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Klingons have given up the USA politics

slashdot1slashdot1 Member Posts: 40 Arc User
edited January 2014 in Ten Forward
Well, what do you know, some klingons have resigned their commision in the USA.

Read this:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57616509-1/city-councilman-pens-resignation-letter-in-klingon/

I suggest he becomes a lft here and do some good work for us :) He`s welcome to join our fleet :P
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  • aloishammeraloishammer Member Posts: 3,294 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Question: Why do people act as if Trekkies are some sort of wierdos with a questionable grasp of reality?

    Answer: Read story linked in first post of thread.

    :eek:
  • seannewboyseannewboy Member Posts: 667 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    aloishammer wrote: »
    Question: Why do people act as if Trekkies are some sort of wierdos with a questionable grasp of reality?

    Answer: Read story linked in first post of thread.

    :eek:

    He is city councilman, lets not lose our grip on what this means. Who would you rather have, a Klingon, or Rob Ford the drunken crackhead?;)
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  • aloishammeraloishammer Member Posts: 3,294 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    seannewboy wrote: »
    He is city councilman, lets not lose our grip on what this means. Who would you rather have, a Klingon, or Rob Ford the drunken crackhead?;)

    Rob Ford the drunken crackhead vs someone who thinks dressing up as a nonexistent alien species from a debatable-quality science fiction show and writing his resignation from a job he apparently didn't take too seriously as said fictional character is proper?

    Sounds like 6 of one, half-dozen of the other to me. -shrug-


    Seriously- city councilman or US Senator, he's tasked with representing real people over real life concerns and he appears to be treating it as a LARP.
  • admanf2padmanf2p Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    aloishammer wrote: »
    Rob Ford the drunken crackhead vs someone who thinks dressing up as a nonexistent alien species from a debatable-quality science fiction show and writing his resignation from a job he apparently didn't take too seriously as said fictional character is proper?

    Sounds like 6 of one, half-dozen of the other to me. -shrug-


    Seriously- city councilman or US Senator, he's tasked with representing real people over real life concerns and he appears to be treating it as a LARP.

    And we have a coherent and reasonable answer on the first page! Sir, you win the prize of 100 logic points to be distributed as you see fit. :D
  • abystander0abystander0 Member Posts: 649 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    aloishammer wrote: »
    Question: Why do people act as if Trekkies are some sort of wierdos with a questionable grasp of reality?

    Answer: Read story linked in first post of thread.

    :eek:

    Better question: Why do people act as if politicians have ANY grasp of reality?
  • my1alts2alt3my1alts2alt3 Member Posts: 176 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=9380351

    North Carolina politician writes resignation letter in Klingon

    INDIAN TRAIL, N.C. (WTVD) -- Call it a politician boldly going where no one has gone before.

    On Thursday, David Waddell used the Klingon language to write his letter of resignation from the Indian Trail Town Council in North Carolina.

    Waddell says he opted to use Klingon, the language of a warrior race on the "Star Trek" TV shows and movies, as an inside joke. Mayor Michael Alvarez is calling the letter unprofessional.

    Waddell says he is resigning at the end of this month. His four-year term expires in December 2015.

    Waddell says he also needs to devote time to mounting a write-in campaign on the Constitution Party's platform against U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan.
  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    What does this have to do with STO, and why is this not in ten forward, so it can be locked becasue it's talking about politics on the forums.
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  • meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,594 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Klingons have given up the USA politics? What?! They've given up on spying on the rest of the galaxy?! Didn't even know the KSA was involved in such activities! :P
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  • hevachhevach Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    aloishammer wrote: »
    Question: Why do people act as if Trekkies are some sort of wierdos with a questionable grasp of reality?

    Answer: Read story linked in first post of thread.

    :eek:

    Apparently this is the closest the guy's come to making sense since taking office. Only other stuff I can find about him online is complaints from the other council members that he was disrupting proceeding by going off topic with bizarre Sovereign Citizen nonsense.

    Oh, and he's resigning so he can dedicate himself full time to a write-in campaign against a statistical favorite incumbent senator and her also quite popular mainstream conservative opponent. Both of whom are not known for hour long diatribes about opting out of personal income tax.

    Michigan had a guy exactly like this, only instead of Klingons it was Santa. To be specific, shirtless oiled Santa riding bareback on a reindeer in visible distress from the weight of the man.
  • orangeitisorangeitis Member Posts: 5,222 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    aloishammer wrote: »
    Answer: Read story linked in first post of thread.

    :eek:
    That doesn't answer the question at all.
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  • aleciabethaleciabeth Member Posts: 33 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Yeha,
    I saw it a few minutes ago on my news page.
    http://www.n24.de/n24/Nachrichten/Panorama/d/4071546/us-politiker-tritt-auf-klingonisch-zurueck.html

    This is cool. I like it. :cool:

    Edit:
    in Germany is this unimaginable. Otherwise, the men come with the straitjacket.
  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    abystander0 wrote: »
    Better question: Why do people act as if politicians have ANY grasp of reality?

    Amen to that, brother. This whole summer I was imagining somebody had gone and stuffed the head of every member of Congress up the TRIBBLE of the guy next to him. Like an ouroboros in reverse.
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  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,535 Community Moderator
    edited January 2014
    Aw man... that's awesome. Resigning in Klingon. Now that's a good one.
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  • philipclaybergphilipclayberg Member Posts: 1,680
    edited January 2014
    I'd take a fictional Kang over reality's Wieners and Boehners any day.
  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    I feel oddly privileged to live in a state that has genuinely insane local politicians.
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  • sander233sander233 Member Posts: 3,992 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    philipclayberg wrote: »
    I'd take a fictional Kang over reality's Wieners and Boehners any day.

    ^What he said.^


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