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Post self-deleted by Landover Baptist Church.

Gratissima wrote:What did I do? It was obvious that that was supposed to be the answer.

Did you read the instructions at all?

I already submitted my answer by telegram, the other guy was the one who typed it up on the message board. It's not like I can remove his post, so what are you mad at me for?

The land between places, The Galactic Supremacy, Landover Baptist Church, and Freedom coalition

Gratissima wrote:What did I do? It was obvious that that was supposed to be the answer.

Repeating the error of another Nation (twice ~ re double post), regardless of the obvious nature of the first nations post, served no purpose other that to clutter the board. I could have deleted the first post but then I would have needed to delete the subsequent two posts. We make mistakes ~ no need to get defensive. See Carol Dweck re Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiiEeMN7vbQ).

The initial clown has been banned for causing the ruckus and then leaving the region without acknowledging his mistake ie. being Rude.

Happy Weekend

Mike

The land between places, The Galactic Supremacy, Freedom coalition, and Zyron

Friday, 12 January, 2018 :: 24

He who stands on tiptoe
doesn't stand firm.
He who rushes ahead
doesn't go far.
He who tries to shine
dims his own light.
He who defines himself
can't know who he really is.
He who has power over others
can't empower himself.
He who clings to his work
will create nothing that endures.

If you want to accord with the Tao,
just do your job, then let go.

Snow breeze and The Galactic Supremacy

Good People Don’t Defend A Bad Man
JANUARY 12, 2018 / JOHN PAVLOVITZ

At times in this life it can be a challenge to figure out who the bad people are, but sometimes they help you.

Sometimes they do the work for you.

Sometimes with their every vulgar, bitter word from their mouth, they testify to their personal malignancy and they make it easy to identify them.

Generally speaking, there are things that good people do and things good people don’t do.

Good people don’t refer to entire countries as “S holes”—most notably countries that have given birth to our very humanity; ones that for hundreds of years have been colonized and poached and mined of their riches by powerful white men; countries whose people have been enslaved and sold and forced to come and build your country.

Good people by any measurement we might use—simply don’t say such things.

Of course good people also don’t say they could grab women by the genitalia, either.
They don’t defend racists and nazis and call them “fine people,” days after murdering a young girl and terrorizing an American city.
They don’t brag about their P size during debates, or suggest protestors at campaign rallies should be roughed up, or crack jokes about captured war heroes, or make fun of the physically disabled.
They don’t.

Good people don’t tweet anti-Muslim rhetoric in the moments immediately following a bombing in order to bolster a position.
They don’t leave American territories filled with brown skinned people without power for months upon months, after publicly ridiculing their public servants and questioning their people’s resolve.
They don’t erase protections for the water and the air, for the elderly, the terminally ill, the LGBTQ.
They don’t take away healthcare from the sick and the poor without an alternative.
They don’t gouge the working poor and shelter the wealthy.
They don’t abuse their unrivaled platform to Twitter-bait world leaders and to taunt private citizens.
Good people don’t prey upon the vulnerable, they don’t leverage their power to bully dissenters, and they don’t campaign for sexual predators.

But this President is simply not a good human being, and there’s simply no way around this truth.

He is the ugliest personification of the Ugly American, which is why, as long as he is here and as long as he represents this nation, we will be a fractured mess and a global embarrassment. He will be the ever lowering bar of our legacy in the world.

And what is painfully obvious in these moments, isn’t simply that the person alleging to lead this country is a terrible human being—it is that anyone left still defending him, applauding him, justifying him, amening him, probably is too.

At this point, the only reason left to support this President, is that he reflects your hateful heart; he shares your contempt of people of color, your hostility toward outsiders, your ignorant bigotry, your feeling of supremacy.

A white President calling countries filled with people of color S holes, is so far beyond the pale, so beneath decency, and so blatantly racist that it shouldn’t merit conversation. It should be universally condemned. Humanity should be in agreement in abhorring it.

And yet today (like so many other seemingly rock bottom days in the past twelve months) they will be out there: white people claiming to be good people and Christian people, who will make excuses for him or debate his motives or diminish the damage.

