Now He Wants the Permission of the Ferengi Before Doing Anything

Look at this quote of John Kerry from this article:

But I can do a better job of protecting America’s security because the test that I was talking about was a test of legitimacy, not just in the globe, but elsewhere.

Elsewhere than the globe! Now aliens wielding anal probes get a say in our foreign policy!
Is there anyone – or thing – Kerry won’t pander to?

29 Comments

  1. Uhmmm, I can’t see the Ferengi backing John Kerry. They are way too free market, prefer fee based services (only crude people call the method bribes) rather than income taxes. They seem to be extreme libertarians though they do have a significant military force. They are a mecantile polity that kind of reminds me of the early British Empire. He might get on with the Borg or the Shape Changers since they seem to have a collectivist policy. Of course I haven’t quite understood this Borg Queen thing. Then again the Shape Changers were quite aggresive unlike the French. In fact I’m starting to believe the French aren’t human but some kind of semi-sentinet cheese creatures.

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  3. Kerry’s got a distinct medical condition called “globus hystericus”. It’s caused by ketchup overdose— and can be cured by breathing back your own hot air into a paper bag, or eating green cheese.
    By the way, your blog is very original— but shouldn’t we nuke Mars first… before they get us?

  4. dangit toad….i was gonna reference star trek! i don’t think there is a race in ST that would back kerry. all the different races were modeled after certain traits/character flaws of humanity, but i don’t remember cowardice being one of them…

  5. Actually, there are the Mizarians, who are the Frenchies of the Galaxy. They only appear once in TNG, but they have been overrun 6 times in 300 years because they dont believe in confrontation (sound familiar?).

  6. But you didn’t watch DS9 to its liberal end, and don’t know how MUCH the Ferengi improved from the evil, capitalistic, 20th century everyday joes!
    Free health care. Affermative action quotas. Wealth redistribution. Taxes to the rich.
    They implemented the entire democrat/communistic platform… oh, you did know that’s how the Federation came to in the first place!
    If you’re wondering, a cursory examination of the original series and Roddenberry’s speeches shows that leftist Hollywood all but hijacked Star Trek into socialist propaganda.
    This quote from Mr. Spock (in the Original Series) says it all on how Star Trek leaned originally: “we must ackownledge that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis”.
    Hell, check out Star Trek VI: they have the courage to say that the cold war wasn’t won by the US and Reagan – it was the world “getting sane” and thus less conservative, and extending a helping hand to the ruskies! It was negotiations, not a superior culture that eliminated the red threat.
    Kerr(az)y.

  7. I’ll have to agree with Francesco Poli about the socialism in ST – it is there, and some of the TNG, DS9 and Voyager episodes were extremely leftist.
    I think the original series was good in only it held up some of the American ideals, Constitution, Bill of Rights, but then the no money thing came in and other garbage. They had to reintroduce some kind of currency though to make it seem more real, gold pressed latinum.
    I guess Kerry thinks the Federation of Planets is inevitable, maybe he is just trying to get in early. : )
    I think the Klingons could easily clean up Iraq, and a few other places. They seem to be the least PC group in the ST universe.

  8. Mr Poli: I disagree over ST6’s leftism. The overt messages of ST6, if any, are the necessity to be magnanimous in victory, and also the importance of uncovering and removing assassination plots. There isn’t anything right-wing (or left-wing) about that. Its covert message, moreover, is that Communism Doesn’t Work. ST6 discredited Communism (in its Brezhnevian form) from top to bottom.
    The reason the Klingons came to the table in the first place was because they’d had an “incident” at Praxis, which crippled the Klingon economy.
    That prompts a few questions. Why was the Klingon economy so dependent on that one power station? Why did Praxis blow up?
    We get hints of this here and there. The Klingons stonewall any outside questions about Praxis, and any offers for help. Their navy is far too independent of central control. The court which convicted Kirk was a show trial. The Klingon prison system is horrible and corrupt. What we see here is a failure to separate the branches of government from each other and from the energy sector; no accountability; and no freedom of information. Praxis or a disaster like Praxis was waiting to happen.
    There are rotten eggs on the Federation side, too. But they amount only to plotters in Starfleet. This happened because the Federation did not live up to its ideals of civilian oversight of the military.
    The Klingon failure was the fault of the Klingons obeying their own system at the time. Starfleet’s failure, meanwhile, was the fault of Starfleet not obeying its system – in short, Starfleet were acting like Klingons.

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