Facebook and Fake News

We have heard recently how so much fake news has been put on Facebook and so many people believe it before it is put to rest as lies. I have read a ton of them and try my best not to re post them. Just yesterday I saw were someone posted that Sylvester Stallone was dead and there was a ton of comments about it. In the end it turned out to be all lies. I just deleted it and keep on going. But just this week this kind of crap has hit home and I am so shocked.

Let me explain. My sixteen year old grandson had a two inch pen knife in his pocket, forgot to take it out of his pocket and went to school. He was suspended from school for that violation for five days. I can understand that. Even though my grandson would never hurt anyone, not even a animal, he was wrong even though he did it without even thinking. We all do things sometimes without thinking. But he was wrong and he even admits that and understands why he was suspended. He did his time so to speak and went back to school thinking this was behind him.

Now here lies the problem. A young lady who goes to the same school posted on her Facebook page that she was told, (did not know for a fact) that my grandson was going to stab people and he had a list of names to do this. She has over a 1000 friends who saw this post and it was then reposted.  Of course this was all lies. But because of the lie and the confusion it caused my grandson was not allowed to go on his class trip to New York. This was all because of the discord sown by this girl. None of it was the truth. He saved his money to go and was looking forward to this. Sowing discord and gossip has ruined a lot of innocent people. How do you take back something that you have said? You might say you are sorry but it is still said. The damage is done.

My daughter in law took the grand kids to the library to do some research and my grandson was jumped by a group of kids accusing him of being a shooter. My daughter in law came around the corner and stopped it. She was told by the kids involved that she did not like black people because she stopped them from harassing my grandson.All this because of a fake post.

My grand kids were homed schooled up until last year and were never subjected to this kind of abuse during their lives. My grandson is having a hard time understanding all this. The grandkids are raised in church, have Bible study, prayer in the home every day and would harm nobody but you can see what gossip and lies will do.  All my grandson wanted was to go to a school with other kids, and now he really sees how that is working out. This girl posted all this following the school shootings in Florida which adds fuel to the lie.

Now my question is this; If my grandson was suspended from school for a violation against school policy what is the school going to do about this girl who posted all these lies. My son and daughter-in- law are going to the school today and withdrawing all the kids and are starting home school again. But they are also going to demand that this girl who spread all these lies make a public apology on Facebook for the rumors she started. I know this will never happen but at least they are going to try.

I think the problem lies here. When you do not dress like other kids, wear your pants below your butt, do not talk the talk, and every other word that comes out of your mouth is a fowl word then you become a odd ball and then you are targeted. I am not saying my grandson is a saint but he sure is not what this girl has broadcast. He is a Christian, a conservative in his thinking and has a deep love for this country. His goal was to graduate and go into the military to serve his country.

The bigger question is this; who will be the next target of this girl. When will it stop? My grandson will not have to be subject to this kind of lies and bullying because he has a mother who can finish his home schooling, But my question is this; what about the kids who will have to go to the school and will be next on the hit list.

The Gun is Not The Problem

( This article is a response by Bill Patchett to an article in the Star Democrat news paper dated February 18 , 2018. His response below was published on February 19,2018. Your comments are welcome.)

 

In response to Louise Mccue’s comment in Sunday’s paper, the gun used to kill the children in Florida was not an automatic weapon as she claims. It is against the law in the United States to own an automatic weapon unless you have a license. The gun used here was a semi-automatic, which fires one bullet every time the trigger is pulled. The liberals would have you to believe it was an automatic.
Let us face some facts here. If a madman wants to kill, he does not need a gun to kill innocent people. He will always find a way. Killers do not need guns to kill people. Tim McVeigh used fertilizer, the 9-11 terrorists used box cutters and airplanes, the Nazis used cyanide gas, Taking guns away from innocent people will not protect innocent people.
The problem is not guns at all. The problem is we are living in a Godless society. Instead of trying to ban guns, try taking your kids to church, tell them who Jesus Christ is, become a family unit again, spend more time with your kids, tell them the difference between right and wrong, and become who you should be, a parent.
This problem is directly related to a combination of mental health, poor parenting or no parenting at all, and the dumbing down of this nation. When our children don’t know what bathroom to use, do not know if they are a boy or a girl, are offended by everything, and see that they are exonerated from their actions because they can blame it on others, that in itself is the problem.
Murder is illegal. Drugs are illegal. Yet they still happen. Calling for stronger gun laws isn’t the answer. It isn’t the gun. Start holding the person responsible, and the system that failed them.
BILL PATCHETT

The Real Reason

Americans need to remember that  when you take away all the good things from kids that teach morals and good values in school and it leaves a vacuum in the hearts of young children which causes them being molded into little liberal robots (that believe in nothing good)...no respect or love for your country, no respect or love for your family, no respect or love for your flag and what represents, no respect or love for God or the values projected by this "idea", no teaching respect, responsibility, accountability or love, no fostering of creativity or positive role models and so on and so forth.

