[pct-l] More interesting reading. Public Lands: PCT for sale?

[Doug Swam]

you'd have to watch a Star Trek TV show to know about Ferengi.


> Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 15:27:03 -0700
> From: rgraybill44 at gmail.com
> To: mel at tungate.com
> CC: pct-l at backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] More interesting reading. Public Lands: PCT for sale?
> 
> Oddly, I have never seen a Star Wars movie, so I had to look up "Ferengi"
> to see why selling off all public lands might be their sort of thing.  For
> the benefit of the cinematically challenged, here is why this proposal
> would immediately bring Ferengi to the minds of Trekkies: "They and their
> culture are characterized by a mercantile
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercantilism> obsession with profit and
> trade, and their constant efforts to swindle unwary customers into unfair
> deals. They are also known for their business acumen and for rampant
> misogyny <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misogyny>. . . . Their home planet,
> Ferenginar, is the center of the Ferengi Alliance and is governed by the
> Grand Nagus and a Commerce Authority made primarily of the Council of
> Economic Advisors (formerly Board of Liquidators). Like most of their
> culture, their religion is also based on the principles of capitalism: they
> offer prayers and monetary offerings to a '*Blessed Exchequer*' in hopes of
> entering the "*Divine Treasury*" upon death, and fear an afterlife spent in
> the '*Vault of Eternal Destitution*'" --*Wikipedia*
> 
> Ronald D. Graybill
> 11832 Fordham Place
> Riverside, CA  92505
> rgraybill44 at gmail.com
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> 
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Mel Tungate <mel at tungate.com> wrote:
> 
> > Carol, you are being far too kind.
> >
> > Mel
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Pct-L [mailto:pct-l-bounces at backcountry.net] On Behalf Of Carol
> > Klahn
> > Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 9:03 AM
> > To: Tom Grundy
> > Cc: PCT; Brick Robbins
> > Subject: Re: [pct-l] More interesting reading. Public Lands: PCT for sale?
> >
> > With every decision, these guys are looking more and more like Ferengi in
> > my
> > mind.
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Apr 3, 2015, at 12:12 AM, Tom Grundy <caver456 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Sounds lucrative!
> > >
> > > If I can't get there in my RV,
> > > it ain't no goddanged use to me.
> > >
> > > (Sing to the tune of Monty Python's Lumberjack song)
> > >
> > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 9:36 PM, Brick Robbins <brick at brickrobbins.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/opinion/our-land-up-for-grabs.html
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Excerpt:
> > >> Last week, the United States Senate voted 51 to 49 to support an
> > >> amendment to a nonbinding budget resolution to sell or give away all
> > >> federal lands other than the national parks and monuments.
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