As an afterclap of Black Tuesday, the Duma initiated but did not approve a vote of no-confidence in the government.

I have grown to despise the South and it’s Talibangelical influence.

The only condition is that the Governor General must think the proposed regulation to be desirable for the more effectual prosecution of the war, or the more effectual defense of the Commonwealth or of the realm. If he do so think, the regulation is congeable, though it does not deal with the raising, maintenance, or use of any naval or military forces, or with the training or equipment of such forces, or with the supply of any naval or military material, or with any matter immediately ancillary to any of these things, or incidental to the execution of any power exercised in respect to them within the meaning of § 51 (XXXIX.) of the Constitution.

That was a song that Ida sometimes sang, puttering inefficiently about the kitchen, which always seemed sandy with coffee grinds and vaguely immoral with dead cigarettes on the burnt, blistered paint of the shelves.