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But is it art?
No, it’s not me.
Yay! I like that idea.
Let’s sue that first art.
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”
Good job my laptop doesn’t support the scratch’n'sniff upgrade.
Woops!
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It’s not the first time…
what is that “i´m first” shit all about? it sucks ass soooo bad!!!
You can’t fight City Hall – unless you’re also City Hall.
Do you think they’ll use Sue Yoo?
Why not, all the boys do.
Why so sexist?
some girls too would like to use her .
It’s hot on the bi-Yoo.
Do you pronounce your name “less” or “lez”?
Is she still with Sue, Grabbit and Runne?
She quit there and moved to Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe.
Actually they added a new partner.
It’s now Winn, Dewey ,Cheatem, and Howe.
I sooo want to get a palindrome out of that, but I’m struggling.
No, I got nothing!
Meh *shrugs*
Something like, “Rude Sue, e’ used ur” … Oh, I know. “Bolton.”
…and if you rearrange the letters in Sue Yoo, you get ‘Yoosur!’ …an’ I don’t like what she’s using!
Where in Sue Yoo do you get an r
sur, yoo FAIL
I can get a stadium full of Sarah Palin jokes out of it, but I’m not sure if that counts as an actual Palindrome.
The government always fails. Stupid government.
But the government always Fails
Right, who needs schools, police, firemen, roads, libraries, national defense and other useless stuff like that?
more like: cash for clunkers, endless bailouts, fannie mae & freddie mac, HHS budget of $700+ billion per year. And an average federal hiring salary of $70k per year. Oh yeah and Congressmen get FULL pensions after just 1 term.
Well, seeing as the screenshot is from an Australian tv network, I don’t think US-specific programs apply.
We could talk about intervention in indigenous communities, failures in public hospitals and Wayne Swan’s idiocy instead, if you’d like.
I agree with everyone that there is tons to complain about– I just took issue with people implying it’s the very *existence* of government that causes problems we face in all our respective countries. Even full-out libertarians recognise the need for *some* services from government.
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Beware- blog & news junkie mini-rant ahead:
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IMO, we may complain all we want, but if we don’t* get together in big numbers to put real pressure (phone calls, open letters, protests, boycotting companies affiliated with corrupt lobbies, &c.) on politicians, they’ll keep getting away with the BS their friends ask and lobbyists pay them to pull on us.
*Of course, I think a large part of the blame for public sheep-dom lies with the media’s utter failure to give people reliable and RELEVANT information from multiple points of view. Thankfully, blogs are starting to fill that gap.
Take care, all.
That’s right! What have the Romans ever done for us?
The aqueduct?
I still prefer the Romans over the People’s Front of Judea
Yeah – splitters!
*applauds Python fan*
Whatever happened to the Popular Front?
All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
I reckon Arnie has travelled back from the future to sue himself for messing up California.
Did told himself “I’ll be back” before he left.
Arnie in front of mirror in the future:
“I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, I’ll be BACK.”
(Who knew he liked 1990s SNL so much?)
How will they know if they won or lost?
Whichever agency runs out of money first is the loser.
The lawyers have pledged that they will fight it out to the last dime.
The PR will spin it so it’s a win either way.
The agency to get the least stimulus money to support the legal costs is the loser.
Oh wait. The correct answer is neither is the loser. The loser is the taxpayer
How long can any government fight the darkness… before they find it in itself?
an aussie fail! yay.
P.S. comments on fail blog are stupid, they never comment on the fail, you idiots just start a chain off whatever the 1st poster said
Thank goodness the first poster had nothing useful to say this time.
This time? (^_~)
Child take a tour through ht tp://failpeeps.wordpress.com/ .
It may help you understand what this site is about.
Tell me more about the fail, George – I mean, Daniel.
It’s good for us aussies to get some exposure every now and again.
At least use a proper sunscreen. SPF 45 at the minimum.
I’m pale as hell is hot.
I will burn to a crisp trying to get a tan.
2 poster bed?
Romance is dead.
The pants has fled.
So you’re saying we would be less stupid if our conversation goes something like this:
“Stupid government, sueing itself.”
“Yes, that is a fail!”
“And it’s the taxpayers money they’re wasting!”
