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Indy news outlets not exactly “Flooding” the zone.

I have been trying to find coverage of the local flooding and keep running up against news outlets that insist either I must be subscribed to their service (IndyStar, looking at YOU) or must turn off my ad blocker to view their reportage (WTHR, looking at YOU).

But there are others.  Those are just the first ones I looked at.

First of all, their reportage mostly sucks.

Second, there ought to be a law stating that information like what’s going on during a natural disaster should be free and open and not subject to paywalls or ad blocker restrictions.  Either show me the news or you’re nothing more than an entertainment site (which, to be honest, is what I think of you anyway).

Get serious.  People’s lives and properties are in danger.

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End the Faucists.

Fauci and all of his accomplices must die. Or at least pay a major penalty with the rest of their lives in prison.

And nuke Wuhan until it’s as flat as a pancake and play football on it with Chairman Xi’s head.

Fuck ’em all.

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I’m The BBESP Volume FOUR is AVAILABLE!

I’m the Beautiful But Evil Space Princess Who Rules A Galactic Empire But Really Wants To Leave People Ruthlessly Alone!: Volume 4
by Nathan C. Brindle

Book 4 of 4: I’m The Beautiful But Evil Space Princess Who Rules A Galactic Empire But Really Wants To Leave People Ruthlessly Alone!

Imperial Princess Regnant Alice and her fiancé, Crown Prince Daniel of Xeros, and the plucky crew of the Imperial Space Yacht Aurora, with the assistance of the Goddess Eireala, have traveled tens of millions of light-years from the Milky Way Galaxy to mend a rift in space.

Once that’s fixed, they’ll head home – and Alice and Daniel will finally be wed!

But nothing ever goes according to plan . . . not even an Imperial wedding.

You’re all invited to the nuptials, regardless . . .

The fourth volume of the BBESP light novel!

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Today is Memorial Day, as G-d and General John Logan intended.

I don’t give a shit what the US government thinks Memorial Day should be.

Grand Army of the Republic

General Order No.11

General Order No.11, WASHINGTON, D.C., May 5, 1868

i. The 30th day of May, 1868, is designated for the purpose of strewing with flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion, and whose bodies now lie in almost every city, village, and hamlet church-yard in the land. In this observance no form of ceremony is prescribed, but posts and comrades will in their own way arrange such fitting services and testimonials of respect as circumstances may permit.

We are organized, comrades, as our regulations tell us, for the purpose among other things, “of preserving and strengthening those kind and fraternal feelings which have bound together the soldiers, sailors, and marines who united to suppress the late rebellion.” What can aid more to assure this result than cherishing tenderly the memory of our heroic dead, who made their breasts a barricade between our country and its foes? Their soldier lives were the reveille of freedom to a race in chains, and their deaths the tattoo of rebellious tyranny in arms. We should guard their graves with sacred vigilance. All that the consecrated wealth and taste of the nation can add to their adornment and security is but a fitting tribute to the memory of her slain defenders. Let no wanton foot tread rudely on such hallowed grounds. Let pleasant paths invite the coming and going of reverent visitors and fond mourners. Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost of a free and undivided republic.

If other eyes grow dull, other hands slack, and other hearts cold in the solemn trust, ours shall keep it well as long as the light and warmth of life remain to us.

Let us, then, at the time appointed gather around their sacred remains and garland the passionless mounds above them with the choicest flowers of spring-time; let us raise above them the dear old flag they saved from dishonor; let us in this solemn presence renew our pledges to aid and assist those whom they have left among us a sacred charge upon a nation’s gratitude, the soldier’s and sailor’s widow and orphan.

ii. It is the purpose of the Commander-in-Chief to inaugurate this observance with the hope that it will be kept up from year to year, while a survivor of the war remains to honor the memory of his departed comrades. He earnestly desires the public press to lend its friendly aid in bringing to the notice of comrades in all parts of the country in time for simultaneous compliance therewith.

iii. Department commanders will use efforts to make this order effective.

By order of

JOHN A. LOGAN, Commander-in-Chief

N.P. CHIPMAN, Adjutant General

Official: WM. T. COLLINS, A.A.G.

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“The Voting Rights Act does not guarantee equal outcomes.”

Justice Alito sets the Voting Rights Act back on track:

Justice Alito Cleans the Augean Stable of Faux Voting Rights Precedents

The Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Louisiana v. Callais may dramatically alter congressional districts in Southern states. Writing for a 6-3 majority, Justice Samuel Alito unraveled decades of confusing and misguided caselaw construing the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) to hold that states may not engage in racial gerrymandering—or be forced to do so by federal courts—when drawing congressional districts. The Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause forbids race-based discrimination, Alito pointedly declared, preventing Section 2 of the VRA from being interpreted to require the creation of “majority-black” districts to comply with the VRA.

Go and read; it’s fairly in-depth and explains clearly why it’s not disenfranchising minorities, and in fact is correcting vast overreach that’s been part and parcel of American electoral politics since the 1960’s.

Now if we could just get this article into the hands of the Indiana Senate, maybe they’d recognize that there is no statutory requirement to guarantee André Carson a seat in Congress in perpetuity.  Certainly there’s no moral requirement to guarantee him a seat anywhere, except perhaps in Hell.