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So, I came here representing another region? I do not want to become a citizen. Where should I go?

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That answers most of my immediate questions. What if I have any more?


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Embassy Act (2012); Canada's #MooseProblems
Topic Started: Aug 4 2014, 10:02 PM (476 Views)
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Aug 5 2014, 01:05 AM
Not to mention that some of the reason why CSP has acted like this and will continue to act like this is that there really aren't many if any people who can do the GA job besides him
Just so we're all clear that's not why I answered Zenny's questions the way I did.

I felt that all three initial questions were frivolous. They weren't going to have any bearing on my confirmation regardless of how I answered them because they were asked for the sake of asking, not to determine anything at all. I consider someone arbitrarily wasting my time to be rude and I responded in kind.

Further, I'm not required to answer questions at all. I don't answer to the Senate. They vote to confirm or deny my nomination to my post and I believe they can remove me if they so wish. That's it. I don't owe Zenny or any other Senator any particular quality of answer. I answer to the President and I do what he directs or allows me to do.

That being said, I did answer the questions asked of me, admittedly as briefly as possible. I was a little busy communicating with several military leaders, overseeing our participation in a very high profile operation, handling domestic blowback from that operation, monitoring the NS forums for the same (which never materialized, I'll add), and making plans for the beginning of this term. My top priority wasn't playing hearing in the Senate. In fact, it wasn't a priority at all. If that makes me a "dick" then I'll happily be one.

The assertion that I take my position for granted is an incorrect one. It's a responsibility I take very seriously.
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Aug 5 2014, 01:18 AM
Europeia. Europeia never changes. :P
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You're right about a lot of things, CSP. You don't take your job for granted, and I'm sorry if I implied that. The questions weren't pointed to glean anything out of you specifically, although that's not an affront to you so much as a way to save time by the Senator.

While you aren't legally required to "report" to the Senate, your position is accountable to them, as I see it. Again, you owe them nothing, but if they don't like your quality of answer, they will vote against you. And it's better to take your overwhelming confirmation with minimal effort rather than chiding a junior Senator for voting against you and questioning her professionalism. And that's really all I have to say on the matter.
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I was trying to allude to the fact that the vote was not a result of the operation in Canada as the article seemed to suggest. Again, I didn't take any offense to Zenny's vote but maintain my prerogative as a voter to criticize it as foolish even if that wasn't the main motivation for my post.
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Is it just me or is this CSP & Zenny Senate Approval issue a big non-issue?
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I dont disagree.
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Let's move on to weightier topics still associated with the thread. Is it the policy of the Europeian Republican Navy to assist in raiding sovereign regions? If so, why?
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I think Zenny's questioning was really good. Ah fk weve moved on. Fk it ive done this on my phone its hlgetting posted.
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Aug 5 2014, 03:35 AM
Let's move on to weightier topics still associated with the thread. Is it the policy of the Europeian Republican Navy to assist in raiding sovereign regions? If so, why?
Why use the word "sovereign" - which regions are not? :P
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Sovereignty is a weighty issue. All (well most, the question of sovereignty becomes problematic when it comes to imperialist regions, specifically the regions under their rule) regions have sovereignty. Sovereignty in itself is not a defense, at least not in NS where there is no such thing as a prohibition on wars of aggression like there are in RL (UN Charter Article 2, paragraph 4 for example).
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I'm a bit curious why CSP get's a flyer here since there's no one else to take over his Ministry while that same thing has not been consistently applied to other ministries that are just as hard to staff.
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Aug 5 2014, 03:30 PM
I'm a bit curious why CSP get's a flyer here since there's no one else to take over his Ministry while that same thing has not been consistently applied to other ministries that are just as hard to staff.
What kind of ministries would you be talking about Lethen? :emb:
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Lethen
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I'm a bit curious why CSP get's a flyer here since there's no one else to take over his Ministry while that same thing has not been consistently applied to other ministries that are just as hard to staff.
What kind of ministries would you be talking about Lethen? :emb:
Depending on the activity levels of our Cabinet-eligible citizens, any Ministry qualifies really. I mean we've had issues in many different terms with all of our Ministries (Culture is probably the easiest to staff though Interior has become easier to staff than in the past). The Navy has almost always been hard to staff since we created the region's military, of course.

If I had a dollar for every time a new Presidential term was upcoming and the candidate(s) were having serious discussions about who to include/swap around in Cabinet because of short-staffing I'd be rich. And isn't it a sign of short-staffing when some Ministers or Presidents pull double-duty and run more than one Ministry simultaneously?
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And isn't it a sign of short-staffing when some Ministers or Presidents pull double-duty and run more than one Ministry simultaneously?

When was the most recent time this was happening officially?

I disagree that there aren't qualified people able to participate in Ministries. The lists are not that short, and when they are short it may but not always points to a problem w/ that Ministry.
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