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Spooky. 4 Commuters and the devil

Posted on July 14, 2010
Spooky. 4 Commuters and the devil get stuck in an elevator: a movie by M. Night Shyamalan. See the preview at io-9.

The good news is that the world

Posted on July 13, 2010
The good news is that the world will not end... ...in a giant methane bubble released by the BP oil disaster. Now, find some other disaster scenario to lose sleep over.

Sauce for the Gander alert. The

Posted on July 13, 2010
Sauce for the Gander alert. The National Rifle Association's log-rolling to defeat the free market that might charge gun owners a higher premium for having a gun in their houses is outrageous, as any such log-rolling is.  Jonathon Chait in The New Republic writes: A huge portion of the conservative backlash against health care reform was premised on the notion that reform would force people who

Now here is a nightmare scenario

Posted on July 13, 2010
Now here is a nightmare scenario that gets completely ignored. It's right out of Soylent Green. China's population control policy in action: The AP article was published toward the end of a 20-day campaign, in heavily populated Puning County in Guangdong Province, to sterilize men and women who were accused of violating national birth control policies...

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Speaking of Doomsday Scenarios.... ....remember

Posted on July 13, 2010
Speaking of Doomsday Scenarios.... ....remember overpopulation?  We used to lose sleep over that.  Heck, the Chinese have created their own nightmare scenario of 30 million "unmarriable" males based on that nightmare. So, why don't we hear about it anymore? Because it doesn't fit the narrative, according to an environmentalist magazine: For a start, the population bomb that I remember being

Character Matters. With Bill Clinton,

Posted on July 12, 2010
Character Matters. With Bill Clinton, we learned that the personal character of our politicans doesn't matter.  Is the politician a rapist? It doesn't matter if the politician is a Democrat. With Barrack Obama, we learned that the agenda, ideology and character of the people that our politician surround themselves doesn't matter either...

How could the Obama administration

Posted on July 12, 2010
How could the Obama administration have ever foreseen this?  It turns out that the possibility of future taxes and governmental burdens on income and business activity actually depresses current business activity.  Unexpected! Michael Barone writes: Home mortgage interest rates are the lowest in history, but house sales are plunging...

Great Moments in Represenative

Posted on July 12, 2010
Great Moments in Represenative Democracy - Democrat Rep blows up at constituents for not accepting his "talking points." Big Government observes: Democrats Gone Wild: Rep. Ciro Rodriguez Loses Itby Mike Flynn I?ve often noted that I expect this to be a long, hot summer...

Lather, Rinse, Repeat. Francis

Posted on July 11, 2010
Lather, Rinse, Repeat. Francis Beckwith, in the comments of Called to Communion, on the problem of infinite regression of scriptural authority: [Jason wrote;] No, the Bible is THE FINAL AUTHORITY, the confessions, councils and creeds are only authoritative in that they agree with scripture...

Glorifying Eco-terrorist Violence:

Posted on July 11, 2010
Glorifying Eco-terrorist Violence: Whale Wars. I've been seeing Animal Planet's "Whale Wars" ads and my basic reaction has been "W.T.F?"  It seems that the ads are depicting acts of violence, such as throwing acid at the crew of whaling boats, as heroic...

"''Hitler's Pope' saved thousands

Posted on July 11, 2010
"''Hitler's Pope' saved thousands of Jewish lives." This is old news, but worth repeating.  According to the Telegraph, Pope Pius XII secretly issued thousands of visas to save Jewish lives:  Pope Pius, who was labelled ?Hitler?s Pope? because of his silence during the Holocaust, may have arranged the exodus of about 200,000 Jews from Germany just three weeks after Kristallnacht, when thousands

Great Quotes. The Weekly Standard

Posted on July 11, 2010
Great Quotes. The Weekly Standard offers these quotes from Marine General James Mattis, who was selected this week to head CENTCOM: Mattis is extraordinarily well-read and well-spoken, but he?s also willing to be direct and blunt on occasion. The Scrapbook has enjoyed some of the Mattisisms that have been circulating since the announcement of his pick, and thought you would too: ? Speaking

Gentlemen, it's them or us. Do

Posted on July 11, 2010
Gentlemen, it's them or us. Do we want to live as men or live in a world of "sparkly vampires" and "Eat, Pray, Love"? Watch the damn movie.

