Brrr. Beautiful morning.

Timeline of Bush admin's politicization of terror, 2002-2008

Keith Olbermann presents an impressively detailed timeline called "The Nexus of Politics and Terror," chronicling the Bush admin's exploitation of terror threats for political gain. "What we were told about terror, and not told, for security reasons, has overlapped considerably with what we were told about terror, and not told, for political reasons."

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'After reading this I don't think that I've ever felt so ashamed of being male'

The men who sleep with prostitutes

We learn more about this administration from foreign media than our own (another in a series)

The Dallas Morning News published an adapted version of a longer article by former CIA officer Philip Giraldi commenting on Sibel Edmonds' case and the failure of the U.S. mainstream media to cover the news that FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, "the most gagged person in US history" according to the ACLU, is now risking prison to share her story.

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World Nature Photography Awards

Gorgeous.

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Countdown Special Comment on FISA

President Bush is a liar.

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Bush admin shuts down Web site tracking U.S. economic data

Forbes has awarded EconomicIndicators.gov one of its “Best of the Web” awards for compiling data across govt agencies and making it publicly accessible. But as of March 1, the Bush admin has announced that it is shutting down this site due to "budgetary constraints."

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Putting the president above the law

Despite the head of the CIA conceding waterboarding is probably illegal, Cheney made it clear Bush would reauthorize waterboarding whenever he wanted.

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Only in Japan

Dr. Slump Handy Soft Poop for Good Luck. Poop is considered quite lucky in Japan, because the word for it, unchi, sound similar to the word for good luck, unki. Here's a pair of really cute pink colored "poop" toys from that classic bellwether of good taste, the Dr. Slump anime.

Current mood: Productive

"We have brought to Iraq the worst of America"

In a confidential memo, a long-time Republican, Manuel Miranda, who has served in the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad for the past year, says the State Department's efforts in Iraq are so poorly managed they "would be considered willfully negligent if not criminal" if done in the private sector.

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Rockford, Ill.

Small-town Illinois

It's hard to tell in this picture, but the snow is coming down diagonally.

Add Banff to the list of places to visit before I die

Peyto Lake (pea-toe) is a glacier-fed lake located in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies. During the summer, significant amounts of glacial rock flour flow into the lake, and these suspended rock particles give the lake a bright, turquoise color.

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Expendability

Guess who's not coming back.

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