorten
The idiot is asleep on the job while jobs go from Australia.
5000 jobs gone but not the one who should go.
The worst ceo in 
But Life goes on get your tickets from CK
Have a good night
Just because
THE PUB 
Fiona,
Funny how the Opposition leader wasn’t included in that poll. Six months ago …
At this stage, I reckon Oz may have the best attack in international cricket.
Not only the quicks: N Lyon is playing a big part.
Monseigneur Duck,
Autres temps, autres mœurs.
Kaffeeklatscher,
Re the picture you posted at 4:40 pm.
I still haven’t recovered from the experience.
In future, please preface such exhibits with a warning for viewers of a nervous disposition.
BK – How typical of many among our seniors, that they worry that we worry about them. Hope your mum gets over the upset soon. Especially as you now have an extra bundle of joy to find a ‘blessed happiness’ in.
I think I’ll just help myself since there is no service. Sniff!
Mitch gets AB in the slips (Clarke). 5/133.
Or,
O tempora, o mores!
Mitch is doing what Mork and Mindy didn’t: intersperse the short stuff with the yorker or the sucker-bait.
GhostWhoVotes @GhostWhoVotes –
#ReachTEL Poll 2 Party Preferred: L/NP 47 (0) ALP 53 (0)
#ReachTEL Poll Primary Votes: L/NP 40.3 (+0.5) ALP 39.2 (-1.4) GRN 10.5 (+1.4)
#ReachTEL Poll Preferred LIB Leader: Abbott 27.7 Turnbull 53.2 Hockey 19.1
#ReachTEL Poll Preferred LIB Leader (L/NP Voters): Abbott 58.6 Turnbull 27.6 Hockey 13.8
#ReachTEL Poll Preferred LIB Leader (ALP Voters): Abbott 5.6 Turnbull 76.5 Hockey 17.9
Leone,
The Gillard v Rudd race is on. Only on the other hoof.
I’m not all that interested in the Lib leadership polling. They’re all terrible and none of them are leaders in any useful sense of the word. But that 53-47 is a good look.
Abbott 5.6: Peta must be having conniptions.
So LNP voters love their man, the rest of the country can’t stand him.
Oh, how the wheel turns – twelve months ago it was the ALP that were in this position. Do you piss off the base to bring in a potentially more popular leader?
As Abbott and co. seem to be stumbling blindly from one disaster to the next, with only ideological platitudes to calm the masses, these numbers could well harden. Where will they go then?
It would be amusing except that Abbott will probably go the full Götterdämmerung on the country before leaving.
Come on Abbott, force that DD like you threatened to last year.
Aguirre,
The TPP is excellent in that there has been no swing back to the reactionary lot.
Harris gets J-P with a beautiful outswinger (to a left-hander). 6/146.
If Clarke can get a 300 lead he just might enforce the follow-on.
How is sending jobs offshore, good for the Australian economy. By the way, the PM deeply regrets.
Qantas, not happy.
Aguirre,
Our Dear Leader PM Blood Oaf NEVAH threatens – he merely
EXHORTSoops ENCOURAGES.Early days yet of course, but something of a meme is settling in among the “mob”, I sense. The Abbott govt has for now acquired a reputation of a govt that sits back and lets fate wash it back and forward like an old thong at the beach.
Apart from Asylum seekers, it seems not to be doing anything much, and certainly not to any great effect. Yet all the rhetoric is of doing violence to workers, social security recipients, unions etc. So that even if they get moving and actually do something, they will only alienate further those that decide elections.
The trouble with taking your running instructions from the IPA is that they don’t give a shit about ANYBODY, not even the Govt. Taking instruction from them is like the potential suicide standing on the ledge listening to the drunks down below. They are always going to shout “JUMP”!
A classic on cricinfo:
“”I thought ABDV’s innings was the most well constructed 14 I have yet seen.””
Mick,
What you say about his reputation may do him a lot more damage than the actuality.
My feeling a couple of months ago was that the polls would get out to about 53-47 and just sit there until the next election. I’m sticking with that. There is nothing the Coalition can do to win back support. The best idea they’ve had so far is royal commissions to dish dirt on the ALP. But events and their own incompetence are rapidly overtaking any good that would do them. They’re too stupid even to deliver their own ideology competently, as harrowing as it is. They can’t defend anything they do with any intelligence, and if you can’t do that you’re stuffed. They have no touch, they can’t read public opinion, and they’re reliant on PR to do the heavy lifting for them. They can’t even pretend properly in QT. All the faults they displayed in opposition are still there. You can make a competent government look bad from opposition, but the opposite won’t work when you are the government. Like it or not, the buck does stop with you.
The Saffers are being strangulated.
They can hit and get out or defend to save the game (2 1/2 days to go!)
