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Yesterday’s Answer: What is Frankfurt?
Congratulations: 
Jamie Dimon
Only telegrammed responses will be considered
RELIGION
THE “N” IN THE I.N.R.I. WRITTEN ON THE CHRISTIAN CROSS REFERS TO THIS PLACE
What is … ?
Sup
Wednesday, 20 May, 2015 :: 71
Not-knowing is true knowledge.
Presuming to know is a disease.
First realize that you are sick;
then you can move toward health.
The Master is her own physician.
She has healed herself of all knowing.
Thus she is truly whole.
tao
The current WA Resolution, Repeal "Sexual Privacy Act" has been posted on our off-site forums at:
http://www.runboard.com/bnationstates.f2.t83698
GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION AT VOTE
Repeal "Sexual Privacy Act"
A resolution to repeal previously passed legislation.
Category: Repeal
Resolution: GA#16
Description: WA General Assembly Resolution #16: Sexual Privacy Act (Category: Human Rights; Strength: Significant) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.
Argument: The World Assembly,
Acknowledging that WA Resolution #16, "Sexual Privacy Act", mandates that all member nations legalise incest,
Understanding that children conceived by closely related persons can be in severe danger of inheriting congenital birth defects,
Believing that there is a compelling government interest in restricting incest,
Regretting that such action is illegal under WA law with the Sexual Privacy Act in place,
Resolves the situation by repealing WA Resolution #16, "Sexual Privacy Act".
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GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION # 16
Sexual Privacy Act
A resolution to improve worldwide human and civil rights.
Category: Human Rights
Strength: Significant
Description: The Nations of the World Assembly,
CONVINCED of the need for legal limits to government interference in the private lives of individuals,
RESOLVED to create the adequate conditions for the development of sexual identity and sexual self-determination,
ADOPT the following Resolution:
Article 1 (Object)
(a) This resolution establishes a right to sexual privacy without state intervention.
(b) The provisions contained in this resolution apply to humans.
(c) Each Nation shall make all the necessary adaptations to these provisions in order to grant the same level of sexual privacy protection to any other sentient species there may exist under their jurisdiction, provided that their existence is legally recognized.
Article 2 (Definitions)
(a) Sexual Acts: any acts between two or more individuals which involve stimulation of the sexual organs.
(b) Consenting: giving full agreement by words or behavior with respect to all aspects of the sexual act or acts one is engaging in, while not being in circumstances that significantly impair judgement and seriously affect volition, including but not limited to any forms of coercion, deception, error on the identity of the partner; nor suffering from a severe mental illness.
(c) Age of consent: the age above which the consent given for the purposes of the previous paragraph is valid, being invalid below the said age.
(d) Puberty: the period of development during which physical growth and sexual maturation occurs.
Article 3 (Sexual privacy and its conditions of application)
(a) No Nation shall enact legislation prohibiting, criminalizing or otherwise regulating sexual acts between consenting individuals when practiced in the privacy of the home, or otherwise away from public exposure.
(b) Each Nation can define an age of consent. Should a Nation fail to define an age of consent, the age of majority in use in said Nation shall apply. Should a Nation fail to establish an age of majority, the individual will be considered above the age of consent for the purposes of the previous paragraph if he/she has entered puberty.
(c) All Nations shall enact and enforce legislation deeming unlawful and duly punishing all sexual acts involving or committed against non-consenting or invalidly consenting individuals, without prejudice to any immunities applicable to minors or persons otherwise incompetent for the purposes of criminal responsibility.
(d) The provisions of this article will not be construed to ban the exercise of disciplinary power by independent professional organizations should an individual be unethically involved in sexual acts with a client or with someone otherwise under his/her authority or responsibility. The penalties applied in the context of a disciplinary process may only concern the professional status of the defendant and may not have criminal consequences, except in the cases covered in the previous paragraph. The ethical rules applied for the purposes of this paragraph will make no distinction with respect to gender or sexual orientation of the defendant.
Article 4 (Non-discrimination)
(a) No Nation shall establish an age of consent according to gender of the participating individuals or the nature of the sexual act.
(b) No Nation shall construe the notion of consent in such a way as to summarily deny that capacity to heterosexuals, homosexuals, bisexuals, transsexuals or transgendered individuals.
Votes For: 5,963 (66%)
Votes Against: 3,138 (34%)
Implemented: Thu Sep 18 2008
Originally, Mikeswill voted against the resolution.
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Mikes Hope Essence of Mikeswill
WA Delegate
NationStates Region
Today’s Featured Nation:
Dacedonia
” Caecilius est in horto”
WA Category: Conservative Democracy
Civil Rights: Some
Economy: Fair
Political Freedoms: Superb
Dacedonia's national animal is the Penguin , which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Dacedonia is ranked 281st in NationStates and 69,705th in the world for Longest Average Lifespans, scoring 11 on the Enoch Index.
The Mikes Hope Essence of Mikeswill graciously extends a warm welcome to our newest Nations:
Auralia del espiritu santo
Democratic leonela
Maple kingdom
The southern hills
Patrick rock
The malefic moors
Acorn is
The great plains nation
Galations
Our Esteemed Region continues to attract the Most
Enlightened Nations in the JenGov Land.
