Goodies from Ol' Remus

Ol' Remus

 1942. New York's Pennsylvania Station in wartime.

Pentagon unveils plan for military's response to climate change, by W. Hennigan at the Los Angeles Times ( Good Lord, what fools we have become.)

Religion of peace - Human Rights Watch said the Islamist group "separated young women and teenage girls from their families and has forced some of them to marry its fighters." ... ISIS has also beheaded a number of victims, including children, and has reportedly buried women and children alive. In August, the Anglican Vicar of Baghdad said ISIS jihadis cut a five-year-old Christian boy in half, and another eyewitness said a female ISIS captive was tied to cars and torn in two.
Joe Newby at examiner.com

Obama's callup - The thought of squandering the 101st Airborne, about 3,000 other soldiers, plus the Guard, is not merely insane, it is criminally negligent. These troops are not nurses or grave diggers! They have been fighting a battle rigged to lose thanks to Obama's military "strategy." And now to add insult to injury, Obama is putting them and the rest of the military, and by extension their families and our entire country at further direct risk of contracting and importing the disease.
James Simpson at examiner.com

5 Bills in the Land of the Free that are straight out of Atlas Shrugged, by Simon Black at Sovereign Man

Mossberg - How long will you, Mossberg & Sons, continue to ensconce yourselves in a state where you aren't welcome, and where you've been told that very thing by the Governor himself?  We know exactly where Malloy stand on the issues.  There is nothing to see here.  The surprising thing is that Mossberg continues to take the beating. [ Statement by Joseph Bartozzi of Mossberg]
Herschel Smith at captainsjournal.com

It should be clear to all by now that federal bureaucracies are either too corrupt, politicized, or incompetent to fulfill their core missions. The purpose of bureaucracies is to continually expand their payroll, budgets, and missions to the point of becoming massive, inefficient, and deadly. We will have to take care of ourselves if we want to survive. Waiting for more CDC directives and guidelines is worse than counterproductive.
Richard Amerling, M.D., Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, at wnd.com

And here's how reliable the World Health Organization is:

In September the WHO estimated that by October 20, there would be 3,000 total cases in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. As of October 7, the count was 8,376.
Jonathan Last at weeklystandard.com

The (Still) Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe, by Natasha Geiling at Smithsonian

NTU develops ultra-fast charging batteries that last 20 years, Lester Kok at Nanyang Technological University