Quote from: Açafat del Val on October 08, 2020, 05:33:27 PM
1. Honored to serve.
2. Nothing yet. This is done at the end of the term, and you will be contacted by the SoS when the time is ready.
3. El Lexhatx allows us to skip forming a Rules Committee. I recommend that we skip.
4. I tried finding them in my email or on Witt and had no luck. We might just try the good old-fashioned way by making a thread.

1. Thank you!  We should Zoom at some point.
2. Sounds good.
3. Agreed.  Let's skip.
4. I'll try to see what I have and put it on the wiki somehow if I cannot find where Lüc might have put that stuff.

Quote from: Eiric S. Bornatfiglheu on October 09, 2020, 08:58:36 AM
Estimat Mencei,

Might I inquire as to the status and schedule of this hearing?

With apologies to all and to Istefan in particular, I have modified dates for said hearing per above.  I dropped the ball on this and must remember to put these sorts of things on my calendar, else I do not remember them.

GV

Thank you, ESB, for your work on this.  It's a true labor of love, and Talossa is the better for it.

GV, Founder of Oraclâ magazine

Quote from: Dr. Txec Róibeard dal Nordselvă, Esq., O.SPM, SMM on October 01, 2020, 09:38:15 AM
Um, we are in a month of recess after the election of the Seneschal...

You are indeed correct, sir!

The Clark is here (or will be at this writing).  When the SoS gets the Clark up later today (hopefully), it will be at www.talossa.ca

UPDATE: I thought we had a Clark in October - my bad - lol.

Thanks, all!

1. Deputy Mençei: Per Standing Orders 2.4, Açafat del Val, I'd like you to continue in this role.
2. What do we need to do with the Electoral Commission appointment?
3. Who was on the Rules committee for last time?
4. Where on the wiki did Lüc put all the past Order Papers?  One is coming for this month sometime this week.

I know I should know all this, but I'm having difficulty finding stuff on this Witt or old Witt.

As for the Wiki Senäts pages, they will be updated in time, but not today.  Thanks, all!

GV, Mençei

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on September 24, 2020, 08:15:40 PM
I humbly suggest GV for Regent, or failing that, myself, just for the heart attacks it would cause :D

The first-ever Regent was JJ in 2001.  I believe it was because of the trip Ben & Amy made to Europe which happened at the same time as 9-11.

Quote from: NRB on September 25, 2020, 10:26:48 AM
isn't there like a hand of the king or some shit

Nope!  haha

May I congratulate S:reu Istefan Perþonest  on the unique honor of being nominated to the Uppermost Cort. To be considered worthy of a functionally lifetime appointment to the highest judicial body of our nation is by itself humbling. I would like to acknowledge and compliment his contributions to the nation of Talossa over the many years, and I wish him well on his nomination.

As Mençei, I would like to see continue the importance and prestige of the Senate through the political process. As such, I believe, it is incumbent on this body to carry on the very novel but still monumentally crucial tradition of scrutiny of judicial nominees,  no less in the form of a public hearing.

This hearing by the Senate will be conducted in a similar - albeit slightly modified - manner as the previous one done just some months ago in January. For example, we will be using a Special Committee rather than a Committee of the Whole. I have enumerated below the actual rules, and I intend that the hearing will commence in earnest not later than Monday 12 October 2020.

I invite cordially that fellow Members of this House make their communications here in this Committee exclusively in place of any other medium, if not to each other then at least to me.

Any other Citizen of Talossa may speak here without qualification, provided that they first seek and receive confirmation of that privilege from myself or the Deputy Mençei. For this purpose, a PM is preferred.

To my esteemed colleagues of this right honorable House, greetings:

Having received of Istefan Perþonest

a nomination of S:reu Alexandreu Davinescu
to the Uppermost Cort of the Kingdom of Talossa;

and,

Seeing the necessity of a hearing on the matter,
In respect of our traditions,
By veneration for our Duties to this Nation, and
For the purpose to see due process and undertake just scrutiny;

I, as our Mençei, do hereby convene

a Special Committee
to consider and report upon the qualifications of the Nominee.


Rules of this Special Committee [REVISED per my post to that effect found later on in this thread.  You will know it when you see it. - GV]:

1. The Members of the Committee shall be exclusively the duly elected and seated Members of the Senate of the Kingdom of Talossa. None else shall have equal privileges.

2. The business of the Committee shall not preclude the Senate from conducting its normal business.

3. The Mençei shall be the Chairman of the Committee, and the Deputy Mençei the Deputy Chairman, who shall have plenary and conclusive powers upon and during all its business.

4. The sole purpose of the Committee is to realize a public hearing of the nomination of S:reuIstefan Perþonest  to the Uppermost Cort of the Kingdom of Talossa, and its powers shall extend not beyond the scope or the bona fide interests thereof.

5. The sole goal of the hearing of the Committee is to scrutinize the qualifications of the nominee and ascertain his ability or fitness to service as a Puisne Justice of the Uppermost Cort. The Committee shall report its findings on those matters to both the entire Senate and the public of Talossa at large.

