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New proclamation - what should be in it?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    Abortions for some, miniature American flags for others!


    Yay!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,679 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/taoiseach-reveals-government-to-draft-new-proclamation-for-1916-commemorations-31108094.html

    The leader Enda is to have the government draft a new proclamation for 2016.

    Not before time in my opinion. We can get rid of the old communist and pie in the sky guff in the old one.

    So what should be in it?

    Yes, why have anything aspirational in it.
    Irishmen and Irishwomen,

    Shut up. Everything's grand.

    Signed
    Inda


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,697 ✭✭✭elefant


    iDave wrote: »
    Boooooo
    iDave wrote: »
    Booooo

    Are you saying Boo? Or Boo-urns?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭uch


    New proclamation - what should be in it?


    Your Friday night one & one from Burdocks

    22/25



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭iDave


    elefant wrote: »
    Are you saying Boo? Or Boo-urns?

    Boooooooooooooooo


    *Throws missiles*


  • Subscribers Posts: 32,937 ✭✭✭✭5starpool


    It's about 60/40 against the British. The Protestant church's did a lot of ham as well.

    That'd be a great marketing tool for them.

    I'd convert from "Technically catholic but don't believe in God" to "Technically Protestant but don't believe in God" for plenty of ham and other pig related products.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,679 ✭✭✭Crooked Jack


    Abortions for all
    iDave wrote: »
    Boooooo
    Abortions for none?
    iDave wrote: »
    Booooo

    Compromise. Have the baby and then fling it off a bridge. Everyone's happy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,546 ✭✭✭Mike Guide 69


    A reading from the gospel of St Enda for the Proclamation 2016

    "Troika, Troika everywhere, not a Euro to spend"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,649 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost




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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭DarkyHughes


    http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/taoiseach-reveals-government-to-draft-new-proclamation-for-1916-commemorations-31108094.html

    The leader Enda is to have the government draft a new proclamation for 2016.

    Not before time in my opinion. We can get rid of the old communist and pie in the sky guff in the old one.

    So what should be in it?

    Is that a joke or are you really that clueless? If it's the former the "communism" you are thinking of (Marxism-Leninism) wasn't even a theory never mind have been put into practice.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,744 ✭✭✭diomed


    I hope he mentions Rockall in it. I think they forgot that the first time.
    And point out that we own all the fish.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Abortions for all

    and what of miniature flags?


    EDIT. Curses, too slow.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    elefant wrote: »
    Are you saying Boo? Or Boo-urns?

    I was saying Booooooourns.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭feargale


    Remove the silly preamble from the Constitution. That kind of pietism has no place in a statement of law. It has in the past presented problems of ambiguity to those charged with interpreting the Constitution.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 718 ✭✭✭stmol32



    Not before time in my opinion. We can get rid of the old communist and pie in the sky guff in the old one.

    Just curious, which bits of the original don't you like?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Akrasia wrote: »
    We should proclaim our independence from the RC church and remove all references to the 'special relationship' from our constitution
    ..................

    This was done by referendum in the 1970's.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,664 ✭✭✭sid waddell


    The draft text of the new 2016 Proclamation has been announced.

    EACNAMAÍOCHT NA hÉIREANN
    THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT
    OF IRELAND INC.™

    TO THE PEOPLE OF IRELAND INC.™


    IRISHMEN AND IRISHWOMEN: In the name of the God of Money and of the multi-national corporations which she serves, and of the dead banks through which she receives her old tradition of cronyism, Ireland Inc.™, through us, summons her children to her brand and renounces her freedom.

    Having organised and trained her worker bees through her corporate media, under the command of Denis O'Brien, and pro-business organisations, the Irish Business Employers' Confederation and the Irish Banking Federation, having patiently perfected her discipline, having resolutely waited for the right moment to reveal itself, she now seizes that moment, buoyed by the absence of her exiled children in America, Australia, Britain and elsewhere, and supported by gallant allies in the EU, but relying in the first on her own weakness, she strikes in full confidence of victory.

    We declare the right of secondary bondholders, of the wider financial industry, of the government of Germany, and of US multi-national corporations to the ownership of Ireland Inc.™ and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible. The long usurpation of that right by a native people, but not governments, has not extinguished the right, nor can it ever be extinguished except by the destruction of the Ireland Inc.™ In every generation the Irish people have asserted their right to national freedom and sovereignty; eight times during the past four hundred years they have asserted it in arms. Standing on that fundamental right and usurping it via economic forecasts by discredited economists in the face of the world, we hereby proclaim the Ireland Inc.™ as a Vassal State, and we pledge our lives and the lives of our cronies in banks to the cause of its occupation, of the destruction of what little is left of its social welfare, and of its exaltation among free market economies.

    Ireland Inc.™ is entitled to, and hereby claims, the allegiance of every Irishman and Irishwoman. Ireland Inc.™ guarantees a clampdown on civil liberty, the right of all its young people to work for minimum wage or preferably for free, equal rights and equal opportunities to all its banks, and declares its resolve to pursue the happiness and prosperity of the whole of the business community and of all its parts, cherishing all of the children of its crony friends equally, and oblivious of the flimsy rules carefully written by a compliant Financial Regulator, which has deliberately and effectively alienated the majority from the minority in the past.

    Until our links to business have been strengthened sufficiently for the opportune moment for the establishment of a permanent Occupational Government, representative of the whole of the financial industry and wider business community and elected by nobody, the Provisional Government, hereby constituted, will administer the civil and military affairs of Ireland Inc.™ in trust for business.

    We place the cause of Ireland Inc.™ under the protection of the Most High God of Money, whose blessing we invoke upon our suits, and we pray that no one who serves that cause will dishonour it by bravery, humanity, or protest. In this supreme hour Ireland Inc.™, by its valour and discipline, and by the readiness of its children to sacrifice themselves for the good of business, prove itself worthy of the august destiny to which it is called.

    Signed on behalf of the Provisional Government:

    ENDA KENNY
    MICHAEL NOONAN JOAN BURTON
    A.D. MERKEL EAMONN GILMORE
    PHILIP HOGAN LORD BRUTON OF BOYNESIDE


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 599 ✭✭✭curioser


    Variations on the following -
    You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head.
    You don't like your job, you don't strike. You go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way.
    If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls' sports, such as hot oil wrestling and foxy boxing and such and such.
    The problem in the world today is communication. Too much communication.
    You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
    Hey, just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand!
    You don't win friends with salad.
    You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on.
    Trying is the first step towards failure.
    Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals! Except the weasel.
    the three sentences that will get you through life. Number one, "Cover for me." Number two, "Oh, good idea, boss." Number three, "It was like that when I got here.
    you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try.
    Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.

    Honestly, when will everybody ever learn that whatever you want to provide for is covered in The Simpsons?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    Just a query - do the signatories of this one get taken out and shot?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 599 ✭✭✭curioser


    Nodin wrote: »
    Just a query - do the signatories of this one get taken out and shot?
    Hopefully!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭Un Croissant


    I, like totally, like think we should like proclaim ourselves the newest state in the USA, like*

    *this like must sound like a question


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭evolving_doors


    Chri5t here we go again,

    anyone remember Messiah II ?

    Exactly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,711 ✭✭✭stimpson


    FISMA wrote: »
    A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

    Why the **** would we want to keep bear arms? Let the bears keep their arms.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,794 ✭✭✭Aongus Von Bismarck


    The freedom for neckbeards and oddballs to post scutter on the comments section of The Journal and Boards.ie about atheism and socialism is an indelible right.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭Un Croissant


    The freedom for neckbeards and oddballs to post scutter on the comments section of The Journal and Boards.ie about atheism and socialism is an indelible right.

    You are a fan of atheism and socialism but take issue with the quality of their comments, or....?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 46,938 ✭✭✭✭Nodin


    The freedom for neckbeards and oddballs to post scutter on the comments section of The Journal and Boards.ie about atheism and socialism is an indelible right.

    Well, we can't leave a few of yez out -

    "Being permanently angry at people who exist only in your head is an inalienable right of every Irishman"


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭DarkyHughes


    stmol32 wrote: »
    Just curious, which bits of the original don't you like?

    And what part of it was "communist" ?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,393 ✭✭✭DarkyHughes


    As a Republican I'm starting to wish I lived in the North.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,992 ✭✭✭Mongfinder General


    As a Republican I'm starting to wish I lived in the North.

    Arbeit macht frei


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