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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Links:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Citizenship_Act
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965
No, because they're not within the borders. I don't think you realize that reservations are their own "nation", where they aren't bound by U.S laws, most notably they can use peyote.
Happy now?
*Rubs Tummy*
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
[B]IT LOOKS WRONG NOW[/B]
Get over it
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Only if we cuddle.
Finally somebody said it, I was too afraid ;(
*Gibs Rub* Were you a good Feline-God today too?
Good job! You're on your way to a socialist Paradise!
In America? Baby baby, you're only half right, the Rich here are the only ones that can vote easily, but its the poor that get taxed the most :3
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
https://www.quora.com/Can-Native-Americans-living-on-reservations-vote-in-federal-elections
PARLIAMENT NEWS
A new bill is ready for debate by Sulania. Details on the forums.
Penguania And Antarctica
HUSH. THE PEOPLE AND FOUNDER CAT HAVE SPOKEN
Jaslandia, Friedensreich, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica
Westeros' tax rate is 66.6%
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVSRm80WzZk
I brought the magical reign of cookies to the people of Westeros, and then ate all of them. I deserve moar belly rubs!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I would gladly help with that, but I don't think you like the feeling of my buffers, so... *Driver grunts, then gets out of Percy's cab and starts giving Magical Space Cat Founder a belly rub*
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
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Peoples Liberation Republic, Percyton
Again, then can vote just not on the reservation. The great thing about the constitution is that it's a living document.
Obviously not. It took a law, not an amendment, to grant Native Americans citizenship. It took a law, not an amendment, to grant equal voting rights. It took a law, not an amendment, to give Native Americans the right to vote.
I gib belly rub, but no Pudding Cup!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
So as to get the Confederate Papers up to date, I'm going to venture and update them to the best of my abilities as Minister of Internal Affairs.
Vista Major, Kalaron, Percyton
Man, do you want to D I E ?
Jaslandia
Uh, yeah. That's because there didn't need to be an amendment.
*Sweats nervously* I gib two Pudding Cups!
Jaslandia, Percyton
That moment when you fully update the Government factbook, and you realize 6 out of the 9 total government officials listed are members of the DLP.
Jaslandia, Oelesa
Independent FTW!
Jaslandia, Friedensreich
We are the Democratic Liberty Party. Lower your barriers and allow us to board. Your sociological and political distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile.
Jaslandia
Honestly better than the two parties in the regional government tbh
Auxorii
I have no qualms with the region's political parties or anyone in them. Just not sure what purpose they serve, but as an outsider looking in I'm sure there's more coordination and strategy going on behind the scenes than I'm aware of.
And if they're mobilizing themselves to spur support for certain candidates, legislation, or policies, I don't begrudge them at all. It's what parties do.
Friedensreich, Oelesa
Amen
Bless you, sweet child
Jaslandia
I think I'd prefer it if parties weren't in the region, tbh, but that's probably due to just my general distaste for partisanship.
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Vista Major, Oelesa
I've done some thinking and I think that racists are bad
Vista Major, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
"37 minutes ago: The silver bloods ceased to exist."
RIP Silver. We've been through a lot of ups and down with you, but at the end of the day, you still founded the first NGA that got this whole community started. We wouldn't be here without you.
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
KalaSulCatPapaCont confirmed; hot orgy imminent
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica
Good for you. A little over 70 years late at least, but, better late than never
We should have a holiday
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton
If by 'holiday' you mean 'day of remembrance/mourning', then yes, that would be a good idea.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Little River Band have some great songs man
Jaslandia, Auxorii
PARLIAMENT UPDATE
One bill is up for vote and a new bill by ContCom is up for debate, as well as Vista's amendment and Sul's bill. Don't forget the live discord debates that will be recorded by Kalaron.
Jaslandia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica
I'm back to it, Baby!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Percyton
I'm hoping a lot of people missed the live sessions and we aren't the only ones to show up lol.
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Nah, I know a lot of people have missed at least talking in the VC and I feel that the sudden death that happened to the Live sessions was really the cause of that. I figure we'll get a pretty good turnout :D
Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica
I missed them greatly
Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
[spoiler=Today is July 24 and today are:]
Today is July 24 and today are:
- Children's Day (Vanuatu)
- National Amelia Earhart Day (United States)
- National Cousins Day (United States)
- National Drive-Thru Day (United States)
- National Tequila Day (United States)
- National Thermal Engineer Day (United States)
- Navy Day (Venezuela)
- Pioneer Day (Utah, United States)
- Police Day (Poland)
- Simón Bolívar Day (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela)
- Tell An Old Joke Day
- The Restoration of Democracy (Greece)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 1132 Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily.
- 1148 Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade.
- 1304 Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle: King Edward I of England takes the stronghold using the War Wolf.
- 1411 Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place.
- 1487 Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against a ban on foreign beer.
- 1534 French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France.
- 1567 Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and replaced by her 1-year-old son James VI.
- 1701 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit.
- 1783 The Kingdom of Georgia and the Russian Empire sign the Treaty of Georgievsk.