“Indeed.”
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I disagree with you.
whoa, in a battle like this, no one ever really wins.
Not necessarily – it keeps these two State Agencies out of our hair for a while.
Amen. Personally, I say keeping government lawyers fighting each other instead of looking for ways to start a witch-hunt to make a name for themselves is an epic WIN.
Yeah it IS more like a win
I strongly disagree! This battle is a goldmine for lawyers involved!
is this a government fail or a news fail?
It rips the moral fabric of all society.
I agree.
Its like trying to turn a chicken back into and egg.
‘an’ not ‘and’
This Fail is brought to you by the Council on Dissociative Identity Disorder.
Cosponsored by — hey, what a coincidence…
CoCosposored by — Fights itself
if government sue itself? who will get the money????????
The lawyers.
The Judges?
Suing isn’t always about money. Sometimes it’s about getting an agency to take a certain action.
I’m so stupid, I think I’ll sue myself for deformation of character.
Do you think you’re libel to win?
Slander chance I might win but I’m not sure about me.
That is a good question.
*thinks jam should get harass down to a lawyer and find out her chances are*
*sends “what” up by helium balloon*
“deformation” of chatacter?
That channel logo is from an Australian network, yet I haven’t heard of this story. So either I fail at current affairs, or someone wins at faking a believable fail. WHICH IS IT?!?
I googled it. The story may be about Hawaii. I came up with “Kauai Property Tax Revolt: Government Sues Itself and Wins”. It looks like somebody has been in the Maui Wowie.
It’s the New South Wales Govt in Sydney, Australia.
They excel at setting the FAIL bar higher!
Funny thing is that lots of people (especially the libertrarian-leaning kind) will see this as yet another example why “big government” is bad and wasteful – when it is in fact the kind of thing that a big, centralized government usually *prevents*.
In the Libertarian Utopia where all public services are provided by for-profit companies, things that are now intra-government disputes usually settled by a higher authority would have to be resolved in a court *all the time*.
You really have no idea what a Libertarian is, do you.
Actually, he said “libertrarain”
One who advocates the personal liberty and freedom to borrow books.
Depends, which kind are you talking about?
The anarchist-sounds-bad-so-we’ll-call-ourselves Libertarians, the government’s-function-is-only-to-defend-us-against-things-individuals-don’t-have-power-to-defend-themselves-against Libertarians, or the government’s-function-is-to-make-minorities-shut-up Libertarians? Just to name a few.
Not to mention the Judean-People’s-Front Libertarians.
Liberartatian splitters!
Good work Australia.
When governments go to battle…….YOU WIN!!!
“In old Russia…..government sues itself!!!!”
And apparently, in Australia, too.
I guess you flunk current affairs:
New South Wales Environmental Defenders Office sues power plant that’s run by a government-owned corporation.
ht tp://www.electricalworld.com.au/onestory.php?idNum=1146
Good Morning (I can’t see my post of good morning earlier)
*Squeeze*
Good morning to you, or rather good night. I’m off to bed. Night all.
Ok.
*squeeze*
FIRST!
Fail!
Troll!
*gets troll club(playing by the rules*
GET”EM!
Hey Shadow, how’sitgoing?
*whispers*
It’ll prolly work better to just ignore it. If it finds no host to attach to, it’ll just shrivel up and die.
I’m okay but I got homework (limited blog time)
FIRST?….more like #75
what do you really expect from channel nine? really?
i know, channel nine is an overall fail
Man, our (Australia) government sucks
the government should’t sue itself……..thats like you sueing yourself!!!!!!!!
pointless
You should write and tell them, they may not have this vital information.
of course…lawyers get richer at our expense!!!!
Oxymoron like
“Jumbo shrimp”
Air quality vs. water quality…some choice.
Blame ourselves, Storm Ondoy leave the muddy place in the Philippines. BTW, Copenhagen Summit is coming soon!!!
*puts CO2 to General’s a**s*
*fart to Admiral Apparent*
*plants trees with CCC*
If you hire a new lawyer, your new lawyer should take care of the process of getting your file from your former lawyer and getting any necessary substitution of counsel filed with the court.
