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"GOD" is written on the helmet of a Marine with 1/3 Charlie company patroling a poppy field in Trikh Nawar on the northeastern outskirts of Marjah on February 23, 2010.

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Treo, an eight-year-old black Labrador from the Military Working Dogs, was presented with Britain's Dickin medal, awarded for bravery and commitment in wartime, the highest military honor an animal can expect at the Imperial War Museum in London on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2010. Treo was decorated for his work sniffing out explosives in Afghanistan.

Photo: Vanoord

This image shows another perspective on Moel Fferna’s impressive Bridge of Death, which spans the roof of a large, high vaulted chamber. A scarcely visible tramline runs along the chamber floor, where the silhouette of a mine explorer can be seen. Moel Fferna is a rare case of a slate mine where there is no trace of surface workings; they were all completely underground.

Gee, You’re So Beautiful
   That It’s Starting to Rain

Richard Brautigan

Oh, Marcia,
I want your long blonde beauty
to be taught in high school,
so kids will learn that God
lives like music in the skin
and sounds like a sunshine harpsichord.
I want high school report cards
     to look like this:

Playing with Gentle Glass Things
     A

Computer Magic
     A

Writing Letters to Those You Love
     A

Finding out about Fish
     A

Marcia’s Long Blonde Beauty
     A+!

ICE CONTORTIONIST: Japan’s Miki Ando, the 2007 world winner, was fourth in the women’s figure skating short program at the Vancouver Winter Olympics Tuesday.

Isn’t it nice to know how seriously and conscientiously the Left treats dissent from their policies?

I mean, when they’re taking some time out from celebrating the diversity of people who disagree with them.

In yet another story trying to pin down the biggest home sale of 2009, the LA Times reports that Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson (no, that headline is not a Cast Away joke) have set an early benchmark in the 2010 contest. Last month they bought New York-based Gwathmey Siegel & Associates’ San Onofre Residence in Pacific Palisades, from producers Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, for more than $26 million. Real Estalker sniffed out the deal even before closing. The 1996 house has four bedrooms and five bathrooms in 14,500 square feet, with living areas in a two-level limestone pavilion and “support space” in a three-story cube, according to Gwathmey Siegel.

I’m sure this won’t be mentioned the next time Hanks is a guest on Current TV’s “Green Living” show:

A dollar says that place isn’t heated with solar panels and a corn furnace (another dollar says the pool is heated)

So, here’s the pertinent question, the question our drowning Obama groupies in the MSM do not dare to ask:  Is disillusionment with Obama causing people to snap and commit acts of violence?

It’s a good question, born of common sense.

If there was a single characteristic that defined the Obama campaign followers in 2008, it was an adolescent fawning the likes this country has never seen.  There were the creepy fainting women in teenybopper crush mode wherever Obama went.  There were the so-called intelligentsia speaking of a man who, to them, seemed more like a god, a savior, an uber-competent of downright immortal stature, purely obsequious observations based on Obama’s postage-stamp-sized resume, his fondness for arugula and GQ looks.

And, who can forget the woman at an Obama rally who prattled on about how when he was elected she wouldn’t have to worry about putting gas in her car or paying her mortgage:

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A lot has happened since Newsweek's Nov. 9 cover story -- most recently the retraction of Al Gore's rising-seas scenario. Newscom View Enlarged Image

Climate Fraud: The godfather of climate hysteria is in hiding as another of his wild claims unravels — this one about global warming causing seas to swallow us up.

We've not seen or heard much of the former vice president, Oscar winner and Nobel Prize recipient recently as the case for disastrous man-made climate change collapses.

Perhaps he's off reading how scientists were forced to withdraw a study on a projected sea level rise due to global warming after finding two "technical" mistakes that undermined the findings

.... One by one, Gore's prophecies of doom and those of the climate charlatans he inspired are being exposed as the work of con artists. From the CRU to the IPCC, the climate dominoes are falling one by one. His silence speaks volumes. Goodnight, Mr. Gore, wherever you are.