Salon.com > jedi http://www.salon.com Mon, 20 May 2013 12:57:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Weird news: White House must respond to petition to build a Death Star http://www.salon.com/2012/12/13/weird_news_white_house_must_respond_to_petition_to_build_a_death_star/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/13/weird_news_white_house_must_respond_to_petition_to_build_a_death_star/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2012 22:48:26 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13124373 As of today, the White House will have to take the petition to build a Death Star (somewhat) more seriously. According to the White House's policy, petitions that "reach 25,000 signatures within 30 days" require a response. The Death Star petition was opened Nov. 14, 2012 and passed 25,000 signatures today, just making the cut off.

If we do get our Death Star, then perhaps Americans will wage an intergalactic war with the hundreds of thousands of Jedi still using the Force in England.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2012/12/13/weird_news_white_house_must_respond_to_petition_to_build_a_death_star/feed/ 2 Weird news: “Jedi Knights” most popular alternative religion in Britain http://www.salon.com/2012/12/12/weird_news_jedi_knights_most_popular_alternative_religion_in_britain/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/12/weird_news_jedi_knights_most_popular_alternative_religion_in_britain/#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2012 21:17:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13123156 Britain's 2011 census results just came out: Of the 240,000 people who picked "other religion," almost 74 percent  listed themselves as Jedi Knights -- making it the most popular alternative religion in England and Wales.

But the noble Jedi are losing ground, it seems. That number has fallen from 2001, when a campaign helped bring in 390,000 responses. There are still officially more Jedi walking around than there are Pagans, Atheists, Agnostics, Heathens and Scientologists, however.

h/t the New York Daily News

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