The biggest thing is the absence of God in the hearts of not only our children but their parents as well. This is the cause of the evil and devastation we are seeing across our country. How can a person rely on the choice between good and bad on just a "law" written on a piece of paper when the very same natural law (God’s law) is absent in the heart and our government does everything possible to keep it out of schools to be politically correct.

There is no more prayer or Bible reading allowed in school but we allow satanic clubs in school, we prohibit any and all references to God and good values or moral teachings and we promote and encourage all sorts of narratives, everything from homosexuals, lesbianism, to same sex marriages to Satanism and then we wonder what is happening in our schools and in this country.

What kind of reference point can we give a child today in America? They are allowed to have all the false ideas that are promoted by violent video games, the ungodly actors and movies that Hollywood promote, showing the president with his head cut off, actors and politicians calling for the presidents assassination (same thing as murder), it's good to mock and violently (both verbally and physically) attack people who think differently, and then people wonder what is happening to our kids. We are living in a Godless country. The only thing stopping this country from turning into true chaos is a few praying Christians.

It will take more than police patrolling the halls of our schools. It will take more than passing more gun laws or taking guns away altogether, it will take more than new mental health laws to stop all this. When we as a people realize there is a higher law that our country was founded on only then and only then will our country become what it should be.

The Enemy Within

I am 72 years old and I have seen a lot of presidents come and go. The problem I am having is I have never have seen so much hate as the left and the media have for Donald Trump. You never hear anything positive only negative reports about Trump.  The news media, the Democrats, liberals, communist, and the likes hate Trump so much they would rather see this country go to hell in a hand basket than to see our country survive. Then there are people like John McCain and a few other Republicans that are against Trump.
Much is happening within our government by people who Obama put in place which has damaging long term affects. Remember the czars? None of these people were vetted and most of them are far left thinkers, communist, socialists along with a few racists thrown in. Most, if not all, of these czars are still in the government, entrenched in a way that they will not be found and always at work to bring this government down. They have seized control over major aspects of the government policy and programs bringing along with them their ideas of destroying us from within. When one looks at the background of these czars they find that they have been part of scandals, thefts, kickbacks, offensive statements, conflict of interests and radical left political policies. They tend to operate in the shadows, making policy while answering to no one. Elizabeth Warren (the make believe indain) and Van Jones (who made many racial remarks) are two of these people. There are plenty more.
Last week we heard President Trump make a very important speech at the Summit and he pointed out many issues of concern for this nation and the world dealing with the economy, illegal immigration. He is a very bright individual with a good sense for business, because he is a business man, which most of the politicians in the swamp are not.  They are swamp rats that hate the American way and they hate Trump. Am I the only one who can see the politicians in Washington are only there to satisfy their own bank accounts? Nancy Pelosi is one of the wealthiest women in D.C. and also her home state of California. The only national news cast that I watch in the morning is Fox because they are suppose to be fair and balanced. Most of the time they are, but all the rest of news reporting on different stations are just 100% bias against Trump, the Republicans, conservatives, and Christians. Their reporting has mostly no truth to it and it is wrapped up in a blanket of lies.

We have seen politics played out on the national football stage when, instead of standing for our national anthem and respecting our flag, men who earn millions because of the freedom it represents, will not stand takes rather the knee. The football league finds nothing wrong with that, but when a patriot group wants to pay for and run an ad saying, “Please Stand for the National Anthem,” they are told that it is a political statement and the ad would not be allowed. The media doesn’t seem to care when an illegal alien murders someone, but let a police officer shoot someone in the line of duty and it is standing room only for reporters.
I will never figure out how a person can come to this country illegally and burn thr American flag and then proudly wave the flag of another country, but, consider it punishment to be sent back there.” Please tell me does that make sense?  We need to secure our borders, lower taxes for everyone, create new jobs, and bring back the businesses lost during the Clinton, Bush and Obama eras. If you have noticed that is what Trump is doing. If you watched the State of the Union on Tuesday night I hope that you took notice of attitudes across the faces of the Democrats, especially Nancy Pelosi as she chewed gum or tried to get popcorn out from between her teeth, not sure which. I was also surprised by the Black Caucus sitting behind her with folded arms and not showing any excitement about the fact that the black unemployment rate had dropped tremendously over the past year. This should be a great thing and yet they looked like they were not happy about blacks getting jobs, no applause.
Already the media is trying to put the speech and Trump through the shredder, finding nothing good to say. We do not have to worry about North Korea, Iran, ICIS, or any other country destroying this country. All we have to do is sit back and let the Democrats and the fake news media do it. Yes they are the modern Trojan horse.

