Did I miss something? Did I wake up and find that the recession is over and we are back to being a buoyant little country again?
Has this government worked so hard over the last year, that all our unemployment, fiscal and many other problems have been solved.
Have our government got everything so up to date that they no longer have to discuss:
State Finances
Unemployment issues
Pensioners Tax Liabilities
Household and Water charges
Etc, etc, etc...
These and many more issues that have dogged out little country for the past couple of years must have all been solved. Because, yesterday in the Dail, the hot topic for discussion was the 'Jedi' religion.
One prominent TD who will remain nameless, (Eoghan Murphy, you know who you are), wanted to know how many Jedi Knights we have in Ireland. And if we had enough Jedi Knights, would it be possible to have 'Jedi' officially as a religion in Ireland.
The Central Statistics office are looking into it at the moment. And they have assured the esteemed TD that they will send him on the figures from the latest Census. (Apparently the official line is that 'Jedi' would be accepted as a religion, as the box on the census to be filled in for religion, is 'self declaration' so it's immaterial if the religion exists or not) I'm very glad to see that our Central Statistics office are up to date with their work too.
I'm not sure it would be a good idea to have Jedi as a religion in Ireland. Imagine if Darth Vader succeeded in taking over leadership of the Jedi Knights (as he has tried to on several occasions), we would then be back to having the leader of a religious order with a poor record when it comes to children and child abuse....
I thought I better get some feedback on this so I asked one of the more prominent Star Wars characters for a comment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt1DYifbZ0s&feature=related
I think he was agreeing with me, but Google Translate doesn't do 'Wookie' so I am not quite sure about that either...
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