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Snow surrounded a car on Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester during early morning hours on Feb. 7, 1978. The 1978 blizzard blanketed much of the region with snow on Feb. 6 and 7, with 27.1 inches accumulating at Logan Airport. [snip] Gandolf, an Irish setter, watched Martine Carroll, 14, walk down Trenton Street. [snip]

Islam is an ideology founded on darkness, death, and destruction.  Little is permitted in the way of actual living.  And now one more small joy has been added to the list of that what is un-Islamic: Muslims must not build snowmen. Who knew? Apparently it snowed recently in a region of Saudi Arabia near the border with Jordan.  So the clerics, in their inimitable wisdom, rushed in to ensure that Allah would not be offended by any errant activity.  Yahoo News reports: A prominent Saudi Arabian cleric has whipped up controversy by issuing a religious ruling forbidding the building...

Common Sense in Government is frosty to the idea of a proposed tax hike, so it created a new constituency to protest it. More than 30 angry snowmen greeted Michigan state lawmakers as they came to work on Tuesday. The Michigan group built the snowmen late Monday on the lawn of the state Capitol. The cold-hearted protesters held signs warning lawmakers not raise their taxes. The group's leader, Wendy Day, said the protest was "the latest in a robust conservative uprising against new taxes and excessive spending." Gov. Jennifer Granholm has proposed extending the state sales tax to cover a...

If you are not a fan of Calvin and Hobbes, a comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Watterson, then you may not know that Calvin was an imaginative little boy who created snowmen and put them in scenes that would be straight out of a snowman’s nightmare. Little Calvin would have the snowmen in scenes where the snowmen would die horrible, mostly painful, deaths. For ten winters, Calvin and Hobbes created entire worlds of snowmen living or dying in unhappily ever after ways. Here are some of the best snowmen nightmares, where fans of the comic strip created...

A recent conference brought angry delegates together to protest the increasing temperatures engulfing the globe. The participants staged a rally and called for immediate action by world leaders. "Our very existence depends on temperatures not only leveling out, but actually decreasing," said one of the conference's speakers. See photo in original article for more information...

The Calvin and Hobbes snowmen comics were often my favorite, it’s nice to see people attempt to implement them in real life.Hanging:Holding His Own Head:Car Accident:Sharks:Burial:Bowling: