‘Build a Death Star’ petition clears threshold for Obama response

[mercury14]

Using the same process as the recent state succession people.... It's not from The Onion, I checked.

‘Build a Death Star’ petition clears threshold for Obama response
By Olivier Knox, Yahoo! News | The Ticket – 3 hrs ago

Disney CEO Robert Iger, left, and It is a period of civil war. Rebel pranksters, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the forces of Taking White House Petitions Too Seriously. Specifically: They have secured the 25,000 signatures necessary to get a formal response from the White House to their call for America to build a DEATH STAR.

"Those who sign here petition the United States government to secure funding and resources, and begin construction on a Death Star by 2016," the petition reads.

"By focusing our defense resources into a space-superiority platform and weapon system such as a Death Star, the government can spur job creation in the fields of construction, engineering, space exploration, and more, and strengthen our national defense."

Some estimates put the cost of doing so at around $852 quadrillion, roughly 13,000 times the gross domestic product of the entire Earth—even when factoring in the savings of not putting any guardrails around any of the facility's seemingly endless number of bridges, spans, shafts and pits. And history cautions against being too proud of the technological terror thus constructed, because the ability to destroy a planet, or even a whole system, is insignificant next to the power of the Force.

Crossing the 25,000-signature threshold—right before the Dec. 14 deadline—doesn't actually guarantee a response. The White House has made clear that it will pick and choose which petitions will get an answer. We may have to rely on the Bothans.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/...shold-obama-response-185314096--politics.html

 

[ryan8558]

I want to know who (or is it whom) they would use it against. So far the only planet known with semi-intelligent life is this one. So they want to build the Death Star to destroy this planet?

 

[mercury14]

I want to know who (or is it whom) they would use it against. So far the only planet known with semi-intelligent life is this one. So they want to build the Death Star to destroy this planet?

It's all about the job creation, bro.

 

[TonyClifton]

We already did that in the movie "Spaceballs"

 

[LadyVer]

So, is this a tea party thing?

 

[RjThoughts]

Darth Mickey is for it!

 

[LadyVer]

Darth Mickey is for it!

LOL ...

 

[RjThoughts]

LOL ...

[high pitched tone] Ha Ha
[/high picched tone]

 

[LadyVer]

[high pitched tone] Ha Ha
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? Are you saying you have a pair of boobs, not balls?

 

[RjThoughts]

? Are you saying you have a pair of boobs, not balls?

Darth Mickey's laugh, silly

 

[LadyVer]

Darth Mickey's laugh, silly

Sorry.

 

[RjThoughts]

Sorry.

LOL it's okay

 

[LadyVer]

LOL it's okay

ok. It's hard to keep track of who is what around here...