Hello once again patrons to another edition of Friday Night Raffles.
In light of the one of the most monumentally stupid idiotic remarks a so called Prime Minister of Australia could make I give you a little montage of how it has received.
The Idiot gets the ball rolling. What a tool
Putin hears about it

After changing his undies from uncontrollable laughter he responds
The Russkies don,t seem too happy with The Idiot,and suggest he may be diseased.
Maybe this will be another little nail into the coffin of the Stupid incompetent idiotic moron that sadly is the Prime Minister of Australia, The day he is gone cannot come soon enough.
BTW It’s Raffle Night And

As it is one of my favourite times of the year we will be having not just A Melbourne Cup Sweep but also one for the Caulfield cup Tomorrow and Cox Plate the following week .
I will post when the draw opens early on the sat morning. First in best dressed. Suitable prizes will be awarded to the winners .





PTMD: We need better public first:
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/petrie-plaza-sculpture-vandalised-again-figure-stolen-20131208-2yzjp.html
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/sculpture-il-grande-ascolto-stolen-from-csiro-building-20141018-11810l.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-26/nga-to-return-allegedly-stolen-shiva-to-india/5347404
size zero. Typical. Trying to make women into nothing, to just disappear. it is the same as making them wear the full burqua. Just disappeear into zero-ness, take up no space. have no strength to defend themsselves. especially in 7 inch heels.
I made up my mind years ago that the high fashion industry and the wankers running it actually despise real womanhood.
I love the pigs. 🙂
This is the statue that got moved to make way for a carpark.

That is a lovely pond behind it. Families used to sit there after doing the shopping,
On the same lines, outside of the Elizabeth City shopping centre for years used to be a big military artillary weapon, a big gun. It was on the lawns and kids used to play on it, When the shopping centre (owned by the Housing Trust, the state government housing authority) was sold to a commercial company, they redeveloped it and ripped out all the lawns and fountain for carparks, The gun was relocated outside of the Naval Club, Over time, every bit of metal removable from the gun was stolen until all that was left was the stand and the barrel.
Total cretins, We have bred and reared some useless bits of humanity, I can tell you.
Good morning Dawn Patrollers.
Seems like a good idea.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/mosman-council-turns-to-new-york-for-a-simpler-signage-solution-20141020-118u1h.html
And this, too.
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/bodymounted-police-cameras-to-be-used-as-domestic-violence-evidence-20141020-118vb5.html
Don’t know about this one though!
http://www.smh.com.au/national/public-service/australian-taxation-office-orders-new-building-despite-6200-empty-desks-20141020-118rb9.html
How in the heck does this happen?
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/foreign-teachers-on-457-visas-worsen-graduate-glut-20141020-118x9m.html
Mr Grecian 2000 hoists his flag.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/foreign-teachers-on-457-visas-worsen-graduate-glut-20141020-118x9m.html
Greg Jericho looks at the potential effect on us of the economic woes of Europe.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2014/oct/20/australia-destined-europes-economic-malaise
Fancy that! The Speaker and the President contradict Abbott. It’s clear that Abbott hung them out to dry.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/foreign-teachers-on-457-visas-worsen-graduate-glut-20141020-118x9m.html
How a throwaway comment brought about the burqa ban.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/oct/20/burqa-ban-imposed-after-anonymous-radio-rumour-reached-parliament
Twenty percent of Cormann’s Finance Department are casual employees.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/finance-department-sees-25-per-cent-spike-in-casual-workforce-within-a-year-20141020-118l2l.html
Is James Hird our new Lindy Chamberlain?
http://thenewdaily.com.au/sport/2014/10/20/james-hird-new-lindy-chamberlain/
Section 2 . . .
Sarah Hanson-Young causes chaos at Estimates over a couple of issues that land right in Morrison’s lap.
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/oct/20/new-members-migration-review-tribunal-bypassed-selection-panel
Why the ACCC is hounding Coles.
http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2014/10/21/food-and-beverages/why-accc-hounding-coles
Australia ranked lowly in green economy leadership.