6. The Committee may elect in its ultimate report whether to endorse for or to endorse against the nomination, but it shall be not requisite or binding. The Committee shall be adjourned sine die upon the deliverance of its report to the Mençei or Deputy Mençei.

7. A Quorum shall be unnecessary, but the power to make finals decisions with respect to the Committee or its business shall be reserved to the Chairman and Deputy Chairman.

8. The Chairman or Deputy Chairman shall publish and maintain a schedule for the hearing, which shall control the sequence, time, and privileges of speeches. The schedule shall be impermanent and respond accordingly to ongoing circumstances.

9. Any Member of the Committee or non-Member who may wish to speak during the hearing shall make a request for it to this Wittenberg thread at least two (2) days in advance to the Chairman or Deputy Chairman, who shall approve, modify, or deny the request publicly on this Wittenberg thread.

10. Members of the Committee shall have precedence in all manners over non-Members with regard to the sequence, time, and privileges of their speeches. Each Member shall have no less than one equal opportunity to speak with regard to other Members.

11. Speeches shall be germane, and shall be inquisitive of and directed to the nominee. Questions shall be asked of the nominee and answers provided by him, and the dialogue between the nominee and the speaker shall remain courteous.

12. A Member of the Committee may invite guests to use up some or all of a scheduled speech, but sufficient notice thereof shall be given in advance to the Chairman or Deputy Chairman. Guest speakers shall respect this privilege, which may be denied by the Chairman or Deputy Chairman in whichever manner they find proper.

13. The Committee shall begin its business immediately, but the first scheduled speech of the hearing shall occur not sooner than Monday 12 October 2020.

14. The first speech of the hearing shall be reserved to the nominee himself, unless he reject this privilege knowingly and willfully, so that he may make his own introduction. The Chairman or Deputy Chairman may invite that the nominee make the final speech.

15. The Committee shall finish its business and submit its report to the Senate and the public of Talossa at least before if not sooner than Thursday 29 October 2020 235959 Talossan time.

Thank you all very much!

GV, Mençei

I would use a Lüc-clone if I could, but any of you will do.  Who would like to be our secretary to keep your presiding officer (me) on-point?  Many thanks in advance!

Thanks, all, for your confidence in me being our presiding officer for a second time.  Having been made such the last time was odd, and I did not think I would have the post again.

In the next few days, I will get an Senäts Order Paper together for the October 2020 Clark.

GV, Mençéi

Copy/pasted from his memberpage:


Date Registered:
    Witt XIV 06 December 2019, 17:48:56
Local Time:
    Witt XIV 24 September 2020, 20:06:28
Last Active:
    Witt XIV 01 August 2020, 17:58:21

John, we know you are in good health, and we hope there is not a personal / family issue keeping you from being able to do your job as monarch.

If you are unable to do your job as King right now, appoint a regent.  A simple email or witt post will suffice.

Many thanks!

GV, Senator-Fiôvâ

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN on September 22, 2020, 05:24:09 PM

Quote from: Glüc da Dhi S.H. on September 22, 2020, 05:09:37 PM
Benedict Stamford was an idiot and a charicature. I don't think people took him seriously at all.

I hate to break it to you, but being abused and insulted by an idiot and a caricature happens to me quite often in Talossa and in other places, and it still hurts, badly. Just making sure that - even in your version of history where ESB was mainly motivated to help my party win - you don't think I was "in on it", or approved of it.

I vouch for Miestra here.  None of us had any clue as to just how ephemeral a number of our voters really were.  As for ESB himself, everyone can vouch for his good behavior since making his return to Talossa. 

And ESB did something a number of other 'villans' from Talossan history failed to do: he came clean with his mistakes and offenses and turned over a new leaf.  Both this point and his prior mistakes should be a part of any objective written history of Talossa.  I am glad he is with us now, and I have no problems doing Talossa with him.

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It wouldn't be that hard to have a revolution in Talossa, and would mostly revolve around internet security issues.  Seize the domain name and associated properties and you'd basically be done.  Someone tried to do that once before (2009 or 2010, I think) and got caught because he was bad at it, but we've mostly gotten lucky.

Been there.  Done that.  ;-)

Quote from: Açafat del Val on September 17, 2020, 10:52:23 AM
For the sake of clarity: this appointment shall coincide with the resignation of the incumbent Scribe, S:reu Gödafrïeu Válcadác'h, who has indicated a desire to resign. His resignation shall take effect upon the installation of his successor.

It has been an honor to serve as Scribe this past three years and for the second time overall.  I had a brief stint ca. 2002 between two more permanent Scribes.  I am glad to hand things off to another, and I look forward to exciting things from Txec!

GV, Scribe (for a little bit longer)

https://wiki.talossa.com/Law:The_Diplomacy_With_Penguinea_Act is the closest thing I could find by way of a Wiki search for 'Penguinea'.