Author: HP McLovincraft

Seeker of rabbit holes. Pessimist. Libertine. Contrarian. Your huckleberry. Possibly true tales of sanity-blasting horror also known as abject reality. Prepare yourself. Veteran of a thousand psychic wars. I have seen the fnords. Deplatformed on Tumblr and Twitter.

An Overdue Rebuke to Politicians Who Think Anything Goes in a Pandemic

Last Friday the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that a law Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) used to shutter businesses and confine people to their homes except for Whitmer-approved purposes improperly delegated legislative functions to the executive branch. And last month a federal judge in Pennsylvania said that state’s lockdown violated the right of assembly guaranteed by the First Amendment, along with the 14th Amendment’s guarantees of due process and equal protection.

Both decisions uphold a principle that politicians across the country seemed to forget while they rushed to curtail the epidemic last spring. As U.S. District Judge William Stickman put it in the Pennsylvania case, “the Constitution sets certain lines that may not be crossed, even in an emergency.”

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Abandoned, Abused, Exploited: Inside The Cursed Life Of The Feral Child, Genie Wiley

“Feral Child” Genie Wiley was strapped to a chair in a makeshift straitjacket for 13 years. Her extreme neglect resulted in a rare opportunity for researchers to study human development, though perhaps at her expense.

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Secretive Tonopah Test Range Airport Had A Mysteriously Busy Week In September

The secretive Tonopah Test Range Airport, located in the northwestern reaches of the Nevada Test and Training Range, the sprawling amalgam of restricted airspace that makes up much of Southern Nevada, usually appears to be a very quiet place in daytime satellite images, but once in a while that calm is broken. This was the case during the week of September 19th. The highly secure installation hosted a number of uncommon aircraft throughout the week in what appeared to be some sort of large test or training event. 

Satellite imagery dated September 23rd, 2020 that The War Zone obtained from Planet Labs offers a peek into just how busy the remote installation was during this time period. What are usually empty ramps, aside from a couple ‘Janet’ 737 airliners that shuttle workers to and from the installation and Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport daily, became far more cluttered on that week. A number of uncommon visitors dotted the ramp, as well as a more common one—the base’s resident F-117 Nighthawks. The F-117s spent their formative, classified, years at Tonopah and were retired there in 2008, cocooned five to a hangar. Over the last decade, a handful of them have become remarkably active in the test and aggressor role. 

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Joe Biden Again Says Voters Don’t Deserve to Know If He Will Pack the Supreme Court

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has stated that voters do not deserve to know whether he will pack the Supreme Court if he wins the election in November.

On Friday, Biden was asked by 13 Action News Anchor Ross DiMattei if voters deserve to know if he plans to pack the court, a question that he and Kamala Harris have been blatantly refusing to answer.

“Sir, I’ve got to ask you about packing the courts and I know you said yesterday you aren’t going to answer the question until after the election, but this is the number one thing that I’ve been asking about from viewers in the past couple of days,” DiMattei said.

“Well, you’ve been asked by the viewers who are probably Republicans who don’t me continuing to talk about what they’re doing to the court right now,” Biden snapped back.

“Well sir, don’t the voters deserve to know—” DiMattei asked.

“No, they don’t,” Biden responded.

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Fed Announces It Will Quit Printing Paper Money

The Federal Reserve sent out a notice that they’re stopping the printing of any paper currency ‘this holiday season’.  This is all due to the virus of course.  Because any new money they print could be contaminated, just keep using old, clean, used currency.

“I’ve talked about the money issue, the push for a cashless society.  Remember, they stopped minting coins this summer.  You’ve seen people begging for coins, businesses saying they’ll round up to the nearest dollar, or others saying they’re not going to accept cash at all anymore, which is what they want.”

“Now, a listener sent me a notice that was sent to a credit union saying,  ‘Federal Reserve has suspended orders for new bills in 2020.  During the holidays, members often request newly printed bills to give as gifts, unfortunately, this holiday season newly printed bills will not be available due to COVID-19.’  The Federal Reserve is using this as an excuse to do what they’ve wanted to do for years.”

The excuse offered is that by ceasing printing new currency, it helps to “meet demand”.  Does that makes any sense?  No wonder ever accused the Federal Reserve of understanding supply and demand.  Maybe they understand it but don’t respect it.

“The notice goes on to say,  ‘This is a proactive measure to allow the reserve banks to continue to meet the daily demand for currency and coins.’  So if you stop printing paper currency that wears out, that’s the way to meet the daily demand for currency.  The Orwellian doublethink is strong with this one.”

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