They will dig their heels in to explain away or to defend, what at the end of the day is simply a bad human being saying the things that bad human beings say because their hearts harbor very bad things.

No, good people don’t call countries filled with beautiful, creative, loving men and women S holes.

And good people don’t defend people who do.

You’re going to have to make a choice here.

Mikeswill, The Galactic Supremacy, Freedom coalition, and Zyron

I have a pot I'd like to stir/get a reasoning with. The current Ozone layer protection. I DO AGREE that the Ozone/related relative to each planet needs protection/attention but the way this resolution is worded is FOR corporations/bloated spending. Particularly with this part:

"1). Requires all member nations to evaluate the potential Ozone-depleting properties of each and every chemical that their industries produce and/or use"

What falls in this range? Fossil fuels? Lets take coal. I USE a metric poop ton spewing fallout. It's in the ground/relatively raw so what do I provide digging up the ground? But I PRODUCE use of clean things/vehicles, so my up side automatically allows 'green technology' so I can avoid this topic enterally by showing ONLY what I produce.

Today’s Featured Nation:
Theisil

” In ourselves we trust”

WA Category: Left-wing Utopia

Civil Rights: Superb
Economy: All-Consuming
Political Freedoms: Superb

Theisil's national animal is the Vampire, which is also the nation's favorite main course.
Theisil is ranked 12,381st in the world and 49th in NationStates for Most Scientifically Advanced, scoring 263.89 on the Kurzweil Singularity Index.

Mikeswill

Landover Baptist Church, Theisil, and Zyron

The Mikes Hope Essence of Mikeswill graciously extends a warm welcome to our newest Nations:

Spoa prae
The 8th scout regiment
Berihessia
Swaburga
Artaeia
Indifrica
Montenaco

Our Esteemed Region continues to attract the Most
Enlightened Nations in the JenGov Land.

MH

Freedom coalition, Zyron, and Montenaco

Saturday, 13 January, 2018 :: 25

There was something formless and perfect
before the universe was born.
It is serene. Empty.
Solitary. Unchanging.
Infinite. Eternally present.
It is the mother of the universe.
For lack of a better name,
I call it the Tao.

It flows through all things,
inside and outside, and returns
to the origin of all things.

The Tao is great.
The universe is great.
Earth is great.
Man is great.
These are the four great powers.

Man follows the earth.
Earth follows the universe.
The universe follows the Tao.
The Tao follows only itself.

Montenaco

Today’s Featured Nation:
Spindra

” A tail of beauty and death”

WA Category: Capitalist Paradise

Civil Rights: Excellent
Economy: Frightening
Political Freedoms: Very Good

Spindra's national animal is the Nine Tails, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation, and its national religion is Chakra.
Spindra is ranked 3,819th in the world and 9th in NationStates for Fattest Citizens, with 28.71 Obesity Rate.

Mikeswill

Spindra, Freedom coalition, Zyron, Kronos republic, and 1 otherMontenaco

Sunday, 14 January, 2018 :: 26

The heavy is the root of the light.
The unmoved is the source of all movement.

Thus the Master travels all day
without leaving home.
However splendid the views,
she stays serenely in herself.

Why should the lord of the country
flit about like a fool?
If you let yourself be blown to and fro,
you lose touch with your root.
If you let restlessness move you,
you lose touch with who you are.

Hi everyone! We're new. Anything I can do to get involved?

Snow breeze, Freedom coalition, and Zyron

Today’s Featured Nation:
The Federal Republic of Macanica

” Raydah 4 Life”

WA Category: Father Knows Best State

Civil Rights: Excellent
Economy: Frightening
Political Freedoms: Outlawed

Macanica's national animal is the Hamster, which teeters on the brink of extinction due to widespread deforestation.
Macanica is ranked 3,924th in the world and 8th in NationStates for Largest Black Market, with 124 trillion Standard Monetary Units.

Mikeswill

Friday’s Answer: What is Egypt?

Congratulations:

Only telegrammed responses will be considered
All responses must be in the form of a question

THE THEATER

IN 1915 THIS PLAY OPENED FOR THE LAST TIME ON BROADWAY, IRONICALLY AT THE BOOTH THEATRE

What is … ?