- 1814 War of 1812: General Phineas Riall advances toward the Niagara River to halt Jacob Brown's American invaders.
- 1823 Slavery is abolished in Chile.
- 1823 In Maracaibo, Venezuela the naval Battle of Lake Maracaibo takes place, where Admiral José Prudencio Padilla, defeats the Spanish Navy, thus culminating the independence for the Gran Colombia.
- 1847 After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.
- 1847 - Richard March Hoe, American inventor, patented the rotary-type printing press.
- 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Kernstown: Confederate General Jubal Early defeats Union troops led by General George Crook in an effort to keep them out of the Shenandoah Valley.
- 1866 Reconstruction: Tennessee becomes the first U.S. state to be readmitted to the Union following the American Civil War.
- 1901 O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
- 1910 The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
- 1911 Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
- 1915 The passenger ship S.S. Eastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
- 1922 The draft of the British Mandate of Palestine was formally confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations; it came into effect on 26 September 1923.
- 1923 The Treaty of Lausanne, settling the boundaries of modern Turkey, is signed in Switzerland by Greece, Bulgaria and other countries that fought in World War I.
- 1924 Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
- 1927 The Menin Gate war memorial is unveiled at Ypres.
- 1929 The KelloggBriand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect (it is first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers).
- 1935 The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109 °F (43 °C) in Chicago and 104 °F (40 °C) in Milwaukee.
- 1937 Alabama drops rape charges against the "Scottsboro Boys".
- 1943 World War II: Operation Gomorrah begins: British and Canadian aeroplanes bomb Hamburg by night, and American planes by day. By the end of the operation in November, 9,000 tons of explosives will have killed more than 30,000 people and destroyed 280,000 buildings.
- 1950 Cape Canaveral Air Force Station begins operations with the launch of a Bumper rocket.
- 1959 At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev have a "Kitchen Debate".
- 1963 The ship Bluenose II was launched in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. The schooner is a major Canadian symbol.
- 1966 Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
- 1967 During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! ("Long live free Quebec!"); the statement angered the Canadian government and many Anglophone Canadians.
- 1969 Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
- 1974 Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
- 1977 End of a four-day-long LibyanEgyptian War.
- 1980 The Quietly Confident Quartet of Australia wins the Men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay at the Moscow Olympics, the only time the United States has not won the event at Olympic level.
- 1982 Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
- 1983 The Black July anti-Tamil riots begin in Sri Lanka, killing between 400 and 3,000. Black July is generally regarded as the beginning of the Sri Lankan Civil War.
- 1983 George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident".
- 1987 - Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Hulda became the oldest person to climb Japans highest peak.
- 1998 Russell Eugene Weston, Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial.
- 2001 Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the last Tsar of Bulgaria when he was a child, is sworn in as Prime Minister of Bulgaria, becoming the first monarch in history to regain political power through democratic election to a different office.
- 2001 Bandaranaike Airport attack is carried out by 14 Tamil Tiger commandos, all died in this attack. They destroyed 11 Aircraft (mostly military) and damaged 15, there are no civilian casualties. This incident slowed down Sri Lankan economy.
- 2011 Digital switchover is completed in 44 of the 47 prefectures of Japan, with Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima television stations terminating analog broadcasting operations later as a result of the Tōhoku earthquake.
- 2013 A high-speed train derails in Spain rounding a curve with an 80 km/h (50 mph) speed limit at 190 km/h (120 mph), killing 78 passengers.
- 2014 Air Algérie Flight 5017 loses contact with air traffic controllers 50 minutes after takeoff. It was travelling between Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso and Algiers with 116 people on board. The wreckage is later found in Mali.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1783 Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan commander and politician, 2nd President of Venezuela
- 1802 Alexandre Dumas, French novelist and playwright
- 1847 Margarete Steiff, German seamstress making toy stuffed animals, founded Margarete Steiff GmbH
- 1857 Henrik Pontoppidan, Danish journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1864 Frank Wedekind, German actor and playwright
- 1897 Amelia Earhart, American pilot and author
- 1900 Zelda Fitzgerald, American author and poet
- 1963 Karl Malone, American basketball player and coach
- 1969 Jennifer Lopez, American actress, singer, and dancer
- 1982 Anna Paquin, Canadian-New Zealand actress
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Quote of the day
Lifes tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
- Benjamin Franklin -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Oelesa, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona, Percyton
My poor's income keeps going down but my taxes keep going up.....:(
Peoples Liberation Republic, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Funny, I keep taxing less and less and my equality has actually balanced out
Nuremgard
Hey, the Vatican City bounced back - any ideas for the next poll? I was thinking major unrecognised states (there may be too many) or maybe something historical like favourite Warsaw Pact country?
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, United Continental States
"Violations would be punishable by a civil penalty that could reach $250,000 and a maximum criminal penalty of $1 million and 20 years in prison."
It's cute that people still think we actually use the 1st Amendment. Don't they realize the 1st Amendment and 14th Amendment became a thing of the past during the Bush Jr. years?
What about favourite historical empire or monarch?