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/business/carbon-economy/green-economy-index-2014-australia-ranked-last-for-leadership-20141020-118s1t.html
Wixxyleaks on the reasons for Jackie Kelly’s resignation from the Liberal Party.
http://wixxyleaks.com/calling-it-quits-the-politics-of-racism-and-jackie-kelly-resigns-from-the-liberal-party/
Bob Ellis with effusive praise of Flanagan’s book.
http://www.ellistabletalk.com/2014/10/19/the-world-just-is-richard-flanagans-the-narrow-road-to-the-deep-norrh/
Trouble in the camp in the Victorian Education Department.
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/education-department-flags-integrity-review-amid-corruption-probe-20141020-118s38.html
Timbercorp proposes a deal with its many victims. It’s not a pretty picture.
http://www.smh.com.au/business/timbercorp-liquidator-offers-to-cut-a-deal-with-victims-20141020-118y90.html
Labor promises to lift the lid on individual school funding if it wins the election.
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/victoria-state-election-2014/labor-to-reveal-gonski-funding-20141020-118tf9.html
Peter Hartcher – Indonesia moves ahead with democracy whilst Malaysia goes backwards.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/one-step-forward-for-indonesia-one-step-back-for-malaysia-20141020-118vq6.html
Section 3 . . .
Peter Martin – the Reserve Bank is flying blind as the decimated ABS serves up insufficient and unreliable data. He piles into the Coalition over this.
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/reserve-bank-flies-blind-as-numbers-dont-add-up-20141020-118ix4.html
Brendan O’Connor neatly sums up Cormann’s girly-man comment. Calls him a dickhead.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/mathias-cormann-a-dhead-for-inappropriate-girly-man-reference-says-labors-brendan-oconnor-20141020-118mhw.html
Bruce Petty at shirtfront training.
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/bruce-petty-20090907-fdvy.html
Whack! Alan Moir hits out at the ABC’s reliance on the Murdoch press.
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/alan-moir-20090907-fdxk.html
Cathy Wilcox on the Vatican’s seismic shift on homosexuality.
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/cathy-wilcox-20090909-fhd6.html
David Pope just couldn’t resist it!
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/david-pope-20120214-1t3j0.html
Simon Letch is singularly unimpressed with the Wallabies.
http://www.smh.com.au/photogallery/federal-politics/cartoons/simon-letch-20090908-ffni.html
I knew there was a reason Newspoll was my fave poll 😆 The GG is in a bit of denial 53-47 to Labor headlines ? Nah. But nice little headlines declaring
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and
The new Indonesian president has more than a passing resemblance to Obama.
Early this year, when it was obvious the polls were shifting back post-election, i predicted they’d shift to about 53-47 to the ALP and just stick there until the next election. I made some not-so-good calls in the Rudd/Gillard era, but I’m hoping this one sticks – looking good so far.
I caught onto Rudd’s vindictiveness too late, and underestimated the dirty tricks the Libs had up their sleeves. I think that’s the main reason I was too bullish about the ALP’s chances last term – I wasn’t paying enough attention. Right now, though, I’m not sure what the LNP PR team can really do – terrorism and warmongering are pretty much your trump cards, and they’ve done nothing. And the ALP seem relatively stable.
One year into the first term is very early for the voters to simply switch off and lock their votes in, but it does look very much like that’s what’s happened here.
Breaking news . Gough Whitlam has just died.
We, just lost on of our best and brightest…Rest in peace, big fellah…
Prepare for the high probability of cringeworthy and or graceless comments from the Prime Oaf at the death of Gough Whitlam.
Vale Gough Whitlam.
Inevitable but sad, the passing of a great man. Gough inspired like no other. He and Don Dunstan shone a light on who we were and what we could be. I had hoped that they might provide the example for what politics could be. We have had some good moments with Hawke-Keating and Gillard, but not quite what we might have hoped for.
But let us glory today in having known him or been inspired by him. I commenced my degree externally in 1977 when Malcolm Fraser ruled and to his credit maintained the free tertiary education. A whole mature-age generation had seized the opportunity provided by Gough to get a higher education.
I and the nation remain in his debt.
Oh dear!
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2014/oct/21/poll-doldrums-for-the-coalition-as-tony-abbott-returns-to-canberra-politics-live?CMP=ema_1731
Jokowi looks very impressed and as for Tone …. !!!
Tony pinged, again
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/21/tony-abbott-not-advised-mh370-search-had-found-black-box-senators-told
Julia on Gough
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/21/julia-gillard-on-gough-whitlam-a-giant-of-his-era-he-will-live-on-in-our-nation
Classy as always.
