FACT versus TRUTH

Ever notice how fact sometimes gets in the way of the truth? That which is factual is not necessarily truthful. Case in point of which I have personal knowledge and was recorded in a court of law.

FACT: A man was standing at a fence between the properties of two neighbors. The man was repairing the fence. A man rushed out of the neighbor's house with a shotgun and fired in the direction of the man at the fence hitting him about the head and shoulders with shotgun pellets.

Get the picture? Not nice.

TRUTH: A man was standing at a fence between the properties of two neighbors. The man was repairing the fence. The neighbor's seventeen year old boy had just finished washing his car. A large flock of blackbirds circled over his car leaving deposits. The boy rushed into the house returning with a shotgun. He fired into the air at the birds. Unknowingly he fired in the direction of the man repairing fence about two hundred feet away. The pellets arched high into the air and fell harmlessly striking the man on the head and shoulders.

A different picture? Yes.

Moral: That which is FACT is not necessarily TRUTH. Our courts should be getting at the truth and not facts.

The New Google Blog

Wow! What convoluted gyrations my wife had to go through to get this "New Google Blog" on line to where I could use it. She is smarter and more patient than I am. I could never have waded through all of the stuff she did to get it set up and working. I worked in computer technology 25 years and managed a group of 50 computer analysts and programmers. Its amazing how the "bushy-brains" can take something simple and make it complex. I hammered my analysts and programmers constantly to "keep it simple, simplicity is the keynote of design," and for them to be brief, concise and to the point without all the falderal. Anyhow, this is my first post under the "NEW Google Blog." Hope to be able to make future posts and to keep it simple and understandable. Brevity is the essence of time.