When A Nation Thumbs Its Nose At God

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5-20)
All decent law abiding citizens need to look at America and its present way of life to see how our country is completely thumbing its nose at our God and His warnings to us through His Word. The degree of apostasy in America is totally shocking and unbelievable. Most people in our country do not know what sin is or to make it plainer the difference between right and wrong.
When a person is too lazy to work in our country it is called good and the reward for this laziness is with welfare and government benefits while the hard working people who work and provide for their families and some work enough to become rich and that is called bad. Because the liberals in this country say this is bad, the rich people and the person who works hard every day must be taxed to give their money to people who don’t work because that is what is good and right. The lazy in America get free everything from free food to free cell phones, free rent, free everything and it is called good by our government. This is the opposite of scriptural teaching that if a man doesn’t work, he doesn’t eat. This does not mean we are not to help the ones who are truly poor.
In today’s America if you are a pure virgin, a chaste woman you are seen as bad and a women who dresses and acts the part of a whore is good. Her pictures are on TV, magazines, and you name it. An unwed mother gets all kinds of benefits from the government because she has had a child and is not married. The government calls this good, and a woman who is married and trying to make ends meet are not given the same breaks because she is married and this is bad, what is wrong with that picture? This is not putting down the single woman but the system by which the government penalizes the married women. It has nothing to do with the woman personalty. People thought the Marlboro man was good and the man taking his children to church was bad. Marriage that was once solely between man and woman is now called bad because homosexual or same-sex marriage must have the same right. It is called good. Even though the scriptures call it sin people and our government are calling it good. Churches are marrying same sex people and calling it good when the Bible calls it sin in other words bad. God’s judgment is coming and soon.
Killing some types of animals, birds, whales, etc is called bad and evil but the murdering of innocent, babies that are still in the mother’s womb by abortion is called good. Not long ago a lion was shot in Africa and there was a public cry against it. A gorilla was shot in a zoo to protect a child and the public once again cried out, calling it bad. At the same time we were told of unborn baby parts being sold by Planned Parent Hood and that was good. America will most certainly pay for this crime against our Lord. America is now embracing transgenders and calling it good.  What will be next? Will it be sex with animals or being married to an animal? Do not laugh at that statement because whoever thought that a man would be allowed to use a woman’s bathroom? We are fast becoming a nation without God!
America is on a downward spiral with sin and as we all can see it is picking up speed as it goes. America, as a nation considers its self to be  civilized, and educated, but the truth is she is spiritually dead.
And this is just scratching the surface. So with America embracing evil and shunning good, is it any wonder we have so many problems today? How could we have so quickly changed from a nation embracing God and morality to a country literally begging to be destroyed by sins that are being called good? The scripture at the top of this article needs to be repeated “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”

The Truth About Fake News

     

    Since day one of Trump’s presidency there has been plenty of disapproval by the liberal press, the democrats, the socialist, and just plain haters of the American way, that I would like to list a few of his accomplishments, because the news media will not. As anybody knows they are Trump Haters. As you read these please remember this has all happen in a year’s time by a man who is not a politician but just a man who loves his country and its people.

     The stock market has broken all record highs several times over.

     The unemployment rate is the lowest in many years. This is not because of shovel ready jobs as our past president was promoting but it was getting out there and bringing jobs back to America.

     1.7 million New jobs have put people back to work. Please remember this all happen in just one year. Trump never promised shovel ready jobs. He promised to bring jobs back to this country and he is doing that at a fast pace.

     One of President Trumps campaign promises was that he will move our embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a law that was passed in 1995 by our congress but never fulfilled by former presidents even though it was promised in several presidents elections by the candidates.

    Following up on campaign promises,   Following the new tax law, many      companies, including Toyota and Mazda, have agreed to either move back to     the U.S. or open an additional business here.

     Forty U.S. companies have already given raises to their employees or bonuses or both due to the tax break.

     Trump has increased the military, for our protection.

     Funding for over 800 new policemen issued.

     Cut the time of approval for infrastructure permits.

     Trump has made progress on the wall to stop illegal immigration while at the same time the liberal democrats are trying to stop him because of the votes and believe it or not some Republicans are trying to stop it because of the cheap labor the illegals bring with them when they enter this country illegally.

These are just a few of the many achievements accomplished this past year that should give, we the people, increased confidence in our government. But for the most part we never hear about these achievements because the media never said a word about it.
The liberal media came went ballistic, "Does he wear dentures?" "How much TV does he watch?" "Will he be cutting down on his ice cream?"  What flavors is he fond of. They persuaded themselves in that he had dementia, congested and blocked arteries . All of the media on Trump's top Fake news Stories list is about as fake as they come. You can add deceivers and lairs to that also. Our media is an shame to all true Americans. They aren't there to share news with public, they are there to make their fake news and get themselves in front of the camera while representing liberal interests. One day they will wish they reported the truth.