Lenore goes Bishop and Parry
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/oct/21/burqa-ban-headache-for-parliament-after-terrorist-threat-overreaction
Julia on Gough:
Vale Gough Whitlam.
Farewell great man
Vale Gough. A true visionary.
Abbott, his mouth open half of the time. No manners.
I met Gough Whitlam in early 1952, when I was six years old. My parents had just moved us to Cronulla, where they were building our home. To me, then, he was just one of the fathers of the kids at my school. He wasn’t a politician then, that didn’t happen until the end of that year when he won Werriwa in a by-election.
Gough was a frequent visitor to our little school, attending ceremonies and fetes and all the other stuff that needs an MP to turn up and say a few words.
Then, in 1955 the electorate of Werriwa was redistributed and the southern end became a new electorate, Hughes. Gough decided to stay with Werriwa and moved his family to Cabramatta, leaving the almost waterfront little house they had built on the shores of Gunnamatta Bay for the wilds of Sydney’s western suburbs. My brief contact with the Whitlam family ended.
I owe Gough and his government so much, the changes they made certainly made my life much better than it might otherwise have been. Millions of Australians would say the same thing.
Vale Gough, my hero.
Farewell to one of Australia’s greatest.
So many memories.
Vale Gough, my hero.
About a year ago I emailed him via his Institute with my sincere thanks for all his that reforms did for me, especially for my university degree. They sent me a reply saying Gough appreciated my email. Gough Whitlam, the greatest Australian, passed away at 98.
I am a Whitlam Woman, one of the hundreds of thousands who went to university as mature students when he made uni free (for your first undergraduate degree). It changed my life and the life of my children,
Goodbye Gough, and thank you.
Goodbye, Gough.
Your memory will endure in this Nation you helped to forge for many, many years to come.
Sky is praising Abbott for his gracious statement as if it is a major achievement for Abbott not to be a oafish boar for once. They said it was obviously personally written by Abbott, To me, obviously not,
Everyone has breathed a sigh of relief his mean spirit has not shown up. Yet.
Gigilene,
Give the man a break – he has to breathe.
Mouthbreather –
1. literally, someone who lacks enough intelligence that they never learned to breathe through their nose.
2. a really dumb person.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mouthbreather
Yes—Vale Gough! I was at that rally JG talked about in that eulogy of hers in the Guardian. Saw him at various Conferences etc. A great man.
There will never be another. His heart and soul matched his drive and ambition for his country. As an aside, I will never forget a breakfast that he and I shared, accidentally, in Hanoi. He was there, in the mid 90s, as a guest of the Vietnamese Government to help chart a way in which the French influence in that great city could be preserved. He chatted with passion,insight and humour. We had a long discussion about the character of his new friend, Malcolm Fraser. This day,in this country, will long be remembered. Vale Comrade.
A young man was murdered on Saturday here in Melbourne.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/family-grieves-for-top-bloke-joshua-hardy-who-died-after-being-bashed-outside-mcdonalds-restaurant-in-melbourne/story-fni0fee2-1227095399388
One degree of separation.
Fiona
That makes me so angry, how can anyone do this, take away some one else’s life?
One of your students?
Ducky,
No, but several of my students knew him well.
We really really have to address the racism in this country,
Very not good for the class and you. Commiserations.
Ducky and Puffy,
Yes, and thank you.
I too owe a great deal to Gough Whitlam whose vision for Australia bounded my adult life.
It’s an absolute shame that Josh Hardy was king hit by an ANZ Investment banker at Maccas. Now if one is serious about muslim terrorists, the accused has a muslim surname.
” Abbott, his mouth open half of the time. No manners.”…..like a Whale Shark, mouth stays open as it swims throught the sea freeding on small organisimsas it goes…so Abbott walks around with his mouth open..breathing in bacteria to replenish those that sustain him!
Interesting:
http://insidestory.org.au/a-certain-curiosity
Showing total lack of class, as usual:
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2014/oct/21/former-australian-pm-gough-whitlam-dies-the-world-reacts
So Abbott made his eulogy of Gough to be all about Menzies. when it was not about Abbott. No mention of Gough’s nation making policies.
Boorish oaf,
You’re right, jaycee:
What a low scumbag.