I know what Michael Clarke would have done.
Kambah Mick,
Your cut-through comments always cut through!
Six years in opposition with not a single thought to policy is where they are at.
Even Watson is now being treated with respect.
The Slough of Despond has set in.
Batting conditions will not get any better.
If they can survive this innings then they will have to survive another.
I think their best chance is to garner as many runs as they can. Whether bashing or staying is a matter of opinion. The staying option relies on their staying …
I would say we are about to have Nathan at one end and a quick at the other until the end of the innings. Or till 80 overs.
Philander is a batting tail-ender like Mitch Johnson but without the ability.
As a number 8 he fails in comparison to James Pattinson.
I sometimes respond to trolls, but I never get into conversations with them. One just told me that polls go up and down, in response to my suggestion that Abbott stay as Lib leader because of 53-47. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a poll make a significant move without some sort of trigger. And when Howard went moribund there was nothing he could do to win votes back – and boy, did he try.
As far as I can tell, there’s nothing Abbott can actually do to swing votes his way. The ALP could do it if they replace Shorten – instability in the ALP always shifts people back to the Coalition. That’s the only strategy available to Abbott – place as much pressure as possible on Shorten and hope the ALP get jellylegs. It looks to me as if Shorten is getting his act together. So that option might be closing as well.
They are arguing about the term “reverse swing”, Someone saying it swings or it doesn’t.
The truth is that ball swings away from the glossy side.
As the ball gets flatter all round, the dimples reduce on the rough side and becomes flatter. When the planets align then the supposedly rough side becomes the glossier side
Not hard and no expertise o.r hexerei.
Aguirre,
As you say, The Idiot is in a heap and Shorten won’t be challenged (by whom, for the sake of Dawkins!).
The blokes are saying that Clarke is putting on Smith to bowl because they are in over time trouble.
Nothing is further from his mind!
Looking at Clarke signalling his field he has the absolute attention of all of them.
Now, Alastair Cook …
Keppler Wessels is now an apologist for the Saffers, on this feed.
Delights in their success (fine) and bags their opponents as he can when not.
Keppler. I did like his style as an opening batsman. A good hundred on debut for Oz if I recall correctly.
The commentators are saying the Aussies missed two chance.
I may give them the stumping but not the short-leg “catch”.
Even, with the stumping, the ball went though fast and high. I forgive Brad!
http://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/liberal-national-party-to-force-its-74-queensland-mps-to-reapply-for-their-positions-in-newman-government-cleanout/story-fnii5v6w-1226842451085
Whoa, I thought this was a joke at first since that’s what LNP types like to do to vulnerable workers but it seems this could be a cynical strategy to find Newman a safe seat, and possibly parachute Bill Glasson in somewhere too.
Bruce McIvor is apparently as big a control freak in the LNP as Credlin is with the Federal libs so it’s a worry up there.
When you get big applause for your side reaching 200 then you know the mindset.
Kirsdarke,
Let us get our priorities right.
First, your top man has to be re-elected, no matter how foul he is with the electorate.
Secondly, your perceived shoe-in (Glasson) must be given every chance! No chance for him: Labor will get Yvette turning up to bag him as required.
Kirkesdarke.
No doubt morale within the party will be enhanced once the human sacrifices have been identified and tied to the tree awaiting the propitious moment!
And Peta’s strategy is beginning to unwind: just consider the (lack of) tactics that her mob is employing.
The Noalition is doing absolutely nothing for the feeble-minded who thought they were on a winner electing them.
The strategy is that manna from heaven will fall upon those below in 2016. With any luck, they hope, the Seven Plagues will no longer be an issue.
Mick,
The problem with human sacrifices is that they tend to creep off the altar once the sedative has worn off.
Just checked my memory. K C Wessells, 162 and 46 on debut at Brisbane.
A good effort as Brisbane is a tough place for openers,
I remember an early opener down near Bretts Wharf in the mid to late 70s, very tough clientele! My then latest broken nose was very painful!
Mick,
A nasty bouncer?
Duck.
I was reading an article the other day about some place, possibly Manus Is back in the earlies, where the carte du jour was tied to a tree handy to the kitchen and summoned as required. Something akin to lobster in the more pretentious restaurants!
No, Duck
A very large and aggressive lady who was perturbed by my refusal to buy her several drinks. When she decked me, most of the rest of the clients thought it a good idea to get in while a victory seemed assured.
I made an ungainly retreat, assisted by the unsteady footwork of most of my assailants.
Not one of my better days.
Mick,
I have picked a lobster in a restaurant (ginger and shallots) but there is no way I would follow the recipes for live lobsters. I suppose the skewer is better than the slow boil.
being a vegetarian would not be an imposition. Especially at my years.
Mick,
You are not exactly a six-stone weakling. Must have been rough.