wow.  over 2 months.  quite a bit has happened.  but i'm being awakened out of my apathy by an email i got that morning.  it kinda got under my skin.

"ESPN and its parent company, ABC, have refused to take any action against ESPN anchorwoman Dana Jacobson for her hateful, slurring remarks against Jesus, saying "F-- -- Jesus."

On January 11, Jacobson was speaking at a celebrity roast in Atlantic City, N.J., when she unleashed a profane tirade, saying, "F--- Notre Dame," "F--- Touchdown Jesus" and finally "F--- Jesus."

The fact that neither ESPN nor ABC has taken any action against Jacobson indicates they have a bias against Christians and that Jacobson should be fired. This anti-Christian bias of the networks is becoming commonplace."

so, once again, christians have been offended and are showing their dismay publicly for all the world to see again.  just a couple comments i'd like to make.

YES, i am offended by her remarks, even if she is just joking.   she's talking about my Lord.
but i ask...why?  why do we get so offended and insecure.  yeah, sometimes we get a bad rap in the media...but we've done quite a bit to deserve it.  where was the public outcry from don wildmon and the american family association when jerry falwell blamed 9/11 on homosexuals and abortionists.  shouldn't he have been fired for making insensitive and discriminatory remarks?

why do we ge defensive?  JESUS is fully able to defend himself.  did he hurl a lightning bolt at espn and abc?  did he zap them and turn them into crispy critters?  did he get defensive when they were driving nails through his feet, mocking him, spitting on him?  i'm pretty sure when they led him away to the slaughter, he remained silent.

ok, we get a protest going.  we send millions of emails from evangelical christians calling for her dismissal.  what will it accomplish?  MAYBE she'll get fired.  other results:  we once again look like witch hunting idiots, christ isn't glorified...and i guarantee you...dana jacobson will not be 1" closer to following christ...and probably quite the opposite.

but we struck back for the king, maybe even drawing blood, showing them we're so right.  yeahhhhhh!

wow.  almost 4 months has passed since i posted last.  a lot has happened.  and yet much more of the same.  life throws some unexpected surprises at you while others are incredibly predictable.  just a matter of learning to deal with them or side step them.  maybe in a major way, i'm choosing to finally side step some.  i don't know.

but the biggest thrill of this fall semester was watching our unranked illini dethrone the #1 buckeyes.  not that i have any particular ill feeling for THE osu, but look at where our football program has been the last 6 years.  how we went from #6 and in a bcs bowl to the bottom of the big ten...even finishing 11th once...haha.

the illini are back.

here's to #5, #7, #9, # 10, #47, and the whole team!  congratulations.

just don't get cocky and lose to northwestern this weekend.

careful all you fanny slappers out there...



BOYS FACE TRIAL OVER SLAPPING CHARGES
NEW YORK (July 25) -- Two middle-school students in Oregon are facing possible time in a juvenile jail and could have to register as sex offenders for smacking girls on the rear end at school.

Cory Mashburn and Ryan Cornelison, both 13, were arrested in February after they were caught in the halls of Patton Middle School, in McMinnville, Ore., slapping girls on the rear end. Mashburn told ABC News in a phone interview that this was a common way of saying hello practiced by lots of kids at the school, akin to a secret handshake.

The boys spent five days in a juvenile detention facility and were charged with several counts of felony sex abuse for what they and their parents said was merely inappropriate but not criminal behavior.

The local district attorney has since backed off -- the felony charges have been dropped and the district attorney said probation would be an appropriate punishment. The Mashburns' lawyer said prosecutors offered Cory a plea bargain that would not require him to register as a sex offender, which the family plans to reject.

But the boys, if convicted at an Aug. 20 trial, still face the possibility of some jail time or registering for life as sex offenders.

Best Quotes of the Week...and it's only Wednesday

"i really like the size of joe's dog" - elika

"i didn't go to high school.  i was home schooled" - chicken.  "oh, that explains a lot" - shlook-alike.

never a dull moment at stone creek c-u all nations mosaic urbana community church...i know, huh?