More cool but very basic mysteries

Posted on July 11, 2010
More cool but very basic mysteries of life you have wondered about... Today, io-9 answers the question, "why are clouds white"?  After all, we know that water droplets are transparant since we see them when they fall on us. So, why are clouds - which are nothing but a whole bunch of water droplets - white?  Anyone?  Bueller? Visible light comes at us in many different wavelengths, each

The Orthodox theologian who compared

Posted on July 11, 2010
The Orthodox theologian who compared the PCUSA's gay agenda to modern paganism.... ...probably won't be asked to deliver the opening speech to the next PCUSA General Assembly: An Orthodox Church theologian who was invited to greet the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U...

Here's an answer to a question

Posted on July 10, 2010
Here's an answer to a question you probably never asked... What would the Earth look like if it stopped spinning? What would happen if the Earth stopped spinning? We don't have any reason to think it will in the next few million millennia, but Witold Fraczek, an employee of geographic imaging software company ESRI, was curious...

Repeal the Natural Law so that

Posted on July 10, 2010
Repeal the Natural Law so that sudents won't feel uncomfortable. University of Illinois professor fired for teaching in an Introduction to Catholicism class that the Catholic Church taught that homosexual conduct is wrong from a Natural Law perspective...

Climategate report finds... that

Posted on July 09, 2010
Climategate report finds... that the "trick" designed to "hide the decline" was misleading: Here is the report.  The "misleading" conclusion is buried in the report.

Free thought versus Thoughtcrime. Maggie

Posted on July 09, 2010
Free thought versus Thoughtcrime. Maggie Gallagher at NRO  observes that the stake of the homosexual marriage debate is defining  as "bigots" those people who continue to hold the traditionally obvious position that marriage is an institution that is essentially connected to the project of "making babies...

Optimism This is why I like Father

Posted on July 09, 2010
Optimism This is why I like Father Barron.  Where I look out and see a bunch of obnoxious morons, he sees people who care enough to write a response to his Youtube videos.

Why Lindsay Lohan has to do "hard

Posted on July 08, 2010
Why Lindsay Lohan has to do "hard time." And why the judge should send everyone around her to prison. Big Hollywood points to this video that reveals the sycophantic manipulation that excuses Lohan from making people wait 11 hours for a videoshoot - costing the effort $100,000 - by assuring her that she is "hot" when she finally shows up under the influence of cocaine...

The Political Manipulation of Science. One

Posted on July 08, 2010
The Political Manipulation of Science. One of life's great truths is that if you are being accused of doing something you are not doing, then you can bet that your accuser is doing it.  A case in point is the charge that Republicans politically manipulate science...

Oh, that Robert Barron. I read

Posted on July 07, 2010
Oh, that Robert Barron. I read this book a few years ago that I thought was the single most accessible explanation of St. Thomas Aquinas' as a pastor.  The author had a way of explaining Aquinas in a way that made Aquinas sublimely important to our every day life...

To those "Spiritual but not religious"

Posted on July 07, 2010
To those "Spiritual but not religious" Christians... ...you are missing the point of Christianity according to Christopher Dawson's The Formation of Christendom: Now there are those who reject this mingling of religion and history, or Christianity and culture, since they believe that religion is concerned with God rather than man, and with the absolute and eternal rather than the historical and

Hawaii Governor vetos Civil Union

Posted on July 07, 2010
Hawaii Governor vetos Civil Union law. This news seems surprising in light of Hawaii's liberal reputation.

Other former DOJ attorneys corroborate... Adams

Posted on July 07, 2010
Other former DOJ attorneys corroborate... Adams testimony about racism in the DOJ.

NASA's social mission and why the

Posted on July 07, 2010
NASA's social mission and why the government doesn't work. Jonah Goldberg has an excellent piece reflecting on the recent revelation that space exploration ranks  below outreach to Muslims as a NASA mission priority.  Goldberg writes: Liberalism is caught in something of a Catch-22...

Question Authority and have the

Posted on July 07, 2010
Question Authority and have the government identify your ungoodthink during the 15 minute hate. This is the Second "Orwell Moment" today and it's still early - Frank Tipler advises that the National Academy of Sciences has put him on a list of scientists who are not to be trusted on the subject of global warming: The National Academy of Sciences, in its official journal Proceedings of the

License to Idiocy. Megan McCardle

Posted on July 07, 2010
License to Idiocy. Megan McCardle writes: No one who has studied much economics will be surprised by this: the Peltzman effect in action. The NHTSA had volunteers drive a test track in cars with automatic lane departure correction, and then interviewed the drivers for their impressions...

In Obama's America, some racial

Posted on July 07, 2010
In Obama's America, some racial intimidation is not racial intimidation. So, why did the Obama administration dismiss the case of voter intimidation against this guy, after it had already won the case?

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