Freedom coalition, Zyron, and Reed wei wei

The Mikes Hope Essence of Mikeswill graciously extends a warm welcome to our newest Nations:

Nation of qwertyuiopia
Pythnation

Our Esteemed Region continues to attract the Most
Enlightened Nations in the JenGov Land.

MH

Freedom coalition and Zyron

Mikeswill voted for the World Assembly Resolution "Ozone Layer Protection".

Amongst NationStates residents, voting is currently 32 - 4 (89% FOR).

MH

Zyron

WKNS Radio: Remembering ~
Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan (6 September 1971 – 15 January 2018)

"Linger"
The Cranberries

If you, if you could return, don't let it burn, don't let it fade.

I'm sure I'm not being rude, but it's just your attitude,
It's tearing me apart, It's ruining everything.

I swore, I swore I would be true, and honey, so did you.
So why were you holding her hand? Is that the way we stand?
Were you lying all the time? Was it just a game to you?

But I'm in so deep. You know I'm such a fool for you.
You got me wrapped around your finger, ah, ha, ha.
Do you have to let it linger? Do you have to, do you have to,
Do you have to let it linger?

Oh, I thought the world of you.
I thought nothing could go wrong,
But I was wrong. I was wrong.
If you, if you could get by, trying not to lie,
Things wouldn't be so confused and I wouldn't feel so used,
But you always really knew, I just wanna be with you.

But I'm in so deep. You know I'm such a fool for you.
You got me wrapped around your finger, ah, ha, ha.
Do you have to let it linger? Do you have to, do you have to,
Do you have to let it linger?

And I'm in so deep. You know I'm such a fool for you.
You got me wrapped around your finger, ah, ha, ha.
Do you have to let it linger? Do you have to, do you have to,
Do you have to let it linger?

You know I'm such a fool for you.
You got me wrapped around your finger, ah, ha, ha.
Do you have to let it linger? Do you have to, do you have to,
Do you have to let it linger?

The land between places

I Have A Dream
In Memory of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)
August 28, 1963
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. So we have come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. So we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quick sands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. They have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. We cannot walk alone.

As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied, as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the Negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating "For Whites Only". We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.

This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."

And if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!

Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!

But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

Catifornia, The Galactic Supremacy, Roavin IV, Freedom coalition, and 2 othersZyron, and Wolliz

Freedom coalition

Good mornin' everybody.

Today’s Featured Nation:
The Empire of Awellan

” Awellan forever”

WA Category: Psychotic Dictatorship

Civil Rights: Unheard Of
Economy: Weak
Political Freedoms: Outlawed

Awellan's national animal is the panther.
Awellan is ranked 2,920th in the world and 4th in NationStates for Most Authoritarian, with 6.76 Stalins

Mikeswill

Catifornia and Freedom coalition

The Mikes Hope Essence of Mikeswill graciously extends a warm welcome to our newest Nations:

Carlawa
Glimmerhelm
Duluth liberals
Rockasite
Chortion

Our Esteemed Region continues to attract the Most
Enlightened Nations in the JenGov Land.

MH

Freedom coalition, Zyron, and Disco kittens incorporated

Yesterday’s Answer: What is “Our American Cousin”?

Congratulations:
The Holy Empire of Landover Baptist Church
Zyron

Only telegrammed responses will be considered
All responses must be in the form of a question

NOVELS OF THE 1960S

THE LINE "ONCE WHEN YOU ARE BORN & ONCE WHEN YOU LOOK DEATH IN THE FACE" FOLLOWS THIS TITLE OF A 1964 NOVEL & AN ACTION-PACKED 1967 FILM

What is … ?

Freedom coalition and Zyron

Um Hey guys! I'm really new to this like I just joined today so any kind of help will be appreciated!

The Galactic Supremacy and Freedom coalition

Eccleshall wrote:Hi everyone! We're new. Anything I can do to get involved?

Reed wei wei wrote:Um Hey guys! I'm really new to this like I just joined today so any kind of help will be appreciated!

Like, try hanging around a bit more before leaving to another Region moments after your lone post :D

The Galactic Supremacy, Freedom coalition, Zyron, and Disco kittens incorporated

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