So many options, not really possible - I'd have to list every empire and monarch to have existed
And don't forget about the 4th Amendment too!
Friedensreich
Not really. Just really great or significant ones.
German Empire or no Empire
Nuremgard, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhqxEOoRxfI
How do you decide major ones? You'd still have at least 30 great monarchs and if not more great empires, unless we limit ourselves to dominant European powers.
How about 2 European empires, 2 Middle Eastern empires and 2 far Far Eastern ones?
Eeeeeh, it would mean selecting only two of each and that in itself would be my own bias infringing on the result - it'd be fine to do one poll for each area.
Well whatever you want. Was just brainstorming.
Yukona
Favorite Star Wars planet
Russkov Soviet, Sulania, Penguania And Antarctica
Favourite Star Trek captain
Russkov Soviet, Vista Major, Kalaron
Favourite Game of Thrones House.
Russkov Soviet, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
hello
Vista Major, Andromitus, Yukona, Percyton, United Continental States
Stark always man
Nuremgard, Vista Major
Favourite Kalaronian Military design ;p
Nah, I'm just kiddin'.
Favorite Star Trek "Empire" including the Federation.
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
I second that :)
Kalaron
A Lannister always pays his debts
Hola!
Targaryen for me. Fire & Blood!
I thought that someone like you would support deficit spending.
Vista Major
Only a handful of nations run surpluses. Having a deficit is normal for a country and can even be beneficial.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntharvey/2012/07/18/why-you-should-love-government-deficits/#27c120e1570a
Jaslandia, Vista Major
Hey, Yuk. What's with the picture of Charles I?
Jaslandia
Iron From Ice 4 Life
Nuremgard, Kalaron
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GD6qtc2_AQA/maxresdefault.jpg
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
They sucked. Sorry but they did. They are doomed to failure because we know how the story turns out thus far.
Targaryen
Nuremgard
All hail Daenerys Targaryen, First of Her Name, Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm!
Vista Major
https://media.tenor.com/images/e1c2695cc52dd118b537676b347a1c13/tenor.gif
Oh, you poor, unfortunate soul
heil
What makes me so unfortunate?
My girlfriend loves that band.
Jaslandia, Yukona
Him and his son are my two favourite kings
Debate and vote...Debate and Vote....Debate and Vote
Click Parliament on the WFE.
Vista Major, Andromitus
I'm sorry, I'm currently abroad and I can't VC in the slightest :3
Hey there sleepy head, how've you been?
Jaslandia, Percyton
Why?
You can type.
3:30pm EST for Sul's bill. 4:30pm EST for Vista's
Vista Major, United Continental States
Have you tried capitalism️
Jaslandia
Nuremgard is capitalist.
You aren't capitalisming right, your income tax is almost 90%, try 5%
Jaslandia, Auxorii, United Continental States
No. Cutting taxes and taking pro-market decisions decreases the poor's income.
I like his history, I think he looks cool, I think he's better than Cromwell.
Jaslandia
Mine was 60% and I've gotten it down to 38%.
...
Fair enough. I have a history book about Scottish kings and it goes right up to the Act of Union so it talked about Charles and his son. Interesting history. Charles II didn't like the Scots or Scotland because they handed his father over to Cromwell. And Charles II was mistreated by Scots during his exile up here.
Jaslandia
That's what happens in NS.
I know. Charles II is my favourite but his dad looks cooler, to be honest. He was more tolerant, loved to have a good time and was just - what I imagine - a lovely chap. I'm a strong Jacobite, anyway.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Same here. I'm a total Jacobite. Wish James VII had beat back William of Orange.
Auxorii, Yukona
Mmm
Was the establishment of a Foreign Affairs Council legitimized through a constitution interpretation granting the government the creation of it, or at least passed through a vote?
The United Providences Of Perland
I'd have supported all the Jacobite claimants. As far as I'm concerned, the Dutchman and the Germans thereafter were foreign usurpers.
Yep, sad times. Personally I believe the Stuarts to be the rightful holders of the British throne - it would have also stopped a lot of problems we have nowadays.
Nuremgard
The Stuarts are seen as incompetent tyrants but they were advocates of religious freedom. Plus, Bonnie Prince Charlie said he would dissolve the Union. I personally believe this to be a lie. He only said it to shore up more Scottish support and the Union was still fresh and hated in the minds of many Scots. He would have changed his tune had he reclaimed the throne. The Stuarts had wanted Union since James VI.
Yukona
True, obviously that makes me not love him any less.
Naturally. Despite them being unionists at heart, I would have still supported the Stuarts because they were a Scottish dynasty, they claimed both thrones legitimately through James VI, they were for religious toleration and they were (at least in James VII and his heirs' case) Catholics. Plus, they were for the divine right of kings and even though I am all for democracy and republicanism and such, divine right of kings is just cool lol. Absolute monarchs get things done faster than squabbling parliaments.
Yukona
I'm so glad my area and local castle was a cavalier stronghold. Such a shame they ruined Sherborne and Corfe, two amazing stories. Fairfax was just too good for us, I'm glad he saw through Cromwell.
Nuremgard
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