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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.

Sting interviewed HBK and Vince Russo on TBN a week or so ago. If you missed it, click here an online version.

I was just checking my stats for my blog.
Looks like I’m getting on average 1,000 visits per month.
Not too shabby.
I just need to get that up 10 times or so to actually start thinking about making a living off blogging.
So time for you all to start reading the same thing over and over again three or four times a day :-).

I feel like I should be Bob Larson all of a sudden.
I’ve been thinking about actually contacting people to be sponsors for our trip to Nigeria and I feel like I should be on the radio like Bob asking for champions.
“Can I get a champion for $20 a month? Someone who will back me up for only $5 a week. I need a champion. Who’s gonna be a champion today. Great! Thanks. Beverly in Sulphur Springs stepped up and said she wanted to be a champion. Who else? Who wants to be a champion today?”
Anyways, that’s my minor dilemma today while I’m working on 50 other things.

One thing I hate more than other people putting out bad information is when I put out bad information. Geeze.
I miss understood someone and had to run a correction. I hate that.
It makes me look dumb and makes the paper look dumb.
It wasn’t a big deal by any means, in fact I was told I wouldn’t have to run a correction, but I want to be sure I get the facts right.
If I ever doubted working at a newspaper, this would be one of those times.