And it is despite the fact that there are now fewer places in the queue: at the same time as stopping the boats, Australia has cut its refugee resettlement intake by almost a third, from 20,000 to 13,750 people a year.
I'm glad I'm not in the war zone right now, I'd be in the queue of pregnant women at the hospital begging for a Caesar.
Washington wisdom holds that Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, is now the next guy in the queue, but this is like saying that the Rangers are next up to win the World Series because they managed to eke out one victory this year against the Giants.
Well, not quite, but what the three points from Upton Park on Tuesday mean is that Mick McCarthy is no longer the most under-pressure manager in the Premier League and that if a team beginning with W does get relegated this season – not a certainty, by any means – West Ham and Wigan are now ahead of Wolves in the queue.
A council spokesman said: "We are issuing all polling stations with enough ballot papers to cover 100% of the electorate and now anybody who is in the queue to cast their vote by 10pm will be allowed to do so.
"We have projects that are planned or in the queue now, projects that people, academics and laboratories and companies, have spent millions of dollars to get ready," said Mr. Glenn, a Democrat who represented Ohio in the Senate for 24 years before retiring in 1998.
The service is open to customers right now although there is a waiting list of about 50 customers in the queue right now, making it a hot commodity.
Because the Curiosity is already finished and launched, "from this point now forward, there is nothing active in the queue," Dr. Des Marais said in an interview.
Now I've lost my spot in the queue for cooking gas!" Abu Mohanad was a first lieutenant in Assad's army.
She said they have become events in themselves now, and the queueing starts earlier.
