Happy Star Wars Day

Filed in National by on May 4, 2009

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Today is indeed Star Wars Day.Ā  May your hyperdrive never malfuntion.

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  1. jason330 says:
    May 4, 2009 at 2:32 pm

    I’m sure the 70,000 Australian members of the Jedi order, the 53,000 New Zealand Jedi , and the 390,127 Jedi adherents in England and Whales are going to be partying tonight.

  2. jason330 says:
    May 4, 2009 at 2:41 pm

    In Scotland 14,052 people stated that Jedi was their current religion 14 of those said “Sith.”

    2,733 stated that it was they were raised in the Jedi religion with 15 saying that there were brought up in “The Dark Side.”

    That means there is 1 Scottish “Sith” that changed over. That’s a story I’d like to hear.

  3. skippertee says:
    May 4, 2009 at 3:01 pm

    Star Wars MY ASS!Yesterday was the 39th anniversery of KENT STATE. 4 DEAD in OHIO.There wasn’t shit covering this grim date anywhere!We on the left should be ashamed.On Alison Krause’s tombstone:Flowers are better than Bullets. Or light-sabers.

  4. jason330 says:
    May 4, 2009 at 3:08 pm

    On top of everything, I still have to be mad about Kent State to be a good liberal?

    Criminey.

  5. liberalgeek says:
    May 4, 2009 at 3:29 pm

    Skipper… I was 1 month old. It’s not that it isn’t important, but jeez. In 1970, were they commemorating any 39th anniversaries for things that happened in 1931?

  6. skippertee says:
    May 4, 2009 at 4:00 pm

    Are you kidding me?5/4/ 70 was the day when unarmed college students,protesting an unjust war,stood up and QUESTIONED AUTHORITY. The answer was a HAIL OF BULLETS that KILLED 4 and wounded many more.If you two can’t understand the historic signifigance of a government killing it’s own children,I pity you.

  7. jason330 says:
    May 4, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    I was busy remembering the Flint sit-down strike massacre of 1937.

  8. liberalgeek says:
    May 4, 2009 at 4:08 pm

    We get it. Do you get that we have had 7 Presidents since then? That we have sent 3 non-overlapping groups of school children through 12 years of school in the intervening years (and the next group is in 3rd grade)?

    Even in the newspapers in Ohio on May 5th, 1970 still ran the funnies.

  9. skippertee says:
    May 4, 2009 at 4:23 pm

    It’s hard to reason with two obvious TREKKIES. They’re wetting their diapers waiting for the next movie.Spock would understand.

  10. liberalgeek says:
    May 4, 2009 at 4:31 pm

    Ummm. If you remember Kent State so vividly, you are more likely to be a trekkie. This post was about Star Wars.

    And if you think you pissed Jason and I off with the misplaced Kent State anger, you haven’t seen Internet geek wrath like the Star Wars/Star Trek can of whoop-ass you just opened!

  11. Delaware Dem says:
    May 4, 2009 at 4:33 pm

    Whoa boy.

  12. Mark H says:
    May 4, 2009 at 4:33 pm

    “Iā€™m sure the 70,000 Australian members of the Jedi order, the 53,000 New Zealand Jedi , and the 390,127 Jedi adherents in England and Whales are going to be partying tonight.”

    Any excuse for a party šŸ™‚

  13. G Rex says:
    May 4, 2009 at 4:39 pm

    Actually, today is the 90th anniversary of the May 4th Movement in China – a popular uprising against the warlord government over the Treaty of Versailles, which allowed the European colonial powers to keep their “treaty” ports, and awarded Germany’s holding (Shandong) to the Japanese. In the end, the Chinese delegation refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles. Both the Nationalist and Communist parties of China claim this movement as their origin, and claimed Sun Yat-sen as their founding father.

    (Far more significant than a mob of hippies trying to burn down the ROTC building and throwing rocks and bottles at the weekend warriors who wouldn’t let them.)

  14. liberalgeek says:
    May 4, 2009 at 4:40 pm

    See? DD is ready to round you up already. There are some angry Star Wars fans out there that are just looking for someone to suggest that Kirk was on Dagobah. I can no longer protect you from those people. šŸ™‚

  15. cassandra m says:
    May 4, 2009 at 4:53 pm

    Well, while we’re at it, we failed to commemorate Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday too.

    Killer lineup for a party, too.

  16. skippertee says:
    May 4, 2009 at 5:13 pm

    I gladly admit my confusion ala StarTrek/StarWars.I don’t go to the movies much anymore.I did watch the original Star Trek on TV and liked that.
    G Rex-The ROTC burnt down before those hippies you so casually dismiss as insignificant were murdered by the National Guard troops.And I’m much more interested in American history than Chinese.You should be too unless you’re a dirty,stinking fucking commie or a fellow traveler,cheesedick.

  17. G Rex says:
    May 4, 2009 at 7:37 pm

    Skipper, you’re obviously a commie yourself, so I thought you’d appreciate that historical note about your party’s history. And I know one of the guardsmen who was attacked at Kent State – don’t bother asking which one, since they all swore never to talk about it publicly. There might be some deathbed confessions in the next few years, though…

  18. skippertee says:
    May 4, 2009 at 9:03 pm

    I’ll admit to some Socialist proclivities but communist? NEVER! Actually I helped,as a small cog in a very large machine,to kill them.Never regretted that either.

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