Calm Down, Trekkies!
The AP reports Multnomah County calls off job for Klingon interpreter:

PORTLAND - Sorry, potential Klingon interpreters.

Officials have said they won't be needing your services, after all.

The office that treats mental health patients in Multnomah County had included Klingon on a list of 55 languages that could be spoken by incoming patients.

But the inclusion of the Star Trek language drew a spate of tongue-in-cheek headlines.

And now the county has rescinded its call, stressing that it hasn't spent a penny of public money on Klingon interpretation.

"It was a mistake, and a result of an overzealous attempt to ensure that our safety net systems can respond to all customers and clients," Multnomah County chair Diane Linn said in a news release.

Ah, the old "safety net" ploy for separating the suckers taxpayers from their money. Only in America would the taxpayers provide interpreters for 55, er, 54 languages that possible hospital patients might speak.

County officials had previously said that no patient had ever come in speaking only Klingon, but that the county would pay a Klingon interpreter in the unlikely case one was actually needed.

I'm sure "the county" would. I love to see tax dollars at work.