A congressman coming home from Iraq

... makes some comments about his trip. (Jack Kingston, R - Georgia)

echoing what Senator Joe Lieberman (D - Connecticut) said yesterday.

With all the anti-war noise coming from the peace-loving-flower-waving-get-out-now-crowd lately, I'm glad that we're finally hearing the other side. Well, I guess we are if you're getting news online. Being that I don't watch much TV news anymore, I have no idea if this is making it onto the airwaves.

travel reservations still on hold...

...until this all get sorted out. Which bowl will be for the Ducks?

The politics of pro football

A look inside the Detroit Lions organization. Here are three people I'd hate to be: Matt Millen, Joey Harrington, and whoever ends up being the Lion's next head coach.

And you think YOUR job is bad

...walk a mile in this guy's shoes!

(this link rated R for profanity, and H for Highly Humorous)

"The insurgency is not meeting its recruiting goals"

from Mark Steyn.

An open letter to the anti-war crowd

from Ma Deuce Gunner.

Oregon's BCS Hopes

It's not over yet, baby!

War & Reconstruction

Victor Davis Hanson (NRO), on the "Bush Lied" myth... What about that war resolution that the US Senate passe?

So read the senators' October 2002 resolution. It is a model of sobriety and
judiciousness in authorizing a war. There are facts cited such as the violation
of agreements; moral considerations such as genocide; real worries about al
Qaeda's ties to Saddam (e.g., "...whereas members of al-Qaida, an organization
bearing responsibility for attacks on the United States, its citizens, and
interests, including the attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, are known
to be in Iraq"); fears of terrorism (" ...whereas Iraq continues to aid and
harbor other international terrorist organizations, including organizations that
threaten the lives and safety of American citizens."

Read is all, it's great. Here's some more...

Nevertheless, that is what our soldiers died for: a world in which Middle
East dictators no longer murder their own, ruin their won societies, and then
cynically use terrorism to whip up the Arab street and deflect their own
self-induced miseries onto the United States. This is the calculus that led to
9/11, and the reason why Saddam gave sanctuary to 1980s terrorists, the killer
Yasin who failed in his first attempt to take down the twin towers, and the
likes of Zarqawi.

(HT: BlogDogDad)

How To Lose A War

Ralph Peters of the NY Post has some thoughts:

There's plenty I don't like about the Bush administration. Its domestic policies
disgust me, and the Bushies got plenty wrong in Iraq. But at least they'll fight. The Dems are ready to betray our troops, our allies and our country's future security for a few House seats.

Surrender is never a winning strategy.

Read the whole article.

The taste of Freedom

A letter from a soldier in Iraq. Worth the read...

College Football week-in-review

From CNNSI.com... the Ducks get a mention.

here's a good article from Ron Bellamy of the Register-Guard, too

Ducks vs. Cal

I haven't had much time for posting on "BlogDog" over the past couple weeks... life comes at you fast when you're raising 3 young children. But, I've always got some time for saying a thing or two about the Ducks.

Tomorrow, we user in a new era of Duck Football. The Clemens reign is behind us, and the Dixon reign begins. It's a tough time to have to make this transition, but hey, at least we had the bye week! I think Dennis will be able to run the "option" portion of the offense pretty well, but I'm not so sure he's quite the passing QB that we had in Clemens. I hope that I'm wrong, as the Ducks have a stable full of great receivers. But I guess they've got a number of good RB's as well. I guess that's what it boils down too... the Ducks have a lot of talent, but can the coaching staff put together a game plan that will produce yards and points-on-the-board. Will Dennis Dixon emerge as a leader (that we lost when Clemen's ankle snapped) that can motivate the offense to execute that game plan? We'll find out Saturday.

As far this being a top-10 football team... I'm a bit skeptical. They did not manhandle Arizona like they should have. They did in the 1st quarter of the game, but then they became complacent and let Arizona to the manhandling. That tells me that they don't have what it takes to be considered an elite college football team. This game will really be a telling time... will they, with the player-leadership change, make a turn upwards toward the top? Let's hope that they do exactly that.

Here's the schedule for the Pac 10 games tomorrow, with odds:

What Neil Armstrong REALLY said

well, probably not, but this got a chuckle from me: I can't believe I'm on the Moon...

caution: lots of "F-bombs".