U.S. Presents Evidence of Iranian Weapons in Iraq

They also presented evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction, WMD, in Iraq didn't they? Call me skeptical of any evidence that comes from this White House. I can think of 3 possible scenarios regarding this information.

1. The Bush administration is trying to find a scapegoat for its problems in Iraq
2. This administration is looking for an excuse to attack Iran. Tensions between the countries have been ratcheted up by disagreements over Tehran’s nuclear program.
3. There really is a connection between Iran and the resurgences in Iraq and the U.S. does need to take action against Iran.

What do you think? Item 1, 2, or 3? If you vote for 3, I've got some prime land to sell you in the Florida swamps. :-)

Why Rex Grossman is like President Bush

As soon as I saw Rex Grossman's interview following the SuperBowl, I immediately started thinking of the comparisons between him and President Bush. Think about it:

President Bush: "Tricked" America into thinking that we need to invade Iraq because they had a hand in 9/11.

Rex Grossman: "Tricked" the Bears front office into putting a clause in his contract that gave him a bonus if the Bears made it to the SuperBowl. Now, it is widely viewed that they made it there in spite of his performances.

President Bush: Won't admit that the Iraqi insurgents are besting the US led Military efforts in Iraq.

Rex Grossman: "We didn't make the plays to win it." "We know we're a great team, at this point all you can do is get better" (note to Rex: Why not just say you got outplayed like Urlacher did?)

President Bush: We need to stay the course in Iraq. If we lose, the consequences will be dire.

Rex Grossman: I'll just keep heaving the ball down the field in this heavy rain the same way I did all season. I don't care if the ball is wet and I can't get the same grip on the ball. It doesn't matter that I fumbled one snap early in the game, I don't need to change the way I approach the center to QB exchange because of the wet weather, even if I fumble again later in the game.

President Bush Visits Peoria

Well, President Bush was in town today to discuss his economic policies and how they have helped Caterpillar have 3 of it's best years (profit wise). This blog post isn't to discuss how I believe that he is taking too much credit for Caterpillar's success. What if the Cat lead management had a great game plan over those 3 years and the years leading up to them? Think about it, they focused on selling the "big yellow tractor" to the areas that needed to, and planned to, do the most construction in those times. Seems simple enough.

Anyway, I said this post wasn't about that. This post is to let you know about a cool site a co-worker told me about. FlightAware lets you input any airport code and view the real-time data of all flights arriving and leaving that airport. I got on this site shortly before it was believed that Air Force One would be landing here. I can't say for certain that I saw the flight path for Air Force One, but there was a flight from Andrews airport arriving at that time. When that flight got within 40 miles of the Peoria airport, all other air traffic seemed to divert and fly well clear of Peoria. And, that said flight had an identification tag that started with "GW".

If your interested in this site, you should check out the traffic around O-Hare airport in Chicago. It is amazing how they can get all of the incoming flights to get lined up in a straight line, a la the movie "Pushing Tin".