Month: February 2006

Since their story on ABC World News last month, Ultimate Christian Wrestling has gotten more and more exposure.
Some of it has been stories picked up in other magazines or newspapers, and other stories have been original to the news source.
Either way, I think its good for their ministry as well as ours.

A candidate for Ellis County Judge sent out a letter to Ellis County employees recently.
In the letter she did a “Letterman-like Top Ten List of Reasons You Should Vote For Me For Ellis County Judge.”
Number 10 was, “I’m not a politician.”
This seems to be a popular cry from new candidates for office.
“I’m not a politician. I’m not from Washington. I’m not like everyone else.”
I think they should add, “But if you elect me, I’ll be one. And apparently I want to be one or else I wouldn’t be running for office.”
Eric suggested, what if we applied for jobs like politicians campaign?
“I’m not a journalist. I know people don’t tend to trust journalists, so you won’t have to worry about me, because I’m not a journalist.”

I received this e-mail yesterday…

READ THE BLACK PATCH UNDER THE US FLAG
This SHOULD be on the front cover of Time, Newsweek, etc.
But it won’t.
Let’s you and I “put it there” by forwarding this all around the world (so to speak)!

Now I realize this is a political statement, but it’s also an altered photograph.
To assume that it’s an actual photograph and to send it as one seems like bad reporting to me. But maybe that’s just me.
Here’s the original photo:

It’s from a NATO site.
I sent some info from Snopes.com on the photo and e-mail to the sender of the e-mail forward.
I mentioned that neither magazine would print the photo because it’s not an actual photograph. It’s been altered.
The sender responded, “The mass media doesn’t have the courage to report the truth.”
Does publishing a FALSE photo suddenly give you the TRUTH?
Does misrepresting the truth make it true?
If you want to make a statment, fine. Use a politcal cartoon, or advertise the photo as a digitally altered photo and not an actual photo.
Why can’t you just print the facts and let the truth be the truth?
Maybe I’m over analyzing this, or over simplified this, I don’t know.
What do you think?

Last night I was hanging out with some friends and I know this dude meant well, he was paying my dad a super compliment, but he said something that made me want to get up off the couch and just start throwing.
Maybe I’m making a bigger deal out of nothing, but for whatever reason, what he said just stung me.
I suppose it’s a good thing I kept calm, but even now I’d like to wail on him.
God grant me the peace to love my brother.

Oh and if you think about it, say a quick prayer for the CWF trip to Nigeria and pray for me today, I think I’m inching closer to coming down with the crud.

I’m standing right on the ledge, over looking the crud and trying to maintain my ballance. I sure hope I don’t fall in.