MH
Yesterday’s Answer: What is Nazareth?
Congratulations:
Ekens
Socks of All Sorts
Only telegrammed responses will be considered
19TH CENTURY AUTHORS
IN AN ESSAY, HE WROTE “I WOULD RATHER SIT ON A PUMPKIN AND HAVE IT ALL TO MYSELF THAN BE CROWDED ON A VELVET CUSHION”
Who is … ?
Alas Flord
Alas All hail elbow
We hardly knew ye!
3 hours ago: All hail elbow ceased to exist.
3 hours ago: Flord ceased to exist.
You are no longer a newbie, I.e., your population has grown.
If you join the WA, your influence goes with endorsements. Read the region policy on this though.
You can always quit the WOrld Assembly if you want.
Thursday, 21 May, 2015 :: 72
When they lose their sense of awe,
people turn to religion.
When they no longer trust themselves,
they begin to depend upon authority.
Therefore the Master steps back
so that people won't be confused.
He teaches without a teaching,
so that people will have nothing to learn.
tao
ok thank you!
WKNS Radio: 1972 ~
"Oh Girl"
The Chi-Lites
Oh, girl, I'd be in trouble if you left me now
'Cause I don't know where to look for love
I just don't know how
Oh, girl, how I depend on you
To give me love when I need it
Right on time you would always be
All my friends call me a fool
They say, Let the woman take care of you
So I try to be hip and think like the crowd
But even the crowd can't help me now, oh oh oh oh oh oh
Oh, girl, tell me what am I gonna do
I know I've got a guilty face
Girl, I feel so out of place, oh, yeah, yeah
Don't know where to go, who to see, yeah
Oh, girl, I guess I better go
I can save myself a lot of useless tears
Girl, I've gotta get away from here
Oh, girl, pain will double if you leave me now
'Cause I don't know where to look for love
And I don't, I don't know how
Oh, yeah, mmm hmm
Oh, girl, why do I love you so, yeah
Mmm, better be on my way, I can't stay
Have you ever seen such a helpless man?
Oh oh no
stevie
Today’s Featured Nation:
Brandishland
“From One, One!”- President Greed Brandis
WA Category: Inoffensive Centrist Democracy
Civil Rights: Below Average
Economy: Thriving
Political Freedoms: Some
Brandishland's national animal is the Crab, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its national religion is Seekers of the Almighty Dollar.
Brandishland is ranked 473rd in NationStates and 130,733rd in the world for Shortest Average Lifespan, scoring -25 on the Bus Surprisal Index.
Yesterday’s Answer: Who is Henry David Thoreau?
Congratulations: 
Wildflowers
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CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
IN A RECENT BRITISH POLL, THE 1926 BOOK ABOUT THIS TITLE CHARACTER WAS NAMED THE FAVORITE CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE PAST 150 YEARS
What is … ?
thanks fan
Friday, 22 May, 2015 :: 73
The Tao is always at ease.
It overcomes without competing,
answers without speaking a word,
arrives without being summoned,
accomplishes without a plan.
Its net covers the whole universe.
And though its meshes are wide,
it doesn't let a thing slip through.
tao
WKNS Radio: ~
"It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World"
James Brown
This is a man's world
This is a man's world
But it would be nothing, nothing
Without a woman or a girl
[Verse 1:]
You see, man made the car
To take us over the road
Man made the train
To carry the heavy load
Man made the electrolight
To take us out of the dark
Man made the boat for the water
Like Noah made The Ark
This is a man's, man's, man's world
But it would be nothing, nothing
Without a woman or a girl
[Verse 2:]
Man thinks about a little bit of baby girls and a baby boys
Man make them happy
'Cause man make them toys
And after man make everything
Everything he can
You know that man makes money
To buy from other man
This is a man's world
But it would be nothing, nothing
Not one little thing
Without a women or a girl
He's lost in the wilderness
He's lost in bitterness
stevie
Today’s Featured Nation:
Athorious
“Death is the solution to all problems.”
WA Category: Iron Fist Consumerists
Civil Rights: Outlawed
Economy: Strong
Political Freedoms: Outlawed
Athorious's national animal is the Platypus, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to heavy metals seepage into national waterways.
Athorious is ranked 449th in NationStates and 98,947th in the world for Most Rebellious Youth, scoring -4 on the Stark-Dean Displacement Index.
Saturday, 23 May, 2015 :: 74
If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you aren't afraid of dying,
there is nothing you can't achieve.
Trying to control the future
is like trying to take the master carpenter's place.
When you handle the master carpenter's tools,
chances are that you'll cut your hand.
tao
Mikeswill voted for the World Assembly Resolution "Repeal "Sexual Privacy Act"".
Amongst NationStates residents, voting is currently 20-6 (76% For).
MH
WKNS Radio: !
"All Along The Watchtower"
"There must be some kind of way out of here, "
Said the joker to the thief,
"There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief.
Business men – they drink my wine
Plowmen dig my earth
None will level on the line
Nobody of it is worth."
"No reason to get excited, "
The thief – he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I we've been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now
The hour's getting late."
All along the watchtower
Princess kept the view
While all the women came
And went bare-foot servants too
Outside in the cold distance
A wild cat did growl
Two riders were approaching
And the wind began to howl, hey.
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