You can hire any lawyer you want, as long as they’re licensed to practice in the court where your case is pending, but hiring one near the courthouse can save you from having to pay for your lawyer’s travel time.
Just check this miracle website and pray for me (Local Lawyer Finder)
Bureaucracy at its finest.
That town looks exactly like Springfield!
Matyi, did you mean “Totally Looks Like” Springfield?
….oh, those stupid aussies…
yes?
How the hell did this happen
Why are you suing yourself? Why are you suing yourself? Why are you suing yourself?
Fail? Yes. Extremely common around the world? Absolutely.
only in america could the gov’t be that dumb!
…except this was in Australia. As a decent fraction of the 104 posters above you pointed out.
Hoisted by their own petard! hahahaha!!!! f-ing bureaucrats…hahaha
Teh artical from Firefly’s link
NSW Govt sues itself
Posted On: 2009-07-28 Posted by Des Dugan
THE first legal action aimed at curbing greenhouse gas pollution from a coal-fired power station was launched yesterday with a lawsuit in the NSW Land and Environment Court.
The NSW Environmental Defenders Office has begun a civil suit which alleges a major NSW power station is breaching pollution laws, ABC’s Lateline program reports.
Peat Grey, a member of a regional NSW environmental group called ‘Rising Tide’ has launched the action.
″Bayswater power station is the equal largest coal-fired power in Australia ″ the equal largest and one of the least efficient in the country,″ he said.
″It emits approximately 12 to 15m tonnes of CO2 every year and that currently is totally unlicensed, totally unregulated and they’ve been doing that for over a decade.″
″At the moment, under the licences that are issued by the EPA, there is no regulation of carbon dioxide and what we are trying to do is say that carbon dioxide is a waste or a pollutant and it should therefore be regulated, because otherwise they’re breaching the pollution laws by emitting it,″ Kirsty Ruddock, NSW Environmental Defenders Office said.
Bayswater is run by the NSW Government-owned corporation Macquarie Generation, which supplies 40% of NSW electricity through Bayswater and its nearby Liddell power stations, the presenter of the program reports.
Environmentalists claim Macquarie is Australia’s single biggest greenhouse gas polluter.
The NSW Environmental Defenders Office will call expert witnesses to argue that carbon emissions constitute waste and should be regulated under state environmental laws which require companies to have a licence to pollute.
Macquarie Generation responded saying: ″…
the corporation will respond through the normal court processes …,″ and described Bayswater, a power station it wants to expand, as, ″…
one of the most efficient and cleanest coal-fired power stations in Australia,″ which, ″…
operates within its …
environmental …
licence.″
The court case is likely to proceed later this year.
This is why I wish I could vote.
is that even possible?
double fail
No, this should be EPIC WIN!
This what you get when the state of New South Wales is run by a garbage collector (seriously, he used to be a garbo!!) and has had the same government in for 14 years, with shocking train and bus services, allegations of corruption left, right and centre, sex scandals, police ministers dancing naked in offices, a treasurer, who after resigning decided to tell how he fudged the books to hide a $1 billion black hole in the state budget and political infighting so bad that in the last 4 years we’ve had 3 premiers! And they’re still just slightly better than the opposition party!!!!!!!
Democracy sucks balls sometimes
who do you vote for if one party sucks and the other is worse? (BTW it’s compulsory to vote in Australia from council elections to state and federal elections)
That’s when you legally change your name to “None Of The Above” and run as an Independent.
So glad I moved to Victoria, where the state was run by an ex-school teacher and then another ex-school teacher and another… hey…
Bring back Jeff!
This is the news in Australia so… yeah. That kind of explains it.
Wow, nice to see we Aussies can fail at news just as hard as the yanks do
government fail is redundant!
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Thanks to everyone for all the nice comments. This was my first submission to failblog and so excited to see it make the main page. I will try to find more fails and share them with the world.
Can’t wait till they’re running health care, too!
haha nice work australia i have never been more proud of my oz lol
about time
And guess who’s payin for it?? Us!!
national 9 news, australia ftw
This is not a fail, there is no such thing as the “government” there are state agencies, federal agencies and bureaucracies. They all act independently of each other and are often involved in legal disputes.
How long can any government fight the darkness… before they find it in itself?